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Saucy_Boi Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:00pm
Are the Combine Footsoldiers Human?
It seems to me that they are, since they have the same general proportions and sometimes speak english. But other times they act extrememly robotic and cruel with minor crimes and have this weird static-like voice chatter (not walkie-talkies). That makes me think that they are genetically modified humans/aliens like in Xcom 2 with their Advent Program. IMO human volunteers are more scary since imagine what the Combine could do to the Earth if they only managed to brainwash most of the Earth in 20 years.

Also, I read online that the games (HL 2 and episodes 1 & 2) take place in Eastern Ukraine beacuse the architecture is similar to the Soviet-style construction in the 60s/70s and that the lead map designer wanted to incorporate the dystopic feelings they provide (he's also from Ukraine I think).
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Originally posted by finno korean hyperwar veteran:
Civil Protection are people who are simply guards around City 17. They likely have extremely minor modifications, if any at all.

The Overwatch soldiers, with the grey uniforms and blue eyes (shotgunner has orange eyes) are horrifying transhumans built for war. In Nova Prospekt and and the Citadel, you see an Overwatch soldier without theupper armor. They seem pale and have machines implanted in their neck and sides. The thing on their face in the Citadel are the things basically tearing the face apart and later puts on a new one. You can think of the mask or helmets as the face, implanted in the skull. That's what I think though.

The Combine Elites are even more heavily modified soldiers, with a single cyclops eye.
The eye was either
Implanted into the helmet and made the primary ''eye'' after the original eyes were removed
or big enough so the original eyes could look through it (not as likely)
Other than the cycloptic eye, nothing else seems majorly different from the normal soldier.

The Prison Guards, the ones with the yellow eyes (shotgunner's are red) are similar to the Overwatch soldiers. It looks to me that they look slightly more modified but that is up to speculation.
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Microsoft227sam Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:34pm 
theyre humans. theyre just undead
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Microsoft227sam Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:43pm 
Originally posted by XanDer-XTX:
They're humans, around the last chapters you can see a combine soldier without his top armor. They' aren't dead btw
undead bro. undead
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XanDer-XTX Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:44pm 
They're humans, around the last chapters you can see a combine soldier without his top armor. They aren't dead btw
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XanDer-XTX Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:44pm 
Originally posted by microsoft227sam:
Originally posted by XanDer-XTX:
They're humans, around the last chapters you can see a combine soldier without his top armor. They' aren't dead btw
undead bro. undead
How?
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Microsoft227sam Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:46pm 
Originally posted by XanDer-XTX:
Originally posted by microsoft227sam:
undead bro. undead
How?
why do you think their skincolor is comeplety pale? why do you see them in tubes and hook up by machines? they're being resurrected
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MrMcSwifty Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:46pm 
Civil Protection (the white gas mask guys in the early levels) are just straight up normal humans conscripted or volunteered into the Combine army.

Overwatch soldiers (with the blue outfits and "dive goggles") are a trans-human military force that have been genetic/synthetically modifed to incorporate Combine techonologies.

This is actually vaguely explained within the game. For instance, some of the NPC's lament not volunteering for CP, and you actually see an Overwatch soldier without his uniform on one of the terminals in Nova Prospekt, which demonstrates some of their modifications.
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MrMcSwifty Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:48pm 
Originally posted by microsoft227sam:
Originally posted by XanDer-XTX:
How?
why do you think their skincolor is comeplety pale? why do you see them in tubes and hook up by machines? they're being resurrected

I dunno if resurrected is the right term. More like... "reprogrammed," or "repurposed."

Basically some of the most loyal CP officers would presumably be "promoted" to Overwatch duty... whether or not they realize that this entails extensive biological modifcation/invasive surgery and brain implants/brain washing, etc... well I guess that's up to your own imagination. :)
Last edited by MrMcSwifty; Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:50pm
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XanDer-XTX Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:53pm 
Originally posted by McSwifty:
Originally posted by microsoft227sam:
why do you think their skincolor is comeplety pale? why do you see them in tubes and hook up by machines? they're being resurrected

I dunno if resurrected is the right term. More like... "reprogrammed," or "repurposed."

Basically some of the most loyal CP officers would presumably be "promoted" to Overwatch duty... whether or not they realize that this means extensive invasive surgery and brain implants/brain washing, etc... well I guess that's up to your own imagination. :)
That's the most possible theory, but what about combine elites? They aren't humans at all
Last edited by XanDer-XTX; Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:56pm
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XanDer-XTX Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:55pm 
Originally posted by microsoft227sam:
Originally posted by XanDer-XTX:
How?
why do you think their skincolor is comeplety pale? why do you see them in tubes and hook up by machines? they're being resurrected
They aren't dead, you can hear their screams in the chapter "our benefactors", probably combine soldiers or stalkers in the making
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Sovereign Aug 1, 2017 @ 9:12pm 
No they are not human, they're biomechanical synths created from humans. This image shows what they are pretty clearly:

http://ayay.co.uk/backgrounds/action_games/half_life_2/evolve-control-combine.jpg

Basically they're a lot like Borg drones from Star Trek but they use guns and have military programming.
Last edited by Sovereign; Aug 1, 2017 @ 9:15pm
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XanDer-XTX Aug 1, 2017 @ 9:31pm 
Originally posted by Sovereign:
No they are not human, they're biomechanical synths created from humans. This image shows what they are pretty clearly:

http://ayay.co.uk/backgrounds/action_games/half_life_2/evolve-control-combine.jpg

Basically they're a lot like Borg drones from Star Trek but they use guns and have military programming.
Cool thx for the info
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coolman552 Aug 1, 2017 @ 10:51pm 
holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ how stupid can you be to not know it I didnt even looked at the rest of the post
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MrMcSwifty Aug 1, 2017 @ 11:12pm 
Originally posted by ⚡⚡:
holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ how stupid can you be to not know it I didnt even looked at the rest of the post

Are you having a medical emergency?
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coolman552 Aug 1, 2017 @ 11:28pm 
Originally posted by McSwifty:
Originally posted by ⚡⚡:
holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ how stupid can you be to not know it I didnt even looked at the rest of the post

Are you having a medical emergency?
yes
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McDenny's 09 Aug 2, 2017 @ 12:43am 
The only total humans in the Combine's military are the Civil Protection Force, anything higher than that are as Dr. Breen calls, "Transhuman". Which is to mean that Combine soldiers are, like most other units in the Universal Union, subject to heavy cybernectic augmentation.

Or, to put it bluntly, Civil Protection is human, Combine soldiers and elites are cyborgs
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