Haha yeah! The only thing that would make that level better would be if HL2 was harder. As it stands you can just run around on the sand blasting Antlions without a worry in the world lol.

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But half-life sucked when it took a whole fucking smg round to kill a grunt on hard.

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Argh! It doesn't!! What are you doing?? Shooting them in the foot??

I hear that "the grunts have to much HP" whine all the time at SPUF and anywhere I talk about HL and its bullcrap. Sure, compared to the 1-5 shots from the weakest weapon we see nowadays in games its a lot but when you look at it the grunts take almost the same amount to kill as you do... ITS FAIR. I wish people would stop complaining about that.

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But you have a fucking HEV suit and they have like a puny vest - plus they're all too frequent, if it was like an alien grunt then watev.

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Dangar, they have Power Combat Vests. The very same that our good friend Adrian Shepard has; which, mind you, works in very much the same way as the HEV.

And by "far to frequent" do you mean you want to see like 10 in the game like Alien Grunts? Because LOL if you do...

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no.. im saying for an enemie that is frequently encountered they shouldn't be so powerful.
Also Power Combat Vest along with Opposing Force isn't canon.

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There is nothing that says they are not canon.

And what's wrong with encountering "powerful" enemies so often? I, for one, like it

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Godamnit when you have to keep running backwards and foward to kill a group of what should be cannon fodder, emptying rounds into the them just isn't right! Although I have heard that the Source version has balancing issues, but godamnit if it isn't annoying when theres no over and they have those big blocky grenades.

Also Marc Laidlaw dismissed Opposing Force, and Blue Shift in an e-mail as opposing force was made by Gearbox and had very little input from Valve.

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They have not been dismissed.

VALVe's stance on the issue of canon is (put loosely) 'if its included in the core story, its canon'.

Nowhere has Ladilaw or any other reputable VALVe dev dismissed OpFor and BS as being non-canon.

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I loved replaying through ravenholm when orange box came out using only the gravity gun

i get a really good feeling when i smash a zombies head in with a cinder block

One day you might get to do it for real

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lol i wish

yeah it was fun