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- Finally finished with this video, took about 3 weeks haha. Probably the longest I've worked on a video for. Hope it was worth the wait.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Civil Protection
1:25 - Overwatch Units (ft. John CO.)
4:19 - Combine Elites
5:10 - Combine Advisors
6:21 - Combine Grunts
7:52 - Combine Captains/Ordinals
8:42 - Combine Chargers
9:35 - Combine Suppressor
10:16 - Outro
Music in this video (in order of appearance):
Kelly Bailey - CP Violation
Vandoorea - Sector Sweep Remix
Jump Ultimate Stars - Tournament Mt. (Kinnikuman)
Mike Morasky - Thirty Seven after Six
Mike Morasky - Station Battle
animeistrash - Ignition
Tomoya Ohtani - Tropical Resort (Act 3)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - File Select
Near201 - File Select Remix - เกม
I included the Half-Life: 2 Combine Soldiers because I honestly can't be bothered making 2 separate videos, skip to 6:23 if you want the Half-Life: Alyx Combine Units.
This might be my last half life related video for a while, I'll still be doing some hammer tutorials but i want to move my channel over to a more video essay style of channel. I'm getting burnt out from the amount of half life related stuff and i just wanna switch stuff up for a while. If anything comes up about half life news i'll obviously make a video, but im not sure what there could be left to talk about half life that hasn't already been said. I hope you guys understand :D
Ok
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0:53 you forgot about the CP privilege of "performance enhancing drug injections"
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Nice
imagine joining CP for perks only to later be mercilessly slaughtered by a dude who only just got here
A nerd with orange Armor/suit and a crowbar.
Carring a Gnome like his life depends on it
Rebels: this guy is our last fuckin hope
combine gives you perks for the food you love
half life boogie intensifies
Combine1: *Kicking Strider*
Combine2: "I don't Know.... i don't know."
Combine1: *Still kicking strider*
Combine2: "Hes kicking it.... Overwatch says stop kicking it.."
Combine2: *Stops kicking the strider*
[Short silence]
Combine1-2: *Laughter*
Man HL:a Grunts are my favorite so far.
@Peanut Arbuckle Alot of a combines former Brain is removed, but i don't think their ability to crack a joke is removed - so we have fun encounters like this one.
@Peanut Arbuckle not really, even if they are not regular citizens like the metrocops (bc they are a lot more modified) they still conserve a LOT of themselves, they are not totally brainwashed. In hl2 the soldiers are totally wiped out of any humanity. That's why they make jokes, and that is why they are so weak and unorganized without a squad leader
Hl2 soldiers do not waver if a elite or a shotgunner is dead, because they have much better training and they don't panic (except in hl2 ep 1 when the citadel was destroyed, they are seen running around trying to scape, they are fearless, not stupid haha)
@Peanut Arbuckle If the Combine completely strips away your humanity, you're not a Combine soldier.
You're a stalker.
pretty sure the grunts in HL:A are less modified than the HL2 soldiers, in my eyes i see the HL2 soldiers as special forces (because they’re after anticitizen one) and the HL:A grunts as normal soldiers, like the standard infantry unit that isn’t modified very much
He stoped kickin it
engineer gaming 💣 Combine Sniper
engineer gaming
Zaping my sniper
gaming combine
gordon 🎮 gaming
Engineer gaming
I found something interesting with HL:A Combine also.
If their the sole-survivor, they'll announce their acting solo on the radio and take unique approaches.
Grunts will shoot aimlessly and fast, like their in a panic. They'll rush the player or sticking behind cover.
Captains will take tactical methods, sticking to cover a lot and still taking patience. Like HL2 Combine.
Suppressors will stick to a distance to cover ground and try to keep the player stuck behind cover from their Heavy weapon.
Chargers will rush the player and attempt to trap them, since their a close-range enemy.
The AI of combine soldiers is insane. How they can react to your decisions is crazy. Like when you take a house for cover that another combine soldier was using, he'll leave. If another guy (doesn't know you in the house) attempts to flank your previous cover and he sees you're not there, he'll go searching. Once he realises you're near the house, he will search for another soldier and try to catch you off guard with their angle.
the "taunting" in half life alyx is actually them trying to trick you.
i wonder how many new players fell for that
"hostile is friendly!"
"oh, wait, are these guys on my side-"
*gets shot 50 times from a suppressor*
@@jockeyfield1954 *gets shot 52 times by A **22.cal** fully automatic pistol*
fun fact: in hl2 deathmatch you can use the stunstick, although its mainly used as a crowbar replacement
it swings slower but does 20 damage instead of 10 unlike the crowbar, which swings faster and of course does less damage
People still know hl2 deathmatch exists?
