User:Klow

This user is a Combine OverWiki administrator.

This user is Belgian.

This user uses Steam under the name Klow.

Where is my Episode Three???

This user supports Black Mesa, an equal opportunity employer.

This user is fond of cut content.

This user is still waiting for the last part of Black Mesa.

This user enjoys drinking
Dr. Breen's Private Reserve... of urine!

This user is addicted to Combine OverWiki!

I'M CURRENTLY ON AN INDEFINITE BREAK FROM THE WIKI. FOR ANY URGENT PROBLEM, CONTACT THESE GUYS. IF YOU HAVE TIME, I STILL EDIT OCCASIONALLY SO I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP.

"Good luck out there, buddies. You're gonna need it."

―Barney Calhoun to Combine OverWiki's administration^[src]

Oh hai! Any questions? Views? Ideas? Suggestions? Bashing? Feel free to leave a message on my talk page! And keep cool, this is just a wiki.

About me

Anything written here relies on my personal views only, and is not to be taken as part of the wiki's official views or policies.

My real name is Quentin, I'm a Belgian born in 1983 and living in Louvain-la-Neuve, in the French-speaking part of Belgium. I currently work as a clerk at the Fnac in my town, where I sell DVDs and CDs. Despite the look of my work here, I'm more into movies than video games. I joined the wiki in September 2008, making me the oldest active user... and its toughest caretaker.

Misc.

Alyx crying over the bad edits that still need to be fixed, and the others that keep coming. Gordon is pretty helpless since he can't talk. (This was made by Makani, who after making some nice TF2/HL2 fanart ended up with her Announcer design being chosen as canon, and was commissioned the TF2 comic Loose Canon)

Please take a look at the Manual of Style and the Layout Guide before doing anything.

Feel free to add me on Steam. I tend to accept every friend (but not group) invite, but I tend to cleanup my friend list from time to time when I don't remember who's who. So if at some point you notice I removed you, that's because we never chatted and thus I don't remember who you are. Don't be offended!

You can join our official Steam group, become a fan of the wiki on Facebook, or even subscribe to our YouTube channel. Yes, don't be shy, click!

If you can't spell "Gordon", "Alyx", and "Aperture" properly: please go back on Wikia.

Stuff I made

I fixed many articles and created lots of templates (including most of the userboxes) and categories and added/improved countless images (such as the Raising the Bar cover or the Episode Two poster remade from scratch) ; it would be impossible and pointless to mention them all here. I also created the current and some of the previous Combine OverWiki logos, as well as (in the past) the other general layout, main page and skin customizations. Today other users took over the layout and skin issues.

Graphical-wise, I also made the following for other wikis: the Counter-Strike Wiki logo (now changed), the old logo for the obsolete Team Fortress Wiki (the proper one can be found here), the Thief Wiki logo (slightly rearranged since then), the Mirror's Edge Wiki logo, the old logo for the dead Cloverpedia, the Saint Seiya Wiki logo and skin, and the Spiroupédia logo and skin.

Articles

Here's the huge list of articles I created since September 2008, the most recent first. Many have been merged since their creation.

Logos

SVG Half-Life logos

These logos are all based on logos featured in the HL/P universe (except for the "Other" section). I created them all from scratch, except for the City 17 logos that are based on the original Missing Information one. Anyone who'd like a custom wallpaper based on these, feel free to ask.

GoldSrc era

Half-Life

Opposing Force

Blue Shift

Decay

Source era

Half-Life 2 (pre-release)

Half-Life 2 (retail)

Episode One

Episode Two

Episode Three

Portal

Portal 2

Other

SVG article logos

Main Page logos

Each time based on existing images used on the wiki.

Other images

These include low-res images I partially or completely remade from scratch using better sources.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following:

Valve

Valve for their awesome universe. I just hope you guys didn't blacklist us for our expensive leak coverage.
Marc Laidlaw for his awesome storyline
Viktor Antonov for his amazing creativity
Ted Backman for his "interesting" creatures
Merle Dandridge for her great voice-over talent
Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, I don't know where you found all this

Gamers

Some have left, some stuck around... C'est la vie.

