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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)

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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	comment	Half-Life: Alyx is a VR First-Person Shooter developed and published by Valve, serving as an Interquel to Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and the first installment of the Half-Life series since 2007's Half-Life 2: Episode Two. It was released on March 23rd, 2020 on Steam for SteamVR-compatible systems (e.g. Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest, Windows Mixed Reality, and PIMAX).Set five years before the events of Half-Life 2, the player takes control of Human Resistance member Alyx Vance as she and her father Eli take the fight to the Combine. After Eli discovers a secret that the Combine have tried to keep hidden and is captured by them, she must venture into the Quarantine Zone to save him from imprisonment—or worse—and investigate the secret he uncovered. Along the way she is assisted by Russell, who serves as her Mission Control, and the Gravity Gloves (or "Russells" as they're referred to) which serve as short-range prototype predecessors of the Gravity Gun.Teased as a "flagship VR title", Valve wanted to develop a AAA VR title after working on VR technology with Vive, seeing it at as something players would desire. Following a prototype using Half-Life 2's assets, the game entered full production with a team of 80 people, using an updated Source 2 engine. The game was revealed with a trailer in November 2019. Marc Laidlaw and Kelly Bailey, the former writer and composer of the Half-Life games respectively, served as consultants for the game.Previews: Anouncement Trailer, Gameplay Video 1, Gameplay Video 2, Gameplay Video 3.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: In-Universe example regarding Gordon Freeman and his crowbar. According to Russell, "He fought his way out of Black Mesa with nothing but that crowbar!" Alyx finds that hard to believe.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_13dcb20b	type	Antepiece
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_13dcb20b	comment	Antepiece: The player learns to jump/"teleport" in the first chapter, where they must stand at the top of a ramp and aim their controller toward the top of the adjacent low wall. Failure to do this properly merely results in the player landing back on the ground, forcing them to climb back up the ramp and try again. Later areas that require jumping tend to be less forgiving, with the threat of Alyx taking a lethal drop down a few floors or into a bottomless pit. Two notable examples with "Jeff": Jeff's introduction confines him to a narrow hallway below the player and provides numerous objects to throw (and accidentally send falling below), allowing the player to practice baiting him around safely. There's also a "training alcove" in the hallway with the crusted-down roller door that separates Jeff and the player—it lets Jeff stand close to the player's position to threaten them, but cannot actually attack them as the player toys with the various triggers of the level (e.g. glass bottles of vodka, a locker whose lock has to be destroyed with a gunshot for its contents, another locker filled with noise-making Xen clams). In an early puzzle, you are required to lure and lock Jeff inside a walk-in refrigerator. The refrigerator door is relatively complex for its need of both hands: you must slide it closed and hold it shut with one hand, while you secure the latch with your other hand. Earlier in the chapter, you get to open an identical refrigerator door, giving you a chance to observe how it works without the pressure of being killed if you take too long fumbling with it. Other examples include the armored headcrab and Reviver zombie introductions, which safely separate the player from the new threats with chainlink fences. Somewhat subverted with the Reviver zombie, since it can electrify the player through the metal fence.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The game's trailer featured the G-Man as its closing Wham Shot. In the game proper, the G-Man's presence is only vaguely implied until the ending.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	type	Unexpected Gameplay Change
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	comment	Unexpected Gameplay Change: Chapter 7, Jeff, handles significantly differently from the rest of the game—you're forced to navigate a Meat Moss infested building in order to reach a tunnel entrance while trying to avoid Jeff, a mutated human who is totally immune to every weapon you can use on him. You must balance reaching the tunnel entrance with using thrown objects (preferably glass bottles) to distract Jeff lest you be torn to pieces. In chapter 11, the player suddenly has to run from a very angry Strider, and then use the only hand-operated turret weapon in the entire game against it. This is followed up in Chapter 12 by taking away all of the player's gear besides the gravity gloves, and forcing them to fight through Combine squads with latent vortessence powering the vault along the walls, literally fighting the Combine like a vortigaunt; healing also becomes incredibly limited to pre-prepared health chargers and any syringes the enemies drop, so the player has to power on through.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_15264ac9	type	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_15264ac9	comment	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: Alyx can take headcrab bites, zombie swipes, and even manhack cuts without too much injury as even the last type of damage has the manhacks glancing off instead of tearing deeper. Against the Combine wielding genuine ballistic and energy weaponry, however, she can die from just a handful of bullets thanks to wearing no body armor unlike the other series protagonists and being up against, well, bullets. Simultaneously, the Combine soldiers take more direct damage than she can thanks to having proper armor and gear, due in part to her weapons simply being less powerful and lower-caliber weapons that would realistically have poor armor penetrationnote Even her lone energy weapon, by virtue of being an SMG, is implicitly lower-caliber than the Pulse Rifles she's up against.; the only advantage she has is the player's presumed pragmatism and improvisation in mounting an offensive, like how being a resistance fighter should work. In this game, headcrabs are also given a dose of realism: their physiology is suited for leaping at its prey from great distances, but not so much for landing on their feet when they miss. As a result, any headcrab that finds itself pouncing at thin air will clumsily tumble across the surface upon landing, unlike in previous games, and can accidentally collide with walls and other objects too. Although you can beat headcrabs to death with blunt objects, try to do the same to a Combine soldier and you'll find them shrug off your blows with barely a reaction. There just isn't much a 19 year old girl with a pipe can do to a soldier twice her size covered head-to-toe in padded body armor. Speaking of headcrabs, the little critters are terrifying until you realize they're just tiny animals, and as such you can simply grab them in midair and just toss them out a window or into a trash can. A retroactive one for the prior games: Gordon Freeman's model in the ending isn't entirely visible thanks to the angle and lighting, but between the massive gaping hole in his armor with a bloodied, bandaged wound inside, and The Stinger kicking off with Gordon waking up as the HEV Suit warns about his life signs being critical, Gordon's almost non-stop trucking through three game's worth of violence and carnage has left him in a rather nasty and brutalized state, likely only persisting thanks to health kits and morphine. Of course, this being Freeman, he's still ready to keep at it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In Chapter 10, Alyx stumbles upon a Strider, deactivated. Russell mentions how terrible it would have been if it was in Alyx's way. Alyx groans and tells Russell to not jinx her. Sure enough, the Strider reactivates and Alyx must fight it. Lampshaded by both Alyx and the game as a case of "Textbook Jinxing".
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_16017f0	type	Broken Lever of Doom
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_16017f0	comment	Broken Lever of Doom: Once Alyx reaches Fairview Junction, she has to activate a Combine console in order to activate the emergency brakes for the train carrying Eli. A lever on the console breaks off the moment she grabs it, however, forcing her to find another way to stop the train.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1653843c	type	Dummied Out
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1653843c	comment	The Russells seem to be a refitted version of the Gravity Gloves, a weapon that was Dummied Out of Half-Life 2: Survivor, a Japan-only arcade game.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: At some point, the Combine manages to imprison the G-Man himself, a certified Time Master who can alter realities. This further reinforces the notion that the Resistance is only fighting a token force, and the full Combine army is much stronger than anyone could ever imagine. Assuming the G-Man didn't let himself be caught, of course.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx reveals that the Lone Vortigaunt whom Alyx encounters hiding in the QZ is named "Gary". This is further supported by it being in his model name.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Done for the third chapter, "Is Or Will Be".
