The Binoculars is an item (used as a weapon game-wise) cut from Half-Life 2. It can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta.
Overview[]
- The Binoculars cannot be spawned with
impulse 101
; the codegive weapon_binoculars
must be entered. - They can zoom in to five times normal sight, however the player cannot fire weapons while using it.
- They were finally integrated into the suit as the "zoom" feature, and the crossbow's scope.
- Sound files found in its related sound folder also contain garbled voice sounds and the excerpt of a yodelling song which was from the song "The Tyrolean Music Station" from the 1997 album "The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations" , as the binoculars were supposed to allow the player to locate and track radio signals.
Behind the scenes[]
According to the Binocular's code in the leaked source code, the Binoculars were to have a black mask while zoomed in, a different crosshair and animations for zooming in.[1]
Trivia[]
In the Half-Life 2 files, several texture files for HUD weapon icons can be found, most of which still containing the icons for almost all of the cut weapons. The Binoculars are among them.
Gallery[]
List of appearances[]
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance) (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
References[]
- ↑ Half-Life 2 Beta source code