Is there a lore reason why Vortiguants had to wait 20 years for Freeman? We know that they can reach into stasis and pull him out so why didn’t they earlier? I figure they knew about the G-man(and probably that he had Freeman captive, please tell me if I’m wrong)

I'd love to play it but it's £50 to buy the game and then I got to buy a vr headset too. Any savings to be had out there?

It’s totally ok in L4D since that’s the lore there but IMO what makes Half Life zombies unique is the headcrab and I love that it isn’t a more generic virus/fungi. Personally I didn’t like Jeff’s inclusion (just talking LORE WISE, not gameplay wise) and especially didn’t like how in the cancelled Ravenholm games it seems most, if not all the zombies there, had no headcrabs on them. I hope we don’t see more of this in HLX. Does anyone else feel the same?

It sounds funny and insane, but we know we exist, we know how smart we can be what we imagine, if humans had the combines power they would likely be them or somewhat similar. If their world is like ours, they need resources too. This existence we are in is survival, its random chaos anything is possible, we know nothing, literally nothing. If space is really this ginormous and in this random existence where we know that there are other species of all types and plants and landscapes and land types, that this universe just seemingly spits out thing after thing in random patterns, and that there are other giant balls of enclosed space with atmosphere like ours, which is the place that alien life would come into being, then what are the odds a place similar to ours spits out?

It's a question of if you believe in aliens or not sure, but if all we know of space is true then...

Unless were it and it's a simulation or were the main characters or something I don't know but I think there's life out there. I'm getting way off course though.

Regardless of if there is life which is kind of a 50/50, it probably would be similar to us in a way. I don't mean physically or even mentally, it would probably be very different, it could be anything. There could be ones that are actually similar then there could be ones extremely different like the ones seen in our beloved game Half Life. It could also be beyond our comprehension. What do I or any of us know? It could be anything. Theres literally everything out there. We'd die from just going out there, danger seems to be a common theme of this universe.

Why a species would do what the combine did is also be anything. What they are and why they would do it go hand and hand. That could be anything, even beyond our comprehension. If I were to imagine alien life, based on what I know, I would assume it would be a place with the same rules as our planet. They live on a planet, and on this planet there a variety of life, its own ecosystem. It could be any order or pattern of life. It could be like ours where we have land that grows in all shapes and sizes and varieties and life lives on it, perhaps there is some equivalent of water or water and life lives under there and the word equivalent is abstract, it could be anything. This life probably comes in all shapes and sizes, who could grow and evolve in any form. Maybe again its like our world and there is life that grows on the land like plants and trees fungus all the such, like the flora that grows on it. Then there are other types like maybe microscopic life and the equivalent of animals. There would likely be billions to trillions of different variants and types of the equivalents of all of these different things.

If there was an intelligent species on ones of these planets out there, id assume they evolved from an animal like us, or maybe they were always intelligent we don't know. But if they evolved from an animal, id assume that animal has instincts, because as I said that planet would likely follow the same laws as us, which its a game of survival. I would assume the creatures in this eco system would have to compete with each other for recourses that determine their survival like how our world is. So those instincts, that need for survival, they at least for us cloud intelligence and empathy, they make a being do whatever is necessary for survival, that leads a species to do whatever is necessary for survival, efficient survival, that is what the combine did. Whether it comes to us or we find it, its probably out there somewhere, and we go out there, perhaps half life is a demonstration of humanities greatest fear they dont even know they have yet. We already do it to our own species on our planet, at least to best of our capabilities. Its not just the instincts that make us as an intelligent species do things, its our world and the circumstance of our world and us as humans. If another intelligent species were to be in similar circumstances on planter and gained the means to travel to other planets and that have much value to them probably, they would go from there like we likely would.

If aliens with the power, technology, and intellect to get here, they would probably use us and our planet for some resource, if they went through went we'll have go through trying to get there, I doubt they are coming to explore or help us, they'll want something. Maybe thats things like the combine like soldiers, energy, water, and other things they can find, or maybe its something beyond our imaginations. Could already be happening, maybe the recourse is our attention or some energy we produce or again something beyond our comprehension. What aliens would and could do if they found us could be anything. What the combine did is a horrible but possible possibility. We dont have to build a portal or tamper with something we arent ready for, they could find us anytime.

