Atomic_Piggy
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- They were fun to fight, but there was never really an explanation as to where the Hunters came from. Were they a new type of synth that the Combine just put into combat? Were they always around but just not in the city? Alyx wasn't familiar with them but the guys at White Forest seemed to know all about them, and were even talking about fighting them "in the city," when we didn't see a single one of them while we were there, and there weren't any in the Citadel either.
I think the hunters are for work in the wastelands rather than the city. As you said everyone in the forest knew who they were but we city folk didn't. I'm getting the prima guide today, so maybe that'll tell us.
EDIT: Ah, the guide says that hunters are the combines latest creation. Guess that settles that. Of far greater interest (IMO) is that it says they are mutated striders bred for closer assault and assassination missions.