About the Displacer, it might be that its very unpredictable as shown as the scientist falling to his death and so everyone prefers using the Big teleporting machines
Also the entire game is based of aliens accidently spawning just by shooting a crystal with a beam and the displacer and blueshift telporter uses xen crystals
exactly, the displacer is super innacurate and the teleporter in blue shift starts malfunctioning when you go through it, while the giant teleporter in the lambda lab works perfectly
Perhaps a potential explanation for how the gun works is that the gun itself doesn't create wormholes or teleports the user but instead piggy backs off pre-existing wormholes by creating a temporary opening in our reality and the wormhole and then in addition to that the gun generates a very unstable, provisional wormhole that leads to a location that roughly goes to the location programmed into the gun. This is obviously very, very risky as you could quickly zip yourself 1000 meters high above your intended target and perhaps many miles away as well and at the very worst you could just straight up piggyback and provisionally wormhole yourself in the middle of a solid material like a mountain in Xen or something, which makes using such a tool a last resort option. So if in Half life 2 (prior to Episode 2) if the same device were used (and not when the resistance were testing their more advanced teleporters) maybe such a person would potentially instead get sucked into the portal that the Combine set up -- but considering it's a one way portal type thing, I don't know if such a person would be able to get through and piggyback of a Combine portal or let alone if such a person would live?
Blue shift teleporter requires less power because it's old equipment, it was an earlier prototype of first cross dimensional teleportation experiment and it runs out of power after cross dimensional teleportation making it only useful for local teleportation and we've seen another local teleporter built in half-life 2 in Kleiner's lab, and it also runs on power from a socket AND IT ALSO MALFUNCTIONS LIKE THE ONE IN BLUE SHIFT LEAVING GORDON IN A STATE OF UNCERTAINTY.. I saw no reactors or combine dark energy spheres running that kleiner teleporter, hope that explains the lambda complex reactor for cross dimensional teleportation and shows you that the whole half-life franchise shouldn't be cannon 😂. Also you can't ever assume that kleiner and eli's teleporters are based on combine tech because it's said during the game that combines can do cross dimensional teleportation but they still haven't figured out how to make local teleportation devices. And that's all I have folks.
Half-Life Teleporter: is accurate and safe. Opposing Force Displacer: can kill Shepard on two occasions. Using it is literally a russian roulette. Blue-Shift Teleporter: also not safe as seen with Barney being teleported across places in the end. Rosenberg noted Barney was lucky he's even alive and teleported back in one piece.
Yeah, Proto Labs Teleporter and Displacer Cannon may be smaller/compact and need less energy but where less effective and too much unpredictable. Also the Proto Labs Tele needed Barney to go to Xen first to adjust the array so they can be teleported to other places on Earth while the Lambda Teleporter didn't need any of that and was far more safer.
There’s also probably some nonsense one could come up with regarding WHERE in Xen you teleport to. Maybe Nihilanth is at the “center” and getting close to it requires exponentially more energy. Maybe the displacement canon and the proto teleporter can only reach the fringe regions that are “closer” to our dimension. After all, there’s no way to reach Nihilanth from anywhere Barney and Adrian ever enter Xen
@@littlechickeyhudak so kinda like orbital mechanics? The smallest teleporters from HL2 only doing the equivalent of gravity assists while the lambda complex one can full on land you.
@@Name-nw9uj I think what it added didn’t do much for the story or game; Race X was just thrown in as a gimmick, lack of interesting ai interaction; lack of canonical coherence compared to decay; I feel as if the best idea was the teleporting gun for its explorative purpose
Here's a few reasons why the expansions are Canon 1 Barney in half-life 2, the reason for this is that we see a B. Calhoun escape black mesa in blue shift 2. The fact Barney got a crowbar from black mesa, in blue shift B. Calhoun escaped with a crowbar. 3. In the credits for Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Barney's full name is confirmed to be Barney Calhoun 4. In the instruction manual for Blue Shift B. Calhoun's full name is confirmed to be Barney Calhoun as the first sentence on page 17 confirms this "As Barney Calhoun you will be issued a number of weapons" - Blue Shift Instruction Manual page 17
The cuffs are what control the Vortigaunts, and are needed to project their powers when enslaved. Enslaved vortigaunts, despite being able to have their bodies controlled by Alien Controllers, can still refuse to touch in to the Vortescence, so these cuffs substitute their abilities. Freed vorts, seen in Half-Life 2, don't need these cuffs as they are willing to fight.
The other zombie mutations are due to the combine changing the genetics of the headcrabs, creating the poison headcrab and the fast head crab. They are not natural.
Why do people still believe in these dumb theories? It's 2023 guys, valved stated that the poison and fast ones are just other types of headcrabs long ago.
@@Agustin_Leal You should take a look at the "Combine OverWiki" It's established that it's unknown where they originally came from. Valve's incredible storytelling only leaves people to speculate and theorize what's really going on. Quite frankly, I don't see what's wrong in believing that the fast headcrab, and poison headcrabs are a product of the Combine. They've already shown us how they weaponized them with the pods, so it doesn't seem like a far fetched idea that they would take it a step further, by mutating them, therefore making them more efficient deadly weapons. This theory can be even further cemented if you look into the nature of the Combine, and the fact that you never see them in Half-Life 1.
The Vortigaunt collar is more for being controlled more easily by controllers/Nihilanth . As for the Gonome, the theory is, that they need more days or different environment to be able to evolve to Gonomes, but after that, they have generally short lifetime and that's why you don't see them in HL2
The Gonomes have green sludge on their backs. Maybe the zombies turn into Gonomes only when they are exposed to the green toxic sludge that's all over the place in Black Mesa.
@@Seb-Storm "Headcrabs are seemingly different from their Xen predecessors. The fact they're used by the Combine suggests they're probably genetically modified in some way, which is why fast and poison variations exist. Maybe standard crabs were changed to never evolve into gonomes." -Google
1. This was a concession made for gameplay. 2. The Displacee Cannon is an experiment prototype that opes and closes a teleport within a second, and Lambda Labs holds teleports open for long amounts of time. 3. Holding open a lot of teleports for indeterminate amounts of time requires a lot of energy. Opening one teleport temporarily obvs requires less. 4. Don't have a counterargument for this. 5. The Combine modded Headcrabs for better citizen infecting, they prob made it not become a gonome. Addendum: Valve made a bunch of retcons between HL1 and HL2 (G-Man being the Administrator of Black Mesa instead of Breen, Eli in Unforeseen Consequences, Gordon's Ponytail) so these could just be ignored.
@@Elheddo Marc Laidlaw said the G-Man was the Administrator in the HL1 era, then he retconned it so Dr. Breen was the Administrator and the G-Man was some interdimensional miscreant.
Black Mesa made the PCV for the military as a contract, it was likely commercialized for internal use as the HEV later on. As for why it only Covers the Torso as opposed to being a full suit is it is more centered on being a combat vest system, think something like a flak vest, it’s there more to stop rounds. It can protect the user from other hazards in combination with a gas mask and maybe a MOPP suit.
Right? My first thought when he brought this point up was that I'd imagine the Marines would have mopp suits to go with those gas masks they wear, even though we dont see it lol
It's the logic an average person who never served would have, similar to people who ask, "Why doesn't the military just make bulletproof suits for soldiers?" There's enough reasons against a full body HEV-style suit for typical ground infantry that it's not worth going over.
Displacement gun counter argument: 1. Lambda teleporter is their first stable teleport tech. It can keep a portal open for long amounts of time, powered by earths resources. 2. Displacer cannon is a prototype gun like the portal gun. Developed after discoveries from the lambda teleporter. 3. It is powered by a xen crystal. If you remember, the first experiment we did in the game was to test the "purest sample" of xen crystal ever and it opened up a lot of portals.
4. The collars could have absorbed the very power themselves, explaining the differences in the charging methods between the games and could have been used for mind and attack control by the Nihilanth. 5. Gonomes could be a result of a zombie with high enough nutrition to develop. In black mesa all there was were some security guards, grunts and some defenseless scientists. along with a hell lot of corpses meaning FOOD!!! This might also explain the sleekness of fast zombies as they have rapidly adapted, or are a different variant that the protagonists have not seen in Xen yet. Additionally the rebels in ravenholm before the shelling might have been armed so they could lower the amount of zombies by a certain ratio
The zombie thing is easily explained. The combine can easily alter the genes so the zombies don't get too powerful as gonomes. That doesn't mean other things aren't possible though. Or fast and poison headcrabs already existed and we just never found them in Xen. Xen is presumably a massive place. As for the teleporter in blue shift there is likely a crap ton of machinery under it that allows it to function. It's just easier to start up for some reason. It also ties into Half Life 2 where Xen is used to teleport to other places on earth. Also there is a portal gun in that universe so it's not too crazy to think Black Mesa was experimenting on something similar.
In Kleiner’s lab there is a drawing of a regular headcrab with notes about it regarding mutation, implying that the fast and poison variants never existed during hl1 and were simply regular ones mutated by the combine to be more efficient killers
The teleporter Shepard uses was small and simple. Therefore it couldn't calculate where exactly you wanna go. That's why it puts you in random dimensions/places. And also they're small places.
I think the reason why the lambda complex teleporter is so big is because it doesn't use extradimensional materials. the displacer cannon probably uses xen crystals which seemingly are used to get around the laws of physics often
lambda complex has at least 11 teleports open at the same time and main big thingy is capable of opening the portal for long amount of time possibly unlimited
@@ryszakowy i'm saying the big main one is probably the 1st that black mesa built to get to xen in the first place. I don't know if the other open portals scattered around the place are supposed to be there or are a result of the resonance cascade
The big teleporters are probably also a lot more powerful because rhey can keep portals open indefinitely it seems and also are probably older than the displaxer canon. So earlier teleporter deaigns were more bulky ans the displacer is a prototype of a stream lined habd held device. Fitting sinfe their rival is apature whos claim to fame is a hand geld portal gun
The ravenholm zombies aren’t different stages, they are subspecies. Even the Hl2 standard head crab is technically a new subspecies post earth inhabitants, so the Gonome could be a direct Xen headcrab only thing before the evolved to attach to simpler organisms.
