[HL] Tau cannon cannot damage gargantua

[Nesciuse]

This is very unintuitive and can be considered a bug because tau cannon is penetrative weapon and there is nothing indicating gargantua cannot be damaged by it. Gluon gun can damage it so tau cannon should also be able to. Furthermore this is fixed in Half-Life Source

[HaajPaaj]

Half-Life Source isn't necessarily fixing anything. It was a quick port of a game from one engine to another, and in the process some things were changed. I doubt this is an exception. It's also not a bug because the tau cannon was simply never intended to damage the gargs.

[Nesciuse]

Seems that tau cannon is doing DMG_BULLET while it would make more sense to do DMG_ENERGYBEAM same as gluon gun. Even if calling it a bug is a stretch it's most likely an oversight and gargantua was not meant to be immune to it. Don't see how something like this would just fix itself in Half-Life Source. There is no logic to justify tau cannon not hurting gargantua.

[Nesciuse]

And indeed in Half-Life Source the damage was changed to DMG_ENERGYBEAM so it was intentional fix