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The Xen Grenade is a weapon featured in Half-Life: Alyx.
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Overview
The Xen Grenade is a small teal mass of fleshy goop, produced from certain objects in the environment, once armed, it will start glowing, and making a clicking sound, before exploding with a rather large blast of teal light.
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Tactics
In order to take the grenade, the player must quickly snatch it away from the grenade pod's hand or rub its belly and then take the grenade. It cannot be taken with the gravity gloves.
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Related achievements
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Xen Lootism |
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Snatch a Xen grenade from its resting place. |
Behind the scenes
- The Xen Grenade's design appears to be based on that of the Hopwire Grenade, a cut weapon from Half-Life 2.
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List of appearances
- Half-Life: Alyx (First appearance)
References
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Creatures | Alien Aircraft • Alien Controller • Alien Grunt • Armored Headcrab • Barnacle • Boid • Bullsquid • Chumtoad • Fast Headcrab • Gargantua• Gonarch • Headcrab • Houndeye • Ichthyosaur • Leech • Lightning Dog • Nihilanth • Poison Headcrab • Protozoan • Snark • Standard Headcrab • Tentacle • Vortigaunt • Zombie |
Flora and minerals | Crystal • Fungus • Healing Pool • Light Stalk • Trampoline • Tree |
Weapons | Black Hole Gun (cut) • Ceiling Turret • Grenade • Hivehand • Sentry Cannon • Snark • Snark Mine |
Technology | Healing Shower • Thumper |
Creatures (cut) | Archer • Charger • Fast Walker • Flocking Floater • Kingpin • Mr. Friendly • Panther Eye • Prrobot • Sand Barnacle • Snapbug • Sphere • Stukabat • Unidentified Quiver Creature |
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