Can You Catch Headcrabs?

[Angry Rope]

If one of those loud beans jumps at your face, can you snatch him out of the air like a baseball?

[Toyfan1]

nope.
The closest you can do is use a chair, bucket or etc to hit it out of the way. There is no hand to NPC interaction

correction:
You can barely catch regular headcrabs before they bug out.
You can reliably catch armored headcrabs. As thats what your supposed to do with em.
Still no hand to npc interaction though.

[Sir Smite]

Haven' tried, would like to know in order to get that one achievement. I did try to take a swipe at one midair, but not sure if I failed or it just didn't work since he still got me.

[Angry Rope]

That's a shame :(

[-Rabid67-]

Guy just told me you can and you get a good look at their mouths
Timing

[AgentMC]

Originally posted by Toyfan1:

There is no hand to NPC interaction

That's wrong. You can definitely slap Combine soldiers both alive and dead, there's special sound for that...

[Byeah]

Originally posted by Toyfan1:

There is no hand to NPC interaction

Huh?

[branciforte]

I don't think you can grabbity them with the gloves, but I know you can pick up live ones and I believe I've caught a few that jumped at me while I was out of ammo. Pretty scary to stare into the jaws of one thrashing around in your hand. I tried slamming one into the wall repeatedly, but it didn't seem to do any harm.

[Angry Rope]

Got Boneworks and Robo-recall if I wanna catch leapy boys I guess. I still think I will really like this title.

[Sir Smite]

Originally posted by branciforte:

I don't think you can grabbity them with the gloves, but I know you can pick up live ones and I believe I've caught a few that jumped at me while I was out of ammo. Pretty scary to stare into the jaws of one thrashing around in your hand. I tried slamming one into the wall repeatedly, but it didn't seem to do any harm.

Aw man, I would love to have been able to do that.

[Splitat]

Originally posted by -Rabid67-:

Guy just told me you can and you get a good look at their mouths
Timing

Absolutely - more through luck than judgement, I ended up holding a headcrab that was jumping at my head. Critter squirmed like a jack rabbit - until I stuck the shotgun into its gnashing teeth and blew it to pieces.

[SEXCOPTER RUL]

you CAN catch them, but you have to let go within 2 seconds or it damages you. with the armored ones you have just enough time to catch and shoot em in the shiney part.

this aint no boneworks though. thank god the game looks this good and the story is awesome, because from a purely vr gameplay mechanics angle, this game is at least 2 years behind everything else.

its like a very very good version of arizona sunshine with SLIGHTLY better locomotion.

[silkktheshocker]

Originally posted by SEXCOPTER RUL:

you CAN catch them, but you have to let go within 2 seconds or it damages you. with the armored ones you have just enough time to catch and shoot em in the shiney part.

this aint no boneworks though. thank god the game looks this good and the story is awesome, because from a purely vr gameplay mechanics angle, this game is at least 2 years behind everything else.

its like a very very good version of arizona sunshine with SLIGHTLY better locomotion.

dude I caught one and was holding onto his back while his little legs were kicking lol I threw him real far and he actually broke a leg and was limping around. that totally blew my mind.

[Toyfan1]

Originally posted by AgentMC:

Originally posted by Toyfan1:

There is no hand to NPC interaction

That's wrong. You can definitely slap Combine soldiers both alive and dead, there's special sound for that...

You sure? just tried it on the first combine soldier you meet in chapter 3.
He just melees you.
You can slap em around and ♥♥♥♥, like the dead bodies, but nothing will damage them.
Rift S, maybe the Index can do it, but that hardly matters.

[branciforte]

Originally posted by Splitat:

Originally posted by -Rabid67-:

Guy just told me you can and you get a good look at their mouths
Timing

Absolutely - more through luck than judgement, I ended up holding a headcrab that was jumping at my head. Critter squirmed like a jack rabbit - until I blew it to pieces with a shotgun shell.

Next time I'm in the game, I'll try picking up an armored one and shooting it. I hate those guys, though I'm getting better at shooting them in the stomach when they briefly rear up on their hind legs before jumping at you.

[Byeah]

Originally posted by branciforte:

Originally posted by Splitat:

Absolutely - more through luck than judgement, I ended up holding a headcrab that was jumping at my head. Critter squirmed like a jack rabbit - until I blew it to pieces with a shotgun shell.

Next time I'm in the game, I'll try picking up an armored one and shooting it. I hate those guys, though I'm getting better at shooting them in the stomach when they briefly rear up on their hind legs before jumping at you.

I don't think you can just pick up headcrabs right away. There's a small amount of time upon landing where they ragdoll, but that's like one second of downtime.