The hud is largely irrelevant to determine whether he wears a helmet or not, what matters more is how he can survive radioactive radiation without permanent damage, a bullet to the head, a shotgun blast to the head if he has battery, and his co-workers wearing the exact same thing but with a helmet. You guys are mad coping and tryna make up technologies that not only it didn't exist, it's also irrelevant anyway. What's next? The glasses has a force field it creates to protect the head?
Scientist: Well, you're right, gordon, we'll lead you the way. **eyescans the door open** Gordon: **enters the AMS** ... Me: Wow. That's huge. Scientist: Yes. The AMS needs a lot of machines and space to work. Me: Okay. **closes the door and goes to the observation room** I wonder why Dr. Freeman hasn't spoken? Scientist: I don't know.
To simplify I think the reason Gordon doesn't have a helmet in 3rd person is just to separate the model of the protagonist vs the random corpses in xen and to also let people know who the protagonist is
@@ElephantsDoingCrack what about multiplayer? There we can choose and see our protagonist. Also I meant people like devs or people that would mod the game.
The Black Mesa research facility has already committed larger, more blatant OSHA violations (See the toxic spill at the beggining of the game for example) so it's not hard to imagine they'd do something like this too
@@tanybrachid to be fair you’re supposed to assume that black mesa is fubar that morning and everyone everywhere is experiencing system crashes and disasters and broken soda machines, like a terrible tornado of bad luck swept through the entire facility that day
@@fantastikboom1094and why would that be? why is half life so special? and why does barney calhoun have a hud without having nothing over his face? simple, it's a game mechanic
@@thaizsanches9103 It would be relatable to Blue Shift, but absolutely no. I could say since Blue Shift isn't made by Valve and looks like most fan mods for hl2, where we play as rebels, and sometimes are shown as common rebel in cutscenes, but in actual gameplay we have HEV, so it's not the case here. Well, this is already good, but we have a better explanation. It is given in Blue Shift and says our helmet does show the HUD (so it's canon brooo). Just like many model cases in HL, us not seeing display on helmets is a model flaw. I don't think you gonna say SMG from HL2 shooting grenades isn't canon because it has no launcher, it is simply model flaw.
@@fantastikboom1094 what? so something said that the helmet in blue shift shows the hud? played the entire game, watched 2 full let's plays from unsilent and mapocolops and i haven't seen anything about the helmet actually showing hud
@@fantastikboom1094 and the grenade launcher thing was just probably a mistake in developement that valve just didn't fix because they were busy doing whatever the fuck valve is doing
yea most likely, it's everything the suit tells you when suiting up in HL1 and some that it doesn't say like flashlight and oxygen, sprinting likely falls under "power-assisted movement" like the long jump, since there is an audible hiss when the sprint is on, which could imply steam hydraulics or something similar. as for every one except Gordon, Gina and Colette, the HUD is most likely not part of the universe, since Barney is just a guy in a helmet and vest with no screens or computers int hem at all, Alyx you could make an argument that since her HUD is on her wrist that it could be part of the gravity gloves, the two Vorts from the Decay bonus mission, are just average Vorts and i doubt that vortiguant eyes display stuff like a computer screen, with Shephard, there is the PCV tho that is just a vest that generates a shield or something, only other electronic around that area is the keypad thing, that is most likely some form of radio, his helmet and gas mask are just standard issue US military gear from the late 20th century, with the gas mask just having green tinted lenses, his night vision could just be goggles mounted to the helmet, or gearbox designers just chose to repurpose the green tinted lenses for night vision, so i'd say it's safe to say that the HUD isn't part of the universe at all and just a required part of the game.
His character designer said the helmet is there in canon, but they portrayed him without it in marketing so he's more iconic/badass looking. The designer also said that the HUD indeed comes from his helmet, as do the headcrab protection and the suit zoom. The third person model was never meant to be seen in single-player, only in deathmatch. What happened was that they used to have a single model for the HEV suit and it was wearing a helmet, this model was called "gordon" and was used for both Freeman and the other HEV scientists. They then decided to have Freeman not wear a helmet in the promotional, so they made a model without the helmet. They then decided to make the helmetless model available for multiplayer. So they made a copy of the original helmeted model, called it "helmet", and replaced the dead HEV scientists with this model, then replaced the "gordon" model with the helmetless version. But this also made him helmetless in singleplayer because the player was set to use the "gordon" model from back when that model had a helmet, and nobody told them to change his campaign model to the new "helmet" model for when he has the suit. You can still see OG promotional half-life showing Freeman either wearing a helmet or holding a helmet in his arms.
Its a removable helmet and he can put it on and take it off when he needs too. He puts it on near head crabs and toxic waste and in the test chamber. The helmet is like a hood that is tucked in the area behind back on the suit
... until now I have been a proponent of the helmet theory, but this... This is an acceptable compromise. It explains why the suit doesn't have a helmet when equipping it. It explains why separated helmets from suits are never seen. It explains basically every possibility.
