Questions

[Nephtis]

I will ask a few (alot) of questions about the Half Life 2 Singleplayer, they are either answerable or dissucisnable (<What?)

Question 1)
Why does every slow zombie in the game have white shirts and jeans? I never saw this sort of outfit on anyone in the game, only on Scientists in Black Mesa but the Black Op's destroyed Black Mesa with a nuke.

Question 2)
I know the combine is a huge galactic empire which works around with planet Xen. (They bribed the Aliens leader to invade earth?)
But how are they overcome by a small rebilion? Also the name City 17 and the NPC Dialogue meationing City 14 and the supposed rumours or facts about City 17 being in Russia.
This leads to other cities all over the face of earth why don't the combine send in reinforcements from their huge empire or other cities? Are the preoccupied with other rebelions?

Question 3)
I notice that the combine carry headcrabs from planet Xen (Collected or Given) which they shoot from giant mortar shells to wipe out tough human resistence. I notice also that the Vortigaunts(?) have teleported them selves out of Xen (fact)
to put them selves on Earth to help the humans survive. But how do Ant Lions (not seen in HL1) and Ithysaurs (Big Shark Thingies) get onto planet earth? The combine wouldn't bring them, Ant Lions devestate the Comnine. Did the Vortigaunts open up a large portal and bring these creatures in? Why in all sense if the combine brought the headcrabs why in hell didn't they make a counterweapon/measure to defeat them. Releasing them in such large numbers seems to only doom them.
This is kind of a disscussion question.

Question 3)
How far is HL 2 in timeline from HL1?

Question 4)
The crowbar put into the game appears to be very very weak, on difficulty easy the Standard Pistol kills a combine with one hit to the head while the crowbar takes three? This seems very weak concearning that the crowbar is a melee weapon. Is it's only use to clear debri?

Question 5)
Around the levels Nova Prospeckt, Entanglement, Our Benefactors and Dark Energy you embark inside the combine ships which have suited themselves to the human buildings? Inside these ships are those pod things that contain humans and the like and where Alyi is kept. Are these pod used with the Orginal Combine DNA to create their normal Soldiers and Civil Protection? Or are they put to another use?

Question 6)
What are these thingies? (Found on Our Benefactors)

I think they are some sort of new combine fighting force.

I hope you will answer these questions with maturity and intelligence.

 

[15357]

1. its their uniform.

2. only the human part of the Universal Union (Breen) is overcome.

3. Radiation and other ecosystem destruction causing materials caused antlions to mutate to 1000 times their normal size (my theiory)

4. zombies take more damage from meele. also, gun > crowbar

5. prisoner pods used for transportation of prisoners.

6. synths. don't know much.

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[Polaris]

1) Zombies wear jeans and shirts because is normal human wear !

2) City 17 is capital city of brave new world and rebelion in this city start war with Comine in whole Earth

3) Mayby from Combine resources - Antlions from unknown desert planet

3) Nobody knows - i think 15 years (age of Barney...)

4) Gordos weak hands ?

5) Combine DNA manipulation is only used for create Combine Ovewatch and Stalkers not for
CP (its only recruiting civilians).

6) Combine biomechanical war machines called SYNTHS - i think this second is Mortar Synth

 

[Burky]

I hope we get to battle synths in hl3

 

[AJ Rimmer]

1. There are actually resistance members in game wearing these clothes, I think they are supposed to be non-fighting resistance member, like in Ravenholm, it was a mining town before it was shelled.

2. First of all you should know there is a debate of how Xen and Combine are connected, I think they just kicked the crap out of them and that's where they get the headcrabs. But anyway, to clarify on 15357's point, City 17 and presumably all the other cities on earth are filled with the human combine forces, CP, Overwatch and the elite combine soldiers are all actually humans, the popular theory being that the CP are completely volantary(misspelled but who cares)and Overwatch and Elite combine are exposed to certain degrees of genetic manipulation.
Most probably they didn't have time to send in re-inforcements that quickly, these cities are probably a long ways from each other and if word spread from city 17 to city 14 of a rebellion things could get ugly, so they are probably careful.

