Did Anyone Else Notice This?


Okay, with a game like this (as with action packed movies) there are a lot of things going on at once and its easy to miss the small but thoughtful details. As I couldn't possibly claim to see everything I thought this might be a chance for us to share what we have seen. I'll start the ball rolling with these two snippits:-

As you jump into the car for the first time and look over at Alyx, she actually winks at you! It only happens that one time - at least I can't see her doing it again at any point. Anyone else catch that one?

At the missile launch, Dr Kliener can be heard saying something about a payload anomoly of 8.5lbs with the missile, I think it might be Lemarr trapped on board. I seem to recall seeing her/him/it before the launch (can't remember if it was in the silo or not) and then there wasn't any sign afterwards. Plus on one of the menu screens that show the inside of the silo (the one with Adam Baldwins character patroling about) you briefly see a headcrab walking about - if it wasn't Lemarr the guards would have shot it. Will this be significant in Ep3?

Any others?


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Most probably noticed this, but during the first communication with Kliener and Eli, when the arrogant scientist (sorry, his name eludes me) says something about how great he is, I looked beside me at Alyx and she looked at me and rolled her eyes. It made me smile, because it was such a perfect and honest reaction, but I would have missed it if I hadn't decided to look at her just then.

I think I looked at Alyx after having been driving for a little bit and she winked at me. I'm not 100% on that, but maybe she is set to wink the first time you look at her in the car; I kept looking at her, but she never winked again.

That's a really good theory about Lemarr. I saw her crawling up the missile, but I never put 2 and 2 together.


I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?

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Another thought occured to me about the payload anomoly, it might be referring to a lack of weight and not extra - I'd have to go back and listen to it.

The reason for this train of thought is that there is an achievment for sending the Gnome into orbit - although I think 8.5lbs is maybe a bit heavy for a Gnome. I wish I could remember where I found it, I stumbled across it by accident I think it was under a desk somewhere - definitely hidden. I remember ending up with it and thinking WTF is this for!!

I think the wink is a little set piece that happens the first time you look at Alyx when she's riding shotgun. Yep, I caught Alyx rolling here eyes at Magnusson's little ego trip, very funny and very convincing. It was even better the one that Breen did in his office near the end of HL2 when Judith was prattling on, it was a definite "Please shut up now" look.

I think its simply fantastic that they can generate this kind of emotive expressions on the characters faces, its sometimes so subtle that you forget that its really only a buch of pixels and code your watching.

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Yepo deffinently saw Alyx wink at the Freeman when in the car, couldt help but grin when that happened , it just added that extra sexual attraction between these two, i mean seriously Alyx wants Gordon BIG TIME

I did also see the eyeroll towarsd "Magnussons little ego trip" (as JohnnyBoy700 wrote) but that second one i didnt catch onto. Might have to go back and watch that one.

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Always thought their relationship was a bit weird. A capable, attractive, athletic young woman fancying a man who looks like... well, like me. Come on!

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The Gnome: he's in the room where you and Alyx first communicate with White Mountain. He's underneath something (I forget if it's a bed or table or something) in the back corner. If you were facing the communication screen he would be in the corner behind you on your left.

I read the achievments before I played and so when I pulled him out I was pretty excited. I shot him out the skylight hoping that would be "sending him into space" and then I heard the transmission about the rocket launch and realized how stupid I had been.

I carried him with me all the way to the underground caves were...

*** Spoiler ***

the vortigaunts heal Alyx

*** end spoiler ***

but then a few levels later I suddenly realized he wasn't with me anymore. I don't really understand how you get him there because I've tried carrying stuff on the car and it just falls right through. I guess you could keep stopping, shooting him ahead, driving up to him, and then stopping, shooting him ahead... repeat ad infinitum.


Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

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The 8.5 lb is lamarr, its confirmed officially somewhere (though i cant remember right now)

Funny thing i noticed first time was the alcoholic welder.

When the car needed repairs, and you and alyx walk into a garage, theres a guy on the right welding another car. Go up to him and knock the beer bottle from the bonnet with the gravity gun (or throw it) and he goes 'Hey! I was drinking that!' Normally i just punt everything i see when theres a cut scene with the gravity gun and none of the characters react to it, so this was SO unexpected and made me chuckle :)

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Another thought occured to me about the payload anomoly, it might be referring to a lack of weight and not extra - I'd have to go back and listen to it.