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: None of Eli's lines from the trailer make it into the game, all taken from previous versions of the game's story. The second line he speaks in the trailer is a re-recording of Eli's last words from Episode Two with the new voice actor, a sneaky way of indicating this game ties into that game's ending. Russell does say the oft-quoted "I'm with you every step of the way" line from the trailer, but notably does so from his seat rather than standing in front of a wall. Many of his other lines from the trailer are technically in game, but said with a very different tone and context. This even extends to the gameplay trailers, replacing a spoilery line with non-descript dialogue from elsewhere in the game and adding extra chatter between Alyx and Russell from various parts of the game to more accurately describe their dynamic. Two of the maps shown are even altered significantly from the way they appear in the game.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Beside a few mentions in old newspapers, Wallace Breen is nowhere to be seen or heard from/about in the game. Likewise, due to being locked in stasis, Gordon Freeman is absent from the game until the very end. D0g only gets one mention from an upgrade blueprint and a Polaroid in Alyx's refuge; he himself never appears during the game's runtime. Like Gordon, he only appears in the finale. Barney, Dr. Kleiner, and Dr. Magnusson are nowhere to be found in the game, even in the Distant Finale.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1d364dbd	type	Heavily Armored Mook
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1d364dbd	comment	Even the headcrabs have special types. Armored headcrabs have hard plating that require you to aim for their weak spot. Poison headcrabs mess up your vision and inject you with venom.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: The game takes full advantage of its new engine and VR setting to let you get up and close to all kinds of realistic, detailed flesh and gore effects: In Half-Life 2, we never got to see the actual mechanics of how the Health Chargers worked. In Alyx, we discover that the Combine use Antlion grubs to fuel them (most likely due to their healing properties as seen in Episode Two). Before you can use the Chargers, you must place a grub container onto the device, then watch up-close as the grub is crushed and its juices are extracted. Then, if you completely use up this grub container, the station will suck out the unusable remains and spit them out onto the floor. Gross... Any headcrab shot point-blank with a shotgun won't be sent flying like in Half-Life 2; instead, they will be outright blown apart into meaty chunks. Armored headcrabs always die this way when their weak points are struck. It's subtle, but Valve worked on a dynamic gore/destruction system for Combine soldiers. Bullets fired into them will tear through their uniform and leave a lasting bloody bullet wound in the flesh beneath.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: With the G-Man's interference, Alyx saves her father, but at the cost of her freedom.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2044af1	comment	The Combine Soldiers in Alyx behave very differently from their Half-Life 2 counterparts. Unlike HL2's soldiers with their very mechanical tone of voice, Newspeak-addled dialogue and general lack of humanity, Alyx's soldiers are much more human-like, having casual conversations while on duty, similar to the first game's HECU Marines. They also panic more frequently during combat, and can occasionally try to convince Alyx to surrender mid-fight. This is justified because, as this is set before the events of Half-Life 2, these troops have had relatively fewer augmentations with the elite variants (being the most heavily augmented) being more in line with HL2's Overwatch Soldiers.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_20e2a53b	type	Notice This
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_20e2a53b	comment	Notice This: Objects Alyx needs to interact with to continue through the level are usually bright red, while other red scenery and Chiaroscuro lighting often serve to guide her through the levels themselves. When Alyx tethers to an object that can be grabbed with the Gravity Gloves, they let off an orange glow and quiet electronic hum.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_20fddb03	comment	Loading Screen: Half-Life: Alyx features a unique loading screen for its story maps: a 3D map of City 17 centered around the Vaultnote with the only signs of the Citadel being the massive power cables trailing off in the map's lower-right corner, which only the player can see. It shows the player's progress through the QZ and towards the Vault, with highlighted city blocks appearing to show where the player currently is. The map also appears between the player and the way forward, so players can orient themselves before actually progressing. Outside of that, such as starting the game up proper or loading a Workshop map, the loading screen lacks the 3D map.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Following the Black Mesa Incident, Earth has been defeated by a multidimensional empire that is siphoning all of its resources while keeping the population obedient with an oppressive government that rations bread and vegetable. Vegetable paste, mind you, not fresh ones. Then there are the multiple alien monsters that were brought with the Combine and the portal storms, which have destroyed the ecosystem further, and several parts of City 17 are now dangerous to cross. Alyx and Russell agree to rate their living conditions as a 2 out of 10, compared to the old days' "strong 6", according to Russell.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Jeff brings to mind the Blast Pit level from the original Half-Life, where you are forced to navigate through a level, completing your goals, while being pursued/harassed by a nigh-invincible monster that cannot see you but does react to sound, and can only be killed in a unique manner. As another callback to the original Half-Life, you can discover a Snark in Alyx's room, which she has been keeping as a pet. You can even feed it by shaking food into its jar. A recurring floppy disk you can find contains a number of games titled "Prax Wars", including "Prax Wars 2: Dante's Revenge". The Prax Wars 2 game was an arcade machine the security guards play in the opening area of Half-Life: Blue Shift, and the arcade machine itself in that game was a reference to a cancelled game a number of Gearbox employees worked on prior to doing Blue Shift. Giving the pistol certain upgrades (namely the laser sight and burst fire mods) makes it strongly resemble Alyx's gun from Half-Life 2. If you get all the upgrades, she makes a comment about how the gun feels like it's now truly hers. The Lone Vortigaunt you encounter in "Quarantine Zone" is living a solitary life and is cooking Headcrabs for food while giving Alyx cryptic messages relating to her past and future, very similar to the All-Knowing Vortigaunt from Half-Life 2. It is possible that they might even be the same Vortigaunt, though unlikely given that being "all-knowing" and "severed from the Vortessence by the Combine" are incompatible. A second Vortigaunt encountered later says "There is no distance between us. We are coterminous," which is a combination and reshuffling of two of the All-Knowing Vortigaunt's lines. Minor one for 2: when Alyx reroutes the train into a dead end, the ensuing destruction sends a large smokestack crashing to the ground below. A similar falling smokestack would impede Gordon's journey to Black Mesa East on his hovercraft. The Citadel sequences from Half-Life 2 and Episode One is echoed in the Vault, with Alyx losing all of her gear save the gravity gloves—which become instrumental in her mowing through the Combine guards. Instead of supercharging the Russells, they harness the remaining Vortal energy within the Vault to One-Hit Kill the guards. The Vortigaunts' power being harnessed by the Combine and used to contain the G-Man makes a lot of sense as a callback to the Episodes, where they were able to restrain him and free Gordon from his control. The G-Man's face briefly resembles that of his Half-Life 2 character model in the ending, due to the lighting effects. What do you think happened to the Russells after Alyx? Well, they were repurposed into D0G's gravity hands. The Russells seem to be a refitted version of the Gravity Gloves, a weapon that was Dummied Out of Half-Life 2: Survivor, a Japan-only arcade game.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The majority of the game's events appear to take place over the course of 12 or so hours, as Alyx first sets out from her hideout in the early morning and reaches the Vault just after dusk.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2864490b	comment	Gravity Screw: It gets weird inside the Vault. The player navigates rooms that are sideways, upside-down, and even mirrored, with objects floating around all the while.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Combine are apparently very well aware of the threat the G-Man poses to them, hence why they trapped him in the Vault. They are so utterly terrified of him that they are willing to summarily execute anybody who might have simply glimpsed the Vault much less know what's actually inside it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Downplayed due to the relative scarcity of ammunition, but every weapon has at least one upgrade focused on faster shooting and deeper magazines, allowing the player to shoot for longer without having to navigate reloading.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: Downplayed, but one of City 17's district has been quarantined, in part due to a severe headcrab infestation. The abandonment also allowed other alien species to thrive there, such as the Reviver.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2e5ada89	type	Grenade Launcher
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2e5ada89	comment	Grenade Launcher: Alyx can upgrade the shotgun with one. If Alyx invests enough resin into it, the shotgun will hold a grenade under the barrel and launch it on command.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2f948e12	type	Throwing the Distraction
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_2f948e12	comment	Throwing the Distraction: Jeff is blind, but is attracted to loud noises. Luckily there are scores of bottles scattered around the area, which Alyx can use to distract Jeff while she sneaks around.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_311500f5	type	Breaking Old Trends
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_311500f5	comment	Breaking Old Trends: Half-Life: Alyx is the first Half-Life game where the Player Character is fully voiced, rather than a Heroic Mime for the duration of the player's control (like Barney Calhoun from Blue Shift being a fully-voice non-player character in Half-Life 2). It's also the first game in the franchise where the main character doesn't fight with a primary melee weapon (i.e: the crowbar or the pipe wrench) alongside their assortment of weapons. Not counting The Stinger where Eli hands Gordon his iconic crowbar; it's not used for anything else beyond the ending. Rather than do this to buck the old "trend", however, developer commentary pointed out that this was the result of VR melee combat not working out to their satisfaction, as well as people continuing to associate the crowbar with a character that they weren't even playing as, so they cut it from the main game. This is the first Half-Life game to have a post-credits Stinger scene that follows the aftermath of the game's events.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_33034873	type	Airstrip One
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_33034873	comment	Airstrip One: The game returns to the same anonymous "City 17" that Half-Life 2 took place in. The dev commentary mentions that the city's art direction was meant to emphasize the contempt and disregard that the Combine have for human architecture, with their brutal, utilitarian fixtures punching through pre-existing buildings and murals with abandon.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3318a1cb	comment	Barney, Dr. Kleiner, and Dr. Magnusson are nowhere to be found in the game, even in the Distant Finale.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_33287e20	type	One Bullet Clips
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_33287e20	comment	One Bullet Clips: Unlike in the main series, this is averted for the pistol and the sub-machine gun. Pistol: You cannot store magazines that are half-empty, so changing magazines will force you to drop the ejected magazine, and with it any rounds left in it - though in an emergency, it is possible to pick a half-used magazine back up and load it again. The game also simulates a round being in the chamber, so you will get an extra round in your weapon if you reload with at least one round remaining. There's even a distinct sound when the magazine itself is empty but the chamber still has a round in it, and the chamber light turns yellow in this case. SMG: The pulse plug is automatically ejected from the weapon when it's depleted. There's is no manual release available.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: The gravity gloves can each hold one item in a 'pocket' that seems like a pocket dimension. Items that can be placed in them include health syringes, grenades (Combine and Xen), antlion grub cylinders, and vodka bottles; the gnome specifically cannot. Alyx's backpack can carry 100 pistol magazines (1000 rounds), 33 submachine gun magazines (990 rounds), and an unknown number of shotgun shells, plus an unknown amount of resin.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Just before we take control of Gordon Freeman, as the Half-Life: Alyx logo fades away, only the "y"—which looks like a mirrored-upside-down lambda—is late to fade away as we hear the HEV suit giving the message "Warning: Vital Signs Critical - Seek Medical Attention". Sharp-eyed players will recognize the G-man's distinctive silhouette before Alyx springs him out of the Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Subtle case regarding Alyx and the Vortigaunts. Initially, she's politely dismissive at best of the Lone Vortigaunt's forewarnings, likely because she's so focused on finding Eli. After she reaches the Northern Star Hotel building and frees the captive Vortigaunt there, however, she's more willing to trust that they know what they're talking about. That trust is paid off when the Vorts disable all remaining substations, as the ex-captive Vortigaunt assured her.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The Lone Vortigaunt makes a point about Eli being dead, or to be dead, from his perspective in the "is or will be" speech. The game also goes out of its way to emphasize how much of a freak-out Alyx has when it seems like Eli fell to his death right as she was supposed to rescue him even though it obviously can't happen that way. The ending makes it a plot point when G-Man offers to change the timeline and save Eli in exchange for service, exploiting Alyx's desperation to save him by any means necessary without a second thought.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Russell feels pretty obliged to remind Alyx that "guns need ammo".
