Combine Dyson Sphere.

>>388391517
Did anyone even know what a Dyson Sphere was two days ago?

that will never happen

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ITS TIME

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Millions of artist interpretations, all depicting the climax of the Half-life series. Special to all because it only exists in our heads. The most powerful force on earth.

>>388391568
Yes.

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Truly, we are. Half life.
>>388391626
And yes, but only because of that nasa thing last year where they talked about that object they saw dimming a star.

>>388391568
No.

>>388391568
Maybe

>>388391626
What's it like?

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>>388391568
Halo invented Dyson Spheres

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Hahahaha, fucking spherelets, when will they learn.

>>388392014
planetoidcucks NOT EVEN ONCE

>>388392014
I miss half life discussions on /v/

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>>388391568
Yes. There are still some actual nerds left here, fuck. Haven't you fuckers ever read Ringworld?

However pic related (the best fucking SF book ever) has them too so you niggers should read it.

>>388392095
They'll be back for a couple of weeks now, enjoy it while you can.

I'd love to see something as niche as a Dyson sphere to become a meme.

>>388392256
Its already a meme on /sci/ it has been for years.

Dyson Sphere's are like one of the biggest Sci Fi cliches. Like it would have been that interesting.

You guys think Valve might ever sell the IP? I mean, there are loads of rich game companies out there who would love to have, since they would love to have a ip that people crave so much. And since Valve is just sitting on it...

>>388392983
How would valve make the Half Life Card Game if they sold the IP?

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>Solanae Dyson Sphere
>This glorious bastard betrays his entire warmonger race to prevent an unstoppable galactic juggernaut
>Still joins your crew

>>388393138
Anon, I clearly made that post as a cry for help. At this point I would have fucking EA Games shitting out Half-Life games every year, if it meant we'd get SOMETHING.

>>388391568
Yeah, one of my friends is a big Sci-Fi nerd and he got unbelievably triggered when he found out there was a shitty anime based around Dyson Spheres. Also I read books sometimes.
>>388391517
Well, it wasn't in a game, so I doubt it.

>>388393256
>Half Life : Andromeda

>>388391568
Did you never play fucking Halo?

>>388392108
What is it about?

a dyson sphere wouldnt even be visible from the perspective of gordon flying into it

if you were far enough away to see the entire thing in your field of view, it wouldnt look like anything as it wouldnt have a discernible depth or texture

if you were close enough to see the physical side of the wall itself, it'd just look like a big wall

>>388391568
I didn't. Pretty cool stuff, though.
I also learned the what a 'Arcology' is from Deus Ex: Invisible War.

>>388391568
yeh. I played Duel Masters

>>388391738
did they ever figure out what WAS dimming the star at regular intervals or is it still unknown?

>>388393636
I learned that from Civilization IV: Next War

>>388391568
Yes, I'm a big scifi fag

>>388393638
I dont believe they ever followed it up because the chicken brained public stopped caring and moved on to the next hip trendy science fact of the week.

How was the game gonna convey the gravity of the situation when the Dyson Sphere would be revealed? I'm pretty sure your average valve playtester wouldn't get it

Are we really supposed to believe this super important Combine station wouldn't have any defenses that couldn't disintegrate a boat in a second?

>>388391568
I did

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>>388391643
Post more

>>388393782
Did you not read the post?
"Mainly I saw how the Hyperborea, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart. And what remained of me would be even less than that."

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>>388391568
What kind of lifeless loser would I be if I didn't?

>>388391568
yes. The anime Blame! is like Bladerunner except the earth no longer exists and is a megastructure that is even bigger than a fucking dyson sphere.

>>388391568
Who didn't is a better question.

How long before someone tries to create episode 3? We all know it's gonna happen at some point

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>>388393782
It's probably that the Combine let it happen to really grind the boot into humanity, or it's too small and insignificant that it either doesn't get picked up on detection systems or just literally a rustbucket to them.

>>388393910
Theres a reddit thing, one of the sub forums where they are. Dreams if hl3 i think.

>>388393782
The Combine seem to miss the little things, which explains how the Resistance is able to exist or put up any sort of fight at all seeing as their opponents have so many resources and numbers at their disposal. I'm sure no one thought to install little mounted turret lasers on the outside of the thing.
>>388393761
I dunno, someone said Gordon could start monologuing about the whole scenario. Of course, that violates the whole "show, don't tell" principle, but if it's an iconic character speaking for the first (and presumably last since he's basically removed from the series after this point) time, I could see it working

>>388391568
I knew what it was conceptually just because I'm not a mouth breather but had no idea what it was called because I'm uneducated.

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>>388393823

>>388391517
>the initial excitement of thinking you're going to destroy the Combine homeworld
>the grim revelation that it's going to be a suicide mission
>the slow realization during the approach that it's not a planet you're approaching... it's a solar system
>the time flashes revealing it's not even the Combine "home system," it's just one solar system base among countless others
>the realization that all of humanity is an insignificant speck before the power of the Combine Empire, that Breen was right
>the realization that the Borealis is just going to leave a little scratch mark on only one of many bases
>the realization that you're going to die for nothing

Half-Life 2: Episode Three was the most chilling and powerful game ever made.

>>388393262
>shitty anime
Fuck off, Blame is great.

>>388393989
That's a pretty shoddy Dyson sphere.

>>388393989
It truly will go down in history as the best scene in videogames. And it never even happened.

