XEN

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#1

Xen is going to be separate so what do the people think it will have?

I know from the wiki that Xen was going to be the second half of the campaign for hl1, but for some unknown reason it was spliced to a small section of what it was going to be. The main thing that was removed was a uprising of the vorts lead by the player, remnants of this planned feature can be found in locations on xen in one area there are 2 guards watching a group of vorts working, the vorts in this location are none hostile to the player. (this information comes from the wiki)

what do you guys think might appear in xen sense it isn’t coming with the main mod?

#2

I’d say that, if you want to encourage discussion about this, some grammar is essential.

#3

Don’t know, we will get a hint during the current release, when they show glimpses as to what zen will be like.

#4

I tried to fix my grammar, but spelling and grammar are things I suck at.

#5

If I haven’t seen it, it probably doesn’t exist, but has there been any Xen media floating around?

#6

Only some very old concept art. Xen is under a tight lid of secrecy.

#7

if you go to the Xen page on the BM:Wiki there is an interesting concept art image…

#8

https://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Xen

look at the images of what was cut that should give a hint at what all was missing from half life. there is more info if you look at some of the actual creatures.

(been reading and viewing info on half life sense I was 12)

edit: slightly off topic: seams the tentacles are plants
https://web.archive.org/web/19990222010052/https://ogr.com/specials/monsters/tentacle.shtml

edit 2: history on some xen animals
https://web.archive.org/web/19990221220053/https://ogr.com/specials/monsters/halflife_monsters.shtml

#9

raminator confirmed you get a glimpse during the resonance cascade, when you teleport out of the chamber to xen.

#10

But would it be a glimpse of the actual Xen as it end up being?
By the sounds of it, they haven’t even started on Xen - nothing else can explain ZERO leaks of xen media over all these years.

#11

Well, they have at least shown a model of what those manta ray-like creatures will look like. (I distinctly remember reading about concerns over the poop chute.)

And I’m sure the only people who have even seen Xen have been the ones who work on it. Besides, there could have been tons of media released, but in general the mod has been kept under lock and key. And after some of the reactions to the leaked video last month, you can see why.

#12

Plus the last time they showed a build of the game to some media organization, they purposely blacked out all the Xen textures so that it COULDN’T be leaked (or even really played), if I remember correctly.

#13

It was PCPowerPlay Australia and the glimpse of Xen between AM and UC was totally textured in black.

#14

Utterly wrong assumption.

#15

I really can’t wait to see what they’ve cooked up for Xen. I always loved the concept of Xen, and a more polished and fun Xen experience would be fucking awesome, and I’m sure it can actually look pretty cool this time around.

#16

Can you back this up with proof that they have made progress with Xen? Otherwise you are also making an assumption which you cannot back up.

#17

they have made progress on xen… the proof is simple every alien in the game is a part of it so they have made progress.

#18

Wow, there are so many cool Xen creatures that didn’t make it into the official game. I hope to see a bunch of them when the new Xen comes out.

#19

Well progress on Xen seems somewhat certain, since the first part is indeed coming out soon. Something that I wondered when I read that the mod is split and the Xen part extended, is what kind of length are we talking about here? Up to Lambda core they said ~9 hours of gameplay. Is Xen going to be also like this?

#20

I do recall there being one supposedly leaked screenshot of an extremely early version of Xen, but that could have been fake as far as I know.

*Xen is taking so long because the devs said they were working with Valve to have it match up with new Xen[COLOR=‘Yellow’][CITATION NEEDED].

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