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: The game reuses some of the songs from the very first game, namely "Space Ocean", "Steam in the Pipes" and "Cavern Ambience", all renamed as "Tri-Vector Pre-Reverberation", "Processing Tripmines" and "Infestation Ambience", respectively.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Jeff. Jeff is a Combine worker who was exposed to so much alien Festering Fungus that he has mutated into a bestial and horrifying Mushroom Man. Jeff is effectively unkillable and can kill Alyx instantly. This forces her to work around him, sometimes coming mere inches from the monster so that she can navigate the distillery.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: Alyx is the first official Half-Life title to come with Steam Workshop support, allowing players to download community-made campaigns, weapons, asset replacements, and more at the click of a button. There is a work-in-progress total conversion that will allow players to play the game without VR.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_48081842	comment	A retroactive one for the prior games: Gordon Freeman's model in the ending isn't entirely visible thanks to the angle and lighting, but between the massive gaping hole in his armor with a bloodied, bandaged wound inside, and The Stinger kicking off with Gordon waking up as the HEV Suit warns about his life signs being critical, Gordon's almost non-stop trucking through three game's worth of violence and carnage has left him in a rather nasty and brutalized state, likely only persisting thanks to health kits and morphine. Of course, this being Freeman, he's still ready to keep at it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	comment	"Revelations" drops a few that would undoubtedly get the player's attention:
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60	type	Personal Space Invader
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60	comment	Personal Space Invader: The headcrabs are back to try to latch onto the player's face, and they actually will latch on to the player's face if they don't kill the damned cranial parasites fast enough first.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: One of the new headcrab varieties encountered in the game, the Reviver (or "lightning dog", as Alyx dubs it), is able to create potent bolts of electricity. When they control a corpse, said zombie will also be electrified.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e1d9178	type	Tailor-Made Prison
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e1d9178	comment	Tailor-Made Prison: The enormous floating Vault that you can see throughout the game? It's actually a prison. A prison for the G-Man. The Combine has deployed many precautions in order for the prisoner to stay confined, including siphoning the Vortessence of Vortigaunts, an on-board shield generator, an extra antigravity generator that will keep the ship floating just in case the main stations fail, and elaborate machinery to confine the G-Man within the boundaries of his cell.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Revelations" drops a few that would undoubtedly get the player's attention: The end of the last level has this from the G-Man: A final one delivered by Eli after the credits.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The majority of the game is about trying to rescue the prisoner contained aboard the giant ship, whom the Resistance believes to be Gordon Freeman. It's only as you approach the containment cell itself in the final level that the player gets a look at the person's silhouette...and realizes that it is definitely NOT Gordon. And worse, Alyx has no way of knowing until it's far too late.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4fba5bf6	type	Festering Fungus
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_4fba5bf6	comment	Festering Fungus: Alyx travels through City 17's Quarantine Zone, where alien flora and notably fungus-like organisms have had time to grow, invading entire buildings. Some create explosive spores, others reject poisonous spores that Alyx must protect herself from, some even make noise when the player enters their proximity. The spore-spewers and Xen clams actually become a problem for Alyx when combined with having to deal with Jeff... Fortunately, there is also the "Xen ears", fungi in the environment that close when a noise has occured—they serve as an early warning for the player to move before Jeff, who also heard that noise, reaches them.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Headcrabs make a return, being the small four-legged creatures that will stick themselves to someone's head, pierce their skull and control their body. The player comes across abandoned corpses of headcrab zombies, which show skin on the head being pulled out of place, but with the expressions of agony still intact. There is also Jeff, a horribly mutated former Combine worker that is covered with fleshy growths and whose head is akin to a fleshy venus flytrap. More subtly done with the Lone Vortigaunt from the Quarantine Zone, who bears scars, bandages, and several pieces of Combine metal fused on his extremities, suggesting that the Combine used medical means to experiment on or torture him. One particular scar on the side of his head is a result of the Combine drilling into his brain and cutting him off from the Vortessence, and with it every other Vortigaunt in existence.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first and last pieces of dialogue involve characters addressing the player character. In the beginning, Alyx accepts a video call from Eli ("Alyx! How's it lookin' up there?"), at which point they trade status reports on their respective operations. The circa-Episode Two Distant Finale sees Eli urging Gordon Freeman to wake up following the Advisor's sudden death and Alyx's subsequent disappearance ("Gordon! Gordon! Wake up, Gordon!"). The first section of the game sees Alyx captured by Combine Overwatch, with Alyx panicking and telling them to wait. The end of "Point Extraction" sees Alyx put into stasis by the G-Man, with her begging him to wait as he coldly walks away.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_55ea5620	type	Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_55ea5620	comment	Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel: Though set five years prior to Half-Life 2 and its episodes, the Combine and Resistance tech is considerably more advanced here, particularly in the use of complex, manipulable holograms. There are some objects that haven't changed too much in fidelity, such as Combine door seals for unopenable doors.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Russell. He's certainly talented when it comes to hacking and engineering the gravity gloves. Just...don't trust him to give you an unloaded gun.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_59c0c00	type	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_59c0c00	comment	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, the human-built pistol and shotgun have iron sights while the futuristic Combine SMG lacks them. On the other, the pistol and SMG can be upgraded with a holographic reflex sight, while the shotgun's equivalent Laser Sight upgrade mounts on top of the weapon, making the original iron sights useless. Also, the SMG Alyx gets seems to be a prototype version of the one the grunts use, as their model has visible sights.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5cb5fe11	type	Sealed Badass in a Can
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5cb5fe11	comment	Sealed Badass in a Can: The Resistance comes to believe the Vault is a prison to store Gordon Freeman. It's actually storing the G-Man.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Half-Life: Alyx revolves around "things to come", both in the game's story and the series as a whole. Russell and Alyx often ponder out plans for life after they finally get rid of the Combine, with Russell hoping to mass-produce his gravity gloves and Alyx hoping to make life on post-Combine Earth an 8 out of 10. The Lone Vortigaunt gives Alyx cryptic warnings about future events, both immediate and five years after Alyx (during Half-Life 2: Episode Two). When the mission becomes "saving Gordon Freeman from the Vault", Alyx and Russell consider the possibility of the Resistance taking down the Citadel in City 17 with Gordon's help. The G-Man offers Alyx the chance to save her father five years in the future. In the Distant Epilogue, Eli tells Gordon that "[they have] work to do" in order to find Alyx and the G-Man.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The game begins with a brief recap of the end of the Half-Life 2 trilogy, with the very first line referring to the collapse of the Citadel at the end of the main game and Eli's (original) death at the end of Episode Two.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6217c344	type	Spear Carrier
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6217c344	comment	Spear Carrier: Two of them. First is Olga, the woman who Alyx speaks to in Chapter 1 (and who only gets named in the credits), whose role is to show the player that Eli and Russell's theft of a Combine power generator didn't go as unnoticed as they thought, as well as to reinforce to the player that they are playing as Alyx Vance rather than Gordon Freeman. Second is Larry in Chapter 7, a scavenger in the Quarantine Zone who Alyx saves from a Barnacle and warns her about Jeff. Neither of them get mentioned again, though Larry does pop up at the end of Chapter 7 after you've dealt with Jeff. The collaborating scientist makes for three, as she disappears right after emphasizing to the Combine that they need to move the box.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The game ends with the G-Man interfering with Eli's death in the future and saving him. However, Alyx is taken away to act as Gordon's replacement with whatever that entails. Gordon and Eli are then left in the aftermath of what has just happened, with Eli swearing revenge on the G-Man for taking Alyx away and getting his daughter back.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_62ac3f93	type	Sinister Subway