Fun fact: Eli lost his leg to a bullsquid after trying to escape with Kleiner from the outskirts. So yes, bullsquids and houndeyes still exist in the Half Life universe
Counterpoint: Mark Laidlaw, the series' writer/author, said that the expansions are canon. You can't get more official than the devs saying it's canon. Discussion over.
about gonomes, the reason they're not in ravenholm is because the combine contorlled wastelands in general are very sparse of nutrition and other foodstuffs. In black mesa the gonomes had people all around along with corpses which could help them to grow to larger lenghts happy-go-luckily like in EZ2. This could also explain the thinness of fast zombies as they were made for the bare minimum nutrition.
most of these are just for the sake of the game, you can’t always force everything to make sense without making sacrifices like of course shepherd doesn’t wear a huge suit of armour but why would they make the armour system different game. and just because gordon doesn’t specifically see a gonarch doesn’t mean they don’t exist
It's possible that the Xen in Half-Life and the Xen in Blue Shift and Opposing Force are different levels of Xen. Barney and Adrian never get teleporters, they have to rely on moving around Xen manually until they find a portal back onto Earth. Gordon has the opposite experience, he only finds portals that lead him further into Xen and never a portal back to Earth without G-Man's assistance. Perhaps the route Gordon took was the only way he could get to the Nihilanth and that's why it's so hard to get there in comparison to the tamer version of Xen Calhoun and Shepherd arrive to. If the Nihilanth can hold a portal to Xen open with pure thought who's to say it can't hold a portal to Xen closed with pure thought?
If I remember in the boot camp it says that it can use whatever means of energy to recharge because of adaptors so uses multiple ways to charge but limitations in the old games could have made it possible, but the pcv is the most with diferrent charger optioms
@@Raymations I was about to agree, but then...bro HEV suit is literally shown to have helmet, it does have it. 💀💀☠ God dаmn these helmet not-believers.
@@fantastikboom1094 No one ever said the HEV suit doesn't have a helmet the only time people say something about HEV helmets is if Gordon wears one or not.
Counterarguments: 1. I can agree that its a bit ridiculous, but if you think about it, if we take what we can see cheat-less in half-life, we might not even have a helmet, leaving the head open, but logically, it would have a helmet, as we see corpses in Xen with helmets and as the head is the most fragile part. Maybe, there are also other parts of the HECU equivalent (forgot the name) that we just dont see Adrien put on. It would even make sense more, as it is just a vest, but you still need to charge it. Charge a f**king vest. 2. Maybe they need the big-ass machine because the displacer gun in not safe and can teleport you in unexpected places. It can even kill you a few times I think 3. Again, stability. It may need a rechargable battery, but we see Barney teleport all around the place. Even saw someone else here say that a doctor at the end of the game says that Barney's lucky ti be alive and in one piece 4. Again, saw someone else again say that they are more to help with their enslavement/being controlled by the Nihilanth 5. Pretty sure that all the headcrabs in HL2 and onward were mutated by the combine, and instead of making their hosts turn into Gonomes, they simply stay in one stage. Plus, something else again that another person said, the same guy that said of Vortigaunts, they might just be mutated by toxic sludge or turn to Gonomes in only specific environments. Tl;dr - all your arguments have valid counterarguments, so I will respectfully disregard them :)
1. It DETECTS those dangers, but how much it actually protects you from them is debatable. It might be sapping your vest energy when you stand is a puddle of radioactive snot but it's probably just injecting you with some horrifying mix of chemicals to stop you from instantly keeling over rather than ACTUALLY protecting you from the hazard. Shepard will probably still get cancer. 2. The lambda lab uses a big machine yes, but it's possible these big machines are being used to help make those hand held machines work, or alternateively the lambda machine is older and the handheld device is a more recent development, perhaps a less stable one. Or the big machine is more powerful, more accurate, or has more features useful for research, compared to the handheld which is probably intended as a way to test the idea of making this technology something that can be used it real life situations. Also in HL1 there are many instances for teleporter balls just hanging out with nothing more than a pad under them (if they even have that). Again this could be evidence that there is a big machine running this all wirelessly from somewhere, or that the big machines are just required for different purposes, or are older. 3. Not sure if the full might of the reactor is actually required for the machine, or if we were just fixing it to stop it blowing up. Possibly these things don't actually use that much electricy and we just needed to have the reactor working because that just where the power comes from. It doesn't take a nuclear reactor to charge a phone, but that's what happens when you plug your phone in every night. 4. IDK. maybe the collar is only channeling electricity. Or perhaps the collar also connects to the 'vortesence' or whatever. Can't argue this one too hard as it's all made up alien nonsense. 5. I can't back this up, and I can't remember if this was something from the beta, but i've heard that the fast and poison zombies were apparantly combine alterations to the headcrab. Even if the combine alterations thing isn't true, I'd always assumed that these were just different species of headcrab, rather than being stages of development, since the crabs themselves look wildly different, compared to the gonome headcrabs which look the same as the normal ones. As for why no gonomes appear in HL2, I can't answer, except that for maybe the gonomes again come from a different species of headcrab, or the further mutation was to do with something they came in contact with in black mesa (race x, radiation ect). Could even be the case that they only advance to the gonome stage when the conditions are right, for example if there is an abundance of food (trapped scientists in black mesa) then over time the zombie developes into a bigger stronger gonome, but if there is minimal resources (abbandoned town of ravenholm) the zombie stays a zombie, and conserves energy). But that's just my fan theory. Over all I think these points are interesting but not conclusive proof that the expansions aren't canon
Possibilities for the expansions to be cannon 1. Black Mesa is government owned, and so is the H.E.C.U marines, and it is possible that Black Mesa was working with them before the H.E.C.U started to kill scientists. 2. In Blue Shift, the prototype they’re working on is a prototype, so there wouldn’t be a nuclear reactor powering it. The other reason is the Nuclear Powered teleporter in the Lambda Complex is a more ideal, and safe option, hence why it is powered by a nuclear reactor. 3. The portable teleporter in Opposing Force was the prototype being built in Blue Shift. 4. The vortigaunts since have evolved, or they naturally had that power in the first place which is quite unlikely, or the collar was just a cosmetic that enhanced their powers. 5. The Gonomes have been killed off. It is also possible they evolved into that big poison headcrab thrower in Half-Life 2 (forgot the name).
I will testify for the Displacer: Aperture Science and the Handheld Portal Device are both 100% confirmed canon to the Half-Life universe, so something like that is very well possible. And its completely unpredictable nature is probably due to the fact that it's so small.
To be honest. Valve isn't all that consistent themselves really, and you can just handwave some of these as being oversights that aren't to be taken seriously. I mean, the PCV was just made the way it is for gameplay purposes. Also there are a lot of easy explanations for a lot of these apparent discrepancies. I'll list some examples. -I see no contradiction with the Displacement Gun. The teleporters in the Lambda Complex don't just create one portal. They create many portals AND they have to keep them open at all times. That will definitely cost a lot more energy. I'm also not sure if the reactor is just for the portals. It could be powering the whole Lambda Complex, if not the entire facility for all we know. Lastly, I'm not sure how old these portal devices are. We know that Black Mesa has been developing portal technology for quite a few years. The Displacement Gun is a recently developed prototype, and quite a faulty one at that. The primary fire is basically just a deadly energy bomb, and the secondary fire takes you to random locations at the cost of 60% of your ammo. We also know that portable portal devices are canon in this universe, at least in Aperture Science, because the handheld portal device is a thing that exists. -The Vortigaunt collar and cuffs can cast electricity in Half-Life Decay, but that doesn't necessarily mean they give the Vortigaunts their power. They are probably just charged with energy, the same way Alyx can charge her gravity gauntlets with Vortigaunt energy in Half-Life Alyx. Unless the game explicitly says they are what give the Vortigaunts their power, then this is just baseless speculation. -As for the Gonome. The absense of a zombie type in Half-Life 2 isn't really evidence that they don't exists. We don't see the Revivor Headcrabs from Half-Life Alyx in Half-Life 2, and we don't see Zombines from Half-Life 2 Episode 1 in the original Half-Life 2 either. I also don't think the Gonome is supposed to be a later stage of Headcrab Zombie. I think the mutation is a product of other Xen fauna. For example, in Half-Life Alyx, we encounter "Jeff", a horribly mutated hazmat worker who was exposed to all sorts of Xenian organisms which turned him into this grotesque creature covered in fungal-like growths. And what do you know, the Gonomes are also covered in fungal-like growths, and you do often find it where there is a lot of Xen biomass. So it could very well be that Gonomes are much like Jeff. They were probably mutated from other sources.
the collars on the vortigaunts are for controlling the power, not using it. They could use the power freely without the collars. (and what i mean by controlling the power is the power is being controlled by others)
On hl2, the headcrabs have no eyes unlike in hl1, so it can't be cannon. In hl1, Gordon has to wear a helmet to survive a gunshot wound to the face (unless you beat half life without getting shot in the face), he would have to wear a helmet. If Gordon doesn't need a helmet, Adrian doesn't need an entire suit. If the combine modified the eyes out of the crabs, then they could have modified the gnome gene out of them too.
The collar isn't what gives the Vortigaunts their power. They're wearing them because they're enslaved; by the Nihilanth in the first game and the Combine in the second. Vortigaunts in collars DO EXIST in the second game. A few appear in City 17 as janitors.
the displacement cannon could be canon, made by some random scientist like the gluon gun or the tau cannon as an attempt to compete with aperture though its much worse than basically any other method of teleportation, likely dosing the user or the target with radiation, as well as teleporting them to a random location in xen that could just be a death pit or a cave with no exit also, the lambda teleporter was the oldest and worst teleporter, as the one we see at the start of half life, made by the anamolous materials lab, is atleast 5x smaller, and only became non functional due to low quality crystals
Aperture, or rather *Cave* never told anyone about the portal gun, if they did, records would've been found in Black Mesa and the combine wouldn't have spared humanity for so long, seeing as how they could now accomplish localised teleportation. Plus, if the government found out about a fucking *portal gun*, they wouldn't have gave aperture so little funding. Edit: I apologize for the necropost, you prob know all this by now
A probable reason that Gordon requires a larger teleporter is possibly because he was in the Lambda Complex, a much older and sealed off part of the facility
Shepard while only wearing a suit on his upper body endures all other hazardous elements because of his determination, sheer f*ing will, and massive steel balls.
The expansions are cannon because.... they where never decanonized. Why people are arguing about this is beyond me. Its cannon by default. Otherwise a lot of movies and games would suddenly be non cannon because the writers never stated it was cannon. Witch they dont. Because unless they say its not cannon, it just is. If blue shift isn't cannon, Barney saying: "Its me Barney, from Black Mesa" as a direct poke at the audience saying "Its me Barney from Blue shift." wouldn't make any sense. Without blue shift Barney is just some guard who we don't know witch he clearly isn't since he's a leader in the resistance. And HL2 episode 4 'Return to Ravenholm' was going to be about Shepard finally being brought back after gman put him in stasis. Clearly he's meant to be cannon as well. Oh and Gina from Half life decay shows up in Oposing force.... dead but cannon.
