How the Combine Invaded Earth -- The Seven Hour War Explained | Half Life Lore 

LMFAO why did i find this so funny? 😭

Derrick Simmons Because its so ironic, and downright stupid.

No i find it funny how this guy summarized Ecks whole video.

You had one job Ecks

*just one job*

Clever McGenericName 2 words: Plot Armour

Yeah an the Combine should be embarrassed about that. Dont think an evil sci fi force has been so embarrassed and humiliated since the ewoks kicked stormtrooper ass on Endor in the original star wars trilogy

When I read this comment I thought you were talking about the farming machine

There's actually an in-universe moment in Nova Prospekt where Breen is chewing out the Combine forces for not being able to stop Freeman, saying, "this man isn't a soldier or a saboteur, he's a theoretical physicist for God's sake!" You can hear it over the tannoy.

Not even middle aged, Freeman was 27 at Black Mesa.

Valve has so much potential story material to utilize. They could go prequel and show the 7 hour war and it's immediate aftermath. Or they could wrap the story they left unfinished. Graphics isn't even a big deal. Just do the story and we're happy. This isn't dnf at all.

It was to quick to document and categorize c:

There IS more. The portal storms created from the Black Mesa event allowed many alien creatures from Xen to crossover to Earth all over the globe. When this happened it caused mass panic amongst the human population and people fled the countrysides for the cities. Unknown how long this lasted until the Combine showed up, but supposedly lots of people died from attacks from the Xen aliens & wildlife and the rest fled to the cities which were much easier to defend. Then the Combine showed up out of nowhere. If I recall correctly, the Combine used the wormholes or whatever they were to teleport their armies to Earth. The most devastating thing they did was they teleported these giant towers like the one in City 17 straight into the hearts of cities across the planet, and when that happened it caused massive devastation and killed millions. If that's not bad enough, as we well know, the towers opened up and let loose the armies of the Combine which supposedly contained much worse and terrifying creatures than the ones we're familiar with. The creatures we encounter in Half-Life 2 are mostly just a token police force.

Well there is "Hunt Down the Freeman" that shows some of the Seven Hour lore but A: It's not canon in any aspect and B: We don't speak of this game

Im looking for official lore of pre-synthified combine units and other combine homeworlds/units

7 hours war 2: But its the Combine turn to die now.

Combine: Hold up, _those are our resources you're eyeing._

Does anyone here know the full list of reasons America is at war in the Middle East?

Napoléon Bonaparte fax

Hahaha

Look up Projfct Borealis. Fans are making their own closure.

or read the leaked ep3

@GDO G *episode

@GDO G oh sh%!^ you're right

Fisto Hey The Atomic Wrangler needs You

Is it possible to learn this power?

Nerdy Nachos Not by a Jedi.

His franchise became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing its power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentices everything he knew, then they created greater video games and surpassed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save other franchises from death... but not his own.

@@Warmaka sometimes you gotta sacrifice one precious thing for the continuity of others

Oh yeah, and you forgot that the Valve alliance fell to the Steam Rebellion.

You are a bold one I want some Combine Scientists to open a new portal and let forth a single Dalek that goes on a murderous rampage before downloading their interdimensional info so that it can summon a Dalek Invasion...

It is unlikely that the 7 hour war was even their full forces. This is because the combine have been shown to have incredible efficiency and adaptability. With an emphasis on efficiency, and considering they know their going to invade primitive beings, it is incredibly unlikely that they would use what they would consider a formidable force to fight primitives.

Yeah, there was never any chance of a human victory. It’s like the us army getting taken out by a Stone Age tribe. Just not going to happen.

Did you forget the Elites guarding Breen?

A newspaper in HL: Alyx has an image of a ravaged UN building with a caption stating that it was bombarded from space. It's highly likely the 7-hour war was nothing more than orbital bombardment, any invading ground forces were likely nothing more than spotters for the orbiting ships.

Hold my glass.

@MUSTAFA AHMED i disagree as he doesnt need gun

Gravemind* hold my flood infection forms

@@marksmant50gaming11 Gordon and master chief team up and successfully contained the flood......with just two of them.......

well i mean the combine forces you see in game are like mall cops compared to the combines biggest forces

didn't expect to see you here

The thumbnail is wrong there we're no combine soliders during the 7 hour

Warte du machst die thumpnails? Wow gute arbeit

Ne nur das eine, er hats aus meiner alten Gallerie genommen. Sind größten Teils 40K artworks.

I don't speak german sorry

They forgot to read the rules before playing the game :(

Mostly ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eD2aqWjfOxk.html

@@Vulcano7965 actually that's probably a better explanation as to what really happened than this.

@@BoSPaladin-102 It's also more or less canon lore from ingame references and newspaper articles.

