Xen

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#201

I was responding to the question about where the fast and poison headcrabs came from.

shudder poison head crabs…

#202

Then I guess you’re right, but I think it said somewhere in the Marc Laidlaw vault that poison headcrabs ate something that made them that way.

#203

It did. But I refuse to accept that explanation because it’s retarded. I think the Combine modified them.

#204

Or it could have been evolution at work.

#205

The caffeine from the Coca-Cola plant really sped things up.

#206

Fuckin’ poison gonarch oh lord.

#207

Fast gonarch? :fffuuu:

#208

They ate something that the Combine gave them :wink:

#209

Like I said, I refuse to accept that explanation.
EDIT: Oh wait, nevermind. I saw the “They ate something” and didn’t bother to read the rest.

#210

And I liked this better when it was The Xen. :frowning:

#211

Me too, I found it amusing. Perhaps we can have it changed to “teh Xen”?

#212

Just played through HL1 again, god I hate those baby headcrabs! Just two of the feckers can get your health down in seconds. I really hope they won’t do as much damage in BMS, they should only be a minor nuisance instead of a pain in the ass.

#213

Judging by their appearance in BM, I guess they will be a lot easier to kill and therefore not as annoying as in HL. At least I hope so :fffuuu:

#214

I’m just wondering if Xen will have those floating islands or whatever they were, or if they will be joined to a fixed surface.

#215

It’d still have some floating islands, but I’d also prefer for the big island to be even more big. And less jumping :meh:

I really hate the part where you had to jump in the tubes and then get blown out and then you had to maneuver yourself to land on the moving islands. I don’t really hate the jumping puzzles per se, I just hate the jumping mechanic, if this could be a bit more intuitive that would be swell :slight_smile:

#216

I can`t imagine Xen in Source :smiley: I think it would be the most attractive chapter of Black Mesa

#217

As I said in another topic, Blue Shift did Xen pretty well. It focused more on exploration and less to jumping platforms.

#218

True, and I also like the fact that you get to see more of the science team’s efforts to collect specimens and such.

#219

That little excavation site with the encampment was one of my favorite places.

#220

pretty much indeed

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