It's explained that he always swats the crab away somehow when they jump at him, but as for the HUD I really have no answer. But if Black Mesa is anything to go by, not even a helmet can save you from the headcrab latching onto you, they can bite right through helmets.
Ivan, who is confirmed not to have a helmet, gets one-shot by his red headcrabs. Which are only slightly tougher than the yellow ones, with twice the health. Gordon, Barney, and Adrian aren't oneshot by their yellow headcrabs.
“If I go out on a motorcycle wearing nothing but that suit, I would be breaking the law in 20 states and you expect me to wear it into a test chamber with something called the anti-mass spectrometer which shoots poorly aimed lasers at a rock to tear open the fabric of space and time.” - The Door Monster
@@mapdoor1418 not that I know. I've only seen the alpha, in which you play as Ivan, not Gordon. Ivan doesn't have a helmet though, and he's oneshot by red headcrabs who've got some cake.
I personally believe that Gordon freeman does have a helmet, that’s why he is immune to head crabs and of course it’s stupid to not have head protection. But I believe that he takes it off when talking to scientists or in safe areas.
helmets have been shown to not stop headcrabs, in the gearbox expansions there's zombie guards and marines, the body type of the zombie security guards very clearly isn't that of Otis (who doesn't have a helmet), and more of that of the regular helmeted security guards, with the HECU, while it is true that not all of them wear helmets, the helmets that they do wear the US PASGT, is similar to the security guard helmet and is likely on the same level of effectiveness against headcrabs. plus you give headcrabs way too much credit, they are only affective in numbers or if they sneak up on their target, as shown in the only time we witness a headcrab attach to someone, that being in HL1, a scientist was able to defend himself from the first headcrab, and the second one only got him because he wasn't aware of his surroundings, and Ravenholm got overrun by numbers, so i don't think headcrabs is a good argument for him having a helmet.
What if... The display is there to tell the player that they are drowning? I know a crazy concert and idea. Also, that is another thing: if Gordon has a helmet why the fuck can he drown?
@@jaasbonilla5156 well lot of supporters of the helmet argument say that Gordon needs the helmet to breathe in Xen. Which makes no sense considering he can drown. That's why I brought it up anyways
I feel like it makes realistic sense that he does indeed wear a helmet. The Hud only shows up the moment you put it on, the headcrab thing makes sense, AND he doesn't get affected by radiation and hazardous environments. To say he doesn't wear a helmet with all 3 hard pieces of evidence is just... stupid
His head doesnt touch the radiation and we saw headcrabs take control over people 2 times and it doesnt latch on npcs and gordon simply doesnt see the hud
Also in Xen he can breathe normally and the aliens can breathe regularly in earth meaning the air is the same barney and Adrian Shepherd can breathe just fine. But if they're not cannon then there is a scientist in xen without a helmet and the people wearing helmets with the hev suit just have it for general protection and theres no helmet when you go to pick up the suit
@@Thereal_nishikiyama if you are talking about the player model that's not cannon since it was never meant to be seen. Also by that logic we can say Gordon Freeman in Half Life 2 is a black statue with no musket movement.
That’s because Freeman was the only scientist who believed that you don’t need to wear a helmet if you can kill aliens with only a crowbar. Nostalgia! 😆😎
@@Crystal-dl9ks what about the one on the guys head in hl2 before you get the boat? Looks like it just got on him. He's also trying to keep it from latching but fails.
@@Nova-vk5qb it took you 3 months to reply? for somthing that is almost COMPLETELY the same turned away facing gordon asking him to help, and the head crab jumps on since hes distracted asking gordon for help since he doesnt wanna die in the shelling.
The Black Mesa research facility has already committed more blatant OSHA violations than that (See for example the radioactive spill seen in the intro tram ride) so it's not hard to imagine. Also we really don't know how the anti-mass spectrometer works, but the scientists had a huge opening with no glass or protection on it as a window to the test chamber, so it's pretty safe to assume it doesn't emit any kind of dangerous radiation, and putting on the suit was just protocol.
Actually no he don't have a helmet like I know HEV has a helmet it got blasted off when the explosive xen crystal goes off that's why he did not die even in co-op you see him without the helmet
Shepherd also doesn’t have a helmet put on in his game, so if gearbox games are cannon, we also need to ask if he has a Helmet or not. Same for the Characters within the PlayStation Co-op mode Decay. Furthermore, in Blue Shift, Barney gets a helmet at the beginning of his game, yet is also told within the tutorial he has a hud built within the helmet itself. Therefore, what if the hud is elsewhere on the the HEV and PCV suits, and the suits in zen are older models.
