Crab-Synth and Mortar-Synth ideas and pictures from model viewer

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In the guidebook it mentions the Crab-Synth and the Mortar-Synth. In the guidebook it says that these things are self-replicating, part-replacing and are the backbone of the Combine's "subsequent armies." It says that the Crab-Synth is a meele type of creature with mandibles and that the Mortar-Synth uses "biomechanical armaments and shells." They are in Benefactory and the attacked pictures are of their one appearence in the game when you ride on the pod for the last time. I used the model viewer to look at the Crab-Synth, but I messed the checksums up so I'm reinstalling SDK and HL2. The model viewer lists bones in the models and the Mortar -Synth has a RGrabber bone and a LGrabber bone, so it obviously is capable of melee attacks. It also has a "population bone" which was located inside it, so this must be where it replicates itself or fixes itself. I have a few SDK screenshot or the Mortar-Synth's motion and it's attack looks like a mortar. It has a catapault type thing and it flings foreward, I assume with shells. I will post more on the Crab-Synth when my SDK works again. In the meantime, does anyone know home to use the npc_create command and where to use it? I want to try and have this thing fight some resistance soldiers if it's possible. Finally, why would valve create something this detailed if they weren;t going to use it or put it in HL3 if it ever comes? Any ideas or screenshots from SDK?
 

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I would guess they saw little or no action before the destruction of the portal and possibly the citadel.
 
That's another question, why would the combine decide not to use such powerful creatures against Gordon? They probably used the mortar-synths in the air for the invasion of earth and the crab-synths on the ground. These things are large too, around Garg siize. They're just kind of goign along the bridges in the screenshots. The mortars fly and the crabs walk. My theory is that they were the main unit used to defeat Earth so quickly. Humans wouldn't have any technology to deal with their replicating powers, so they had to give up of be completely anihilated. Maybe there will be some kind of suppression field weapon that the scientists develop detween HL2 and HL3, if Gordon even ends up on Earth or against the combine somewhere else. They could harness the suppression field in a gun so the Synths could replicate or repair themselves.
 
It is possible (and highly likely) that they were used in the initial invasion of earth and later shipped to other plantes only later to be teloported to earth for the defence of the Citadel.
 
Now my SDK doesn't work so anybody else who has it, could you try looking at the Crab-Synth and posting results?
 
I saw the synth and mortor synth in model viewer and thought it was a spoiler (I was up to like the one after Route Kanal at the time :X)
 
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