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_62ac3f93	comment	Sinister Subway: Alyx enters the Quarantine Zone through a sealed subway system and briefly passes through a subway station where several headcrab zombies are roaming.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63267b15	type	Theseus' Ship Paradox
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63267b15	comment	Theseus' Ship Paradox: Alyx Invokes this in her favor in regards to the pistol Russell gave her if you upgrade it enough. If you get all but one of the upgrades, Russell notes that his gun keeps getting better, but then says to save the conversation for later when Alyx notes that she's not sure there's a whole lot of "his" gun left. Upgrade it all the way, and Alyx declares Russell's gun to be gone, and the pistol she's holding is her gun now. Russell concedes the point.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63b3597	type	Shoot the Fuel Tank
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63b3597	comment	Shoot the Fuel Tank: Several Combine soldiers carry a fuel tank on their back. Shooting said tank sets it on fire before exploding shortly after.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63c6c615	type	Dynamic Difficulty
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_63c6c615	comment	Dynamic Difficulty: Downplayed. The amount of ammunition found is dynamically modified based on how much the player has; when a zone is loaded, if Alyx has a lot of ammo of a particular type, some ammo drops of that type will be removed before the player sees them. However, Combine weapons lockers always contain at least one item when the player unlocks them, and some ammo drops will always be there.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6638c7f7	type	Stealth-Based Mission
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6638c7f7	comment	Stealth-Based Mission: Much of the chapter "Jeff" plays out in this manner. Jeff will pursue any source of noise in the distillery, literally melting down anything he can get his "hands" on with acid, is Immune to Bullets, and totally blind. Alyx has to move very carefully and quietly, Throwing the Distraction to navigate around him and avoid attracting him to her position while she attempts to cross the facility.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: The blue Antlions will spit blue ink at Alyx, covering the view in ink for several seconds. Being shocked by a Reviver will cause not only the displays on your Russells to flicker but even the spectator HUD on the desktop will flicker as well. The Heavy Combine Soldiers will deploy an energy shield that flashes upon deactivation, burning purple blotches into your vision for a few moments even if you weren't looking directly at it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: The outdoor entrance to the Lone Vortigaunt's lair has a shrine with lots of mysterious drawings on the walls depicting events from the Half-Life timeline, such as Black Mesa, the Nihilanth enslaving the Vortigaunts, the Combine invasion of Earth (using human Combine soldiers as a visual shorthand), and details pertaining to Black Mesa survivor Gordon Freeman.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6a1c6dc5	type	Story Difficulty Setting
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6a1c6dc5	comment	Story Difficulty Setting: The Easier Than Easy type. Damage that Alyx takes is lowered, and enemies can take many fewer shots - typically one pistol shot will take out a headcrab, two for a zombie, three for a barnacle. Since the player needs fewer rounds to kill an enemy, and the Dynamic Difficulty doesn't remove as much ammunition (if any), the player tends to accumulate more ammunition as well, likely hitting the 1000-round cap for pistol and SMG.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6b42ea7e	type	Hijacking Cthulhu
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6b42ea7e	comment	Hijacking Cthulhu: The Combine somehow managed to contain the G-Man of all people into a cell of a massive floating Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: The Combine Soldiers in Alyx behave very differently from their Half-Life 2 counterparts. Unlike HL2's soldiers with their very mechanical tone of voice, Newspeak-addled dialogue and general lack of humanity, Alyx's soldiers are much more human-like, having casual conversations while on duty, similar to the first game's HECU Marines. They also panic more frequently during combat, and can occasionally try to convince Alyx to surrender mid-fight. This is justified because, as this is set before the events of Half-Life 2, these troops have had relatively fewer augmentations with the elite variants (being the most heavily augmented) being more in line with HL2's Overwatch Soldiers. Their gameplay mechanics are also significantly altered, with them now seeking cover and using grenades and Manhacks to flush the player out of their own cover. This was explained in the developer commentary as necessary for the medium change, as their flat screen presentation—charging in with guns blazing—was rejected as unsatisfying and overwhelming by playtesters.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_71a3a3c0	type	Fully Absorbed Finale
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_71a3a3c0	comment	Fully Absorbed Finale: The end of the game bypasses the events of the leaked Half-Life 2: Episode 3 plot to jump to the most important aspect of it: Alyx winding up in the employ of the G-Man.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_726df893	type	Equipment Upgrade
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_726df893	comment	Equipment Upgrade: Weapons can be upgraded with modifications via Combine Fabricators, which use resin that the player can find around the levels.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: The Combine Civil Protection Officers, as usual. They gratuitously taze the elderly Eli Vance, then knock out his daughter Alyx for merely being in the vicinity, regardless of her involvement with the resistance.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Although they aren't mentioned in the game except for The Stinger, we finally learn just what "Unforeseen Consequences" the G-Man was referring to. By freeing the G-Man from the Vault and wreaking havoc on the Combine in the process, Alyx proved her "extraordinary value", thus leading to her (involuntary) employment at the G-Man's hands. As a result, she's plucked from the altered post-Episode Two timeline and put into indefinite stasis, just like Gordon was at the end of the first Half-Life. Eli is not pleased to learn that this chain of events—his life for Alyx Vance—is what "Unforeseen Consequences" referred to, and prepares to saddle up with Gordon to mount a Roaring Rescue of Revenge.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_758cbe0c	type	Prison Ship
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_758cbe0c	comment	Prison Ship: The Vault is this in a nutshell. It may also very well be The Alcatraz, seeing as how its purpose is to seemingly keep the G-Man locked inside.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_75e2bf23	comment	Objects Alyx needs to interact with to continue through the level are usually bright red, while other red scenery and Chiaroscuro lighting often serve to guide her through the levels themselves.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7789df57	type	Healing Shiv
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7789df57	comment	Healing Shiv: Health stations refill health by stabbing Alyx's hand with an assortment of precision needles.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The liberation of the G-Man allows the entirety of Half-Life 2 and its episodes to happen.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	type	And Now for Someone Completely Different
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	comment	And Now for Someone Completely Different: In The Stinger, after Alyx is put into stasis, you briefly control Gordon Freeman in the aftermath of the changed ending of Episode Two, complete with HEV Suit gloves and even the faint silhouette of his glasses over the player's vision to differentiate him from Alyx.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: Deconstructed. Thanks to help from the G-Man, Alyx is able to change Eli's fate in Half-Life 2: Episode Two by killing the Combine Advisor before it has a chance to kill him, but this comes at the cost of her freedom. Also, Eli himself is not pleased with this kind of rescue at all.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: At one point, Russell tosses Alyx a pistol that he claims is unloaded (from a two-story building, no less). It discharges after landing on a car's hood, strongly suggesting that he didn't check if there was a round in the chamber. Either way, he was very lucky that Alyx (or himself) wasn't killed.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: Holy hell, does it. It essentially completely upends the ending of Episode Two. Eli is alive due to the G-Man interfering in exchange for Alyx becoming employed by him against her will, with Gordon being left behind. However, it isn't quite a downer ending. The final scene ends with Eli giving Gordon his crowbar, ready to find the G-Man and save Alyx, completely changing the course of the story for the Half-Life series going forward.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7fab3dae	type	Pineapple Surprise