Shephard does have a helmet, it's a US PASGT helmet with an M81 woodland camo cover, same as the helmet wearing grunts, as well as an M40 gas mask with green tinted lenses.
Plus in HL2 you get HUD prompts like "Press E to pick up objects" or "Press G to switch to the gravity gun" showing that they're there just for gameplay reasons and not canon ones. Also you get prompts - and the crosshair - way before having the suit in HL2
My take is that Gordon wore a helmet in HL1 up until the HECU ambushing him with the helmet being knocked off, it's seal/ locking mechanism breaking or being forcefully pulled off by a marine during the beating, leaving him without a helmet from that point on, when Barney sees him getting dragged he doesn't have the helmet, in the cut Decay rescue mission he doesn't have it, and when Shephard sees him jump into the portal he doesn't have it, for the entirety of HL2 and the episodes he doesn't have the helmet, since G-Man tells him that he's earned the suit he is only talking about the parts of the suit he has on at the times, the suit itself and the gloves, the helmet was lost and the long jump module is a external attachment, hence why when Gordon gets it back it's only the suit and gloves, the Gordon in Alyx, is Gordon at the end of Episode 2, the model has a bunch of damage and cuts as it was meant to be shown in the ending knocked out near Alyx when Eli and her are shown, and his appearance in the released version has him place in a way where the damage is hidden by shadows. with the headcrab argument, people give them too much credit, it's been shown multiple times that a person on alert and aware of their surroundings can prevent a headcrab from attaching, headcrabs are only effective in large numbers which is how they took over Ravenholm and how they take over marines and combine soldiers, or if they get an opening on an unaware or distracted target such as that one scientist in HL1 or the citizen in HL2. As for the HUD that's simple, it doesn't exist (only mention of it ingame i can find is in the Hazard course, which also mentions the "run and jump commands", the "use key" and "alternate fire button", which are all out of universe things and directed at the player specifically, not Gordon) and is only to give information to the player ,as pretty much all functions of the HUD are done by built in systems in the suit, the HEV suit even calls out most of the HUD's functions when the player suits up (zoom in HL2 is the only one i can't explain), also when Gordon suits up it is only the suit and tho models for the helmet and gloves exist they for whatever reason weren't included (possibly issues with falling under the map like the HEV suits in Lambda Core), what's important to note is that when Gordon suits up the suit DOESN'T have gloves, but it is undeniable that Gordon wears gloves, so the same logic can be applied to the helmet up until the end of Apprehension which is the earliest point Gordon is knocked out AND unable to pick the helmet back up, since in the test chamber he could just pickup his helmet if it came off. with promotional material, that's just a logical preference to have Gordon's face shown, since usually unless being faceless is a major part of the character, you'd want your main character to have their face shown so that people can connect with the character or make them recognizable. In conclusion, Gordon wore a helmet until being captured by the HECU and the helmet was never retrieved, the HUD isn't part of the universe and the hologram assistant breaks the 4th wall, headcrabs are weak and people give them too much credit, and in promotional material Gordon's face is shown to make him recognizable and have a face put to the name.
So you really think it's better to show Gordon with helmet? There is a big chance people won't recognize that it's Gordon, because of helmet. That was for epic scene, not to show Gordon in actual gameplay.
Well in Black Mesa the Scientist who talks about ridiculous Ties also says that earlier models didn't have so loud colors, ventilation, and the Helmet was mandatory, meaning that the helmet on Mark 4 HEV is optional, and it would be weird if he comments on it if Gordon IS wearing the helmet. Also theres no helmet for gordon to put on when he gets into it, in both Half-life, Black Mesa, And Half-life 2. Also its an HEV SUIT, not a full outfit.
Barney and shepherd has a hud in the expansions which we all agree upon are cannon and if you say no lets look at the zombie assassin in the hl2 beta and that thing is the gonome, so its clear valve wanted this to be cannon and gordon never wears a helmet in blue shift or opposing force meaning this, he doesnt wear a helmet Edit: if this ain’t convincing you pay attention the voice of the hev suit when you put it on, it monitors your vitals and the hud you see is really just the hev monitoring your vitals tmyk
This is such a minor detail but I always see everyone miss it so I’ll say it here. Gordon does not see the HUD, yes it’s there because as players we physical need to see that information. But I’m a narrative sense, the HUD that Gordon is displayed with is actually the voice commands given by the suit, translated to an easy to read value for the player. He does not wear a helmet, none of the promotional images of Gordon ever depict him with a helmet and nothing it the game suggests he would even need one.
Headcrabs don't easily hatch on to people, when going around with a scientist, the headcrabs won't immidiatly hatch on to them and they have no helmet, the HUD is just for game benefits, only the player can see it.