>>388393989
>dyson SPHERE
>dozens of tiny rings

what is this artist smoking

>>388391568
This thing made remeber some news i read some time ago about one observatory finding some really shiny thing deep in space and some people wanted to believe it was and ayyy lmao dyson sphere

>>388391568
o-of course i did

>>388394042
>>388394054
it looks cooler

>>388391568
yes anyone who watched fucking Star Trek NG should know what it is

>>388393883
iirc earth still exists but is basically unreachable for most of the people living in the structure since it expands literally all the way out to Saturn

>>388394112
It looks like lazy scribbles. The artist didn't do this amazing scene justice at all.

>>388394026
Hes not talking about Blame! you dumb brainlet the City isnt even a dyson sphere.

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>>388391568

Based Star Trek was my imitation, and then Stellaris added them in a DLC as late-game buildable structures, (unfortunately, the outcome of the game is already decided by the time you can build them unless there's an especially bad crisis.)

>>388394161
what do you mean that looks really cool i think you are gay sorry man

>>388391568
It's a basic sci fi concept, and one of the check marks for being a post scarcity society

>>388391517
>third person

>>388394215
this is a proper sun

it hurts my eyes just looking at this image

>>388394215
>hexagonal
not strong enough

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>>388394161
there's also this i guess

How is a Dyson sphere even a thing?

It would need to be at a distance where it would not melt from the immense heat of the sun, which means Its magnitude would have to cover the span like a 50+ sun circumference.

Secondly, Gordon and Alyx would be suffocating in space as they road the ship into the Dyson sphere, if they werent already burnt alive by the extreme heat of the sun via proximity.

>>388394307
It's sci-fi and is just something derived from the separate Kardashev scale.

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You guys DO know that you're 18 years late, right?
Literally the alpha version of Half-Life 2's main menu.

>>388394307
ITS PSEUDO MAGIC SCIENCE

>>388394195
>It has been suggested by Tsutomu Nihei himself in his artbook Blame! And So On that The City is actually a growing Dyson sphere of gargantuan proportions.
Sure thing, jackass.

>>388394307
>Secondly, Gordon and Alyx would be suffocating in space as they road the ship into the Dyson sphere, if they werent already burnt alive by the extreme heat of the sun via proximity.
I would imagine that the borealis would have some kind of field around it that'd protect them.

>>388394307
Gordon also should have suffocated when that giant fan at black mesa pinned him against that ceiling grate.

>>388393605
The point of the Borealis being so displaced in time is that Gordon essentially saw his future self flying into the sphere and exploding at the same time as he saw the massive expanse of the sphere from far away. He saw himself die and the ship's explosion meaning literally nothing, but the vortigaunts yoinking him out of the ship prevents that.

>>388394307
>It would need to be at a distance where it would not melt from the immense heat of the sun, which means Its magnitude would have to cover the span like a 50+ sun circumference.
It won't melt close to the sun if it's made out of a futuristic material that won't melt close to the sun.

>>388394282

If only the gameplay was as good as the graphics.

>inb4 give it another 2 years when Paradox releases a finished game that essentially costs $200

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>You will never play the level where the Borealis travels through time and space

This could have been way more mindblowing than that timetravel level in Titanfall 2, but Valve betrayed Half Life for Skins, Crates and Esports.

VALVE is dead for me

>>388391568
Yes.

It's a staple of sci-fi.

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>>388391517
Stop posting dyson sphere threads.

>>388394534
When was the last time Valve even managed to produce a scene so remarkable that it could live up to players' expectations of this scene?

>>388394534
give modders a year or two, we'll have our own hl3

>>388394534
dumb akkoposter

>>388391568
>idiot projecting again

>>388394602
episode 3

GUYS
THE HL2 BETA FORESHADOWS THE TIME DISPLACEMENT BULLSHIT
https://youtu.be/Ee8Mxsol3gQ
IMAGINE THE FUCKING GAME WE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN IF THE LEAK NEVER HAPPENED

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>>388391568
I thought it was a vacuum cleaner.

>>388394534
>You will never play the level where the Borealis travels through time and space
What makes it worse is that they were clearly playing with fitting that plot thread with gameplay with F-stop.

>>388394597
I'd say the Portal 2 moon scene was pretty fucking goddamn good.

>>388394421
wut

yo anons where the fuck is those two or three pictures from the sticky of the conbine logo LITTERALLY being a fucking dynson sphere, and the actual shape of what it exactly looks like?

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Best Dyson sphere coming through.

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>>388394707
YOU FUCKING KEK

>>388394740
?

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>>388393875
>>388393883
>>388394157
The city is a solid structure till around saturn, but it is actually much larger. It gets more sporadic and less dense as it goes, but there are parts of it are in the outer reaches of the fucking Oort Cloud (basically the limits of the gravitational reach of the sun)

>>388394534

Valve is the Deadmau5 of Vidya. All the talent that made them great is long gone. They're glorified producers at this point. HL3 would be an abortion of a game on par with Andromeda, except with microtransactions and Day 1 DLC up the ass.

>>388394512

"no"

mossman centered it in a specific time period and place

>>388394774
...Thats no dyson sphere.

>>388394597
If they made it within 3 years of Episode 2 the expectations wouldn't be this high.
It's 110% Valve's fault the expectations were so high.

Why the fuck is everyone suddenly discussing a bunch of bullshit as if Half-Life 3 actually came out or as if anyone has any fucking idea what it would have been like?

What did I miss?

>>388394802

The City is such a dumb setting. The only purpose it serves is to make autists on Spacebattles fap.

>>388391971
Forerunners took that shit one step further and started building planets around the star

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>>388393992
>all the accomplishments of humanity are fated to be nothing more than a layer of broken plastic shards thinly strewn across a fossil bed, sandwiched between the Burgess shale and an eon's worth of mud

>>388394815
Did you even read the fucking post? It was only centered for just long enough for them to board it before it displaced again. That's why Gordon could see a shitload of himself getting lost throughout the ship.

