Flare Gun

The FlareGun is a cut weapon from Half Life 2.

Info

 * The weapon was originally to be used by the player to ignite targets, and can be found and used in the playable Half Life 2 Beta. When shot, the flare sticks to the player and walls, when approached and can damage their health.[1]
 * It was likely to be found only in the Arctic levels, and at least on the Borealis and in Kraken Base, always stored in "pyrotechnic lockers".
 * Probably due to general ineffectiveness and redundancy as a weapon, its use by the player was apparently cut early in the game's development process.
 * The flare gun handle was originally to be red, and be used by a female NPC, as evidenced by textures files found in the playable Half-Life 2 Beta texture files for the flare gun.[3] This probably refers to a very early version of Alyx, the "I.A. Latham" concept, although the arm texture appears in the orientation of a player texture.[4]
 * Disposable emergency flares was originally to appear in Half-Life.
 * In the Half-Life 2 files, several texture files for HUD weapon icons can be found, most of which still containing the icons for almost all of the cut weapons. The flare gun is among them.
 * The flare gun concept was reused in Team Fortress 2 as an unlockable weapon for the Pyro, used to ignite enemies from long range.
 * The flare gun is available in the mod Missing Information, at the start of the Borealis chapter.