Gordon doesn't need a helmet; he's an highly trained professional
agreed
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@@EnemySTM the almighty goatee
This is what a fanbase devolves to when they haven't got a new game since 2004 💀
Half Life: Alyx
Half-Life 2 Episode 1 & 2:
I love how to replies have just become people fact checking me
@@WeWheat Don't worry about them, they just... Well, let's just say they don't get the joke.
@@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689 We've got the joke
"Why do we have to wear these ridiculous ties while he gets that sexy suit?"
I agree.
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My sister and I came to the conclusion that Gordon sees his HUD in his glasses.
or it might be that he doesnt actually see a literal hud, like barney, it might just be an abridgment of what the vox says to him
I reached that reason too, but the Hud in HL2 kind of looks digital, so maybe it could be a hologram?
Y’all are overthinking this, the hud doesn’t exist in game, it’s just so the player can tell what stats they have
@@Axolotl720 shhh, be quiet. You're gonna upset the canonists.
The hud is largely irrelevant to determine whether he wears a helmet or not, what matters more is how he can survive radioactive radiation without permanent damage, a bullet to the head, a shotgun blast to the head if he has battery, and his co-workers wearing the exact same thing but with a helmet.
You guys are mad coping and tryna make up technologies that not only it didn't exist, it's also irrelevant anyway.
What's next? The glasses has a force field it creates to protect the head?
The answer is simple. Gordon's a highly trained professional.
He doesn't need to hear all this
Scientist: Well, you're right, gordon, we'll lead you the way. **eyescans the door open**
Gordon: **enters the AMS** ...
Me: Wow. That's huge.
Scientist: Yes. The AMS needs a lot of machines and space to work.
Me: Okay. **closes the door and goes to the observation room** I wonder why Dr. Freeman hasn't spoken?
Scientist: I don't know.
Gordon has no body in hl2💀
No there IS a model for half life 2 gordon freeman its just...
A polygonal body that is just grey.
@@brickthecreator777it’s the hl1 Gordon with no textures.
@@brickthecreator777its a concrete statue of freeman with a crowbar sticking out of his crotch.
gordon is a statue in half life 2
if you look closely you can actually see that gordon's hud is actually on his hands in hl1
I like to think his hud is built into the glasses.
It could be holograms. The Black Mesa facility very clearly has them.
@@yolsil775 In hl1 he has no glasses only in hl2
@@JJ-tn4lywhat about the cover art of the game, where he holds a shotgun and has glasses on
@@alexiosmonary3388 Gordon’s model has no glasses
Cicero Fryman moment
Bottom morning, Garden.
*Napkin story*
What is human butter! What is human milk!
To simplify I think the reason Gordon doesn't have a helmet in 3rd person is just to separate the model of the protagonist vs the random corpses in xen and to also let people know who the protagonist is
You're right, bro.
You don't even see your model without using cheats. Most players won't know or think that. Plus how would that confuse people?
@@ElephantsDoingCrack what about multiplayer? There we can choose and see our protagonist. Also I meant people like devs or people that would mod the game.
@@Seb-Storm Good point
@Andrew Peterson So HL2 thirdperson model is canon. Consequenses of being in a stasis for 20 years lol
I mean, it's not much a hazard (especially when it comes to radiation) if it doesn't cover the head, aka the most fragile and vital part of your body.
Pretty sure somebody made an animation with your exact arguement
The Black Mesa research facility has already committed larger, more blatant OSHA violations (See the toxic spill at the beggining of the game for example) so it's not hard to imagine they'd do something like this too
@@tanybrachid to be fair you’re supposed to assume that black mesa is fubar that morning and everyone everywhere is experiencing system crashes and disasters and broken soda machines, like a terrible tornado of bad luck swept through the entire facility that day
@@tearex8688 Door Monster did a skit years ago about it, was very funny.
Headcrabs don't latch on because their legs stab the shoulders for grip
Half life Alyx, shows that just because their on your head does not mean they will insta kill you
"How do you see the hud?"
The other thousands of FPS games with a helmet-less protagonist that still have a hud:
In those games players always see HUD, and it's not related to the suit. But in HL HUD is actual part of the game's world.
@@fantastikboom1094and why would that be? why is half life so special? and why does barney calhoun have a hud without having nothing over his face? simple, it's a game mechanic
@@thaizsanches9103 It would be relatable to Blue Shift, but absolutely no.
I could say since Blue Shift isn't made by Valve and looks like most fan mods for hl2, where we play as rebels, and sometimes are shown as common rebel in cutscenes, but in actual gameplay we have HEV, so it's not the case here.
Well, this is already good, but we have a better explanation. It is given in Blue Shift and says our helmet does show the HUD (so it's canon brooo).
Just like many model cases in HL, us not seeing display on helmets is a model flaw. I don't think you gonna say SMG from HL2 shooting grenades isn't canon because it has no launcher, it is simply model flaw.
