HL2 Episode Three hint

[greenman]

Check it out in the alien swarm SDK.
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/8577/ep3.jpg

[Dives]

Episode 3: Now with more Blob™

[joe_rogers_11155]

Neato...Are there "blobs" and "brains" in Alien Swarm? (Haven't downloaded yet) Are there info_node_hints located in their official Alien Swarm maps set to use these "Ep3" blob settings?

[greenman]

I don't recall any blobs. It all seems a little to convenient to be a coincidence.

[Major Banter]

'Blobs' are what Valve use as a placeholder.

It's the 'brain' that intrigues me. Advisor?

[stoopdapoop]

heh, the gooballs we see in portal 2 were possibly spawned from something they were fucking with in ep3.

Just my guess.

[Saxon]

Weren't blobs those things valve showcased some years ago? Npc_blob or something like that. In the same context it could be assumed that a Valve "blob" refers to a large group of low-resource entities.

Thats what I think anyway

[srredfire]

So now we have three pictures of concept art and some info_node stuff about blobs.

Blobs and drawings.

This is going to be a great game.

[Sythen]

Definitely interesting find. As far as I was aware NPC_Blob was used specifically to control Snark's movement(? - Probably wrong but..)

[YokaI]

Whoa, don't be callin' Gabe Newell a npc_blob. He's a human too damnit.