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_7fab3dae	comment	Shooting a grenade will cause it to go live and detonate after a few seconds. This includes grenades still being carried by enemies.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Many enemies have weak points that insta-kill or deal heavy damage to enemies. The Reflex Sight upgrades for the pistol and SMG highlight enemy weak points while you aim. Some zombies have glowing green growths on their limbs. Shooting them instantly kills the headcrab. The Armored Headcrabs have a bullet-proof crust covering their whole body. The only exposed flesh they have is their mouths, forcing the player to wait for the headcrab to expose itself by getting ready to leap at the player's face. Fortunately, should the headcrab fail, it will flail around on its back for a few seconds, leaving its mouth exposed for gunfire. Antlions have vulnerable abdomens that are only occasionally visible to the player, especially after they shoot out their legs. Some Combine Overwatch troops carry some manner of gas tanks; hitting the pressure valve will cause it to explode, killing the carrier and any nearby enemies. Shooting a grenade will cause it to go live and detonate after a few seconds. This includes grenades still being carried by enemies. The Revivers/"Lightning Dogs" can possess corpses, and will periodically inflate parts of the corpse's body, which you then have to shoot to injure it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: The achievement "Near-Jeff Experience" involves staying close to Jeff for 10 seconds (but not too close). "Sea Level" is unlocked by reaching the marine exhibits in the zoo chapter.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: When first learning of the Vault, Eli theorizes the Combine are trying to move a powerful artifact or weapon offworld. As he soon discovers, the Combine aren't holding a weapon they made—they're moving a prisoner that they're scared of.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Russell is last heard over the radio voicing alarm at Eli's Oh, Crap! regarding the Vault's occupant.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: "Point Extraction" is the name of the final chapter set in the Vault, which seems to be a Call-Forward to the first chapter of Half-Life 2, "Point Insertion". That chapter sees Gordon inserted into the City 17-bound train by the G-Man. "Point Extraction", however, sees Alyx freeing from the cell not Gordon, but the G-Man, who then proceeds to extract both himself and Alyx out from the Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8816272b	comment	The Heavy Combine Soldiers will deploy an energy shield that flashes upon deactivation, burning purple blotches into your vision for a few moments even if you weren't looking directly at it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: A Downplayed version, but there's a stronger focus on comedy in the story. It's primarily done through the interactions between Alyx and Russell, but there are other instances throughout the game; one of them includes the early sequence where two Combine CP officers freak out over a live grenade dropped into the driver's cabin.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8a888e34	type	Exploding Barrels
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8a888e34	comment	Exploding Barrels: The good old red propane barrels return in this game, along with smaller gas canisters. Alyx can grab them, toss them and shoot at them to create a highly damaging explosion.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: The G-Man in Alyx is a lot more cold-blooded and ruthless than before (or at least, less Ambiguously Evil). In this installment, the entire situation with "unforeseen consequences" and Eli's death was a ruse to trick younger Alyx into striking a deal with him in exchange for her "employment", all because he was getting tired of Gordon and wanted to replace him. To boot, he gives the impression that the opportunity to save Eli is a reward for freeing him, which makes the actual consequences come off as straight-up altering the deal. When Alyx retcons Eli's death by killing the Advisor, G-Man disparagingly refers to both Eli and the Advisor as "entities", before locking Alyx inside the stasis indefinitely. Also, it is implied that G-Man and his employers could chase the Combine off Earth or even destroy them entirely, but choose not to for their own reasons, meaning that every action taken by G-Man and his employers has been done purely out of self-interest.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: For the entire future of the series; while the majority of the game serves as an Interquel, the finale suddenly leaps forward to the end of Episode Two, and through the help of the G-Man, everything goes Off the Rails from there on. The G-Man gives Alyx the opportunity to save Eli from the Advisor by killing it, but in so doing, drastically changes the timeline and the consequences of the deal are made known to her as Alyx is hired in place of Gordon, whom the G-Man has grown displeased with; he places her in stasis like he did with Gordon prior, removing her from the timeline altogether from that point forward. Gordon is now no longer employed by the G-Man and Eli, now alive to find his daughter missing, realizes what happened, swears revenge against the G-Man, and readies up with Gordon to stop both the G-Man and the Combine.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Russell.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_908ad334	type	Time Master
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_908ad334	comment	Time Master: Although there are already hints of this, the true extent of G-Man's time power is only revealed now. He's shown to perceive time non-linearly, having already foreseen Eli's death years before it happens. Not only that, but he's also capable of reversing time itself, allowing Alyx to save Eli from his death during the ending of Episode Two.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Cat Lady: A woman in the first chapter can be seen with no less than five cats and a Garfield-esque clock in her apartment.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	comment	As another callback to the original Half-Life, you can discover a Snark in Alyx's room, which she has been keeping as a pet. You can even feed it by shaking food into its jar.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_931fc523	comment	Likewise, due to being locked in stasis, Gordon Freeman is absent from the game until the very end.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_934c7e38	type	Paper Tiger
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_934c7e38	comment	Paper Tiger: A quite literal version. One sequence in the Zoo chapter features a tiger that'll roar at Alyx... only for the tiger to be revealed as a cardboard cutout when it's bumped aside by the real source of the roar, a lowly Headcrab zombie.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Combine food rations in this game include foil-wrapped "desiccated sustenance bars" (water-flavored, somehow) and boxes of "gelatinated calorie paste" (egg-flavored). Both are so heavily processed their packaging indicates they stay edible for over 25 years after opening.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The G-Man shows Alyx her dad's future fate from Episode Two's ending and allows her to change the future by killing the Advisor, saving Eli from his death.... but this has a cost, as Alyx is then put into stasis to replace Gordon as his primary "employee".
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: Combine soldiers don't really react or run away when a grenade is tossed near them, in stark contrast to how humanoid enemies responded in prior games. As confirmed by the commentary mode, this was deliberately done, because implementing the aggressive enemy AI and movement from Half-Life 2 in a VR space would have overwhelmed players on top of the already-difficult VR-based combat.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Alyx acquires a handgun-style shotgun in the early parts of the game. Munitions are more scarce than for the pistol, but it can one-shot just about anything with a well-placed headshot.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_97df21d3	type	Tripod Terror
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_97df21d3	comment	Tripod Terror: The Striders are back and they fire a hailstorm of bullets, like usual. Of course, Alyx fights one as a Boss Battle late in the game. There's also a new type of Strider that's modified for construction work◊.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Jeff, a mutant former Combine worker, is totally immune to any of the weapons Alyx has on hand - even grenades won't hurt him. To kill him, you need to lock him inside a trash compactor, then turn the machine on. Taken up to eleven thanks to the Workshop Tools for Alyx allowing creators to put Jeff and the energy bolts from Point Extraction in the same space. Even that does nothing to him. Conversely, barnacles—which were in the "Jeff" level, but only in out-of-the-way alcoves—are perfectly capable of grabbing and killing Jeff.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9b06c1d4	type	Sense-Impaired Monster
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9b06c1d4	comment	Sense-Impaired Monster: During Chapter 7, Alyx has to repeatedly avoid an unkillable zombie-like humanoid named Jeff that wanders through the narrow corridors. Jeff's skull is split open like a Venus flytrap, rendering him blind, so he navigates by sound, necessitating that Alyx quietly sneak around. This is more difficult than it sounds, both because empty glass bottles litter the halls, alerting Jeff if she bumps into them, and because Jeff emits clouds of spores which will cause Alyx to cough if she walks through them without a gas mask or covering her mouth, again alerting Jeff. However, Alyx can also distract Jeff by throwing vodka bottles so they shatter loudly away from her and lead him away momentarily.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The G-Man and his employers are revealed to be this. On one hand, they are definitely no friends of humans, as it is they who start the Resonance Cascade and indirectly lead to the Seven Hour War. In addition, they have a vested interest in keeping Earth under Combine control, at least for a while. On the other hand, they are no less hostile toward the Combine, and will eventually release Freeman to weaken their hold on Earth.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Vault, or at least the apartment building contained within. Gravity Screw abounds in rooms that no longer spatially orient with each other, or are bizarrely mirrored, with the residents reduced to hazy, intangible silhouettes frozen wherever they were standing when whatever happened there went down.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137	type	Hyperspace Arsenal