@@fantastikboom1094 what? so something said that the helmet in blue shift shows the hud? played the entire game, watched 2 full let's plays from unsilent and mapocolops and i haven't seen anything about the helmet actually showing hud
@@fantastikboom1094 and the grenade launcher thing was just probably a mistake in developement that valve just didn't fix because they were busy doing whatever the fuck valve is doing
*the hud in opposing force blue shift and alyx has left the chat*
FINAL CONCLUSION:
The H.E.V helmet is retractable and gordon uses it when is absolutely necessary.
well.. i think that the HUD is a representation of the suit voice
yea most likely, it's everything the suit tells you when suiting up in HL1 and some that it doesn't say like flashlight and oxygen, sprinting likely falls under "power-assisted movement" like the long jump, since there is an audible hiss when the sprint is on, which could imply steam hydraulics or something similar. as for every one except Gordon, Gina and Colette, the HUD is most likely not part of the universe, since Barney is just a guy in a helmet and vest with no screens or computers int hem at all, Alyx you could make an argument that since her HUD is on her wrist that it could be part of the gravity gloves, the two Vorts from the Decay bonus mission, are just average Vorts and i doubt that vortiguant eyes display stuff like a computer screen, with Shephard, there is the PCV tho that is just a vest that generates a shield or something, only other electronic around that area is the keypad thing, that is most likely some form of radio, his helmet and gas mask are just standard issue US military gear from the late 20th century, with the gas mask just having green tinted lenses, his night vision could just be goggles mounted to the helmet, or gearbox designers just chose to repurpose the green tinted lenses for night vision, so i'd say it's safe to say that the HUD isn't part of the universe at all and just a required part of the game.
His character designer said the helmet is there in canon, but they portrayed him without it in marketing so he's more iconic/badass looking. The designer also said that the HUD indeed comes from his helmet, as do the headcrab protection and the suit zoom.
The third person model was never meant to be seen in single-player, only in deathmatch. What happened was that they used to have a single model for the HEV suit and it was wearing a helmet, this model was called "gordon" and was used for both Freeman and the other HEV scientists. They then decided to have Freeman not wear a helmet in the promotional, so they made a model without the helmet. They then decided to make the helmetless model available for multiplayer. So they made a copy of the original helmeted model, called it "helmet", and replaced the dead HEV scientists with this model, then replaced the "gordon" model with the helmetless version. But this also made him helmetless in singleplayer because the player was set to use the "gordon" model from back when that model had a helmet, and nobody told them to change his campaign model to the new "helmet" model for when he has the suit.
You can still see OG promotional half-life showing Freeman either wearing a helmet or holding a helmet in his arms.
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT
Was about to explain myself but there we go
Plot twist, his glasses the helmet.
i think the third person model is just for the deathmatch multiplayer servers, and was never intended for singleplayer
Bigger debate: What happened to Gordon's glasses?
Its a removable helmet and he can put it on and take it off when he needs too. He puts it on near head crabs and toxic waste and in the test chamber. The helmet is like a hood that is tucked in the area behind back on the suit
... until now I have been a proponent of the helmet theory, but this... This is an acceptable compromise. It explains why the suit doesn't have a helmet when equipping it. It explains why separated helmets from suits are never seen. It explains basically every possibility.
Its canon i think
Because on xen there is dead bodys wearing hev suits with helmets
During the time when gordan is on xen he wears a helmet because its toxic
That makes so much sense.
It's explained that he always swats the crab away somehow when they jump at him, but as for the HUD I really have no answer.
But if Black Mesa is anything to go by, not even a helmet can save you from the headcrab latching onto you, they can bite right through helmets.
The hud is there for gameplay reasons only. In HL2 you get a crosshair and prompts such as "Press E to pick up objects" way before you get the suit.
Ivan, who is confirmed not to have a helmet, gets one-shot by his red headcrabs. Which are only slightly tougher than the yellow ones, with twice the health. Gordon, Barney, and Adrian aren't oneshot by their yellow headcrabs.
@@callumkristofer7793alyx is also confirmed to not wear a helmet and headcrabs dont one shot her
@@HazardThe2st half-life alyx isn't canon. Just play HL2 Episode 2. Eli dies, contrary to what happens in the ending of Alyx.
@@callumkristofer7793 and ivan and his red one-shotting headcrabs are from the press release, which isnt even a final product let alone canon
Gordon doesn't need to wear all this, he's a highly trained professional.
“If I go out on a motorcycle wearing nothing but that suit, I would be breaking the law in 20 states and you expect me to wear it into a test chamber with something called the anti-mass spectrometer which shoots poorly aimed lasers at a rock to tear open the fabric of space and time.”
- The Door Monster
"The Hazardous... En Vironment Suit, who did that?"
