Osprey Heliplane
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| Osprey Heliplane | |
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Pilot |
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Troops (seated) |
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The Osprey Heliplane[2] is a US military VTOL aircraft used by the HECU during the Black Mesa Incident. It was used to transport personnel into combat zones.
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Appearances[edit]
Half-Life[edit]
The Osprey makes its first appearance near the end of the chapter "We've Got Hostiles" (this appearance marks the ending of Half-Life's first demo, Half-Life: Day One), on the surface of Sector D. It can also be seen in the Topside Motorpool in the chapter Surface Tension where HECU troops are unloaded and fight Alien Grunts. The Osprey is unarmed and thus cannot harm the player, but it continually deploys a group of soldiers who rappel down from the aircraft on ropes every so often. The two rotors serve as weak points vulnerable even to small arms fire.
Half-Life: Opposing Force[edit]
At the beginning of Opposing Force, Adrian Shephard is transported with his squad in an Osprey identified as Goose 7 through a canyon towards the Black Mesa Research Facility until it, along with the accompanying Goose 3, is attacked by Alien Crafts and shot down. During the course of the game, Adrian witnesses an Osprey being loaded and taking off without him, leaving him behind. Later on, after Black Ops have invaded the facility, Adrian comes across a crashed Osprey in a desert area. At the end of the game, Adrian is teleported to a similar craft for the G-Man ending sequence.
In the game's Boot Camp training chapter, an Osprey is seen parked on the helipad at Santego Military Base.
Half-Life: Decay[edit]
In Decay, an Osprey is encountered in the Black Mesa Air Control chapter, Code Green, where it is first seen through a window lifting off as the level begins. Later, it returns and constantly unloads HECU troops until it is destroyed or the players proceeds further.
Behind the scenes[edit]
The Prima Guide claims that the Osprey can fire chain gun and rockets at the player but less frequently than the Apache.[2] According to Valve artist Steve Theodore, this is a mistake.[3]
Leftover files indicate the Osprey would have appeared more during the expansions. The Opposing Force files feature an unused model of a Black Ops version of the Osprey, though it never appears in-game. The Black Ops Apache, which was not cut, features similar black coloring. As seen in an early Decay screenshot, the players were to find a partially dismantled Osprey in the mission Hangar which was ultimately cut from the game, leaving the model unseen in the final release. Unused dialogue also indicated that this mission would have featured a battle with an enemy Osprey continuously offloading soldiers. This encounter was moved to the previous mission, Code Green.
The Half-Life 2 leak files feature untextured models as well as several textures for parts of an Osprey. It is unknown if this replaced the C-130 in the original storyline, but sound files from November 2000 of an exchange between two Combine Soldiers mention a rebel helicopter crashed into the Skyscraper instead of a C-130.[4][a]
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life and its expansions[edit]
Pre-release[edit]
Osprey above the Topside Motorpool helipad.
Two Ospreys and an Apache at the same spot.
More recent early version of the troop unloading at the Topside Motorpool.
Ditto, close-up
Staged screenshot.
Staged screenshot of Adrian and his comrades fighting aliens and Black Ops.
Dismantled Osprey in a Black Mesa Air Control hangar in an early Decay screenshot.
Retail[edit]
Osprey flying over the surface.
HECU troops being unloaded by an Osprey in the Topside Motorpool.
HECU soldiers gathering at Santego before leaving.
Goose 3 under attack by an Alien Craft.
A crashed Osprey.
Another crashed Osprey in the area following the dam.
Crashed Osprey model.
Unused Black Ops Osprey model.
The G-Man addressing Adrian Shephard in an Osprey.
Osprey on an airstrip of the Black Mesa Air Control.
Ditto.
HECU troops being unloaded by an Osprey in the Black Mesa Air Control.
Unused Osprey
hangar_idleanimation.
Half-Life 2 leak[edit]
Cockpit model.
Propeller model.
Engine model.
One of the Osprey textures, to be used on a brush-based version.
Ditto.
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List of appearances[edit]
Main games[edit]
Other[edit]
- Half-Life: Day One (First appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
References[edit]
- ↑ Steve Theodore's personal website (archived)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Half-Life Prima Guide
- ↑ Steve Theodore on Construction and the Osprey (November 19, 2015)
- ↑ Half-Life 2 leak
Notes[edit]
- ↑ The voiceline is from November 2000, and its filename is
12sky_sol2: "Nothing ever came of those reports. But look at it this way: that was a rebel chopper just crashed up there."
External links[edit]
V-22 Osprey on Wikipedia on Wikipedia
| Hazardous Environment Combat Unit | |
|---|---|
| Characters | Minor members · Dwight T. Barnes · Sharp · Adrian Shephard |
| Classes | HECU Engineer · HECU Medic · HECU Sniper |
| Weapons | 9mm Pistol · Artillery Cannon · Combat Knife · Desert Eagle · Dynamite · Fragmentation Grenade · Gun Emplacement · Land Mine · Laser Trip Mine · M249 Squad Automatic Weapon · M-40A1 Sniper Rifle · Mortar · Submachine Gun · Rocket Cannon · RPG · Satchel Charge · Sentry Gun · Shotgun · Tripod-Mounted Heavy Machine Gun |
| Transportation | AH-64 Apache · Jet · M1A1 Abrams · M2A3 Bradley · M44 cargo truck · Osprey Heliplane |
| Technology | Chargers · Powered Combat Vest · Radio · Tactical Map · Transportation · Weapons |
| Other | Hazardous Environment Combat Unit models · Military Police · Robot Grunt · Santego Military Base |
| Classes (cut) | Human Sergeant |
| Weapons (cut) | 20mm Cannon |
| The Black Ops | |
|---|---|
| Weapons | 9mm Pistol · Fragmentation Grenade · Laser Trip Mine · M249 Squad Automatic Weapon · M-40A1 Sniper Rifle · Mortar · Submachine Gun · Sentry Gun · Tripod-Mounted Heavy Machine Gun |
| Transportation | AH-64 Apache · M44 cargo truck |
| Technology | Cloaking field · Transportation · Weapons |
| Weapons (cut) | Crossbow · Flash Grenade |
| Transportation (cut) | Osprey Heliplane |
