Jet Ski
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The Jet Ski is a water craft cut from Half-Life 2. It was replaced by the Airboat due to issues encountered during play-testing.
Overview[edit]
The Jet Ski model can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 leak files, not featuring the machine gun seen in the concept art. Its textures are not finalized, instead using a placeholder material, similarly to the Digger or the AirEx Truck. It is unknown if they were ever finished.[2]
Keeping a first person view of the world, the Jet Ski was too much like running around on foot. It also had severe problems with communicating frame of reference when driving in one direction when looking in another. It was then replaced by the Airboat, more consistent with the Resistance-built theme, to address these issues.[1]
Trivia[edit]
- Two sound files for the Jet Ski are still present in the Half-Life 2 sound folders, in "sound/vehicles/Jetski", while thirteen files can be found in the playable Half-Life 2 leak sound files, in the same folder. Those two sound files were recycled for the Scout Car.
- The July 2003 map
canal_jetski, found in the WC map pack, was used for testing it.[3]
- Both the unused Jet Ski and airboat models take heavy influence from the original 1974 Kawasaki Jet Ski. This hull design was used by Kawasaki until 1995. On the airboat the front orange section, fuel cap, pole bracket, handlebars and start/stop are all off of a Jet ski. The red paint that can be seen underneath the damaged orange paint may indicate that the designers based their models on the 1982-1989 Kawasaki Jet Ski 550 (JS550).
List of appearances[edit]
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (Non-canonical appearance)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 92
- ↑ Half-Life 2 leak
- ↑ WC map pack