Citizen: I'll join civil protection for a better life
Gordon Freeman: *say sike right now*
They actually go to a better life
say no right now to cp
@@dunf literally
And the Stunsticks turn into HEV suit energy when you walk over them.
Honestly, I don't think that the Combine Soldiers we see in Half Life: Alyx are an older version of the Overwatch fellas we meet in Half Life: 2.
I think those ones are a different subset of combine soldiers dedicated entirely to act in the quarantine zone and to protect the vault.
It would explain their drastic differences in appearance and class structure, as well as why the CPs look the exact same.
Well, that's what I think, at least.
It still doesn't explain why the grunts aren't brain washed, but who knows?
Maybe the unpredictability helps...?
Also, the other soldiers also have lines suggesting they try to bait Alyx out, too.
Same words and phrases, as well.
Just with the voice filter.
'These used?
Perhaps the grunts were tests to see if leaving some intelligence behind could help in combat/coordination, perhaps the combine just hadn't fully crack the way to fully brainwash humans yet. While the idea that they are specific to the quarantine zone is interesting the combine in Alyx really do seem more like prototypes more than anything. But I might be wrong who knows
Some of the previous lore might have been retconed, since this is a new writer, though i do like the more humorous combine, makes it clearer they are mostly human.
I'd wager the grunt is a transitory state between being the standard soldiers and the cps
That wouldn’t explain why they were in Eli’s apartment capturing him and Alyx
Maybe transforming a human into a grunt takes less resources and combine did not need that many expensive units during that period in HLA since rebels weren't so much a threat by then
Plot twist: the HL:a soldiers are TF2 pyros
*inhales*
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAAAAAGIC!!!
Tf2 takes place in the mid-late sixties and early seventies though.
@@reclusive_aggressive it's a joke
@@cultist1368 HAAAAA HAHAHA lol no someone is hypothesizing lore that is canonically incorrect.
@@reclusive_aggressive who is hypothesizing the lore may i ask?
Overwatch is the name for ALL Combine garrison forces on Earth, including Civil Protection. The troopers everyone keeps calling Overwatch soldiers are specifically designated the "Overwatch Transhuman Arm" or OTA.
i thought that overwatch was the AI the combine put in charge of earth and you can hear ocasionally in hl2 and hla giving orders to...well overwach soldiers using weird codes
@@user-bv7zo6vd4m there is indeed an AI called overwatch But is not THE overwatch as in the military force
Overwatch is both the armies and the AI. civil protection and soliders are overwatch.
Everything relating to the military is overwatch. Confusing?? Yeah, that's the point. You're not supposed to be able to understand how their organized, because if you did understand it, you might be able to defeat them.
The confusion is a psyop.
@@user-bv7zo6vd4m overwatch - well duh.. watches and coordinates all
technically they are overwatch soldiers
we call them combine soldiers/shotgunners because of their entity names
damn, that engineer gaming is doing pretty good now that he is in the Resistance
I have gained SO much respect for the combine just based off the fact that... SPOILERS
They managed to freaking trap G-Man!
Unless Gman let them to be trapped
Actually g-man willingly let the combine capture him
Tru
Cscuile g probably let himself be captured and ddint resist. No way they could capture him lmao
He let them intentionally so he see if Alyx could make it.
it more a bit of headcanon than anything else, but i thought of a few explanations for why none of the half-life alyx combine soldier variants are seen in hl2, and why none of half-life 2's overwatch soldiers are seen in hla. more in universe explanations than explanations like the hla soldiers were all designed later, and/or its a Retcon to how the soldiers appear in hl2.
the Grunts are simple soldiers that are super low ranking, as noted by their lower amount of augmentation, simpler armor, and still having notable amounts of human personality. by the time city 17 is fully up and running as the pseudo capital of the planet and dr breen's headquarters, there is no place for these lower rank soldiers there, so they are stationed in other less important cities, or have all been upgraded into overwatch soldiers.
the Captain is essentially an overwatch soldier given a more specialized task. they are the leaders of these squads of soldiers that do stuff in the quarantined zone and related affairs(like protecting the vault in the quarantine zone). hence their version of the combine claw/clamp symbol having a vortigaunt head instead of the usual circle or human skull. them and their squads handle fighting xenians more than humans, but otherwise the captain is just an overwatch soldier in a different uniform maybe with some different augmentations, similar to what the nova prospekt guards are. once the quarantine zone is cleared out, they either go back to being soldiers and captains in the military, or are sent to other cities in need of clean up.
