>Combine conquered earth in 7 hours >can't stop 1

>proffesional

Dyson Sphere

Congratulations, you've discovered the point behind the half life series. It only took you 20 years.

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>>389353975
He's protected by a time traveling mobster

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>the transhuman supersoldiers are weaker than the first games military grunts

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>>389353975
Half Life 2 is just a VR mission under the Solid Snake Simulation program

>>389356346
wrong. gordon is using more advanced weaponry in HL2

>>389356473
lmao they all feel like shit

>>389356346
They're not supersoldiers though. They're halfbreeds not because it makes them extremely strong, but because it makes them 100% loyal

FULLY

>>389356346
The overwatch are just a bunch of civilians turned into augmented soldiers, who probably had a quick 1 hour training be session.

The HECU are special forces commandos who endured months of hard training.

MODELLED

>>389353975
Gordon wasn't fighting the invasion fleet. He was fighting an occupational force that is mostly converted humans.

FULLY MODELLED

VAGINA

>>389353975
>Fighting Mall Cops is easy that fighting against the Army
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?

>Combine conquer Earth in 7 hours
>then they leave
>because I guess they had some other pressing issue to deal with at the time

>>389354361
>all arcs closed bitterly
>bleak, hopeless ending
>set up for a completely new beginning where the fight wont even be for humanity anymore

Was it kino?

>>389357504
>have dyson sphere
>get stopped by phd man
embarrassing

>>389353975

Probably because the REAL Combine soldiers left after they conquered earth and then the shitty mall-cops took over security.

>>389354361
Except Epistle 3 isn't cannon.

>>389357768
If the series is never going to be finished, the ex-main writer's abridged script is as canon as it's ever going to get

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ITT: mad greengrub fags

FERN

>>389353975

how can you conquer earth in 7 hours???

>>389353975
>>a fucking scientist is better killer than proffesional soldiers
The game itself makes fun of this point.

He wasn't acting on his own, chances are the G man was helping him. If the G man can stop time when he wants wherever he wants whose to say he wasn't the one deciding the fate of every firefight? For all we know Gordon's been playing with God mode on the entire time.

>>389357872
>greengrub
breengrub

>>389357938
By being so technologically advanced that skimming around an entire planet shooting people is a chore

BADABING BADABONG

>>389357938
Land over every major population center, and bomb every military post in every developed nation at the same time from orbit.

Being able to strike from orbit means you win every fight, literally every time. That's the reason every nation with a viable space program on earth has signed treaties agreeing to never do it.

>>389357938
by being able to target every location at the same time.

The thing is that Combine's main forces aren't even on Earth. And Combine has limited teleportation technique and they cannot do that at will. One of reasons why they have to rely on human technology such as trains or vehicles on Earth.

>>389353975
It's a first person shooter. Remember when a Marine killed the entirety of Hell?

>replay HL2
>Breen mentions a host body in a scared fashion and eventually says fuck it just get me out of here
>Epistle 3 has Breenslug
They sure thought ahead there.

>>389358136
AYYSHES

>>389356473
The best gun in HL2 are shotgun and revolver, both exactly the same model that are in HL1.

>>389356780
>virgin overwatch and chad HECU

>>389358268
Episode Three was supposed to be released December 2007.

>>389358268
https://twitter.com/breengrub

>>389358268
wasn't breengrub the thing that flies out of the citadel in episode 1. the thing that makes alyx and gordon head's hurt or something like that.

>>389357938
Because Combine are a type 5 civilization. These fuckers have a multiverse empire.
and still they struggle to stop a mute scientist with a crowbar

>>389357568
Ending wasn't hopeless. With the satellite in place, the super portal closed, and the Borealis out of reach, the Combine on Earth are permanently cut off from the larger force, meaning that retaking the planet is possible for the first time since the Resonance Cascade.

>>389353975
Quantum Immortality

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>You now realize that the G-man is the mediator between Freeman and a superior force... which is the player's actions on the keyboard and mouse

>>389358449
No, the Combine are Type 2 with access to multiversal teleportation

It's a very, very big difference. A real Type 5 wouldn't allow the events of the game to take place because a single planet would be nothing to them.

>>389358449
It's a dimension-hopping mute scientist with a crowbar, who gets placed in only the most convenient places in time and space by the g-man

>>389356780
they don't even need training, they get reprogrammed

>>389353975
>Doesn't talk throughout all four games
Was it autism?

The combine soldiers you fight is legitimately shit tier compared to the rest of the combine as a whole.
The only reason why the resistance is a thing is because the main combine force legitimately doesn't see humanity as a threat. They already got a bulk of Earth's resources, so they don't give a shit anymore

>>389357584
Freeman didn't stop shit, though. By the time he got teleportered back to earth it was already conquered and most of the population chemically castrated.

>>389356519
The point is to make players use the Gravity Gun more. Stop parroting Dunkey, retard

>Conquer Earth with their full invasion force in 7 hours
>Their invasion forces return to the homeworlds, they leave some of their Z-tier forces on earth just to keep watch over humanity and run the machinery
>If resistances actually accomplished anything they could just send their full invasion force again

>>389358769
This. Gordon is placed in the mkst convenient places for him to make a difference by the Gman. He puts him the the weakest parts that can make the biggest impact.

>>389359092
My guess is they'd already mined all the good shit from earth and wouldn't even bother.

>>389359092
>The Citadel exploding forces the Combine to open the Superportal
>Closing it stops them from sending anything to Earth
Did you just not play Episode 2?

>>389359090
hahaha

If Combine drained most of water from Earth doesn't that mean Earth is fucked no matter what?

>>389359090
who the fuck is Dunkey?

And all guns sound and feel like dog shit the only usable ones are the revolver and crossbow even handgun is shit
>POK POK POK XD
in first HL at least it was a satisfying THWACK

>>389358927
Breen said that he convinced the Benefactors that the transhuman soldiers of the Overwatch were useful. So they can't be that shit.

>>389356780
The Overwatch are ex-military, civilians get turned into Stalkers.