>>388394880
http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

>>388394880
marc laidlaw released a "fan fiction" which essentially explained what episode 3 would have been

though a lot of people are going full retard and wildly speculating about things and being very dumb

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>Half-Life director Gabe Newell coined the name "Gordon Freeman" during a conversation with the game's writer Marc Laidlaw in his car. It included a homage to the physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson.
>Freeman Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician.
>He theorized several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson sphere.

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>>388394638
holy shit

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>>388394707

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>>388394740
>the conbine logo is the dyson sphere

I need that anon to post the version of the artist drawing it properly and adding all the parts, wish I saved it

>>388394307
A dyson sphere isnt touching the sun. Its larger than the earths orbit. It isnt melting anymore than the Earth is melting.
The amount of material is huge, that show the power of the civilization, able to scrap several planets.

>>388394883

Pls refrain from bringing up all the wasted potential of the Forerunners and WE WUZ KANGZ Humanity.

>inb4 Silentium was based

>>388394904
That is why an interstellar Human Empire is a necessity.

>>388394307
>It would need to be at a distance where it would not melt from the immense heat of the sun
We already have materials that can withstand temperatures hotter than the sun.

>>388394421
Anon, a dome isnt a dyson sphere.

Brainlet here. What exactly is the point of a Dyson sphere? Like what exactly does it accomplish?

Half life is a shit fucking series, 2 is One of the most blandest shooters Ive ever played with a shit selection of guns, horrible vehicle levels and a fucking gravity gun gimmick. So why should we care about this stupid shit?

>>388395046
It's essentially a fucking massive solar panel that would harvest an unheard of amount of energy from a star.

>>388395046
It's a hypothetical way to reach Type 2 on the Kardashev Scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

>>388395046
Can harvest all the energy put out by a star.

>>388395046
It absorbs huge amounts of solar energy from a star.

>>388395093
hello underage

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>>388394707

/AESTHETIC/

>>388393992
>the most chilling and powerful game that will never be made.

>>388394239
Thats at least a thousand years after post-scarcity my dude

>>388395046
convert all the energy coming off of a star into something

>>388395093
Shut the fuck up.

>>388391568
Cant remember where exactly I learned of it (probably either from youtube or from 4chan itself) but yeah, I've known of it for quite some time.

Its actually refreshing trying to explain to "so whats the big deal with the sphere" people what a dyson sphere is and what is represents.

why does everyone think the ending involves freeman ramming the ship into the dyson sphere? It doesn't actually say that at all, and a small boat against a structure bigger than a star would do absolutely nothing

A Dyson sphere us built to collect massive amounts of energy from the sun, but wouldn't this severely limit the amount reaching earth, thus destroying the agriculture?

>>388395046

It's Drumpf's endgame of HIGH ENERGY

>>388394638
Well, HL2 original was going to include the borealis. It would probably be HL2 + Episodes 1-3 (probably with less individial detail).

>>388395168
>and a small boat against a structure bigger than a star would do absolutely nothing
that's basically what marc wrote
people are just being silly

>>388395168
that's the point

it was always useless, the ending is a bad end for Gordon, the entire thing meant nothing

>>388395093
Because the story was alright and Half-Life 1 was the tightest shit when it came out.

>>388395204
It doesn't need to be a star with habitable planets. Probably just a power cell for space stations and colonies.

>>388395204
Not if you build the sphere to include the earth's orbit. There's nothing saying that a Dyson sphere needs to be right on top of the target star.

>>388395226
no he wrote about the combine 'main staging area' with a dyson sphere in the background
I swear people can't fucking read

>>388395204
If the edge of the Dyson Sphere is beyond the orbit of the Earth, I don't see why it would.

>>388394707
Fucking hell.

>>388395168
That's literally what the ending was. Alyx starts the suicide charge into the sphere, G-Man takes Alyx away and lets Freeman die, Gordon watches the ship fly into the sphere and do literally fucking nothing through time displacement bullshit, and the Vortigaunts pull him out before the ship actually explodes in his own personal time so he doesn't actually die.

wouldn't a dyson sphere, in theory, kill off the solar system since it's gravitational pull is being significantly dampened by the massive sphere containing it? Same with the heat it puts out.

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>>388395114
>>388395125
>>388395129
>>388395159
But for what reason? What do you use the energy for? And where do you store it? Or does the sphere store it itself?

>>388394882
It was just an excuse for Nihei to live out his architectural fantasies.

>>388391517
No because the game doesn't fucking exist
what a retarded OP

>>388395323
If you did that then the Earth would block sunlight from getting to the dyson sphere.

>>388394880
The original writer of the half life series who left valve 2 years ago spilled the beans about what Epi3 was going to be. He did so because he certainly has no hopes what so ever for it to be released.

>>388395374
It's entirely hypothetical, anon. Presumably you'd use it to power technology that'd more or less be considered literal magic at this point.

>>388395368
Well yeah. I mean wouldn't it essentially send every planet into an ice age, as if there was no sun in the solar system to begin with

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so that leader fag was right?
becoming slave race was actually better?

>>388395374
Jesus you really are a brainlet
Ask a fucking K2 civilization how they like their dyson spheres

>>388395343
>That's literally what the ending was. Alyx starts the suicide charge into the sphere,
no, if gordon caught a glimpse of a dyson sphere he would be very, very far away from it

>>388395374
>What do you use the energy for?
For powering things, duh.

>>388395374
>build solar array around dwarf star
>build super computer powered by solar array
>upload conciseness to super computer
>live with your waifu until the heat death of the universe.

that, is a dyson sphere.

