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Half-Life/Portal General Discussion

Diamond_Drone said:
I have updated a couple of my old sandboxes to fit the new scaling blog and have added a lot of references to them. What do you guys think?
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They look pretty good; only recommendations I can give are adding statistic values and maybe changing the Snark's dura to Unknown instead, since they can survive their own blows and I can't think of any examples off the top of my head of Snarks getting one-shot by a non-8-C attack.
 

Found an interesting video about how Caroline's management since Cave's death has changed the Aperture facility, this also made me realize that Caroline might've been running the place for over twenty years since Cave's death. What do you guys think?

Also it reminds me, I have to work on the GLaDOS sandbox I haven't touched in like 2 and a half years.
 
Quick question, is Adrian's Profile out of date or is he supposed to be so much weaker than everybody else?

Edit: nvm you guys already talked about it here already and it absolutely is
 
For that matter, it's weird that Gordon's page suggests he got a durability boost after getting knocked out by the HECU grunts who turned the lights out and jumped him in the Apprehension chapter of HL1. In addition to their ambush advantage, those grunts already solidly scale to Standard Zombies and the like, so it isn't as if Gordon got KOed by some 9-Cs. And they may be equipped with the same HEV Suit-adjacent Power Combat Vest armor Adrian Shepard dons in Opposing Force, too.

But I see that some of you fellows are working on little fixes on things such as that. Let me know if there's anything I can help with and when you're nearly ready to propose changes.
 
Just wanted to let y'all know I'm finishing up HL2 Ep2 soon after a first playthrough. So the verse is on my Radar, although it's a bit behind in terms of relevancy for me.
 
Is there any reason this calc doesn't scale to anyone currently? It's not even on the Alien Grunt's profile themselves. They don't have any kind of explosive, so they would have had to do this physically or with the Hive Hand (most likely that one), and Gordon can take anything they can throw at him.
 
Randomuser3412 said:
Is there any reason this calc doesn't scale to anyone currently? It's not even on the Alien Grunt's profile themselves. They don't have any kind of explosive, so they would have had to do this physically or with the Hive Hand (most likely that one), and Gordon can take anything they can throw at him.
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The verse is old and not under much active participation. Like I've been wanting to work on it, but have just been caught up with a lot of other work with other verses. I'm pretty sure diamond drone has been actively maintaining stuff and planning a CRT though.
 
Chritin said:
The verse is old and not under much active participation. Like I've been wanting to work on it, but have just been caught up with a lot of other work with other verses. I'm pretty sure diamond drone has been actively maintaining stuff and planning a CRT though.
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All right...
 
I saw a Youtube comment suggesting that G-Man "nudged" Cave Johnson to buy the Moon Rocks because he would have bought out Black Mesa and shut down the anomalous materials testing and that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. I'm sold.
 
Well since the last time I've shown my sandboxes (which was June 2025), I've updated them quite a bit since then. Most notable I added Space Survival because... Xen, and also a new buddy that's probably gonna carry Tier 8 scaling for Half-Life.
Also another neat thing I found is an archive of Opposing Force's Prima Guide, which should prove useful when scaling Opposing Force enemies. From what I call tell from a glance:
  • The Voltigore (the grown-ups, not the babies), which is pretty similar to the Gonarch & Nihilanth in scaling (Nihilanth scaling is kinda expected, Race X kinda has a natural ability to teleport and the Voltigore has a similar electric attack), deals 40 damage with physical attacks and 50 with electric balls. This should make the range of characters that scale to "At most Large Building level" much higher as it drops the requirement from 60 to around 40
  • The Gonome appearantly can make "lairs" (probably referring to when you first encounter them in the Fire Tube section?) and produce off-spring similarily to the Gonarch. Also the blobs they grab outta their cavity are apparently an "energy glob" and it's about as strong as Headcrab lacerations... glad we've established a consistent range of power.
  • The Shockroach is a parasite that grants it's user an "electric weapon ability" by attaching to their arm with seemingly no drawbacks? Best parasite I've ever seen. They also shoot "bolts of lightning" that shock and overload the nervous system, causing the target's cells to explode. It's also one of the weaker electrical enemies/weapons, dealing only 15 damage (the same as Houndeye's), which should mean that the Voltigore & Nihilanth's electrical attacks should be much stronger in comparison.
 
Jason_Courne said:
Was looking Half-Life 2's achievements, if the Dark Energy generators are considered human atomizers, that would be a pretty massive upgrade to most of the energy weapons (someone made a new calc for the AR2 alt fire with atomization in mind, and it got High 8-C)

It'd also bump the Suppression Device and the Stryder Cannon to 8-B+ to 8-A
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I tried to use the atomization thing back in 2021 and it was rejected due it not being clearly indicated as such in the story and achievements not being considered proof.
 
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