>>389359358
They'll just build a rocket out of Combine scraps and steal some water from Mars

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>>389359358
Yeah
The only hope of humanity surviving in the long run is the combine taking pity on us and using us as glorified Roomba's or something

>>389358449

>>389358623
this, I'm tired of seeing people talking about the Type-X civilizations as if they truly understand what it is. Reaching a new tier of civilization means that you absolutely control the prior stage, so a Type-2 can harness and control everything in their solar system. A Type-3 civilization has conquered and has absolute control over their ENTIRE galaxy, not just a couple planets, not just the tech to move through the galaxy, they are the damn fucking bid daddies of their galaxy, a Type-4 is so advanced they own the entire universe, their roots go everywhere, every single planet, moon, star, is under their control. A Type fucking 5 means they are pretty much gods, since they own the entire multiverse.

Saying that the Combine are Type-5 civilization is a really ignorant statement and only shows that you first heard about DYSOUWN SPHEEEERE when the Epistle 3 script was released.

>>389359564
>>389359358
Water is all over space my man. I doubt the combine came for fucking water. Its one of the more common elements out there.

>>389359358
They drained enough to fuck up a lot but not enough to make life unsustainable.

Ep2 had so many lush forest settings because they wanted to show that Earth was still habitable

>>389359807
Which doesn't change the fact that it's mentioned the Combine are draining the oceans

>>389359807
The Combine drained most of the planets water to send to other Combine controlled planets.

>>389359591
So the Galactic Empire would be a good example of a type 3?

>>389359090
>I-it's supposed to be shit on purpose!

>>389359932
Life is fucked either way thanks to Xen life fucking up the ecosystem

>>389359807
It's all over, yeah, but a water-rich planet is far easier to harvest than some water vapor nebulas in the middle of space

>>389359482
getting stalkerfied is a punishment, something that can even happen to overwatch. While becoming an overwatch is something volunteers do.

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pick up that fern

>>389360109
Easily millions of times more water in a nebula or something, though.

THE VAGINA ACTUALLY DRIPS DRIPPY VAGINA DROPS

>>389360109
>combine come to the solar system
>harvest a rock with some water on the surface
>not the gas giants nearby composed almost entirely of water

>>389359482
The Overwatch, at least the CP, are mostly civilian volunteers looking for the perks that come from submitting to the Combine. Stalkers are the result of rebelling.

>>389360010
Yes... Except it is not

>>389360010
The Kardashev scale is a measurement of a given civilisation's ability to harness energy.

Type 2 would require building something like a Dyson Sphere, a megastructure that could capture almost all the energy output of a single star and transfer it to the civilisation in a useful way. Type 3 would require a Dyson Sphere on the vast majority/all of the stars in a given galaxy.

>>389360385
I'm pretty sure the combine forces who survive a failed mission also get stalkerfied.
Their radio communication mentions stuff like that and offworld relocation

>>389360109
Not for a society that can build a fucking Dyson Sphere it isn't. There isn't even that much water on Earth.

>>389353975
>a fucking scientist is better killer than proffesional soldiers
Now try playing the game without saves, once you die you never play the game ever again. Because you're dead.

>>389360940
>he hasn't completed a no death run using only the gravity gun and objects colored red

Pleb.

>>389360010
Not yet, not by a long shot, its a type 2, keep in mind that the fact that you can build a Dyson Sphere, which is pretty much the requirement to be a T2, means that you have access to way more mass than your entire solar system has, and that you're able to transport all of those materials to your home star and build the thing.
A T2 does have way more power than it inicially seems like, if they can use all the resources in their home star, that pretty much means they can go to other stars and do the same. To go T3 in simple terms, it'd mean you have Dyson Spheres in every single star of the galaxy, or a similar substitute that allows you to use everything from your galaxy, with that level of development, its pretty much guaranteed that these guys can go to other galaxies and do the same.

The Galactic Empire is able to move through their galaxy, and they have control on pretty much every habitable planet or that's what we're made to believe, since we don't know if there are a lot of undiscoved places in their galaxy, what we do know is that they got overthrown in a battle spanning a couple planets at best, and their biggest superweapon can only blast planets, to be T3 they should at least be able to blow up a couple hundred of solar systems in one go.

>>389360457
What type of civilization is the City from Blame!?

>>389360940
Actually you'd have toplay the game for the first time without dying.
You gotta go in blind like Gordon did

>>389353975
Combine weren't prepared for crouch-jumping.

>>389361119
>play the game for the first time without dying
FUCK

>>389361115
I haven't read the thing, but people kept showing the picture of their multilayered Dyson Sphere, if that's all they have, they're T2. As stated above, a T3 has control over all the resources in their galaxy.

To give you an idea, we're not even T1 yet, since we can't use all the resources on Earth, yeah, we can use a lot of them, but not -everything- which is the requirement to go up a tier.

>>389353975
it's just a videogame

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>>389361115
A Tier 2 in a Dyson Sphere so large it's basically just showing off

>>389361353
There are also gravity furnaces and implications of multidimensional Cities in addition to the one we usually see

>>389358158
Attacking from orbit is a little harder than you might think. At least for us.

>develop sophisticated hazardous environment suit that also has obvious benefits in combat
>military doesn't pay them trillions for the designs

>sequel is an open letter fanfic
>vague and ends in a cliffhanger
cool

>>389361353
>>389361085
>>389359591
So basically Combine can travel from one Universe to another and conquer and enslave various civilizations in different galaxies but from an harness energy point of view they are stuck at t2?

>>389361635
In OpFor lore you actually use a powered vest which is a streamlined military version of HEV.

>>389353975
He's fighting the fucking neighborhood watch not the combine. Idiot.

>>389361635
>the military
>breaking faith with the industrial complex because something objectively better came along

Funny stuff

>>389361635
The HECU use a really similar thing.
The HEV is a super expensive prototype version

>>389358449
Aren't Combine you encounter in HL2 more like peacekeeping force?

>>389361635
>create gun that tears holes in universe
>make a black hole and then use it to manufacture said gun
>gun can connect to the fucking moon from earth
>use it to test the reaction times of human subjects for no reason

Combine are on earth not for water or any natural resource. They're only there because from their perspective a bunch of retarded, screaming chimps created the ultimate form of transportation and one guy tore a hole in the universe to another dimension and they want to know how and why, and they want that shit for themselves. Taking earth's water and subjugating the people is just part of getting to whomever did it all. The combine can build a Dyson sphere but a bunch of apes stuck on one planet beat them to teleportation and creating black holes, and they're using it for literally nothing.