Wanted to mention that we've also seen Gina or Collet carrying the Xen purest sample in Blue Shift. All the expansions are tied together tightly, there are many references to each other and most significantly - to the original HL. They can't say "that one is canon and that isn't". And the funny thing is they often refer to Marc Laidlaw statements about canonicity. They interprete them like he confirmed there's no canon. Well then HL2 is not canon, EP1, EP2, and HL:Alyx are also not canon. Literally as they said no canon lol. Obviously that's not how it works and what he really meant is that they didn't care about minor inconsistiences in the plot and lore between their games.
i will accept the following: displacer is abit of a leap considering the lambda lab, I do think it is abit more understandable as it does wipe everything out around you if you teleport, and you have no control of your destination.. the decay vortigaunt collars being used to emit the power is an oversight.. and i completely forgot about that part of the game
Wasn't the whole point of Lambda Core about how the scientists had to TP Gordon to a specific spot so that he wouldn't fall to his death, (something Shephard's displacer cannon can't do) thus requiring a huge-ass machine? Also you're forgetting the scientists constantly send Gordon supplies. Also also, I think it was already proven by HL1 that local teleportation was already a pretty common thing to do.
about the collars, those are mind-control collars that the vortigaunts wear because they're meant to be slaves for Xen but end up confused when the resonance cascade happens
Displacer Cannon is certainly a very recent prototype, probably even newer than Tau Cannon or Gluon Gun The (early) prototype teleporter in Blue Shift being able to cause Harmonic Reflux means it has obviously faults or problems, well, being prototype after all (same phenomenon in Kleiner's teleporter in HL2 when Llamar caused a problem) The gauntlets are said to be some sort of control by the Nihalant on the Vorts, and probably have vortigaunt energy or something.
With the vortigonts (at least that's how I think you spell it) you can see in half life Alyx that the things around their necks are collars that made them work for the nilanth (once again unsure about my spelling) that shows freeman in the middle being the one to set them free.
Its not spelt vortigonts its vortigaunts. Also the collars is not just in HL:A, its in HL2 aswell, this is because when the combine invaded earth, they enslaved the vorts again, possibly modifying the original collars or making their own similar ones.
Yeah, but I mean in the end trying to reconcile all these incontinuities is impossible because it's not real and it doesn't actually need to follow any continuity. Truth of the matter is the people making it didn't have unlimited man hours or the reverence for the material the same way millions of fans collectively do. While we can mull over it and ask questions that are perhaps more interesting than anything originally thought of, the creators may have made mistakes or not really viewed something as important or had plans for it beyond a simple mechanic or detail for gameplay.
The vortigaunts Collar is actually a device to limit their electrical ability and be forced into enslavement as shown in the original half life. That is why they no longer have the collar cause they have been freed in half life 2 once the field was open and the combine took over. You can clearly see some vortigaunts in half life 2 still wear the collar and are enslaved by the combine.
You do realize we're talking about expansions that came out prior to have Half-Life 2 right. The lore you're bringing up wasn't even thought of when the expansions were made.
The core teleporter is probably for multiple accurate uses while the blue shift one is a single use or limited use teleporter The vort's collars may be reserve energy or synthetic energy as the vortigaunts would probably need to use it at will and they were forced in hl1
I think both opposing force and blue shift are cannon, but not decay since the inconcistencies, the collar, and finally the charging stations, since they have different models and you can see a HL1 charging station's tape in half life 2 as an easter egg
And the cringy colors of HEV suits in decay🤮 Like one of those women was literally shown wearing an orange suit in Blue Shift. So yeah there is a lot of reasons to not consider Decay canon, it contradicts everything.
@@fantastikboom1094Cringy colours? One suit was red and the other was some brown grey mix. Even then, the colour isn't something important and the difference could simply be for gameplay purposes. Besides, unlike the other expansions, Decay was intended to have more missions but they didn't have the time. One mission was there to correct the small plothole of Gordon being in the trash compactor without being shot. Something that many questioned. Decay states that Colette and Gina happened to catch the Marines about to do exactly that and saved Gordon from being shot.
@@starhammer5247 What are you even trying to prove here? Color does contradict, it's a fact. Just as many things in the Decay do. The following about "plothole" of Gordon not being shot is nonsense. First, what does that have to do with the inconsistiences we listed? Second, it is *not* a plothole.
the Lambda teleporter likely has more power and more accuracy. if nihilanth is a mastermind he likely hid in the darkest reaches of xen which were only attainable with the most powerful jumps. Gordon was teleported straight into guarded and/or militarized Xen areas, the aliens were guarding the teleporter waypoints leading to nihilanth, while Barney and Adrian were in the Xen countryside
1. As far as I know, it wasn't Black Mesa who created the HEV suits. Soldiers fall as flies compared to Gordon, maybe because the PCV is like a glove compared to a full radiation suit that is the HEV. 2. Displacer consumes a lot of uranium and is unstable, I bet the reactor is far more stable than that. 3. The Blueshift teleporter is another can of worms but I could say it works as a Xen gateway because of the Resonance Cascade, otherwise, it would be just an Earth-side teleporter like the ones in Lambda Complex. 4. Vortigaunt collars could just be charged like capacitors 5. Maybe headcanon only, but HL2 headcrabs are genetically modified variants of the HL1 headcrabs, by the Combine. These are capable of detaching from the host and therefore far more dangerous on the short timescale Tbh Valve did a lot of retcons between HL1 and HL2 and even in HLA (I'm looking at you "DNA scanning gun")
The vortigaunt collars are to keep them under the nihalanths control and to label them as slaves, while the displacer cannon is completely random and unpredictable so is not used due to that. I believe large teleporter is for a more exact location.
I think there are probably some good speculative reasons that all of these do in fact work: The PCV might've been developed by Aperture science after reverse engineering a (possibly stolen) HEV suit and making something more portable, hence why they work with HEV chargers. At the end of Blue Shift, Barney almost gets stuck in an infinite harmonic reflux, which could be a byproduct of the older, inferior teleportation technology. The thing about the displacer canon is that WHERE it teleports you in Xen is highly inconsistent, which shows its limitations compared to the Lambda reactor. As for the Vortigaunt collars, I think this was a byproduct of the Nihilinth's control over them and once the Nihilinth was killed, they were able to generate energy on their own once again. Something we have to consider with the headcrab zombie mutations is that in HL2, the victims are taken over by a completely different breed of headcrab, which is more a byproduct of different variations rather than an inconsistency in mutation. The reason we don't see any gonomes may have to do with the environmental conditions that would be required for one to develop.
The reason why the Gonome doesn't exist in Half - Life 2 but Fast Headcrabs And Poison Headcrabs are in there but not in Half - Life 1 is because both the Fast Headcrab and Poison Headcrabs are combine-made. Which means The Combine erased the ability for Headcrab Zombies to mutate into gonomes. And they added other mutations for the standard Headcrab.
@@TheKingofBunga2912 What tf are you even talking right now? Did you understand yourself? Your bs makes no sense at all, so learn english or whatever. Oh, and you're liking your own comments, bro that's pathetic lol. Anyway, you literally just said Fast and Poison headcrabs were made by the Combine and I disproved your point. Then you say they are made by them, but you also say they're natural (???????)..... What does that even mean. Do you read what you write before publishing?
On the question of Blue shift using a rechargeable battery and the Lambda laboratory using a nuclear reactor could also be explained that a Portal or Wormhole can still be created using rechargeable batteries however the more energy that is put into the Wormhole makes it more stable and thus much more safe and accurate to regularly use as a means of transportation between Earth and Xen. Similar to how a wooden bridge can potentially still be used as a means of transportation but a steel and concrete bridge generally speaking are probably going to be a more longer lasting in addition to being able to potentially hold more weight which a similar comparison could be made to the older rechargable wormhole device found in Blueshift versus the Nuclear reactor worm hole device found in the original Half Life
I always loved that according to Opposing Force, the Lambda Complex was basically a 15 minute walk around the corner from Sector C. I like to imagine the scientists communicating like "Yeah, we just sent him to you." *2 days later* "Where tf have you been!?"
@@AmelpsXett 1) HL:A is A and not 3. 2) HL:A is an expansion like BS, OF and Decay. They do not continue the story, unlike HL-HL2-EP1-EP2, they add to it and expand the lore. 2.1) It is not a made up rule, it is a visible tendency. Each story continuing HL game had Gordon as the main character, those which do not - are not.
@@fantastikboom1094 1) hla is hl3. Made on the bones of hl3 dev builds and is a sequel. 2) lmao no hla is not an expansion. Hl1 "expansions" are Randy's experiments that shouldn't even exist in this conversation. Hla is a genuine sequel, and not some kind of spinoff 3) it's either a made up rule or a logical fallacy. There is no official source that confirms that
i believe the vort's collars are there as to supress the vortessence or sum; also, the gonomes could be easily explained as being an environment induced mutation after being exposed to the radiation of confined black mesa corridors and such, considering the facility casually has hazardous waste all around it
My counter arguements to this short: 1. That isn't a bad point, but every protagionist should honestly be dead by that logic. Gordon doesn't wear any form of helmet and is still alive. That is four games of radiation exposure. Also, Gordon doesn't wear a helmet. Change my mind. Barney does go through chemicals in Blue Shift and is fine. Alyx in the newest game goes through some questionable areas, though it is just alien stuff so that is up in the air. It's not hard enough evidence for me. 2. I never really thought about it too much. I mean in Portal they make portals like nothing and that IS canon. I like to think the Displacer teleports you randomly. Hell, it already does that and it what it does. That scientist was probably trying to get out with his new invention and created a dangerous teleporter gun. Not too difficult to believe. 3. In Blue Shift, it's an old teleporter from like the 50s, they had to send Bareny to Xen to get a relay and signal. Plus it takes FOREVER to charge up. It was a pretty shit one where it had cool leak or whatever the part was when you have to turn the valve. Barney went through a harmonic reflux because of the teleporter. Also, I didn't know that about the teleporter at the end of HL1 actually... 4. That is a REALLY good point. But maybe the chains give them more electric energy and no only enslaves them. They don't say they can't use their electricity without them. That is me trying to come up with something. 5. Okay that is an easy one. The headcrabs are genetically modified by the Combine. That is why there are fast, hard shell and poison headcrabs. They probably removed that of headcrabs so the Combine wouldn't have to deal with them. Unless we want to make the arguement Half-life 1 isn't canon... which is stupid. I like to think the Gearbox expansions are canon.
portal is canon to half life but it's still entirely separate. Half life has a serious tone and works under assumption that human technology is very limited, while Portal is a bit of a parody where Aperture Science can do literally anything when everyone around them has way worse technology.
