Thread 718305007

What do u want to see in the game?
For me its large areas to explore, realistic vehicles and materials that deform etc. and simple thermodynamics system.

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>>718305007 (OP)
We need more console players for the Half Life franchise

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>>718305007 (OP)
A good price cause valve can afford to go 60 bucks or even less.
Not ask for retarded specs.
Get actual decent writers that used all these years to figure out something interesting for the story, especially the Combine and G-Man.

>>718305007 (OP)
I hope they bring back the zipline concept. Based on the HL3 leak back in 2013 Gordon was supposed to be able to use his crowbar to get into ziplines like in Bioshock Infinite. Crowbar might be iconic for the series but it's useless gameplay-wise, at least the zipline feature would have given the crowbar some practical use despite its contextual nature.
https://youtu.be/k0hCa47sRjI?si=10DaD6ho2UNtBxii

Dead Franchise

>>718305007 (OP)
>What do u want to see in the game?
Altfire
Real guns (not vague abominations from vr game, although they fit the settingg)
Less vortigaunt slop
Less alyx slop

>>718307072
>Real guns
What's that mean? You mean stuff like the SPAS or MP5? I mean they're nice and all but after HL2 and Alyx, I kinda want more crazy guns again desu.

>>718305007 (OP)
Good AI, FEAR levels of good. Interesting fights on a level of HL2ep2 when the game died just as it devs finally figured it out. But most importantly I want Kelly back, so far what rumors I read he's not coming back and thats sad

>>718307320
Yes, i think conventional firearms ("just a pistol", "just a revolver", "just a shotgun") should be based on a real life guns, and everything crazy on combine tech.

>>718305007 (OP)
>large areas to explore
terrible idea
>realistic vehicles
worst part about HL2
>materials that deform
sounds cool
>simple thermodynamics system
sounds cool

I want enemy variety, HL2 and the episodes are fucking awful in that regard and combine soldiers simply aren't interesting or fun to fight and that's made even worse when they're making up 90% of what you're shooting at

>>718305007 (OP)
It is probably never coming anyways

even the guy who started doing daily updates gave up on it 2 months ago.
https://youtu.be/yu6k-F-zOtU

They have no way in making HL3 in a gambling machine nor have any new project lined up to use HL3 as a marketing tool.

>>718305007 (OP)
flamethrower. Colorful sci-fi. Variété of ennemies. Hl3 deathmatch. Open missing tools.

>>718305007 (OP)
At this point, i want to get surprised and not guess what's going to happen in 5 to 10 minutes.

lol it won't exist

>>718307350
Yeah I really hope Kelly Bailey is back for one last score. Dude bothered enough to come back and do the commentary for HL2, so there's hope.

>>718305007 (OP)
Earth somehow reverse engineers what tech the g-man used and are now trying to make first ally contact to bring resistance fighting to other worlds since fignting head on is suicidal.
The game is about discovering other world tech that translated to both fun gameplay toys and needed mcGuffins for humans and other liberated aliens to stand a chance against the combine.

>>718308152
>The game is about discovering other world tech that translated to both fun gameplay toys and needed mcGuffins for humans and other liberated aliens to stand a chance against the combine.
There is one already, it's called the Borealis.

>>718308263
True but we need more.
Also using the portal gun in a fps setting would be kino for traversal and other stuff like setting up sniper spots while deep inside a building or having a portal connected with an ammo deposit so you can go gun blazing and instantly restock after.

>>718309258
>using the portal gun in a fps setting would be kino
Too OP and unwieldy for a Half-Life game I feel. Though I think it could work if they're going for limited usage in a gimmick level of some sort.

>>718305007 (OP)
>Them returning to the feel of classic HL2. No shitty Portal 2 (or worse, HLA) Reddit-tier humor, music and character designs.
>Make Portal's contribution as small as possible. I love Aperture being in this universe but I don't want some Entropy Zero bullshit where the entire game happens in an Aperture facility. Both franchises should stay mostly separate except for the Borealis plot point
>NOTHING RELATING TO EPISTLE 3. Epistlefags are the actual worst fans in the community and Epistle 3 sucks ass (even Laidlaw himself hates it)
>No shitty bad ending or cliffhanger. Either end the franchise or move towards a new chapter
>Don't bring anything from the Gearbox games in

>>718305007 (OP)
More synths.
More alien biomes like Xen.
More variety in combine troops

>>718306093
dude i payed like 950 dollars to play half life alyx
it was a blast but i won't do it again

>>718307697
>terrible idea
Correct, Half-Life has always limited its large areas. This is what makes Prospekt so bad and what seriously harms Swelter and Entropy Zero
>worst part about HL2
Ehh the vehicle chapters aren't bad. Highway 17 and especially the Episode 2 Musclecar are great, the Airboat is dull but that's the nature of replaying that shit so many times. City War may be worse though
>sounds cool
Nah not really, sounds like a gimmick
>sounds cool
Depends on how they manage it
>I want enemy variety, HL2 and the episodes are fucking awful in that regard and combine soldiers simply aren't interesting or fun to fight
Combine soldiers ARE fun to fight. The biggest issue is the level design, HL2 maps aren't designed for squad functions which makes them work like ass. Episode 1 and 2 somewhat fix things and they're better there. I do agree it gets a bit repetitive but at the same time, HL1 and especially OpFor had so much gimmicky bullshit I also want simplicity

>>718309896
>Don't bring anything from the Gearbox games in
I don't mind if they bring back Barnacle grapple and Displacer cannon desu.

