Swimming with a weapon

[Yar Jar Rar]

I was playing a game called Half Life 2, and I noticed that when I was swimming, the Gordon guy could hold a gun just fine while swimming the same speed! I thought this game was suppose to have good physics. And to top it off, he can also reload, (using both hands) and it doesn't effect his swimming one bit! How is this possible?

[Hellrider]

Gordon has two secret hands .

[Yar Jar Rar]

Gordon has two secret hands .

Oh, is that how he does it? Huh, that interesting. I thought maybe he was just really good at swimming with his feet. Or there was some sort of jetpack that came out the back of his HEV suit or something.

[losttheskyagain]

He also has awesome leg muscles. Y'know when he takes a floating barrel a few feet underwater? Leg muscles the size of Dog's arm.

[Iron_cube]

Don't forget the underwater fast yet effective crowbar melee Gordon is capable of.

Try swinging a peice of steel in your swimming pool, that's so damn impossible.

[Ridge]

Maybe if you worked out like Gordon does....do jumping jacks for 20 years...

[Planetary]

So that's why G-man waited so long!

[Kevin]

Imagine the workout Gordon gets with all the things he does.

Black Mesa: Constantly running and jumping and shooting obstacles.
AND swimming with some really bad things.

Today: Almost the same^^^^

[soulslicer]

man, all those weapons are sure to bog him down actually..

[Lone Wolf]

Hmm, this thread gave me the random thought of WHY HAVEN'T HIS GLASSES BROKEN YET???!!!

[Narvi]

Helmet. Duh.

[Shift]

Because its a game.

[Stene]

I am wondering does Gordon really wear his helmet? Because how could Black Mesa dudes then know it is Gordie everywhere? There were more HEV Suit people.

[losttheskyagain]

I am wondering does Gordon really wear his helmet? Because how could Black Mesa dudes then know it is Gordie everywhere? There were more HEV Suit people.

He wrote "I AM GORDON" on his chest with headcrab blood.

[Yar Jar Rar]

He also has awesome leg muscles. Y'know when he takes a floating barrel a few feet underwater? Leg muscles the size of Dog's arm.

Not only are his legs strong, but he also must have a blader the size of a whale. I mean, he went the whole game without emptying himself once! Either he has a big bladder, or there is some kind of build in toilet in that HEV suit.

[losttheskyagain]

He's gone twenty years without a bathroom break. Or a shower.

[Shift]

Because is biological clock was frozen completely. Thats what happens when in statis, occupying a no time zone, so you have no effects from the time around you.

[Bacons]

Because its a game.
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[kupocake]

If there's something you can't explain, 'HEV Suit' is the answer to it. Either that or 'a Wizard did it'.

[ríomhaire]

Or hammerspace. Never forget hammerspace!

[Link]

Not only are his legs strong, but he also must have a blader the size of a whale. I mean, he went the whole game without emptying himself once! Either he has a big bladder, or there is some kind of build in toilet in that HEV suit.

Never mind pissing, he hasn't had a drink the entire game

[Ravioli]

I am wondering does Gordon really wear his helmet? Because how could Black Mesa dudes then know it is Gordie everywhere? There were more HEV Suit people.


yes he does, how could you possible see the HUD information displayed on the bottom? Its on the helmet interface...what else could they be on? his glases? lol

[TollBooth Willie]

Yes. He has SUPER GLASSES!

[bbson john]

Never mind pissing, he hasn't had a drink the entire game

He drinks his piss. Well...

[comoxer]

Not only are his legs strong, but he also must have a blader the size of a whale. I mean, he went the whole game without emptying himself once! Either he has a big bladder, or there is some kind of build in toilet in that HEV suit.

You dont have the piss-meter on screen? must have a pirated copy, you hit alt+f4 to empty his bowels.

[Xendance]

He's gone twenty years without a bathroom break. Or a shower.

or changing his underwear.

[theholygod]

oooooooh! Mr Freeman! Where DID that rocket launcher come from?

[Planetary]

He does all those things during loading screens. Grabs a bight to eat, take a dump right in the hallway, etcetera.

[theholygod]

He does all those things during loading screens. Grabs a bight to eat, take a dump right in the hallway, etcetera.

Gordon must prefer crappy computers running HL2 to fast ones.

Its when people play HL1 non-stop from start to finish on a newer computers that he really struggles from battle fatigue, hunger, thirst, etc

[Aki]

I was playing a game called Half Life 2, and I noticed that when I was swimming, the Gordon guy could hold a gun just fine while swimming the same speed! I thought this game was suppose to have good physics. And to top it off, he can also reload, (using both hands) and it doesn't effect his swimming one bit! How is this possible?

A better question would be how can Gordon swim in such a heavy suit?

[V-Man339]

I don't think that the Gordon wears a helmet on his HEV suit, because in all the games you never see a helmet anywhere near his HEV suit when he puts it on. As for swimming, he has a little jet propulsion sort of thing on the back of his suit, I'm not sure.
As for the hud though, that's probably the HEV suit jacking into his mind or something like that.

[ríomhaire]

You also don't see gloves on his HEV suit in HL1, but they're clearly there from the first person weapon views.

