Particle Storm
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- "The first storm I saw, I made the mistake of stopping to study it. That's... how I lost my leg."
- ―Eli Maxwell[src]
The Particle Storm[1] is an enemy cut from Half-Life 2. It only exists as sound files, although information about it can be found in the Half-Life 2 Beta source code.[1]
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[edit] Overview
In the folder "sound/temp/eli" from the playable Half-Life 2 Beta files, Eli Maxwell seems to be telling Gordon about an entity called the "Storm". In that speech, Eli warns Gordon to run when he sees a "flicker of green light" while being "out there", as it managed to tear off one of his legs when he made "the mistake to study it".[2] The "Storm" was therefore to emit a green light, somehow recalling the portals' and the Resonance Cascade's green color seen in Half-Life and its expansions.
[edit] Behavior and skills
- In the speech mentioned above, Eli also talks about how he has seen a Particle Storm tear gunboats, filled with soldiers, to bits, and believes that, contrary to some stating it is a mere "electrical disturbance", Particle Storms are somehow intelligent.[3] He wishes the Resistance could communicate with it so that it could join their side as a "powerful ally".[1] This indicates that it is not a Combine creation, but rather a wild "creature", sentient and powerful enough to destroy gunboats, kill living beings and simply cut off a leg, as mentioned above, possibly acting like a black hole.
- Another related folder from the playable Half-Life 2 Beta files named "particle_storm" can be found in the "sound/npc" folder. It contains four sounds the Particle Storm was to emit, associated with different moves: "form", "dissipate", "hover", and "lightning".[1] It was therefore to probably form out of nowhere in front of the player, hover above the ground and emit lighting flashes.
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[edit] See also
| Quantum events | ||
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| Black Mesa Incident · Particle Storm · Portal · Portal Storm · Resonance Cascade · Superportal · Teleportation | ||
