ok. first when i played HL and got on xen i didn’t understood how freeman could breath then i saw bodyes of other people with HEV suit and understood but… how Shephard and Barney could breath they didn’t have required equipment…
so what’s your idea???
( i think this is a right place for this topic… yes? 
or no? 
)
Shephard had a respirator, but Barney didn’t have anything. Also, depending on your viewpoint, Gordon may or may not have a helmet, but we don’t speak of that here 
I’d have thought that Xen had a similar atmosphere to Earth, which would also explain why the aliens could survive in the Earth’s atmosphere. They were able to breathe freely, but the Combine appear to need respirators, so maybe the combine homeworld will be more inhospitable if we ever see it.
Topic could have gone here or in Half-Life Series, doesn’t really matter
Xen has air. I live there. I know.
Blue Shift and Opposing Force aren’t canon… so they should be ignored.
Of course, Kleiners teleport in Half-Life 2 takes Gordon and Alyx to Xen briefly (in the teleportation process) in order for them to reach Black Mesa East. So I guess a HEV suit is not required to survive on Xen.
Of course the first explorers on Xen wore HEV suits with helmets as they most likely didn’t expect an Earth-like atmosphere which Xen apparently has.
We can only assume this much.
Or we could just ignore this as a major plot device completely. Which it isn’t.
Since when does ambiguously canonical mean non-canonical? Barney wouldn’t have said his last name in HL2 if Blue Shift was a TOTAL load of baloney.
if this were an important issue, it’d make sense like so:
Xen’s atmosphere consists of methane gas. Everybody in Black Mesa farts at their own consent and therefore could have just farted around xen without life support, like Barney and Gordon.
Black Mesa has so much fart residue that the aliens can exist there indefinitely should they wish.
But seeing how this isn’t important at all, this hypothesis is of course ridiculous and untrue.
"Xen’s atmosphere consists of methane gas. Everybody in Black Mesa farts at their own consent and therefore could have just farted around xen without life support, like Barney and Gordon.
Black Mesa has so much fart residue that the aliens can exist there indefinitely should they wish."
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I agree, the same problem arises with Gordon’s strange ability to survive radiation in his Hazard Suit. I personally think that while the box art always shows him without a helmet that one probably emerges from his neck section when the suit is activated and worn. If you get what I mean?
That is definitely open as the rationale (and the rational rationale at that). I’ve always found the helmet or no helmet debate nothing short of strange.
I always assumed a force field or something around the head, but it’s unclear why Gordon would have that and no one else would.
And the two other games are canon, just a lower level than HL1, HL2, episodes, and Portal.
Force field makes very very little sense, especially when you encounter HEV suits with helmets on Xen.
And in no way shape or form are Blue Shift or Opposing Force canon. Except for Barney’s last name.
And the nuke. All else is suspect.
They can be canon as long as Valve want them to be. Valve can choose which bits to make canon.
hehe, I understand that, hence the reference to Barney’s last name (didn’t know about the nuke though, thought that was still up for debate).
I’d be very disappointed if Valve up and decided that Race-X were canon.
Who cares? Valve’s games are masterstrokes of storytelling. The story itself is wholly uninspired and as irrelevant as its glaring continuity errors.
“Who cares?”
About what?
We don’t know enough of the story yet to be able to make that kind of judgment (but yeah as it stands, the plot of Half-Life 1 borrows liberally from Doom, messing with portal technology opens way for hostile force to wreak havoc on such and such facility).
The story. I lost interest around Office Complex.
Ah, Doom, it perfectly illustrates Valve’s importance for computer games. Doom did have a reasonable enough story (seemed good enough for Event Horizon to lift almost verbatim), but the exposition was relegated entirely to the friggin’ manual which you naturally threw out as soon as you’d ripped open the box (or more likely, never had, because you’d pirated the game like everyone else.)
I’m curious as to when you first played Half-Life.
The era of FPS’ (I’ll call it 3rd Gen) Half-Life came from really didn’t have an emphasis on storytelling, in fact about the only FPS game back then that went the distance insofar as storytelling is concerned (and this game came out 3 years prior) was Dark Forces.
Now, that isn’t to say Half-Life didn’t have a great way of telling it, but having absolutely no cutscenes, exposition was completely reliant upon interaction with NPC’s, hence the nortorious and liberal way with which Valve used it.
Now that we have H-L2 and the Episodes we have an idea that the overarching story of Half-Life is quite a bit more epic in proportions than Half-Life would have us believe, so yeah, I can say I care about the story.
This is all completely off topic anyhow. Xen atmosphere is friendly to all things.
the chanse that on Xen would be an AIR is 1 to 10000000000…0
but i think that air was teleported there throught portals… i think it is logical becouse air is material but when i thnk about it there is one “but” why all air wasn’t sucked out??? its kinda vacuum in cosmos…
what’s your idea about it?
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