Serious HL2RP∞ Screenshot Thread

[Mute]

Does anyone have an example of what the science teams produced? Were they actual items added to the content pack? Did they have much utility?

I remember one time either in late CW or Helix (or on two seperate occasions) they produced a jacket with a heater inside of it, or at least were prototyping it and were gathering money kickstarter style and I payed 600 tokens and never got my jacket


In CW I believe both WI and CWU had a race to produce a robot in which both succeded in the end in different ways but that was before my time


There was also Division 22 in late CW which was this top secret black mesa type thing with a massive underground bunker compound (this was on the first iteration of d47) and I remember playing a character for it

We dissected a bullsquid, did tests on civillians, but again nothing came of it

As far as I remember it was a relatively uninfluental and, most of the time, a dead faction that catered to that Black Mesa style RP, but in the end it struggled to keep its members engaged

It was also disconnected from the rest of the server in ways other factions werent (you werent allowed to discuss most projects, people couldnt enter the facility) which made it irrelevant compared to CWU/UM

 

[Trains]

Rebel science groups didn't really exist back on LP (or even for most of Neb) because they were pushed aside in favor of the 'gritty and realistic' idea of your usual armed freedom fighters.

this is so stupid the whole premise of half life is wacky science shit why was everyone so hellbent on making it as grounded in reality as possible back then lol

real life is BORING why else are we playing vidyas

 

[MaXenzie]

A few people ended up with them actually - a fair few loyalists. Even some citizens got the very basic version.

i only remember the person who literally made the same character again and again and was definitely a masochist
garwunkle or something

 

[Rabid]

this is so stupid the whole premise of half life is wacky science shit why was everyone so hellbent on making it as grounded in reality as possible back then lol

real life is BORING why else are we playing vidyas

Yeah I absolutely agree with you now but at the time it was just seen as common sense for whatever reason.

Personally I think it was because ScienceRP didn't actually give you anything whereas if you controlled things that mattered, like guns and whatever, you were seen as a Big Cool Rebel Man and everyone wanted to be cool. Like sure you could sit in the corner doing RP-based projects but you wouldn't have the clout as people who did the reverse.

There's still people who'll argue that despite Psi lasting longer than any rebel group in Helix 1.0 (the entire 3 years) and providing a lot of cool RP that they were cringe and unfitting just because they did science shit.

 

[Andrew]

Does strapping bombs to zombies make me a scientist

 

[Kenny.]

Does strapping bombs to zombies make me a scientist

it makes you a terrible zombracist. rise up, fellow zombies, against the EVIL zombombers.

 

[Isuckatgaming]

i only remember the person who literally made the same character again and again and was definitely a masochist
garwunkle or something

certified Dunkel moment

 

[john]

Yeah I absolutely agree with you now but at the time it was just seen as common sense for whatever reason.

Personally I think it was because ScienceRP didn't actually give you anything whereas if you controlled things that mattered, like guns and whatever, you were seen as a Big Cool Rebel Man and everyone wanted to be cool. Like sure you could sit in the corner doing RP-based projects but you wouldn't have the clout as people who did the reverse.

There's still people who'll argue that despite Psi lasting longer than any rebel group in Helix 1.0 (the entire 3 years) and providing a lot of cool RP that they were cringe and unfitting just because they did science shit.

i think that there should be VOLK rifles and science flags 😎

 

[Señor Jaggles]

Oh yeah didn't the UIL create an android?

We worked on a good bunch of projects although the main issue was always that we couldn't really do anything that was "palpable" per se. Everything was made for the sake of engaging in science roleplay and fun in the end, having a lore impact into the server was secondary though we tried at times. We did have participation in events as UIL and created cool scientific gadgets to be used in said events and were part of the plotline in a couple, like Dallas's ones.

certified Dunkel moment

Destroying someone as much as humanly possible while keeping him alive CAB experiment (gone wrong) (very funny)

 

[Kafe]

Bit of a victim of not being able to change the city meta it feels

 

[Erkor]

Oh yeah didn't the UIL create an android?

it is imperative that a combine organization must create at least one sapient technological entity once per iteration

this is not a slight i found the robot kind of funny and engaging to rp with unlike most people i interacted with at the time

 

[bilack]

this is so stupid the whole premise of half life is wacky science shit why was everyone so hellbent on making it as grounded in reality as possible back then lol

real life is BORING why else are we playing vidyas

Real life is boring?

Explain why I am having so much fun producing illegal homemade explosive weaponry using PDF files from random Discord servers and mixing white phosphorus with ammonia nitrate and napalm

 

[Señor Jaggles]

it is imperative that a combine organization must create at least one sapient technological entity once per iteration

this is not a slight i found the robot kind of funny and engaging to rp with unlike most people i interacted with at the time

Making the android a shackled AI so it can't overthrow governments but it can definitely be sarcastic and drop massive zingers and call you a nerd - The Project

 

[Erkor]

Making the android a shackled AI so it can't overthrow governments but it can definitely be sarcastic and drop massive zingers and call you a nerd - The Project

it was my best friend...

 

[Señor Jaggles]

it was my best friend...

It was insanely based

People will endlessly meme on UIL/WI but some of my best, funniest moments come from those factions and I've had a lot of great development for my characters with them

 

[Rabid]

certified Dunkel moment

Looking back I always get a laugh people got so fucking offended for them about the Dunkel family situation w/CAB when it was literally an inside joke after the very first time.

 

[john]

the only good science robot was during the CWU and Willard wars

@Jamie was also the only good CWU lead and the only time the faction was fun

 

[Thood74]

it is imperative that a combine organization must create at least one sapient technological entity once per iteration

this is not a slight i found the robot kind of funny and engaging to rp with unlike most people i interacted with at the time

yunno, why was UIL/WI/whatever else making all these androids anyways

what purpose would a highly restricted in use android prototype with no areas of expertise serve to either the Combine or local citizenry

 

[Isuckatgaming]

yunno, why was UIL/WI/whatever else making all these androids anyways

what purpose would a highly restricted in use android prototype with no areas of expertise serve to either the Combine or local citizenry

same reason humans have made any kind of automation machinery

-can be programmed to do menial tasks humans dont want to do
-can be used in environments where squishy humans cant go without a lot of protective equipment
-due to being mechanical it has a lot more precision

and the most important thing that has driven human innovation since time immemorial:

to see if they could do it (also its funny)

 

[Thood74]

-can be programmed to do menial tasks humans dont want to do

stalkers and already existing automated factory machinery which is a lot more capable at performing the tasks they're specifically made for than expensive humanoid robots

-can be used in environments where squishy humans cant go without a lot of protective equipment

ota in earlier iterations weren't exactly unavailable most of the time

-due to being mechanical it has a lot more precision

possibly but that doesn't make up for how expensive it must surely be to manufacture a full on humanoid robot with its own AI system instead of just something remote controlled by a human

to see if they could do it (also its funny)

good point though, androids are awesome