>>389361887
More like an occupying force. Most large scale resistance had been pacified.

>>389353975
They didn't leave their main force waiting around for years after they conquered earth, retard.
Bad thread.

>>389361998
Right. After all they use mostly human resources, which I doubt they had available at the time of 7 Hour War.
Big guns probably moved away to fuck up some other planet, Gordon is fighting scraps. He was objectively in a tighter spot in HL1.

>>389361035
>using red objects
What a scrub, there are red object everywhere, real pro players only use indigo blue objects.

So exactly how many HEV suits were made?
You see a shit ton of scientists on XEN who splattered on impact because you get teleported at a random location. And those dead scientists are the ones who were lucky enough to hit a landmass.
Imagine how many got teleported into a vast nothingness and fell forever

>Its a millenials shit on a game they never played on release episode

Simply ebin.

>>389361635
pretty sure it's supposed to be the only one
the designs likely to have been lost in the black mesa incident

>>389362314
>implying you're not a millennial

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>>389359090
>throw a crate at a soldier
>it explodes when it hits him, killing him in the process

>>389362373
I'm 30 so fuck off.

as someone who actually played Half-life when it came out, you've got to be a faggot if you even try to find fault with it.

it was immediately apparent to you that you were playing greatness the moment you launch the game and in the first 10 minutes of the game.

>>389358449
an actual type 5 would just blow earth to bits and not have to deal with it. the combine are a type 2 with multiverse travel.

>>389362340
There are more in the λ-core and anomalous materials. There are chargers everywhere. Did you even play the game?

>>389358370
>Virgin Overwatch
>Nobody understands him on the radio
>Always accurately throws grenades

>Chad HECU
>Only his enemies don't understand him on the radio
>Throws grenades at his feet

>>389362584
Then you're a millenial.

>>389362584
So a millennial then.

Boy I sure do love when people use words they don't know the meaning of.

>>389361697
The Combine has the advantage that they can assimilate other civilizations and steal military or technological assets, they somehow got their hands on multiverse travelling tech, but they are far from reaching the point where they would build it by themselves, hence why they have to go to the Earth to steal our teleportation tech, since they can't make it themselves.
Imagine that we stole a gun from a Type 3 civilization, that would make us really powerful, but it wouldn't make us even a T2, and certainly we wouldn't be able to replicate it or fully understand it, that's what the Combine did with their multiverse tech

>>389362584
I can't wait for the
>I was pretending to be retarded

>>389362707
>>389362716
Wrong

>>389362870
Google it, retard. It's okay to slump away now.

>>389362870
Millenials are people were born between 1980 and 1995.

>>389362584
"Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years."

>>389362584
then you're a millennial dipshit

>>389362870
>Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

>>389362950
>>389362952
Its a fucking concept you fucking retards not a fucking data set.

>>389362814
The Combine have multiversal teleportation technology. Their limitation is that it's only multiversal and has to utilize the "borderworld" of Xen to get anywhere.

The technology the Combine don't have but humans do is intra-dimensional teleportation, moving from one point in a given universe to another point within the same universe without mucking around with Xen or any other dimensions. That's what the Borealis and the Bootstrap Device allow: instant teleportation between two points without traversing the space between them.

>>389363029
Your stupidity is a data set

>>389362707
>>389362716
>>389362849
>>389362973
>>389362978

Fucking trolled hard kek.

Does the g stand for god?

>>389363149
It stands for Grub

>>389363029
No it's not, sorry honey bunch.

>>389363149
G-spot Man

>>389363115
>I was only pretending!
Clockwork

>>389363149
It stands for government. He's with the government. When he takes your shit in one he tells you he did it since it's government property, and shows you dead marines when he says Xen is under his control.

He's a liasion between the human government and some outside force opposing the Combine. At the right time he'll pull some shit with Xen which the combine think they control and will probably involve teleportation that is exclusive to his side. It also will probably include shit from Aperture since they know how to make a fucking black hole, which would mean when he wants G man can probably set up events to use a black hole as a weapon on the Combine.

>Combine conquered 7 planets in 7 seconds
>not smarter than 1 guy
>human is smarter at portals
>gman literally has no backstory

Great lore.

>>389359807
>water
>one of elements
American?

>>389363421
>Go a bit too crazy with plot at the expansion pack
>Abandon the project altogether
Quality.

>>389363382
>I have to be right all the time and let nothing go!

Autism.

>>389362584
>30yo
>still plays video games

LMAO

>>389363650
Sorry to hear about your 25 IQ marshmallow brain

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>>389362314
I played Half Life series for the first time like a year ago and I really fucking enjoyed the first game and its expansions, this obviously got me hyped for Half Life 2 since it was always called the best FPS by most people.
And then I played it and it was fucking garbage.
>Slow as fuck
>Easy
>No interesting boss fights
>Small enemy variety
>DUDE PHYSICS PUZZLES LMAO
>Gameplay stops every five minutes to show you twenty minutes of unskippable dialogue
>Most levels feel the same, even though they're clearly divided by walking based and vehicle based there's not much difference between levels of their type, all levels look the same (besides maybe that spooky level) and play the same even when they present new gimmicks like controlling those bugs it barely changes anything gameplay-wise
It was just fucking terrible, the only good thing about it was the lore which was suprisingly decent and interesting.

>>389363671
Problem?

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>when you realize the combine's logo was a dyson sphere all along

>>389363671
Life is boring, empty, meaningless, bland, and pointless without video games. Stop with your retarded "lol! old! videogames!" attitude,

>>389364219
that's a space clamp clamping on a planet. That logo is showing that they are conquerors, it's not a Dyson sphere.

>>389363885
Episodes are better gameplay-wise.

>>389360276
?

>>389365569
he's referencing the "fully modeled vulva" meme where people discovered that the creator of the Cinematic Mod modeled the vulva for Alyx. However memesters confused it with the official HL2 and think Valve employees modeled her vuvla.

