Hopwire Grenade

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Hopwire Grenade
Production information
Faction	Combine
Type	Grenade
Technical specifications
Max ammo	5
Ammo type	Grenades
Operation	Throw
Range	Short
Usage
Used by	Gordon Freeman
Game information
Entity	weapon_hopwire

 

The Hopwire Grenade, simply known as Hopwire, is a weapon cut from Half-Life 2. It can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 leak. Although sharing the same entity name, it is unrelated to the Vortex Hopwire cut from Half-Life 2: Episode One.

Overview

The Hopwire Grenade resembles a polyhedral sphere with multiple holes on it. Once thrown, the weapon leaps up into the air after a few seconds and shoots out several wires from its holes which, when tripped, cause the grenade and all its tethers to detonate.

As seen in the Half-Life 2 leak source code, the Hopwire Grenade was originally to be the weapon of choice against Striders, similar to the Magnusson Device in Episode Two. This is further confirmed in the Episode Two commentary, in which Valve's Joshua Weier states that the Magnusson Device "started life as a Half-Life 2 weapon called the Hopwire".

Behind the scenes

In Half-Life: Alyx, a Xen biological weapon called the Xen Grenade bears a striking similarity to this weapon, though their functions are drastically different.

In the playable leak, the Hopwire is still usable but extremely unstable and does not work properly. If one of the wires touches a surface in the wrong way, the game will crash. When held by the player, it uses the normal Grenade viewmodel. The proper model will only appear when it is thrown and can be separately viewed in the game files.

Gallery

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  Worldmodel.

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  Fan-made viewmodel.

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  Hopwire Grenades in the test map testroom_commander in the playable Half-Life 2 leak.

List of appearances

• Half-Life 2 (First appearance) (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Commentary only)