the chargers and suppressors, with their heavy weapons and large amounts of armor plating, aren't sent after Gordon or resistance bases in half-life 2 because that isn't their role. id say, with them being in the quarantine zone working under the captains there, their job is to take out xenian threats from infested areas, not fight human resistance forces. the suppressors even call themselves an antibody protection force, and antibodies specifically fight off infections and diseases in the body. so saying these guys clear out areas infested with dangerous alien animals isn't a stretch, protecting the infestation control workers as they do their job. the suppressor and charger aren't heavily armored and armed with the big guns to fight HUMANS, no they fight packs of houndeyes or bullsquids, and get rid of the really dangerous creatures like the tentacles or gargantuas and whatever other xenian creatures may be living in those areas. yeah they can fight humans, but with the vaults location being in the quarantine zone, its less likely humans would be threatening it compared to say a cluster of tentacles growing a little too close or a stray gargantua.
we don't see the familiar hl2 overwatch soldiers because it seems like soldiers main job is fighting humans and resistance groups, and just being the foot soldiers deployed more against rebel bases and when its an open street war. in half-life alyx, you're a single person in a closed off part of the city, they are sending the soldiers already stationed in the quarantine zone after you. you're not a whole rebel cell or a high priority like Gordon freeman (at least not yet). there also may be less soldiers as a whole stationed in and around the city, compared to in hl2 when breen lives in the city and the citadel is fully up and running.
essentially, in the time between half-life: Alyx and Half-life 2 the forces stationed in and around city 17 has changed, due to the growing resistance and rebel movement, as well as the cities important as breen's base of operations. compared to when the main threats of the area were more xenian in nature compared to humans. thus the soldiers stationed in and around the city used to be more specialized to fight xenian threats, compared to years later when human rebels were more likely to be fought.
as for other smaller things, the antlions seen in HLA could be a different subspecies or whatever compared to the massive nests in the wastelands outside, the nest in the QZ is smaller and the antlions are more acidic, also this species workers look VERY different compared to the workers seen in HL2:EP2's mines. and the weaponry, well we see an early version of the pulse rifle, and the pulse SMG easily could be an even earlier iteration, by the time of half-life 2 the standard issue pulse rifle is well... standardized. if a soldier uses a pulse weapon they use those, and if they aren't issued a pulse weapon, then they're just given mass produced human weapons such as the pistols, SMGs, or shotguns. the grunts in HLA probably only got pulse SMGs because they are smaller squads, likely fighting inherently dangerous aliens, and also are stationed to protect a high priority location, the Vault.
as for the weapon gene coding stuff, i mean, id assume that's still around by HL2, i guess the rebels just have a way to get around it now, maybe just the pulse rifle is gene coded, compared to the pretty human pistol, SMG, and shotgun. the shotgun we see in HLA seems to be more modified and stuff as well, thats why its unique.
TLDR: i think the combine soldiers are different in HLA compared to HL2 because in half-life 2 we see the soldiers that normally fight humans, while in half-life:Alyx we see the soldiers that normally fight the aliens from Xen. though in the grunts case those are just low ranking soldiers that likely got re-stationed to other cities or upgraded to overwatch soldiers once city 17 is essentially the planets capital with breen's HQ and thus is more important.
other small differences can also be explained pretty easily; different species of antlions, pulse rifles becoming more standard issue changing what weapons are used by soldiers, and rebels eventually figured out a way to bypass the gene-coding.
this stuff is all essentially some headcanon, but i think it makes sense.
Can't argue with that, I like that explanation
Well, I'm going to pretend that it's canon. I loved the explanation.
Civil protection probably hasn't changed at all as you can already see them in the beginning of hla, pretty much the same as in hl2
Also i think that's it's probable that the combine captain is an "earlie version" of the standard combine soldier, and that grunt only wear explosive bottles because of the quarantine zone.
If you included HL2, you shouldn't have put "Alyx" in the title
OK antvenom.
@@powerofthec5908 ?
It's called clickbait. He's gonna change the name after the video garners enough attention from the algorithm and can stand on its own without the game hype.
@@powerofthec5908 I broke Half Life 2 again.
@Janfon1 While i did name the video for it to be shown more in the algorithm, its technically not click-bait since half life alyx combine units are in the video :)
Chinese college students protesting in Tiananmen Square: *exist*
Chinese Military: 1:26
You typed in nothing, thats weird!
There was DEFINITELY no such protest. What are you talking about?
