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Half-Life/Portal General Discussion

About this:

On the wiki it is currently listed that Wheatley is comparable in reaction to GLaDOS (who is MFTL+).

Since neither Wheatley or GLaDOS could react to moon portal, couldn't their reaction time be used in the calculation?

It would not be Calc Stack as it is an official statement.

Which would result in the following:

1 picosecond/16= 6.25e-14s

Distance to the moon: 376291600m

376291600/6.25e-14= 6.0206656e+21m/s or 20082778733546.390625c (MFTL+)
 
Wasn't it shown in some blueprints that the Portal Gun is powered by a mini black hole?
Yeah, it's a miniature black hole inside the Portal Gun iirc. Would it even meet the black hole standards?
Yeah, it was and I've already included it in my sandbox for the thing, and no, I doubt it would meet the standards given it's being stopped by a tiny cooling fan from exploding.
Cool, massive outlier though.
On the wiki it is currently listed that Wheatley is comparable in reaction to GLaDOS (who is MFTL+).

Since neither Wheatley or GLaDOS could react to moon portal, couldn't their reaction time be used in the calculation?

It would not be Calc Stack as it is an official statement.
Where did you get "neither Wheatley ot GLaDOs could react to the moon portal" from that? How would they react? GLaDOS is "helping" Chell and would have no reason to stop them and Wheatley has been depowered and ran out of things to use, resorting to mocking and yelling at Chell to stop.

Also it very visibly traveled in three seconds. if it was as instantaneous as you proclaim it to be, they wouldn't have bothered making it take time to reach the moon (also it being below SoL makes it better fit the setting of the Portal/Half-Life universe, like there is a video that goes over how the Portal Gun matches real science linked earlier in this thread).
 
Yeah, it was and I've already included it in my sandbox for the thing, and no, I doubt it would meet the standards given it's being stopped by a tiny cooling fan from exploding.
We're talking about the company that developed portals in the 50's, a super-asia that ended up killing them, lasers, torrents and more technologies that defy current physics. So it is quite plausible that it is a real one.

In addition, the blueprint itself mentions that it has an Event Horizon Estimation Wheel in case the black hole gets out of control, which allows estimating a safe distance from the device.

Which surprises me coming from Aperture, I was expecting them to say "Since you are there, let us know if you travel to another universe".
Where did you get "neither Wheatley ot GLaDOs could react to the moon portal" from that? How would they react? GLaDOS is "helping" Chell and would have no reason to stop them and Wheatley has been depowered and ran out of things to use, resorting to mocking and yelling at Chell to stop.

Also it very visibly traveled in three seconds. if it was as instantaneous as you proclaim it to be, they wouldn't have bothered making it take time to reach the moon (also it being below SoL makes it better fit the setting of the Portal/Half-Life universe, like there is a video that goes over how the Portal Gun matches real science linked earlier in this thread).
My bad, I remembered that during that part when shooting all dialogue and music stopped and went into a slow time mode.

I just watched the ending again, and yes my bad. 😅
 
I was going to say how I have added more unevaluated calcs to the OP, but they seem to have been evaluated like a few hours ago so... we now have 9-A to 8-C Houndeyes and High 8-C Combine Technology.

Also now that there is a Small Planet Black Hole that doesn't really do anything for scaling, here's a Citadel/Superportal calc that I had cooking for like a year. I've also added a few more details for the wip Verse page and a preview of that scale blog with interesting speed scaling that will probably either be refined or replaced by something more reasonable. It also very heavily work in progress so let me know if you have problems with it or suggestions. (Also Health and Damage blog I found)
 
I just realized something potentially major for the Combine's upper technology limit. Their teleportation devices are based on string theory and specifically the Calabi Yau model, which means they are using 6 Dimensional spacetime to teleport across the infinite multiverse
Interesting, but I don't really know what this information would do, upgrade range I guess?
I just recently played through Half Life OF, and in The Package, a mortar cannon can destroy this gate and 3 wall pieces
I kinda calced this already, but with only 2 wall pieces and the old Gordon Height. Maybe once I update the calcs with the new height, you can try using the values and find a higher result using them.
 
