Boid
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| Boid | |
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| General information | |
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Wildlife |
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N/A |
| Game information | |
| Entity |
monster_flyer |
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The Boid is an inoffensive bird-like creature seen on Xen.
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[edit] Overview
Boids are made of two wings and glide in flocks of three or more, flapping their sides and emitting soothing resonant calls.
[edit] Variants
[edit] Standard Boid
The standard boid wings have several shades of blue, pink and yellow and its main body is grey. At the center and on each side of its body, the creature seems to have four red eyes and a mouth.
[edit] Yellow Boid
The yellow Boid was to appear in Half-Life but was cut in the development process. It was however brought back in Blue Shift, making its way into the canon like the Chumtoad, also initially cut. It is completely yellow and has three red eyes on each side of its wings, but looking straight ahead, compared to the standard Boid, having its eyes looking upwards and downwards.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The Boid has no AI and does not react to the player or the other NPCs actions, even though unused interaction animations and "alert" sounds exist.
[edit] Gallery
 Yellow Boids on Xen in Half-Life. |
 Yellow Boids on Xen in Blue Shift. |
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life (First appearance)
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
| Xen | ||
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| Creatures | Alien Controller · Alien Grunt · Barnacle · Boid · Bullsquid · Chumtoad · Gargantua · Headcrab · Houndeye · Ichthyosaur · Leech · Manta Ray · Nihilanth · Snark · Tentacle · Vortigaunt | |
| Headcrabs | Headcrab · Fast Headcrab · Gonarch · Lamarr · Poison Headcrab · Standard Headcrab · Headcrab Shell | |
| Zombies | Zombie · Fast Zombie · Gonome · Poison Zombie · Standard Zombie · Zombine | |
| Vortigaunts | Vortigaunt · Vortigese · All-Knowing Vortigaunt · R-4913 · Sweepy · Uriah · Victory Mine Vortigaunt · Vortigaunt Camp · Vortigaunt Shepherd · X-8973 | |
| Flora | Light Stalk · Fungus · Tree | |
| Weapons | Sentry Turret · Hivehand · Snark · Snark Mine | |
| Other | Crystal | |
| Creatures (cut) | Archer · Charger · Fast Walker · Flocking Floater · Kingpin · Mr. Friendly · Panther Eye · Sand Barnacle · Snapbug · Stukabat | |
| Headcrabs (cut) | Brickbat | |
| Vortigaunts (cut) | Vorti-Cell | |
| Weapons (cut) | Black Hole Gun | |