Gordon originally had a helmet in the beta version but was later removed
Really?
@@mapdoor1418 not that I know. I've only seen the alpha, in which you play as Ivan, not Gordon. Ivan doesn't have a helmet though, and he's oneshot by red headcrabs who've got some cake.
I personally believe that Gordon freeman does have a helmet, that’s why he is immune to head crabs and of course it’s stupid to not have head protection. But I believe that he takes it off when talking to scientists or in safe areas.
helmets have been shown to not stop headcrabs, in the gearbox expansions there's zombie guards and marines, the body type of the zombie security guards very clearly isn't that of Otis (who doesn't have a helmet), and more of that of the regular helmeted security guards, with the HECU, while it is true that not all of them wear helmets, the helmets that they do wear the US PASGT, is similar to the security guard helmet and is likely on the same level of effectiveness against headcrabs. plus you give headcrabs way too much credit, they are only affective in numbers or if they sneak up on their target, as shown in the only time we witness a headcrab attach to someone, that being in HL1, a scientist was able to defend himself from the first headcrab, and the second one only got him because he wasn't aware of his surroundings, and Ravenholm got overrun by numbers, so i don't think headcrabs is a good argument for him having a helmet.
If Gordon doesn't wear a helmet, ¿how do you guys explain the oxygen supply that displays in HL2?
Not only oxygen, but the HUD itself. It seems to be actual part of the world. It is stylized as a suit.
What if... The display is there to tell the player that they are drowning? I know a crazy concert and idea. Also, that is another thing: if Gordon has a helmet why the fuck can he drown?
@@ElephantsDoingCrack Oxygen is not unlimited, thats why he has the HUD to tell him :v
@@jaasbonilla5156 well lot of supporters of the helmet argument say that Gordon needs the helmet to breathe in Xen. Which makes no sense considering he can drown. That's why I brought it up anyways
@@ElephantsDoingCrack The helmet is like gasmask, it filters air. But it can't help you breath water.
Speaking about the HUD my headcannon is that it gets projected directly onto his glasses from somewhere in the chestplate
I feel like it makes realistic sense that he does indeed wear a helmet. The Hud only shows up the moment you put it on, the headcrab thing makes sense, AND he doesn't get affected by radiation and hazardous environments. To say he doesn't wear a helmet with all 3 hard pieces of evidence is just... stupid
His head doesnt touch the radiation and we saw headcrabs take control over people 2 times and it doesnt latch on npcs and gordon simply doesnt see the hud
Also in Xen he can breathe normally and the aliens can breathe regularly in earth meaning the air is the same barney and Adrian Shepherd can breathe just fine. But if they're not cannon then there is a scientist in xen without a helmet and the people wearing helmets with the hev suit just have it for general protection and theres no helmet when you go to pick up the suit
The hud is in the glasses
His glasses is his hud and he doesn't let headcrab latch on
Because it’s his player model lol
Yeah, exactly, HIS model.
Gordon is simultaneously wearing and not wearing a helmet at the same time. The helmet only exists when needed.
He has the helmet btw
No he doesnt
@@Thereal_nishikiyama how does he have the HUD then?
@ruix it simply doesn't exist or its integrated in his glasses
@@Thereal_nishikiyama if you are talking about the player model that's not cannon since it was never meant to be seen. Also by that logic we can say Gordon Freeman in Half Life 2 is a black statue with no musket movement.
@ruix also in the promotional material he never has a helmet.
"Then why does he see the HUD?"
damn bro, perhaps its for gameplay
Holograms exist in half-life, maybe the suit projects the hud in front of him
idk maybe the hud is like a hologram projected in front of his face
That’s because Freeman was the only scientist who believed that you don’t need to wear a helmet if you can kill aliens with only a crowbar. Nostalgia! 😆😎
Gordon was born with hev suit
The helmet is clear plexiglas.
The hud is a visual representation of the H.E.V. suit's voicelines. (I think)
The glasses could be the HUD
I think the hud doesnt exist. Just something that the players only see
Barney technically also had a hud without any special suit.
It was said it's in his helmet. Probably some visors that are hid inside, like the glass on SWAT helmets.
Head crabs arnt that good at latching onto heads in general Alyx has shown that.
The one that jumped on the scientist at the beginning of hl1 didn't seem to have trouble
@Nova a scientist distracted, turned away from it and standing still. Wowie its like the distraction allowed the head crab to latch on.
@@Crystal-dl9ks what about the one on the guys head in hl2 before you get the boat? Looks like it just got on him. He's also trying to keep it from latching but fails.
@@Nova-vk5qb it took you 3 months to reply? for somthing that is almost COMPLETELY the same turned away facing gordon asking him to help, and the head crab jumps on since hes distracted asking gordon for help since he doesnt wanna die in the shelling.
