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that's more or less what I was saying yeah. I wouldn't generalize it to all the fans though because obviously we who want all the other stuff to exist are still here and asking for more games. haha
They said that it was less of a reboot and more of a retelling or a reimagining, though, and when one of those things changes key events, which Star Fox Zero does, they become pretty analogous to a reboot, because at that point you're no longer re-telling or re-imagining things, you're telling a different story.
That's why I used the quotation marks
The question is, does Miyamoto look at it that way, too?That's certainly how I see such things, personally (not just with this game, but with others), and I can see why many others do, too.
At this point, nobody knows for sure, but I for one wouldn't want to reboot a series starting with the worst selling game of said series. Just sayin'.
All we have are the official translations from when he introduced the game a couple of E3s ago, so beyond that we don't know. The impression that I got was that he was quick to downplay it being a reboot, even though it looks very much like one to those who may not be aware of what he said - and even to those who are.The question is, does Miyamoto look at it that way, too?
I wouldn't want to, either!
Ah I must have just glazed through it and didn't notice, apologies.That's why I used the quotation marks
That's a good question... We may never know what he's actually thinking when it comes to star fox because we still got Zero. We just know that he wants to work on more Star Fox because of how Foxes popularity isn't as high as he wanted Zero clearly had somewhat of an effect on that, but resetting the story wasn't the best way to get the series more popularity clearly. All we can do it hope that he learned from his mistakes with Zero because people are tired of that story.The question is, does Miyamoto look at it that way, too?
Saw this part of your post and it reminded me of a brainstorming thought I had back before Zero. Talking about different directions the series could go to really enrich the universe and the characters. Essentially, the thought was... "what if Mass Effect type game but it was Star Fox". I know that's a pretty specific statement with broad implications, but it was more a comparison I made because "space" and "team" and "visiting planets in systems", but also has elements like deep character development and plentiful side quests and a slow developing plot. Wouldn't exactly be what I'd want from Star Fox in some ways, but when you consider the first couple Mass Effects, they had some elements that would fit a deeper Star Fox experience.
I browsed the page I linked and the page after is all, yesterday. It's a little funny to see us making broad predictions, many of which were wrong. I myself tried to be careful with broad predictions but one I definitely got wrong was being so confident that Wolf would come back to Smash as DLC. After Lucas in particular, it seemed impossible that they wouldn't bring him back. It's still a surprise in retrospect. And of course we had lots of hopes for Zero early on before much was known and very few of them came to be. Though even at that point many of us recognized that Miyamoto was going to play down any story aspect and probably focus too much on forcing awkward mechanics, and that came true. I admit I got a good laugh out of Ian saying Roy simply would not come back though, heh~
I don't know that Miyamoto has an opinion in that regard. His attachment to the continuity is tenuous. He's more concerned with game innovation for the most part. Unless there's a project in the works now, I don't know that he even knows what direction he'd take it. But if it were up to him, the game concept mechanically would exist first and the characters would fit within that context whether it was Fox, Falco, Slippy, Peppy or Fox, Falco, Slippy, Krystal, or some other combo. The characters are just players or pieces in a scheme where their roles are interchangeable. It's not until some other part of the game's dev team has to hash out dialogue that much beyond that has to be set. At least, that's generally how his approach works. Krystal could be in it as easily as not since no one's role is critical other than to help identify the series. Heck, we know he can make an unrelated Zelda-like featuring a cat girl into a Star Fox game deep in the former's development~The question is, does Miyamoto look at it that way, too?
And it certainly wasn't impossible after the team responsible said that they'd love to include Krystal if there was a follow-up to Star Fox Zero.
Command combined an RTS overworld with the very worst of what Starfox gameplay had to offer. Dog fights are not good times.
I think you and I might be the only people around here who genuinely like Star Fox Command!
It's my second-favourite game in the Star Fox 64 continuity, after Assault.
Despite the fact I hated Krystal for about six months after that game before denying it's existence, mechanically and concept wise it was a great game, I really enjoying the turn-based map and the custom ships
TheCynicalCdr
i have some good news, you remember the miiverse thing well they posted the collage (https://i.miiverse.nintendo.net/thank_you.png)
Yeah well it just worked great with the DS controls. Sure it could've been more action-based to be really true to Star Fox but I enjoyed the combat mechanics for what they where. Also the characters and the characterisation as well as the endings added great debt. It felt almost strategy / RPG-like, and I felt that worked.I think you and I might be the only people around here who genuinely like Star Fox Command!
