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Particle Storm
General information
Type

Quantum event / wildlife

Entity

N/A

"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]

Contents

[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.

[edit] List of appearances

  • N/A

[edit] Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Playable Half-Life 2 Beta files
  2. While the final version uses a Bullsquid instead.
  3. "(...) but if you ask me, there's an intelligence in there, somewhere..."

[edit] See also

Xen
Creatures Alien Controller · Alien Grunt · Antlion · Barnacle · Boid · Bullsquid · Chumtoad · Gargantua · Headcrab · Houndeye · Ichthyosaur · Leech · Manta Ray · Nihilanth · Snark · Tentacle · Vortigaunt
Antlions Antlion · Antlion Grub · Antlion Guard · Antlion Guardian · Antlion Worker · Antlion Detector · Pheropods · Standard Antlion · Victory Mine
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) Alien Fauna · Archer · Charger · Fast Walker · Flocking Floater · Hydra · Kingpin · Mr. Friendly · Panther Eye · Particle Storm · Sand Barnacle · Skitch · Snapbug · Stampeder · Stukabat · Tripod Hopper
Antlions (cut) Antlion King
Headcrabs (cut) Brickbat
Vortigaunts (cut) Vorti-Cell
Weapons (cut) Black Hole Gun
Quantum events
Black Mesa Incident · Particle Storm · Portal · Portal Storm · Resonance Cascade · Superportal · Teleportation
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