Combine Ceiling Turret

The Combine Ceiling Turret is a stationary sentry weapon used by the Combine.

Overview
The Ceiling Turret is basically what its name implies, a turret attached to the ceiling of a room. These types of turrets are indestructible and have a wider firing arc. Ceiling Turrets are static, and cannot be moved. They are used to guard important Combine structures (such as the Overwatch Nexus). They are sometimes only activated by laser tripmines. In Episode One, several Ceiling Turrets are seen trying to fire without any ammunition. This suggests that turrets don't have an infinite amount of ammunition (although this could be due to a mechanical malfunction as well). One can also note that these turret models bear a striking resemblance to Ceiling Cameras, though slightly larger.

Half-Life 2
Ceiling Turrets are present in the Overwatch Nexus, in the laser tripwire room. They appear dormant until one trips the wires: past this point, the game becomes impassible as the doors seal and the turrets deploy. They have limitless ammunition and health and are unable to be destroyed, merely serving as a cinematic way of ending the game. Strangely enough, if the player is unable to continue the game if he touches the lasers and seals the doors, there will be no failure message to appear, followed by the reload of the game.

Half-Life 2: Episode One
During Episode One, two Ceiling Turrets are noted as having ran out of ammunition after firing at overwhelming numbers of Zombies and Antlions but still are firing, unaware of their lack of ammo, evidenced by clicking trigger-like sounds when one points at organic things, more evidence that the Combine are losing control of City 17. It is unsure how exactly the Turret's ammunition is fed into the barrel, or how it is loaded.

Behind the scenes

 * Early brush Ceiling Turrets, actually Wall Turrets, can be found in the WC mappack map " ", in an underground tunnel recycled for the tunnel found at the very start of the Episode One chapter Lowlife. There their cameras mounted on a mechanical arm are constantly searching the area for enemies.


 * A Wall Turret model can be found in the Half-Life 2 Beta files. It is mostly similar to the retail Ceiling Turret, except that it was to be mounted on walls. It has no animations.

List of appearances

 * Half-Life 2
 * Half-Life 2: Episode One
 * Half-Life 2: Episode Two