"Morphine administered."

[1337Walrus]

When you take fairly major damage (usually a fall the HEV identifies as a "major fracture" or get in a sustained firefight), your suit pipes in, comments on activating it's automatic medical systems, and injects morphine into Freeman.

Does this actually do anything from a gameplay perspective, or is it just for immersion/to remind you that you've taken a good chunk of damage?

[Tom]

I believe you take less damage when it says that.

[Vassago Rain]

It does nothing, and doesn't in the real half-life games either.

[600piecesof8]

Oh, it gives you psychological comfort, that you are not alone in this painful world. Apart from that not much.

[Redxplatinum]

Usually normal people we would faint and lose conscience but we get morphine we hang on to 1hp and keep doing what we do.

[Doc Tear Popper]

Now that I think about it, it's kinda weird how Adrian and Barney can run just fine even with low hp and no morphine, unless it's included with the PCVs...

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Duc P:

Now that I think about it, it's kinda weird how Adrian and Barney can run just fine even with low hp and no morphine, unless it's included with the PCVs...

PCV has a lot more advanced stuff in it than the HEV suit models, but Barney is simply magically able to do everything and then some.

[Tenjen]

It's mainly for flavor. the suit in the original Half Life has many different reactions to the damage you take, how much you take and how you took it as well as your health status after.

Morphine is given after you are hit with an enormous amount of damage. It goes on a 30 minute Cooldown after that.

https://youtu.be/6oPGjA5-4AM

[1337Walrus]

Originally posted by Tenjen:

It's mainly for flavor. the suit in the original Half Life has many different reactions to the damage you take, how much you take and how you took it as well as your health status after.

Morphine is given after you are hit with an enormous amount of damage. It goes on a 30 minute Cooldown after that.

https://youtu.be/6oPGjA5-4AM

Watching that video and then playing Black Mesa is what inspired me to ask, actually. Funny you link it.

[Vassago Rain]

It's worth noting that the HEV suit in black mesa is voiced by the same guy who does Gman. A lot of filters and work went into it.

[600piecesof8]

As a BM scientist, I'd still feel very uncomfortable knowing the Mark IV runs on Windows 98. As a feature request, I urge the devs to switch to a Unix-style system! - Apparently, Aperture successfully managed to hack into the system, telling us the pizza is a lie.

(See initialising sequence showing Windows file paths, once you put the suit on.)

[Zeddy]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

PCV has a lot more advanced stuff in it than the HEV suit models, but Barney is simply magically able to do everything and then some.

He is driven by the determination to get Gordon that beer he owes him.

Owing a beer is an unbreakable oath that cannot the stopped by pesky details like alien invasions or the apocalypse.

[thray]

Originally posted by Tenjen:

It's mainly for flavor. the suit in the original Half Life has many different reactions to the damage you take, how much you take and how you took it as well as your health status after.

Morphine is given after you are hit with an enormous amount of damage. It goes on a 30 minute Cooldown after that.

https://youtu.be/6oPGjA5-4AM

Great video.
Thanks!