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When a human character is gibbed, there is a 5% chance that the human skull will fly directly at the player's face regardless of the player's distance from the target.
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While in an interview with Valve News Network in February of 2018, Gray Newell (Son of Gabe Newell) revealed that the final boss of Half-Life, the Nihilanth, represented him as a baby, stating "The Final Boss of Half-Life 1 actually the 'giant evil baby monster' is supposed to be me. When my mother was in childbirth they were thinking 'what's something really scary,' and at the time, having a child seemed to be the most scary thing to everyone."
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There are two unused NPC behavioral scripts for the Vortigaunt, one which causes it to flee the battlefield if if sees the corpses of other vortigaunts and another one where a vortigaunt could resurrect a teanmate of it's kind if they witnessed it's dead.
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The AI has the ability to react to certain smells, such as the guards commenting on the scent of corpses or a Bullsquid detecting nearby food by scent. Additionally, there's a removed feature of the scientist commenting on smell, much like the guards.
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The lines of the HECU grunts and the VOX announcement system were made using individual word sound files that play in sequence to form sentences, the lines for the grunts having a normal and a screaming variation.
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The damage done by the Houndeye pack's sonic attack increases exponentially, depending on the number of Houndeyes in the pack. If a squad leader is killed, the entire squad is weakened. Their shock wave colors range from weakest to strongest as white, sky blue, dark blue, and violet.
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There is an unused NPC behavioral script for the Hound Eye, which causes it to approach machines or blinking lights and paw at them out of curiosity.
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The premise for this game was inspired by the Steven King book, The Mist, which is about how a slew of monsters ravages a city after a test in a secret military base goes awry. The code name of the project, Quiver, is a reference to the name of the military base, Arrowhead.
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There was a Dreamcast port in development at the same time as the PlayStation 2 version. The port was being developed by Gearbox Software and was going have the Blue Shift expansion included. Though is was almost finished and was pretty much ready to ship, the port was cancelled "due to changing market conditions."
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In original copies of Half-Life, During Chapter 3, there is a secret room in map c1a1c that can only be accessed by enabling cheat mode and noclipping through the floor. The room is made of tiled pictures of Valve co-founder Gabe Newell. The room still exists in later versions of the game, although the imagery of Newell has been removed and attempting to enter the room takes you back into the normal map.
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