>>389360384
Who's to say they aren't? They only teleported to earth and then left, doesn't mean that they are confined to earth

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this is actually a half life movie, isn't it?

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>Wanting to know how to do local teleportation
>Let's murder and castrate those human who know how to do it
I guess that count as "asking nicely" in their universe

>>389365964
Uh no, it clearly ends up on a positive note: aliens are retards and will be easily defeated.

>>389365856
Ok thanks

>>389363885
Episode 1 and 2 are a lot better, I'm replaying HL2 after playing it on launch and the game is good but it really doesn't hold up.

The sewer is is alright but pretty mundane, I actually like the airboat section but it starts slow and drags on, Raveholm is great and Highway 17 has a lot of good segments but then Nova Prospekt is pretty shit and tiring. The city fighting segments start out kinda bleh with you constantly having to fight shit in crampt apartments surrounded by ally solders that get in the way but the ending part right before the citadel were you fight a bunch of Striders and combine soldiers in the rubble of city 17 is pretty damn fun.

The vehicle segments really are some of the stronger points of the game, with Nova Prospekt being one of the weakest. Gonna wrap up the rest tonight, but I remember the ending being kinda meh.

>>389360270
It's also a million times more spread out.

>>389366096
Interesting, for me Nova Prospect/Entanglement are the high points and everything afterwards sucks except for Overwatch Nexus and the coffin ride.

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>>389353975
Let me just explain something to you in a way that you might understand.

Let's say that you a Celt living in ancient times outside the borders of the Roman Empire. The Romans have a puppet tribal leader in charge of your people and they rule with an iron fist.

One day you try to sock it to the man by revolting. You're fighting the chief's tribesmen. They've been equipped with flashy weapons, Roman steel and better technology courtesy of the chief's alliance with the Romans. They're still just Britons however.

Your rebellion is starting to prove effective, you're beating the shit out of these Celts to take back your homeland from indirect Roman control. Some minor official beyond the frontier boundary notices that things aren't going so hot. He decides to send reinforcements. It might look good on a report.

Men turn up to fight your Celtic resistance force. They are Romans. At least, they look like Romans. They're using Roman weapons, they have shields, ballistae and Roman style spears. When you kill them however you find out that they're actually just auxiliary troops. They're a detachment of Illyrians, Numidians and Batavi. Most of them only speak rudimentary Latin. Really they're just serving out their time because their tribes had to give their boys to the Romans to fight.

Your resistance is successful, you finally take down the Roman puppet chieftain. It's time to take the fight to the Romans themselves. You know it'll be tough, they have their legions on the march now.

Your men begin pushing a battering ram up to the frontier boundary. Rumours had always said it was supposed to be well defended, but as you make your way over the hill you finally see it.

What you expected to be a palisade with some troops guarding it is in fact a massive stone wall a dozen metres high, with guard towers, and tens of thousands of well equipped solders guarding it. It isn't even guarded by legionaries who are hundreds of miles south. Resistance is futile.

>>389366239
Rome fell.

>>389366360
Rome killed itself, though.

Most empires fall apart, they're rarely defeated by anything other than another empire.

>>389356780
>months
>not decades

>>389366360
Romans destroyed Rome. My point is that no bumfuck rebellion in some backwater posed a meaningful threat to the Empire's existence for centuries, and there the technology gap wasn't even particularly wide.

>>389366096

The city battle near the end and the citadel are the only half decent parts of the HL2 games, with the possible exception of the strider/hunter battles at the end of ep2. HL2's vehicle segments suck. They were obviously motivated by successful integration of vehicles into FPS games a la Halo, but Halo's integration of vehicles is so much better it doesn't even bear the comparison. HL2's vehicles are basically taxis to get from one set piece in a long, skinny map to the next.

also

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>>389366239
the fuck is this Lord of the Rings shit nigga lmao I can't understand fuck all cuz I'm too busy fucking bitches and driving over speed limit with my Porsche to watch faggot ass nerd ass bitch ass movies about some sword mofos in faggot armor I only watch movies like John Wick and porn.

>>389353975
>>a fucking scientist is better killer than proffesional soldiers
Well, yeah.
Think of it this way: Humans are a species with pitifully low physical stats but a huge INT stat.
So when they train as soldiers, their overall power level barely goes up at all. There just isn't any real room for improvement from the baseline. They're like beefier civilians.
Civilian: 5 STR, 20 DEX, 100 INT, power level 125
Soldier: 20 STR, 30 DEX, 120 INT, power level 170
Scientist: 5 STR, 25 DEX, 400 INT, power level 430

>>389366239
Yeah, basically this

Earth is an occupied third-world shithole on the cosmic scale

>>389366637
>Soldier
>120 INT
Yeah, no. Maybe an officer, but not your grunt.

>>389366239
To me it's more like the Celts is trying to fight 21st century United States or something

>>389366637
Your average soldier has lower INT. Especially since basic soldier are trained not to think too much.

The higher trained special forces, air-force pilots etc are probably higher though.

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>>389353975
Combine don't give a shit. There's an event in Stellaris about spying on prewarp species. If you're too intrisive they go full XCOM on you and blow up your station. Guess what. My civilization couldn't give 2 shits about the planet they live in or the station that gave me less than 1% of the science. For Combine sending their true forces to stop the stupid ass human or the rebellion would cost them more than losing whatever they have on Eath. Shit's fucking nothing.

Some point out that Borealis is important to them, but there's no evidence that it actually is. They may want to research it, just like we may want to research how ancient Greeks built their wonders, but they may not need it at all. Borealis field teleportation may be already known to them, they may just be interested how humans got to it.

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>Everyone stopped caring about Half Life
>It had just become a dumb meme about how the next one will never come out
>No one discussed it anymore
>Didn't give two shits about the setting either
>End of half life text dump happens
>Now everyone is talking about the plot and setting as if it's brand new

I'm sure this totally wasn't a move done to create buzz and test the waters. No sir.