With Command, I found that I had to distance myself from the story in order to enjoy the game, because the writing and the characterisations are just that awful.
That said, I'm no fan of Star Fox 64's writing, story, and English voice-acting to begin with, so to me it felt like it fit in pretty well with that game, at least.
I'll admit Command's my least favorite Star Fox, but then I never did play 64 3D, or if I did it was very unmemorable... and I only tried a small fraction of Zero. Command was a good game, but in terms of Star Fox for me, the weakest one I actually beat. The controls were a bit of a pain (but can't be worse than Zero probabaly) and the story line was new but did a lot of things beyond just the Krystal stuff that felt weird. I didn't quite like the new characters or the writing for any character really or the progression of the story for instance. I can say it was new and some of the stages were interesting, plus some innovative ideas about how to map the game progression more strategically and personalized ships was probably the best new idea to come out of it for me. But the story and controls kinda bothered me throughout. It's like the Other M of Star Fox for me except that it didn't necessarily mess with the flow of the game in a negative way too. And I know maybe it seems harsh to compare to Other M and I'll say that Other M is my least favorite Metroid, but it's also a game I enjoyed in parts and a game I don't regret buying or playing. I still have my copy of Other M and my copy of Command. They're definitely parts of series I love and although they're kinda the black sheep, (though honestly Adventures fits that description better probably), they're interesting experiences in their own way. Just, when you're a fan of something you're more likely to get critical of little things. So, relatively above average games that just don't quite stand up to their peers in the franchise, imo.
I compare the two of them all the time it's not really a harsh comparison. My experience with Other M is probably a bit different than others. See my favorite game of all time is Metroid Fusion, and Other M borrows a lot from it, particularly Samus's obsession for this man Adam Malkovich, aswell as the sector based areas (and the odd resident evil offbrand of scientist type being Bergmen which phonetically is awfully similar to Birkin from resident evil) So I saw the first trailer and they had this black dude say "Any objections, Lady?" which caused me to squee like a fan girl which is monstrously rare. Game comes out and for some reason the black dude isn't Adam, Samus monologues to herself in Fusion but it's even more present in Other M, and in Fusion you never really get the impression that Samus was weak, after all she takes charge herself, just as we would expect, to destroy the whole station to end the X threat. However in Other M they exaggerate this and instead of making samus have her own strength like in Fusion she is wholefully dependent to this man, and as they dig deeper, make her nothing more than a laughable edgy teenager who just needs daddy's approval. In fact, an interview was translated with Sakamoto and the storyboard artist for Other M and they said quote "Samus has trouble coping" Which is just insane. And therein lies the issue, you take something that we've come to expect strength, independence and skill, and give us the opposite. It's remarkable that anyone could have thought people would like that, Though based on Sakamoto's reaction I doubt he really cared about what we wanted. Amusingly Other M was some of the most fun I had actually had playing a metroid game in terms of gameplay, I loved the high-action it had
I pioneer the games custom ships, Star Fox is one of nintendo's few properties that show a baseline of actual characters, Personality-depth is a welcome change in the franchise if you ask me and doing it with the ever-central spacefighter is a great start.
I do!
It does change the backstory again, though, which does suggest (at least to me) that it's a bit more than just a reimagining, as they claimed it was.
Not to mention not paying respect to how they themselves have depicted them in the past. (Even if their priority is on gameplay, it's not like they're inconsistent with the IP side, usually, as we know.)
That's Next Level Games*, and I agree, I feel bad for them too, because they're good at what they do, and I'm sure that, without the Metroid license being attached to it, Federation Force would've been received entirely differently.
Lol you make a perfect addition with Lucy and Vivian, It's pretty funny actually to introduce us to a character who's dead.I do!
Their existence is random and isn't explained adequately.
We're literally thrown into the game, with its over-dramatic intro, as we all know, and then at some point you've got this random character Lucy Hare, and everyone is suddenly talking about her like she's always been in the series, even though she was only introduced mere seconds beforehand.
