i always liked the theory that the reviver/lightning dog is some form of hyperparasite to headcrabs, as in a parasite who preys on a parasite. with it entering through the chest cavity headcrab zombies always have it means it theoretically could enter a zombie that still has a headcrab on it, and with its electrical stuff flowing through the zombies whole body it can either kill the headcrab and keep the host, or usurp control of the bodies nervous system from the headcrab and be the one in control instead of it. it also doesn't seem like it can really make zombies itself, it always uses discarded zombie corpses to make zombies and it doesn't seem to have the normal headcrab mouth structure to latch on to people, its mouth is a lot smaller. so yeah, could prey on headcrabs by stealing hosts from them.
considering that there is at least one person at valve with a huge love for nature/wildlife study that was very likely what they intended. can't remember who it was but one valve employee is a wildlife researcher. and goes on trips to different places. its part of where the sound sources used for some of HL:A's creatures comes from.
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896the same question can be asked of normal headcrabs.headcrabs are never shown to infest non-humans implying they are hyper specialized.
@@EvilRaccoonDM the combine soldiers we see throughout the game are humans just twisted into the transhuman cyborgs. depsite being cyborgs the underlying underlying system is mostly the same just changed and modified.
There was no poison headcrab zombies in this game. In my opinion they were the most disturbing type in Half-life 2. I can understand the fast zombies missing, they would cause players to trip out of fright and break their necks .
I belive the reason they dont have poison zombies is that they are way too fast. All the other enemies are slowed down in VR so its possible for you to actually kill them and not die instantly. Like if you see a headcrab in HL2 you just move your arm a little but in VR you have to move your whole body. This is comfirmed (kinda) in The Final Hours Of: Half Life Alyx.
@@standardzombie3454 seeing as route kanal was a home to a lot of *people* most of the bullsquids would have been killed, at that in most half life games you get a shotgun before you fight them. putting a bullsquid in a hallway is like putting a combine sniper in a wasteland
I just realized something that could have made Jeff even better. Most VR headsets have built-in microphones. Jeff could have reacted to any real-life sounds the player makes like coughing or talking.
@@wqqclicc674 i can just imagine some fucking wacky playing on the mic while in third person and her mouth goes full gmod with the vacuum cleaner they should have recognized that and made npcs ingame react ingame to sounds like that
I think heavy caliber, and armour piercing rounds would be able to get lodged in though since Alyxs weapons aren’t really that powerful and just use basic rounds
I like how headcrabs stumble when they land, really shows how much technology is advancing in gaming. If HL3 ever comes out, I'd like to see headcrabs be able to zombify victims in real time.
Isn't that pretty much what the electric dog does? Except his is even more impressive since he does it to corpses. I'd be surprised if we *didn't* see something like that in a future game
I kinda hope headcrab zombification is slower than, say, flood infection form creation but getting to see them in various stages would be cool. A new zombie that was still fighting to get the headcrab off but it was already latched on too strongly to take off and didn't have the open chest cavity yet, one that was in the process of making the cavity, maybe seeing where they actually put the food when they eat.
Imagine the pain of zombies in half life because the host of headcrab is still alive and if you play his screaming backwards you will hear "God help, help me"
thats only in half life 2, in that game the voice lines were reversed but they don't have that in this game so you can clearly hear their slurred speech (that being said, they dont actually say anything)
I kind of wish they had a poison zombie boss. You would fight maybe 5 in total through the game. He would make a loud warning cry before he throws a toxic head-crab. In order to kill him you got to shoot a big bloater boil on his back, only reveled when he runs out of head-crabs. His loud wales would lure near by enemies to your position, similar to what a suppressor does. What do you guys think of my concept?
As a boss, yeah, it could work. I'd put the number down to 1-3 though, give it a good, long introduction, like the monster intros in Dead Space. Hint at it and spook the player before they finally have to face it. Then the following ones could be thrown into areas the player should avoid rather than have to fight through. I'm mainly saying this because they'd waste a lot of the player's ammo to kill, and since they're so slow, they'd be fairly annoying rather than scary. Kinda like the HL2 one, but worse since yours attracts other enemies. Sporadically and thoughtfully, though, definitely a good idea and an improvement over the HL2 one.
>Is Alyx >Doesn't wear an Hev Suit >Gets bitten by a Poison Headcrab >Gets her hp slowly back what If you still didn't understand what I meant: in hl2, you get ur hp back when you get bitten by a Poison Headcrab because Hev suit injects antidote into ur body so basically Poison Headcrab's Poison becomes useless)
The HEV suit would rather inject an antidote into your system when bitten by poison headcrabs, as morphine is just an opioid painkiller, meaning it can only reduce the sensation of pain (analgesia) and cause euphoria, not render the toxin inert.