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137	comment	Hyperspace Arsenal: Downplayed. Alyx has three one-handed weapons (a pistol, a sawed-off shotgun, and a submachine gun) and her multitool, and she can switch between them instantly.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: If you have subtitles turned on, attentive players may notice that the Northern Star is capitalized.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The game's intro gives a short recap that references the collapse of the Citadel in Episode One and the death of Eli Vance in Episode Two, which seems odd for an Interquel that takes place five years before Half-Life 2. On top of that, Valve's David Speyrer specifically advised players to have played up to and including Half-Life 2: Episode Two before starting Alyx "for reasons that will become clear as you play". The end of the game features Alyx learning of, and subsequently undoing, Eli's death in Episode Two, which gets her in the G-Man's employ, cementing the game as a Stealth Sequel to Episode Two. Russell refers to two occurences as "miracles": Eli and Alyx getting out of Black Mesa, and the Combine holding Gordon Freeman of all people within the Vault. The G-Man is the "miracle worker" behind both: Alyx being "plucked" from Black Mesa was previously revealed in Episide Two; and Gordon and the G-Man were both present at Black Mesa during the Incident, similar enough to each other for the unseen collaborator to refer to one and be mistaken as referring to the other. Finally, the G-Man facilitates one more "miracle": younger-Alyx saving Eli Vance from his fate in Episode Two. Early on, the Vortigaunt Alyx meets says "Alyx Vance alone cannot prevent [Eli's] fate." He's right. The two times Alyx tries to save her father, either someone else does it, or someone gives her the power to do it herself. The discussion on whether or not Eli is dead foreshadows Alyx choosing to have the G-Man save him from his death at the end of Episode Two. When Alyx disrupts and crashes the train to save Eli, the first things you see inside the train are dead Advisors, followed by failing to save Eli only for him to be rescued in a Big Damn Heroes by the Vortigaunt from earlier. All of this is relevant, if rearranged: as the G-Man briefly grants Alyx more Vortessence power to blast and kill the Advisor that kills Eli in Episode Two, essentially taking into her own hands what she couldn't before. The Advisor ends up burned and shriveled by the blast—a similar state to the Advisor corpses on the train. After Alyx enters the Vault, the first human figure she sees is a man holding a briefcase.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: The Combine troops have two kinds of heavily armored infantry: one with a shotgun and a power shield, and the suppressor, which carries a rapid-fire cannon. Both of them can take a beating if you're not going for headshots and carry weapons that will chew you up quickly. Even the headcrabs have special types. Armored headcrabs have hard plating that require you to aim for their weak spot. Poison headcrabs mess up your vision and inject you with venom.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86	type	Enemy Chatter
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86	comment	Enemy Chatter: Returning from Half-Life 2, Combine soldiers have a wide range of contextual radio chatter between each other and Overwatch for various combat situations, from standard “alerted” dialogue, to identifying different types of enemy, to being the only remaining soldier in the squad. They even weaponize it — if Alyx is behind cover, sometimes they try to lure her out by calling out her name in a friendly tone, or telling each other that Alyx is non-hostile and to cease fire. Of course, if you do come out, they just laugh at you and keep shooting.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: Though most of the game is indeed an Interquel, the very last segment of the game takes place during the events of Episode Two and shows what happened afterward...or more accurately, what has changed as a result of the events of Alyx.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The reason that Eli is imprisoned during the first leg (sorry, Eli) of the game: during the reactor heist, his team caught wind of a "superweapon" locked away in the Vault, the massive floating structure that hangs over City 17's Quarantine Zone. Russell remarks that what he found was "blurry pictures of a building", yet that was all the reason the Combine needed to come after them in the first place. As the game goes on, Eli makes discovery after discovery about it based on data he stole during his imprisonment. It turns out that the Combine found this "weapon", and were so scared of it that they lifted the city block (the subject of the aforementioned pictures) around it and built the Vault—in reality a prison—around that. An offhand anecdote from another character leads them to believe that the Vault's prisoner is Gordon Freeman himself, spurring the efforts to free him... By the time Eli realizes what's really going on and tries to stop his daughter from entering the Vault, it's too late—Alyx is set to free the G-Man, who scoffs that the Combine wouldn't need that much security to hold Gordon Freeman.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: Played very straight. Locks fall off after taking one hit from any of your weapons, and no shrapnel will be thrown off to hit (for example) an explosive barrel next to them.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: Most Combine guns in Alyx cannot be used by the player. Justified by Russell noting that Combine weapons are "gene-coded" to their users, and almost all of them were already in the hands of Combine troops. The one Combine gun Alyx actually can use is still in its packaging and hasn't been coded when she finds it.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_aa3e24fb	type	Tricked-Out Gloves
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_aa3e24fb	comment	Tricked-Out Gloves: The Russells, a pair of gravity gloves that allow Alyx to pull objects directly towards her. They act as the predecessor to the Gravity Gun, which has yet to be invented.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	comment	Although you can beat headcrabs to death with blunt objects, try to do the same to a Combine soldier and you'll find them shrug off your blows with barely a reaction. There just isn't much a 19 year old girl with a pipe can do to a soldier twice her size covered head-to-toe in padded body armor.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If not for that scientist who was arguing with the Combine Advisor, Alyx and company would not have learned all they (assumed they) needed to act on freeing the Vault's prisoner. Perhaps specifying which Black Mesa survivor she was refering to would have changed matters…
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Eli finds that the Vault's security is so unlike anything he's seen before, even for the Combine. Especially as a means of containing Gordon Freeman. As Alyx is entering the Vault, Eli realizes that the Combine — to quote the Vault's real prisoner, the G-Man — "wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman", and desperately tries to tell Alyx not to enter the Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ad325cb8	type	Monster Organ Trafficking
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ad325cb8	comment	Monster Organ Trafficking: There's a sizable Antlion nest in the Quarantine Zone that the Combine appear to tolerate, because they regularly harvest Antlions for resources: their health station use fluid from fresh-crushed grubs, and the adults are milked for some kind of acid used to treat the Meat Moss growing everywhere else.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: When Alyx complains about toxic Xen spores and gas, Russell suggests she keep moving, followed by "maybe breathe less." The Combine collaborator is also one of these, having the impatience of someone who wants to speak to a restaurant's manager, except that manager is a Combine Advisor.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_afd68598	type	Inventory Management Puzzle
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_afd68598	comment	Inventory Management Puzzle: You have your backpack and two wrist slots for storage, but your backpack only stores ammo. Medkit syringes, grenades, antlion grubs, and even random junk are either carried in the wrist slots or your hands, so carrying more than two things can require you to literally juggle items. And God help you if you're trying for the Gnome achievement, too... Or you can just toss everything into a bucket or any other kind of reasonably practical container (such as a milk crate) and carry that with you, though this can cause performance issues between levels, and sometimes item collisions can be wonky enough that items may occasionally slip through. Still surprisingly practical for carrying everything with you, though, though you will need to use teleportation to get up ladders.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: Set sometime between the events of the original Half-Life and its sequel Half-Life 2. The bulk of it until the finale, at least.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b6d0d282	type	Always Check Behind the Chair
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b6d0d282	comment	Always Check Behind the Chair: Ammo and resin are scattered throughout the game either in containers or wedged in out-of-the way crevices, so keep your eyes peeled and check every nook and cranny.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The Civil Protection Units (aka Metrocops) only show up on the opening and the sequence where Alyx is captured and placed inside a prisoner transport truck. Afterwards they are never encountered as enemies (as the primary Combine forces are Overwatch Soldiers).