YabbaMyIcing, the dedicated "reverter-in-chief".
Darkman 4 for his tremendous contribution to the weapons category, among others.
MattDienhoff for his professionalism.
Erickos for the boring task of adding the infobox to all game and mod articles.
Donovan-j-charlie for his Half-Life and expansions screenshots.
Mega Sean 45 for leaving us alone forever.
ШЛЫК for his deep knowledge of the leak, as well as his Russia-related knowledge, his hi-res Raising the Bar scans, and other relevant info I added here. And also, "BMS is out" now. And I'm the one who told you. PWND!
HGrunt for his deep knowledge of the leak, neat fixed maps, and many leak screenshots.
Flat Zeus for his fixed brushes, maps and other nice stuff.
BetaMaster for the HQ Missing Information logo.
Halo-343 for his tremendous contribution to the cleanup project.
Bramblepath for keeping things afloat during my 2010-2011 absence, and most of all for overseeing our move from Wikia from beginning to end. None of this would have been possible without him!
ScarT for other miscellaneous facts about the leak, as well as many tweaks to make the broken Source SDK work.
Mλlkin for further Raising the Bar scans.
Vic for his support and friendship through Lambda Generation.
Phillip for his support and friendship through Planet Phillip.

External links

(en) (fr) Klow.tv - my personal website

Work in progress

This section is devoted to my WIP stuff and things yet to do. If you want to help me in one or more tasks, feel free to pick an item in the list below. Don't pick one you don't quite understand, of course, and let me know when you have cleared a task or are planning anything. Please note that there may be obsolete stuff.

Links

These are links to different things, here for different reasons. Just ask me what it is about and how you could help me with what to do with them.

Reflist

Citizen

Pics

WhatLinksHere

Redirected pages. To check when the cache has refreshed.

Misc.

User:Klow/Stuff

Things to do

General fixing

Weapon brands issue
Wrong Sector E sections
Make uniform the attack terms in infoboxes according to the prima guides
Expand DYK (Ted, those from the FB contest, etc.)
"To do" stuff in some talk pages
Too many irrelevant characters should be in lists instead of separate articles
Merge Laszlo and Tobias
Walkthrough page with explanation why we don't have any + links
Add "pro" Steam links in game infoboxes
Split TS9?
YouTube links to our channel as much as possible
Rebuild the hospital and victory mine articles
Half-Life PlayStation 2 instruction manual ref issue
Rewrite Gordon's model part in his page
Standardize the "entity" field in the brush articles
Check canonicity of Gordon's BG
Game categories are incomplete in many articles
Flare Gun/Alyx/HEV Suit issue/IA Latham
Update Conscripts#The sniper episode and Animal with correct facts
Update and rewrite the early HL2 storyline article, separate in the chapters all the development era ideas, and put a small gallery for each chapter
Get Half-Life Prima Guide and Half-Life: Opposing Force Prima Guide
Format the soundtrack articles in tables
Standardize the attack points in the enemy infoboxes

Articles to create

I'm sure for some, unsure for others. Feel free to discuss it on my talk page.

Drill Instructor
Omega Satellite and cut Decay missions
Bendy
Gray Horsfield[1]
ALL Lambda caches + pics like I did for the G-Man
Robotic Associate
Guido and Benny issues, and Shotgun scientist, List of Hospital patients (sounds stupid :/), List of minor Resistance members, have proper redirects
Cyril and Fred (cut from Ep2) (see Source Particle Benchmark)
Vienna hobos (HL2 test)
Portal: No Escape
The File:Aperture diorama1.jpg / File:Aperture diorama2.jpg car
Robot kids
Robot prowler
Transhuman
HUD
Lambda locations
Canal Dam
Freeman's Mind
Hivehand Hornet
Seattle
Gene Worm cannon
That Long Train Ride
Tenement buildings
Aperture Science Red Phone
Sierra
EA
E3
radio tower settlement article between the mine and the inn?
Car battery station?
Only real Combine outpost along the Coast?
Gasbag
Prima guides?
Orange box ost
Rebel projector at the start of ep1
Game packs
- The Black Box
- Half-Life 1 Anthology
- Half-Life Complete
- Half-Life: Adrenaline Pack
- Source Multiplayer Pack
- Valve Complete Pack
- Half-Life: Platinum Collection
- Half-Life - Game of the Year Edition (?)
- Half-Life 2 - Game of the Year Edition (?)
- Half-Life - PS2 edition (?)