Half-life 1 zombies: oh these are kinda spooky... Half-life 2 zombies: Eh, after the first one it's whatever... Half-life :Alyx zombies: *Sounds of me frantically reloading, dropping the mag twice and panicking as I forget to load the first round, then wasting all the bullets on the body cause I'm too stressed out to actually aim at this point, so I just scream trying to load mag number 2 while the zombie is still a whole block away from me*
Alternatively, "Ebat', bolno!", which in Russian means "Fuck, it hurts!" Totally unintended, since the quote is just "God, help me!" in reverse, but given where City 17 is, it still makes sense.
One thing I hate about the revivers (lightning dogs) is that when they’re on low health they can’t attack and slowly limp away while making dog whimpering noises.
"If you happen to kill a zombie in the vicinity of a Lightning Dog Headcrab, it'll borrow itself deeply into the zombie's chest" Oh great, now we have the Headcrabs AND The Flood.
I think the pheropods would be cool too, Half-Life Alyx tracks hand movement, so what about the thing you hold, squeeze and throw to make enemies follow you? Missed opportunity
Wouldn't have worked for the same reasons the antlions had to be slowed down as much as they were. Antlion guards are all about moving around and not standing still, which in VR for a lot of people is far too disorienting. Until we get some sort of BCI assisted movement system to replace joystick locomotion or teleportation, I don't see it happening.
Awesome analysis but I don't think 7:33 ones are antlion workers. They're new type of antlions. I don't think orange antlions are the same as HL2's normal ones either. HLA antlions are just different kind. I'm sure normal HL2 antlions and Episode 2 workers exist in the game world.
It could be the same as with Earth's ants: There are multiple species of ant, and there are multiple species of antlion. Some more or less different, but they're still antlions. The Half-Life 2 antlions are not seen inside City 17 (except for Episode 1 when the Defense Field has been shut down) and thus, adapted to a fast lifestyle on the coast and forest since there isn't much prey around there. Since City 17 was new to them in Episode 1, they retain their behaviour. The Half-Life: Alyx antlions however adapted to a lifestyle where there is much prey, many headcrabs, combine etc. and therefore learned they don't need to be as quick as their coastal and forest counterpart. In my opinion, the toxic blue antlion may indeed be a worker; it's just that it is completely different from the classic worker since it's a different specie of antlion.
@@thesilent185 hey just to let you know the prey you mean is spelt as prey, the prey you are saying is pray where you pray to... i dont know the baby jesus or allah
Have you considered showing off a video of the bullet hole system in Source 2? Namely, how bullet holes in walls actually dig into surfaces thanks to parallax, and how bullet holes kinda "paint" onto certain types of ragdolls and NPC's additively?
yes i was thinking of this as i noticed when you shoot combine soldiers it kinda shoots off their clothing too, same with headcrabs and zombies with their skin
Is it stated that lightning dogs are headcrabs? I’m not doubting your analysis, it’s just that they have such a different design, it’d be believable if they were a separate species
I like to possition myself with a barnacle between me and a headcrab. Its hilarious watching them get eaten. But poison headcrabs kill barnacles when eaten, which kinda sucks
im kinda glad that the headcrabs in half life alyx give you a warning when they are about to jump because i get so fucking terrified in hl2 when they jump at me with no warning whatsoever
I looked up on the wiki, and apparently those are not antlion workers, they're a new type of antlion called antlion spitters. It sources the Half Life: Alyx's commentary for this detail.
I'm not convinced that the lightning dog/reviver is technically a headcrab. It's so distinct from all other headcrabs that we know of that it makes it a completely different species in my eyes.
I guess they're not technically headcrabs since they don't jump onto your head, but its still a parasitic organism that reanimates the body. So maybe the original term headcrab is to specific, but I definitely think theyre in the same genus.
I think they're probably more distantly related. To compare it with something on Earth, standard headcrabs, poison headcrabs and fast headcrabs would be like apes whereas the lightning dog would be like monkeys. They're similar, but definitely separate things.
I agree. It really doesn't look like a headcrab in anyway besides the 4 legs and zombie thing. It has a tail with a eyeball on the end and lightning powers, even then any zombies it makes are just from the corpses from headcrabs and not itself.
The way you have to kill the Antlions in Alyx are awfully similar to how killed Akrid monsters in the Lost Planet games. Even down to the glowing limbs and goo they leave after being killed. Anyone else notice this connection?
