Alyx's emp threatens Breen?

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I just played through Half life 2 again and I noticed during the level dark energy when Mossman betrays Breen she threatens Breen using Alyx's emp device.
Although this has been been obvious during the first playthrough why would Breen be afraid of it other than receiving a shock I can't see why he couldn't just quickly grab it from Mossman even if he is hit could this mean that Breen is a Robot or that he is just afraid of the shock?
 
It would probably be enough to knock him out, maybe even kill him. Besides, whatever it did, he wouldn't know. It could've been a bomb as far as he knew.

He's not a robot. There's no other evidence to suggest it, and they're not gonna say "oh, remember that time Mossman waved a taaser at him? That means he's a robot!"
 
K then he's not a robot I just suggested it not like that I believe 100% that he's really a robot but of course he's human unless we find out something very big in ep2 I guess we will just have to wait.
 
The gun would have sent thousands of volts through his body i.e. kill him. As it did with the many soldiers you kill as your rampage up the Citadel with it.
 
Of course think about it why would he risk the entire citadel and his position as administer of earth just for the fear of getting tazered it was obvious that once Mossman had freed Gordan then it's all over especially since he had no guards to protect him at the moment.
 
What exactly could he do? He'd be tazered then what? Completely knocked out. "Risk the entire Citadel". Absolutely not, how is he doing that? Do you think Gordon and co wanted to blow the teleport to shit?
 
Well what were they really expecting to do once they got up to the citadel if not destroy it then disable it but the point is that he would have lost the citadel to rebel control although I don't know how the resistance would control the citadel none of the combine troops would listen to them and they wouldn't be to maintain control of the citadel long before more troops came and killed Eli, Alyx, Mossman and Gordon.
 
Tomu said:
Well what were they really expecting to do once they got up to the citadel if not destroy it then disable it but the point is that he would have lost the citadel to rebel control although I don't know how the resistance would control the citadel none of the combine troops would listen to them and they wouldn't be to maintain control of the citadel long before more troops came and killed Eli, Alyx, Mossman and Gordon.
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The one thing they would not want to do is destroy the Citadel. It is a large, alien structure made up of elements and technology that they have no clue about. You don't go into an alien reactor and blow it up. It's stupid. Gordon did it because it was the only way to stop Breen escaping. The only reason they assaulted the Citadel was because they wanted to rescue Eli. If it was a full scale attack (which, fair enough, it was), they'd have wanted to take over the structure and shut down the synth production as well as knock out off-world comm.

Breen didn't have too much to lose cooperating with them. The structure was full to the brim with Overwatch and Synths. He wasn't in that much trouble, depending on what they planned to do. Either way, he wasn't going to risk being tazered. It would hurt and it would knock him out. What good is that? He'd rather escape.
 
If he would've allowed himself to be tazered, he would've been unable to keep controlling the forces inside the Citadel and beyond. So he didn't.
 
It would have hurt, that's all there is to it really.
 
The "What if..." implications of Breen being tazered and the resistance gaining control of the Combine citadel would be a most excellent singleplayer adventure. Someone should get on making that straightaway.
 
I've never heard anyone have a theory that Breen is a robot... To me that would be like if the twist of LOTR was that Frodo was a robot
 
Think about it, if someone pulled a tazer on you would you sit there calmly and say "I'll be O.K because i'm not a robot."

He didn't like the idea of a tazer so he was scared, like any normal human being.
 
What about.... MECHABREEN?



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Speaking of which, how the Hell did Gordon survive being blasted with his own organic Grav Gun (a verifiable WMD in its own right). Are we supposed to assume that his suit took the damage?
 
The man-chair took the hit for him.

Also, it wasn't your average tazer. Tazers don't glow bright blue when they discharge... you could probably have killed Breen with that damn thing.
 
nokori3byo said:
Speaking of which, how the Hell did Gordon survive being blasted with his own organic Grav Gun (a verifiable WMD in its own right). Are we supposed to assume that his suit took the damage?
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GORDON IS A ROBOT!11!1!1!1!!!!1!!

It's the truth, I swear.
 
The EMP is build on the same technology as the Gravity Gun. Now imagine that going through a safety control.
 
Rabarber said:
The EMP is build on the same technology as the Gravity Gun. Now imagine that going through a safety control.
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Er, no.

Unless you can unlock doors with the gravity gun, they aren't.
 
They're both scavenged Combine material turned into handy tools.
 
Rabarber said:
They're both scavenged Combine material turned into handy tools.
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A hammer and a car are both made from steel. The gravity gun and the EMP are dramatically different tools, using different technology.
 
Both the EMP and the Gravity Gun use Combine energy cells - your comparasion doesn't work, as a hammer does not have an engine.
 
Rabarber said:
Both the EMP and the Gravity Gun use Combine energy cells - your comparasion doesn't work, as a hammer does not have an engine.
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Oh, so your point was that the EMP would be souped up as an uber EMP. I thought you meant it was a zero-point energy using thingy.
 
1: Breen probably wouldn't have known what it was capable of. For all he knew it was a weapon of some sort.
2: Even if he knew it wasn't capable of killing him he probably would have taken a few seconds to come to his senses and realise it.
3: I sure as hell wouldn't like to get zapped in the face by that thing, would you?
 
Combine power cells do not a "counter-resonant singularity device" make. There's no reason Alyx's doohickey would get upgraded by a weapon stripper.
 
That's true. Otherwise the pulse rifle would be amplified as well.

(I assume the HEV suit gets souped up because it's slightly more durable than pulse rifles...)
 
Maybe Mossman was just threatening to mess up the citadel with Alyx's EMP device.
 
You're overthinking this. The bloody EMP is dangerous. It's not just a tazer.
 
Yeah, we're talking a tool that overcharges Combine doorlocks.

I remind you that those aren't destroyed by grenades.
 
Ofcourse they're not destroyed by force.
It's just a game with the circuitry.
It shouldn't hurt THAT much.

For example: What if you use a key to unlock a metal door...does it mean it's so powerful, when you point it someone, they will explode or something? I don't think so...
 
It would be the other way around, Kevin, a key opens a door, and sadly so does a grenade.
 
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