Got a Quick Suggestion? - Small suggestions that don't need their own thread

[Samapico]

@DansonDelta40

I recently posted an idea in the “Daydream Suggestions” thread that got surprisingly good feedback. I have not yet posted it here, because I don’t know whether or not this would be considered spam.

And posting a post about a suggestion, without saying what it is, is better and not considered as spam?

[Right4Dead]

No

[DansonDelta40]

:B Damn!

Okay, okay, you got me. That was stupid. So here’s the suggestion:

To wrap the whole M4/MP5 problem up, both weapons should be included in the mod. The MP5 without grenade launcher as the first assault weapon, which uses the same ammo as the Glock, and the M4/203 as the second, stronger, more accurate assault weapon, including the grenade launcher and having it’s own ammo reserve.

The MP5 should have a larger magazine and a higher rate of fire than the M4 (50 rounds, just as in the original Half-Life), and, of course, a large ammo reserve, whereas the M4 should have 30 rounds in the magazine, not more than 90 in reserve and only 3-5 grenades instead of the original 10.

Then Gordon would have two assault weapons, just as in Half-Life 2. Both would be significantly different and worth using. The HECU marines could come in diverse types of differently equipped soldiers, just like the combine, who either wield smg’s, shotguns or assault rifles (the metrocops even use pistols), allowing for a little more sense of “realism” and more diversified types of soldiers to battle, their strength depending largely on their weaponry.

In Half-Life 2 you had the SMG and the AR2, in Black Mesa you’d have the MP5 and the M4 instead. I hope I could make myself clear.

Of course, it’s not gonna happen (at least not in the official release), but I like the idea.

Spamming is not my intention, I apologize. For more info look into the daydream suggestion thread, if interested.

[geekofalltrades]

Not going to happen.

However, when you said “first” and “second” assault weapons, that made me think; what if, in the first part of the game, you’re saddled with an MP5, and after you climb out of the trash compactor, the first automatic weapon you come across is an M4 instead? Each one would have a place in the mod, then, without giving the player an extra weapon they didn’t have in the original. And I guess it would sort of make sense, because the trash compactor is followed by Surface Tension and the like, which is a larger outdoor area to which the M4 is more suited, while the claustrophobic hallways of the inner complex before the compactor call for an MP5.

[7_eleven]

Within the locker room before you get the HEV suit, add some know sames to the lockers like Kliner and Eli.

[OldDirtyBastard]

The plates already have names like Raminator, 1nsane, James Kane, Cman2k and the like, so no.

[The_Javid]

@7 eleven

Within the locker room before you get the HEV suit, add some know sames to the lockers like Kliner and Eli.

Wow man! You are a genious! I can’t believe noone ever thought of tha…wait a minute…oh they did. You’re lame dude!

[baconeggs]

@OldDirtyBastard

The plates already have names like Raminator, 1nsane, James Kane, Cman2k and the like, so no.

That’s gonna look pretty stupid, I have to say.

[ravmahov]

How about subtitles like in HL2? I didn’t noticed yet if anyone asking for this, and I needed them in HL1, but there was no option for that xD

[Keresh]

@OldDirtyBastard

The plates already have names like Raminator, 1nsane, James Kane, Cman2k and the like, so no.

If so, that would be more like Junek, Kane, Montero, etc.

@ravmahov

How about subtitles like in HL2? I didn’t noticed yet if anyone asking for this, and I needed them in HL1, but there was no option for that xD

As far as I know, they are making closed captions.

[Lolipopman]

One locker should say Summer. Or possibly glau.

[The_Javid]

How bout we stop suggesting easter eggs?:o

[UrBaN1O1]

what i like that when you choose a weapon like the 357
gordon should spin the reload…thing
and the pistol he should move the slide to the back
and the mp5 like the css when you choose it
so as the shotgun etc.

The shotgun anims in hl2 were kinda boring
the was no umm style
like css

[CTID]

Realistically speaking, if you did that every time you pulled out a weapon, you’d waste a round because that ejects the previous one.

Aesthetically speaking, it’d look cool, but it’d be more trouble than it’s worth.

[iKy]

yeh , he should juggle with the weapons to be more interesting

[The_Javid]

@iKy

yeh , he should juggle with the weapons to be more interesting

LMAO!

[Brother_Shrike]

You have to pull the slide when you load a new mag after emptying the previous one, because there’s no round in the chamber. If you did that after pulling out the gun/reloading after partially emptying a mag, then you would waste a round by working the action. It would look cool, but this isn’t Call of Duty: Science Mesa. Plus it would take time, which gets in the way of frantic action and multiplayer.

[The_Javid]

@Brother Shrike

You have to pull the slide when you load a new mag after emptying the previous one, because there’s no round in the chamber. If you did that after pulling out the gun/reloading after partially emptying a mag, then you would waste a round by working the action. It would look cool, but this isn’t Call of Duty: Science Mesa. Plus it would take time, which gets in the way of frantic action and multiplayer.

…or you could just hit the slide release after putting a fresh mag in since the slide locks back after you fire the last round in the mag.

Edit: I really should read every post before responding.

[Brother_Shrike]

Unlike some, I’m not a firearms expert, I just pretend to be :rolleyes:

But also I didn’t mean solely in the glock, I was referring the mp5 as well.

[Right4Dead]

@Raminator

The slide locks in the rear position when you empty the magazine, and inserting a new one releases it to chamber the first round.

Actually it doesn’t release automatically, except the HL2 pistol which is some kind of (swaaaaaaaard) modified combine usp.