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Title: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Streak on June 20, 2012, 09:11:34 AM: Hey guys, I just want thoughts on Half-Life 3 and what you think, what should or will be in it and what will be new in the story line?

I feel that there will be a new type on combine and or rebel. Like the combine female assassin that there was much talk about in easter eggs or NPC's that had not made it into the game or a rebel in combine armor or something like that?

What do you think? ;D 8)
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Kite [Jawa] on June 21, 2012, 02:23:08 PM: My question is, if they have a new engine, how will that influence Gmod?
If HL3 comes out with new and improved graphics, will Garry reconstruct Gmod into a newer version or keep it as it is.

As for the actual HL3, it all depends on whatever will be in the Borealis. Dunno how they could work new combine NPCs into the canon but if they do it'd be more fun none the less.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: smt on June 21, 2012, 02:50:57 PM: Garry won't update gmod untill it's had a decent run on Gmod 13 - that is if HL3 uses an updated engine at all
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: NRK on June 21, 2012, 03:11:14 PM: Quote from: Smt on June 21, 2012, 02:50:57 PM
Garry won't update gmod untill it's had a decent run on Gmod 13 - that is if HL3 uses an updated engine at all

If it's HL3, it's automatically assumed it's a new or HIGHLY improved engine, if it's just a tad bump from the source engine it will be called Ep 3, because that's what the episodes are - improvements on the engine.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: smt on June 21, 2012, 03:16:10 PM: theres no more episodes so
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: xLazerz on June 22, 2012, 12:38:15 AM: Maybe they will let you use the grav gun from the end of the Half life 2 game
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Streak on June 22, 2012, 07:00:51 AM: The grav gun is a gun in hl2 anyway so you will get it...,

I also hope there is a hunter or strider you can control inside a combine base :D
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: xLazerz on June 23, 2012, 11:12:24 AM: No the upgraded one that looks like the Physics gun
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: PixelDuh on June 26, 2012, 11:16:45 PM: *Realistic weapons
*like no SMG that shoots a grenade from god knows where
*Reloading variations
*Like fumbling with a magazine, etc.
*More combine weapons
*Augmented SPAS-12
*Pulse pistol
*Sniper rifle
*Remove/replace some weapons
*USP Match with Glock 19
*MP7 with MP5A3 WITHOUT Grenade launcher
*Other weapons
*AK-47
*Tripmine
*M4A1M203
*Better wood breaking physics
*Better death animations, ragdolls, gibbing (gib system of l4d2 would be nice)
*press use button in order to consume up health, weapons, ammo, etc. a la l4d
*muzzle flash light
*Ringing in the ears when shooting in a vent
*climbing up ladder animation
*more HL1 aliens
*Gordon Freeman model
*Instead of a number of health, its body part based (if chest or head go to 0, its death. If arm or leg go to 0, gordon can't walk/use his arms)
What u guys think?
:D
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: tim on June 27, 2012, 02:59:01 AM: Quote from: AliDuh1 on June 26, 2012, 11:16:45 PM
*Realistic weapons
*like no SMG that shoots a grenade from god knows where
*More combine weapons
*Augmented SPAS-12
*Pulse pistol
*Sniper rifle
*Remove/replace some weapons
*USP Match with Glock 19
*MP7 with MP5A3 WITHOUT Grenade launcher
*Other weapons
*AK-47
*Tripmine
*M4A1M203
*more HL1 aliens
*Gordon Freeman model
*Instead of a number of health, its body part based (if chest or head go to 0, its death. If arm or leg go to 0, gordon can't walk/use his arms)
What u guys think?
:D

These I quoted are kinda bad in my opinion.

The grenades don't have to come from a realistic place, it's Combine technology.
HL1 aliens aren't really needed IMO, just seems like a waste of disk space. Maybe if they were turned into synths?

Most of your weapon suggestion/replacements/removals sound pretty bad, I think they're fine as of now. I'm not sure about this being canonically true, but I think the Combine destroyed most of the weapons. Even if that's not true, it seems very likely.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: PixelDuh on June 27, 2012, 12:34:47 PM: Quote
The grenades don't have to come from a realistic place, it's Combine technology.
So the MP7 is combine technology? I'm pretty sure Heckler and Koch aren't the Combine.
Other than that, all of the stuff you quoted is just IMO. I would love to see a CP turn a corner chasing after you only to be blown up by a trip mine. The MP5A3 is my favorite SMG, and I didn't mean to say Glock 19, i meant to say M1911A1 with an extended mag. That gun is pretty boss, being accurate and powerful (.45 rounds)
The Augmented SPAS-12 was just an idea I had when I drew some random guns (I like drawing guns). I drew a SPAS-12 with a speed-loading Drum Magazine with fully automatic mode, A Stock (non-foldable), Etc., and it has the power to fire frag rounds, as long as you find some in the world (another one of my ideas.)
The pulse pistol is just similar to a pulse rifle, except weaker, more accurate, semi-auto-only (if not manual) and is a pistol. I got the idea for this when I realized that the combine just stole a lot of human weapons, and it would be cool to have other Combine weapons other than the OSIPR.
The sniper rifle is the weapon used by most of the combine snipers in HL2, so why can't Gordon be a sniper. I love games where you can snipe people, and the lack of a sniper RIFLE in the Half Life series really disappointed me.
And what's wrong with an actual Gordon Freeman Model?