for the 4th point, play black mesa at the interloper chapter (ik it's fanmade), but it explains why the devices could receive electrical power (it is for controller's mind controling power so they could control vortigaunts) original half life's controller abilities is limited due to the technological limitation of the goldsrc engine at its time hope that explains
1. This proves nothing it’s a gameplay thing 2. The displacer is very unpredictable so it’s preferable to use a real teleporter also it’s possible they were all lost in Xen as we only ever see them in xen 3. The prototype is weaker and only works for a short amount of time as it’s a prototype however the one used in half life is more effective because it’s the finished product 4. The collars may have been used to make the energy more powerful or to help control the energy. We still don’t know what they do 5. The mutations in half life 2 are due to combine genetic experimentation to weaponise headcrabs. It’s possible that in doing so it prevented them from mutating into gonomes
I think there was a quote in Decay that said "That man is a bureaucrat, not a scientist" on behalf of Dr Breen, and in half life Alyx, on one of the newspapers, its says "I'm a doctor, not a politician", once again on behalf of Dr Breen. I know both quotes are different but I still wanted to make a comment on this
@@Chris-nj4kx No i'm fine, just a bit angry that people are seriously thinking expansions aren't canon. Maybe you didn't but that looked that way after I read 300+ comments.
the genome is a highly dangerous form of the headcrab zombie capable of starting the reproductive cycle. Since the combine had control of the headcrabs in hl2,it would be safe to say that they would have gotten rid of the one stage that is VERY likely to escape containment and create an army of headcrabs. Even if the headcrabs evolved in ravenholme, its a bit of a gamble to say the trait of being a genome could have happened to respark in the "ability tree" edit: the fast zombie/poison zombie was an evolution from being in earth
My counterarguments: PCV is also rechargeable in HEV suit power stations, meaning that the army has an important role in investing at Black Mesa. PCV Theory: It is not specified who made PCV(probably Black Mesa, as they are giant and research many other technologies uncovered), and while it protects only the torso, it is made of like that because PCV was meant to be used in COMBAT UPON HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS, meaning, it will stop a bullet to save you, and your vital organs will be safer mainly from radiation(like the lead vest of the radiologists in real life). Not to mention it is tougher in combat than HEV Suit, needing less charging stations through the whole OpFor game compared even to the first 4 parts of Half-Life base game. As for the teleporter, when Shephard uses it he falls behind Gordon Freeman, "meaning it is not safer than the portable ones". That is easily understandable when you know the concept of "two bodies can't occupy the same space", don't even need to use "G-Man interference" for knowing the issues with the argument. When the main teleporters are used they need to calculate where to go at Xen, but if there is matter interference, it calculate it further to the main teleport destiny, not to mention the test subjects use it one at a time cause they would probably turn into a paste of siamese twins if both jumped at basically the same time. Blue Shift: Barney Calhoun escapes with a crowbar from Black Mesa, his name is confirmed in HL2, and ask what he gives us? A CROWBAR, not only meaning he was our friend, but that he was dearly keeping a crowbar for TWENTY YEARS in memory of Black Mesa and his friends, specially Gordon Freeman... Decay: The only one that has no clue of canonicity, cause other team could stop the portal storm and shit, revealing the existence of Nihilant by failing. So, nah, Decay is underrated, but it is clueless.
The pcv could just be a scaled down version of the hazard suit. Also the military wore gas masks and stuff too so im sure that would help Adrian. The displacer is super unreliable + needs ammo not only to go to xen but to go back unlike big teleporters which use xen as a gateway. I don't got anything for the rechargeable battery. I always thought that was dumb too. We know its older so maybe it never used enough power to be as predictable as the lambda complex teleporter, as shown with Barney. Id say the slave collar was to help channel the energy in a way thr nihilanth could control. Maybe it even held some in it like a battery. Id like to believe that the gonome not appearing is due to genetic modification from the combine.
in hl1's monster of the week promos, its stated that headcrabs turn into gonarchs when they consume enough biomass; i'd imagine that gonomes are like an early phase in the transition from headcrab to gonarch, where they've consumed just enough in order to achieve basic mutation. in half life 2, gonomes aren't present probably due to the fact that zombies in the post-war world don't have as much access to food as they did during the black mesa incident; especially in places like ravenholm that have been headcrab canistered to hell, where there's nothing to eat because 99% of the other living creatures are fellow zombies.
To be honest,i think all expansions are canon,and the most probable cause they have inconsistencies on them(gameplay and lore wise) is because Valve was experimenting with gameplay mechanics. If Valve _for some reason_ decides to remake the Half-life games and expansion, I'm sure they would try their best to keep it consistent in between the expansions and the main game.
The last one, the combine engineered headcrabs to be a better weapon, thus removing biological impulses. The gonome is needed to make a gonarch, and the combine dont want or need the gonarch, so they removed that part of the life-cycle And the 1st one, Shepard is wearing a helmet, tough pants, tough shirt, boots and gloves, so shepard has the proper protection needed to survive.
Just because the gonomes only appear in Opposing Force doesn't suggest they don't exist in the later titles. The fast zombies aren't another stage of mutation, and neither are the poison zombies, they are rather bodies taken by different typed of headcrab. The classic zombies you see in later titles are likely just much more recently taken than the gonomes in Opposing Force.
1. This is for gameplay purposes, the game would suck if you kept dying because Adrian's legs got burnt. Gordon doesn't even wear a helmet in radioactive areas so at least the games are consistent with one another. Besides, I think a trained soldier would be a little more durable to damage than a scientist however badass he is. 2. The displacer cannon is random, they needed to transport Gordon to a specific location in the Xen so that he was able to complete his mission, whilst the gun could throw you anywhere in the dimension. 3. I mean... you said it, it's a prototype, so it would probably require less power. And you're really saying Black Mesa making a teleporter to another dimension is on the table but them making a rechargeable battery to power it is too far-fetched? 4. Is this explicitly said? or just implied? The collars were there so that they could be controlled, which in turn would be controlling their vortesence which is why it may seem as though that's where it comes from (kinda like a Thor and Mjolnir vibe) 5. This is by far THE WORSE EXCUSE. First of all, the zombies we see in Half-Life 2 are all different species, not different states of the zombie (as they use different headcrabs). Considering Gonomes are stronger than regular zombies and could be a liability to the combine as they are deploying headcrabs, I don't know, maybe the race of aliens that are known for genetically modifying other species for their needs could have something to do with it. At the end of the day, there is no canon and it's always going to be a losing fight. We should focus on what they are instead of what they could be, they are all fantastic games in their own right and I truly believe they are all the same story. But whether it is or not does not change the overall value of said games. I love this series, it means a lot to me, but videos like this just sew the seeds of doubt. I hope I didn't come off as pretentious but I just wanted to show that you could probably have a back-and-forth about this until the end of time, making up excuses to fit your narrative, which isn't what any of this is about. Love you lymphoid and love your videos, always will!
HEVs were probably way too costly to produce on a mass scale, hence why black mesa only had enough for a small team despite having direct access to the resources required. This justifies the need for the PCVs while also explaining why Gordon was still able to hold is own against trained men, as his gear was superior.
About the Displacer, it might be that its very unpredictable as shown as the scientist falling to his death and so everyone prefers using the Big teleporting machines
Also the entire game is based of aliens accidently spawning just by shooting a crystal with a beam and the displacer and blueshift telporter uses xen crystals
it’s not even guaranteed to work when Shepard uses it, some displacer areas will have you falling to your death
exactly, the displacer is super innacurate and the teleporter in blue shift starts malfunctioning when you go through it, while the giant teleporter in the lambda lab works perfectly
Perhaps a potential explanation for how the gun works is that the gun itself doesn't create wormholes or teleports the user but instead piggy backs off pre-existing wormholes by creating a temporary opening in our reality and the wormhole and then in addition to that the gun generates a very unstable, provisional wormhole that leads to a location that roughly goes to the location programmed into the gun.
This is obviously very, very risky as you could quickly zip yourself 1000 meters high above your intended target and perhaps many miles away as well and at the very worst you could just straight up piggyback and provisionally wormhole yourself in the middle of a solid material like a mountain in Xen or something, which makes using such a tool a last resort option.
So if in Half life 2 (prior to Episode 2) if the same device were used (and not when the resistance were testing their more advanced teleporters) maybe such a person would potentially instead get sucked into the portal that the Combine set up -- but considering it's a one way portal type thing, I don't know if such a person would be able to get through and piggyback of a Combine portal or let alone if such a person would live?
Blue shift teleporter requires less power because it's old equipment, it was an earlier prototype of first cross dimensional teleportation experiment and it runs out of power after cross dimensional teleportation making it only useful for local teleportation and we've seen another local teleporter built in half-life 2 in Kleiner's lab, and it also runs on power from a socket AND IT ALSO MALFUNCTIONS LIKE THE ONE IN BLUE SHIFT LEAVING GORDON IN A STATE OF UNCERTAINTY.. I saw no reactors or combine dark energy spheres running that kleiner teleporter, hope that explains the lambda complex reactor for cross dimensional teleportation and shows you that the whole half-life franchise shouldn't be cannon 😂. Also you can't ever assume that kleiner and eli's teleporters are based on combine tech because it's said during the game that combines can do cross dimensional teleportation but they still haven't figured out how to make local teleportation devices. And that's all I have folks.
Half-Life Teleporter: is accurate and safe.
Opposing Force Displacer: can kill Shepard on two occasions. Using it is literally a russian roulette.
Blue-Shift Teleporter: also not safe as seen with Barney being teleported across places in the end. Rosenberg noted Barney was lucky he's even alive and teleported back in one piece.
Yeah, Proto Labs Teleporter and Displacer Cannon may be smaller/compact and need less energy but where less effective and too much unpredictable. Also the Proto Labs Tele needed Barney to go to Xen first to adjust the array so they can be teleported to other places on Earth while the Lambda Teleporter didn't need any of that and was far more safer.
There’s also probably some nonsense one could come up with regarding WHERE in Xen you teleport to. Maybe Nihilanth is at the “center” and getting close to it requires exponentially more energy. Maybe the displacement canon and the proto teleporter can only reach the fringe regions that are “closer” to our dimension. After all, there’s no way to reach Nihilanth from anywhere Barney and Adrian ever enter Xen
And similair teleportet was used in half life 2 and they same thing happened to gordon but that time gordon got teleported in a wrong place.
@@littlechickeyhudak so kinda like orbital mechanics? The smallest teleporters from HL2 only doing the equivalent of gravity assists while the lambda complex one can full on land you.
Omfg I love that pfp like damn actual gold imagine half-life: House episode vicodin
Valid arguments.
I'll respectfully ignore them.
I recognize the council has made a decision. But, given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.
its comments like these that warning labels exist on lego's
@@palladios4459 I AM the Senate.
@@theopinionreaper It's comments like these that make me ignore the warnings and continue to eat Legos in peace.
@@theopinionreaper let me eat Legos in peace like damn
top 1 reasons why half life expansions are canon:
because they're cool
They’re not tho; only good ones are Decay and Blue Shift maybe
@@cj-3810 why don't you like opfor??
@@Name-nw9uj I think what it added didn’t do much for the story or game; Race X was just thrown in as a gimmick, lack of interesting ai interaction; lack of canonical coherence compared to decay; I feel as if the best idea was the teleporting gun for its explorative purpose
@@cj-3810but it has Adrian Shepard best character of all fiction.
