Lambda Dam
Created 20 years ago2004-08-01 13:18:50 UTC by
Coolfat3459
Created 20 years ago2004-08-01 13:18:50 UTC by
Coolfat3459
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 13:18:50 UTC
Post #47363
What is the signifcance of the Lambda dam?! There must be something that I am missing because it is in every part of the Black Mesa incedent series, including Point Of View.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 14:01:36 UTC
Post #47370
It collects water to cool the lambda reactor.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 15:09:22 UTC
Post #47380
Usually dams are built to gain electrical power.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 15:12:11 UTC
Post #47382
The Lambda complex is powered by a nuclear reactor, so the dam may well have served as an auxiliary power source or/and as a coolant water reservoir.
Who knows? It's of little importance to the story, it's just a (recognizable) place...
Who knows? It's of little importance to the story, it's just a (recognizable) place...
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 15:16:37 UTC
Post #47383
I say it is a coolant resovoir. How else would they store 1000s of gallons of water?
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 15:37:14 UTC
Post #47385
Drinkwater reservoir maybe too. Black Mesa is situated in a sort of desert so drinkwater seems pretty important to me then...
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 15:42:35 UTC
Post #47387
dams are usually there to destroy the lives of indeginous tribes etc. Im scared at your attention to details coolfat! REALLY scared!
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:00:14 UTC
Post #47391
the dam is a hydro electric....obviously.....if you look in the begining of hl, one of the flip signs say hydro electric and it showes the dam
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:07:25 UTC
Post #47392
Good eye for detail, Terrel...
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:10:17 UTC
Post #47394
thx
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:11:52 UTC
Post #47397
No, the coolant reservoir is underground. In Blue-Shift, you visit it to find a power cell. The coolant reservoir is under the prototype labs.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:13:54 UTC
Post #47399
i made a huge generator, well am making, and its got the coolant reservoir rotors with it, made them by memory of course
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:36:52 UTC
Post #47412
true terrel, it says on the sign "hydro electric" and has a piccy of the dam.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 16:38:35 UTC
Post #47414
yeh...uh....thats what i said
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 17:04:53 UTC
Post #47426
nice eye terrel, very nice. All of the HL mods explains the dam, and other stuff.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 17:16:21 UTC
Post #47430
if anybody played "They Hunger" there's a dam in one of the levels. and i think it's the Lambda Dam.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 17:32:09 UTC
Post #47432
I don't think so, as They Hunger plays in a totally different environment, a totally different story actually.
As for coolant reservoirs, the ones in Bleushift were probably for the teleporter devices there. The Lambda Core may well have it's own coolant reservoirs. Isn't that what you swom through?
As for coolant reservoirs, the ones in Bleushift were probably for the teleporter devices there. The Lambda Core may well have it's own coolant reservoirs. Isn't that what you swom through?
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 17:40:19 UTC
Post #47433
yeah. i knew that. just thought it was good for the moment. THEY DAM HUNGER!!
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 18:05:50 UTC
Post #47437
i got that from a PC gamer CD just weeks ago
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 18:10:57 UTC
Post #47438
As for coolant reservoirs, the ones in Bleushift were probably for the teleporter devices there. The Lambda Core may well have it's own coolant reservoirs. Isn't that what you swom through?Yes, the Bshift coolant resivoir was for the teleporter.
If anyone remembers Lambda core, you had to run around turning on the pumps in the cooling stations for the reactors. You go swimming in the reactor core, though.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 18:20:01 UTC
Post #47440
i got that from a PC gamer CD just weeks ago
i got mine from a PCGamer CD,
3 years ago!!in June 2001!
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 18:33:04 UTC
Post #47443
Wait, in the Lambda core, the coolent is in those tanks. I forgot that. But what suppplies the tanks though. Hmmm.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 19:02:04 UTC
Post #47449
Im just asking is there is any signifcance to the game, I already know what a dam does.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 23:14:08 UTC
Post #47469
maybe.....but mainly its there just because its there....to give environment
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-01 23:36:43 UTC
Post #47472
It's there because it's another area to play through. No significance to the game other than it's just another part of Black Mesa.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 01:03:21 UTC
Post #47480
its there to give bm power.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 06:30:02 UTC
Post #47515
Its there so yu can blow up the garg. And go through the pipe.
Or have you noticed that at the end of the dam there is a security door that is closed and locked. So you have to take an alternate route. Then at the end of all of that, you see that same door, but on the other side. Valve people are genius's
Or have you noticed that at the end of the dam there is a security door that is closed and locked. So you have to take an alternate route. Then at the end of all of that, you see that same door, but on the other side. Valve people are genius's
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 08:29:13 UTC
Post #47540
I thinjk the actual significance of the dam to the sotry is that it connects the Lambda facility to Black Mesa. (Did anyone ever notice that Black Mesa is rediculously huge?!)
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 08:33:08 UTC
Post #47544
Yes, its humongus. I want them to make the balck mesa over again in real life, it would be huge, and cool.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 10:05:17 UTC
Post #47554
I wonder where the rocket in "On a rail" is used for. After you launched it, you never hear about the rocket anymore.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 10:15:04 UTC
Post #47556
yeah u do. the rocket is the satellite delivery system. once the rocket goes up it lets the scis at lambda open the portal to xen, which you use.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 10:44:13 UTC
Post #47563
You know, Ministeve? That is a horribly doctered picture.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-02 18:01:57 UTC
Post #47616
The satelite helps in BlueShift and HL.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 02:59:56 UTC
Post #48332
Agree with Rabid.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 10:01:15 UTC
Post #48409
The wise words of seventh... 
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 14:19:07 UTC
Post #48482
hence the barney saying.....the rocket must be launched if we ever want to clean up this mess
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 19:29:02 UTC
Post #48560
i guess so.... and yet, he was wrong... 
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 19:30:27 UTC
Post #48563
how so
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 19:30:56 UTC
Post #48564
well, HL2....
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 19:33:32 UTC
Post #48567
well it was cleaned up temporarilly...besides black mesa was destroyed killing all the aliens.....or what we are suposed to believe
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 19:58:38 UTC
Post #48583
exactly.... hehehe 
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-06 23:42:49 UTC
Post #48620
Wow... all this debate... to tell u the truth I have never finished the single player and dont really plan too.
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-07 00:50:12 UTC
Post #48622
SAY WHA-?! YOU NEVER FINISHED HALF LIFE SINGLE PLAYER! I HOPE YOU DIE!
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-07 07:19:45 UTC
Post #48673
lol 
Posted 20 years ago2004-08-07 08:21:15 UTC
Post #48687
lol... I thought I was the only person to map for HL without finishing it, yet I have been proved wrong.
Do not go crazy at me, I am playing through it. The thing is, I played CS, mapped for CS, then suddenly thought it would be more fun to map HL. That was when I started playing. I am currently up to the start of 'Interloper', so I am right near the end.
And coolfat! Never say I hope you die to anyone! That is shameful... You say 'I hope you die in one of the things in the Worst way to die thread!'
Do not go crazy at me, I am playing through it. The thing is, I played CS, mapped for CS, then suddenly thought it would be more fun to map HL. That was when I started playing. I am currently up to the start of 'Interloper', so I am right near the end.
And coolfat! Never say I hope you die to anyone! That is shameful... You say 'I hope you die in one of the things in the Worst way to die thread!'
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