Achievement ideas

Black Mesa Archive Suggestion Box
#701

“Yes. I’m the one who discovered that the border world is EXTREMELY lactose intolerant.”:
Place a delicious wedge of Bournes pasteurised organic Cheshire cheese found in the cafeteria into the anti-mass spectrometer.

The One Free Lunch: Crowbar your way out of a barnacle’s clammy embrace.

Vent Your Spleen: Smash all the vent covers leading to air ducts.

Unnatural Causes: Cause a headcrab to jump to its death in toxic waste.

Science Be Damned!: Make the jump through the Xen portal too early.

Rock It Lawn Chair: Save your rockets until the final battle with Nihilanth.

“You are man, he is not man, for you he waits…”: Ricochet a 9mm round off G-man’s cranium whenever you meet.

Skull and CrossbOWNED: Hit 10 HECU grunts between the eyes with the crossbow in “Surface Tension”.

Observe and Report: Get 20 kills assisted by a Security Officer.

Dr. HAAAX: Have the scientist open the retinal scanner door to the grenade and handgun ammo cache for you in “Unforseen Consequences”.

Freeman’s Mines: Score 10 kills using laser tripmines throughout the game.

Back In the Day…: Beat a ragdoll with your crowbar.

Crockets? In My Black Mesa?: Kill 3 opponents with a single rocket.

That’s all for now, will think some more later…

#702

That raises an interesting question that has most likely been answered before but is too minor for me to search for… are ragdolls affected by crowbars/bullets/explosions?

#703

The idea behind this achievement was that classic HL1 players used to take the crowbar and gib the bodies on the floor… but today’s ragdolls don’t have that feature :[

And Ragdolls do take ‘blood splats’ from attacks, but that fails compared to full on gibbing.

#704

Minggut, those are some pretty damn good ones.

#705

Thankyou good sir. I’ve played through HL1 roughly 108 times since about 2002 and have never got bored with it. I usually set similar challenges to the achievements I wrote here every playthrough… for example I did a playthrough only using the handgun and MP5… 9mm ammo was a precious commodity that time round.

#706

So, “Observe and Report” is actually possible? O_o

#707

There are plenty of headcrabs to be glocked.

#708

Why are ALL your achievement ideas related to Mirror’s Edge? I love that game, but it doesn’t have anything related to BM (except being a FPS)

#709

Yeah, I know, I used to do it myself. :slight_smile:

#710

If you consider “kills” as any kills, then yes, but if by “kills” you take only HECU kills, then I’m not sure, but I still think it’s possible, because you have some Security Guards / HECU encounters in the game.

#711

That Concerned reference MUST be in, please!

#712

Do not feed the animals
Feed the casserole to a barnacle
Or: Feed an explosive to a barnacle.

om nom nom nom

#713

it was a bad joke for the fact that it was ment to be a bad joke.

#714

:expressionless:

#715

Nuke The Site From Orbit- Airstrike every conceivable target in the area

#716

FYI guys I thought that the “Observe and Report” achievement should measure on kill ASSISTS much like in multiplayer games of today, say if the guard just put a single round into a zombie but you then killed it, the achievement bar would increase by 1.

As for Frohman’s ill-fated Cheshire cheese itself, that would have to be modeled into the game.

Oh, and one more thing:

Main Power Is Not On: Cross the lab filled with electrified water near the start of “Office Complex” and deactivate the light switch without taking any form of damage.

Burning Man: Use at least 3 satchel charges to send a camping sniper to his demise.

There Can Only Be None…: Finish off every opponent in the game using the good 'ol crowbar.
(Not including bosses.)

A Load of Bull: Kill 5 headcrabs assisted by a bullsquid throughout the whole game.

See You In H(EL)L 2: Use the mounted machine gun behind the sandbags in “Surface Tension” to kill the incoming teleporting Vortigaunts in under 3 shots each.

Use The Force, Gordon…: Shoot a rocket directly up and use the guiding system to drop it onto the head of an unseen enemy.

Solid Sneak: Kill an anemy unaware of your prescence without alerting them or any of their allies.

EDIT:

A Close Shave: Make it from the first radioactive pool in “Residue Processing” to beginning of “Questionable Ethics” without losing more than 10 health points.

#717

That would be harder than in Half-Life 1, because Black Mesa uses the HL2 rocket system so the rocket will come back instead of just going down.

#718

Tell me about it… but aren’t achievements supposed to be challenging?

#719

I did that yesterday in hl2dm. so its not that hard though the person that i killed was camping on the crossbow spawn.

#720

1337H4x: Deal a total of over 1337 points of damage to at least 5 enemies in under one second.

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