Dragonlord2328 said:
I think in the original Half-Life most if not all creatures from Xen were part of the nihilanth hivemind

vorts were specifically not, they were slaves of the nihilanth. their in-game name is monster_alien_slave, and thats why they all wear those glowing green contol collars and why several on Xen refuse to attack Gordon unprompted.

dba_afish said:
vorts were specifically not, they were slaves of the nihilanth. their in-game name is monster_alien_slave, and thats why they all wear those glowing green contol collars and why several on Xen refuse to attack Gordon unprompted.

Oh i never noticed that I just thought the collars were what connected them to the hivemind I guess slave collars make more sense also had no idea there were non hostile ones I just shot on sight