>>389366047
>>389366239
>It's impossible for humanity to shut the Combine out of Earth

So how stupid is most of /v/? You destroy their portal home in HL2, then in Episode 2 you launch that satellite to stop the major portal storm and to close them off from getting into our dimension. The whole story of HL2 and the Episodes is about Gordon overthrowing the forces in City 17 and trying to stop them from coming back to our dimension, because if they did then we would be truly fucked. HL2 isn't this hopeless struggle story, it's pretty much a story about closing a door.

>>389366203
Nova Prospect and Entanglement are repetitive as hell though. The first half of Nova Prospect is you constantly knocing down turrets so your antlions can attack the Combine in there. The second half is you setting up turrets and defending small locations 3 times (including the portal warm up at the end). There's also 3 antlion queen fights if you count the one outside the prison sequence first.

Shit just wore me down at the end, and the whole bug bait mechanic wasn't that interesting. Just toss it out and watch them win fights for you.

>>389366531
>with the possible exception of the strider/hunter battles at the end of ep2

If you didn't like that segment than you just have bad taste in games.

>but Halo's integration of vehicles is so much better it doesn't even bear the comparison

Halo CE was not really as big as people here think it was, Halo didn't really explode until Halo 2, check the most sold games the years they released, Halo CE jumped back up into the top 10 because of Halo 2's release. The main reason the game has vehicles is because Gordon needed to travel pretty lengthy distances and they were the only good way to do it without cutting anything out or over relying on portals.

Also it's funny that the indoor segments of Halo sucked and the vehicle segments were good, while the inverse for HL2 is pretty much true.

>>389367097
>They may want to research it, just like we may want to research how ancient Greeks built their wonders, but they may not need it at all.


Human teleportation technology is was fancier than the Combines, that and they can't easily get through dimensions and the whole resonance cascade caught their attention in a big way.

Freeman's Mind makes some pretty entertaining logic about it

>>389361085
so what you're saying is.
>type one = nothing
>type two = star trek feds
>type three = reapers from me, imperium of man (barely)
>type four = elder gods/nihilath

>>389367642
Nihilanth was a chump who barely escaped the Combine and hid his tiny "empire" on a border world.

>>389366518
Boot camp is a couple of months

And any training after that is a year at best

>>389367642
Nihilanth was low-type 1 at best.
TNG's federation is also medium type 1

Dyson Spheres are high-end type 2 tech.

I don't think I've seen a type 3 in fiction.

The unofficial type 4 however are the elder-god types. The types where the rules of the universe bend to their whims.

>>389367135
>New information comes out about a game series that has otherwise been dead in the water
>People want to talk about it instead of e-celebs or anime
Astonishing.

>>389367642
The Reapers don't rate at all because they don't directly control anything. Their general level of technology suggests they could build a megastructure like a Dyson Sphere, and since they're immortal machines with the oldest over a billion years old, they could probably have harnessed the output of the Milky Way entirely if they had tried. As it is, they're just a (relatively) small number of ships that squat in empty space and murder a dozen or so species every now and then.

The Imperium of Man hasn't, to my knowledge, ever been portrayed as being able to harness the power of an entire star or constructing a Dyson Sphere. Even humanity was able to in the Dark Age of Technology, it certainly isn't capable of it in the 41st Millennium. The original Eldar Empire might have been approaching Type 3 before they gave in to hedonism and the Necrons were probably the closest before their own bullshit happened and they went to sleep. At one point, the Outsider was mentioned to live in a Dyson Sphere, so there's that.

They could just say that Gordon is not a normal human being, but an vortiguant essence powered human being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwGcKFMxrmI
it happened during the resonance cascade, in 4:05 to be precise.

>>389357768
it's obviously the story of what the game would have been had they not fallen out of it

>>389369085
if Nihilanth wanted to fight against Combine why didn't he work with humanity? Humanity could've had a chance with all of those aliens on their side, Garguantuans, etc.

>>389357840
>>389357768
>>389369949
Except he admitted it was fanfiction. What he said is totally fucking irrelevant.

>>389370029
Earth and Nihilanth combined probably wouldn't stand a chance against the Combine in their own dimension. Their army on earth is full of other species that they already conquered probably throughout a ton of solar systems. They pretty much just wanted to run from the Combine and attacked us as soon as they got through.

>>389370321
That was a joke tweet you aspie. He's clearly doing shit in a roundabout way so that Valve can't sue him. He even repeats in the tweet that Alex killing Mossman might not have made it in the final game, but that the story overall would have been what he wrote down.

So yeah, shit's pretty much canon.

>>389370029
The Nihilianth didn't know what the fuck was going on. It was hiding in gay baby jail when a resonance cascade from a world without the Combine caught its attention. It took the opportunity and tried to get as many of its followers through before something happened, like Gordon Freeman shooting it in the brain.

The whole thing was a setup by the G-Man. Neither the scientists or the Nihilanth had any idea what was happening and were trying to make the best of a suddenly bad situation. Reconciliation between aliens and humanity only happened after the Combine had conquered Earth.

>>389370652
but if they informed humanity about the combine, perhaps they could've lasted more than just 7 fucking hours

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>>389357938
>still butthurt about it
Kek, how can human boys even compete

>>389363542
Yes, so? Are you gonna say it isn't?

>>389371053
I'm assuming the Combine pushed into earth shortly after the Cascade incident, so probably not much longer.

We were pretty much fucked either way. Only closing the portal between dimensions can really stop them.

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>>389362632
The only reason they didn't blow up Earth was to assimilate the knowledge of all humans. They found Earth because of the portal to Xen Gordan opens in HL1. The Combine are interested in if Humanity knows of any other way of teleportation because they suck at teleportation in the same dimension.

>>389370029
>>389371053
Nihilanth seemed like it was more interested in desperately fleeing from the Combine than fighting them. And just think how overwhelming a force would have to be to cause the entire Earth to completely surrender in only 7 hours, no amount of preparation would've allowed mankind to win that fight.

If Nihilanth had somehow informed humanity of the Combine threat the only rational course of action for mankind would've been to close all portals with even more haste, leaving Nihilanth at the Combine's mercy.

>>389360167
this fucking mod is one of the few things that never fails to make me mad.