[magiolle]

You know, when you save the game, go to sleep, Gordon goes for a break, has a chat with Alyx, drinks a beer with the combine and Barney, then when you wake up next day, and start playing, Gordon has to go back, and start working. That's it. For the HUD, it's a game. Maybe these stuff are written on the wrist of the suit, just Gordon don't have to look at it always. Whatever.

[Yar Jar Rar]

Maybe the HUD is programmed into his actual eye balls. It's the future, who know's what kind of crazy things they'll be able to do!

[theholygod]

You know, when you save the game, go to sleep, Gordon goes for a break, has a chat with Alyx, drinks a beer with the combine and Barney, then when you wake up next day, and start playing, Gordon has to go back, and start working. That's it. For the HUD, it's a game. Maybe these stuff are written on the wrist of the suit, just Gordon don't have to look at it always. Whatever.

Alyx: Hey Gordon, how was your day at work?

Gordon: :< (the player was terrible)

Alyx: Oh good, me too, im gonna go stand over here. . .

Gordon: ?????? :'(

[Yar Jar Rar]

Alyx: Hey Gordon, how was your day at work?

Gordon: :< (the player was terrible)

Alyx: Oh good, me too, im gonna go stand over here. . .

Gordon: ?????? :'(

Or...
Alyx: Hey Gordon, how was your day at work?
Gordon: Horrible! The guy's computer was so slow that most of the time, I was just sitting there getting shot, doing nothing. I died at least 20 times today! I would say just kill me now, but then I would just respawn.

[HezioN]

Maybe the HUD is programmed into his actual eye balls. It's the future, who know's what kind of crazy things they'll be able to do!

We also had HUD in HL1. And that didn't happen in the future.

[Jintor]

It's the future from someone's perspective. :D

[Yar Jar Rar]

Gordon Freeman likes pizza.

[ríomhaire]

We also had HUD in HL1. And that didn't happen in the future.
When it was first released it was in the future.

[kupocake]

When it was first released it was in the future.
And so long as there are no full-body mechanical suits and teleportation devices, it will always be in a non-contemporary time frame.

Also, the manual dates Freeman's arrival at Black Mesa as 200-. So there's still 2 years left.

[Cheomesh]

Yeah I had always assumed there was a helmet; otherwise the radiation would have kicked his ass / he would have drowed eventually (HL2's reserve O2).

However the one time you see him in blueshift on the stretcher being taken away by the Marines, he doesn't have it on.

[Yar Jar Rar]

It's an HEV suit, not an HEV helmet. I believe there never was a helmet.

[Higlac]

it's a collapsible helmet that pops up when he goes underwater, and pops down when he comes out.

[Yar Jar Rar]

And it's a helmet that has a build in speaker so he can listen to a lady tell him that he's getting dangerous amounts of toxic waist in his body.

[Kevin]

Also, the manual dates Freeman's arrival at Black Mesa as 200-. So there's still 2 years left.

Actually were 2 years past the time of his actions already.:cool:

[ríomhaire]

Actually were 2 years past the time of his actions already.:cool:
Where are you getting 2005 from? Please show me. We have no definite date for the events of HL1 other than it takes place sometime in the years 2000-2009 and after May 15th of the year that Gordon was hired and after March 15th of the year that Adrian was undergoing training with the HECU (Though those were probably all the same year), and possibly in December. The only hint we have of the year is a scribling by Laidlaw in Raising the Bar with possible names for Black Mesa and the year 2003 written on it.

[Kevin]

I read from somewhere about the Innsbruck experiment and Gordons obsession with quantum physics and teleportation.

And the innsbruck experiment was somewhere in 2005?
And Gordon was there to see it and got hired by BM on the same year.
I'm not sure, my memory is foggy.

[Rapstah]

The Innsbruck experiment hadn't happened when HL1 was written.

[Kevin]

But isn't it possible they KNEW through news or something that the Innsbruck Experimental team were going to attempt a teleport in 2005?

[Rapstah]

I remind you that that was eight years before said experiment.

[half lunatic]

What I'd like to know is how Gordon can climb a ladder without using either of his hands.

[ríomhaire]

What I'd like to know is how Gordon can climb a ladder without using either of his hands.
Magnets :shh:

[Van_Halen]

What I'd like to know is how Gordon can climb a ladder without using either of his hands.

Simple. Gordon has magnet wheels that he pulls out of his suit, and puts on the ladder, and it pulls him up. :D

[half lunatic]

Magnets, of course! How could I be so stupid? :p

[Kevin]

I remind you that that was eight years before said experiment.

Exactly!

But maybe the experimental team announced it in the news 8 years before it happened?

Because you don't get ready for stuff like that overnight.
You prepear for years.

[McCoy]

I have a question: How does gordon reload the pulse rifle without his hand--oops! how does he drive the boat and buggy without his hands??!! and where does the HEV suit get the morphine!!??

[Kevin]

I have a question: How does gordon reload the pulse rifle without his hand--oops! how does he drive the boat and buggy without his hands??!! and where does the HEV suit get the morphine!!??

1.The weapon reloads itself, after Gordon does something, we don't see.

2.This has been debated already, and the thread was locked.

3.Dunno, some things are better to be left unanswered.