3. Ichtysaur , headcrabs, Voirtgaunts and Barnacles all arrived when the portal storms ravaged earth after the Black Mesa incident, where thousands of portals opened up all around the globe. As for ant lions, I don't get them.

4. 'Bout ten years.

5. Just a gameplay thing.

6. The buildings are not ships, the citadel is a building that was teleported in from the combine dimension. The pods are used for prisoner transport, in Nova Prospekt and The Citadel they are used to transport mainly Stalkers, ie humans turned into mindless combine slaves, see Our Benefactors, Dark energy and Entanglement I think.

7. Synths, the stuff that really kicked earth's ass last time and may be the answer to your question numer 2 (reinforcements)

Reserved for eventual errors, mistakes and downright lies.

 

[BlazeME]

1) I think the shirts are ment to be blue but valve forgot to change it.
2) They haven't been beaten yet, you just killed the chancelor. There will probably be a big Combine war in HL3.
3) The portal that you create in HL1 allows loads of aliens from Xen to come over. There are loads of portals, not just the one in Black Mesa.
3) 10 years about
4) Crowbar isn't ment to be good. Its ment for destroying crates with wasting ammo. It is good against headcrabs though.

 

[15357]

actually, i think that the white shirts are supposed to.... what was the word.. um Show the blood more better

 

[Nephtis]

The Syths (Sythnesize) < Model Name. Look very familar the first one if very small about the size of a scanner but it looks so much like the Alien Dropships on Xen.
Thanks for the Info on the portals I only thought portals spawned in the Black Mesa Complex.. and thats why the grunts came in to terminate the research along with it's researchers.
I think somewhere in Blue Shift at the start it has the character bio and I think it has Barnies age, someone look that up.

 

[ríomhaire]

Question 1)
that is what people wear to show they are no longer citizens of the Combine (Ravenholm was the resistance epicentre)

Question 2)
They pulled out most of their strongest forces (the synths)

Question 3)
They were transported to Earth by the portal storms

Question 3.2)
10 years I think

Question 4)
Gordon is a physisist (they're not famed for their strenght)

Question 5)
They are buildings, not ship. The pods are used for transport within Combine facilities. The Civil Protection aren't genetically modified, just brainwashed. The Overwatch are mechanicaly modified, not genetically

Question 6)
Mortar synth and crab synth, respectively.

Edit: the following are all synths
Mortar synth
Crab synth
Strider
Gunship
Dropship
Sheild scanner

Overwatch and stalkers are mechanicaly, not geneticaly modified.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Overwatch and stalkers are mechanicaly, not geneticaly modified.

How do you mechanically modify a human to look like a stalker? They don't really look at all like humans.

 

[Asknoone]

They are genetically modified the stalkers, they put thier organs on a saline solution...

 

[ríomhaire]

How do you mechanically modify a human to look like a stalker? They don't really look at all like humans.

I think they look quite like human (of course humans who have been starved, goten a skin disease and had several limbs amputated). The organs are removed and replaced with machienery.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

They are genetically modified the stalkers, they put thier organs on a saline solution...

Thankyou.

 

[Langolier]

Thankyou.

No. To genetically modify something the Stalkers would have to grow that way naturally from conception. There is nothing to suggest that any of the Overwatch Soldiers, Civil Protection, or Stalkers are grown. They all start as normal adult humans, and are then implanted with mechanical devices and artificial solutions.

Question: Is it safe to consider the Transhuman Section of the Overwatch Synths?

Answer to another question: We don't really know if the Combine have been defeated on Earth. We can logically deduce that the Citadel and Combine Forces in City 17 were defeated, however we know there are other cities.

Also, the Resistance really only won because Freeman managed to destroy the Teleporter at the top. On your way up you can see there are still many many Overwatch Troops within the Citadel as well a large force of Synths, many of which haven't even been deployed yet. Most likely, had Freeman not destroyed the Teleporter, that huge army you see mobilizing would have been released into the city and completely destroyed what was left of the Resistance.

 

[Jandor]

You all pounce on this guy espousing all your theories as proven facts. It's annoying.

Well, not all of you.

 

[Asknoone]

Thankyou.

Most welcome. Now where is my cookie.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Most welcome. Now where is my cookie.

Here, you can have the raisin ones. :x