Interesting, but I don't really know what this information would do, upgrade range I guess?
Not much for AP, but it would give their upper technology 6D Dimensional/Spatial manipulation via teleportation
I kinda calced this already, but with only 2 wall pieces and the old Gordon Height. Maybe once I update the calcs with the new height, you can try using the values and find a higher result using them.
I posted another version and 3.04 tons of tnt was accepted
 
Oh that's great! If I recall correctly, though might be incorrect because it was a few years ago, I tried checking how much in-game damage the Mortar and ended up with around 100 points of damage. That's like also the same amount of damage that most of the explosive weapons do (100 to 150 I believe) so it should scale to them.
Yeah I tried getting it to hit myself in game and I managed to survive it with full health and armor
 
I remember Gordon (Half-life 2) could stand on top of a hollow cardboard box without crushing it. Can this be used as an ability addition? Or is it just a simple game mechanism?
 
Yeah, no that doesn't look like "survivable". From my testing, and this video too, I'm fairly confident that the Strider Warp Cannon does 200 damage (which is listed as "death" in the prima guide for HL2 and is the same amount of damage as the RPG) and the only reason you could "survive" that is because Half-Life does have code to account for Inverse Square Law. Maybe it could be an "At most" rating?

Also, isn't the Warp Cannon blast like, roughly 2 meters from the ground? Could it mean that dividing the blast's area in half isn't necessary?

Also also, I have moved the scaling thing to a blog and completed more of the HL2 stuff. I do have an idea of a calculation for AP of the AR2 and Citadel energy orbs that involves them being batteries for various Combine devices, including the Suppression Device, but I wanna focus on other feats for LS or Speed instead cause we don't have a lot of those at the moment.
 
Also, isn't the Warp Cannon blast like, roughly 2 meters from the ground? Could it mean that dividing the blast's area in half isn't necessary?
It's still technically a "surface" explosion since it's from hitting the concrete pillar rather than exploding mid air

I wanna focus on other feats for LS or Speed instead cause we don't have a lot of those at the moment.
There aren't that many feats in general, but I think the HL1 protag's throwing barrels or crates around might get something
 
Can I post a controversial feat?
*Gordon can survive in the helicopter crash. The explosion caused by the crash was relatively huge. But Gordon is far away from the crash site. If Gordon gets closer to the center of the crash, he will be killed or suffer large-scale injuries. So I can't guarantee if this feat can be scaled for Gordon.
 
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Can I post a controversial feat?
*Gordon can survive in the helicopter crash. The explosion caused by the crash was relatively huge. But Gordon is far away from the crash site. If Gordon gets closer to the center of the crash, he will be killed or suffer large-scale injuries. So I can't guarantee if this feat can be scaled for Gordon.
You can't get any closer? It could either be an outlier or an at most rating (depending of what result it lands on), there's plenty of High 8-C stuff and a single 8-B one if i recall
 
You can't get any closer? It could either be an outlier or an at most rating (depending of what result it lands on), there's plenty of High 8-C stuff and a single 8-B one if i recall
Ah sorry I forgot to mention one thing, the Feat I provided earlier was recorded on Hard difficulty, so whether or not it had an effect on damage is unknown.
 
I remember in the "power up" chapter that Gargantua could shake the surrounding building room by some means. Can this Feat be calculated? I don't know if it's achieved by sound shaking or pure brute force though.
 
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Bump that starts with a funny question that might be important or something: Which Barney is Barney?

Also I probably should put that Airstrike calc in the evaluation thread.
 
Gordon Possibly Regeneration or High Pain Tolerance?
In the "Point Insertion" chapter of Half-Life 2, Gordon sometimes gets shot several times while evading pursuit from Civil Protection. However, Gordon will soon recover and continue to move forward as if nothing had happened.
Note that Gordon has not yet worn the HEV Suit at this time.
 
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