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Post #6601
I think the Combine just stomp into whatever worlds they find and they begin using the technology of any species they take over, combining (Ha, Combine...) it with their own. That's why they've got such badass choppers and APCs. Imagine how much worse it could have gotten if they'd had more time to work with human tech. They'd have Combine tech tanks driving around and naval units.
The shit the Combine Soldiers are wearing are probably adapted from bullet proof vests and other personal protection equipment. Probably taken from whatever the human military forces were using. Fortunately for Earth, there was only one HEV suit left after the Black Mesa incident, which is the one Gman confiscated from Gordon. I believe Gman left the HEV suit somewhere Doctor Kleiner would stumble upon it. Naturally, he made many modifications to it as he stated when he gave it to you in HL2. If I'm correct, the Mark IV version of the HEV suit that Gordon wears is what the Transhuman Combine forces would be wearing had they gotten their hands on it.
It would also be more sinister looking...
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Maybe Portal's story came after Half Life? I mean, in Episode 2, they were talking about Aperture Science.
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if the combine had HEV suits we'd be fucked
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Portal 1 is cannon. Portal 2 isn't
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oh boy
Portal takes place between HL1 and HL2 afaik
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They are both canon, Valve hasn't said anything like that at all. If Portal 1 and 2 aren't canon, then what would we know about Aperture Science? Nothing at all. However:
This does not suggest it is non-canon at all though. It just means the things that happen in Portal 2 will not have a direct impact on the next Half-life game, other than a few things about Aperture science itself and maybe a few references to Portal 2.
That hasn't even been suggested by Valve.
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Valve are trying to distance the two series. They tied them together in Episode Two but realised with Portal 2 that the premises were so different they should have been completely separate in the first place.
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I thought Portal 1 would be before or at the same time as Half-Life 1.
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They separated Portal 2 from HL by having it in the future.
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It does not suggest it is non-canon. If they didn't want it to be canon or thought they should have been completely separate universes than that is what they would of done - they could of changed the story. They distanced them slightly because they are two separate stories with different characters and settings. People wanted Chell and GLaDOS in the next Half-life. Valve didn't want the story of Portal 2 to affect Half-life so they set it far in the future - by doing that it means that changes to one of the games (e.g when the next Half-life comes out) doesn't mean they have to make changes to or plan it around the other game.
By Self-contained it just means that the story of the game does not have an affect on anything else, but what happens is canon although it will not impact Half-life in anyway other than a few bits of info about Aperture and its history. Portal 1 and 2 are canon.
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Portal 2 doesn't matter that much with the half life universe as it's set in the future, and very ambiguous things shown about the world.
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I find it that both Portal and Portal 2 are fully canon. Half life and Portal 2 just tell the story from a different stand point. Portal portrays the events in a comedic way, while HL keeps them dramatic and serious.
It's simple, really. You could write a story about Hitler's rise to power and keep it funny, while still being historically more/less accurate.
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I was under the impression that Portal 1 and 2 were before Half-Life. (Blaperture Mesa happened before or at the beginning of Portal 2) Cave Johnson died before they went through with the residence cascade thing diamond blow up whatever, and voila.
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Portal 1 was most likely sometime after HL1, assuming GLaDOS' "them" was either Xen creatures or the Combine. Blaperture Mesa was just a joke; the Perpetual Testing Initiative never takes place in the original Portal universe. Cave did die long before the resonance cascade, though.
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The events of Portal 2 happen 200 years after Half-Life 2
This was found out, during the first Portal2 ARG.
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Why does it always have to be sinister? If i had a transdimensional empire i would make all my military units look nice and Fluffy. It might make occupied states less resistant and if one of them was more rebelious and fear was needed id probably go for the "psychotic Doll" looks to things.
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Exactly. I know it's an off-topic, but this is the case with Black Mesa Bullsquid. With moving it's eyes, they wanted to make it feel like a thread, more sinister. I don't think it was rly needed to do this, since it lost that " naturalwildlife feeling" to me. But that may be just me. And sorry for offtopic :D
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If it is then earth looks pretty good both from surface and from space.
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That may not be accurate anymore as many things from the first ARG were changed.
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We still know it's a significant amount of time after the first Portal. Long enough for everything to decay a bit and for Chell to become a legend among the cores.
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Definitely, since the first Portal it has been longer than 999999--
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Portal takes place between HL and HL2. Portal 2 takes place between HL2EP3 and HL3. Oh,and the rip between Portal and Portal 2 is very probably 20 years. Why? Look:
1.Those test subjects in containers expire after 20 years,Wheatley probably took care of the expired subject,hence when he said "smelly humans" in that one level,he was referring to decomposing corpses.
2.20 years is the perfect amount of time the building would decay alot and become overgrown,but if it was 200 years,it would probably turn into a forest with some remains here and there,and would cave in in the salt mine below.
3.20 years is even extravagant for the level of the salt mine being preserved. I wonder how it didn't fall apart and cave in.
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Valve stated themselves it was 200 years+ after Portal 1
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Indeed they did in a Game Informer issue.
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Saw something interesting in my local area.
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Tubad we can just only wait...
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get the shotgunSaw something interesting in my local area.
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Then we're already pretty sure of Earth's state. Doesn't seem to be a lot of Combine activity, but then again that might be hard to see from the moon.
Also, what's all this about Fake Factory? All I ever heard about it was that it was some high-end graphical mod which made characters look realistic (except for Alyx since she just got less clothing and bigger tits).
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cinematic mod is made by FF, and it's really shitty, ruins the whole thing.
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I liked some of the maps and the music, but dem models, man.
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It doesn't feel like half-life.
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mostly stolen most likely
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I thought they were mostly free/purchased models and textures.
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How come?
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FF thread
Why you should hate FF
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8) Because he's a massive tosser.
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Okay, so only most of his stuff was purchased/free off of model sites.
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his stuff really shows that source still has some life left in it
http://cinematicmod.com/images/cm_11...s/cm_11_10.jpg
http://cinematicmod.com/images/cm_11...s/cm_11_05.jpg
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http://imgur.com/a/Ak06F#0
I really don't think so.
Looks like HL2, Frostbite Edition
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His stuff shows he can turn HL2 into a horror game with a largely breasted Alex
It's like her cheeks were crushed with her massive nipples.
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Im gonna be truthfull here and non biased.
While every single Character model of facefactory iv seen are as freaky as the behaviour of christian zealots... Those maps look very nice. There's a lot of contrast and some of the bright lights shouldn't be there.. but it still looks Damn nice.
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