The same goes for when Vivian gets mentioned - there's never been any suggestion of Peppy being married and having children before that point in the Star Fox 64 continuity (Peppy from the SNES continuity was much younger, so you simply didn't have any reason to expect such a thing, there). Quite the opposite, actually, since they'd previously suggested that Peppy, having barely survived what happened on Venom, went on to become a father-figure to young Fox. Granted, this doesn't rule out Peppy having his own family, but it was never even remotely suggested until Command suddenly and jarringly introduced them.
It's just bad writing, pure and simple, to have brand new characters appear out of nowhere in a product that's using an already-established setting, and then have the established characters act like they were always there.
It's made more jarring by the fact that they do introduce all of the other newcomers in a good-enough fashion - Amanda is Slippy's fiancee who he met during the team's split, and Dash is Andross' grandson, and it's perfectly feasible for these characters to have been unknown before now, unlike Lucy and Vivian. (The game was focused on being dramatic as it was, so they could easily have said that the Venom incident broke up Peppy's marriage because he refused to quit as a pilot in spite of it, and his daughter was estranged from him as a result.)
It does change the backstory again, though, which does suggest (at least to me) that it's a bit more than just a reimagining, as they claimed it was.
I should add here, be careful what you wish for, guys: I actually used to hope for a Star Fox re-reboot, and, well, look at what we got.
Not to mention not paying respect to how they themselves have depicted them in the past. (Even if their priority is on gameplay, it's not like they're inconsistent with the IP side, usually, as we know.)
That's Next Level Games*, and I agree, I feel bad for them too, because they're good at what they do, and I'm sure that, without the Metroid license being attached to it, Federation Force would've been received entirely differently.
*They're best-known for the Mario Strikers games, the two Punch-Out!! titles for the Wii, and Luigi's Mansion 2 for the 3DS. Their pedigree with Nintendo titles is very good.
That was the other thing that I'd've been happy to settle for.
Agreed - I really don't think she'll stay gone for too long, somehow. Not with how things look right now, where we're seeing mentions of Krystal in officially-licensed media that wasn't even covering the continuity that she's from, and where we're also seeing greater fan acceptance of Adventures and Assault, which I don't remember ever really being the case before.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty good, too. The multi-player element was quite a nice surprise, as well, since it's not something you'd expect in a sequel that sticks pretty closely to what was established by the entirely single-player game before it.
Nice textwall. I approve~
It is also mentioned on Vivian's SF-wiki page ('Trivia' section). I definitely agree that the way Peppy acted in the games never gave us any indication of him having a family, though. It's just like you said: Lucy is introduced, and all of a sudden everyone acts as if she's always been a part of the franchise, while in the other games she was never mentioned at all.
Wow, that's incredible!Well, that's not entirely true. Vivian is actually mentioned on the official japanese SF 64 website. If you translate Slippy's segment you'll be able to see it for yourself
It's also an incredible demonstration that hiding canonical information on an obscure Japan-only web-page that wasn't officially translated back in the day is a very bad idea. (EDIT: The Japanese page for Kirby's Dream Land 3 is a similar case, so I should've expected it to happen with other old pages, too, really; That one is the origin of the canonical statement that Kirby is 20cm/8" tall - a lot of folks think it came from Smash 64, but it actually came from Kirby's Dream Land 3.)
Haven't looked in a while and I'm not sure how in game canon it is or if it was placed in some concept book or something... but my recollection of Krystal's age relative to the period the Lylat Wars happens as listed on a similar if not the same wiki suggested that she was only 12 or something during those events. She's like 7 years younger than Fox or something I guess. Again, haven't double checked that in a long while, but it's honestly kinda "meh" factoid to me... though partly because her being that much younger kinda makes her talents and knowledge even more surprising and she's wedged into "Mary Sue" territory even easier for being so precocious. And age and such is a "driver's license attribute" anyways like height or hair color and not nearly as interesting as personality attributes imo.Well, that's not entirely true. Vivian is actually mentioned on the official japanese SF 64 website. If you translate Slippy's segment you'll be able to see it for yourself
Speaking of official websites. This is the one for Adventures. It shows us Krystal's age and also mentions her telepathy already, which was only hinted at in the actual game, and officially revealed later in Assault. These websites are quite interesting indeed...
Haha, just like I said: Slippy is interesting in his own waysAlso, I'm highly amused by the fact that Slippy uses the term "oira", considering that Slippy is supposed to be some sort of genius. For those who don't know it, the first part of this video explains it, but basically "oira" is one of several Japanese terms that're equivalent to "I"/"me"/"myself", and "oira" is one that's associated with being used by country-bumpkins and simpletons.
