This is incorrect. Armor takes a large amount of damage dealt to the player, but not all. If you are at 1 HP, and 100 armor, you can still die to a single bullet, even though armor won’t be at zero. Fall and drown damage is also not affected by armor. Hence armor is not life.
Technically, Half Life is correct. Armor, which constitutes half of your entire life points, is also 100, and you don’t have it from the get go.
This is incorrect. Armor takes a large amount of damage dealt to the player, but not all. If you are at 1 HP, and 100 armor, you can still die to a single bullet, even though armor won’t be at zero. Fall and drown damage is also not affected by armor. Hence armor is not life.
Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/dlls/player.cpp
Nah that’s GoldSrc there fam ;)