Okay, next time I’ll be more gentle and try to sound less harsh/aggressive/hurtful in my comments. I’m sorry if my post was offensive and it wasn’t supposed to create spite.
Also I agree the light brow/green color vorts now sport isn’t as menacing as their old teared dark brown skin.
What they need is a total texture overhaul. Like, not just a new diffuse, but a new set of normals from a new sculpt.
The long lost original HL2 vortigaunt was an excellent translation of the original design at the time.
I wonder whose idea it was to head in the direction they did for EP2 .
Maybe Tony Todd refused to record his lines unless his character could be revamped with baby smooth skin.
Moved and bumped this thread because this needs to happen.
Who wants to rip the original vortiguant from hl2 retail and slap on some of that next gen delight
I remember Xalener was working on a Vort reskin a while ago:
https://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559827524269575632/AE721026E0817AD2E3132424309B4F73DA1D9DAF/
Not sure if he finished it.
It’s gone. Got wiped when I rebuilt the computer. It’s not hard to get to that stage though, it was just some color re-adjusting with some ginger’s freckles generously stippled around the shoulders and neck with a turtle shell on the abs.
That vort is kinda blind, the eye need to be pure red. Anyway I made a vort reskin submitted in GameBanana. Just download my retro pack (1 and 2) and get only the files in the vortigaunt folder.
Did a dev ever take note of the OP?
I really really want this to happen.
Also what’s the deal with the bullsquid eye shader?
A reskin with the animation posture fix and an overhaul of the sounds would bring them more in line with HL1’s vorts, but all of that is a fair bit of work.
I did recently re-record new vort sounds from scratch but I’m not all together satisfied with them.
I did the grunt too. same feelings. I wish I knew how to make new facial animations for these sounds though :s
The new vort sounds aren’t bad, but the original sounds have some weird elements to them, almost like Stuttery speech, mixed with coughing - I’m honestly not sure how to describe it. If you could emulate similar effects while making them have a similar sound to what you have, you’d have a pretty good HL1 vort.
This mod has pretty decent vort sounds that are reminiscent of HL1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ct3cLenGUgE#t=26s
It’s harder to create sounds like that the higher up the KHZ ladder you climb :s
True, although I was thinking of taking a crack at it since I can kinda sound like them, but with my sound editing skills it will probably sound like a person mimicking the HL1 vort sounds 
Expected, as that’s exactly what it is.
I think the SFX guy on OBM/GD is doing a pretty good job at emulating some of the classic sound effects from HL. Take a look at his blog, he has a pretty good sounding vortigaunt preview.
Not bad, maybe someone can emulate that?
I think I see what he did there.
It certainly sounds much closer to the HL1 vorts than any other rendition I’ve heard.
That guy would be great for a soldier voice, his fx sounds perfect
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