Considering that these are indeed official websites from Nintendo, all of that stuff is a hundred percent canon. This is the only official source for Krystal's age (19 during Adventures, just like the website says). All of the wikis actually used it to determine her 'current' age in Command, which is 22 (20 in Assault, 11 in 64). So Krystal is indeed 7 years younger than Fox which some people have criticized already. I for one never had a problem with that, though.
I got Samus Returns when it came out, had to wait 10 days since it was for my birthday but it was fine. The game is everything it was cracked up to be. It was a bit harder than I would have liked but I loved the Aeion abilities and the melee counter (PLEASE give her a better down special in smash). Enemies hit quite hard and bosses are (sue me for saying this) seem dark souls-styled bosses where you have to memorize patterns after multiple deaths (this is the easiest difficulty mind you). one for example the Queen Metroid requires very specific positioning to survive that you simply wouldn't figure out first-try. So while her new abilities are pretty potent, the game is by no means less challenging. I never played Metroid 2, and was never interested because of the dated gameboy hardware, but this is one of the few exceptions I like for remakes. It's worth picking up and playing as a traditional metroid experience with enough new bells and whistles to keep it interesting.
Yes, applying character personalities to gameplay via unique ship elements is a positive thing but going against the pre-established canon of Team A has these ships and Team B has these ships to do so is an issue. Not an insurmountable one at all but one that requires a little more addressing than the "oh yeah, they split up and then all got back together off screen" explanation it got. Especially as it didn't explain Krystal being different to whichever team your decisions retroactively had her having worked with for an extended period.
Finding the enemy bases was easy but irrelevant if you could never get to them before instaloss.
And they fly around and you fly around and you're lucky if you ever actually see eachother. No amount of unit placement matters if you can't succeed at the actual combat and I clearly couldn't.
It's not really that big a deal, though it feels a bit weird I'll admit. Doesn't change the way I feel about her. But then I also don't exactly canonize that info above what I see in game. Its sort of like a different level of canon to me regardless if that's actually an appropriate interpretation, heh. So yeah, it's like a side note to her character and my only gripe really is that it does open her up for some of the criticisms that maybe otherwise wouldn't be that big a deal. The whole precociousness thing. A major plus side to her age though is that we're more protected from people being like, "Hey where's Krystal in Zero? She's gone forever obviously". Then you just retort, "well, she'd still be a kid basically during Lylat Wars. You expect a kid Krystal to be suddenly on the team?"
Yeah, I got it day one and had a busy weekend right after followed by class so I actually didn't get a chance to start it until 5 days after buying myself, funnily enough. I loved it. I like the mixture of the classic 2D feel with a Primey art/music style and Other M's actiony stuff. It felt great to play. It was pretty challenging in places I'll admit, but never so much to slow me down. The hardest boss for me was probably the mining robot mostly because I kept screwing up the morphball part and dragging the whole thing out until I died due to attrition. Once I got through the section cleanly though, I had enough damage to play with that I quickly learned how to handle the final stage. Think I beat the robot on my 5th try? Figured everything out pretty fast with the Queen and got her on the second try. The final final boss on the third try, and boy that was a fun one. The thing that killed me the most though was some random gamma metroid that I was too stubborn to find health to face after the autosave and when I ran into it I had like 40 health on one tank, almost no aeion, and no missiles somehow, lol. Took me like 10 tries to beat it since I basically could not get hit more than once, and it was early on with the gammas as well. I think my first zeta took at least 3 tries cuz I failed at figuring out the grapple trick too. I'll admit my first play through I was very stingy about getting every powerup I could before moving on so I was never really lacking in expansions. In my second, knowing all the enemies tricks and stuff, I blew through all the bosses I faced with similar expansions as I did the first time and got a 6 hour run out of that. My first playthrough was 16 hours, heh. But yeah, I loved it too.
I was the digger's *****, I didn't figure out the morph ball part and even when I did the game refused to let the last node take damage and die. It took me like 2 hours to beat him. You're a stronger man than me lol. I did dominate the Omega Metroids, but that was because I was dedicated to beating them as I sorta saw it as my passage as a Fusion fan. No wonder the digger bot was on the cover. He's quite annoying, But I never really learned how to give up. Also I tend to try to mow down everything in my way and move on quickly, That's a large part of why Fusion is my favorite compared to the likes of Prime 2, which is my favorite prime game.
