The assassins

Black Mesa Archive Suggestion Box
#201

It’s just that I am jealous. I wanna go gunshopping, too :smiley:

Though I’d probably need a baretta or something else with a really large clip, cause I have never had any handgun training. I’d use up all my ammo for one hit, supposedly. Or a shotgun would be nice - hard to miss something with that from a certain distance. Just point it roughly in the right direction…
I’d really like to have more experience with guns. That little BB gun training I received ain’t gonna help me. The way that the world is going right now I fear that before I die I am really gonna need to handle a real f**king gun, and I would hate not to be prepared then.

Arh, back to topic.

Are all assassins or black ops or whatever you might call them gonna be female, or is there a plan for a male black ops model? I know that there were no male black ops in Half Life 1, but then - there also were only three scientists and only one security guy. And no female scientists. That’s why I ask. Not suggesting or requesting anything - just curious.

#202

just out of curiousity,

WHY WOULD YOU WANT SOME UGLY ASS GUYS RUNNING AROUND IN TIGHT LEATHER DOING BACKFLIPS?

#203

They are going to make lots of different scientist models and also female scientists. They may also be making some scientists different races. Which is good because it would seem like black mesa is racist because you CANT FIND ONE DAMN SCIENTIST OR GUARD WHO ISN’T AMERICAN! :rage:

But really, I don’t think they will have male blackops since they were only included in Opposing Force. But then again, there are lots of threads with suggestions about things that were only in Opposing Force/Blue Shift so I guess it could happen. :wink:

#204

I didn’t look at it from THAT point of view, actually. :fffuuu:

Oh, and just out of curiosity:

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOUR CAPS LOCK?

But really, who says that they have to look ugly in that outfit? For their job at least they have to be athletic… maybe they are some hot shit under that uniform :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously - I rather thought of some male black ops badass with a silenced smg doing the less sneaky, less acrobatic, more brutal and straight forward “pumping people full of bullets” piece of work. Like those from Opposing Force. Sure you don’t really need them. But the same could be said about the scientists and security guards. Or the headcrab zombies. Security Guard Zombies appeared in Blueshift, not in Half Life 1. They are in Black Mesa, apparently. For the sake of variety between the critters encountered by the player. The same could go with the male black ops. That’s why I was asking. Not suggesting, not requesting. Just asking.

Oh, and I don’t give a shit if they aren’t in it. The mod will be awesome nonetheless.

#205

  1. The game is in America, so WTF do you expect?

  2. Since when was American was a race.

  3. If you were referring to Native Americans, why would they be scientists? They’re so fucking tight, they would just skip right to shaman.

#206

yes yes, I see your point, however the female scientists arn’t going to behave any diferently from the male ones, the difference will be completely asthetic. so if there were to be male black ops, they would have to behave exactly like the female ones. which would look rather out of place IMO.
if there was to be a difference, it would most likely be other female variants, IE diferent bodyshape, no helmet, things like that. but that has about a 0.01% chance of happening as it is.

#207
  1. I realize the game is in America. Are you implying that everyone living in America is caucasian and speaks english? There could be french or german people etc.

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=24

  • Klaymore

  1. I never said american was a race. I was reffering to caucasian people.

  2. WTF is it with Native Americans and shamans?

#208

  1. It is an american facility, so why the hell would some of them not speak American? you try running a superfacility where half the people cant speak your language.

  2. JUST BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE CAUCASIAN DOSN"T MEAN WE ARE AMERICAN DANMMIT.

  3. because the tree god of the wolfeagle demands it.

#209

@NesKwik

Most Americans are Hispanic, so get your steoreotypes right. There were a ton of black people in Half Life, and Black Mesa will add all races and sexes to it.

Also:

I don’t see any difference.

#210

He must mean Anglo-saxon when he says caucasian.

I still don’t under stand what the issue with not having foreign nationals in a top secret American facility. I understand his issue, that there are American citizens who are not Anglo-Saxon and/or English-speaking primarily but that level of detail really isn’t necessary IMO.

#211

There will be male and female, black and white scientists in Black Mesa. Asians, Puerto-Ricans etc. are not confirmed, nor likely to be among them. In the original Half-Life there were three types of white scientists and one black scientist. All were male.
The appearance of black scientists in Half-Life 1 is what sort of guarantees their incorporation into the mod, as I see it. If it was a major or minor feature of Half-Life 1, it will most likely be in Black Mesa. That’s what the FAQ says.

#212

I just realized that this post is void, since Albert Einstein was in the first game.

#213

  1. They would of course have to have a basic understanding of english.

  2. I realize that. I myself am Canadian.

  3. :what:

They can make an einstein model but they cant put an accent in it.

#214

He could be a German who got an American accent. Look at Madonna: she trys to pass off as a Brit with that funky voice.

#215

There is also the possibility of basing a male black ops on a HECU model, giving it a bacalava and night vision goggles and reskinning the guy to wear black with shiny partsl. Then give him an smg, change the firing sounds in his folder to silenced ones and voilà! You got yourself a black ops badass! Place him alongside the female ones and you got yourself two types of black ops assassins playing cat and mouse with the Freeman.
So there would’nt really have to be backflipping guys in leather and latex. I think those should stay in professional ballet where they belong.

Again, I am not suggesting anything, just pointing out the mere possibility.

#216

And yet interestingly enough both the Angles and the Saxons were from Germany (and the edge of Denmark).

#217

Look I don’t want to get into a big debate over this so let’s just get back to talking about the assasins.

#218

What a commendable idea.

#219

You do understand that this is a remake of Half-life and not Opposing Force, right?

#220

Read a little through this thread and you’ll be able to answer this question for yourself.

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