>>388395428
Only a tiny bit

>>388391568
The concept has been around for almost fifty years, what do you think?

>>388395314
>no he wrote about the combine 'main staging area' with a dyson sphere in the background

>I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Disparate world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere.

the ship is clearly inside the dyson sphere and is going to crash into the sphere from the inside

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>>388395374
>But for what reason? What do you use the energy for?
Literally anything and everything. Same reasons we need oil, gas, and uranium in our era.

>And where do you store it? Or does the sphere store it itself?
Good question. I imagine that's an engineering problem the builders of a dyson sphere would have figured out.

>>388395428
A sphere large enough to extend beyond the Earth's orbit would be so massive that the shadow the Earth casts upon the interior of the sphere would have almost no effect on energy collection.

>>388395204

The fully enclosed sphere is a meme propagated by TNG, an ackshual Dyson Sphere is a Dyson Swarm of trillions of solar panels and space habitats. With a few thousand km of space to avoid collisions, such a swarm wouldn't limit the Earth's intake of energy as the sun is Xbox hueg.

A civilization that can feasibly create a full shell Dyson Sphere is one that can not only synthesize building materials directly from the sun's mass, create artificial atmosphere and gravity on an AU-wide scale, but also has the capabilities to manufacture something on that scale.

>>388395476
That's a Matryoshka Brain you dummy

>>388395507
>I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere.
implies it's far off in the distance
he's riding the ship onto a combine planet

>>388393605
It could be presented as a work in progress or even as a dyson swarm instead.

People know what the fuck an eclipse is, a scientist like gordon could probably make out a dyson sphere

>>388395507
>clearly
??????????

>>388395580
fuck it, close enough

>History
Had to of taken place first

>>388391568
Not everyone is as entirely disinterested in these topics as you are anon.

>>388391517
Someone please draw Gordon riding the ship into the Dyson sphere in the style of the ending of Dr Strangelove

>>388391568
Like every spess 4X has one.

>>388395374
Energy is supposedly the primary limiter on the potential of an intelligent species.

The combine is able to produce an estimated 400 septillion watts a second with their dyson sphere. You can't take down a civilization that probably spans an entire galaxy.

>>388395593
>implies it's far off in the distance
yes, the dyson sphere is so big that it appears to be off in the distance

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>>388391517
Source Mod when?

>>388393605
>a dyson sphere wouldnt even be visible from the perspective of gordon flying into it
Sphere is just a generic term, it could be of any configuration.

>>388395739
It could be a ball or an orb too

>>388395724
>You can't take down a civilization that probably spans an entire galaxy.
Just let interdimensional refugees in.

>>388395428
I mean, the entire earth (the weather, rain, all life, etc) is powered by the sun (ignoring nuclear energy that is insignificant in the large scare).
And we do it with, according to google, 0.000000045292% of the sun output.
There is still 99.999999% to be used

>>388395729
right after i finish the new renamon sfm

>>388395819
>renamon sfm
What?

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It's meant to paint a bleak picture that everyone knew, but was too afraid to admit.

Humanity can't defeat the Combine. They lost the war in 7 hours for a reason. In the grand scheme of things, Earth is merely one more planet for them to colonize and subjugate. The higher-ups of the combine probably don't even know it exists or what is even happening because they have endless advisers and subordinates that even those "low-ranking" members of their "society" are given tasks like taking over planets, or perhaps even entire galaxies as a "rite of initiation" or political power.

Earth might just be a result of some Combine higher-up trying to climb a political ladder in his own God-like society.

We cannot even begin to understand the nature of their species, we stand no chance of ever destroying them because they're literally beyond us by a few types on the Kardashev scale.

Gordon realizes this in the epic crescendo as he catches a glimpse of the vastness of the Combine while traversing time and space itself. Alyx still does not realize this, and G-Man understand that he's better off exploiting a fresher, more gullible mind. Freeman knows too much of the true nature of things.

That even if they steer the ship in a bombastic display of courage and sacrifice, in the grand scheme of things, it'd be like shitting on the front lawn of a house, one of millions on a single planet, of a society of being that have millions of planets like this, with millions of houses, with millions of lawns.

Resistance is pointless, and everything else, with it, too.

It would of been the greatest gaming twist in video game history, and would of been fucking majestic to behold in front of us, that utter feeling of pointlessness sinking in and realizing everything we did up to that point, it didn't matter. We're but a speck of dust to the combine, a chess piece, they don't even know we exist. GLORIOUS.

>>388394707
A

>>388395807

>tfw our great great great grand children will have to deal with protests claiming that sun's energy hasn't been enriched enough.

>>388395885
>They lost the war in 7 hours for a reason
I'm feeling a bit of ludonarrative dissonance with this seeing the combine are hilariously incompetent and easy to defeat in combat, although we never saw what they used to fight with before they assimilated humans

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>>388394307
An actual Dyson Sphere, by the individual who proposed it, would be more about several "swarming" satellites orbiting a star, not a single mass.

>>388391568
I've been obsessed with megastructures for a while so yeah.
The idea of not seeing it in the real game physically hurts.

>>388395973
Because those are low level soldiers.

>>388395973
I always thought that the Combine forces you fight in HL2 are basically cops and the dregs of the military.

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>>388395798
Can i hear a WAAAAAHG!?

>>388395885
>respectable astronomer
>reasonable theory

>pop astronomers
>magical sci fi bullshit

Figures

>Displacement bullshit is possible in source
>a full map for the Borealis exists and is easily accessed
>We know the plot and structure of episode 3

WELL? WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE WAITING FOR? MODDERS GET ON THIS SHIT AND GIBBE EPISODE 3

>>388391568
We're /v/irgins not idiots.