*[This comment has been deleted by the Chinese Government]*
Hey,TH-cam,there's now a glitch where blank comments exists now.
TH-cam, fix this bug for f*cking god's sake, why are there f*cking *blank* comments? Get your sh** together!
Civil protection also gets to “simulate reproduction” as rewards
I think the absence of other combine types in HL2 is because all unit types were combined into one with the combine soldier, due to their increased armor, coordination, and suppression behavior they have in half life 2.
and combine switches from eradication of xen presence to containment of it with more focus on fighting rebels
Stun sticks can be picked up, but they charge your suit instead of acting as a weapon.
It's nice to hear combine related stuff with good details about the perfect race
the perfect race ?
@@me67galaxylife combine Hitler when
@@theentiretyofthelgbtq5479 lang lebe das [combine] Reich!
"I dunno"
"I dunno"
"He's kicking it"
"Overwatch says 'stop kicking it'"
"..."
"He stopped kicking it"
John perpetually sounds like he's going to cry
2:35 *Engineer Gaming*
Heh
What about combine pilots? Yes, they may drop from the combine helicopters.
That’s just a grunt model
@@Journey_Awaits the sniper is just a overwatch model but its still in this
So this is just an analysis on all combine soldiers, not just the Half Life: Alyx combine
yes
Good informative video, cant wait to see what you do in the future of this channel!
Very nice video ! Everything was clear, loved it, keep the good content up buddy ! 🔥
Man this reminds me of the first couple years of youtube videos a long time ago
You forgot to tell about the combine captains were assigned to capture vortigaunts
The combine grunts are also the only few showing remorse for their actions.
Saying stuff like "Help Us!" or "I'm Sorry" Before the radio thingy makes the flat line sound.
Great video. Concise and to the point. You've earned a new subscriber.
The stunstick can be picked up in retail half life 2, however instead of getting the weapon it gives you a suit battery.
the video i clicked this for takes up less than half of this video. Good job taking advantage of the algorithm and pumping out a 10 minute long video.
Really good analysis!
I'm convinced that the grunts haven't had their brains modified yet
Hey guys, generic subscriber here, back at it again proving my notifications still work, however this time there's a twist. You see, I'm on data so please forgive me, I am unable to watch the video due to them being low. See ya next time.
Did you watch the video yet?
@@TAOEXPRESS I was watching it while typing, but at the time due to the low data I couldn't watch much of it
@@stiky5972 _BUT DID YOU WATCH IT YET_
@@TAOEXPRESS oh like after I got data back? If so then yes
actually the elite mark just makes the enemy look at it and say oh wow thats dangerous
"Combine Charger" *Tropical Resort Act 2 starts playing* 😳
If they do make a HL3 like it seems, I'd hope to see more metrocops like 2 and overwatch, but also some of these new enemies
civil protection would be rather rare considering they blew up with city 17
fun fact, in the original half life 2 you can pick up the stunstick and it gives you a little bit of suit energy
Actually, when spawned as part of a map instead of by the player using the console, they don't have a model at all, although they _do_ use the same pose that appears when spawned in using the console when looking at them in the hammer editor.
2:36
Engineer gaming
i think the tank on the back of the combine grunt is a reference to halo's grunts that also explode if shot on their tanks
Most of the Combine in HL.Alyx are Proto-human Combine.
They wears heavy suit with lower protection value, still acts somewhat like human and feels the level of pains that are closer to human. Hl2 Combine are the finish form of organic cyborg soldier, organic are just the muscles.
Not proto- human but Trans-human
@@Mirinovic They're Trans-human yes, but not fully integrated, the Combine command are still changing and modifying the suit, so the human can be fully integrated.
i love there's "engineer gaming" in multiplayer sections
Pretty awesome video!
Thanks!
REBEL INSTRUCTOR: "There's NO SUCH THING as an AR3!"
John CO: 3:02
Civil protection are humans just killing other humans for their family to eat and be save.
Something else about the echo is that the grunt when you saw them carrying a barrel said
“Be careful I don’t wanna get this crap on me”
Hl2 still has some of the best ai to this day
“We never get to see them up close” after he launched a sniper out of the window with a grenade
You should do a video on the cut combine and xen creatures. You could talk about what they would most likely have done if they were added in the games.
Sorry if im late, I love the vid friend!
