Unidentified Half-Life 2: Episode Three weapon
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Footage shown in the Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary depicts an unidentified weapon designed for Half-Life 2: Episode Three that was never included in any released project.[1]
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Overview[edit]
The weapon used the same model as the Paint Gun also seen in a Portal 2 development video[2] and the depleted uranium-235 ammunition icon used by the Tau Cannon and Gluon Gun in the original Half-Life. In the very brief time it is shown on-screen in the documentary, the weapon is never fired, leaving its abilities unknown.
As the documentary footage demonstrates it alongside the Ice Gun, evidence from previous Episode Three leaks suggests this unidentified weapon could be a new gun called the Weaponizer, a device utilizing concrete, liquid, and metal in some fashion,[3] or even the previously indicated Tau Cannon or Gluon Gun.[4][5] It is also possible it could be the Flamethrower or Teleport Gun referenced in these same files.[3][5] Using the Weaponizer model,[a] this suggests this unidentified Episode Three weapon is either the Weaponizer itself or another weapon using the same model as a placeholder.
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ Initially suggested via internal reslist files in Portal 2 defining the placeholder model used in that game for the Paint Gun,[6] the actual model for the Weaponizer would later surface in the 2026 Steam2 server content dump.
References[edit]
- ↑
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary on YouTube
- ↑
Portal Problems - Lecture 11 - CS50's Introduction to Game Development 2018 on YouTube
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Dota 2 Client Leaked – Including Actual HL2: Episode Three Code on LambdaGeneration
- ↑ Episode 3 and SOB FGDs leaked! on ValveLeakware (February 18, 2013) (archived)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 ep3.fgd on Valve Archive
- ↑ Portal 2 game files,
reslists\e3_paint_speed_tbeam.lst