black mesa not destroyed

Half-Life Series
#81

The expansions have never been specifically stated to be non-canon; i.e. it’s canon until said otherwise.

#82

Only if it’s specified as canon can it not be, neither be presumed as, canon. Whether official or unofficial, not otherwise.

#83

… Wha? O.O

#84

More like the expansions have never been specifically stated to be canon; i.e. it’s non-canon until said otherwise.

#85

^Yup.

#86

Damn, I wish I had a Tau cannon for these threads about expansions being canon.

#87

The expansions are canon. VALVe gave Gearbox the rights to make an official game, so they did. OFFICIAL.
There’s even a list of what VALVe considers canon here: https://www.halflife2.net/wiki/index.php/Canon

#88

I prefer to go by what the creative force behind the story has to say, thanks.

https://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=114535

Either way, Laidlaw confirms the nuke did destroy the BMRF and thus ends this rather pointless thread.

#89

That article has no references and wasn’t written by VALVe. It proves nothing.

I believe the writing for the expansions was merely overseen by Laidlaw to make sure they didn’t contradict the original game. VALVe has never specified that the expansions are canon, if they were then VALVE would say so, but they never have and it’s unlikely that they ever will.

Because they’re not canon.

#90

If I hear the word canon one more fuckin time … :stuck_out_tongue:

#91

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#93

To get this thread back on topic before Raw_bean has to come in here…
The nuke postiveley destroyed black mesa. So it was a small warhead, so what? Remember the nuke warehouse in Surface Tension? Or when you first meet the black ops in Oppossing force? If the warhead engulfed one of those in its blast, they would go off. Huge explosion. End of thread.

#94

Tzar bomb, not bomba, that’s russian.
Did you seriously think it was part of the name?[/SIZE]
Anyways, Black Mesa was destroyed completely, Gman made sure of that.

#95

Black Mesa was destroyed. No one thinks that the average gamer will speculate at the approximate blast radius of that specific type of nuke and if it would destroy the whole facility. Black Mesa, for all gaming and storyline intents and purposes, is GONE.

#96

Actually, nukes don’t go off unless actually armed first. They would have simply been engulfed in the explosion like the rest of Black Mesa.

However, I agree completely that Black Mesa is completely destroyed. Not that it matters in the story at all, since destroying the facility apparently did nothing for the government. :rolleyes:

#97

That’s a pretty cool theory. I’m sorry I missed that thread, never saw it on the old forum. I dunno about the idea of a “resonance particle”, but the idea of the size of the random Xen teleports being relative to the amount of energy in the region actually makes a certain degree of sense. (In a sci-fi setting that involves interdimernsional portals and crazy stuff like that.)

Then again, there’s the fact that loads of alien grunts appeared in Surface Tension, those are pretty big and there wasn’t that much electrical activity around. But it cou

#98

wat :hmph:

#99

Guys, BLACK MESA WAS DESTROYED! In opposing force the bomb clearly says that it is thermonuclear (that means it’s one of those bombs with the flash-heat that just vaporizes everything) and it says that A MINIMAL SAFE DISTANCE OF 55 KILOMETERS IS RECOMMENDED. and I doubt black mesa is 55 square kilometers.

#100

:retard:

Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.