Quiver Creature

The Quiver Creature is a Xen creature cut from Half-Life. It only made it to concept so it was never modeled nor scripted.

Overview
In Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar Valve describes the creature as a concept for Quiver a unreleased version of Half-Life (also known as Half-Life Alpha.) It was to have alien decapods and a big horn. The tentacles were also used as its main weapon (though reused for the Tentacle.) It was to also have armor on its back being able to take a number of bullets and possibly explosives with the only way to kill was was shoot it in the face.

List of Appearances

 * Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (First Appearance.)(Uncorrcted proof page 29). (Non-canonical appearance.)