Isn't it a very bad design to have a rotor or propeller on the end of the ship angled like that?
Why would the combine do that?
Isn't it a very bad design to have a rotor or propeller on the end of the ship angled like that?
Josiah Watson
Nathan Gomez
>expecting a artist to understand aeronautical engineering
Jackson King
It's just works
Angel Flores
Just trim it out bro
Jaxson Jenkins
the creature can fly on it's own, the rotor is just there for maneuverability
Julian Mitchell
it's combine magic I aint gotta explain shit
Hunter Cooper
tranny "game"
Colton Morris
The design is cool. For some reason it reminds me of old mangas, like Appleseed and those from that time.
Christian Campbell
That's what the counterweight is for you retard.
Owen Jones
it's just a tail rotor for atmospheric maneuverability, the gunship uses anti-gravity engines or some shit
Benjamin Barnes
Still better than that shotgun in fallout3
Owen Evans
I think you're confused about which direction the thrust goes.
Hudson Parker
They seem organic in nature, maybe the front half naturally flies and they added the blades on the back to even it out so it could fly better
Nolan Martin
Please step next to the red barrel :)
Colton Miller
I wish more of the weird organic-augmented shit made its way into HL2 beyond the gunships and Striders.
Wyatt Campbell
one can dream...
Robert Cooper
fuck it, this is now a half-life concept art thread
Gavin Walker
I want mommy combine to straddle me.
Jaxon Gonzalez
says the troon
Nicholas Foster
Noah Scott
I want an assassin to just fucking kill me with those thighs.
Brayden Nguyen
a lot of early city 17 concepts remind me of dark city, if anyone here has seen it.
Josiah Wilson
Evan Wood
Everything in HL2 was awfully designed, horrendous Bulgarian setting and flesh machiens/enemies.
Jace Mitchell
Tyler Sullivan
Isn't it a very retarded to complaint about the design of a literal alien gunship ?
Why are /k/fags like this ?
Lucas Adams
>horrendous Bulgarian setting and flesh machiens/enemies.
that's just what i like
Matthew Sullivan
Pretty sure there are also jets under the torso. No idea why it needed the rotor to be honest.
Jayden Moore
I'm surprised there is no porn of this or that spider thingy
Henry Bennett
>puny human brains think they know better than their Combine overlords
How long did that war last again?
Andrew Miller
don't accuse us of this shit, it's strictly a Yea Forums thing to be 'ironically' pedantic to this degree
Evan Richardson
Red barrel for ants
Nathaniel Turner
I'm pretty sure /k/fags coom to the Combine troops and most of their equipment.
>cool gas masks
>comfy boots
>no retarded shoulder pads
>glorious 4.6mm
Eli Perry
this is the dumbest gunblade i've ever seen
Chase Williams
Its a biomechanical bug with a machine gun for a face. I'm not gonna question it.
Nicholas Mitchell
Jack Gray
Luis Martin
Lincoln Perez
what would be the point of making it so retarded
Dominic Martinez
I think bmj did some great work with the half life alien designs.
Wyatt Ortiz
Jackson Scott
To this day people act like the beta was some kind of better game that we got robbed of. It's literally the same game, just at night.
Jose Collins
I like the machine gun face part, it actually makes total sense in a Combine way when you think about it.
>biological bug parts already turn and look at things it considers dangerous or a threat
>rig up a big gun to those moving parts
>don't have to worry about figuring out how to make the gun itself move or identify targets
Caleb Jackson
something something sufficiently advanced technology something magic
Juan Reed
yeah... no
Gabriel Thompson
why would the combine use a jar of rat bodies as a computer? cause it's a stupid game
Leo Kelly
Isaac Jackson
Lincoln Kelly
fighting through a gigantic black site laboratory complex during a catastrophic happening against ayys, environment and military including tanks and helicopters >>>>> fighting against some human looking ayys and some whale gunship in bulgaria
Adam Miller
its fine
the rotor is at the center of mass
Cameron Allen
>car only has wheels on one side
>lmao don't be so pedantic
Benjamin Smith
Does remind me of Dark City but HL2 would be completely forgettable if it looked like this, so many PC games from that era look like this
The day time eastern europe look is what makes HL2 interesting
Liam Bell
yeah
Michael Ward
Most of the gunship body is a hollow sack filled with lighter than air gases, the heavy rotor engine would be the center of mass of this vehicle
Isaiah Gray
dark city is my favorite movie
John Reed
>cringe 4.6 instead of based 5.7
Eli Cook
That's weird. The creature doesn't yaw around the rotor but around approximately its center.
Adam Lopez
>ACK
>Not ACK*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*PSHH Yellow 2 unit deserviced, remaining units contain
Lincoln Sullivan
about lore, so basically the combine is looking for the borealis?
are the rebels looking for it too? if yes, why? wouldnt the combine just kill everyone once the teleportation/portal method is something well known?
Hudson Russell
The Combine seems to only be interested in Borealis because the rebels are in the first place.
There are some suggestions that the portal technology behind borealis may be more advanced than what Combine currently has, as they still have to bounce shit off Xen, but I don't think that really matters to them all that much.
The issue is that the Rebels may try to use Borealis against the Combine, and while they are hardly being threatened on an existential level, obviously they would rather curb any potential troubles or annoyances as quickly as they can.
Jordan Rivera
Didn't Laidlaw's posts indicate that humans will lose against the Combine?
Blake Jones
It's common fucking sense
Christopher Hernandez
>Didn't Laidlaw's posts indicate that humans will lose against the Combine?
Lidlaw's post implied that humanity can't defeat combine, which is slightly different matter. Not to mention, the story was only invented in a way that can be interpreted as a cliffhanger of sorts, leaving them some wiggle room for potential sequels.
The story was supposed to go that Gordon and Alyx reach the Borealis, and teleport themselves to the homeworld of the Combine - where they discover that the Combine operates out of a fucking Dyson Sphere, and are just far too great of an enemy to simply "defeat" by some heroic act.
However, the implication was also that it was possible to find a way sever Combine's portal network on earth (something they have been working on since the OG HL2 game) giving humanity a chance to survive, or at least buy us some time.
The fact that there still was G-Man and his whole "interested party" which was never explained by Lidlaw, and the fact that the supposed end of HL3 was to only show the sheer scale of Combine, and end at that point, indicated that the story didn't have to be completely concluded there.