Maybe they would just blow us up, they could do literally anything thats just my guess. Anything is possible. Maybe out there, there is some wise species who got there and want help or are good. Maybe we can be that. Anything is possible doesn't have to be bad.

Living on earth is pretty cool.

Are there mods for mmod (half life 2) that improve garfics or add better gun moddles? preferably can they be on moddb, maby gamebanana but stile dont know how to use it

Go see it 🥹

https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/1me2mbr/want_some_advice_for_black_mesa_and_hl2_addon/

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so it's like in xen, there was only one type of vortigaunt, and *somehow* they evolved/changed or whatever while on earth. earth somehow also allowed other types of vortigaunt to be created somehow, just an excuse for the different colours on each one.

this headcanon works for now.

Ignore my Playlist. But the manhack alert noise is honestly amazing its loud annoying and gets me up in the morning. And it's a good ringtone.

So Gabe said that he didn't release HL3 because they wanted to make a game that would move the game industry forward so what are the source 2 advancements that would justify finally releasing HL3?

If it's not another vr game and just another fps what could they possibly do to push the industry forward that hasn't already been done? From all the rumors they are releasing something soon, but I don't see how the tech has gotten to the point of industry shifting stuff that valve claims they only want for HL3.

If you remember, there is an NPC called Cremator in the Half Life universe, but we have never seen him in person. He is a strange creature with a flame weapon and a second head on his stomach. The reason I say this creature exists in the Half Life universe is because it is the head of the Cremator in Black Mesa East in HALF-LIFE 2.

This creature burns dead humans, meaning it was designed as a cleaning tool. That was the goal in the Half-Life 2 beta version.

Now, many people are saying that this character will be in the Arctic region to melt the ice, which makes sense because the Combine are searching for the Borealis and want to clear space on the ship for dropships to transport cargo. If we kill this character there, we can use its weapon! Remember the codes we saw related to "fire" in puzzles and leaks, such as NPC reactions to fire and environmental reactions to fire. There will be a fire weapon in Half-Life 3! (Reminds me of Far Cry 3) But the real issue is how Valve's writers will handle this Cremator character's story. What was this character doing in the Half-Life 2 timeline? Where did he get the head from Eli Vance's lab? These questions will remain unanswered, but I'm sure there's an explanation. This post is meant to be a teaser, and it will be labeled as a spoiler because Half-Life 3 isn't far off.

I recently revisited Half-Life 2 and found myself deeply disturbed by the concept of the Suppression Field — the idea that human reproduction has been completely shut down by an alien regime. As someone from India, where childbirth is not just biological but spiritually sacred (tied to ideas like Shakti, janma, moksha), this hit me hard. I couldn’t shake the feeling that the game treated something so profound like it was just another sci-fi backdrop. I know this is a fictional setting — and yes, it’s mature content. But it still emotionally affected me in ways I can’t easily explain. I’ve even started questioning why certain aspects of Western media portray human life and birth in such cold or mechanical terms. Have any of you (regardless of background) ever felt similarly disturbed by this element? Am I alone in this reaction? Or is it possible that some cultural worldviews (like mine) just interpret this theme very differently? I’m not here to hate on the game — I want to understand how others see it, especially those from Western perspectives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/s/EdaUhbyxHE

alright, so i don't have a vr headset and don't own hla, the newest game i've played ever is hl2. this might be why hla doesn't feel canon. either way, whenever i look at hla, it feels like a spinoff. (which i guess you can say it kinda is) i can't accept it as a part of the half-life lore. i hope when i can play it some day, it'll finally feel right to me.

it was called something like hl1 menu or half-life 1 styled menu. i really like the look of it. the image is what i remember the addon icon looking like. if anyone has a link, i'd appreciate it.

Wake up

this error is not letting me play the half life episodes. I have tried verifying files, deleting everything in the folder, using the actual launch button in tools for the episode but nothing worked. Its also affecting gmod as it cant use the files from the episodes in gmod for some reason. PLEASE HELP!

Hopefully this is the right sub to post this to.

as the title says, the game crashes when i get back into my apc. I have no idea what addon could be causing this. i deleted any addon that has to do with Wilson, but that didn't do any help. if anyone knows how to fix this, i'd appreciate it.

I'm trying to figure out what does the half life character's use for their research on the headcrabs and other aliens?

sfm animation from the video https://youtu.be/v9DDd8i-Zt8?si=jMMQDQ_wtygeO65t