![]() It can be re-enabled with the console command cl_mdldetailfx_enable 1, however. The effect of blood and Bullsquid acid staining Gordon's arms and weapons, while used in the mod release, is disabled by default in the retail release due to an unresolved lag hitch that occurs when the effect is first applied.Both can still be spawned in-game and are mostly functional. Two new NPCs were cut outright from Xen: the Elite Alien Grunt, which is essentially the standard Alien Grunt but bigger, more durable, and capable of throwing Snark nests, and the Puffball Fungus, a plant that when agitated releases poisonous spores that temporarily reduce player health to one.This feature can still be enabled with a console command in the mod version but lacks the proper textures, though there's a mod to restore them. A disabled feature in the game would have forced the player to fight off headcrabs attempting to "couple" with their head by rapidly tapping the attack button.This is somewhat justified considering it's made by volunteers in their spare time, and when you do the math, actually took around the same amount of man hours as your average game. Even then, the Xen levels weren't completed in time for that, and we wouldn't get so much as a tech demo of them until mid- 2019. ![]() Development Hell: The game started development in 2004 and was originally set for release in 2009.Descended Creator: Kala Nielsen, the spouse of composer Joel Nielsen, provides the One-Woman Wail of the Xen soundtrack. ![]()
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