Totally agree. Would have liked an opposing force 2.
Here's a few reasons why the expansions are Canon
1 Barney in half-life 2, the reason for this is that we see a B. Calhoun escape black mesa in blue shift
2. The fact Barney got a crowbar from black mesa, in blue shift B. Calhoun escaped with a crowbar.
3. In the credits for Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Barney's full name is confirmed to be Barney Calhoun
4. In the instruction manual for Blue Shift B. Calhoun's full name is confirmed to be Barney Calhoun as the first sentence on page 17 confirms this "As Barney Calhoun you will be issued a number of weapons" - Blue Shift Instruction Manual page 17
this is only for blue shift lol
A few reasons why *blue shift is canon
The cuffs are what control the Vortigaunts, and are needed to project their powers when enslaved. Enslaved vortigaunts, despite being able to have their bodies controlled by Alien Controllers, can still refuse to touch in to the Vortescence, so these cuffs substitute their abilities. Freed vorts, seen in Half-Life 2, don't need these cuffs as they are willing to fight.
@@gibberishdump1610 Cope more, Opposing Force non-believers. Would love to see how you explain a big crater on Black Mesa. 😏
@@fantastikboom1094 he didn't say that opposing force was non-canon
The other zombie mutations are due to the combine changing the genetics of the headcrabs, creating the poison headcrab and the fast head crab. They are not natural.
Holdup didn't the poison headcrab get invented by father Gregory while he's been trying to find a cure to the zombies.
@@someguyontheinternet4455 Totally dude spot on. He's a biologist on the side.
Why do people still believe in these dumb theories? It's 2023 guys, valved stated that the poison and fast ones are just other types of headcrabs long ago.
@@Agustin_Leal You should take a look at the "Combine OverWiki" It's established that it's unknown where they originally came from. Valve's incredible storytelling only leaves people to speculate and theorize what's really going on. Quite frankly, I don't see what's wrong in believing that the fast headcrab, and poison headcrabs are a product of the Combine. They've already shown us how they weaponized them with the pods, so it doesn't seem like a far fetched idea that they would take it a step further, by mutating them, therefore making them more efficient deadly weapons. This theory can be even further cemented if you look into the nature of the Combine, and the fact that you never see them in Half-Life 1.
Nah fast headcrabs evolved so they were betting suited for earth like creatures and conditions
Despite the HEV suit being made to protect users in hazardous environments, it does a piss poor job at protecting Freeman in some canal water in HL2.
Canals must have been near Fukushima or some shit
@@Nova-vk5qb Chernobyl
@@Nova-vk5qb the Combine has no regard for safely dumping radioactive waste material
Well it’s only waterproof to a depth of 50 meters
*COUGH COUGH* No helmet *COUGH COUGH*
The Vortigaunt collar is more for being controlled more easily by controllers/Nihilanth . As for the Gonome, the theory is, that they need more days or different environment to be able to evolve to Gonomes, but after that, they have generally short lifetime and that's why you don't see them in HL2
The Gonomes have green sludge on their backs. Maybe the zombies turn into Gonomes only when they are exposed to the green toxic sludge that's all over the place in Black Mesa.
Maybe gonomes are just zombies that mutated poorly due to radioactive environments and even though they are bigger (deformed) they die quicker
@@Stribog1337 Look gordon, Ropes! we can us-
HELP ME GORDEN!
@@Seb-Storm "Headcrabs are seemingly different from their Xen predecessors. The fact they're used by the Combine suggests they're probably genetically modified in some way, which is why fast and poison variations exist. Maybe standard crabs were changed to never evolve into gonomes." -Google
@@lymphoidWell, if were including the HD Pack by Gearbox, the green sludge was already on the zombies, even before Gonome infections.
1. This was a concession made for gameplay.
2. The Displacee Cannon is an experiment prototype that opes and closes a teleport within a second, and Lambda Labs holds teleports open for long amounts of time.
3. Holding open a lot of teleports for indeterminate amounts of time requires a lot of energy. Opening one teleport temporarily obvs requires less.
4. Don't have a counterargument for this.
5. The Combine modded Headcrabs for better citizen infecting, they prob made it not become a gonome.
Addendum: Valve made a bunch of retcons between HL1 and HL2 (G-Man being the Administrator of Black Mesa instead of Breen, Eli in Unforeseen Consequences, Gordon's Ponytail) so these could just be ignored.
Perhaps the Vortigaunt and the collar both have electric powers, or the collar redirects/amplifies the power for the nihilanths purposes
@@lymphoid Could be very much possible
When did Hl2 or it’s episodes say gman was the administrator of black mesa?
@@Elheddo Marc Laidlaw said the G-Man was the Administrator in the HL1 era, then he retconned it so Dr. Breen was the Administrator and the G-Man was some interdimensional miscreant.
@@lakotacorff4012 oh
Black Mesa made the PCV for the military as a contract, it was likely commercialized for internal use as the HEV later on. As for why it only Covers the Torso as opposed to being a full suit is it is more centered on being a combat vest system, think something like a flak vest, it’s there more to stop rounds. It can protect the user from other hazards in combination with a gas mask and maybe a MOPP suit.
Right? My first thought when he brought this point up was that I'd imagine the Marines would have mopp suits to go with those gas masks they wear, even though we dont see it lol
It's the logic an average person who never served would have, similar to people who ask, "Why doesn't the military just make bulletproof suits for soldiers?" There's enough reasons against a full body HEV-style suit for typical ground infantry that it's not worth going over.
@@cactuscultist_2307 I assume these are cost, weight and lack of moveability. Just not reliable for mass purpose.
@@fantastikboom1094exactly
@@nickysimi9866pr sure the hecu isnt average soldiers, thus hazardous enviroments.
Displacement gun counter argument:
1. Lambda teleporter is their first stable teleport tech. It can keep a portal open for long amounts of time, powered by earths resources.
2. Displacer cannon is a prototype gun like the portal gun. Developed after discoveries from the lambda teleporter.
3. It is powered by a xen crystal. If you remember, the first experiment we did in the game was to test the "purest sample" of xen crystal ever and it opened up a lot of portals.
4. The collars could have absorbed the very power themselves, explaining the differences in the charging methods between the games and could have been used for mind and attack control by the Nihilanth.
5. Gonomes could be a result of a zombie with high enough nutrition to develop. In black mesa all there was were some security guards, grunts and some defenseless scientists. along with a hell lot of corpses meaning FOOD!!! This might also explain the sleekness of fast zombies as they have rapidly adapted, or are a different variant that the protagonists have not seen in Xen yet. Additionally the rebels in ravenholm before the shelling might have been armed so they could lower the amount of zombies by a certain ratio
The zombie thing is easily explained. The combine can easily alter the genes so the zombies don't get too powerful as gonomes. That doesn't mean other things aren't possible though. Or fast and poison headcrabs already existed and we just never found them in Xen. Xen is presumably a massive place.
As for the teleporter in blue shift there is likely a crap ton of machinery under it that allows it to function. It's just easier to start up for some reason. It also ties into Half Life 2 where Xen is used to teleport to other places on earth.
Also there is a portal gun in that universe so it's not too crazy to think Black Mesa was experimenting on something similar.
In Kleiner’s lab there is a drawing of a regular headcrab with notes about it regarding mutation, implying that the fast and poison variants never existed during hl1 and were simply regular ones mutated by the combine to be more efficient killers
The teleporter Shepard uses was small and simple. Therefore it couldn't calculate where exactly you wanna go. That's why it puts you in random dimensions/places. And also they're small places.
The teleporter in the Lambda complex isn't really a teleporter - it's a gate. It *stays open*.
I think the reason why the lambda complex teleporter is so big is because it doesn't use extradimensional materials. the displacer cannon probably uses xen crystals which seemingly are used to get around the laws of physics often
lambda complex has at least 11 teleports open at the same time and main big thingy is capable of opening the portal for long amount of time possibly unlimited
@@ryszakowy i'm saying the big main one is probably the 1st that black mesa built to get to xen in the first place. I don't know if the other open portals scattered around the place are supposed to be there or are a result of the resonance cascade
The big teleporters are probably also a lot more powerful because rhey can keep portals open indefinitely it seems and also are probably older than the displaxer canon. So earlier teleporter deaigns were more bulky ans the displacer is a prototype of a stream lined habd held device. Fitting sinfe their rival is apature whos claim to fame is a hand geld portal gun
The lambda complex teleport is also big because it was designed to send several teams of HEV scientists to extract materials
I always thought it was because the Lambda complex was older than most of the other areas?
The ravenholm zombies aren’t different stages, they are subspecies. Even the Hl2 standard head crab is technically a new subspecies post earth inhabitants, so the Gonome could be a direct Xen headcrab only thing before the evolved to attach to simpler organisms.
The teleporter in blue shift was very old and they couldn't get the exact position right as well as nearly infinity trapping barney
And it takes so long to send you somewhere
Yeah it's literally in a prototype lab
we dont see any bullsquids or houndeyes either but that doesn't mean they dont exist anymore
HLA answered why we don't see them lol
@@AmelpsXett It didn't.
@@fantastikboom1094 it did. They simply killed them all
@@AmelpsXett They didn't.
Fun fact: Eli lost his leg to a bullsquid after trying to escape with Kleiner from the outskirts. So yes, bullsquids and houndeyes still exist in the Half Life universe
You forgot that if Gordon turns around while entering the portal to Xen, Shepherd will not be there.
It because Shepherd is not suppose to follow Freeman in Xen, thus creating a Temporal Paradox
That's due to the fact that HL1 is older than OP and OP maybe wasnt even planned at the point they were making HL1
@@FN--ky6mypretty sure this comment was a joke mate
@@juiceoverflow Though it wasn't.
@@juiceoverflowit wasn’t
The vortigon collars were made by the nilynth to enslave them, they can use their powers by themselves.
Counterpoint: Mark Laidlaw, the series' writer/author, said that the expansions are canon. You can't get more official than the devs saying it's canon. Discussion over.
about gonomes, the reason they're not in ravenholm is because the combine contorlled wastelands in general are very sparse of nutrition and other foodstuffs. In black mesa the gonomes had people all around along with corpses which could help them to grow to larger lenghts happy-go-luckily like in EZ2. This could also explain the thinness of fast zombies as they were made for the bare minimum nutrition.
most of these are just for the sake of the game, you can’t always force everything to make sense without making sacrifices
like of course shepherd doesn’t wear a huge suit of armour but why would they make the armour system different game. and just because gordon doesn’t specifically see a gonarch doesn’t mean they don’t exist
It's possible that the Xen in Half-Life and the Xen in Blue Shift and Opposing Force are different levels of Xen.