No, it's Lemarr. If you use the no clipping cheat and inspect the rocket that gets launched at the end (normally that area is not accessible to the player) you will find that Lemarr is inside. The model of Lemarr that you find does not react to the player in any way, but I still thought it was very good attention to detail for the developers to put it there.

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You all can confirm it yourself, go back to the scene where you first see the rocket, and climb up the stairs on the left, you'll see Heady jump inside the rocket, you can even close the door on him ((however closeing the door is more for the gnome acheivment then anything.

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Yeah, the whole Alyx/Gordon this is a little creepy. He's old enough to be her father!

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How old is Gordon supposed to be?

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Yeah I was thinking the same, but he's 28. (although he has been in stasis,he doesnt age that period)

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could someone plz make a list of the rebels adam baldwin played
i know one was the speakers operatior in the silo defence battle

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That was THE most random request i've ever heard anyone say about anything...

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As you jump into the car for the first time and look over at Alyx, she actually winks at you! It only happens that one time - at least I can't see her doing it again at any point. Anyone else catch that one?


This is true, but I think it happens at certain times throughout (like in Episode 1, when you are holding a flashlight and you aim it at Alyx's face, she holds a hand up in front of her face to keep the light from her eyes). I tried this out when replaying one of the driving levels and looked at her when first climbing into the car. She turned, winked and then turned forward.

At the missile launch, Dr Kliener can be heard saying something about a payload anomoly of 8.5lbs with the missile, I think it might be Lemarr trapped on board. I seem to recall seeing her/him/it before the launch (can't remember if it was in the silo or not) and then there wasn't any sign afterwards. Plus on one of the menu screens that show the inside of the silo (the one with Adam Baldwins character patroling about) you briefly see a headcrab walking about - if it wasn't Lemarr the guards would have shot it. Will this be significant in Ep3?


Don't know about significance, but I can confirm that the 8.5 pounds extra weight is Lemarr. I replayed the silo part again, and went around Doctor M. and watched Lemarr climb into the cockpit area and stay there (after Doctor M. opened the hatch for me to climb down to go to Silo 2, I went back around to where Kliener was standing at the start and she was still there). But the big question I have to ask is this: How the hell did she come back from where she fell out to during the transport section in the original game (remember when she jumps on you when you attempt to teleport, causing everything to go wrong? She fell off at one point and didn't jump back on)? So, who knows? Maybe that little headcrab will be back.

But this one's eating my popcorn!

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Lots of women old enough to be his granddaughter think Sean Connery's pretty hot.

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When you first get to the bridge to get you car, you look around at all the dead bodies and if you go over to the window and look out at the Bridge you see someone walking along, I think it is that guy who talks to you when time freezes.

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Lots of women old enough to be his granddaughter think Sean Connery's pretty hot.


That explains it! Since how Sean Connery does the voice of Gordon!
It's all so obvious now!

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One thing that was mentioned in this thread was the welder who yells at you, "Hey! I was drinkin' that!" when you break his beer bottle at the beginning of Under the Radar. Another thing that welder does is when you walk up to him, he'll have a little bit of dialogue. I quote exactly what he says:

"Hey, don't worry about us. See this car? We're fixin' it up, and gettin' the hell outta here. Drivin' to Hawaii! Beaches, babes and waves! Tell you what, if you ever get sick of this rebel crap, you know who to talk to."

Sounds like a great plan, but I think it falls apart on the "driving to Hawaii" thing. I never found this little bit of dialoge until my second or third playthrough. I like it. Maybe Hawaii is now some kind of rebel paradise club that the Combine don't know about.

Or not. Whatever!
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"I was raised on the dairy, bitch!" -Kenny Rogers' Jackass

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The Combine are draining Earth's oceans. That could be why he said that.

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Haha. I read that and actually lol'd. Then I read back up the post and realized I was the one you were quoting and laughed again.

Thank you.

Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

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What the hell? Why was the post above mine "removed by administrator"? They guy made a joke about MY earlier post (where I said I kept looking at her and she never looked at me again. He said maybe it was because I was creeping her out).

He was joking/making fun of me and I thought it was hilarious. Who the hell reported it and why would it get removed? I don't understand what the system is for removing content on this site? Just one complaint, no matter how little justification it gets, and it's gone?

Let's try something, I'm going to make another post right after this one, could someone please report it, and we'll see what happens.



Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

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marshmallows are fluffy and i like the sun.



Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

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