What's the point of the rebar being heated?
extra fuck you
So that it makes a cool noise when you reload.
looks cool
>>732772938better piercing
>>732772938extra 5% fire damage against undead
>>732772938Penetration potential + causes Combiniggers and headcraps to suffer more
If someone in close quarters tries to disarm you by grabbing it they'll go YEOWCHIE
>>732772938ghetto armor piercing incendiary or something. most importantly it looks cool
>>732772938to light up your cigar
How does the rebar even get heated in the first place?
>>732772938to cauterize the wound ofc and make the rebar more painful to extract, it's some vietcong level of diabolical
>>732774145Battery circuit on the bottom, causes rebar to overheat with electrical energy
>>732774145with a battery
>>732773908heh, give em the ol spicy hand
>>732774145You see that box underneath? Thats a battery. I shouldnt need to explain any more than this
>>732774346>>732774382>>732774423There's no way the rebar could heat up as fast as it does in game.
>>732774423what is a box?
>>732774278>painful to extractBy who? This isnt an active warzone were killing aliens and making sure whatever we hit has its natural defences not mean SHIT
>>732774473It could with high enough voltage
>>732774473they have teleporters and gravity guns and your worry is that they might not have advanced heating tech?
>>732774473Because it's a video game.
>>732774473So. Just because youd probably explode IRL if you were anywhere near that powerful a current doesnt mean that isnt how it works.
>>732772938wouldn't it instantly cauterize the wound and make it less effective since the target wouldn't bleed out?
>>732772938cool that it's even slightly hotter on the side closer to the charger
>>732774627The target would be fucking dead because it has rebar through 4 organs. And if it isnt dead its being shot again
>>732774627usually enemies hit by the crossbow are dead and attached to the nearest surface before they get a chance to bleed anywhere
>>732774637Should it not be more symmetrical? I assume it works something like this
>>732774823then it wouldn't look as cool
>>732773857Your mom has a lot of penetration potential.
The weaponry is one of the best parts of Half-Life 2's atmosphere desu. The way it's all improvised or looted from the invaders is really cool and looting enemy Combine or finding resistance supplies is a great way to introduce the player to new weapons
Some dude on jewtube made the crossbow in real life and heating the rebar just makes it a piece of shit. It'll burn whatever it hits but the rebar ends up so soft that it can't penetrate anything even slightly hard because the force of impact just bends it instead. Plain rebar also isn't aerodynamic at all so it just immediately starts spinning out the second it leaves the crossbow.unheated rebar with a sharpened tip and at least some attempt at fletching would make it way deadlier but it would still have a pretty shitty range.
>>732774943Strangely, I don't think we ever see a resistance member use the crossbow, even though it's the most ghetto weapon available
>>732772938it's red so it means it's faster and does extra damage
>>732774823I guess the power isn't that strong, so most of the energy gets absorbed to the part that is closer to current start point.
>>732774627having your heart or brain cauterized with a piece of rebar still in it is not going to save your life
>>732774739>>732774758>>732775119not every shot is guaranteed to hit a vital organ
>>732775182your skill issue is not my problem
>>732774894What the FUCK
>>732774497a container for severed heads
>>732774473https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j9jiZzkhpdsdurrrrrrrrrrrr retard kill yourself
>>732774943>Pistol and SMG are intentionally gimped to nudge players into using the gravity gunThis is what has harmed the legacy of HL2 and why everyone prefers Black Mesa or HL1 over it now
>>732773857>>732773857making something hotter (to a point) makes it less hard and thus decreases its penetration capability.A rebar of that color of heat would be significantly softer and be significantly less penatrative.t. works with hot metal (make knives)
>>732772938to go through a body like butter and make you extra dead
>>732775216rude desu
>>732775032npc ai probably can't handle projectile weapons, so resistance members with crossbow would be extra useless. I'm sure devs could have implemented that, if that was important for gameplay and had time.
>>732772938
>>732775289steel beams don't melt human flesh
>>732775182>get shot in the thigh>rebar shatters my femur, causing unimaginable pain>burns the flesh around it, sealing the rebar in>get shot again in the torso>rebar pierces my intestines, spilling waste into my body cavity>rebar cooks my organs and briefly sets my skin and clothes on fire>it also pierced my spine, even if I could have walked on my broken leg, I can't move anything now>get shot in the head, thank god
>>732775552one of these would fix you right up
>>732775634made from freshly squeezed antlion grubs
>>732774627That amount of heat wouldn't just cauterize the wound, it would cook a significant amount of tissue throughout the body of whoever it hit while setting them on fire.
>>732775552morphine administered
>>732772938they sometimes heated cannonballs during the imperial age to set the target on fire, make it harder to remove and possibly ignite gunpowder supply.
>>732775634>images you can hear
the deflecting shots were pointless but still fun to do
>>732774473go put a piece of rebar across 12v battery terminals
>>732776075i only ever did bounce shots, made HL2DM super fun. i have no proof of this but it really felt like the bolt picked up a lot of speed after bouncing
>>732772938Using rebar as a crossbow bolt is absolutely ridiculous. Next time you're in a hardware store pick some up and feel how heavy it is. This thing is far more unrealistic than any of the alien technology in the game.
>>732775414Probably. There's resistance members that carry RPGs but they almost never fire their weapon because they have shittons of friendly fire checks that all have to pass before they can do anything
>>732776929But it's cool.
>>732776929if it used regular bolts, no one would remember it
>>732777195It's actually quite hot
>>732772938>DOMINIC YOU RAT!
>>732777576
>>732774473Your electric oven is literally a rebar and a battery
>>732772938Because it glows and it's orange, which means it's enchanted with xen shit
>>732774535it's electric current that causes resistive (joule) heating
>>732775062the current is the same throughout the circuit, therefore the heating should be uniform, and blackbody radiation coming off the rebar should more or less be the same between the electrodes
>>732775881It needs metal rods that are the correct width i.e. rebarBut rebar doesn't usually come in such short pieces so you need proper tools to cut them, not just something Gordon can do with his handsAlso the rebar sticking out of rubble won't work because it's not straight anymore
>>732779208What exactly makes this stuff special anyway?
>>732774473Rebar shouldn't fly as straight as it does in game either but here we are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MP0z2_IyE
>>732779801It reinforces concrete so it doesn't crumble like chinese ramen noodle walls
HL2 overcharged is so much fun.
>>732779801it's standardizedyou can look at the markings and know exactly what its specs are, intended use, material, grade, etc.
>>732779801rebar has those grooves so it flies perfectly straight without fletching>>732780145under tension, that is
>>732775285Don't worry about it
>>732774627>tranny>is retardedThis post is 4chan approved.
>>732774473it"s probably a high tech battery. IRL you'd need a car battery and it would also probably weld itself to the poles and not fire very well. hacksmith made one, although the bolts it shoots are considerably thinner, the battery is much larger and it takes a few seconds to heat up.
Why cant modern devs make guns with this visceral of a result of hitting someone.KTHUNKURK SIZZLE>Slammed into and stuck in the fucking wall
>>732772938It's cool
hurts like a bitch
>>732784448no its hot idiot
>>732772938It helps it fly better.Hot air rises, so hot objects tend to fly/lift better.
>>732774416Many such cases