Also here's some other Ideas I had:
*Remove the white blindness when being injured from Episode 2 (Fucking annoying as hell)
*There is no weapon viewmodel, only Gordon's 3rd person arm seen from a camera in his face. (So that when in multiplayer, you see what others ACTUALLY see in a different perspective or something.)
*Being able to meet the G-man's employers.
*Having the choice between going back in time and let the experiment that started it all become a success or let Earth try to rebuild itself where it stands.
*More zombie variants
*'blue' citizen zombies
*rebel zombies
*refugee zombies
*Non headcrab zombies?
*like in L4D or something. Not necessarily in-game, but like the zombie survival feature in black ops or something.
*Replacing the zoom on 'Z' with LOOKING DOWN THE SIGHTS.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Blue Haze on June 27, 2012, 01:10:39 PM: Quote from: AliDuh1 on June 27, 2012, 12:34:47 PM

*Being able to meet the G-man's employers.
*Having the choice between going back in time and let the experiment that started it all become a success or let Earth try to rebuild itself where it stands.
*More zombie variants
*'blue' citizen zombies
*rebel zombies
*refugee zombies
*Non headcrab zombies?
*like in L4D or something. Not necessarily in-game, but like the zombie survival feature in black ops or something.
*Replacing the zoom on 'Z' with LOOKING DOWN THE SIGHTS.

Okay, but, Nonheadcrab zombies? Aiming down sights? Have you forgot what game this is?
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: xLazerz on June 28, 2012, 06:18:09 AM: Well we will just have to wait and see
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Nuka-Cola ?ã??à²?ç??à²?? on July 30, 2012, 09:39:24 AM: Is Half-life 3 even coming out?
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: NykezTV on July 30, 2012, 12:17:27 PM: HL3 is the last one and asfar as we been told. It will have a new engine or "a previously used one" CS:GO ?
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Delta1116732 on July 30, 2012, 01:29:39 PM: I think that Chell from Portal 2, and Alyx are related somehow, or you find a Portal gun on in EP3 being that Aperture Science was working on Portal technology during EP2. Maybe a hidden secret to rat man?
Spoiler Alert Below!
Being that the ship shown in EP2 had "Aperture Science" written on it.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Psycho29388 on July 30, 2012, 02:48:04 PM: tbh, i don't really care much for engine improvments or new weapons etc, I just want to continue the story.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: smt on July 30, 2012, 03:04:05 PM: Quote from: Psycho29388 on July 30, 2012, 02:48:04 PM
tbh, i don't really care much for engine improvments or new weapons etc, I just want to continue the story.

This, I would happily play through the next game even if I was running same version of source as HL2, the story is great
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: Somone77 on August 01, 2012, 03:22:59 PM: Here's my best guess that will probably be so far off of Valve's story, but speculating is fun non the less.

Warning, below contains spoilers from Half-Life: Episode 2 and previous games, along the Portal duology.

Leaving off from Eli kicking the bucket, Alyx and Gordon make it a new goal to eradicate the advisers, out of vengeance. However, their primary goal remains to locate Dr. Mossman and the Borealis. Upon finding and reaching the Borealis the player is faced with a decision. Eli's dying wish was for Gordon to ensure that the Borealis is destroyed, whatever the cost. Destroying the Borealis will result in a personal loss to Gordon (Presumably not Alyx as killing such an important character would not go over well unless it was the intended goal all along that the player would chose her).

The destruction of the Borealis would ensure that the Combine could not utilize Aperture technology to create a new portal. Perhaps, aboard the Borealis, Alyx and Gordon discover the coordinates of the Aperture facility. They intend to destroy everything to do with Apature to make sure that the technology can not fall to the wrong hands. Alyx and Gordon find themselves in a field with a small shack. Alyx is frustrated as this is where the coordinates lead.

What I would love to say is that the find Chell, however, unless there is some drastic change in ideals of Valve games, the two protagonists will never cross paths as this would force Valve to give Chell a voice (the reason being that it's speculated the reason Chell does not speak is because she does not want to give GLaDOS the satisfaction of knowing she's getting to Chell) so it's likely if they were to ever enter Aperture main facility that they wouldn't run into Chell.

That's as far as I can go on speculation, please feel free to tear apart of fun story with your facts.

Side note, my greatest wish for Half Life 3 is that they make the decision to release it without advertising, bear with me. It would be the most fascinating thing to watch google map point data and see when the first person finds it. All they need to do is simply place it on steam. Don't mention it, don't advertise it, nothing. Just put it there, normal price and everything just wait for the first one to buy it. It would be amazing.
Title: Re: Half-Life 3 game ideas!
Post by: codex on August 04, 2012, 01:53:13 AM: I would like more information pertaining to the Advisors. I have a lot of questions and hopefully they will be answered in HL3