>>718307697
>large areas to explore
>terrible idea
Based on their development trajectory in Episode 2 and their tinkering in the first version of Half-Life 3 (quest lines, resource gathering, non-linear progressions), I'm afraid they'll go for big maps this time.

>>718310070
>Barnacle grapple
Literal gimmick item only used for like three occasions in the entire game. Probably the most forgotten "weapon" in all the franchise kek
>Displacer cannon
More gimmick bullshit. This is just a more boring Tau Cannon/Gluon Gun except you get to go to three premade Xen areas that constantly repeat to get ammo because the OpFor enemies are spongy as fuck and the maps are shit so ammo WILL run low, or to just instantly kill Voltigores and whatnot when they're spammed at you. It's not as bad as something like the Xen grenades in Entropy Zero which are an even worse version of this but it isn't good at all. Also fucks with the technological lore of the HL universe

>>718305007 (OP)
A satisfying ending.

>>718310183
Episode 2 had big maps but not large areas. Different things. The Episode 2 maps were actually more cramped than some HL2 maps because they work better that way

As for proto-Alyx/"HL3", those versions were cut precisely because the very things they were tinkering with suck ass and nobody wants to do them. HL isn't a fucking open world survival game

>>718310402
semi open world HL is peak, areas where you can explore broken down abandoned buildings, but you don't have to, where you can gather resources etc., its beautiful for world building and people who are explorers and not zoomers who just push forward

ep2 and alyx really made an impression they want to kill gordon and make alyx new protagonist
If insides about "controversial" ending are correct, they gonna kill gordon in hl3

>>718305474
why are you a faggot

>>718310730
This is just standard Half Life, retard. Every single Half Life game has had routes which you can go to to get supply crates and ammo. The Lambda caches in HL2 were this

>>718310804
>alyx really made an impression they want to kill gordon and make alyx new protagonist
except it did the complete opposite of that

>>718310824
but what if the maps are 20x bigger and you can gather resources, for example chopping trees, mining stone so that you can upgrade your gun or Dog (the companion), and also your vehicle. Then you have to visit outposts to get quests from Citizens which give you directions where to go, and the game is about saving outposts Ala Ubisoft game. Then when you finally repair the helicopter you can fly to the Arctic and visit Aperture Science where GLADoS makes you do puzzles that involve a Gravity Gun. After killing Glados once more, Gman teleports to the facility and tells you about unforeesen consequences...... You get teleported to the room where Borealis was standing in the dock (it's empty). It turns out Judith stole the Borealis and is escaping with it to a Lunar base. You have to get on a rocket that Kleiner made, get to the moon in a HEV Suit, steal Borealis and fly with it to the Sun to destroy it like Eli wanted. Gordon dies on board. Roll in credits. After credits we see Shephard... HL4 OP4 trailer.

Cinema.

>>718310804
Valve has always wanted to have an Alyx-based HL game since HL2 I believe. Gabe talked about HLA since the 2000s as far as I can tell and there was supposed to be a HL game with Alyx and Dog on an adventure. As for Gordon's last role in HL3, I just hope it won't end with Gordon dying. Epistle 3's ending with Gordon teleported to an unfamiliar shore in a Portal 2-esque ending is a rather fitting closure for him.

>>718310804
>new protagonist
Wait I thought it made her the new pawn of the G-man or his benefactors?
Because gordon fucked off to help the resistance/vortigaunts

>>718305007 (OP)
HL2 but modern Source 2 graphics and weapons don't sucking that much.

>>718311190
Yes, he's gonna heroic sacrifice himself to free her.

>>718311652
hes gonna sacrifice himself for humanity, not just for a girl right? bro...

>>718305007 (OP)
>What do u want to see in the game?
Advanced fluid dynamics being used for it's true, divine purpose
boob physics

>>718311140
Epistle 3 is the actual fucking worst. It's a massive downer ending for Gordon which Laidlaw himself admitted was basically a crazy rant about his feelings with isolation and overworking himself, yet people actually think he was SERIOUS about it being a HL3 script (some retards even think it was the FINAL script) when Laidlaw has said that game lore evolves as games evolve and that Epistle 3 wasn't even close to a proper first draft, let alone anything final

I personally just want HL to end with HL3

>>718309949
>More synths.
I don't know what else they can use. Maybe Crab Synths will actually come back.
>More alien biomes like Xen.
A proper Xen ecosystem with various species intermingling would've been cool (plus the moss growth).
>More variety in combine troops
I think the soldiers' variety in HLA is the way for Valve to diversify their roles in the next game. I'm not surprised if they'll bring them back and actually get Cremators in (finally).

>>718312621
>I don't know what else they can use. Maybe Crab Synths will actually come back.
It's an entire universe filled with hybrids they could have imported before they left earth, just have them send in the limited big guns closer to the boat.
Hell they already modeled human synths during 2's development

>>718305007 (OP)
Assuming it's still taking place in the Arctic I want them to bring back the Kraken Base and Weather Control concept.
>The sequence of Kraken Base sinking with water simulation a la Hydrophobia
>A big battle in a Combine Weather Control inspired by the Battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back
Could've been awesome.

>>718305007 (OP)
Fluid dynamics