Half Life 7 hour war

They fucked off before they were stranded, they became stranded after we blew up Breen's teleporter.

You're not fighting the actual Combine Army in HL2, just a leftover enslaved-human branch watching over the remnants and drainage of Earth's resources. Combine control possibly millions of planets and use that army to conquer more everyday, hell Episode 2's whole plot was to stop them from coming back and squashing you in minutes.

Plus that HEV suit gives you an edge over even trained military soldiers, as proved by HL1.

Who the fuck knows. Presumably the combine's big weapon was using portal storms to sew chaos and dump bullsquids into suburban backyards. The only not slave-race combine you see are the fat advisor grubs, and those are strongly implied to be host bodies.

>the Overseers, the only ones with even a smidgen of real Combine tech
not true, there's also striders, hunters (and possibly combine gunships)

I want you to imagine the planet.
Our nice blue pearl twirling in space, it being a normal day to us. Aperture just released some dumb ass invention no one wants. The radio has that song on from HL1 when you first put the HEV on. It's another day in being human!

Thena massive portal appears in the sky while an army of other dimensional level beings pour in. Nonestop - endless. Like a swarm.

The first three hours - the world's armies scramble and fight their own fight's. Slowly failing one by one. Humanity's leaders getting together and saying at this point they need to stop them together. Basic globalist jargon commences.

Around hour 6 everything has been swamped over. No free nation exists anymore. To ensure their untimely extinction, Breen convinces the world leaders to surrender like the snake he is.

It doesn't matter how easy they are to kill.
Their sheer numbers outweigh anything we have. They probably surpass the entire Earth's ammo supply, even if one bullet meant one kill.
Their existence goes back hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. Earth wasn't their first rodeo.

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Laidlaw's twitter basically said the Advisors are just another enslaved race (the Shu'ulatho) used for mass data-storage and overseering invaded planets.

Which leaves the true leadership race of the Combine (if any simple or "normal" kind even exists) a total mystery.

Those are all 'synths'- formerly organic races that have been merged with tech to become useful tools for the combine. Breen's speech in Nova Prospekt and the whole idea behind the overwatch is essentially urging humanity to follow the same path.

>Teleport to Combine leader
>Crowbar him in the head until he dies
>Win game
HL3 is going to be shit

The answer is that there isn't one, the Combine is just one large self-perpetuating bureaucracy.

Yep, Breengrub explained this one. They're hyperintelligent grubs hailing from a planet with brutal surface conditions. They spend most of their lives dormant underground, communicating telepathically. During the brief calm periods they develop into a brainless insect to reproduce and then die.

What we see in HL2 is just an occupation force.

>Campo devs have HL3 go out of its way to pull a ME3-ending and make the Combine leaders something easy to pinpoint and eliminate
>completely going against what Episode 3 was going to set up with the hopelessly-grim implications behind the Dyson Sphere and the Combine's infinitely-larger presence than expected

How mad would you honestly be?

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>HL3 is going to be shit
I think Valve believes that it's impossible to satisfy fans at this point.

The main combine army is akin to the Star Wars Empire, they have billions of troops with access to overwhelming technology like starships and a single planet is cannon fodder to them.

To put things into perspective, in order to defeat the combine main offensive you had to arm every adult on earth with a gluon gun and a HEV suit. Not just every soldier but every human adult.

This means having every human adult on the planet scoring at least a hundred kill against the synth legions of a freaking space armada.

Realistically speaking Earth didn't stood a chance but if Freeman blows up the combine homeworld and shatters their entire teleportation network then we get a seven hour war in reverse.

>Crowbar him in the head until he dies
Thats only after you topple him from his suspiciously see-saw shaped throne by lobbing gigantic cinder blocks with your gravgun

Why would Valve risk it when they could just make 'Half-Life: Subtitle' games every 8-12 years and never worry about killing the goose that lays golden eggs until they have to shut the steam servers down in 2148.

>how did they go back if they were canonically stranded after porting to our dimension? Did they just fuck off into space to conquer other planets?
It's easier to understand if you break it down:

>HL1 happends and the portal storms seems to grow more fierce in our dimension
>The mounting storms in our dimension draws the attention of the Combine somehow
>The Combine uses some unknow tech to break into our dimension, supposedly using an already conquered Xen as a ''dimensional slingshot''
>As they break into our dimension, the portal storms fucks EVERYTHING up and then suddenly vanishes
>The seven hour was takes place on a 1998-esque Earth that stands no chance, the Combine tech that is so advanced that it might as well be magic
>With their conquest complete, the Combine uses their portal tech to fuck off back to wherever they came from
>They leave a skeleton crew back on earth to manage the stripping or resources from the planet and keep humanity under control as slaves
>HL2 takes place 20 years later, during which, the Earth Combines one connection to their kin is destroyed (The Citadel)
>HL2:EP1 takes place, the Earth Combines tries desperatly to repair and maintain what is left of the Citadel but realizes it's useless and instead plans to use the remaining energy (Used to fuel their portal tech supposedly) to start a new portal storm and rip open a portal large enough to call back their military fleet and fuck earth over one last time
>HL2:EP2 takes place, Gordon and crew escapes realizes the Combines intentions and tries to stop them. They also figure out that the Combine know about Aperture science portal tech and wants to use it

Supposedly, Combine tech only allows for jumps between dimensions, is unstable/unpredictable (if everything doesn't go 100% according to planning) and is VERY energy inefficient. This is probably why they didn't know that out dimension existed until we accidentally broke into Xen, their original ''slingshot''.