@@Crystal-dl9ks okay you're gonna start cherrypicking comment age huh? That's how I tell you're no longer worth my time.
Headcrabs can latch through combine helmets so they must not be highly trained professionals
this is just nick cage when he did that hillbilly kill all movie
The HUD is projected on his glasses, duh
he has no helmet in hla
Why would he walk into a dangerous environment without the full suit? He has to have a helmet.
The Black Mesa research facility has already committed more blatant OSHA violations than that (See for example the radioactive spill seen in the intro tram ride) so it's not hard to imagine.
Also we really don't know how the anti-mass spectrometer works, but the scientists had a huge opening with no glass or protection on it as a window to the test chamber, so it's pretty safe to assume it doesn't emit any kind of dangerous radiation, and putting on the suit was just protocol.
He’s just too badass for that.
Goldsrc model in a nutshell
Every illustration he's not wearing a helmet.
I have a theory that he takes it off after he blows up the reactor chamber
But on half life two in the picture on steam he does not wear a helmet
Yeah.
Actually no he don't have a helmet like I know HEV has a helmet it got blasted off when the explosive xen crystal goes off that's why he did not die even in co-op you see him without the helmet
Gordam.does NOT HAVE A HELMET, IM NOT AFRAID IF THE TRUTH, YOU ARE
His hud is the glasses his thick skull is to fucking thick so the headcrabs cant get him
Shepherd also doesn’t have a helmet put on in his game, so if gearbox games are cannon, we also need to ask if he has a Helmet or not. Same for the Characters within the PlayStation Co-op mode Decay. Furthermore, in Blue Shift, Barney gets a helmet at the beginning of his game, yet is also told within the tutorial he has a hud built within the helmet itself. Therefore, what if the hud is elsewhere on the the HEV and PCV suits, and the suits in zen are older models.
Shephard does have a helmet, it's a US PASGT helmet with an M81 woodland camo cover, same as the helmet wearing grunts, as well as an M40 gas mask with green tinted lenses.
The hud is something the player can only see if the suit could track Gordon's health there would some device that goes into his skin
I use a helmet
The fact that people are still fighting about this 25 years after the game was released really shows how loyal these fans are 💀💀💀
yeah, this fanbase has officially gone insane
I say Gordon wears a helmet also because of the H.E.V suit voice
Situation looks like "Courier is not rangers" from fallout new vegas 😅
Gordon wears a helmet in half life or he would have a brain tumor due to the radioactive nuclear waste n shit
The glasses
My question is does gordon wear socks underneath the suit.
probably has modified glasses, and for the headcrabs, his head is either too big or he has alot of really slippery lotion on his head
Headcrabs only latch on when the persons guard is down and all the npcs dont get latched on by the headcrabs
the hud myth has been debunked a long time ago.. it's just a gameplay mechanic, Barney Adrian Collete Gina and the 2 Decay Vorts have HUDs :)
Plus in HL2 you get HUD prompts like "Press E to pick up objects" or "Press G to switch to the gravity gun" showing that they're there just for gameplay reasons and not canon ones.
Also you get prompts - and the crosshair - way before having the suit in HL2
HEV actually have helmet included but gordon dont need it becasue "he's highly trained professional "
The same reason they don’t latch onto Alyx’s head.
headcrabs need to either overwhelm or sneak up on their target, otherwise the target can easily avoid them, people just give them too much credit.
Schrödinger's helmet.
That's a good question.
He only wears a helmet in the German Censorship
How does Gordon survive all the radiation, he encounters throughout all half-life games, without a helmet?
Headcrabs can't latch on anyone unless it's a scripted sequence.
People who use that as an argument are so funny LMAO...
I think the HUD isn’t there for Gordon
Im pretty sure in opposing force he doesn't have it when you see him go to xen
His glasses show the hud
Maybe helmet is put on automatically when hev dectes danger?
