The next Half Life episode will feature an Aperture Science ship, the Borealis. Aperture technology is guaranteed to be present, as may be Aperture AIs. I don't question your integrity, I simply use in-game incidents as gauge of what is and isn't canon.Vonnis said:
I don't buy that. It doesn't specifically say in the game that moon rock is the only portal-able surface.Nieroshai said:
Well it still is in the same universe. Aperture Science gets mentioned in ep2 as the company who made the Borealis and some secret technology but the connections between the games are loose. You'd never see Gordon Freeman run through the Enrichment Center or Chell in the next hl game.SaltyOrange said:Well,this actually cleared things up.I always thought Valve insisted that portal is in the same universe as half-life and didnt want to change it.
Sry for my lack of knowledge on the subject
That´s future talk though. Not saying it´s not going to happen, I´m sure it will, but the way I see it this is just fanservice. They made a fairly vague link between HL and Portal with the first Portal, and now they´re expanding on that, because it worked and because not doing so would piss off the fans (and rightly so, as honestly the HL story is a bit of a mess and any hint about the story or game universe is valuable, and Portal can´t stand on its own feet in that regard). Again, good business sense.Nieroshai said:
See something that is making me wonder is...Solo-Wing said:
Theree's a difference between forced continuity and an expanded universe. Portal referred to Half Life from the beginning through dialogue, including when GLaDOS mentions that the world above has pretty much become unsafe for organics(the Combine?), tying in with the fact that she mentions Black Mesa as a competitor to Aperture in the end. Also, if you look in office windows you can see projector screens. These have comparisons between Aperture and Black Mesa as companies. So sure Half Life 1 and 2 were created without Portal in mind, but Portal's story was written with Half Life in mind. And then in episode two they decided it was time to show that the connection would come to mean something.Vonnis said:
After double-checking, I see what you mean. That still leaves metals, wood, and most other building and natural materials out though, there are PLENTY of different surfaces in 2 that you can try the gun on, that yield little more than a flash. So it requires the right kind of mineral, which I'd assume is hard to come by. Still though, with the Gravity Gun, it simply needs a power source and something to lift. It is not constrained by having just the perfect conditions, it's constrained by the mass of the object. So in Aperture Labs the Portal gun would win out, but outside it's just an expensive toy without some expensive and difficult prep work.MysticToast said:
This could be a useful application. I think though that Aperture wanted to keep the portal gun to themselves though because it was a testing apparatus that made all their other technologies possible. Also, there would need to be a moon base with, say the blue portal, and a machine that makes an accurate shot at the target's location to get them there then the destination. The Black Mesa teleporter would be better if it wasn't made of scrap iron, because it teleports the individual to specific coordinates without having to inscribe an exit hole. Teleporting back, on the other hand, I don't know. Maybe combining the two? Maybe you use the BM porter to get there, shatter a vial of moon juice and shoot it with the A porter to get home.Tharwen said:
That's what I just said. In adiition to the white panels in Aperture, you also have the White gel (made from moon rocks). Which you cannot carry with you all the time. In this case, portals cannot be used in a fast-paced military operation. Only in controled environments, like a lab or a base.MysticToast said:
Of course. Used for transportation it has a lot of potential. No more roads, no more cars, no more pollution, fuel crysis solved. We could go virtually ANYWHERE.Tharwen said:
The "right kind of mineral" in this case consists mostly of Silicon and Oxygen, with some common metals on the side. Considering that one of the consistently portalable surfaces in the game is plain concrete, you can safely assume that silica is, indeed, the key. And Earth has no shortage of sand in sight.Nieroshai said:
That's not what I meant. The panels in Aperature appear to be made out of concrete or something similar. And the fact you can place portals in the bowels of the facility (where they wouldn't have had a need to put moon rock gel) shows that it's not just limited to where they want you to do it.Gabriela D. said:
But you still NEED the panels or a suitable surface to do it. That's my point. The portal gun is too pretentious to be used outside a controlled environment.MysticToast said:
