Ichthyosaur fight at the start of Ravenholm/Quarrytown?

[Smokey Fungus]

From looking at the E3 docks map, I've noticed a similarities in to ickypop and I'm pondering if the proto-Ravenholm chapter would begin with a setpiece of an Ichthyosaur jumping over a dock and destroying it (in a callback to HL1). Plus the existence of quarry02 makes me think that the fight would have happened in a flooded quarry originally rather than a lake which ties in to the Quarrytown concept.

How much of a role would the Ichthyosaur have played in the 2001 Storyline? Would this have been a one-off event considering the drained oceans?

[Spicy]

In the d1_town maps from 2002, I believe that the Ichthyosaur would have been like the leeches in retail where it would attack you if you went too far away from where the map was. But it could have also been used for a fight sequence as you said.

[Toasttf]

In the d1_town maps from 2002, I believe that the Ichthyosaur would have been like the leeches in retail where it would attack you if you went too far away from where the map was. But it could have also been used for a fight sequence as you said.

Yup, at least in the 2002 versions of d1_town_01, there was a script for an Ichthyosaur to swim around the docks, so I guess if you were to fall in or something, it would kill you.

Sadly, that script is broken due the Ichthyosaur's AI being broken in the leak(?)

[Витой]

Truth is, the map "ickypop" was based on an actual starting location of Town chapter, how it looked at early spring of 2002. Or even more likely on a test map that also can be found in the WC-mappack called "docktest"

It was some sort of a test of the script where ichtiosaur rams docks with zombies standing on it killing them instantly.

[The One Epicplayer]

Isn't there a map in the wc mappack where a strider emerges from water and destroys the docks in a similar fashion?

[Витой]

Isn't there a map in the wc mappack where a strider emerges from water and destroys the docks in a similar fashion?

Yep. 'dock_strider', it's based on that older Ravenholm start too.

[EverCafe44]

Is there any video of dock_strider?