"fuck you, guess which is which"
-Valve, 2004-2006

makes me think, why is the post orange box shotgunner skin so bad? it looks so muddy and the helmet is this weird pale brown instead of the bluish grey it should be

@havin a melty? I think it's due to the rushed nature of HL2 as a whole compared to HL1 which when coming back to a lot, feels like it had more care put into it in many places. There's a sentiment shared by a minority of the community that HL2 doesn't feel like a proper sequel to HL1 in many places like the combat which valve kinda dropped the ball on to show off their physics engine tech demo.

Remane this to: Half-Life 2 gambling edition.

Is he gonna pew. pew. pew. or PAH! PAH! PAH!

It's weird that even HL1 (and DOOM for that matter) had a different skin for shotgunners. Especially in HL2 where they literally have different AI that makes them more dangerous you'd think Valve would've realized the advantage to giving them a different look. But the terribly half-assed skin they did end up giving them kind of shows us that they didn't lol.

nostalgia...