My theory for the ant lions is the environment around them in half life alyx, since headcrabs have been on earth, some of them tend to adapt to the environment just like fast headcrabs creating a while new variant of zombie, but my theory is, since you are enter the quarantine zone you technically play enough to where you see antlion infested caves, especially at the zoo, you can see they have formed massive amounts of hill made from whatever xen material that is, I assume just like the fast headcrabs, they also adapted to the quarantine zone since they aren't by sand and open areas of sand, they somehow evolved to the xen material making them bullet proof, and I assume the antlions counterpart that shoots projectiles also had that change to it as well.
The ant lions are armored or at least thicker and they’re harvested by the combine hence why they’re so plump and glowing. Regardless valve encourages you to shoot their legs to get their bulb instead of hitting their newly armored body in this iteration.
Fun Fact : HLA has unused and mostly referenced systems related to running / Fast Zombies. This sadly can not be fully restored due to it only being referenced in code. A HL3 leftover, it was ment to introduce traditional Fast Zombies or zombies that can sprint. It was cut due to issues relating to VR response time, as they didn't want zombies to overwhelm the player too heavily or fast so only the slow types are used.
In Half Life 1 zombies had chest mouths, and evolved into gonomes. In Half Life 2 there are more variety of headcrabs and zombies but no evolution. What happened here? Answer 1: the true answer. Valve just goes with whatever they come up without thinking too much about plot holes, generating lots of them in the process. This means that both the gonome and all iterations of zombies in half life 2, are made up for gameplay reasons without any logical background story. Answer 2: the fan theory. According to fans, to in their minds fix the plotholes, they explain it as the combine modified the headcrabs weaponizing them after the 7hour war and the following 20 years, developing new species of headcrabs but taking away their ability to mutate and thus to feed through zombie chest mouths (let alone create one, so now they only have a gap in the chest) or become a gonome (and in some theories even end up evolving into a gonarch) ...and even killing the host, which means...that modified headcrabs by combine keep the host alive because of the screams or instead they just mimic what the human brain was last saying but the host is ded. According to the beta lore, they also weaponized gonarchs as static headcrab spawn stations. At the same time these big momma pods spawned fast headcrabs, while in half life 1 the baby headcrabs were also fast. This could mean that both headcrabs and fast headcrabs are the original ones (or that fast headcrabs are just young headcrabs). The rest are made up by the combine. Or maybe the big mommas are also modified to spawn specific types of headcrabs. The thing is by removing their ability to mutate they can detach from the victim, and also be more controllable as a plague since they cant reproduce (if you believe their final form is a gonarch) or evolve into very dangerous gonomes, a perfected weapon to attack helpless citizens and then send a cleanup team.
Fun Fact: in the HL2 mod called Entropy Zero 2 (which is my fav mod ever btw) we find these grenades called Xen Grenades. They open a small portal which sucks in everything near it, objects enemies and whatnot. After it sucked eveything around it another small portal is gonna open, spawning either Antilions or a Bullsquid Dont take 'After it sucked everything' out of context for the love of our Benefactors
Not gonna lie it’s kinda f___ed up that the lightning dog limps away when you deal enough damage to it. I really sends the messages that it really doesn’t want anything to do with you and just wants to be left alone
@Clanker For newcomers? Yes. But I’m saying this from the perspective of someone who’s looking back on what could’ve made the games more dynamic that’s all.
You said there's no point shooting headcrab zombies in the headcrab in Alyx because the headcrab lives regardless - that's not true. I know that sometimes the headcrab survives, but if you NEVER shoot the headcrab, it will always survive. So you still should be shooting the headcrab, because if you do there's like a 90% chance it will die when it falls off. It could also be the case that if you kill the zombie before doing enough damage to the headcrab, that's why the headcrab lives, so if you've done a bunch of body damage and then only shoot the headcrab once or twice, it will fall off and live when the body dies.
What u would do when I get bitten by one of the head crabs I’d pick it up and point my finger at it and move my finger up and down and say “ Naughty naughty “
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Forgot to mention wearing hats will serve as a temporary shield from barnacles. They grab the hat always before Alyx
Also that you can use a gas mask in order to prevent coughing from the jeff gas
@@maxallen121 I knew preparing by wearing all that gear would save me some effort
my name jeff
I heard wearing the helmet also protects you from headcrabs? That might be untrue but i hope it is.