Facts

Borealis being Combine and being as old as Apr 1999
OP4 CTF character descriptions from "gearbox/classes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGg0OmtslUI
Add Com Center facts in the Sector E and F articles
Fan reception of Dog
http://newrisingmedia.com/all/2012/11/23/interview-with-marc-laidlaw-the-writer-of-half-life.html
HL Alpha Synopsis
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/marc-laidlaw-vault.114535/page-6
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/source-engine-code-leak-version-2007.223834/
Peggle Extreme refs
Portal 2 - Post Mortem (GDC)
biodome datacore
Dog do the math
Complete woman scientist facts
Gus
Op4 CTF stuff + icons
All the characters in E3 98 office video were voiced by Marc Laidlaw
Walter, the bald scientist was modelled after Egon from the ghostbusters
Headcrab was called Parasite
Stuff from http://hl2survivor.net/ver2/chara.html and http://hl2survivor.net/ver2/item.html
Minigun = improper name?
Gordon one of the security question on the steam forums (Random Question: What is Gordon Freeman's first name?)
Moar HL3 hints
http://www.halflife2.net/2011/07/20/john-patrick-lowrie-believes-dota-2-coming-this-autumn/
Proof of the "rape" dialogues and Simmons refusing to record his lines. Can't find a proper source. (http://kotaku.com/5848907/no-there-is-no-rape-in-portal-2-but-there-were-buddy-cops)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Johnson_%28Portal%29
Cut P2 sounds (Caroline, GLaDOS - notably human artifacts, cave) http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1098654-Huge-Amounts-of-Unused-Portal-2-Dialogue
Cut P2 collapsible items
http://www.unseen64.net/2011/05/23/portal-2-beta-cut-content-xbox-360-ps3-pc/
List the multiplayer maps of any game somewhere
Many links to things designed by Karen Laur, Brett Johnson and Yatsze Mark, and expand their credits
HL and HLD blooper sounds
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/298451/portal-2-puzzle-throws-out-half-life-hint/
http://www.ea.com/uk/news/portal-2-interview-erik-wolpaw
References to Fortress, referenced in Children of Men, District 9
P2 moving frame model? where is it in the game?
http://www.podcast17.com/interviews/audio/mike-morasky/
memes: space, lemons, I'm different
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/26/erik-wolpaw-on-portal-2s-ending-the-spoiler-is-probably-lurking-out-there-somewhere/
http://kotaku.com/#!5794237/ever-wonder-who-the-guy-at-the-beginning-of-every-valve-game-is
Robots designed by Aperture scientists? When? Are there others? Of different type?...
Date from the Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test in the timeline
wasteland2?
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/overwiki/announcements/detail/90258411735524063
Add writers in designers when needed
Keller dying in Decay's original ending, leaving the control room during the insertion of the third crystal, wishing luck before leaving, and then dying (headcrabbed or something) (see animations, sound files); he was to be kleiner (not confirmed), hence the texture file names
Gina and Colette killing soldiers near gordon's trash compactor (sound files, and old interview, and laidlaw - see his Vault)
Jellyfish coverage in the Ap labs article, P storyline + 2 texture pics + earth creatures
http://kotaku.com/5552813/surprise-no-portal-2-party-at-e3
glados' stuff and screens in http://valvesoftware.com/publications/2008/GDC2008_PortalPostMortem.pdf
combine ceiling turret used as lamps above the vort in np
op4 mp powerups
ARG canon list
Add the Wasteland submarine infos
Somebody wake up Shephard
Add scientist and guard quotes cut from decay
Add some scientist / guard quotes
Facts on HL on Dreamcast
Xen skybox in the portal files
C.C. letter to Kleiner
Check some cpp files in the leak source code
Source code also contain info on TF2, HL1 and CS:S
e3_seafloor_drive
demo_camshaft
gman crow's name
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Easter_Eggs
op4 haikus
ep_02.eli_silo_stoprightthere
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6112889/p-6.html
beta d3 sewers mess
ep2 crow glitch
factory sitting + cheaple head + desk + paper
fun wc maps, Laidlaw and others (boxing, domino, nether_01 etc)
Add the remaining info on canon and gearbox
Look! It's us!
Notes to the ApertureScience.com test questions
Chopper rotor sounds - rooster sounds
http://forums.nashalife.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=897701#post897701
Greedo sounds Shock Trooper
Brands, real and fictional, retail and leak
Voice actors info in rtb
advisor juvenile
ihv test
One of the ambient sounds heard in the Test Chambers is recycled from one of the Ravenholm's - which one?
Add RtB info for the Combine tech
Mention the placeholder guy in the Portal first video + pic
Mention the issue/inconsistency with the suit helmet in the HEV article
Develop the gas mask citizens part in the Citizens article
Nevsky Prospekt
leak trainingroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VefS9oOqJc
Metrocops cut sounds
Who was Mr Valve based on? Not Kelly.
Add the remaining info from Laidlaw's vault, which means a lot
Mention the high number of survey teams sent on Xen and their corpses that can be found everywhere
Behind the scenes for Ravenholm and its evolution through the mappack and what remains of the old maps in the final game, especially the cart ride
bullsquid/headcrab/vort experiments in decay
Commentaries
Remaining achievements in related articles
Lamarr mod
Bremerton, WA for leak Coast maps
Homo Sapiens Combinus?