Barney and Adrian never get teleporters, they have to rely on moving around Xen manually until they find a portal back onto Earth.
Gordon has the opposite experience, he only finds portals that lead him further into Xen and never a portal back to Earth without G-Man's assistance.
Perhaps the route Gordon took was the only way he could get to the Nihilanth and that's why it's so hard to get there in comparison to the tamer version of Xen Calhoun and Shepherd arrive to. If the Nihilanth can hold a portal to Xen open with pure thought who's to say it can't hold a portal to Xen closed with pure thought?
This makes sense. The xen is an unpredictable place
The PCV is based on HEV tech (which is why it can be charged by HEV chargers)
If I remember in the boot camp it says that it can use whatever means of energy to recharge because of adaptors so uses multiple ways to charge but limitations in the old games could have made it possible, but the pcv is the most with diferrent charger optioms
@@Raymations I was about to agree, but then...bro HEV suit is literally shown to have helmet, it does have it. 💀💀☠
God dаmn these helmet not-believers.
@@fantastikboom1094Gordon has never been shown wearing a helmet
@@thebigcheese2461 Literally 0 words about Gordon. Don't you ever try to argue on the internet lmao.
@@fantastikboom1094 No one ever said the HEV suit doesn't have a helmet the only time people say something about HEV helmets is if Gordon wears one or not.
Counterarguments:
1. I can agree that its a bit ridiculous, but if you think about it, if we take what we can see cheat-less in half-life, we might not even have a helmet, leaving the head open, but logically, it would have a helmet, as we see corpses in Xen with helmets and as the head is the most fragile part. Maybe, there are also other parts of the HECU equivalent (forgot the name) that we just dont see Adrien put on. It would even make sense more, as it is just a vest, but you still need to charge it. Charge a f**king vest.
2. Maybe they need the big-ass machine because the displacer gun in not safe and can teleport you in unexpected places. It can even kill you a few times I think
3. Again, stability. It may need a rechargable battery, but we see Barney teleport all around the place. Even saw someone else here say that a doctor at the end of the game says that Barney's lucky ti be alive and in one piece
4. Again, saw someone else again say that they are more to help with their enslavement/being controlled by the Nihilanth
5. Pretty sure that all the headcrabs in HL2 and onward were mutated by the combine, and instead of making their hosts turn into Gonomes, they simply stay in one stage. Plus, something else again that another person said, the same guy that said of Vortigaunts, they might just be mutated by toxic sludge or turn to Gonomes in only specific environments.
Tl;dr - all your arguments have valid counterarguments, so I will respectfully disregard them :)
For some reason I have a feeling you refered to me. Nice comment btw
Opinion noted, and respectfully ignored
I really love the idea that Adrian is still part of Half Life lore and that he's just waiting in stasis for some bad-ass moment in HL 3
Seria interessante se ele aparecesse pra salvar o Gordon e usasse a máquina de teleporte portátil
1. It DETECTS those dangers, but how much it actually protects you from them is debatable. It might be sapping your vest energy when you stand is a puddle of radioactive snot but it's probably just injecting you with some horrifying mix of chemicals to stop you from instantly keeling over rather than ACTUALLY protecting you from the hazard. Shepard will probably still get cancer.
2. The lambda lab uses a big machine yes, but it's possible these big machines are being used to help make those hand held machines work, or alternateively the lambda machine is older and the handheld device is a more recent development, perhaps a less stable one. Or the big machine is more powerful, more accurate, or has more features useful for research, compared to the handheld which is probably intended as a way to test the idea of making this technology something that can be used it real life situations. Also in HL1 there are many instances for teleporter balls just hanging out with nothing more than a pad under them (if they even have that). Again this could be evidence that there is a big machine running this all wirelessly from somewhere, or that the big machines are just required for different purposes, or are older.
3. Not sure if the full might of the reactor is actually required for the machine, or if we were just fixing it to stop it blowing up. Possibly these things don't actually use that much electricy and we just needed to have the reactor working because that just where the power comes from. It doesn't take a nuclear reactor to charge a phone, but that's what happens when you plug your phone in every night.
4. IDK. maybe the collar is only channeling electricity. Or perhaps the collar also connects to the 'vortesence' or whatever. Can't argue this one too hard as it's all made up alien nonsense.
5. I can't back this up, and I can't remember if this was something from the beta, but i've heard that the fast and poison zombies were apparantly combine alterations to the headcrab. Even if the combine alterations thing isn't true, I'd always assumed that these were just different species of headcrab, rather than being stages of development, since the crabs themselves look wildly different, compared to the gonome headcrabs which look the same as the normal ones. As for why no gonomes appear in HL2, I can't answer, except that for maybe the gonomes again come from a different species of headcrab, or the further mutation was to do with something they came in contact with in black mesa (race x, radiation ect). Could even be the case that they only advance to the gonome stage when the conditions are right, for example if there is an abundance of food (trapped scientists in black mesa) then over time the zombie developes into a bigger stronger gonome, but if there is minimal resources (abbandoned town of ravenholm) the zombie stays a zombie, and conserves energy). But that's just my fan theory.
Over all I think these points are interesting but not conclusive proof that the expansions aren't canon
Possibilities for the expansions to be cannon
1. Black Mesa is government owned, and so is the H.E.C.U marines, and it is possible that Black Mesa was working with them before the H.E.C.U started to kill scientists.
2. In Blue Shift, the prototype they’re working on is a prototype, so there wouldn’t be a nuclear reactor powering it. The other reason is the Nuclear Powered teleporter in the Lambda Complex is a more ideal, and safe option, hence why it is powered by a nuclear reactor.
3. The portable teleporter in Opposing Force was the prototype being built in Blue Shift.
4. The vortigaunts since have evolved, or they naturally had that power in the first place which is quite unlikely, or the collar was just a cosmetic that enhanced their powers.
5. The Gonomes have been killed off. It is also possible they evolved into that big poison headcrab thrower in Half-Life 2 (forgot the name).
I will testify for the Displacer: Aperture Science and the Handheld Portal Device are both 100% confirmed canon to the Half-Life universe, so something like that is very well possible. And its completely unpredictable nature is probably due to the fact that it's so small.
the Displacer was probably a prototype like the Tau Cannon
To be honest. Valve isn't all that consistent themselves really, and you can just handwave some of these as being oversights that aren't to be taken seriously. I mean, the PCV was just made the way it is for gameplay purposes. Also there are a lot of easy explanations for a lot of these apparent discrepancies. I'll list some examples.
-I see no contradiction with the Displacement Gun. The teleporters in the Lambda Complex don't just create one portal. They create many portals AND they have to keep them open at all times. That will definitely cost a lot more energy. I'm also not sure if the reactor is just for the portals. It could be powering the whole Lambda Complex, if not the entire facility for all we know. Lastly, I'm not sure how old these portal devices are. We know that Black Mesa has been developing portal technology for quite a few years. The Displacement Gun is a recently developed prototype, and quite a faulty one at that. The primary fire is basically just a deadly energy bomb, and the secondary fire takes you to random locations at the cost of 60% of your ammo. We also know that portable portal devices are canon in this universe, at least in Aperture Science, because the handheld portal device is a thing that exists.
-The Vortigaunt collar and cuffs can cast electricity in Half-Life Decay, but that doesn't necessarily mean they give the Vortigaunts their power. They are probably just charged with energy, the same way Alyx can charge her gravity gauntlets with Vortigaunt energy in Half-Life Alyx. Unless the game explicitly says they are what give the Vortigaunts their power, then this is just baseless speculation.
-As for the Gonome. The absense of a zombie type in Half-Life 2 isn't really evidence that they don't exists. We don't see the Revivor Headcrabs from Half-Life Alyx in Half-Life 2, and we don't see Zombines from Half-Life 2 Episode 1 in the original Half-Life 2 either. I also don't think the Gonome is supposed to be a later stage of Headcrab Zombie. I think the mutation is a product of other Xen fauna. For example, in Half-Life Alyx, we encounter "Jeff", a horribly mutated hazmat worker who was exposed to all sorts of Xenian organisms which turned him into this grotesque creature covered in fungal-like growths. And what do you know, the Gonomes are also covered in fungal-like growths, and you do often find it where there is a lot of Xen biomass. So it could very well be that Gonomes are much like Jeff. They were probably mutated from other sources.
That was a really good comment bro, very cool
The expansions are Canon because I said so. Plus I'm extremely gay
Seems good enough
@@cielros The confidence to say "Because I said so" Won it over for me.
Yeah, seems about right.
I agree
This
the collars on the vortigaunts are for controlling the power, not using it. They could use the power freely without the collars. (and what i mean by controlling the power is the power is being controlled by others)
On hl2, the headcrabs have no eyes unlike in hl1, so it can't be cannon. In hl1, Gordon has to wear a helmet to survive a gunshot wound to the face (unless you beat half life without getting shot in the face), he would have to wear a helmet. If Gordon doesn't need a helmet, Adrian doesn't need an entire suit. If the combine modified the eyes out of the crabs, then they could have modified the gnome gene out of them too.
The collar isn't what gives the Vortigaunts their power. They're wearing them because they're enslaved; by the Nihilanth in the first game and the Combine in the second. Vortigaunts in collars DO EXIST in the second game. A few appear in City 17 as janitors.
For the last one, I just assumed the headcrabs fused the body with the soldier armour.
the displacement cannon could be canon, made by some random scientist like the gluon gun or the tau cannon as an attempt to compete with aperture
though its much worse than basically any other method of teleportation, likely dosing the user or the target with radiation, as well as teleporting them to a random location in xen that could just be a death pit or a cave with no exit
also, the lambda teleporter was the oldest and worst teleporter, as the one we see at the start of half life, made by the anamolous materials lab, is atleast 5x smaller, and only became non functional due to low quality crystals
Aperture, or rather *Cave* never told anyone about the portal gun, if they did, records would've been found in Black Mesa and the combine wouldn't have spared humanity for so long, seeing as how they could now accomplish localised teleportation.
Plus, if the government found out about a fucking *portal gun*, they wouldn't have gave aperture so little funding.
Edit: I apologize for the necropost, you prob know all this by now
Okay, but consider, Adrian is my little guy and I will come up with any reason for him to be cannon.
A probable reason that Gordon requires a larger teleporter is possibly because he was in the Lambda Complex, a much older and sealed off part of the facility
Shepard while only wearing a suit on his upper body endures all other hazardous elements because of his determination, sheer f*ing will, and massive steel balls.
The expansions are cannon because.... they where never decanonized.
Why people are arguing about this is beyond me. Its cannon by default. Otherwise a lot of movies and games would suddenly be non cannon because the writers never stated it was cannon. Witch they dont. Because unless they say its not cannon, it just is.