@@deadstar8809 definitely the spiked hat one npc wears
The lightning dog can latch on to your face actually. It's terrifying
@@Imagopher hah, bit of an oversight
it takes out half of your health too
and bites repeatly
Yea didn't know they could and it scared the shit outta me when it did
i always liked the theory that the reviver/lightning dog is some form of hyperparasite to headcrabs, as in a parasite who preys on a parasite. with it entering through the chest cavity headcrab zombies always have it means it theoretically could enter a zombie that still has a headcrab on it, and with its electrical stuff flowing through the zombies whole body it can either kill the headcrab and keep the host, or usurp control of the bodies nervous system from the headcrab and be the one in control instead of it.
it also doesn't seem like it can really make zombies itself, it always uses discarded zombie corpses to make zombies and it doesn't seem to have the normal headcrab mouth structure to latch on to people, its mouth is a lot smaller. so yeah, could prey on headcrabs by stealing hosts from them.
considering that there is at least one person at valve with a huge love for nature/wildlife study that was very likely what they intended.
can't remember who it was but one valve employee is a wildlife researcher. and goes on trips to different places. its part of where the sound sources used for some of HL:A's creatures comes from.
how would it evolve? there would need to be millennia of human bodies being controlled by head crabs. Doesn't seem possible
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896the same question can be asked of normal headcrabs.headcrabs are never shown to infest non-humans implying they are hyper specialized.
@@Underqualified_Gunman could be they were attacking combine which are very humanoid
@@EvilRaccoonDM the combine soldiers we see throughout the game are humans just twisted into the transhuman cyborgs. depsite being cyborgs the underlying underlying system is mostly the same just changed and modified.
There was no poison headcrab zombies in this game. In my opinion they were the most disturbing type in Half-life 2. I can understand the fast zombies missing, they would cause players to trip out of fright and break their necks .
I don't agree. I think fast zombies would have been great in small numbers and if they had low HP.
The poisons zombies are super tanky
The fast zombies are too terrifying
It would have been cool if you had to shoot off each of the headcrabs sorta like the antlions limbs
I belive the reason they dont have poison zombies is that they are way too fast. All the other enemies are slowed down in VR so its possible for you to actually kill them and not die instantly. Like if you see a headcrab in HL2 you just move your arm a little but in VR you have to move your whole body.
This is comfirmed (kinda) in The Final Hours Of: Half Life Alyx.
I really wished that Bullsquids were added to the game.
i agree, but how would they have been implemented? most levels past half-life 1 have been overtaken by the combine.
@@gaming-98 the chapter where you ride the jet ski thing could work
@@gaming-98 They can appear in drained canals or hiding in tunnels eating Headcrabs.
@@NeedyBoBeedy then they'd just be roadkill. houndeyes were cut for that same reason
@@standardzombie3454 seeing as route kanal was a home to a lot of *people* most of the bullsquids would have been killed, at that in most half life games you get a shotgun before you fight them. putting a bullsquid in a hallway is like putting a combine sniper in a wasteland
Hmm yes, the Xen aliens here are made out of Xen materials
correct, but still the generations born in xen are made of xenian matter
Hmmm yes the floor here is made of floor
@@Imagopher makes you wonder what are the headcrabs preying on exactly at their native habitat
@@русланбуйло-ъ8т gimme a break with that lore ... its just half life
"As we know coughing makes him very upset"
Yeah I don't blame him for not wanting to be coughed on
corona
@@Gomme_EXE firus
@@Gomme_EXE shut up
@@DHGxMcFlurry no u
@@Gomme_EXE cheers I’ll drink to that. 🍺
I just realized something that could have made Jeff even better.
Most VR headsets have built-in microphones. Jeff could have reacted to any real-life sounds the player makes like coughing or talking.
What if there's background noise, like a vacuum cleaner?
@@bob-omb1217 R.I.P
@@bob-omb1217 imagine Jeff's reaction when Alyx says some latin language with vacuum cleaner and screaming noises
@@wqqclicc674 i can just imagine some fucking wacky playing on the mic while in third person and her mouth goes full gmod with the vacuum cleaner
they should have recognized that and made npcs ingame react ingame to sounds like that
@@CombineWatermelon "yo wtf"
An armored zombie would be super deadly irl because the bullets don’t get lodged in the headcrab
They RICOCHET
I think heavy caliber, and armour piercing rounds would be able to get lodged in though since Alyxs weapons aren’t really that powerful and just use basic rounds
@@rez9914 i suppose, but they wouldnt do major damage, just deform from the impact
@@rez9914 imagine shooting a tank shell at one and it bounces off
@@deadlybunz "we didnt penetrate their armour"
I like how headcrabs stumble when they land, really shows how much technology is advancing in gaming. If HL3 ever comes out, I'd like to see headcrabs be able to zombify victims in real time.
