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twzsmasher Feb 23, 2018 @ 10:51pm
Why are there no eyes on the headcrab in HL2?
In HL1, in between the leg claws and the little teeth the headcrabs use to walk, you can see that
they have 2 eyes on each side, but there are none in HL2. Is this some forgotten detail or what?
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coolman552 Feb 24, 2018 @ 12:35am 
probably a mutation because headcrabs are used as biological weapons by the UU in hl2
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Sovereign Feb 24, 2018 @ 12:56am 
It's just an updated design, just like with all the other creatures that appear in both games.
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twzsmasher Feb 24, 2018 @ 10:07am 
Originally posted by Sovereign:
It's just an updated design, just like with all the other creatures that appear in both games.
I guess you're right, but I'm wondering.. If they actually have no eyes.. then how the hell would they see?
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Sovereign Feb 24, 2018 @ 10:13am 
Originally posted by twzsmasher:
Originally posted by Sovereign:
It's just an updated design, just like with all the other creatures that appear in both games.
I guess you're right, but I'm wondering.. If they actually have no eyes.. then how the hell would they see?
Same way the Xenomorph sees I assume. XD
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Ghidrah1 Feb 24, 2018 @ 11:02am 
Many animals don't have eyes, shrimp, crabs, fish, spiders, beetles, salamanders, depends on the environment they developed in and or have existed in for (X) ages. Some animals use infrared to see like snakes in the dark. Mosquitoes can actually see the CO2 gas expelled from your breath
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CoreRelief Feb 28, 2018 @ 5:15pm 
There is a possible reason to this in the story. In the beta there was a "Big Momma" pod under Ravenholm, the Combine used this to create crabs as weapons. You were to destroy it to stop Ravenholm being filled with zombies. It is possible that the Combine carefully created the crabs here. The Fast Headcrab and the Poison Headcrab were possibly made by the Combine too.
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Sovereign Feb 28, 2018 @ 5:24pm 
Originally posted by Mariotom555:
There is a possible reason to this in the story. In the beta there was a "Big Momma" pod under Ravenholm, the Combine used this to create crabs as weapons. You were to destroy it to stop Ravenholm being filled with zombies. It is possible that the Combine carefully created the crabs here. The Fast Headcrab and the Poison Headcrab were possibly made by the Combine too.
The Combine didn't create the fast & poison headcrabs. Apparantly some of the Xen creatures adapted to earth after the portal storms with the headcrab variants being the main examples.
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twzsmasher Feb 28, 2018 @ 8:20pm 
From what I've heard, they genetically mutated the headcrabs to make the fast and poison variants.
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Sovereign Mar 1, 2018 @ 3:20am 
Originally posted by twzsmasher:
From what I've heard, they genetically mutated the headcrabs to make the fast and poison variants.
Nope, Marc Laidlaw (head writer of HL1&2) said they adapted on their own.
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