Flare Gun
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| Flare Gun | |
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| Production information | |
| Affiliation |
The Resistance |
| Manufacturer | |
| Model |
Orion 12 Gauge Flare Gun |
| Type | |
| Technical specifications | |
| Damage |
12 |
| Magazine Size |
1 |
| Maximum Ammunition |
20 |
| Ammunition Type |
Flares |
| Range |
Short |
| Usage | |
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| Counterpart(s) | |
| Game information | |
| Entity |
weapon_flaregun |
The Flare Gun is a weapon cut from Half-Life 2. It can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta.
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[edit] Overview
The weapon was to be found on the Borealis and Kraken Base.[1] When shot, the flare stick to the player when approached and can damage their health.[2] Due to general ineffectiveness and redundancy as weapon, it was cut early in the game's development process.
The gun still exists somehow in the Half-Life 2 universe, evidenced by Overwatch Soldiers along the Coast using one to summon a Gunship, to light an area after deactivating the ceiling lights during the chapter Entanglement and a Civil Protection officer firing one when the player assaults a power generator during the City 17 uprising. Each time a flare is shot, the shooter is invariably out of the player's reach to prevent them from seeing any flare gun.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The flaregun handle was originally to be red, and be used by a female NPC, as evidenced by textures files found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta texture files for the flare gun.[3] This probably refers to a very early version of Alyx, the "I.A. Latham" concept, although the arm texture appears in the orientation of a player texture.[4]
[edit] Trivia
- In the Half-Life 2 files, several texture files for HUD weapon icons can be found, most of which still containing the icons for almost all of the cut weapons. The Flare Gun is among them.
- In Half-Life 2: Episode One, disposable flares were introduced. They can be used with the Gravity Gun, mocking the operation of the flare gun.
- The Flare Gun is available in the mod Missing Information, at the start of the Borealis chapter.
- The Flare Gun concept was reused in Team Fortress 2 as an unlockable weapon for the Pyro, used to ignite enemies from long range.
[edit] Gallery
 The Flare Gun being held. |
 A Flare. |
 Unidentified texture file for a female right arm holding a red flare gun found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta texture files for the flare gun. |
 Hand texture file for the same arm. |
 Forearm. |
 Red flaregun side. |
 "I.A. Latham" concept, also showing leather straps. |
 "Pyrotechnic locker" in Kraken Base, where Flare Guns and their ammo are typically found. |
 Flare Gun icon. |
 Real world version. |
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance) (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
[edit] Notes and references
- ↑ WC mappack
- ↑ Playable Half-Life 2 Beta
- ↑ Playable Half-Life 2 Beta files
- ↑ Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
