What happened to most of Xen aliens?

[MONACO]

If you stop and look to HL2 aliens, the only ones left are the barnacles, headcrabs and vortigaunts (tell me if I missed others). Bullsquids and Houndeyes according to someone from Valve, are still out there, but Gordon didn't spotted any, but what could have happened to the chumtoads, snarks, gargantuas, tentacles, alien grunts, etc? Some headcrabs may have became Gonarchs (under the Combine watch obviously) but had the sac removed, modified and then the Gonarch was killed, because at the beta HL2, there was a thing called "Combine Big Momma Pod", which was the Gonarch sac with some things (maybe the pods) around it and it would hang on a ceiling in the Ravenholm mines, and it would spawn poison and fast headcrabs infinitely and you had to destroy it. So as the title says, what happened to most of the Xen aliens?

[Ghidrah1]

They found Disneyland and Universal Studios

[Buddha]

The G Man ate them deep fried with a spicy sauce.

[Matt]

The devs got lazy and decided not to add them, just like the combine flamer dude. Valve is lazy.

[Sovereign]

Most are still on Xen and Earth, we just don’t see them. Bullsquids, houndeyes and Icthyasaur were all intended to be enemies in HL2 at points but were cut for various reasons (mostly they ran out of places to put them).

According to Marc Laidlaw the controllers may have died out after the Nihilanth’s death. Grunts seemed to be created by the Nihilanth, possibly from Vorts, so they could have died out as well.

Originally posted by Mλtt:

The devs got lazy and decided not to add them, just like the combine flamer dude. Valve is lazy.

They worked on HL2 for 6 grueling years. certain enemies didn’t make it into the game due to a wide variety of development reasons, not because they were lazy.

The Combine never used flamethrowers at any point in development.

[MONACO]

Originally posted by Buddha:

The G Man ate them deep fried with a spicy sauce.

nice and hot spicy meat, HEHE BOI

[DJ L3G3ND]

lmao


**GIVE THAT MEAT A GOOD OLD RRUB**

[Disgruntled Cuttlefish]

They died off because of global warming

[Matt]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

The Combine never used flamethrowers at any point in development.

I was talking about this bad boi[half-life.fandom.com].

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Mλtt:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

The Combine never used flamethrowers at any point in development.

I was talking about this bad boi[half-life.fandom.com].

Those are Combine non-combat janitor units, they cleaned the streets with chemical hoses, not flamethrowers. They were cut mainly because they didn’t create any interesting gameplay and because they didn’t fit the art style or world as things developed.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Those are Combine non-combat janitor units, they cleaned the streets with chemical hoses, not flamethrowers. They were cut mainly because they didn’t create any interesting gameplay and because they didn’t fit the art style or world as things developed.

At no point did I say that they were combat units.

"disposing of dead bodies through the use of its Immolator —a large plasma thrower capable of spraying a green beam, which would disintegrate organic matter upon contact." - Half-Life Fandom.
As you can seem, it's not chemical hoses, it's plasma... a super heated gas. Essentially fire in overdrive. Flame thrower was the best I could do from memory. Sorry for not doing extensive research before answering a simple question.

[Mercury]

Originally posted by noobgaming74:

what could have happened to the chumtoads, snarks, gargantuas, tentacles, alien grunts, etc?

Gargantuas and the tentacles imo could’ve been really easy targets for the combine because of their firepower

Snarks and the other aliens could’ve either been A.) Couldn’t handle the conditions of earth and died to natural causes.
B.)Id imagine the grunts where gonna be enslaved elsewhere/Being studied by the Combine for the creatures that are still alive.
C.)Thanos snap

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Mλtt:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Those are Combine non-combat janitor units, they cleaned the streets with chemical hoses, not flamethrowers. They were cut mainly because they didn’t create any interesting gameplay and because they didn’t fit the art style or world as things developed.

At no point did I say that they were combat units.

"disposing of dead bodies through the use of its Immolator —a large plasma thrower capable of spraying a green beam, which would disintegrate organic matter upon contact." - Half-Life Fandom.
As you can seem, it's not chemical hoses, it's plasma... a super heated gas. Essentially fire in overdrive. Flame thrower was the best I could do from memory. Sorry for not doing extensive research before answering a simple question.

I never said you did, I was only describing them.

The term "chemical spray hose" comes from the official Half-Life reference guide Raising the Bar, it never actually says it fires plasma. Either way it's not a flamethrower which is why I got confused earlier. I accept your apology. ^_^

[PezAvengers]

well we can say houndeyes and bullsquids are still alive and they are somewhere in hl 2 because we can see them on beta of hl2 and just like cremators we know they are included in hl series but we cant just see them maybe one day hl3 relases and we can see them and btw big momma's are killed by combine and turned them into a headcrap pod they launch them into small or huge rebel bases and according to my another theory bullsquids and houndeyes are not that strong species combine can take them down easialy but this theory can kill hl2 ep 1 and ep 2 because we zombines in our way and if headcrabs can kill combines bullsquids can kill them easialy because in hl 1 unforseen consuquenses we see bullsquid and headcrabs are fighting and bullsquid kills headcrabs by himself or herself we dont know too much about alien genders but according to my theories and other peoples theories we can say they are alive but gordon cant see them(sorry for my bad english ı tryed my best ı hope this comment will help you)

[MONACO]

Originally posted by HALF LİFE 3 İN NUTSHELL:

well we can say houndeyes and bullsquids are still alive and they are somewhere in hl 2 because we can see them on beta of hl2 and just like cremators we know they are included in hl series but we cant just see them maybe one day hl3 relases and we can see them and btw big momma's are killed by combine and turned them into a headcrap pod they launch them into small or huge rebel bases and according to my another theory bullsquids and houndeyes are not that strong species combine can take them down easialy but this theory can kill hl2 ep 1 and ep 2 because we zombines in our way and if headcrabs can kill combines bullsquids can kill them easialy because in hl 1 unforseen consuquenses we see bullsquid and headcrabs are fighting and bullsquid kills headcrabs by himself or herself we dont know too much about alien genders but according to my theories and other peoples theories we can say they are alive but gordon cant see them(sorry for my bad english ı tryed my best ı hope this comment will help you)

Maybe some punctuation would help but its understandable for me, so, not going off-topic, we might see them again at the Project Borealis fan-made game (if you don't know what it is, Marc Laidlaw, the HL writer, leaked the story, or fanfiction of HL3, and some guys made a team and are turning it into a game).

[Ghidrah1]

3 cheers for all the modders that put their efforts and creativity into the Half Life universe!!!