If blue shift isn't cannon, Barney saying: "Its me Barney, from Black Mesa" as a direct poke at the audience saying "Its me Barney from Blue shift." wouldn't make any sense. Without blue shift Barney is just some guard who we don't know witch he clearly isn't since he's a leader in the resistance.
And HL2 episode 4 'Return to Ravenholm' was going to be about Shepard finally being brought back after gman put him in stasis. Clearly he's meant to be cannon as well.
Oh and Gina from Half life decay shows up in Oposing force.... dead but cannon.
Wanted to mention that we've also seen Gina or Collet carrying the Xen purest sample in Blue Shift. All the expansions are tied together tightly, there are many references to each other and most significantly - to the original HL. They can't say "that one is canon and that isn't".
And the funny thing is they often refer to Marc Laidlaw statements about canonicity. They interprete them like he confirmed there's no canon.
Well then HL2 is not canon, EP1, EP2, and HL:Alyx are also not canon. Literally as they said no canon lol.
Obviously that's not how it works and what he really meant is that they didn't care about minor inconsistiences in the plot and lore between their games.
i will accept the following:
displacer is abit of a leap considering the lambda lab, I do think it is abit more understandable as it does wipe everything out around you if you teleport, and you have no control of your destination..
the decay vortigaunt collars being used to emit the power is an oversight.. and i completely forgot about that part of the game
Wasn't the whole point of Lambda Core about how the scientists had to TP Gordon to a specific spot so that he wouldn't fall to his death, (something Shephard's displacer cannon can't do) thus requiring a huge-ass machine? Also you're forgetting the scientists constantly send Gordon supplies. Also also, I think it was already proven by HL1 that local teleportation was already a pretty common thing to do.
about the collars, those are mind-control collars that the vortigaunts wear because they're meant to be slaves for Xen but end up confused when the resonance cascade happens
These people honestly take the fun away from gaming ☹️
Like just shut up
Displacer Cannon is certainly a very recent prototype, probably even newer than Tau Cannon or Gluon Gun
The (early) prototype teleporter in Blue Shift being able to cause Harmonic Reflux means it has obviously faults or problems, well, being prototype after all (same phenomenon in Kleiner's teleporter in HL2 when Llamar caused a problem)
The gauntlets are said to be some sort of control by the Nihalant on the Vorts, and probably have vortigaunt energy or something.
#6: they were created by Randy Pitchford.
finally someone sane
With the vortigonts (at least that's how I think you spell it) you can see in half life Alyx that the things around their necks are collars that made them work for the nilanth (once again unsure about my spelling) that shows freeman in the middle being the one to set them free.
Its not spelt vortigonts its vortigaunts. Also the collars is not just in HL:A, its in HL2 aswell, this is because when the combine invaded earth, they enslaved the vorts again, possibly modifying the original collars or making their own similar ones.
Yeah, but I mean in the end trying to reconcile all these incontinuities is impossible because it's not real and it doesn't actually need to follow any continuity. Truth of the matter is the people making it didn't have unlimited man hours or the reverence for the material the same way millions of fans collectively do. While we can mull over it and ask questions that are perhaps more interesting than anything originally thought of, the creators may have made mistakes or not really viewed something as important or had plans for it beyond a simple mechanic or detail for gameplay.
Just to caveat, I love this stuff too but I think sometimes we get so sucked in and argue stuff that literally has no 1 answer 🤷
the truth is that OF and BS are irrelevant
Decay was planned to have twelve missions but only had nine. One of those involved saving Gordon from being shot when being tossed into the compactor.
In the words of a certain crusader:
“Your opinion has been noted, and soundly ignored”
The vortigaunts Collar is actually a device to limit their electrical ability and be forced into enslavement as shown in the original half life. That is why they no longer have the collar cause they have been freed in half life 2 once the field was open and the combine took over. You can clearly see some vortigaunts in half life 2 still wear the collar and are enslaved by the combine.
You do realize we're talking about expansions that came out prior to have Half-Life 2 right. The lore you're bringing up wasn't even thought of when the expansions were made.
Like what you're talkin about is Cannon but they have a different explanation when the expansions came out that they retconned in Half Life 2.
The core teleporter is probably for multiple accurate uses while the blue shift one is a single use or limited use teleporter
The vort's collars may be reserve energy or synthetic energy as the vortigaunts would probably need to use it at will and they were forced in hl1
Blue shift is canon since Gordon met him and Adrian was near the radio operator.
"in ravenholm we never see gnomes"
Half Life 2 Overcharged :
I think both opposing force and blue shift are cannon, but not decay since the inconcistencies, the collar, and finally the charging stations, since they have different models and you can see a HL1 charging station's tape in half life 2 as an easter egg
And the cringy colors of HEV suits in decay🤮
Like one of those women was literally shown wearing an orange suit in Blue Shift.
So yeah there is a lot of reasons to not consider Decay canon, it contradicts everything.
@@fantastikboom1094Cringy colours? One suit was red and the other was some brown grey mix. Even then, the colour isn't something important and the difference could simply be for gameplay purposes. Besides, unlike the other expansions, Decay was intended to have more missions but they didn't have the time. One mission was there to correct the small plothole of Gordon being in the trash compactor without being shot. Something that many questioned. Decay states that Colette and Gina happened to catch the Marines about to do exactly that and saved Gordon from being shot.
Yet in Blue Shift you see Gina in one of the security tapes and her corpse in Opposing Force.
@@starhammer5247 What are you even trying to prove here? Color does contradict, it's a fact. Just as many things in the Decay do.
The following about "plothole" of Gordon not being shot is nonsense. First, what does that have to do with the inconsistiences we listed? Second, it is *not* a plothole.
@@starhammer5247 So?
Handheld device is just a smaller less powerful teleporter.
You've got your mobile phone and you've got super computers
Cool argument unfortunately: nugh ugh
the Lambda teleporter likely has more power and more accuracy. if nihilanth is a mastermind he likely hid in the darkest reaches of xen which were only attainable with the most powerful jumps. Gordon was teleported straight into guarded and/or militarized Xen areas, the aliens were guarding the teleporter waypoints leading to nihilanth, while Barney and Adrian were in the Xen countryside
If you play as Barney in blue shift, you never owe Gordon that beer, therefore, the line in hl2 makes no sense
He could've owed it before the game started.
In the beginning of Half life a security guard says "catch me later i'll buy you a beer" which is most likely Barney
It's just a reference they made to a security guard line. You're not supposed to read too much into it.
1. As far as I know, it wasn't Black Mesa who created the HEV suits. Soldiers fall as flies compared to Gordon, maybe because the PCV is like a glove compared to a full radiation suit that is the HEV.
2. Displacer consumes a lot of uranium and is unstable, I bet the reactor is far more stable than that.
3. The Blueshift teleporter is another can of worms but I could say it works as a Xen gateway because of the Resonance Cascade, otherwise, it would be just an Earth-side teleporter like the ones in Lambda Complex.
4. Vortigaunt collars could just be charged like capacitors
5. Maybe headcanon only, but HL2 headcrabs are genetically modified variants of the HL1 headcrabs, by the Combine. These are capable of detaching from the host and therefore far more dangerous on the short timescale
Tbh Valve did a lot of retcons between HL1 and HL2 and even in HLA (I'm looking at you "DNA scanning gun")
those are all good reasons but the expansions are all still canon
The vortigaunt collars are to keep them under the nihalanths control and to label them as slaves, while the displacer cannon is completely random and unpredictable so is not used due to that. I believe large teleporter is for a more exact location.
Dont care still canon
I think there are probably some good speculative reasons that all of these do in fact work:
The PCV might've been developed by Aperture science after reverse engineering a (possibly stolen) HEV suit and making something more portable, hence why they work with HEV chargers.
At the end of Blue Shift, Barney almost gets stuck in an infinite harmonic reflux, which could be a byproduct of the older, inferior teleportation technology.
The thing about the displacer canon is that WHERE it teleports you in Xen is highly inconsistent, which shows its limitations compared to the Lambda reactor.
As for the Vortigaunt collars, I think this was a byproduct of the Nihilinth's control over them and once the Nihilinth was killed, they were able to generate energy on their own once again.
Something we have to consider with the headcrab zombie mutations is that in HL2, the victims are taken over by a completely different breed of headcrab, which is more a byproduct of different variations rather than an inconsistency in mutation. The reason we don't see any gonomes may have to do with the environmental conditions that would be required for one to develop.
Get Marc Laidlaw to confirm your theories, else it's canon.
Marc didn't write the expansions lmao
The reason why the Gonome doesn't exist in Half - Life 2 but Fast Headcrabs And Poison Headcrabs are in there but not in Half - Life 1 is because both the Fast Headcrab and Poison Headcrabs are combine-made. Which means The Combine erased the ability for Headcrab Zombies to mutate into gonomes. And they added other mutations for the standard Headcrab.
They're not. Poison headcrabs exist in HL:Alyx in quarantine zone. They're definitely natural.
@@fantastikboom1094 They are. Because most headcrabs are natural no matter what they are.
@@TheKingofBunga2912 What tf are you even talking right now? Did you understand yourself? Your bs makes no sense at all, so learn english or whatever.
Oh, and you're liking your own comments, bro that's pathetic lol.
Anyway, you literally just said Fast and Poison headcrabs were made by the Combine and I disproved your point.
Then you say they are made by them, but you also say they're natural (???????).....
What does that even mean. Do you read what you write before publishing?
On the question of Blue shift using a rechargeable battery and the Lambda laboratory using a nuclear reactor could also be explained that a Portal or Wormhole can still be created using rechargeable batteries however the more energy that is put into the Wormhole makes it more stable and thus much more safe and accurate to regularly use as a means of transportation between Earth and Xen.
Similar to how a wooden bridge can potentially still be used as a means of transportation but a steel and concrete bridge generally speaking are probably going to be a more longer lasting in addition to being able to potentially hold more weight which a similar comparison could be made to the older rechargable wormhole device found in Blueshift versus the Nuclear reactor worm hole device found in the original Half Life
The expansions _are_ canon.
You mean *are*
I always loved that according to Opposing Force, the Lambda Complex was basically a 15 minute walk around the corner from Sector C.
I like to imagine the scientists communicating like "Yeah, we just sent him to you."
*2 days later*
"Where tf have you been!?"
all of them Are good canon until Valve cant count to 3
HLA is hl3
@@AmelpsXett nope
Technically hl hl2 main is gordon
So hl3 main must be gordon
@@Believe086 its a made up rule
@@AmelpsXett 1) HL:A is A and not 3.
2) HL:A is an expansion like BS, OF and Decay. They do not continue the story, unlike HL-HL2-EP1-EP2, they add to it and expand the lore.
2.1) It is not a made up rule, it is a visible tendency. Each story continuing HL game had Gordon as the main character, those which do not - are not.
@@fantastikboom1094 1) hla is hl3. Made on the bones of hl3 dev builds and is a sequel.