Isn't that pretty much what the electric dog does? Except his is even more impressive since he does it to corpses. I'd be surprised if we *didn't* see something like that in a future game
We saw it happening tho, in hl1 a headcrab got a scientist and we couldnt do anything since they were behind an indestructible window
,@@Cynna_M I think he meant gameplay-wise the part where the scientist got attacked by the head crab was a scripted sequence
Half life alyx was only the start
I kinda hope headcrab zombification is slower than, say, flood infection form creation but getting to see them in various stages would be cool.
A new zombie that was still fighting to get the headcrab off but it was already latched on too strongly to take off and didn't have the open chest cavity yet, one that was in the process of making the cavity, maybe seeing where they actually put the food when they eat.
the most terrifying part of jeff is that his face is still on his body, and the mouth grew into his head
Correction. His head grew into a mouth.
Imagine the pain of zombies in half life because the host of headcrab is still alive and if you play his screaming backwards you will hear "God help, help me"
thats only when they get burned or most or the time they get burned and play that line
@@Kris1938moo Yeah i know.
@@youraveragewarcriminal at least u know and the zombie message i no about 2
thats only in half life 2, in that game the voice lines were reversed but they don't have that in this game so you can clearly hear their slurred speech (that being said, they dont actually say anything)
Lightning dogs are honestly kinda cute
I kind of wish they had a poison zombie boss. You would fight maybe 5 in total through the game. He would make a loud warning cry before he throws a toxic head-crab. In order to kill him you got to shoot a big bloater boil on his back, only reveled when he runs out of head-crabs. His loud wales would lure near by enemies to your position, similar to what a suppressor does. What do you guys think of my concept?
@human grunt Criticism?
Really great tho ngl, and its actually more scarier in dark moist areas
@human grunt auto correct is amazing aint it lol
As a boss, yeah, it could work. I'd put the number down to 1-3 though, give it a good, long introduction, like the monster intros in Dead Space. Hint at it and spook the player before they finally have to face it. Then the following ones could be thrown into areas the player should avoid rather than have to fight through.
I'm mainly saying this because they'd waste a lot of the player's ammo to kill, and since they're so slow, they'd be fairly annoying rather than scary. Kinda like the HL2 one, but worse since yours attracts other enemies. Sporadically and thoughtfully, though, definitely a good idea and an improvement over the HL2 one.
I really like it, although, might be horrifying!
>Is Alyx
>Doesn't wear an Hev Suit
>Gets bitten by a Poison Headcrab
>Gets her hp slowly back
what
If you still didn't understand what I meant: in hl2, you get ur hp back when you get bitten by a Poison Headcrab because Hev suit injects antidote into ur body so basically Poison Headcrab's Poison becomes useless)
It's for gameplay balance.
Alyx has a poison immune system
The HEV suit would rather inject an antidote into your system when bitten by poison headcrabs, as morphine is just an opioid painkiller, meaning it can only reduce the sensation of pain (analgesia) and cause euphoria, not render the toxin inert.
@@SpartanHawk Morphine would help tho, as a little pick-me-up, you know :)
@@notforsaletoday1895 Indeed.
Half-life 1 zombies: oh these are kinda spooky...
Half-life 2 zombies: Eh, after the first one it's whatever...
Half-life :Alyx zombies: *Sounds of me frantically reloading, dropping the mag twice and panicking as I forget to load the first round, then wasting all the bullets on the body cause I'm too stressed out to actually aim at this point, so I just scream trying to load mag number 2 while the zombie is still a whole block away from me*
Bro do you not remember the fast zombies in Hl2? That one elevator escape sequence from HL2 Ep1 gave me a heart attack
@@starstorm5338 yea i hate fast headcrabs
@@starstorm5338 yeah but the normal, 'classic headcrab' zombies are really dumb and slow lol
@@starstorm5338 its all fun and games till you find out what a
poison headcrab is
"YABBA MY ICING!!"
Alternatively, "Ebat', bolno!", which in Russian means "Fuck, it hurts!"
Totally unintended, since the quote is just "God, help me!" in reverse, but given where City 17 is, it still makes sense.
One thing I hate about the revivers (lightning dogs) is that when they’re on low health they can’t attack and slowly limp away while making dog whimpering noises.
the first time i was about to kill one of those electric head crabs i felt bad because it was limping and and whimpering :(
G R A B
"If you happen to kill a zombie in the vicinity of a Lightning Dog Headcrab, it'll borrow itself deeply into the zombie's chest"
Oh great, now we have the Headcrabs AND The Flood.
