Half Life 2 - Nova Prospekt Internal Stabilisation Team Communications Log

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Based on Wibble’s civil protection video. This one shows the rising panic of Overwatch forces inside Nova Prospekt as freeman cuts a path through the facility with the antlions. Credit to Valve for making a great game, RescoeZ for organising the sound files, and Wibble for the idea.

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@SladeForelly Жыл бұрын

Imagine yourself as a combine soldier always considering yourself lucky for being detached to the quiet and safe nova prospekt while some of your colleagues has to hunt for rebels in the wasteland. And then one day its starts as a perimter restrictor going offline and deteriorate to the point of freeman controling biotics

@EnclaveSOC-102 2 жыл бұрын

I just love how the Combine Soldiers still have some basic human emotions, like with Helix 2 showing a form of confusion when they notice Freeman having control over the Antlions because of the Bugbait. And of course Leader 12 showing a bit of smugness with thinking that Freeman was trapped in cellblock D8 only to realize he has turrets on his side.

@blehh_mae 9 ай бұрын

canonically combine soldiers are more supressed than truly brainwashed, theyre given drugs and maybe surgeries to make them forget every month iirc, but more or less besides the intense augmentation and that induced amnesia theyre the same person

@EnclaveSOC-102 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see the logs for the Overwatch Nexus when Freeman returns to City 17 and begins pushing with the Rebels closer to the Citadel. If possible.

@macdrown3892 Жыл бұрын

I've been trying to find a way to replicate the Combine voice to create some location-specific lines to do this with, but alas. AI can't quite do it and I haven't been able to get something I'm happy with using audio editing software. It's really hard.

@cacokid1489 11 ай бұрын

@@macdrown3892 I'm pretty sure you can find Combine voice filters online, some people had to have made something. You might have some luck asking Breadman or other people who worked on Entropy Zero

@nottherealpaulsmith Жыл бұрын

i don't know how much emotion is left in whatever authority is controlling the system, but "full biotic overrun" must have been a terrifying message to read no matter what

@macdrown3892 Жыл бұрын

I think the Overwatch AI is a version of GLaDOS that had been repurposed by the combine, so there's probably some level of emotion there.

@Zekiraeth Жыл бұрын

@@macdrown3892 I don't know if it makes sense for the Combine to have access to a version of GLaDOS. While it's likely that the Combine had some interaction with Aperture, and possibly even acquired some of their technology, either given in exchange for being left alone (doesn't fit the Combine's MO), or reverse engineered without Aperture's consent (more likely IMO), it doesn't make sense that the Combine would get access to GLaDOS from that. My headcanon is that within the citadel in City 17, there's one or more humans hooked into the Overwatch AI central unit. These humans basically serve as text-to-speech voices for the Overwatch AI, with everything that isn't necessary to keep them alive enough that their voices function, removed. Their minds and identities erased, they are now only capable of processing the mouth movements and breathing needed to voice the Combine Overwatch's commands. This would be very fucked up indeed, and thus completely on brand for the Half-life series. I don't exactly have any direct evidence for this headcanon, which is why I describe it as such, but there are several details which contribute to why I believe this. Combine technology seems to be much more biomechanical in nature, as opposed to human technology. Manhacks and scanner drones are the most advanced purely mechanical devices we see from the Combine, everything more complex is a cyborg or biomechanical synthetic organism. In Half-life Alyx we even see that certain Combine devices use actual brains kept alive by (and possibly grown out of) rats. This makes me think that it's extremely unlikely that the Combine Overwatch AI runs on a digital computer the way GLaDOS almost certainly does (Aperture doesn't appear to run on analog technology). It also wouldn't really make sense for the Overwatch voice to be an actual text-to-speech program, since the voice is much more lifelike than the artificial voices from Half-life 1's announcement systems (as well as everything in the Portal games, except cores like Wheatley). And since the aftermath of the Black Mesa incident led directly into the global collapse caused by the portal storms and the 7-hour war, humans wouldn't have had the opportunity to improve that text-to-speech technology any further. The Combine also doesn't seem like they would be interested enough in the nuances of humanity to develop better text-to-speech technology themselves. In conclusion, I think it makes the most sense for the Overwatch AI to be a biological computer, possibly based on either human, rat, Shu'ulathoi, or unknown alien brain tissue combined with various human and alien technology. With the voice of the AI being provided by one or more humans who have been mutilated and integrated into the living computer for the sole purpose of being a literal talking head with a pair of lungs doing nothing but speaking commands into a microphone. Wow, this comment turned out a lot longer than I originally intended.

@damonnugent1993 11 ай бұрын

@@macdrown3892 That's my headcanon too, and to go a bit further, another headcanon of mine is that GLaDOS was pieced back together for the Portal 2 events, by the Combine, in an attempt to extract useful intelligence, this led them to the Borealis site.

@localsnek 11 ай бұрын

@@macdrown3892 Never heard of that headcanon before but I love the idea already. Imagine how cool it'd be to see a Portal 1 style GLaDOS model mixed with Combine tech... shame she blew up

@macdrown3892 11 ай бұрын

@@localsnek Not to reveal too much, but I’m writing for Project Hyperborea and… that’s a good idea

@optimizt8555 10 ай бұрын

Now I want to see the internal Combine response of Freeman scaling the Citadel, as that's the other power fantasy climax of the game. Great job.

@blehh_mae 9 ай бұрын

i feel like itd start as soldiers being told to wait for him after the weapon gate, then become an annoyed red alert where combine soldiers are tasked to kill him, before they realize how dangerous his skills and the supergrav gun are, then they start to send literally everyone they can at him