HEV Suit
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Overview
The Mark IV Hazardous Environment Suit (or HEV Suit) is a full-body suit that was designed by Doctor Gina Cross for research in hazardous environments. The suit's protective qualities protect the user from radiation, energy discharges, and blunt trauma. Gordon Freeman sports one of these suits throughout the Black Mesa Research Facility before, during and after the Resonance Cascade.
The suit is essentially a powered exoskeleton, being powered by batteries and charging stations. While the suit is powered, the user is able to sustain much more damage. When fully powered, the user can sustain many gunshot wounds or even a direct hit from a RPG.
The suit itself is not made by the U.S. Government, but rather by a commercial developer [CITATION NEEDED]. The suit is equipped with a tracking device or devices, as affirmed by a scientist in the chapter Apprehension.
The Suit in Black Mesa
The developers have stated that in no time in the course of the game that Gordon will wear the helmet for the HEV suit. It will only be found on dead survey team members on Xen and in the multiplayer mode of the game.
The suit voice is the same used in Half-Life and Half-Life 2 (available in Orange Box Shared Content). It will not be redone to keep the consistency through the Half-Life series [1]. The vocalisation for the battery percentage count (scrapped in Half-Life 2 and Episodes) was kept in the mod [2].
Media
 The H.E.V. Container at Sector C test labs. |
 The H.E.V. charging station and a health charging station. |
Redesign History
The developers went to great lengths to make sure the Mark IV appeared feasible by reviewing original Half-Life concept art and altering it to be more flexible and correctly proportioned.
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