They are slightly less bad than the flood since the flood doesn't rewrite your DNA and sometimes keep you alive while transforming
I wonder what a Myrmidont (Antlion Guard) would have looked like in HLA. That would be a cool boss or mini-boss.
nonono, the last thing i'd want to see in vr is a fucking antlion guard!!
I think the pheropods would be cool too, Half-Life Alyx tracks hand movement, so what about the thing you hold, squeeze and throw to make enemies follow you? Missed opportunity
Wouldn't have worked for the same reasons the antlions had to be slowed down as much as they were. Antlion guards are all about moving around and not standing still, which in VR for a lot of people is far too disorienting. Until we get some sort of BCI assisted movement system to replace joystick locomotion or teleportation, I don't see it happening.
0:44 YOU ARE MONSTER!!!
Awesome analysis but I don't think 7:33 ones are antlion workers. They're new type of antlions. I don't think orange antlions are the same as HL2's normal ones either. HLA antlions are just different kind. I'm sure normal HL2 antlions and Episode 2 workers exist in the game world.
It could be the same as with Earth's ants: There are multiple species of ant, and there are multiple species of antlion. Some more or less different, but they're still antlions. The Half-Life 2 antlions are not seen inside City 17 (except for Episode 1 when the Defense Field has been shut down) and thus, adapted to a fast lifestyle on the coast and forest since there isn't much prey around there. Since City 17 was new to them in Episode 1, they retain their behaviour. The Half-Life: Alyx antlions however adapted to a lifestyle where there is much prey, many headcrabs, combine etc. and therefore learned they don't need to be as quick as their coastal and forest counterpart. In my opinion, the toxic blue antlion may indeed be a worker; it's just that it is completely different from the classic worker since it's a different specie of antlion.
@@thesilent185 hey just to let you know the prey you mean is spelt as prey, the prey you are saying is pray where you pray to... i dont know the baby jesus or allah
@@mrblunderbuss4843 oh... thanks
@@mrblunderbuss4843 fixed it
What reason do you have to think that other than the design?
Another great detail is zombies flop and flail because headcrabs find it really hard to move another body.
....Jeff is probably the next or even mutated form of the gonome
jeff is an infestation control worker infected by xen fungi
but the gonome is just a zombie thats been around long enough and jeff doesnt even have a headcrab
@Bentley Neil *whoosh go brrrrrrr*
WHY ARE HEADCRABS IN HL ALYX SO CUTE
@Clanker NO
Still no moss growing on walls smh c’mon Gabe
He wanted the moss since half life 1😔
The Jeff segment was one of the BEST experiences I've had in VR yet. Excellent game all around but that part was just perfect
Have you considered showing off a video of the bullet hole system in Source 2? Namely, how bullet holes in walls actually dig into surfaces thanks to parallax, and how bullet holes kinda "paint" onto certain types of ragdolls and NPC's additively?
yes i was thinking of this as i noticed when you shoot combine soldiers it kinda shoots off their clothing too, same with headcrabs and zombies with their skin
Is it stated that lightning dogs are headcrabs? I’m not doubting your analysis, it’s just that they have such a different design, it’d be believable if they were a separate species
I like to possition myself with a barnacle between me and a headcrab. Its hilarious watching them get eaten.
But poison headcrabs kill barnacles when eaten, which kinda sucks
Only in hl2, in alyx barnicles don't die from poison headcrab
One interesting note about the Toxic headcrabs is that they are invisible to the reflex sights' glowing highlight feature.
Waddup ya' Half-Life pimps??!!
2:19 i feel bad for it
NO
The ant lions remind me of the bugs from Starship Troopers.
i cant believe they didnt add the poison headcrab's iconic whoosh sound
unfuckingbelievable
Another cool detail. If the barnacle can't eat something, it won't pick up the same item again. It will actually recognize the taste items.
im kinda glad that the headcrabs in half life alyx give you a warning when they are about to jump because i get so fucking terrified in hl2 when they jump at me with no warning whatsoever
the fact how headcrabs can't land perfectly on their feet after leaping kinda reminds me of how tiny frogs have the same problem
Wish half life 3 has actually more interesting aliens again. Instead of just headcrab
Only a crazy man says this: "if you shoot the headcrab with a shotgun they explode into chunks and its really fun to do."
No, a crazy man would bash a headcrab repeatedly into a wall and say it’s fun
Father Grigori
I love headcrabs form Half-Life: Alyx they just jump and hope for the best.
valve just made the headcrabs more adorable like the snarks in black mesa
I looked up on the wiki, and apparently those are not antlion workers, they're a new type of antlion called antlion spitters. It sources the Half Life: Alyx's commentary for this detail.