>>388395973
That's exactly the point anon, Gordon saw all of the rankings of the combine, and realized that the combine, that took earth in 7 hours, were the LOWEST ranking soldiers. that is how insignificant earth is. imagine if they sent there middle rank, or fuck it, highest rank. how long do you think we would survive that?

>>388395885
>endless advisers and subordinates that even those "low-ranking" members of their "society" are given tasks like taking over planets, or perhaps even entire galaxies as a "rite of initiation" or political power.
That was probably what freaked me out about the BreenGrub tweets the most: the revelation that even the Advisers were just another enslaved species with a specific role in the Combine hierarchy.

Does anyone else think this whole thing is kinda dumb
Like, going from "aliens have invaded the lab, shoot them" to this crazy shit seems a bit much

>>388396109
The sci-fi of yesterday is the reality of today.

>>388396164
The piece only only seems like the very opening of Episode 3.

>>388396198
Gordon Freeman was supposed to be an uncelebrated hero. Half-Life 2 ruined everything.

>>388396198
brainlet

>>388395135
>>388395160
>>388395248
imagine having this shit taste

>>388396321
Stop misusing words. I understand it fully, I just do not like it.

>>388395973
The combine you fight in the games are just humans that were integrated into the military after the war.

It's hard to say what they used during the war, but it's certainly likely they used other species and synths, such as striders, gunships, hunters, and whatever else you could possibly imagine.

>>388395973
You have never defeated a real combine soldier. Just the fucking nothing shit particles that are the Overwatch.

The Advisors are glorified mallcops and the only non-earthing combine you see, yet you quite literally never actually kill one.

>>388396343
Oh, so you were fishing for (You)s! Sorry for answering you, my mistake.

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What song would you play as Gordon sits in the Borealis and sinks in his chair, watching the immense power of the Dyson Sphere and realizing that even if he crashes it into it, it'll just be a matchstick going out against a wall, and there entire fight was pointless?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ACNty077I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

>>388396198
Have you never thought about the implications of said alien invasion

>>388395885
Crashing one spaceship into any planet isn't going to do much. They do that shit all the time in Gundam. Live to fight another day. I doubt even the Combine gave a shit.

The G-Man saw it, the Vortiguants saw it. Literally everyone saw it. Alyx is just a fucking moron.

>>388396378
It's gordon's fault for murdering the Nihilinth, though he really didn't have a choice.

>>388396198
I agree with you, anon.
The disconnect between HL1 and HL2 is so huge HL2 could as well be an entirely different series.

>>388392108
My eyesight isn't good, do you have a larger pic or just give me the name.

>>388395973
>>388396067
The Combine soldiers in particular are just the Combine delegating the task of occupation to the conquered locals; it's not like they started creating Combine soldiers before they had conquered humans to convert into them.

For a human analogy, it's like if an advanced civilization with machine guns conquered a primitive tribe that fought with sticks, and then handed out some sharper sticks to some of the conquered left in charge to run things.

>>388396464
Alyx never sees the Dyson, and G-Man and the vorts most likely already knew about it

>>388396395
gunships and striders and stalkers aren't earthlings

>>388396423
>what song
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Nothing when you see the sphere, nothing when you watch your future self explode, nothing when the Vortigaunts pluck you out of your reality and save your dumb ass.
Alternatively, have this song play at the very moment you realize you've fucked up.
https://youtu.be/la-sR2E-S8I

>>388396198
>>388396487
>passageways between earth and aliums are opened
>yeah let's just kill the aliens that are already here, nothing should happen afterwards

>>388396428
HL1 does not feature Combine.

>>388396520
They're biomachines. Tools. Not actual combine delegates

>>388396164
>Modders can do anything
Honestly, presentation was one of the best aspects of HL2. Atmosphere, graphics, pushing their engine to the limits, etc. The gameplay wasnt that amazing and the story, although cool, is there only to drive the game.
Just to make the cool looking set pieces from the end of the game (the non-euclidean borealis and the space travel including megastructures), it would take a decent team years, and it probably wouldnt be as polished as you think.
Remember that black mesa project had an entire basis (the original game) and they couldnt make justice to the crazy environments that is Zen, which would be nothing compared to the ending of epi3

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>>388396198
I get what you're saying but seeing where Valve could have gone with this just scintillates my salads.

>>388396512
Why didn't the Vorts warn them it would be fruitless, and why did they regard gordon as godlike in hl2 and the episodes?

>>388396581
The arrival of the Combine still makes sense

>>388396604
Because Valve ruined everything Laidlaw wrote.

>>388396505
so when the locals start to successfully revolt, why don't they bring back the 'super advanced' soldiers who supposedly took over? it's not like you can win a conventional war with any sort of soldiers against a whole planet in 7 hours anyway, they probably just teleported citadels ontop of everything which is basically cheating

>>388396581
It heavily hints at them

>>388396423
There is one, and only one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFWXpYJKaI

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>>388396423
>that spoiler text
Holy shit, if Episode 3 came out and someone made a mod to have that play when you see the sphere/the Borealis exploding and doing nothing/GMan leaving without you, I'd piss my fucking pants laughing.

>>388396650
cuz we shut the portals down, the entire point of the eps was to stop combine from sending reinforcements

>>388396584
are we talking about delegates or soldiers? Presumably the striders and gunships are alive, so they qualify as soldiers

>that horrific realization that if they followed through with this story, Half Life 3 really would of been one of the greatest video games of all time

that ending, is pure fucking kino, that complete sense of just utter dread and nothing matters. I would do anything to experience it.