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>>389374034
Shhh, no tears now

Only ferns

>>389368610
>I don't think I've seen a type 3 in fiction.
Because the scale is asinine.
No civilization capable of turning their galaxy into a giant power plant is actually going to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzt6JaVcoFg

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>>389374194
>Entire area directly surrounding the Citadel is a deep chasm and rubble from destroyed buildings
>BETTER ADD FERNS UP THE ASS AND A FUCKING TREE GROWING FROM THE DEBRIS

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>>389374561
>AYY LISTEN TOOTS, MAKE SURE YOUR WISE GUY FATHER HASN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME BEFORE I HAVE TO GO REMIND HIM MYSELF CAPICHE

>>389353975
>time traveling wage slave > aliens

The g-man knew he was choosing right when he chose gordon. He's special. Also the g-man is the real protagonist. Gordon is just his puppet

dyson

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>>389374697
The worst part is, that's Episode 1

When the Citadel literally just fucking blew up

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>>389374561
Bada bing bada boom, ayyshis.

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>>389375259
>Rusted out, abandoned cars
>Pristine buildings and flourishing plant life
This guy seriously tried to get a job at Valve with this shit.

>>389374697
>>389375259
I kinda like this explanation that some anon came up with >>388828476

>>389375953
Let's not give the bozo behind the mod that much credit.

>>389375953
The Combine wouldn't bother introducing anything because Earth's ecosystem is already being fucked sideways by Xen wildlife

But the Hope, man. Freeman gave the people HOPE! ;_;

>>389366879
Apart from evil puppet goverments and shit, the us ain't fucking on par with the Romans.

Considering Nova Prospket is basically a gulag, the nearest analogy would be to the soviets.

But Rome works better as an analogy, as wholesale slaughter is what both Romans and Combine do to civilian populations who dissent.

>>389366637
What the fuck am I reading?

>implying your fighting the main combine force and not just a bunch of shitty transhuman allies the combine left behind

real combine army would be super lovecraft alien gods or someshit

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*death scream*
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

>>389376873
Pretty much this. Epistle hints at this shit with the Dyson sphere. Also the seven hour pointed in this direction as well.
>Unless the vorts can perform some wacky high jinks that takes it down.

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Why didn't Gordon pilot the Borealis into the thermal exhaust port of the Dyson Sphere, starting a chain reaction which destroys it and brings down the Combine?

>>389377302
Because a dyson sphere is composed of nothing but thermal exhaust ports, inside and out.

>>389377302
Star wud blow up probably

Warning. Miscount detected in your block.

>>389353975
It's easier to kill any one of a million guys that are all over the place than one specific guy who's sneaking around.

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>>389378002
>Gordon
>Sneaking
>Implying

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>>389353975
I will miss Gordon.

>>389378002
>Gordon
>Sneaking
>Storms a high security prison with an army of alien insects

>>389367135
>They need to test the waters about a game where millions of fans have been wanting a sequel for over a decade

>>389353975
>go back in time with the Borealis
>stop experiment from HL1 from happening
>bring a few Vortuigaunts with you to prevent G-Man's meddling
>inform UN of combine threat
>give the the Borealis so they can study the bootstrapper device so they can come up with a way to fight against the Combine if they ever do show up
There, problems solved, when you introduce time travel, it's harder to take things seriously because you could just go "why not just go back in time and fix everything?"

>>389378403
Fuck you, Dr.Kleiner.

>>389378782
The only problem with this is including the UN.
>UN
>Useful
>You may only choose one.

It's also possible the combine just go further back in time and stop you from pulling off your Borealis time travel plan.

>>389378782
>implying the Bootstrap Device can actually travel time

Stop conflating "exists at all points of time between activation and deactivation" with "can deliberately travel between two chosen points of time"

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>>389380141
Except Laidlaw wrote "whatever you want, man" when he said that the map is not the territory. He even suggests that the blast of the device could take Gordon back to Black Mesa, making it a loop.

>>389353975

>find spider in your room
>It runs away
>you stay up all night panicking about where it has gone and where is hiding

Why? You are the triple of its size. You could easily squash her. Why are you so scare of it?

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>>389362669
Barney is the real chad

>>389380765
>a spider the third the size of a human
>not fucking scary

Do you live in the brazillian outback or something?

>>389381021
>It's a tiny spider that can kill you in one bite.

You have a point anon, but Gordon is potentially more like a super venomous insect or maybe even a microscopic deadly virus for the comboings.

>>389378782
By restoring Earth you also restored the same government that was eager to silence you and everyone you know by military force, and you want to hand over the time machine to those people?

>>389381549
Better the devil you know than the dimensional aliens that fuck up your reality.

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>finally see more half life threads with active discussion on the games and it's story
>know the only reason for it is that the lead writer putted the series out of it's misery with what is arguably a fanfic

>>389381021

Stop nitpicking. You get what I'm saying.
One isolated cell can be more damaging than an entire fleet.

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>>389381875
I put my faith in the fans. If black Mesa got done, then with Laidlaw's script Episode 3 is more likely to come out then ever before.
He did say after all "you know your course of action"

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>>389382102

If there is one thing I like of the Source and Half Life community is how devoted they were through the years and how much they genuinely loved Half Life, I have slight hope some group will give it a shot.

>>389381875
I'm loving these HL threads, I just hope they last a while longer

>>389367097

They found the location of the holy grail of interstellar transportation, which during the entirety of the Combine's existence they were never close to achieve it, and if they attacked without asking first it's apparent they need this tech.

>>389353975
Its easier than you think:
>armies communicate position and plans all the time
>large forces are easier to detect

Now with a lone wolf acting inside controlled pacified territory you have different problems because you cannot just sterelize it with WMDs, since he doesn't communicate you cannot find out his plans either, i think to get freeman they would have to base on the path of destruction calculate his next position and proceed to ambush, could as well use spies inside the resistance to fool freeman into entering a gas filled room or they could modify med stations to differenciate freeman suit from the combine and deploy poison or a lethal eletrical current.

Getting freeman would be easy if i was the admin.

>>389358449
Well they stopped him, but he uses a thing called "quickload" then he goes back in time and redo things til he wins.

Freeman is a hack, imagine if the first combine soldier you kill could do the same.