Because you kill one and a hundred more appears
youtube.com/watch?v=MxiUviSBttM

Combine use other species to do their work, they were probably all killed by the combine when the war was over.

I believe they'll set out to work on Half-Life 3 as discussed now that they have a clear vision for it, an engine and a plot beat to go with it, and then fail miserably after a few years of stalled development just like has happened a dozen times before, before making Half-Life Barney in VR, set in Black Mesa or something.

Space slugs have the power
Caretaker force in their stead is a joke

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So why telepathic space worms need so much materials?

combine are a bunch of mary sues
give me one squad of HECA badasses and I'll take over their homeworld in whatever mary sue dimension they're hiding at

The invasion went like this:
The citadels teleport in, drop and embed themselves into major cities form which untold horrors pour out, while shitstorms that dwarf black mesa happens around every one, so whatever isn't swallowing combine dick to have it protect them, gets obliterated by the combine or the invasive wildlife.

Whatever remains gets further fucked when the combines starts siphoning literally all resources earth has.

Gman is a hatched slug that escaped from combine - he is trying to save all the advisors from combine influence
Advisors cannot hatch because of the combine tech - they are used as host bodies and kept under check

>reddit/twitter pic
>write like youre far up your own ass

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Doomguy could have stopped them in a few hours.

>Doom Eternal
>Earth with with interstellar travel tech, mechs, energy weapons is easily overrun by fantasy creatures that throw balls of fire

Honestly I like Half-Life and all, but I hate how all its games literally just drip feed the lore to the player and you have to research the wikis and shit as if writing a thesis just to get additional bit of a crumb of a lore.

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Hatched grubs are retards and barely sentient.

>platoons of combine soldiers are easily taken out by one man
no
there are no real combine troops stationed on earth in hl2
the giant portal to the combine overworld would have allowed the real combine in, and the whole planet would be dead in 5 minutes

no real combine troops but the overseers and they are just larvas of something much worse

Retard, the 7 hour war is mentioned like 100 times in the series. What are you talking about?

go play cinematic COD then you simp

>TEH KUMBRINE ARE TOTALLY EPIC AND TELEPORT DIMENSIONS AND DYSON SPHERES BROOO
then why do they have to go around, planet to planet siphoning resources? Surely if they can travel to different dimensions, they can magic up some water. Why waste time with all this occupation force bullshit

You make this invasion sound like a big deal when in fact it can be something so meaningless that the average Combine citizen is not even aware of Earth's existence. Why not invade? It's free resources, technology and another species to mix into your arsenal.

are you retarded or merely pretending?

>Their existence goes back hundreds, maybe even thousands of years
american detected

In alyx it's apparent that xen wildlife is severely fucking up the planet and even the overwatch are finding it a bit much to control. The amount of time between the resonance cascade and the combine invasion isn't clear, so it's possible xen creatures are already stretching the limits of what humanity can deal with at the time of the invasion.

>taking Epistle as absolute gospel for what was going to be in Episode 3

it is mostly just the antlions desu

this feels like it'd be the most fitting.

This. When you have dyson spheres space empire this becomes irrelevant.

>larvas of something much worse
they turn into dumb bugs, fuck and die. all the power and intelligence is in the grub

umm excuse me sweety did you just refer to alyx as a man? uhh its 2020

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Tell that to jeff, also it's conceivable that headcrabs, barnacles and other xen fuckery would cripple the planet given what covid has done

I haven't played the new game so I don't know what jeff is, but covid is a joke of a disease that won't even reach Spanish flu levels

The seas belong to the leeches

They clearly have enemies to fight. The gman's employers seem to benefit from them being distracted with their occupation of earth and its uprising

Exactly, and we have shut down entire countries as a response. If the events of half life happened people would go absolutely nuts and unable to fend off a combine invasion

I have no idea what the fuck you are even saying.

The seven hour war wouldn't have been a ground battle. They probably just poison gassed the military or glassed swathes of the planet from orbit. If the combine are advanced enough to do dyson spheres and conquer galaxies, I'd assume they would've figured out a more convenient way of killing their enemies than head to head shootouts.

I always got the feeling that the combines technology and everything about them was 'stolen'
as in they don't, or can't develop their own technology which was why they were soo interested in the humans portal/teleporting technology was because they could not make their own.
like it seems like they invade planets and take everything of value both technologically and resource wise because chances are that dyson sphere of theirs was not even built by them and they either found it, or somehow acquired it from a more advanced space empire

why would they even bother with people? just blast some giant electromagnetic nuke that evaporates life on Earth and proceed to mine the resources...?

HL seems like a really depressing series

If I remember correctly, one of Breen's broadcasts to Combine soldiers literally was politely asking them "how the fuck is this one dude just annihilating you like this?".

the space jews

Unironically Lovecraftian

They should have at least been able to propel themselves at initial level where they can lift shit from others. Even if some ancient tech fell on your head, you need at least some brains to make use of it.
Not as depressing as what happened to it due to everyone bot its original writer's disregard towards it.

That one prison block in Nova Prospekt where that breencast is playing was utter kino.