What her creators said about that in an interview makes it sound different, though;
This wording appears to be mutually exclusive to the response that I would've expected any company to give regarding their character being chosen as part of a big PR event, which would be something like "We're grateful to our fans for voting for our character to be added to Smash!".
Let's be honest, the way that that statement was used in that footage was incredibly strange. It barely seems relevant to me at all unless it really is talking about Smash Switch.
There's also very likely a lot of bunk data, unfortunately - it's not like the old days of these polls, when they were Japan-only during a different era of the internet or, for the pre-Melee one, restricted to entry via a magazine. These days, as
dangeraaron10
has pointed out to me elsewhere, if you open up a poll like this, cheaters, bots, and junk data are an inevitability. And that's not to even mention the likelihood of spambots using it to try to send ads, and so on, since those things tend to indiscriminately go for any public form that they can fill in.At this point, we're definitely not going to know until next year - it looks like we'll most likely be hearing about the Switch's 2018 line-up in what's probably going to be the New Year at the earliest.
Tortilla Noggin
has touched on it before but definitely has over in the B.Dee social
Yeah it was pretty much a case of "the reviews said controls were bad and that it was the same game/story as SF 64," so many fans didn't even get the game. It also drew out a lot of Krystal fans, I can't even count how many youtube plays of Zero I watched where someone at some point said, "where is Krystal". one of them I watched was pretty funny and the guy thought that katt was Krystal I didn't even think that was possible. lol. He was disappointed when her name was called out in game though, although I am still confused how you can look at katt's portrait and say "is that Krystal" lol. And yea, according to the adventures manual her age in adventures was 19(8 years after lylat wars), so unless they re-wrote her age she just wouldn't fit, being 11 and all.
I was pretty confident that wolf would come back too. I am sure Nintendo has heard from Star Fox fans as a whole about how "unfair it is to only have 2 star fox reps" even in an under-represented franchise like star fox where we had 3 before and it went down to include more Fire Emblem reps(we all know that's not the main reason it's just an example of what we got instead).
Yeah that twitter post got a lot of attention and that was very good for us. Didn't you ask Kamiya about Krystal before and he was like wah? who's that? I think I remember you saying something about that a while ago. Definitely glad he didn't get to work on Zero then or we wouldn't have got that attention.
Many Krystal fans did over-react to Zero, I completely agree, I've seen some people say things like, "I won't get Zero because Krystal isn't in it" and other iterations of it similarly, which wasn't good for fans of the series as a whole. I was lucky in a way because I didn't have to pay for it, it came out around my birthday and I had friends that knew me well. it's also funny to note how many similarities there are between Krystal and Samus because there really are many. And Sauria being mentioned on "The Battle Begins" short should have been enough for Krystal fans to know that we will get our turn, though it has been 12 years since she's made a "non-cameo" appearance in any game, so Krystal fans do still have reason to be upset.
Yeah I agree with you entirely. I highly doubt they will do Lylat Wars again after Zero's flop. That is an interesting way of looking at the entire situation with Krystal in that her chances are that much higher if she were to appear, I am not worried about her appearing in the next game, I am however worried that she may not show up before smash is announced, but for now I'd like to see her appear in her own franchise. If she were, however, to appear in Smash I would be elated and would get a switch the day of her announcement, but for now I am going to hold off as I don't really need a switch in the immediate future, just that I will likely get one soon.
Our biggest fan polls took from here, gamefaqs, reddit, neogaf, and other places like groups on twitter as well. Some of the bigger more popular ones spread around to lots of different communities really. Jordan's involvement at this time was a good example as he brought with him many poll voters that wouldn't normally have found any poll otherwise perhaps. Truth still remains of course that for all that poll spreading, the official ballot was far more far reaching. People that voted on the ballot maybe had a reddit account for instance but weren't around to see a poll sweep through and last a week or two. The ballot was up for almost a year. So yeah, it was less that our polls didn't get around, it's more that they weren't that big or noticeable comparatively and there's plenty of people that voted in the ballot that weren't regular to any of the sites we sent some of our polls too. Btw, I keep saying "our polls" but I'm not implying they all originated here on Smashboards from a Smashboards user, only that they were put together by members of the larger invested Smash Bros community.
