Xen Holiday Screenshot

U gonna move to Belgium to get this steak aswell?

“Get this steak” ahahahahaha

I wonder if Black Mesa Xen is really a HL3 ARG that’s full of clues that will lead to HL3 trailer. O_o

I’d be okay with that. The idea that Valve is actually going to ever make a game again would be exciting on it’s own, even if it had nothing to do with HL. It totally would work as an ARG leading up to a big reveal.

It’s not, though.

Yep. Valve is extra mysticopathic and cryptic when it comes to releasing info for their own stuff.
I highly doubt that they gave the permission to another dev to spill beans on one of their upcoming games.

That’s what they WANT you to believe!
In the big Xen update page, CC will add a little seemingly unimportant line at the bottom, saying: “HL3 is coming out.”
And I’ll be the first to see it.

Little will we know what HL actually refers to…

That’s odd, I got Hargreaves Lansdown.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=hl1&oq=HL&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i61j0l3.511j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=HL&*

If you aren’t taking any liberties with the lore…

… Then why can’t I heal myself by drinking copious amounts of soda ingame?

It is, in fact, perfectly possible for you to heal yourself by drinking copious amounts of soda ingame. And by consuming the berets of fallen Marines, although that might just be some sort of necromancy thing.

Yeah, if you use a vending machine (or break them, a feature that was in HL1 but didn’t serve to heal you) you still get 1 hitpoint per can as in HL1.
I seem to recall this was not the case at one point in development, (and your wording indicates you were around the forums at that point) but env_beverage is back, baby!

April Fools… you better not pull anything twisted or cruel, devs.

inb4 devs joke on xen update and say it’s today

We won’t do anything like that. We’re not monsters. Personally am not a fan of April Fools stuff, either.

If they had something planned for April Fools, they’d have done it already…

Easter Holiday in April, hope we can get some news for the Summer release on that day.

The real April fool was that they fooled you into thinking there’d be a fool.

They haven’t done a fool in years, you guys are the real fools here.

Wouldn’t the Xen pic be the spoiler?
Just sayin’.

Spoil us with some spoilers before the spoils spoil!

…Spoil doesn’t sound like a word anymore.

Anyway, after rewatching Freeman’s Mind the other day, I’m particularly interested in how the soldier manufacturing plant in Xen is gonna look. I wonder if the Vorts will have fancy assembly line animations and stuff.
Maybe they’ll talk to Gordon more when you get close. I’ve always liked the sound of Vortigese.

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