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For other uses, see Battery (disambiguation).

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Battery
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Power source

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item_battery

The Battery is a power source item featured in the Half-Life universe.

Overview[edit]

In Half-Life and its expansions, the protagonists who wear HEV Suits can find and pick up batteries to power up their suits. The suit generates protective armor when it has a power supply. When picked up, the suit provides a voice message to report the new power level. Adrian Shephard, as well as other Marines, can also use them to charge their Powered Combat Vests.

In Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman's old suit was modified by Isaac Kleiner to allow the use of Combine batteries. Combine Scanners may drop Batteries when they’re destroyed.

In Half-Life: Alyx, another kind of Combine Battery is used to insert into outlets and activate devices such as doors and Fabricators. Occasionally, multiple batteries are required to power heavier machinery.

Behind the scenes[edit]

An HEV Suit line left unused in Half-Life refers to the Battery as an HEV Power Unit. Several items were to be powered by the Battery, including the Long Jump Module, Alien Cloak and Alien Shield.[1] The Half-Life demo, Half-Life: Day One, features a different, earlier model, featured in early builds of Half-Life. It is also used as a temporary model for the Long Jump Module, with red panels instead of blue. Yet another, high-definition battery texture can be found in the Half-Life SDK.

The original, albeit smaller, model of the Battery was used as a placeholder during the development of the Half-Life 2.[2]

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Half-Life 2 and its episodes[edit]

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