Images

"Buildingset" textures from the leak and composite of leak facades
Barney model with ihvtest textures from the leak
Skyboxes
PETI item images
Leak coast maps
Bug at File:Science innovators vert metalblue.svg?
More infobox composite images for the locations
Scanner kamikaze
Shield scanner / strider teamwork
Gabe + Scanner piñata
Dreamcast models
add the remaining HL1 era HUD icons (pickup icons) + color fix
Gordon in Stalker (got em, need to upload)
All relevant Aperture models (mostly furniture, PCs, etc)
All test signs, including achievements and santa
Gordon hammer and 3rd person models
Add the missing viewmodels (OP, BS and D)
More pics from the e3 vids
The many logos seen at the start of test chambers + a table
Add wasted ammo models
A core being destroyed
Damage icons
Finish replacing the boring infobox character pics by better ones (Dog, Grigori, Odessa, Simmons, Walter)
http://www.hl-inside.ru/gallery/portal-trailer/?page=2
http://www.hl-inside.ru/gallery/aftermath-trailer/ (HD??)
http://www.hl-inside.ru/gallery/episode2-trailer/?page=25
Old alyx models + fixed textures one + explanation
Steam on mac pics (1, 2)
Alyx gallery captions + add the ones not included yet
Outlands gallery captions
focus emitter, crate (bs), trains/trams BM logos
Have a SDK model pic for each character model when possible
muscle car HUD icon: where is it??
more Episode Two trailer pics
HL2DM maps
d1 under
d1 sewer
other hl2dm sprays
mossman in the wf screens
proto church
depot inside
depot outside
wasteland depot
rail engine brushes
e3_strider park
leak sniper map
leak models: gman, eli, mossman, drop, gunship, kleiner (+ hl2), barney
A Strider impaling
Elites in NP
leak coast tunnel different
the remaining aperture props
Barney sans equipment.jpg orig
more EMP Tool in Ep1
More, if not all endgame messages
APC firing rockets
eli leg
citadelfarnode.mdl
np cellblock logos
long bridge beta
Add more pics of City 17, Canals, Citadel, Ravenholm
Add pics of the ongoing Nexus battle outside
eliden
black mesa cut posters
full rebel outfits
old posters comparison
wasteland_railbridge
alyx + eli depot (we have not a single pic of that part)
Hunter-Chopper fights in the canals
subt
trainstation in ep1_citadel_03
separate brush images of the two BMRF monorails
Victory Mine: ep2_outland_03
add the gnome to aps.com page

Templates

The faction template terms are not appropriate for all factions
Reestablish the captions in the infobox images
"Dismiss" position issue (fixed?)
Quad battle infobox width issue

User:Klow

Contents

About me

Misc.

Stuff I made

Articles

Logos

SVG Half-Life logos

GoldSrc era

Half-Life

Opposing Force

Blue Shift

Decay

Source era

Half-Life 2 (pre-release)

Half-Life 2 (retail)

Episode One

Episode Two

Episode Three

Portal

Portal 2

Other

SVG article logos

Main Page logos

Other images

Acknowledgments

Valve

Gamers

External links

Work in progress

Links

Reflist

Pics

WhatLinksHere

Misc.

Things to do

General fixing

Articles to create

Facts

Images

Templates

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