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892	type	Promoted to Playable
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b8f8b892	comment	Promoted to Playable: Alyx Vance, Gordon Freeman's companion from Half-Life 2, is the main protagonist this time around.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b9baed0a	type	Lost Common Knowledge
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_b9baed0a	comment	Lost Common Knowledge: Russell has to explain what livestock is to Alyx before he can even describe what a club sandwich is to her. Understandable when the Combine has requisitioned pretty much all of Earth's resources, including most animals; and citizens have to get by with old bread, vegetable paste and the likes. Having grown up after the war, Alyx has never experienced the relative luxury of life on an untouched Earth. She also has no idea what vodka is, let alone why Russell would love it despite it being bad/"poison". More subtly, during your introduction to Larry he makes a reference to Mozart and Alyx responds with "Who?", implying she hasn't heard of him. Also when Alyx tells Russell to suggest a song she would play on a piano, Russell wryly says "Flight of the Bumblebee", but Alyx doesn't react to Russell's obvious jest at all, meaning she has never heard of the song or of how intricate it is.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: The G-Man is the Combine's prisoner in the Vault, and the effort it takes to keep him sealed has done strange things to the apartment building they’ve locked away with him. Even trapped inside it, he’s capable of exerting influence on its interior, guiding Alyx closer and closer to freeing him.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	comment	Other examples include the armored headcrab and Reviver zombie introductions, which safely separate the player from the new threats with chainlink fences. Somewhat subverted with the Reviver zombie, since it can electrify the player through the metal fence.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Russell acts as Alyx's copilot, guiding her through the mission from the safety of his hideout.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: Killing the Ordinal of a Combine squad will render the remaining squad members disorganized and far less coordinated in their tactics.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Speaking of headcrabs, the little critters are terrifying until you realize they're just tiny animals, and as such you can simply grab them in midair and just toss them out a window or into a trash can.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Russell tries to come up with one for his gravity gloves, which ends up sounding less professional than he intended: Really Useful Something Something Electronic Lightweight Levitating S
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c37a9e13	type	Alien Kudzu
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c37a9e13	comment	Alien Kudzu: The majority of the game takes place within the Quarantine Zone, a section of City 17 that has a bad infestation of Xen wildlife and plant matter. The alien biomass grows at a fast rate, encasing entire rooms and buildings, spewing noxious spores and giving refuge to some species not seen outside the QZ. The Combine have even set up a cleaning force to reclaim the district... to a questionable success.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In "Jeff", there is a brief moment where you get to trap him inside a walk-in freezer, the relief of which lasts about two minutes before you realise that your next objective requires you to go inside that same freezer yourself. This forces the player to unlock the door and back away quickly as Jeff breaks out, rendering that door unusable.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After you take down a power station and free the Vortigaunt inside, he promises to destroy all the remaining ones in her stead. You get to see the other power stations violently going down as you make your way closer to the Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3	type	Blackout Basement
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3	comment	Blackout Basement: While crossing the quarantine zone, Alyx must navigate a dimly lit subterranean network of sewers. Some parts of it are downright pitch black, forcing Alyx to use a flashlight. A literal blackout basement in the Northern Star Hotel, where Alyx needs to descend to the basement to flip a breaker and turn off the power, but that also turns off the lights, forcing her to rely on her flashlight as she ascends back up.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Closely inspecting one of the VHS tapes in Alyx's surveillance room at the start of the game shows she taped Combine movements over a VHS of, of all things, Dirty Dancing. In the zoo, there's a piece of Bridges cargo.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c9861848	type	Video Game Caring Potential
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: You can feed Alyx's pet Snark, at it will leap up to the lid then drop back down in delight. Xen Grenades can be acquired by picking them from the plants that they grow on, which react to external stimuli and will retract if you do not tear the grenade off the plant quickly enough. Alternatively, you can 'pet' the plant by stroking its belly, which will result in the plant allowing you to take the grenade without any resistance.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The release version of the game showed Eli wearing his Harvard sweater during the recreation of Episode Two's ending, even though at that point he had opted to wear a plain, argyle-patterned sweater instead. A patch to the game eventually fixed this.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The Lone Vortigaunt, with the usual load of cryptic Vort dialogue under a layer of overall weirdness and eagerness compared to previously encountered Vortikind. It's intentionally made vague how much of said weirdness is because of his brain injury and how much is just generally him being a Vortigaunt.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Half-Life: Alyx. Developer commentary states that this was the most overt way of making clear to the player that they would not be playing as the silent Gordon Freeman for this game.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	comment	Wetware CPU: At one point, the interior of a Combine console can be seen and operated. It is revealed they run on bioprocessors appearing as mutated brains with living creatures fused to them, such as rats.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Gordon grabbing his crowbar shouldn't be anywhere as awesome as it is, but in the context of the scene and the franchise itself, the development team made it work.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: A heartbreaking example: Alyx saves Eli from his death in Episode Two, but is put into stasis by the G-Man in exchange.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: Alyx can pick up and wear items that she finds scattered around the map as hats or masks. Mostly, these are what you'd expect: helmets, respirators, and so on. The game also lets you get creative and wear things like buckets, flower pots and traffic cones on your head. While most of these seem like an Easter Egg, the respirators actually do their job, blocking out the hostile Meat Moss spores in "Jeff". Objects on your head, such as hard hats, will act as shields against barnacles, with the object being grabbed instead of your head. And if you wear a hard hat, after Larry exchanges names with Alyx, he will briefly mention the "nice helmet" you're wearing. During the first chapter while apprehended in the elevator, you're expected to put your hands up. If you try to push the elevator's button instead, the door will actually start closing. The Combine officer will then react by blocking the door and order you to stop pushing buttons. Continue trying to push the button after that, and the officer will eventually shoot it. Plus, if you try to walk out of the elevator, the officer will physically force you back. When you're required to cover your mouth to protect from spores, you can cover your mouth preemptively and Alyx's dialogue is appropriately muffled when she speaks next. Virtually every item in the world has some ability to interact with it, from shaking pill bottles and bleach containers with realistic sound effects to squeezing empty soap bottles (thanks to the controllers' pressure sensitivity) to a fully functional piano.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The stages with Jeff have ammo and resin scattered around in easy reach. The problem is that trying to grab the goodies often results in noise (either bottles slipping free and breaking or those nasty snapping fungi), which will draw Jeff towards a careless player trying to stock up.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: The game incorporates many of these to maintain the diegetic interface of VR and to help maintain maximum immersion, as well as minimizing potentially frustrating factors. If you have less than three or four of a given ammo type, Alyx will call out how much ammo you have left during a firefight so the player can make snap decisions about which guns to use next. As well, each gun has a way of displaying how much ammunition is remaining.note The pistol has an LED strip on the grip that not only provides an ammo count for the current magazine, it also has a loaded chamber indicator as well. Even its magazines have that same LED strip on it that serves the same function. The shotgun has a numerical counter facing you telling you exactly how many shells are in the weapon. The Pulse SMG, meanwhile, doesn't have an ammo counter on the weapon itself, but rather on the energy cells it consumes. The red ring on the base of the cell will visibly deplete as the weapon is fired. Levels are designed to be absolutely littered with health and ammo drops, which the game will procedurally withhold from players who don't need them. This means that at any time the player is strapped for resources, the game will spontaneously become more generous until they're out of danger. The Russells have an interface that tells you exactly how much health, ammo and resin you have depending on the context (the ammo and resin counter share a screen, and switch between the two of them depending on if you have a gun equipped or not; and if so, which gun). The Russells have exceptionally accurate grabbing range and can usually tell exactly what you're intending to aim at. If you gravity-grab a shotgun shell that happens to be next to a bunch of other shotgun shells, all of them get flicked towards you at once and Alyx will automatically grab all of them with one hand. The Russells' "object flight time" is also constant between the pull and catch, meaning it always takes less than a second for an item 5 inches away or 5 yards away to reach the player's hand. Pretty much anything small can be grabbed with the Russells, but when a bunch of items are stacked together, the auto-aim tether will prioritize the most important things Alyx can grab — ammo, resin, and other inventory pickups. If you forget to retrieve a weapon from the Combine fabricator after placing it there, it will automatically teleport back into your inventory after you move on. Related: you can never lose the flashlight, which was previously developed for Alyx as a handheld, in-the-level object that the player could hypothetically place to give themselves a light source. If you throw a grenade into a Barnacle tongue, it won't explode until the Barnacle swallows it, regardless of how much time was still on the fuse. The jump indicator will display a red skull icon if the point you are trying to jump to will result in your death via fall damage. This is enforced the first time the player gets this on their jump indicator, with dialogue from Alyx and Russell confirming that a jump from that height would be lethal. Jeff doesn't hear the beep made when you add resin or ammo to your backpack. He also doesn't hear the sound of health pens being used or dropped on the floor. Generally, Jeff can hear gunshots, bottles shattering, and the general environment being disturbed. The "Xen ear" flora in the Jeff chapter are exceptionally helpful with what sounds will alert Jeff: if they heard it, then Jeff heard it too. If you attempt to put an item into a gravity glove's pocket that is already occupied, the new item will replace the old one and the old one will fall out. Before they're formally introduced as standalone enemies, headcrabs will never drop off and continue attacking you after killing a headcrab zombie, even if you only ever attack the zombie's body, so as to not overwhelm first-time players who are still getting to grips with VR combat. Later in the game, this behaviour also applies to zombies that act as distractions during fights with more threatening enemies (such as the double Reviver/"Lightning Dog" arena near the end of The Northern Star Hotel). It's impossible to release the slide on an empty pistol unless you insert a new magazine first, to avoid making it possible for the gun to appear loaded when it actually isn't.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: Featured in the trailer and in-game during the Zoo level, a small figurine on a shelf can be found wearing the attire of a BLU Scout. An acompanying RED scout can also be found in Russell's office. There's also some graffiti art of an Aperture Science turret. The prototype notes for D0g include a drawing of one of the quadrupedal robot dogs from The Lab, Valve's previous VR title.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_da7ede9c	type	Firing One-Handed