>>389367840
>>389368610
>>389369075
The big divide here is that the Kardashev scale is based on the realistic assumption that civilisation would need to harness abstractly huge amounts of energy in order to live in and traverse space. But in sci-fi, writers just ignore that or come up with some fantasy explanation for it, so they don't ever write about realistic harnessing and consumption of energy.

>>389355062
>It only took you 20 years.
He's only been alive for 12

was there ever an explaination as to why in hl1 just some scientist dood is so good at killing stuff

>>389384087
Because everytime he dies he goes back in time a bit and do it again until he is good at it.

>>389384087
Luck. Every disaster has it's few survivors, Gordon was just lucky to be one.

>Aperture can crate black holes

Huh? I don't remember

>>389383929
fuck

>>389370029
Because the humans are dumb primitive monkeys even compared to the Vorts, let alone what the Combine themselves are. Even the bulk of the resistance effort is based on technology and information stolen from the Overwatch. The Combine eat up species like ours regularly, and the only reason Earth turned out differently was the spacetime manipulating wizard behind the curtain.
Gordon was not just some human. He was chosen from the beginning to be their puppet on Earth, and deliberately inserted into places he would succeed.

>>389358370

time to make a virgin walk picture my friend

>>389384206
where did you get that from

>>389384241
so he just single handedly killed hundreds of soldiers and aliens out of luck

let it die, all that's left are g-man memes

>>389378782
Because they don't really know how to use it yet and Eli and Alyx were manipulated into destroying it for fear of creating another Black Mesa tier disaster. Gordon never had a choice, and the G-Man had the script planned out from the beginning.

>>389384087
quantum immortality

>>389384906
>G-Man had the script planned out from the beginning.
The G-Man was going to put Gordon back into stasis at the end of HL2

The Episodes weren't part of his plan at all

>>389383102
But they did set up several ambushes, and they barely lost sight of him with all the helicopters and gunships they had. They sent the entire police force, tanks, helicopters and striders armed with warp cannons capable of leveling entire buildings, and he wiped everything out in direct combat, practically single-handedly.

The fact that you would consider sterilizing his vicinity with WMDs is a warning sign that this is a special kind of lone wolf.

>>389384825
Because it wouldn't be a very fun game if he just died at the start of the Resonance Cascade.

>>389377302
G Man is playing the combine. Aperture can make portals and black holes to power them.

If G Man gets ahold of the borealis his collective powers will include but likely not be limited to: Teleportation, time control, stasis, the ability to create black holes, and seemingly agelessness. Basically he'd be a literal god that could do whatever he wanted to anyone anywhere anytime.

>>389366637

This is so retarded.

>>389353975
You have the power of savescumming.

My headcannon is that G-Man causes it.

>>389385297
lol obviously but they could've just implied some kind of reason why he would be so good in combat

>>389360167
GOLEM GET YE GONE

>>389380765

>2 feet spider manages to hide
>somehow not scary

>LE TYPE LE III or II CIVILIZATION LE GUIIS

jesus christ this scale is ridicolous

>>389358392
any advisor could have been Breen

>>389385045
Alyx Vance was.

>>389365214
cool

>>389385324
He already can do all that which is why he blows the Borealis to bits to mock the Combine and humans alike before taking Vance off to her next place of employment. The G-Man caused the Resonance Cascade then rubbed it in to make Eli terrified of using the Borealis because he was involved again.

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>>389375259
I think this wall of ferns supposed to be those kind of wall plants

>>389384421

Vorts evolved together, they developed a highly advanced hivemind and spiritual knowledge that actually does something, humans are lucky that one in a million goes beyond and helps push tech just a bit.

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>>389386546
I don't think you appreciate what ferns mean to this man

Fuck, i played the first half-life today, is terrible and give me motion sicknes.
Don't know why people like it so much

>>389386870
How the fuck are you getting motion sickness?
Are you sure it's the game?

>>389387002
i don't know, it happens only with some old games

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>>389353975
The entire half life series is an allegory for Valve's rise and Steam
>In HL1, Gordon Freeman represents the player, G-man is Gabe and Black Mesa is supposed to be the overused fps arena shooters that were prominent during the late 90s
>in HL2, the Combine represent Steam, earth is the damaged gaming industry, the resistance are restless gamers and vortigaunts the few Valve members that try to stop Steam from rising into power and keep in check
>at the end of episode 3 the dyson sphere is supposed to represent how much Steam has grown as a business in the gaming industry and how powerful the combine (or Valve) actually are now

>>389387117
Ok so it isn't just half life
Maybe you should get your eyes checked or something

>>389387117
>>389386870
I've never gotten motion sickness from video games but I've heard that a leading cause is the FOV, try changing it from the console if you haven't yet.

>>389386870

It's the textures and the low poly models, I don't get motion sickness but they may be weird to look at after playing modern games.

Still hl is a gem, try black mesa at least.

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>>389387218
Maybe i just can't stand the pixelated graphics, i don't have this problem with quake for example

>>389366637
This is indeed retarded but it somehow making sense ... oh no ... am i retarded?

>>389386870
t. woman

>>389387404
???????
Pretty sure quake is the pixelated game, you don't like that your half life looks all blurry
You can change that

>>389386870

You need to max the fov slider u retard

>>389387336
i haven't changed the FOV, if i have this problem someone else should have the same.
i can't be the only one

>>389381875
>the lead writer putted the series out of it's misery with what is arguably a fanfic
All he did was release the proposed story for a game that would have never been released, it's been no secret that Valve has abandoned the episodic format since 2011. How can some hippie who spends his time nowadays retweeting "IMPEACH DRUMPF" articles "put the series out of its misery" when he hasn't been part of Valve in 2 years?

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I always wondered how anyone never made a full-length movie/series about Black Mesa on SFM. I mean, imagine like the story of a group of soldiers/scientists/guards fighting their way out of Black Mesa. They don't have to be the main cast of HL1 games, just literal who's struggling.

