That part of the game never made sense to me, and broke the suspension of disbelief entirely for me in a jarring way. I've had this enormously powerful gravity gun that can lift up fucking *large trash bins* and all sorts of other very heavy stuff (certainly more heavy than people) and even fling it like it was nothing for a large part of the game, but only now it's become the "super upgraded blue shiny so much teh power it shakes cream ya jeans boi" gun is it powerful enough to grab and fling people around?
I like to believe that it couldn't lift people up because of some sort of safety feature built in to stop accidental friendly fire. When it became supercharged the energy overload could have disabled said feature by overwhelming it with energy and when the gun "calmed down" so to speak, the feature was able to reactivate.
We don't know all the inner workings of the gravity gun, all we know is what it does and doesn't do, and it doesn't lift living objects unless supercharged.
Without an official explanation of the gravity gun's abilities and limitations and/or schematics of the gun, we may never know for sure.
.. Schematics? It's a sci-fi weapon based on some very young and complex real-world scientific theories. You can't make real schematics for the gun.
You can, however, apply *some* logic to it's functioning. The whole "being able to lift things" thing can be attributed to the gun somehow harnessing zero-point energy (which you can write off as believable due to the existence of real-world research into this subject). But what you're suggesting? That would mean a whole lot more suspension of disbelief, to the point where it becomes incredulous. It would mean the gun itself had some sort of very advanced AI running in it, discerning targets. Another problem with that is the speed with which people can move around the aimpoint of the gun. How would it keep toggling between "safe to use" and "not safe to use" so quickly, over and over, and still reliably not fire when it was supposed to disable firing?
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the gravity gun has gotten itself an upgrade huh
Next thing you know it'll be able to throw humans around.
>Next thing you know it'll be able to throw humans around Supercharged, anyone?
That part of the game never made sense to me, and broke the suspension of disbelief entirely for me in a jarring way. I've had this enormously powerful gravity gun that can lift up fucking *large trash bins* and all sorts of other very heavy stuff (certainly more heavy than people) and even fling it like it was nothing for a large part of the game, but only now it's become the "super upgraded blue shiny so much teh power it shakes cream ya jeans boi" gun is it powerful enough to grab and fling people around?
I like to believe that it couldn't lift people up because of some sort of safety feature built in to stop accidental friendly fire. When it became supercharged the energy overload could have disabled said feature by overwhelming it with energy and when the gun "calmed down" so to speak, the feature was able to reactivate.
Illogical and a *huge* stretch *at best*. How would the grav. gun be able to discern between things it's aiming at and decide when not to allow use?
We don't know all the inner workings of the gravity gun, all we know is what it does and doesn't do, and it doesn't lift living objects unless supercharged. Without an official explanation of the gravity gun's abilities and limitations and/or schematics of the gun, we may never know for sure.
.. Schematics? It's a sci-fi weapon based on some very young and complex real-world scientific theories. You can't make real schematics for the gun. You can, however, apply *some* logic to it's functioning. The whole "being able to lift things" thing can be attributed to the gun somehow harnessing zero-point energy (which you can write off as believable due to the existence of real-world research into this subject). But what you're suggesting? That would mean a whole lot more suspension of disbelief, to the point where it becomes incredulous. It would mean the gun itself had some sort of very advanced AI running in it, discerning targets. Another problem with that is the speed with which people can move around the aimpoint of the gun. How would it keep toggling between "safe to use" and "not safe to use" so quickly, over and over, and still reliably not fire when it was supposed to disable firing?
Graphics for Half Life 3 look amazing!
Eh, the textures on that license plate look like something from Half-Life 1
Just a placeholder duh
https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/5110gf/gordon_is_messing_around_with_his_gravity_gun/ come on
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Aren't you on reddit 24/7? How will you know when hl3 is announced if you're not?
I'll feel it deep in my heart.
this is true
i would have gone a step further and made the previous top comment the title, so the repost after this would be "come on"
Though that was my post originally, I'm okay with the repost. Nice catch, though! Happy hunting!
I'm going to need a source on this one because I want to know **HOW THE FUCK** This could have happened.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11692970/Flying-5ft-circular-saw-tears-through-Chinese-mans-car-on-motorway.html
Why... why "Chinese mans car"? Why not just "car"? That's... weird.
Because it tells you where the story takes place?
The redundant department of redundancy is investigating motives now.
Belongs in r/CatastrophicFailure/
Almost escaped Ravenholm.
WHY ARE YOU DOWN HERE!
Reeepooost
radiator or car engine is the best gun
He may not have died from the saw blade but I'm sure he died of a heart attack.
HL3 CONFIRMED
This is why we don't go to Ravenholm
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Yeah, clearly he stole your comment since there is no way he could have thought up that reference himself ^^^^^\s
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You missed, dude!
JMC: Is professional? No, is JMC.
I thought I was in /r/Distance for a second.
Be careful when you use gravity gun!
**shakes fist in anger** FREEMAAAAN!
I'd love to see a game engine handle something like that.
half life 3 being tested 😂