Shit…I just had a vision of a hunter crossed with a stalker, armed with the ability to fire tau cannon blasts O__O
They already have direct energy weapons. the only thing they need to reverse engineer is a teleporter and since their prototype was cooked in nova prospect and the citadel, they are going after the Borealis
If you have full health, you can pick up a health kit and drop it in front of allies, and they will use it. I can guarantee this works in Episode 2, not sure about the earlier ones.
Anyone remembers the black hole weapon that was cut for Half-Life 2? Maybe that is the sort of technology that is hidden in the Borealis.
That weapon was based off of unused code for the hopwire grenade, IIRC, so I really doubt it.
And it also really doesn’t explain any of the crap behind a boat showing up in the arctic.
it crashed in the arctic? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah. It just sailed right off a cliff.
I always assumed it’s weird position was wither portal shit or crashing somewhere after aimless drifting and the combine induced drought stranded it halfway up a glacier or both.
Looks like half of the forums forgot how Borealis got to the arctic…
lol
Don’t forget- it took half the dry dock with it, so there will be some stuff around it.
Yeah, but if that ancient concept art is still accurate, (which makes sense; being in a crevasse would explain why it took so long to be found) there most likely won’t be any of the drydock with it.
Plus, in Portal 2, there didn’t seem to be any of the drydock missing. In fact, since it was underground and pretty far inland (not to mention the fact that there isn’t really a way to get that big of a ship from the great lakes to the ocean), it sorta implies that the ship was actually designed to teleport around.
I thought the Portal 2 rendition of the area was just an easter egg and not the actual former location of the Borealis. I was going by the line delivery in Episode Two.
Of course, the game will actually have to be announced before either of us are vindicated…
Yeah I’m pretty sure the Portal 2 area was just an easter egg. Especially considering we know it took part of the dry dock with it.
Regardless, that might not of been where the Borealis came from, but where it was supposed to go.
I don’t think the Borealis was designed to be teleported, but rather it seemed safer to the scientists building teleporters to test them in areas far from population areas, like in the middle of the ocean. Or the teleporter was being developed for the navy to potentially teleport entire fleets into action and back out again.
Do we actually see the entire drydock in Portal 2? As far as I can remember, it fades out and the end is just invisible.
AFAIR it was in this ‘abandoned’ part of complex. Quote from wikia:
So you can thread this as an easter egg, but it still fits storyline.
In Episode 2 Kleiner refers to it as a legend, not as anything well known or documented. The drydock part might not be true, but is a hint that it didn’t simply sail away.
I always took it for granted that “vanished completely” and “on a cliff in the arctic” implied teleportation of some sort.
Thought Borealis had more to do with time-travel than teleportation.