Yeah, there was speculation early on that the ballot was merely a suggestion box. Some things weren't going to "win" even if they got the most votes. The likelihood was the smash team would have a look at the top 20 requests and cherry pick what they liked. A for instance could be if Snake won the ballot but they decided it was just too much of a hassle and if they'd have added him he'd have been in the main game. They weren't going to be able to force if for DLC with all the drama surrounding Konami at the time, so they'd have cast aside that result for consideration in the future. Heck, they might've even had a rule that they weren't going to let a veteran character win anyways since they only wanted to do something new? They wanted to do something that maybe they already were kind of planning and just needed the incentive to do. Bayo may have been on a short list of "plan to tries" and when she did well she was picked. That's possible of course is all I'm saying. But, they did word it in such a way as Bayo "won". That implies good vote results, but at the same time, the fact that they picked her also means she "won". I think they also said she got the most votes in Europe so that's a bit more of a direct claim. But that could be "most votes of characters we were even considering". So yeah, it's vague in a number of places but I mostly trust what I've heard. Bayo could've won for sure. Our polling, like I said in my last post, probably only accounted for somewhere around 1% of the total number of ballot votes. I think our biggest (but also mostly secure) poll only took from something like 10,000 voters. My recollection of the ballot was that it was over a million voters.
Honestly, I'm not sure. Nintendo likes to be teasey though, so I wouldn't doubt it. But then they also just throw in red herrings for fun. Could be a relatively meaningless comment too unintended to imply much of anything even if it did. Could just be them saying, "you like the more physical Samus, you'll like this Samus in Returns~". If it's a reference more concerned with details then, well, Return's melee counter has a similar look to it as Samus's upsmash and fair in Smash I guess. They're bother arcing attacks except in Smash they're slow and fire burst shot at the end of the barrel whereas the counter appears to be mostly a physical attack. Also slightly resembles a part of her jab in Smash but more flashy and powerful. I could see them altering some part of current Smash Samus's kit to give her a cape like effect with a move borrowing more solidly form the melee counter in Returns. Like change her ftilt into the melee counter or something and give it a cape effect. Would be pretty strong probably.
Yeah, I remember all of that speculation. We'll never know if that's the way they handled it, of course, but it seems pretty likely, just going by the past past polls (such as the pre-Melee one, where a lot of low-placing characters were chosen, along with one who nobody voted for at all - the made-for-Smash amalgamation, Mr. Game & Watch, who's nothing like a real Game & Watch character, and was simply suggested in a fan-letter).
Yeah, though they did have to include the legal disclaimer "*Of realisable characters".
I must confess to having always found that odd - to the best of my knowledge, the Bayonetta games sold less in this region than anywhere else in the world.
Oh well.That's right, yeah.
I hope not. We really don't need more lame cheap one-button counter moves in Smash - the same re-skinned move already pollutes about a fifth of the roster as it is.
Yeah, I forgot the "realizable character" comment was actually said and not simply implied.Yeah, I remember all of that speculation. We'll never know if that's the way they handled it, of course, but it seems pretty likely, just going by the past past polls (such as the pre-Melee one, where a lot of low-placing characters were chosen, along with one who nobody voted for at all - the made-for-Smash amalgamation, Mr. Game & Watch, who's nothing like a real Game & Watch character, and was simply suggested in a fan-letter).
Yeah, though they did have to include the legal disclaimer "*Of realisable characters".
I must confess to having always found that odd - to the best of my knowledge, the Bayonetta games sold less in this region than anywhere else in the world.
That's right, yeah.
I hope not. We really don't need more lame cheap one-button counter moves in Smash - the same re-skinned move already pollutes about a fifth of the roster as it is.
Then that wouldn't be so bad! At least moves like that are balanced out by what happens if you, say, deflect a reflected projectile back at the person who reflected it.
Thanks to the glorious SFM model that Mr K calls terrible for some reason, Featuring jigglebones everywhere you'd expect, full facial animation, along with goodies that i've done, such as fixing the weird boot sole clipping into the floor.
Krystal's staff over her EMP Tool because I don't like not having her staff with her.
And the Gatling Gun over the Alyx Gun, featuring the AR2 muzzleflash, a model that I ripped myself, and the Assault Gatling Gun audio, also ripped by me. No I can't do anything about the pistol holdtype, the game calls for the pistol animation out of my reach.