Battery
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The Battery is a power source item featured in the Half-Life universe.
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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]
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life and its expansions[edit]
Day One Battery.
Half-Life Battery.
With the unused skin.
Early Battery model on the upper left in an early screenshot.
Batteries scattered in the dark room in the Hazard Course.
Battery in Gordon's locker.
A Battery under a Barnacle.
A pair of batteries on a wall.
Batteries on a shelf.
A shelf with various ammunition including batteries.
Battery near the corpse of a dead Survey Team member on Xen.
Ditto.
Ditto, in Gonarch's lair.
Half-Life 2 and its Episodes[edit]
HUD pickup icon.
Half-Life 2 leak Battery.
Half-Life 2 Battery.
City 17 logo as seen on top of the Battery.
Battery on a table at Station 6.
Battery on a table at Gate 5.
A battery in the church of St. Olga.
List of appearances[edit]
Main games[edit]
- Half-Life
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Half-Life: Decay
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Other[edit]
- Half-Life: Day One (First appearance)
- Half-Life: Uplink (Non-canonical appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (Non-canonical appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Non-canonical appearance)
