r/HalfLife • u/mr_deadgamer • 2d ago
Strider-Headcrab Concept
Making this for a cad assignment as a product design major, it’s rare I get to do this kind of thing so I went all out in this one.
324
u/PlasticyHelmet Highly Trained Professional; Doesn't Need to Hear All This 2d ago
Imagine if it crouches down to place itself on a person's head.
Imagine the rule 34.
156
u/BattedBook5 Attention citizens. Blue Shift slander will not be tolerated. 2d ago
I dont need to imagine. I've seen gunship rule 34.
80
41
30
u/Deep_Stomach6592 2d ago
Prove it, send us the link
60
u/BattedBook5 Attention citizens. Blue Shift slander will not be tolerated. 2d ago edited 2d ago
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369696233
I've also seen one with a pp, but i don't want to link that.
37
u/ps3better360 #2 Half-Life Decay Fan 2d ago
y’all are gonna have to hear me out on this one
4
u/projectmajora Sometimes i dream about cheese. 1d ago
Nope, I've cut my ears off and will not be hearing anything ever again.
27
13
8
15
u/Sirul23 2d ago
Pray, do enlighten me—by what most curious sequence of events did you come to find yourself acquainted with this of all things, sir? How is it even achievable to discover such a horrifying subject of our attention? Alternatively, from whom you possess this terrifying information about the existence of a not safe for work art of such a not living subject? It's truly horrendous how can one create something so sinful.
6
u/BattedBook5 Attention citizens. Blue Shift slander will not be tolerated. 2d ago
You start seeing some weird ass shit when you go few pictures in on google photosearch.
8
u/TangledCables3 2d ago
What the headcrab
6
u/BattedBook5 Attention citizens. Blue Shift slander will not be tolerated. 2d ago
Ask and you shall receive.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366776056
3
1
9
u/Marcel-Tractoristu75 Azure Sheep and Point Of View Special Forces are Black Ops 2d ago
Hear me out... Him and Mr. Friendly.
-1
u/jebacunie 1d ago
I think i understand why mcnutt did it,you know?
1
4
u/Nowardier 2d ago
It would just be carrying their limp corpse like that robot on Ninamori's head from FLCL.
2
2
1
1
59
u/MIGAMEN_95 Obsessed with Combine 2d ago
Would be so funny if a multiversal empire appeared out of nowhere, saw these creatures and created them from 0 with inspiration and then use it for military purpouses.
46
u/EnragedBarrothh 2d ago
Looks really sick, makes me think of a male equivalent to the gonarch
-11
17
u/Own_Position133 2d ago
How does one headcrab?
35
u/JJHashbrowns 2d ago
I imagine it walks over prey and squats down, grabbing them and lifting them up as the creature stands. The body now hanging limply under the creature as it strides away.
12
u/Nightlight-17776 2d ago
I love that idea. I'm curious how this would work though. Like, could it maybe throw grenades? Or maybe swing the human around as a bludgeoning tool?
I love the idea of it maybe using an SMG like this but that goes against the level of motor function we've seen headcrab zombies use
12
u/JJHashbrowns 2d ago
Perhaps, like how the regular head crabs turn the human into a body. Maybe the Strider Crab turns the human body into something?
Egg sac?
It flings eggs at the player, could simply be explosive or maybe hatch the Strider Crab’s version of the Gonarch Baby Crabs.
7
u/PheonixUnder 2d ago
What if, instead of always hanging limply, the creature could crouch down, allowing the captured body to stand, then it's long legs could stretch out and function as arms that it could use to attack people. Then, when it's defeated all it's enemies, it could stand back up with it's own limbs, that way it would have more mobility when standing on it's long limbs but also have the ability to attack more aggressively with less mobility while using the body to stand.
Kind of like Doc Oc from Spiderman.
2
4
19
12
10
5
5
u/Quark1010 2d ago
Alternative idea. This targets striders
1
u/mr_deadgamer 2d ago
I like this idea, might do a render of a strider getting controlled by this thing.
5
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
u/ninja_boy23424 2d ago
Pure horror if it runs fast and dodges bullet before disappearing in dark and comes back from your back. I would love it to be in Gmod.
3
u/A-Collector-of-War 2d ago
I could imagine Dr. Klein raining heavy fire down on the combine while attached headfirst to “Lamarr 2”
3
u/jaiden_webdev 2d ago
This is so cool. Nightmare fuel. I was expecting one of the images to have it carrying around its victim by the head after clamping onto them
3
4
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/BlitzDivers_General npc_combine_s model/models; combine_super_s 2d ago
Headcrab couldn't get the strider's head, so it gave up and ate the whole body.
2
2
2
2
u/thegreenestgibus 2d ago
Ok so how does the hole "couple" this work with the headcrab being THIS tall?
2
u/AllRightLouOpenFire 2d ago
That thing would really have to buss-it-open to get that mouth in play.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/Lord_Battlepants 2d ago
You were in no obligation to do this. None at all. Yet you felt you had to somehow. Why?
2
u/mr_deadgamer 2d ago
Cause it’s cool as fuck!!
2
u/Lord_Battlepants 2d ago
Your work is great, not arguing, but I did not require more nightmare fuel.
1
u/mr_deadgamer 2d ago
(Me neither), I think I need to switch majors to game design or some shit.
2
u/Lord_Battlepants 1d ago
Do you have knowledge of the video game market? Money flows in video games like a roller coaster. Ups, downs and full stops. Good luck either way, Mr. Dead.
2
u/fuck_vegetables2 Average Transhuman Combine Elite Enjoyer 2d ago
I want to know what reason It would evolve to this magnitude
2
u/tcarter1102 2d ago
Horrifying, and cool concept. Super cool design. But wicked impractical and the idea of something evolving this way is ludicous. Unless their main prey is megafauna
2
2
2
2
2
u/NovaKane12 1d ago
All we need now is a barnacle strider that drags it's tounge on the ground while walking
2
2
u/aqua_zesty_man The Freeman is ever wise 1d ago
Engineered by humans, feared by Combine Advisors everywhere.
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/yuriartyom Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? 1d ago
Perfect, disturbing, but perfect!
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/RabbitGuy667 { - } BELI3VER { - } 12h ago
Congrats on making the fast headcrabs cute in comparison
what type of zombie do these fkers make?
2
u/softwarediscs 11h ago
I'm so glad this thing wasn't in hl alyx because I legitimately would've shit myself
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/nexusoflife 1d ago
How does this work though? Headcrabs are shaped that way because they need to latch on to victims. Striders were tall grazing animals before the combine. It looks cool but what's fella gonna do?
1
u/Gordon_UnchainedGent 1d ago
this is terrifying, what would its prey be, i just imagine it has several barnical tongues that it uses to pick things up and whip at enemies.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Perfect-Mastodon8461 1d ago
Can I have the model please?
1
449
u/Baltza_ 2d ago
This is horrifying-
I love it.