It would be GOAT desu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0vkNn7Lcps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQzSm_obx3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkqph0nJkAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyqcus6v-EQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJ0JqdzDpw

>>389378403
>I can't predict how long your mother has
About -5 years, senpai

>>389387829
Never heard of motion sickness from games outside of VR

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>>389356424
The S3 plan wasn't even the Solid Snake Simulation. The S3 plan was the Selection for Societal Sanity, it's goals were to control individuals actions and manipulate world events

>>389388264
I think you've missed the best one

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

>>389388075
Because it's consistent in tone and content with the rest of the series and there's never going to be anymore Half-Life content from Valve that isn't empty blueballing in mockery of their fans. They didn't abandon the episodic format. They abandoned their brands.

>>389388423
bet you think iroquois pliskin is someone other than iroquois pliskin too retard
that pic doesn't make any sense because it's faggot V fake big boss

>>389353975
The US conquered Iraq rather quickly but they still faced stiff resistance from people with far fewer resources

>>389363885

Half life 1 sucked cock. basically what made it famous was the "aw look im so cool i dont talk and i have glasses and such a badass" and Gman made conspiracy lunatics go crazy.

conspiracy theories create epic games, the more lunacy you insert the better,
>see Deus ex

eventually the problem is when you need to close your endless fucking plot holes and just decide fuck it, I can't.

seriously that's the formula to cult classics. insert unexplained mystery shit.

>>389389127
ok

>>389375259
I imagine the captions are coming from the ferns.

>>389385731
He had weapons training as part of his time at Black Mesa. Not a perfect answer but it does explain it in HL: Source I'm sure.

>>389389127
>eventually the problem is when you need to close your endless fucking plot holes and just decide fuck it, I can't.
Everything in HL1 is explained except G-Man.

Almost like it's a fictional story and not a documentary you pillock

>>389389127

They don't fear fucking up the story, with so many crazy shit going on they can just make more crazy shit happen like Gordon transcending reality or something.

They don't know how to make the game feel fresh, fans are expecting a huge improvement, they got it right with hl2, they have dragged this for so long they have fucked themselves up.

>>389353975
adrian shepard would hand gordon freeman's ass on a silver platter. prove me wrong.

>>389388476

that was awful

>>389380992
why is barney a monster? is there something deeper going on?

>>389390332
Between the three of them, Barney faces the worst odds, not having HEV or a Powered Vest, limited support and limited understanding of science occurring. Gordon is the most in-the know and Adrian is best-trained of them three.

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>>389390332

>>389388075
why are you so mad you feel the need to bring up politics as if that had to do with anything?

>>389359807

Two things to consider. Firstly, a T2 civ operates on timescales of billions of years. They fully expect to still be a going concern when the universe undergoes heat death, so they're looking to exploit every resource out there. Doesn't matter if it's common, if it's a resource, they want it.

The second thing to consider is that the entire Combine operation on Earth is very likely the work of a miniscule portion of the Combine, a small group of only a few million or so. From their perspective we're basically amoeba in a lab dish. It's equally plausible that they decided to drain the oceans just to see the effect it would have. Or perhaps they just want more resources to fuel their own operation, which very likely operates completely independantly, since Dyson Spheres support such ludicrous population sizes that centralized control over all of them is only possible if there's a great deal of autonomy. The only reason why Earth would attract any particular attention is because of our portal technology, though again, whether this would have come to the attention of the guys running the entire Combine is entirely unknown.

>>389390490
not really monstrous though, just pure manliness.

>>389390332
>>389391071
Many of the HL1 NPCs have monster_ prefixes for reasons unknown and/or deprecated

>>389359358
Portals.
t. Cave Johnson

>>389367642

Imperium of Man barely qualifies as Type 1; they do manage to exploit around 100% of the energy of their home planet. But they only go above T1 by doing that on millions of other worlds. They're not Type 2; a Type 2 civ has more power at their disposal than the entire Imperium of Man has. Harnessing the entire power output of a star really does give you that much more energy.

My understanding is that the combine haven't fully arrived on earth yet, just a tiny force of its full might. They need teleportation technology to bring the real brunt and leadership of the combine to earth. As such, it wouldn't surprise me if the human combine forces that exist have been hastily implemented into the combine fold with haphazard quality control as they're just a tiny expedition force making do with what they had. Remember that the combine came to earth through a tiny dimensional tear after black mesa.

>>389389464

you know it's true.
Gman is the fucking smoke monster from Lost WE WERE NEVER TOLD WTF IS UP WITH THAT SHIT.

>>389388423
>Big Boss being actual dad to Solid Snake
I don't know why I like this so much. It's really comfy in a dysfunctional family kind of way.

>>389383540

Well it is worth mentioning that if you have access to FTL travel, and can easily get off your homeworld, two things that are very common in sci-fi, you don't bother with a Dyson; you just cruise around looking for other habitable worlds and settle them. Now sure, you'll be totally blown the fuck out if you ever encounter a Type 2 civ, but so long as everyone else is doing the same thing (which is reasonable, since if you discovered FTL other civs most likely would too) you'd be fine.

>>389366562
tryhard Chad

>>389391636
>have access to FTL travel, and can easily get off your homeworld,
That's what I meant by "fantasy explanation". In reality, FTL travel is impossible given our current understanding of physics, and moving a sizeable population from one planet to another is never going to be easy. Stories like Star Wars (the original films) ignore this altogether, and stories like Mass Effect make up conveniant fantasies like "we found a new element which breaks the known laws of physics and some ancient technology which shows us how to use it to go FTL".

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Breen Grub was a concept that was originally scrapped for Half Life 2. Breen was going to appear human in all the propaganda and then be revealed as a organic machine grub-man literally being puppeted by the combine.

I always wished that if they made Episode 3, they would bring that concept back because it was just so cool. Nice to see that was the plan at one point.

>>389393916
DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN

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It's up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFXVKLmukhQ

>>389394217

why does he need so long to upload?

>>389391626
>that pic
>big boss

>>389380992
he also puts on random vests and helmets he finds along the way, usually near corpses or hidden in some corner, i always found that funny

>>389394372
He's busy with other things and he has other people do parts of it that he either can't do or is too busy to do.

>>389394217
Am I the only one who doesn't find this shit the least bit entertaining? Literally a glorified let's play, and not even a particularly good one at that.

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>>389371147

Nice edit.