The Tau cannon its my favorite weapon since i play HL.
In the mod is to inaccurate and slow, in hl i can get many frags easy but here it is not so reliable, altough it presentaion is great!
I think that it was optimised to destroy thanks but not npcs
weird. i actually used it a lot more in black mesa. it was my prefered weapon against marines now that the mp5 is so bad, while in hl 1 i rarely used the tau since ammo was much scarcer.
Exactly how I see it.
Edit: To me it seems like there also is no splashdamage when shooting through walls. If you check this video you will notice the gauss shot will cause an (invisible) radioactive shockwave… like explosive damage…
https://youtu.be/jiJVursnYss
Tau is pretty much okay in BM IMO, tho i found myself using primary fire more often than in HL.
its fine, its a nice “machinegun” and “tankdestroyer”
i like it very much but i usually use my hivehand(i love the hivehand and… my avatar is a hivehand)
Easily one of the most effective weapons in the game now against vehicles. One full charge seems to be equivalent to something like three rockets on hard mode, and it gibs enemies without needing much of a charge-up.
in the original as soon as you hit an enemy they turn into gibs but not in this.
i figured it worked like a directed microwave blast heating up every cell in your body until it couldn’t take anymore then explode.
there is this small lag when you fire its annoying.
also when you crowbar enemies they don’t blow up into gibs, i was disappointing by that.
Well enemies only gib if they take an exceptional amount of damage that puts their health into some large negative number at the time of death. Only powerful explosives are able to do that. Also, ragdolls will gib if you do something ridiculous to them after death.
Magnum and shotgun also occasionally gib. And the .50 definitely gibs. Epic fun. :3
Charged Tau > Glueon Gun > Rocket Launcher
I’ve destroyed:
The Dam Heli
The cliffside Heli
The Surface Tension Tank
The Surface Tension Osprey
The surface Tension APC (#1 & #2)
And obliterated the fuck out of a good many more poor creatures inbetween.
2-3 regular tau shots annihilate almost any Npc, on Hard.
It sounds to me that the OP can’t use gun worth shit.
Uhhh with the primary or secondary? If the primary…I played the original at least a hundred times and I never saw that unless I kept firing at their dying body…like a few times. In BM, I found that they died pretty fast but I actually haven’t tried the secondary 
I would think they would with the secondary fire, but I guess I think of the gun as being more of a laser gun or something. Like highly accelerated radioactive particles being shot in a concentrated beam.
Im not saying that i cant kill enemies with it, im saying that is not the same performance.
I just hope the Devs make the original gameplay for Deathmach.
I was thinking it either shoots Tau Leptons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_lepton)
or less likely that is causes “Shear Stress” on bad guys (denoted as Tau in physical mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_stress)
They make it seem as if it actually shoots Tau particles, so I’m gonna go with the former.
Right especially since the Gluon gun shoots… well Gluons.
Which btw is super bad ass in this mod. It had a great sound in HL1 but it is an absolute monster in this and I love to use it
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