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_da7ede9c	comment	Firing One-Handed: Naturally, since it's a VR game. However, placing your hands closer together will have Alyx grip the weapon with her off-hand, giving more control when firing.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: When Eli and Russell first learn of the Vault, they assume the Combine want something out of it, only to later learn that it's actually a prison. As Alyx gets closer to the Vault, she happens to overhear a conversation between an unidentified human collaborator and an Combine Advisor regarding the Vault's contents, affirming that contained in the Vault is a "superweapon" in the form of a person - more specifically, someone who caused untold mayhem at Black Mesa before vanishing into thin air. This leads Eli and Russell to believe that the prisoner inside the Vault is Gordon Freeman. When Alyx does reach the Vault, the person she rescues isn't Gordon; it's the G-Man, the only other person to fit that description, being the one who orchestrated the resonance cascade in the first place.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Taken up to eleven by having to ride in the elevator with Jeff himself. Too close for comfort, indeed.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: While Russell and Alyx lay out a pretty meticulous plan to stop a Combine train, the last step is derailed as the control terminal they plan to use has a faulty lever. Alyx then has several seconds to think of an alternative way to stop the train. She pulls a railroad switch that deviates the train into a dead end, making it crash.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Alyx's pistol in Half-Life 2 looks vaguely like it has an M1911 grip, with the other parts kitbashed from other guns. Alyx's default pistol in this game is indeed an M1911 (to be specific, it's a Para-Ordnance LDA, an offshoot of the M1911), and upgrading it will gradually replace the M1911 parts with the chunky, black outer casing Alyx's gun has by the time of Half-Life 2, leaving only the aforementioned M1911-style grip. When the final upgrade is mounted on it, she says this: The pulse rifles that Combine soldiers use in this game look significantly different from the one in Half-Life 2, and the Combine SMG that Alyx finds later in the game is likely meant to be a prototype of the pulse rifle's Half-Life 2 incarnation. Its energy cells have a similar design, there's an usuable energy ball mount under the barrel, and the extended magazines upgrade will even give it the same auto-loading mechanism. In Alyx's refuge in the start of the game, you can find a picture of D0g, albeit in a form that is much smaller than his appearance in Half-Life 2. This may be D0g as Eli had originally designed and built him for Alyx, before Alyx herself began adding more and more to him. There's also sketches on a clipboard showing some of Alyx's upgrading plans for him.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Due to being made on the Source 2 engine, and the 13 year "prequel gap" between Episode Two and Alyx, environments are now more detailed than ever before, and character designs, new and old, have been tweaked to fit the updated art style.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	type	11th-Hour Superpower
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	comment	11th-Hour Superpower: At the very end, the Gravity Gloves gain the ability to absorb and shoot Vortigaunt energy bolts from nodes inside the Vault, in the vein of the Dark Energy Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 and Episode One.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Eli finds that the Vault's security is so unlike anything he's seen before, even for the Combine. Especially as a means of containing Gordon Freeman. As Alyx is entering the Vault, Eli realizes that the Combine — to quote the Vault's real prisoner, the G-Man — "wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman", and desperately tries to tell Alyx not to enter the Vault. In The Stinger, after the G-Man has taken Alyx, we see Eli cursing and saying he's going to kill the G-Man, a stark contrast to his usual self. Given who's been taken away from him, it's no surprise in context.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The Lone Vortigaunt whom Alyx meets early in the game turns up just in time to save Eli from a lethal fall into a pit, after Alyx derails the Nova Prospekt-bound train.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: After saving the G-Man from imprisonment, Alyx is rewarded with the life of her father... and promptly imprisoned by the very same entity she saved. Given the G-man's track record and the distaste he has grown to have for Freeman, whatever he's planning can't be good.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085	type	Hacking Minigame
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085	comment	Hacking Minigame: Alyx can use her multitool to open lockers, activate Combine fabricators, and disarm tripmines, and the hacks are represented as VR minigames.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f4fb7564	type	Diegetic Interface
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f4fb7564	comment	Diegetic Interface: The gravity gloves have their own built-in display that shows your health, ammo, and resin stores. Weapons that are empty will glow strategically-placed red lights, and will blink red if you need to chamber a new round after reloading.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f651b980	type	Forbidden Zone
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f651b980	comment	Forbidden Zone: The Vault is right in the middle of the Quarantine Zone, a large section of City 17 overtaken by Xen life and consequently walled off by the Combine. The place is absolutely littered with the corpses of Combine soldiers and work crews who got killed trying to clean up the infestation; evidently they finally decided to give up the ghost and just seal the whole place away, though Alyx interrupts one more operation in progress on her way to the Vault.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: The Combine's propaganda in this game takes this stance towards human-led scientific progress, in order to tap into fears stemming from the Black Mesa Incident. Several posters put up around City 17 bear the words "Human Science" underneath cherry-picked images of scientific atrocities, including a syringe pointed at a person's eye, a nuclear explosion, and a mouse with a human ear grafted to its back.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: Downplayed. At the very beginning, there's a cat asleep on a balcony one floor down. The player can toss something at it to wake it up and scare it away. Alyx has the choice of pushing the button and crushing Jeff, or just leaving him trapped in the trash compactor. Achievement statistics show that about 2/3 of players push the button.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f8f1249	type	Instructive Level Design
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f8f1249	comment	Instructive Level Design: As with most of Valve's games. The developer commentary goes into how carefully the levels were designed to give the player, for example, some time to practice firing and reloading the pistol in a no-threat environment before they had to use them against active threats.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: All three of Alyx's weapons can be upgraded to contain a laser sight that illuminates precisely where she's aiming. For the pistol and SMG, it is a precision dot that shows exactly where the bullet will land, while for the shotgun it illuminates a circle where the shell's spread will be confined to. The Grenade Launcher upgrade also features a laser sight, this time to show the grenade's arc.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3	type	Player Character
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3	comment	Half-Life: Alyx is the first Half-Life game where the Player Character is fully voiced, rather than a Heroic Mime for the duration of the player's control (like Barney Calhoun from Blue Shift being a fully-voice non-player character in Half-Life 2).
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Alyx questions Russell about City 17's Quarantine Zone, Russell instead explains her to the etymology of the word "quarantine" from the era of the Black Death, which tells her nothing of the horrors inside. When Alyx asks Russell to talk to her to help her (being nyctophobic/afraid of the dark) deal with being in a dark environment, he starts talking about why it's completely logical to be terrified under the circumstances. She later rectifies this by asking about pre-Combine life on Earth instead.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ff1cde15	type	New Weapon Target Range
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game) / int_ff1cde15	comment	New Weapon Target Range: Any time you get a new item, it's generally immediately followed by an area where it's exactly the right tool for the job. The grenades are perhaps the most extreme version of this, with several spots where you can toss a grenade to take out barnacles and zombies, but every weapon has it to an extent.
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	All-or-Nothing Reloads / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	All-Powerful Bystander / int_85b76eac
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Always Check Behind the Chair / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	American Video Games / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	An Offer You Can't Refuse / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bag of Holding / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blackout Basement / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	BlasÃ© Boast / int_85b76eac
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Breaking Old Trends / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Broken Lever of Doom / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Controllable Helplessness / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cosmic Retcon / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Critical Annoyance / int_707bae8c
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Direct Continuous Levels / int_707bae8c
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Living Motion Detector / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lost Common Knowledge / int_707bae8c
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Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Science Is Bad / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sense-Impaired Monster / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Serendipitous Survival / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shield-Bearing Mook / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Range Shotgun / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniper Pistol / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spear Carrier / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story Difficulty Setting / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tech-Demo Game / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Can Kicked Him / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Other Marty / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Throwing the Distraction / int_85b76eac
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tricked-Out Gloves / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unusable Enemy Equipment / int_707bae8c
Half-Life: Alyx (Video Game)	hasFeature	Up Close with the Monster / int_707bae8c
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