I'm not convinced that the lightning dog/reviver is technically a headcrab. It's so distinct from all other headcrabs that we know of that it makes it a completely different species in my eyes.
In the files, its listed as Headcrab Runner. So at at least from a game design standpoint, it was derived from Headcrabs.
@@Teknanam Okay that's pretty convincing. When I first saw it, I assumed it was a headcrab but it just seems so different
I guess they're not technically headcrabs since they don't jump onto your head, but its still a parasitic organism that reanimates the body. So maybe the original term headcrab is to specific, but I definitely think theyre in the same genus.
I think they're probably more distantly related. To compare it with something on Earth, standard headcrabs, poison headcrabs and fast headcrabs would be like apes whereas the lightning dog would be like monkeys. They're similar, but definitely separate things.
I agree. It really doesn't look like a headcrab in anyway besides the 4 legs and zombie thing. It has a tail with a eyeball on the end and lightning powers, even then any zombies it makes are just from the corpses from headcrabs and not itself.
Very late I know but on the Jeff/Brewery level use a dust mask it stops you from coughing. Use them!
2:17 Poison Headcrab: You underestimate my power
Imagine if there was a armored zombine charger
The way you have to kill the Antlions in Alyx are awfully similar to how killed Akrid monsters in the Lost Planet games. Even down to the glowing limbs and goo they leave after being killed. Anyone else notice this connection?
yes but we are probably some of the only people in this comment section who know those games' exist
6:22 Wooooo, Half Life's very own Warden
My theory for the ant lions is the environment around them in half life alyx, since headcrabs have been on earth, some of them tend to adapt to the environment just like fast headcrabs creating a while new variant of zombie, but my theory is, since you are enter the quarantine zone you technically play enough to where you see antlion infested caves, especially at the zoo, you can see they have formed massive amounts of hill made from whatever xen material that is, I assume just like the fast headcrabs, they also adapted to the quarantine zone since they aren't by sand and open areas of sand, they somehow evolved to the xen material making them bullet proof, and I assume the antlions counterpart that shoots projectiles also had that change to it as well.
I get chills looking at the poison headcrab
There is one thing I like about headcrabs in alyx is that they perform a ragdoll when they land
Fun fact: If you shoot Jeff and get close without him attacking you (somehow) you can see his skin regenerating, that's why you can't kill him
The ant lions are armored or at least thicker and they’re harvested by the combine hence why they’re so plump and glowing. Regardless valve encourages you to shoot their legs to get their bulb instead of hitting their newly armored body in this iteration.
To this day I feel the HL 1 head crabs are the scariest with their bloody white teeth.
Headcrab and other stuff half-life alyx that take it jump flip roll over
For some reason, it really bothers me that you can't see the weapon models.
Aw look at the little baby feet awwwwwwwwwwww especially when the wiggle on the floor awww
Jeff: ring ring ring ring banana phone
everyone: are you sure about that?
Fun Fact : HLA has unused and mostly referenced systems related to running / Fast Zombies. This sadly can not be fully restored due to it only being referenced in code.
A HL3 leftover, it was ment to introduce traditional Fast Zombies or zombies that can sprint. It was cut due to issues relating to VR response time, as they didn't want zombies to overwhelm the player too heavily or fast so only the slow types are used.
In Half Life 1 zombies had chest mouths, and evolved into gonomes. In Half Life 2 there are more variety of headcrabs and zombies but no evolution. What happened here?
Answer 1: the true answer. Valve just goes with whatever they come up without thinking too much about plot holes, generating lots of them in the process. This means that both the gonome and all iterations of zombies in half life 2, are made up for gameplay reasons without any logical background story.
Answer 2: the fan theory. According to fans, to in their minds fix the plotholes, they explain it as the combine modified the headcrabs weaponizing them after the 7hour war and the following 20 years, developing new species of headcrabs but taking away their ability to mutate and thus to feed through zombie chest mouths (let alone create one, so now they only have a gap in the chest) or become a gonome (and in some theories even end up evolving into a gonarch) ...and even killing the host, which means...that modified headcrabs by combine keep the host alive because of the screams or instead they just mimic what the human brain was last saying but the host is ded. According to the beta lore, they also weaponized gonarchs as static headcrab spawn stations. At the same time these big momma pods spawned fast headcrabs, while in half life 1 the baby headcrabs were also fast. This could mean that both headcrabs and fast headcrabs are the original ones (or that fast headcrabs are just young headcrabs). The rest are made up by the combine. Or maybe the big mommas are also modified to spawn specific types of headcrabs. The thing is by removing their ability to mutate they can detach from the victim, and also be more controllable as a plague since they cant reproduce (if you believe their final form is a gonarch) or evolve into very dangerous gonomes, a perfected weapon to attack helpless citizens and then send a cleanup team.
love videos like this that analysis details from games
Zombies is one thing, but I don't know If I could handle realistic looking giant hungry Bullsquid charging at me in VR.