2) lmao no hla is not an expansion. Hl1 "expansions" are Randy's experiments that shouldn't even exist in this conversation.
Hla is a genuine sequel, and not some kind of spinoff
3) it's either a made up rule or a logical fallacy.
There is no official source that confirms that
i believe the vort's collars are there as to supress the vortessence or sum; also, the gonomes could be easily explained as being an environment induced mutation after being exposed to the radiation of confined black mesa corridors and such, considering the facility casually has hazardous waste all around it
My counter arguements to this short:
1. That isn't a bad point, but every protagionist should honestly be dead by that logic. Gordon doesn't wear any form of helmet and is still alive. That is four games of radiation exposure. Also, Gordon doesn't wear a helmet. Change my mind. Barney does go through chemicals in Blue Shift and is fine. Alyx in the newest game goes through some questionable areas, though it is just alien stuff so that is up in the air. It's not hard enough evidence for me.
2. I never really thought about it too much. I mean in Portal they make portals like nothing and that IS canon. I like to think the Displacer teleports you randomly. Hell, it already does that and it what it does. That scientist was probably trying to get out with his new invention and created a dangerous teleporter gun. Not too difficult to believe.
3. In Blue Shift, it's an old teleporter from like the 50s, they had to send Bareny to Xen to get a relay and signal. Plus it takes FOREVER to charge up. It was a pretty shit one where it had cool leak or whatever the part was when you have to turn the valve. Barney went through a harmonic reflux because of the teleporter. Also, I didn't know that about the teleporter at the end of HL1 actually...
4. That is a REALLY good point. But maybe the chains give them more electric energy and no only enslaves them. They don't say they can't use their electricity without them. That is me trying to come up with something.
5. Okay that is an easy one. The headcrabs are genetically modified by the Combine. That is why there are fast, hard shell and poison headcrabs. They probably removed that of headcrabs so the Combine wouldn't have to deal with them. Unless we want to make the arguement Half-life 1 isn't canon... which is stupid.
I like to think the Gearbox expansions are canon.
portal is canon to half life but it's still entirely separate. Half life has a serious tone and works under assumption that human technology is very limited, while Portal is a bit of a parody where Aperture Science can do literally anything when everyone around them has way worse technology.
for the 4th point, play black mesa at the interloper chapter (ik it's fanmade), but it explains why the devices could receive electrical power (it is for controller's mind controling power so they could control vortigaunts)
original half life's controller abilities is limited due to the technological limitation of the goldsrc engine at its time
hope that explains
@@mangrusdi125 black mesa is literally a fan game
@@AmelpsXett That is what he just said.
r/confidentlyincorrect
1. This proves nothing it’s a gameplay thing
2. The displacer is very unpredictable so it’s preferable to use a real teleporter also it’s possible they were all lost in Xen as we only ever see them in xen
3. The prototype is weaker and only works for a short amount of time as it’s a prototype however the one used in half life is more effective because it’s the finished product
4. The collars may have been used to make the energy more powerful or to help control the energy. We still don’t know what they do
5. The mutations in half life 2 are due to combine genetic experimentation to weaponise headcrabs. It’s possible that in doing so it prevented them from mutating into gonomes
1 reason why they are canon
1. It makes me happier to think that they are
I think there was a quote in Decay that said "That man is a bureaucrat, not a scientist" on behalf of Dr Breen, and in half life Alyx, on one of the newspapers, its says "I'm a doctor, not a politician", once again on behalf of Dr Breen. I know both quotes are different but I still wanted to make a comment on this
Or this could've also been just a refrence to star trek's famous "I'm a doctor, not a physician" or something like that
Bro the valve made these expansions so it's automatically canon
Nope they were made by Gear Box
@@Chris-nj4kx and supervised and endorsed by Valve. Cope more.
@@fantastikboom1094 Do you have problems in life? I wasn't saying anything bad about expansions.
@@Chris-nj4kx No i'm fine, just a bit angry that people are seriously thinking expansions aren't canon.
Maybe you didn't but that looked that way after I read 300+ comments.
@@fantastikboom1094 Well I do hope that expansions are Canon cause Adrian Shephard is my favorite character
Thanks for the content space biker keep it going
The collars are imbued with vortigaunt energy after being worn by one
the genome is a highly dangerous form of the headcrab zombie capable of starting the reproductive cycle. Since the combine had control of the headcrabs in hl2,it would be safe to say that they would have gotten rid of the one stage that is VERY likely to escape containment and create an army of headcrabs. Even if the headcrabs evolved in ravenholme, its a bit of a gamble to say the trait of being a genome could have happened to respark in the "ability tree"
edit: the fast zombie/poison zombie was an evolution from being in earth
May as well be that headcrabs need special conditions to start reproductive cycle and/or that gonome is caused by something else.
My counterarguments:
PCV is also rechargeable in HEV suit power stations, meaning that the army has an important role in investing at Black Mesa.
PCV Theory: It is not specified who made PCV(probably Black Mesa, as they are giant and research many other technologies uncovered), and while it protects only the torso, it is made of like that because PCV was meant to be used in COMBAT UPON HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS, meaning, it will stop a bullet to save you, and your vital organs will be safer mainly from radiation(like the lead vest of the radiologists in real life). Not to mention it is tougher in combat than HEV Suit, needing less charging stations through the whole OpFor game compared even to the first 4 parts of Half-Life base game. As for the teleporter, when Shephard uses it he falls behind Gordon Freeman, "meaning it is not safer than the portable ones". That is easily understandable when you know the concept of "two bodies can't occupy the same space", don't even need to use "G-Man interference" for knowing the issues with the argument. When the main teleporters are used they need to calculate where to go at Xen, but if there is matter interference, it calculate it further to the main teleport destiny, not to mention the test subjects use it one at a time cause they would probably turn into a paste of siamese twins if both jumped at basically the same time.
Blue Shift: Barney Calhoun escapes with a crowbar from Black Mesa, his name is confirmed in HL2, and ask what he gives us? A CROWBAR, not only meaning he was our friend, but that he was dearly keeping a crowbar for TWENTY YEARS in memory of Black Mesa and his friends, specially Gordon Freeman...
Decay: The only one that has no clue of canonicity, cause other team could stop the portal storm and shit, revealing the existence of Nihilant by failing. So, nah, Decay is underrated, but it is clueless.
Still, we want a sequel for opposing force 😭😭
Sir this is a wendys
The vortitgaunts power is not given by the collar, that’s how the nihalanth controls them. They naturally have the power.
The pcv could just be a scaled down version of the hazard suit. Also the military wore gas masks and stuff too so im sure that would help Adrian. The displacer is super unreliable + needs ammo not only to go to xen but to go back unlike big teleporters which use xen as a gateway. I don't got anything for the rechargeable battery. I always thought that was dumb too. We know its older so maybe it never used enough power to be as predictable as the lambda complex teleporter, as shown with Barney. Id say the slave collar was to help channel the energy in a way thr nihilanth could control. Maybe it even held some in it like a battery. Id like to believe that the gonome not appearing is due to genetic modification from the combine.
*"Relax bro, its just a canon event."*
the soldier wear protection all over their bodies with the PCV so it’s like a suit but removable
Barney Calhoun is literally in HL2.
I always figured the displacer was made after the main teleporter, and since its erratic and unpredictable it is not practical.
in hl1's monster of the week promos, its stated that headcrabs turn into gonarchs when they consume enough biomass; i'd imagine that gonomes are like an early phase in the transition from headcrab to gonarch, where they've consumed just enough in order to achieve basic mutation.
in half life 2, gonomes aren't present probably due to the fact that zombies in the post-war world don't have as much access to food as they did during the black mesa incident; especially in places like ravenholm that have been headcrab canistered to hell, where there's nothing to eat because 99% of the other living creatures are fellow zombies.
To be honest,i think all expansions are canon,and the most probable cause they have inconsistencies on them(gameplay and lore wise) is because Valve was experimenting with gameplay mechanics. If Valve _for some reason_ decides to remake the Half-life games and expansion, I'm sure they would try their best to keep it consistent in between the expansions and the main game.
The last one, the combine engineered headcrabs to be a better weapon, thus removing biological impulses. The gonome is needed to make a gonarch, and the combine dont want or need the gonarch, so they removed that part of the life-cycle
And the 1st one, Shepard is wearing a helmet, tough pants, tough shirt, boots and gloves, so shepard has the proper protection needed to survive.
Just because the gonomes only appear in Opposing Force doesn't suggest they don't exist in the later titles. The fast zombies aren't another stage of mutation, and neither are the poison zombies, they are rather bodies taken by different typed of headcrab. The classic zombies you see in later titles are likely just much more recently taken than the gonomes in Opposing Force.
They're canon to me.
i love how it says Goh-Nom
Yep that's correct. Go-nome, like the Go-narch (the "gonad monarch"). : )
@@lymphoid ye i know :)
Just a funny thing how textspeaker pronounces it
1. This is for gameplay purposes, the game would suck if you kept dying because Adrian's legs got burnt. Gordon doesn't even wear a helmet in radioactive areas so at least the games are consistent with one another. Besides, I think a trained soldier would be a little more durable to damage than a scientist however badass he is.
2. The displacer cannon is random, they needed to transport Gordon to a specific location in the Xen so that he was able to complete his mission, whilst the gun could throw you anywhere in the dimension.
3. I mean... you said it, it's a prototype, so it would probably require less power. And you're really saying Black Mesa making a teleporter to another dimension is on the table but them making a rechargeable battery to power it is too far-fetched?
4. Is this explicitly said? or just implied? The collars were there so that they could be controlled, which in turn would be controlling their vortesence which is why it may seem as though that's where it comes from (kinda like a Thor and Mjolnir vibe)
5. This is by far THE WORSE EXCUSE. First of all, the zombies we see in Half-Life 2 are all different species, not different states of the zombie (as they use different headcrabs). Considering Gonomes are stronger than regular zombies and could be a liability to the combine as they are deploying headcrabs, I don't know, maybe the race of aliens that are known for genetically modifying other species for their needs could have something to do with it.
At the end of the day, there is no canon and it's always going to be a losing fight. We should focus on what they are instead of what they could be, they are all fantastic games in their own right and I truly believe they are all the same story. But whether it is or not does not change the overall value of said games. I love this series, it means a lot to me, but videos like this just sew the seeds of doubt. I hope I didn't come off as pretentious but I just wanted to show that you could probably have a back-and-forth about this until the end of time, making up excuses to fit your narrative, which isn't what any of this is about.
Love you lymphoid and love your videos, always will!
What if half life wasnt canon and the expansions were canon??
HEVs were probably way too costly to produce on a mass scale, hence why black mesa only had enough for a small team despite having direct access to the resources required. This justifies the need for the PCVs while also explaining why Gordon was still able to hold is own against trained men, as his gear was superior.