glasses and a box head. his head is pretty square and squares don't fit in circle holes
My take is that Gordon wore a helmet in HL1 up until the HECU ambushing him with the helmet being knocked off, it's seal/ locking mechanism breaking or being forcefully pulled off by a marine during the beating, leaving him without a helmet from that point on, when Barney sees him getting dragged he doesn't have the helmet, in the cut Decay rescue mission he doesn't have it, and when Shephard sees him jump into the portal he doesn't have it, for the entirety of HL2 and the episodes he doesn't have the helmet, since G-Man tells him that he's earned the suit he is only talking about the parts of the suit he has on at the times, the suit itself and the gloves, the helmet was lost and the long jump module is a external attachment, hence why when Gordon gets it back it's only the suit and gloves, the Gordon in Alyx, is Gordon at the end of Episode 2, the model has a bunch of damage and cuts as it was meant to be shown in the ending knocked out near Alyx when Eli and her are shown, and his appearance in the released version has him place in a way where the damage is hidden by shadows. with the headcrab argument, people give them too much credit, it's been shown multiple times that a person on alert and aware of their surroundings can prevent a headcrab from attaching, headcrabs are only effective in large numbers which is how they took over Ravenholm and how they take over marines and combine soldiers, or if they get an opening on an unaware or distracted target such as that one scientist in HL1 or the citizen in HL2. As for the HUD that's simple, it doesn't exist (only mention of it ingame i can find is in the Hazard course, which also mentions the "run and jump commands", the "use key" and "alternate fire button", which are all out of universe things and directed at the player specifically, not Gordon) and is only to give information to the player ,as pretty much all functions of the HUD are done by built in systems in the suit, the HEV suit even calls out most of the HUD's functions when the player suits up (zoom in HL2 is the only one i can't explain), also when Gordon suits up it is only the suit and tho models for the helmet and gloves exist they for whatever reason weren't included (possibly issues with falling under the map like the HEV suits in Lambda Core), what's important to note is that when Gordon suits up the suit DOESN'T have gloves, but it is undeniable that Gordon wears gloves, so the same logic can be applied to the helmet up until the end of Apprehension which is the earliest point Gordon is knocked out AND unable to pick the helmet back up, since in the test chamber he could just pickup his helmet if it came off. with promotional material, that's just a logical preference to have Gordon's face shown, since usually unless being faceless is a major part of the character, you'd want your main character to have their face shown so that people can connect with the character or make them recognizable.
In conclusion, Gordon wore a helmet until being captured by the HECU and the helmet was never retrieved, the HUD isn't part of the universe and the hologram assistant breaks the 4th wall, headcrabs are weak and people give them too much credit, and in promotional material Gordon's face is shown to make him recognizable and have a face put to the name.
Theres no helmet.
Radiation fears freeman
Headcrabs respect him
His brain is just too large to fit
One of the biggest no helmet arguments is that in half-life alyx, she doesn't wear a helmet and she is fine against headcrabs
So you really think it's better to show Gordon with helmet? There is a big chance people won't recognize that it's Gordon, because of helmet. That was for epic scene, not to show Gordon in actual gameplay.
I mean there are more arguments than that as to why he doesn't wear one. But yeah it's one of them.
the headcrabs in half life was devloped to not kill player instantly thats how it was built in half life
No. He doesn’t wear a helmet. He was actually waiting for his own custom helmet to be finished, one that would accommodate the ponytail.
Yeah I don’t really give a shit what people say Gordon 100% wears a helmet
Well in Black Mesa the Scientist who talks about ridiculous Ties also says that earlier models didn't have so loud colors, ventilation, and the Helmet was mandatory, meaning that the helmet on Mark 4 HEV is optional, and it would be weird if he comments on it if Gordon IS wearing the helmet.
Also theres no helmet for gordon to put on when he gets into it, in both Half-life, Black Mesa, And Half-life 2.
Also its an HEV SUIT, not a full outfit.
The model doesn't have a helmet but there is a model with a helmet
I suspect there was a cutscene where he takes it off
more likely the HECU pulled it off during the ambush to hit him in the face.
Its the glasses, duh
Barney and shepherd has a hud in the expansions which we all agree upon are cannon and if you say no lets look at the zombie assassin in the hl2 beta and that thing is the gonome, so its clear valve wanted this to be cannon and gordon never wears a helmet in blue shift or opposing force meaning this, he doesnt wear a helmet
Edit: if this ain’t convincing you pay attention the voice of the hev suit when you put it on, it monitors your vitals and the hud you see is really just the hev monitoring your vitals tmyk
Idk ask Marc or somethin
Beware of frog
how do the scientists recognize him if hw has a helmet then. huh?
This is such a minor detail but I always see everyone miss it so I’ll say it here.
Gordon does not see the HUD, yes it’s there because as players we physical need to see that information. But I’m a narrative sense, the HUD that Gordon is displayed with is actually the voice commands given by the suit, translated to an easy to read value for the player.
He does not wear a helmet, none of the promotional images of Gordon ever depict him with a helmet and nothing it the game suggests he would even need one.
The answer is simple. He both has a helmet and doesnt have a helmet. Whatever the situation dictates.
I think Valve needs to be charged and brought in front of the International Criminal Court for refusing the develop and release HL3.
Headcrabs don't easily hatch on to people, when going around with a scientist, the headcrabs won't immidiatly hatch on to them and they have no helmet, the HUD is just for game benefits, only the player can see it.
Glasses
PurpleColonel did a great video on this, he DOES NOT wear a helmet
I think he removes the helmet when we see him at thirdperson
And put back in first person
You know, Ted from 60 Seconds! Reatomized actually made a video about this. Then purple colonel stole it.
Poor ted. Next time Ill give him a full can of soup.