Man the detail is unmatched
For some reason I always assumed that the Antlions weren't from Xen, but from another dimension that the Combine invaded.
Propqbly because there werent any in half life 1 and in half life 2 u dont go to xen so yeah (i thought the same way tho)
Nothing is originally from Xen. But the Antlions likely did escape come to earth from the portal storms.
Fun Fact: in the HL2 mod called Entropy Zero 2 (which is my fav mod ever btw) we find these grenades called Xen Grenades. They open a small portal which sucks in everything near it, objects enemies and whatnot. After it sucked eveything around it another small portal is gonna open, spawning either Antilions or a Bullsquid
Dont take 'After it sucked everything' out of context for the love of our Benefactors
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Not gonna lie it’s kinda f___ed up that the lightning dog limps away when you deal enough damage to it. I really sends the messages that it really doesn’t want anything to do with you and just wants to be left alone
I feel bad that the lightning dog limps away when you shoot it. Poor guy got injured 😟
It's a game the dog ain't real
good uploaf
its so hard to believe that after all these years we finally got a new half life game
The toxic head crabs pretend to go to the back rooms💀💀💀💀💀💀
Houndeyes would’ve really fit in this game
@Clanker For newcomers? Yes. But I’m saying this from the perspective of someone who’s looking back on what could’ve made the games more dynamic that’s all.
why'd they make the headcrabs so cute :(
When you realise Jeff appears in Half Life 2
evidence
Can you show footage of the zombie sprinting?
"they can sprint at you"
**doesnt show zombie sprint**
i came back a year later and im still salty about it
I love source 2’s npc ragdoll physics
remember all this happened because a scientist pushed too fast a magic rock to a portal
I feel like it was missed out feature to have the zombie be blown apart like in L4D, of course only to major damage like an explosion or the bloaters
im sorry for the lightning dog in pain as it limped away :(
I'll give HL:A credit,they made zombies a bit more scary.
I have a theory that the reviver (lighting dog) is not from xen but from whatever the race x Home world is.
Oh shit, you right
Is anything from xen?
@Clanker this is the quarantine zone, not Alabama
I wonder why the sound effects were different for this game. I missed the familiar screech as the head crab jumps at you and death gurgle
I honestly like the half life 2 design of the headcrabs. New design is to clean.
3:43 actual electric bug bait reskin
larry: "this is a jeff."
alyx: "dear god.."
larry: "theres more."
alyx: "oh no!"
You'd think the poison headcrabs were more agile, due to their longer legs. Also those things terrified me in HL2.
I like that in this game Alyx cant pick them up like regular head crab.They are too havy It explane hunched position of poison zombie in HL2
Sad to see how slow all these creatures have become, even one headcrab should be a threatening encounter 😤
The lightning dog zombies remind me of the Archvile
Nc video now i can speedrun without scared anymore,thankss
wish they kept the very long claws of the zombies like in HL1, its terrifying
You said there's no point shooting headcrab zombies in the headcrab in Alyx because the headcrab lives regardless - that's not true. I know that sometimes the headcrab survives, but if you NEVER shoot the headcrab, it will always survive. So you still should be shooting the headcrab, because if you do there's like a 90% chance it will die when it falls off.
It could also be the case that if you kill the zombie before doing enough damage to the headcrab, that's why the headcrab lives, so if you've done a bunch of body damage and then only shoot the headcrab once or twice, it will fall off and live when the body dies.
Have you ever heard of friendly headcrab?
It's pretty rare
Just remove the beak
Isn't jeff basically a gonome from opposing force?
what are you using for the npcs? as i dont think its half-life alex it looks like gmod but im not serten
What u would do when I get bitten by one of the head crabs I’d pick it up and point my finger at it and move my finger up and down and say “ Naughty naughty “
Sorry I meant to say what I would do not what u would do god damn fucking auto correct
there is a different setting for zombie with a randomized chance for the headcrab to die it is not in most modded maps
5:26 Avogadro
Call of duty Black ops 2 (2012)
what is the sandbox your using on PC to show the aliens?