The scary thing about combine empire is it's ability to adapt and improve any kind of species they have either struck a deal with or conquered. As you have said, using humans against humanity by rewarding those who will control, punish and order other humans. Those who want a better life with food, home and family save will join the Civil Protection or become soldiers for the Combine Empire. Dark yet amazing.
@CaptainFirespitter6 ай бұрын
Don’t forget: we genuinely have NO IDEA of the true scale of the entirety of the Combine. Even the combine “Forces” aren’t even the actual army itself. It’s just a garrison. And not even a big or significant one. It’s basically something that’s barely there in any meaningful way. We’re so insignificant that we’re not even worth even their lowest, basic soldiers. Even in the cut content and information of the upcoming sequel was to give us a glimpse, a GLIMPSE of the Combine empire and even then, we’d barely get any new information about them. And the Scale of it is genuinely horrifying. There’s no winning against the Combine in an all out War. It’s just Survival and praying that they don’t notice you long enough to leave anything meaningful impression. The Combine is horrific in all the ways that it can be, from the physical threat to the body horror, psychological nightmare and even the existential threat they are. And I hate and love them all the more for it.
@codyraugh65996 ай бұрын
@@CaptainFirespitter from what I understand while Earth is beneath their empire's notice, their equivalent political elites took note because Earth is harboring "something" (deliberately vague because I can't remember how to spell or pronounce the names) they've been hunting which would further their own agenda. The Combine as a whole doesn't give two shits about us, and even their leadership our planet's name is just a attachment to the reports about the thing they actually care about.
@greeny36376 ай бұрын
3:56 yeah, that’s because it is, the striders, gunships, hunters, and drop ships are all organic creatures modified to the combined liking
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
Even more terrifyingly they were primarily used during the Seven Hour War....imagine what the Combines other soldiers look like....
@poseidonetn.u.s.ebranch26106 ай бұрын
@@TabathaTMartin we have concept art for them. They were gonna be called "Synth's"
@codyraugh65996 ай бұрын
@@poseidonetn.u.s.ebranch2610well we already have Synths, but what type of Synths did the Combine use?
@dj11o9er6 ай бұрын
@@codyraugh6599 Literally the striders, dropships, gunships, etc...
@codyraugh65996 ай бұрын
@@dj11o9er yes but then what infantry did they use? They didn't have any human soldiers for the 7 hour war, and we don't have any concept art for that as even the Synth art for the OG synth infantry were still originally once human in the concept.
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
The transhuman soldiers are just drones, just disposable soldiers the Combine uses, they suppress their memories, replace their eyes with those lenses, and even more terrifyingly in Half Life Alyx: when you kill one of the soldiers they say things like "I'm sorry" or "Help us". Also The Pug growling at the beginning is so based 😂
@dillonpeterson666 ай бұрын
The fucked up part is in Alyx it's implied that they can only do that because the combine hasn't figured out the human mind yet.
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
@@dillonpeterson66 though in HL2.....they're like Terminators
@dillonpeterson666 ай бұрын
@@TabathaTMartin they're pretty much labotimized at that point.
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
@@dillonpeterson66 As badass as i think the combine soldiers are......it's so fucking horrifying when you think about the procedures
@jaypea306 ай бұрын
Hell yes. Always need more Old Man Half Life reactions
@drxtale94466 ай бұрын
Cool! More Half Life stuff! Like to see more reactions to stuff like these. There’s still some minor bits and pieces you may not know, but overall, can’t wait for more. I also advise you watch “Blue Eyes.” It’s another terrifying animation.
@delivererofdarknessshoguno11336 ай бұрын
Combine scans native lifeforms from the universes it conquers and recreates them as synths, which was their main army that conquered Earth in 7 hours. Combine occupation forces on Earth are mostly humans and modified humans with some basic combine tech and minor synth support. Combine is unable to move their main forces to Earth at will due to them not having the technology to easily teleport between locations. (The main reason they didn't just gut Earth of all resources, exterminated humans and moved on as they seemed to have planned at first is because they are trying to research the teleportation technology discovered at Black Mesa and maybe Aperture Science, and because Dr Breen convinced Combime that humans might be of more use as a part of Combine.)
@GenSecPL4 ай бұрын
7:50 He said "put your hands up" then got shot. We can all agree that they all had a reason to shoot back.
@Mire-Drive10 күн бұрын
The combine grunt shot before the human did.
@GenSecPL10 күн бұрын
@Mire-Drive Real life police would because he had a gun aimed at him.
@The_dragon_priest6 ай бұрын
boss the ship in the beginning is biomechanical just like every thing the combine uses for vehicles there are some exceptions again i dont remember everything off the top of my head
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
The Hunter Chopper is one of them, as well as the scanners and manhacks
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
And the APC
@The_dragon_priest6 ай бұрын
@@TabathaTMartin thank you for reminding me i just couldn't remember what they were of the top of my head because its been a year since i last seen anything half life till now
@TabathaTMartin6 ай бұрын
@@The_dragon_priest No problem, it also took me awhile to remember which stuff WASN'T biological 😂
@Taron_HaiTar6 ай бұрын
There is also Civil Protection Truck from Half-Life Alyx.
@jojobiden25266 ай бұрын
Hope you react to Skyrrion for some Half Life lore, his kinda like the Weshammer or Luetin09 for Half Life stuff.
@mastema12126 ай бұрын
TheParryGod's stuff is great! you should react to his other works too.
@bobert2116 ай бұрын
old man, you should definitely react to half life lore videos. a channel called Skyrionn makes some short and pretty good ones, although you need to know that he sometimes does "lore" videos on the HL2 beta which is basically an entirely different game then HL2 retail so lookout for that (it should say if its beta lore in the title of the video)
@Shytle7206 ай бұрын
Oh shit, right after I gift ya Black Mesa, you react to a half life thing! That such a coincidence!😊
@ThePandoraGuy6 ай бұрын
Your the MVP.
@warbosspapasmurf5 ай бұрын
Another really good half life animation is Half Life Overworld
@AggoI3 ай бұрын
Am i the only one who laughed at the "Back to sleep" part?
@error-42696 ай бұрын
The combine would destroy 40K and absorb its power.
@dj11o9er6 ай бұрын
Uh... That, I doubt very much.
@СергейДементьев-ы9р6 ай бұрын
@@dj11o9er combine are about half of a tau level, personally speaking
@EC233315 ай бұрын
Was the combine seen in half life 2 the full extent of the combine union or a fraction of their forces.
@error-42695 ай бұрын
@EC23331 they are a multi-dimensional multiversal Empire.
@СергейДементьев-ы9р5 ай бұрын
@@EC23331 fraction, im guessing not even a scout fleet levels (or maybe scout fleet dunno for sure)
@IllagerRaids19 күн бұрын
You should react to more theparrygod animations
@igorkostic66845 ай бұрын
Watch Blue Eyes from TheParryGod! It's short, but great.