>>388396664
No it does not.

>>388396720
>I would do anything to experience it.
You kinda did already.

>nothing you did in hl1 meant anything
devs need to stop doing this shit

>>388396732
it hints at a greater enemy controlling the forces of xen, not the combine in particular

>>388396720
>that complete sense of just utter dread and nothing matters. I would do anything to experience it.
It's the same sense of nothing matters that you already got at the end of Halflife 1 and 2.

>>388396650
The combine reinforcements were in another dimension, and the humans kept fucking up the Overwatch's attempts at calling for backup

The main weakness of the Combine is the lack of spacial teleportation. They can't just pop a bunch of reinforcements out of thin air

>>388391568
Not everyone is an illiterate nigger, anon.

>>388396720
>that complete sense of just utter dread and nothing matters. I would do anything to experience it.
how can you be on 4chan without experiencing it?

>>388396820
>They can't just pop a bunch of reinforcements out of thin air
then how did they win the seven hour war?

>>388396789
No, Opening the resonance cascade and subsequently killing the nihilinth were the catalysts that made the combine notice earth in the first place. They never would have invaded or even known earth existed without the black mesa incident.

>they never did anything with the race X, which could teleport at will and build portals, which is a big thing in-universe

>>388396781
>>388396840
you guys know what I mean

the whole experience, the game, the sound, actually playing it live, not, you know

reading the end of half life, in a fucking paste bin. god damn it.

>>388396790
>it hints at a greater enemy controlling the forces of xen
Huh?

>>388391517
THAT'S NOT A DYSON SPHERE IT'S A DYSON SHELL FUCK

>>388396720
Episode 3, anon, not Half Life 3. That's the most crushing part.
The ending was a fucking sequel setup and it was STILL fucking incredible. It would've 100% lived up to all the hype and THEY DIDN'T FUCKING DO IT. Imagine Gordon, now working for the Vortigaunts as they work against the Combine or G-Man or whatever the fuck. God damn.

>>388396884
in HL1 you opened up a massive portal

>>388396906
race x are a shitty non-canon invention of gearbox
>hey lets continue half life with a new race of aliens and a new branch of the military that hates the other branch of the military

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>combine is too strong. Nothing matters. Look how deep the game is u guise nothing matters nihilism
>based science guy shoots da aliems like an EPIC badass

HMMMMMMMM WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE

>>388396926
>>reading the end of half life
That's not the end of half life, anon.

>>388396932
the only basis for this is nihilanth being augmented, and having some vague lines
it's barely anything
>>388396981
>new branch
did you play hl1

>>388396650
Preventing the Combine from calling in reinforcements was the plot of Episode 2 if I recall

>>388396932
nihilinath's voice lines, and the fact that he's wearing slave chains around his arms like the vortigaunts

>>388396994
Yeah I'm sure Gaben will wake up tomorrow and tell people to drop shitty card games and get HL going again

>>388391568
Where have you been for the last 40 years?

So Alex basically fucked everything up by being a stupid moron, correct?

>>388396984
Except that Gordan doesn't shoot any Combine that matter in the grand scheme of things.

>>388397037
>>388397072
Slavery line was cut and there's a much more obvious indication of at least one immensely great power anyway.

>>388397159
yes

>>388397159
Well she is a woman

>>388396720
episode 3*

>>388397072
>nihilinath's voice lines
literally 1 UNUSED line

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>>388396984
>concept of futility is "reddit" or "memey" because a handful of retards on a Chilean sweater pressing forum deem it so
just fucking end your pathetic life

>>388396820
So it's sort of a Phyrric victory because Earth didn't stand a chance at that moment but with the Portal closed the Combine can't send reinforcements and now the planet has (Some) of the Combine's leftover technology plus something they don't have in the Teleportation tech.

I imagine in HL4 you'd have another timeskip where Earth has prepped itself.

>>388397159
in the moment, technically, yes. if she didn't kill Mossman, they could of stayed and researched the borealis, and possibly realized that crashing it into ONE dyson sphere of millions and not even doing a scratch anyway is pointless. They could of used it do so much more, but in Alyxs moment of weakness, yep, she fucked up.

>>388393636
>>388393667
>not sim city 2000

fucking underage plebs

Whats the point of those HL3 files being in that Portal 3 leak thing a while back? Is it just left over abandoned shit?

>>388397314
>Is it just left over abandoned shit?
yes

>>388397159
Yes but this ending is a cliche "good character turns to the dark side" set up, so Half Life 3 probably would have had her as an antagonist up until she dies near the end while redeeming herself.

They didn't crash into the yson sphere you illiterate fucks. They blew up the staging ground. The dyson sphere was there in the background to show you just how futile crashing the borealis was.

>>388397190
What was it?

>>388396897
But like it doesn't matter because Humanity would have been doomed either way. It's either get killed off by Xen or get killed off by Combine.
Bad endings can be okay but "everyone dies" endings are the worst fucking shit

>>388397162
*BURRP*

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS, GORDYY! G-G-G-MAN'S NOT REAL! F-FIGHTING THE COMBINE IS POINTLESS

TURNED MYSELF INTO A GRUB, GORDYY! WUBALUBAWELCOME TO CITY 17!! I'M GRUB BREEEEEN

>>388393782
You don't install a laser defense system on your car to kill a fly. You just turn on the wipers to wipe the splash it made on your windshield.

>>388391971
Dyson invented Halo Spheres

>>388397341
>Yes but this ending is a cliche "good character turns to the dark side" set up
Wrong.

