Confusion from HL:1 to HL:2

Half-Life Series
#21

No, they definitely say antlion husbandry. What’s “stupid” about that exactly? Do you… know what husbandry means?

#22

Just in case anybody doesn’t it is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

#23

Play Episode 2 again. It’s “husbandry.”

So all the Vorts are either gay or women.

#24

Or farmers. Antlion farmers. Which they are.

#25

That’s the same basic principle as the human’s teleports, except we use Xen, because it’s somehow linked to the whole teleportation process.

#26

Mossman, I think, explains that at the start of Black Mesa East. In the fiction, we can’t yet teleport from point to point on Earth (presumably because of the Earth’s rotation), so Black Mesa’s teleporting research swing-shotted you around the border world (Xen) and back to whatever spot on Earth.

#27

Well, we presumably could when Black Mesa East was founded, but a pesky semi-organic computer sort of saw to it that no one really knew about that…

#28

So you guys are saying that Vortigaunt’s, the wisest of wise, have an ancient tradition of marrying speechless, unaware creatures? Seriously? O_o

#29

That is fucking hot.

#30

Husbandry != Marriage. It has nothing to do with marriage.
headdesk

#31

I can just see the conversation;

#32

This. ^^ :lol:

@Victus: I don’t think it’s 7 years, more like 20. I base this assumption on Eli’s family picture in Black Mesa East. Assuming that picture was taken shortly before the Cascade, then Alyx was no more than 2 or 3 at the time. Looking at her in HL2, she’s a young woman in her early to mid 20’s.

#33

^ I think i read somewhere (probably RTB.), that the citizens you encounter throughout the game represent the last surviving generation of humans, since the combine implemented the Suppression field. So that implies a significant passage of time, and might explain why there are no children present.

#34

This makes sense seeing as that in Episode One, when Kliener[?] talks about procreation after the citadel goes to shit.

#35

Oh yes, no disagreement from me there. Having played HL2 for about 4 years now, I think I’ve seen/heard just about everything in the game. :smiley: Breen’s screen-casts are actually quite interesting to listen to…

#36

As to the original topic:

SPOILER ALART!

[COLOR=’#212121’]Prior to the events of HL1, Black Mesa scientists went to Xen (as evidenced by the dead scientists in HEV suits littered about the place) for study. They could go back and forth, but Xenian aliens couldn’t come (AFAIK). Then, you cause the Resonance Cascade opening uncontrollable rifts through which the aliens invade our world. Gordon is tasked to launch a rocket intended to close these rifts, but it doesn’t work as planned because Nihilanth is keeping the rifts open. You kill Nihilanth.

This doesn’t work quite as planned, either, because what was apparently a localized issue became world wide with portal storms, causing vast parts of Earth to become “Xenized”, which attracts the attention of the Combine, seeing as they could use Earth technology to not only transport interdimensionally, but intradimensionally (something the Combine was apparently unable to accomplish).

So, now you destroy the Citadel to stop Dr. Breen but that only causes a “superportal” to form. So, you go to White Forest and launch a rocket with the intent to shut it down before it stabilizes. If that happens, we wouldn’t last seven minutes, much less seven hours. So, the rocket is launched, the superportal closes and all is safe, right? Wrong!

The Borealis was found and is apparently part of a “project” apparently against the Combine, but if it’s not destroyed, according to Eli Vance, it’ll be “another Black Mesa”.

That’s about as much as I know (I hope I got all my facts correct).

#37

The scientists where there to attempt to close the portal I thought…

#38

did you really have to make the text invisible?

#39

It was for those that haven’t played all the way through yet. :slight_smile:

#40

Oh goshdarnit, you young scallywag. You have now gone and ruined the entire experience for one, and one is most upset about this. In fact, one may indeed need to fall upon violent recourse for this transgression. Where is one’s golf club? :stuck_out_tongue: [/sarcasm]

As I understood it, the rocket Gordon launches on his way to the Lambda complex is to help the scientists fire up their own portal reactor? 'Course I’m probably horribly wrong about that…

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