No worries!
awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it
I vow never to use the tank kill on grunts because it just is inhuman to be fine with blowing up a panicking trooper about to be killed
Just got the game yesterday and it is amazing and terrifying
You violated the Civies
The NP guards may also be less modified, due to their humanly reactions in the radio chatter
Can you compare HLA Combine Weaponry and HL2 AR2 Rifle? I would really like to see that, and noone has done the comparison before. Also, explain how it functions, it is pretty obvious but nonetheless fun.
how do elites usually fight in squads together? most of the encounters with them, at least in half-life 2 their with other classes.
this really gets me wanting to get a vr headset,better computer,and the game
holy crap shooting the eyes out a grunt is horrifying, good to know I won't be going for the head anymore.
You should do a video on the various cut enemies and what they most likely would have done in the games. That would be cool.
I think the red part on the elite and shot gun soldier who I think is called dagger, is too show how dangerous the elite and shotgun soldier are
“Overwatch says Stop kicking it.”
The grunt did a good Spin! 9:03
4:29 idk why but I always loved that elite lad.
I think the Grunts are just CP's or Soldiers in Hazmat, which is why they're wearing tanks and low armor.
CP doesn't have augments
Nice video. :)
I enjoyed thsi thank ya fer makin thsi
The overwatch seen in half life Alyx' are earlier modified combine which is why they show emotions and joke around a bit.
The combine suppressors mask looks awfully similar to that of the incinerators, a cut enemy from half life 2
cremators?
and no it doesn't
@@ryszakowy We’re they called cremators? I thought it was the incinerators aha
Whenever I see the Combine Elite I feel like I’m about to get banned off the rp server
I wish you could use the reflex sight on the mp7
The minigun type weapon handled by the suppressors is probably the most best weapon handled by the combine.
If you look through the concept artists work, you realize that the combine are basically just the Soviet Union occupying Bulgaria. Checks the bells, Pretty dark.
I wonder what the story reason is for the grunts carrying those tanks. I'm used to NPCs with explosive weak points like that having flamethrowers or something similar, so it seems a bit odd that the grunts carry those for no discernable reason, seeing as they use normal guns. Maybe it was left over from the Cremators?
probably just an oxygen tank so they don't breathe in any of the Xen spore stuff. Its why grunts outside the QZ don't have tanks or filters on their gas masks.
grunts look like decontamination team
i expect those to be oxygen tanks
Total sidenote in the Half Life Alyx gameplay my man got a damn Luger
I’d love to see an updated half life 2 that features the new combine units into the gameplay
? I have managed to get a lucky grenade shot on one of the snipers and they look totally different than just regular combine shoulders
what is that Alyx mod you were playing with all the fighting in it? It looks like a blast!
8:25 Wait, did you just pull out the P08 Luger on the Combine? (For those who don't know, the Luger was the standard sidearm for German soldiers during the first half of the 20th century. It is the classic WW2 'bad guy's gun.)
i like how chargers take a big shit before dying
I think the Shotgunner is the leader due to the Elite Badge on the left upper arm
they should be
when HD update came in 2010 some of overwatch soldier carrying shotguns were switched to shotgunners
shotgunners as part of the elite are squad leaders
and traines specially to charge for close contact and blasting gordon
I think you did miss one half life Alyx soldier type and I’m not sure if others have commented about it, when you get picked up at the very start the two guys in the front seat of the car are civil protection.
Im pretty sure that cp's have what looks like a kevlar vest on their chest.
what verision of half life 2 are you playing when under hl2 combine analisys? (with new weapons and tf2-like kill screen on top right)
It's the synergy multiplayer mod, it's free on steam
@@Goutrial thank you
Cool!
Combine names for HL:A units:
Grunts - ECHO Units
Captains - ORDINAL Units
Combine Charger - WALLHAMMER Units
Combine Suppressors - ANTIBODY Units
Actually the suppressors are called ANTIBODY PROTECTION FORCE or APF. ANTIBODY alone is technically inaccurate.
Hey man, how do you get the multiplayer half life to work? I wanna play hl2 with a few friends but I have no clue how to activate or download a multiplayer thing.
Awesome
yo thanks for including me
Yo this man had a PO8 Luger for the half life Alyx section Mcwhat?
I can see why the feature was removed since the stunstick in garry’s mod is basically just a slightly worse version of the crowbar. Comparing the two the stunstick actually swings slower then the crowbar does and has a very brief cool down time while the crowbar can be swung over and over in quick succession with no noticeable cool down.
crowbar 10 dmg
sunstick 20
for HL2 deathmatch at least and gmod
for HL2 there's no reason to pick them up so why not make them into batteries
nice video.
The suppressors gas mask could’ve been inspired by the GP 5 or a snails face
You can yeet the grenades that were thrown at you by the overwatch soldiers with the gravity gun!?
Very soothing voice