Well, when it comes to HL:S, there's at least one mod in the works which will provide effectively the same thing, but better quality; try
www.blackmesasource.com
Apart from the Pulse Rifle, you don't actually see any Combine small arms in the game; their pistol is a USP Match, manufactured on earth. Why would you need a uber-powerful army to police a few million starving refugees when you can easily control them by converting many of them into their own...
Say that, hypothetically, someone (not me, haha!) had no idea to access the commands you write about. How would this hypothetical person (not me, I reiterate) go about changing the configuration thingies you describe.
Bah, I liked The Algebraist. :D
As for the G-Man being a Culture agent, it would have been nice to see the Citadel get gridfired, but I get the feeling that would be bad for the rest of City 17.
And wasn't Look to Windward set mostly on a Culture Orbital? (Holy shit! Halo and HL2 belong...
The apparent lack of ammo for the Pulse Rifle was the thing that annoyed me the most, and (off topic) the Combine troops were pushovers when it came to fighting the bugs.
Still, I love the Overwatch rifle anyway, huge misshapen gun-beast that it is.
For some odd reason, I was reminded immediately of Fable. :thumbs: Nice looking map, at any rate.
Oh, and those bots (on Expert) are uber-l33t. Possibly because I haven't touched CS:S apart from one or two matches since release.