>>388397374
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*BUUUUURRRRRP*
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AND FUCK REPUBLICANS TOO *BUUUUUURRRRRP* T-THEY’RE BASICALLY NAZIS MORTY *BUUUUUUUUUURP* B-BASICALLY NAZIS, RACIST, SEXIST HOMOPHOBE SCUM MORTY
*BUUUUUUURP*
GOTTA GET THAT, G-GOTTA GET THAT MULAN SAUCE MORTY

>>388397374
Well, it is pointless. Type 2 civs are no joke. The only, ONLY thing we have over them is specific in universe teleportation. Other than that, it is fucking pointless.

>>388397386
Yeah but what was Alex's logic on this then?

>>388393256
Yeah bud. You say that now but fucks sake you know you'd be more assblasted when EA made Gordon transgendered.

>>388393782
>>388393872
>>388393941
>Combine defenses deploy a tractor beam-like thingy to stop the Borealis' collision course
>Gordon and Alyx pretty much gave the Combine what they needed in a silver platter

>>388397219
pretty sure its in the game and he's still got the cuffs

>>388391568
Yes, but I'm more of a fan of the Niven ring

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>>388394534
>Dodging gunfire and shooting the shit out of the combine
>While the ghost ship youre on is constantly doing weird shit while it bounces between different realities and points in time and space
We will never experience this kino

>>388397490
The "We are their slaves" line is cut, anon.

>implying that cunt didn't deserve to die

>>388397443

Emotional response to her father's death

>>388394740
>>388394973
looks more like a claw grabbing planets

>>388396650
That's the entire plot of episode 2

>>388397536
I couldn't understand a fucking thing Nihilanth said in game and it was still obvious they were slaves.

>>388397553
this, it's just a symbol representing taking control
don't look too deep into it

>>388397553
how the fuck do you distinguish it as a planet and not a fucking star, given context it's almost obviously the dyson sphere

>>388391568
That this is even a question is sort of sad, it's not a complex concept. Most of the people here should already know, as video games are closely related to science fiction. I knew what a dyson sphere was before I was ten years old.

>>388397443
Nothing, Alyx is an impulsive retard who doomed herself and Gordon while simultaneously making no significant impact on the combine.

A lose-lose.

>>388397582
How and don't fucking say cuffs
The vortigaunts were slaves, but they were slaves to Nihilanth and the Alien Controllers

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>>388397594
yes, complete control over star-based energy

>>388397582
http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Nihilanth/Quotes

>>388391568
yes, learned the concept many years ago from sci-fi

>>388396650
>so when the locals start to successfully revolt, why don't they bring back the 'super advanced' soldiers who supposedly took over? it's not like you can win a conventional war with any sort of soldiers against a whole planet in 7 hours anyway, they probably just teleported citadels ontop of everything which is basically cheating
because they're just another tribe and theyre all the way in the congo. Can't be arsed to sail all the way back there just to correct some wayward chimps

>>388397582
There's only one in-game indication of slave that is cuffs and it still does not work because cuffs as a symbol of slavery is a human concept.

>>388397683
Why would it be THAT specific when that part of the story probably wasn't even thought up by then? Look at this from a dev perspective and remember that it's a video game

>>388397757
if they don't care about it so much why bother conquer it in the first place? doesn't make any logical sense. There's no point wasting resources conquering something if you're not going to defend it

>>388391517
No? Why does this scene hold anymore significance than other scenes?
Like Rapture's reveal in BioShock
Or Final Fantasy VII's big reveal?
Or the end of Red Dead Redemption?
Or the end of Walking Dead Season 1?
Or Dom's death?
Or Shodan's reveal in SS2?
Or Would You Kindly?
I could go on and on and on.
What would make this scene so special? It's not even something that was being built towards.

You fuckers need to relax. Yes, I get it, Half Life Episode 3's story was revealed. Re-fucking-lax. It was alright. A decent script. So what? It's barely even video games in its current form.

>>388397757
>England discovers new world
>Colonists revolt
>Gain independence and kick the English out
>England loses control of all it's wayward colonies
>England becomes the laughing stock of the universe

This is how I imagine the plot of Half Life 4 would go

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>>388397480
>combine
>tractor beam

>>388397840
>cuffs as a symbol of slavery is a human concept.
yeah I wonder why the vortigaunt workers in xen didn't attack you
or why they were called "alien slaves" in the map editor
pure coincidence

>>388397891
Losing one or two planets really doesn't matter if you're a huge, universe spanning empire, defending it was clearly not worth the effort it would have taken.

>>388397932
>BioShock
Shut the fuck up.

>>388391517
yes, i played freelancer 15 years ago, thats when i first heard about it

>>388397891
they don't have to defend it, they have enough perpetually scared cannon-fodder on their side to quell a rebellion for however long they want, and if they find they need more they simply tighten their unimaginably strong grip the slightest amount.

>>388391568
I played Freelancer. Final fight is inside Dyson Sphere.

>>388397981
Like it or not, it has scenes that have become iconic.

>>388397954
They are not slaves to Combine.

>>388397847
i could even make the case that it simply represents "power over the stars" or something along those lines and it wouldnt be a stretch at all if it turned out to be a dyson sphere in the end, there is nothing that infers that the symbol is clutching a planet over a star. From the perspective of a human sure, but from the perspective of a inter dimensional superpower it wold make much more sense for the symbol to represent something greater

>>388394707
STOP IT

>>388391517
That's nice and all but do they have Dyson fans? Checkmate Combinists

>>388393989
Looks awesome

>>388397441
The borealis is a HUGEFUCK plot device, and unlimited space/TIME travel is no joke either. That easily can catapult humanity aeons ahead of the combine if used properly.
Cave Johnson is the closest earth had to a savior

>>388397443
I assume a time machine is powerful, perhaps enough to destroy a planet. She didnt know it was much much more than a single planet.

