The game takes place in the eve of the Seven Hour War. Fighting against blood shedding synths and frightening aliens, Adrian Shephard has to struggle his way with his fellow comrades from the Phoenix Command, with the main objective of stopping the construction of a Combine Citadel. In his journey he will find what has happened to the world, moments before the Seven Hour War.
Here we demonstrate the use of the a WIP form of our barnacle grappling weapon. Not only will the barnacle be able to move the player to unracehable ledges and inclines, but it will have the power to manipulate physical objects and use them as weapons. The screen shows the beggining of a sequence of pulling an object towards the player.
The Barnacle has been re-worked to better fit the feel of the mod. And please notice that the tongue hasn't been worked on yet.
Coding by Rifle, animations by Stoopdapoop.
Interesting.
Looking saucy.
Awesome! Sounds a little like gravity gun,
Yeah, except it's a bit more complex.
Great! I love it!
Interesting, How's it work? Similar to the Phys gun in Gmod/Hl2 Beta? Explain please. It's quite cool none the less.
Well, I don't really have to explain how does the grappling function work, since you're already familiarized with it. But the physics manipulation is new, so it works like this:
1. The player throws the barnacle's tongue at a prop
2. Once the tongue hits the prop, the barnacle starts pulling it towards the player.
3. Once it reaches the player, the barnacle holds it in place.
4. The player can now either throw the prop or lay it on the ground.
Now the thing is, it is 1/3 the power of the gravity gun (after all it's an animal, not a gravity gun). So the player must be in medium-close range to the target if he wants to deal some actual damage with the prop he's manipulating. But hey, you can always use its biting if you want.
Also, unlike the gravity gun, props don't come flying to the player, if the prop's too heavy, the barnacle will have a hard time pulling it. So eventhough it's a close concept to the gravity gun, it isn't as half as efficient.
"But hey, you can always use its biting if you want."
Does that mean you can make the barnacle bite that explosive barrel you're pulling in the image and blow yourself up? >:)
BTW nice barnacle :)
Yeah. And here's something I posted on the forums:
"We've also included many cool small features like eating headcrabs, which buffs the barnacle's damage for a few seconds. You can also eat poison headcrabs and make the barnacle poisonous for a few seconds, or eat grenades, making your barnacle a high precision grenade launcher. Eventhough these don't make a whole lot of sense and the barnacle would most likely end up exploding the grenades by chewing them, it's just a game. Not to mention that it's pretty cool to see what cool perks your barnacle can offer if you go around eating stuff.
P.S.: Eating incendiary grenades won't turn your barnacle into a flamethrower, though. So avoid eating them, or else you'll just end up burning yourself."
LOL flamethrower
HAHA!! You guys played a little too many games with Yoshi in them?? I wonder how much use this would actually be in-game... But in anycase, this is such an epic idea, you HAVE to include it!
Looking awesome doods!
What if the barnacle eats a grenade without a pin?
Well the grenade exploding depends on how hard the barnacle bites it. In HL 2 when the barnacles picked up any non organic prop they just spit it back out :/ So yea it can make sense son long as the barnacle dosent swallow the grenade by accident & that would depend on how intelligent it is.
Very intresting, i loved the barnacle gun in opposing force.
Looks... Interesting. I wanna play with that!
wow nice i like it
So, you can't just pick up any barnacle around? Do you have to find it like in the first one?
Yeah.
(buried)
What does ''yeah'' mean? :D
The opposite to "no".
"yeah" means, that you are an idiot, sir (pupkin).
No need for rude comments for it only serves to make u look like the fool :/
Nice.
Awesome!
cool,looks gr8
nasty loookin but cool
glad to see the barnacle as a weapon again :D
Nice work))))
BARNACLES RULE time for eating headcrabs
juicy! can you use that to eliminate enemy soldiers as well? and how realistic is it going to be? e.g. a soldier weighs bit more than a headcrab ;)
You can't eat any NPC other than the headcrab, though you can bite enemies to death.
And you can't grab dead NPCs ragdolls, since they don't have collision, if they had collision, it'd be really tricky for the player to move around in a hallway of dead bodies. We can work that out later, but it's not important at the moment.
Anyways, it makes sense that you wouldn't be able to eat corpses with it; there's simply no space in the barnacle because your hand is in the other end of it. Perhaps when attached to ceilings they create a seperate digestion chamber which they can detach from, or something.
whoa, **** looks awesome! : >
Barnacle looks really good. =)
(buried)
The texture looks pretty ugly.
It means that you find it along your journey.
Aww, the barnacle will now be twice as fun!
Is this thing gonna bein the multiplayer or just singleplayer?
Both.
lol now you can be smoke in this game.:D
I think its too long in Opposing Force it only show the front part and you need to change the tongue
This isn't Opposing Force 1.
"please notice that the tongue hasn't been worked on yet."
Read the description before you post.
gravity gun with tongue :P nice job, im w8ing for this mod
Can't wait to ride with the barnacle again! Woohoo!
Awesome :-)
Looks disgusting and vile. Nicely done.
i was wondering will you be able to use barnacle to fly, like in OF1?
May i have a suggestion?
When a NPC being pulled by the weapon(barnicle) and damaging it,
i wish if you like exploding like in the half life 1 :D
(sorry for my bad english im bad lol)
And this is my favorite weapon :D in half life opposing force
when an npc explode lol :D
like it
is that that the finished version cause you really need to make the tongue more... yellow-ish
well in my opinion