The contents of this article has been cut. The subject matter of this article was cut from the final version of an official and/or canonical source and appears in no other canonical source.

Immolator
Production information
Affiliation	Combine
Type	Plasma thrower
Technical specifications
Ammunition Type	Unknown plasma and/or corrosive substance
Range	Short
Usage
Used by	Cremators Gordon Freeman
Game information
Entity / spawn codes	weapon_immolator
Designer(s)	Dhabih Eng (concept art)[1]

 

The Immolator is a weapon cut from Half-Life 2. It can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta. It was intended to be used by Cremators to clean the City 17 streets, then be acquired by the player.

OverviewEdit

The Immolator was to function similarly to the human-designed flamethrower, except that its plasma or burning liquid was also to possess corrosive properties, allowing it to completely disintegrate organic matter.

Behind the scenesEdit

As seen in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta, it was at some point possible for the player to assault Striders and take their gun. Noclipping to the Strider's head, then pressing the Use key results in the player seeing through the creature's eyes. At that point the only thing to do to free oneself is to kill the creature, for instance with the RPG (as the only way to kill a Strider in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta is by standing inside its head), or reload the game. When killing it, the Strider collapses, releasing the player. At that point, the red ERROR model appears. When walking through it, the player acquires the Immolator. This suggests the Immolator acts here as a placeholder for the Strider's warp cannon, and that resuing it was at some point considered, role that the Combine Guard Gun was already filling. As a side note, the Immolator worldmodel exists and should appear instead of the ERROR model.

TriviaEdit

• In the playable Half-Life 2 Beta, the viewmodel texture incorrectly uses the hands texture. This also happens with the Combine Guard Gun.

• 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 Immolator is among them, however the HUD icon differs a lot from the model design.

GalleryEdit

Immolator HUD icon.

Worldmodel.

Viewmodel, with incorrect textures.

Viewmodel with textures fixed for the mod Missing Information.

The Immolator worldmodel error after killing a Strider in the map e3_strider.

Getting and testing the Immolator in the map e3_strider.

List of appearancesEdit

• Half-Life 2 (First appearance) (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (Non-canonical appearance)

ReferencesEdit