>>388396423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLyJP_nH5Cs

That's a cool story that would actually have been worth the wait if they have executed the Borealis properly, but it's hard not to notice all those important decisions happening right in front of Gordon's face but which he can't influence in any way.

>>388398083
>there is nothing that infers that the symbol is clutching a planet over a star
Because it's neither
It's a visual representation of control in general
That's how logos work

>>388397891

They wanted instantaneous teleportation. The black mesa incident indicated to them that earth might have that tech. They invaded. Eventually realised earth had none of that shit after occupying the planet for years. They stop caring.

In Episode two you cut off comms with the combine so they don't know about the borealis which would've given them what they were after

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>>388397480
>borealis crashed and explodes into the dyson sphere
>"hmm, it appears that a rogue asteroid has collided into section 12-57295479929, reconnoiter for possible surface damage"
kek

>>388398148
aanyone else find it stupid how they tied in portals wacky implausible science plot to the more serious half life plot?

>>388396410
>if you dont like half life, you're baiting!
Typical /v/

>>388397891
They are defending it, just the lowest of the lows who are assigned such a task, you are basically cavemen battling the slaves of an intergalactic species. This utter hopelessness falling upon realizing that the borealis, the greatest thing that humans accidentally created, was rusted junk that did not do shit and could not do shit to the dyson sphere they had. It would have been the most hopeless moment a video game has ever made a player. Understanding that the human race was dead, Dr. Breen's plan to make humanity slaves rather than die out was the best idea and he did nothing wrong, And Gordon Freeman made a contract with the G. Man and the contract now goes to Alyx.

>>388398148
Yeah one ship.

Which Alyx blew up because "muh dad". I hope G-Man slapped her shit.

>>388398228
but earth does have instantaneous teleportation and the combine are aware of it
did you even play hl2

>>388391568
Of course.

I've never played HL, only thing i knew about the game was that the enemies were aliens called the combine and they used green worm things and soldiers with gas masks to attack earth, your generic sci fi alien baddie tech, nothing impressive.

So when i read this i was truly susprised, i thought all that bullshit about conquering universes was nonsense but this actually explains a lot and makes them a truly terrifying enemy.

>>388398298
>I hope G-Man slapped her shit.
>implying it wasn't just according to his keikaku

>>388398298
I have a feeling that G-man wanted it to happen.

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>marc is no longer doing anything in the vidya industry
This is a fucking crime. This man is a goddamn genius.

>>388398250
Yeah, I do. The joke references to black mesa and throwaway reference to the combine at the end should have been it.

>>388398290
>could not do shit to the dyson sphere they had
they're not attacking the dyson sphere you dumbass learn to read

>>388398219
>it's neither
there is nothing to support or refute your claim, however knowing that the combine have constructed a dyson sphere around their native star system it could easily be argued that the symbol infers "control of all things, even the stars" or something of the sort; it's like conquering nature.

>>388398242
More like
>Did you fart?

>>388391517
theyre in sins of a solar empire, stellaris and distant worlds, so yeah did you?

>>388398298
>You'll never beat her with a crowbar

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>>388392108
>tfw no ringworld video game

>>388398320
The gas masks are "combined" humans and the grubs are Advisors, one of the lowest Combine species that basically overlooks the projects on backwater planets.

>>388398382
Bro my "support" to the claim is that I know how logo design works and what you want to do with it. The more (relevant) things you can cover with a logo, the better.

>>388398250
I find it stupid, specially portal 2. Portal 1 was believable crapshot AI. Portal 2 was the full with "lol science" thanks to cave johnson lines. He honestly seen to be close to TF2 universe and a friend of Saxton Hale than to HL universe.

I guess we can ignore it though, multiverse theory is pretty much canon in the portal series and therefore we can just claim that HL doesnt happen in a "funny world"

>>388394534
>you will never shoot a dinosaur

>You will never know what g-man's motives
>You will never know what the vanaguts hopes to accomplish

Forever blueballed now

>>388398316

Not from a planet to planet like in hl1. Which is the shit they were after

>>388398417
>one of the lowest Combine species that basically overlooks the projects on backwater planets.
[citation needed]

>>388391517
Here's an idea to kick around:

What if destroying the borealis wasn't so insignificant?

The only known working teleportation device that doesn't require a fixed end, which can also go through time, is destroyed. Not only delaying the combines progress in conquering other systems, but also allowing the humans time to dig through the remains of aperture to find any documentation on how to finish it properly.

HL3 (because this was HL2 episode 3) could revolve around the humans finding plans for the borealis and assembling a force of enslaved races to overthrow the combine.

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>>388398372
Hey I actually have this downloaded. Part 1 here.

>>388398372
I'd hire him in a heartbeat if I were in charge of a developer right now.

>>388397393
You do know Dyson didn't invent the concept right?

>>388398417
It sounds like a world superpower like the USA sending trained mouses to take control of a planet.

>>388397417
Not him but it really is. Alyx murders Mossman, forces you to take part in a suicide run and then ditches you to join the G-Man with nothing more than a sideways glance.

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>>388398553
Part 2 here

>>388393989
So he went into the giant astrolabe from Game of Thrones?

>>388398604
>nothing more than a sideways glance
I thought that it was G-Man's glance.

>>388398536
>HL3 (because this was HL2 episode 3) could revolve around the humans finding plans for the borealis and assembling a force of enslaved races to overthrow the combine.
It would still end up being another "you are the superhuman chosen one who saves the universe almost single-handedly" ending with everyone else in the story yet again on clean up duty.