Brickbat

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The Brickbat is an unfinished weapon cut from Half-Life 2 and a predecessor of the Gravity Gun. It can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta files.

Overview

 * The Brickbat was to allow the player to use a small selection of props as weapons, by picking them up on the ground and throwing them at enemies. They were to include at least four elements: rocks (in four versions), Cremator heads, Headcrabs (mirroring the Snark from Half-Life), and beer bottles (in two versions).


 * Its entity name,, can still be found in Hammer, with the four elements to choose, though it is invalid.


 * It was probably removed for redundancy and limitation reasons, the Gravity Gun allowing the player to pick up and throw almost everything coming across the way of the player.


 * In the playable Beta, the Molotov Cocktail appears as a Headcrab when spawned but is a regular Molotov when thrown. This is mostly because the Molotov was made of the remains of the Brickbat, bottle version, and was not completed at the time of the file leak.

List of appearances

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