@@tophatgaming1873 wrong, we’re dealing with a inter dimensional superpower, who’s technology is light years ahead of ours. Even looking at real-world conflicts like iraq, where there was only about 30 years technology difference, the Iraqi’s were entirely incapable of putting up a capable resistance. Even if the world’s military had all the time they needed to mobilize, they’d be routed by enemy weapons they can barely comprehend, let alone fight.

Marc Pascual At MIT tho

Isaac Clarke too

STEM is for idiot get a real PhD in Theoretical physics

@@jpeg.600x2 but theoretical physics is a STEM subject...

That MIT education really pays for itself

Considering the combine have the ability to take over entire universes, I doubt what they used to invade earth was more than the equivalent of mall cops

@@wholsomecontentye7420 Even less than that! It's more like sending a Huntsman spider to hunt the cockroaches in your house! How in god's great...UNIVERSE do you stop something like this?!

@@rebel1717 I don't think you can, and even if the rebels were to liberate the planet, the combine see Earth as nothing more than a water fountain. I mean what's stopping them from simply destroying it?

@@wholsomecontentye7420 They were about to when they first arrived, but Wallace Breen managed to negotiate with the Combine, and stop them from completely destroying Earth. It was a matter of servitude or extinction. The Combine probably didn't even need humanity alive, but since they keeled over, they decided "why not" it's not like humanity's an actual threat to them...depending on what the Borealis does.

@@wholsomecontentye7420 not meaning to offend u but they took over dimensions

Star trek maybe?

What a dark universe, could well get into that

I don't even care about hl3 anymore. Fps market is too saturated, I doubt valve could raise the bars again and not just another game just for nostalgia's sake

dont do this to yourself man

Project Borealis *CONFIRMED*

People have literally died waiting for this... Tens of thousands of people....

Don't fuck with the science team

all of this was manipulated and arranged by the G-man and his employer.

The combine forces on earth when Gorden shows up is basically just a garrison. No where near the entire combine. And because the portal was destroyed, the combine can no longer send reinforcements, they are cut off. And hoping they can't make such super portals themselves so they can come back.

I agree completely.

it also adds to the realism of the narrative, if it were to happen in real life the scale of the whole conflict is way too big for us to comprehend it let alone document it, think about it, we went from dominating the planet for thousands of years only for all of that to come crashing down in less than a day, we just wouldn't be able to process what the hell happened.

It’s called American politics

It'd be very hard to make the enemy as we as humans cannot fully comprehend the full force of the combine.

and I think the combines invading earth wasn't even their entire army

@@peanutzuz2241new alien weapons would be added

@@Hatenverit was like 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of their army

L E T S G E T R I G H T I N T O T H E N E W S

@@darkfireproject2102 oof

Shut up mortal, mortals aren't permitted to quote him.

Blackbird Sadly the combine is too strong nothing we can do to stop them

My fellow americans. There's ebola in America, which means we're screwed.

Ooh. I've never heard of that. It's like, a whole new perspective has opened.

But hey, they could've hacked it somehow like in Opposing Force.

I think black mesa fixed the one yeah?

@@znspyder Yeah, but they used a little nice trick for that and used that area in Crossfire.

Right? Lmao why would the military want to get into xen 😂

gold

The Star Wars Stop HOORAH!!!!!!!

I love that line!

The Star Wars Stop OORAH!

Hoorah!

He just beat them

THIS NEEDS A VIDEO

How would the world be like today if druids brewing magic potions were real?

Lmao

Weird position haha

Calm yo titties.

Nee.

It’s to bad this video isn’t 7 hours long

Nice Nagatoro pfp

@@gorogorogoro-chan Yeah the mangas doing good so far

I think they might be one of the most powerful forces in media, we can't even comprehend their full force.

Well a Tier Omega civilization is the highest tier on the Khardashev scale and they have the ability to create entire new universes. The Combine are strong, but I don’t think they are that advanced yet.

@@thefilipinokid3575 Yes, but if we our human brains can't comprehend their main force, the combine could be anything.

Rabbies Rat Eck needs a lot of Beer, and maybe some Maple Syrup.

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@@darthfenrir4892 Add vodka

Commie Sauce hello my child. You're my sauce

actual real woman that does exist it was 3 pm when it was uploaded tho

Oh Its 3:10 and I just discovered this channel...same?

There is a reference in portal s credit , that implies that glados shits herself by The thought of combine ' s dominion of earth , and prefers to stay inside , where they don t know of her , anyway combine surely found aperture science tech, as evidenced by many technologies typical of The enrichment centre now in The hands of the combine . with this i don t think that they found it , maybe other aperture facilities...

Which makes a lot of sense, because the combine use the high energy pellets right? Which was originally used by aperture

Not to mention apertures endless goldmine of portal technology

The british empire didn't use their special power *COLONIZATION*

lilol

No This is not the combine These are just temporary peace keepers

The "combine" we seen in half Life 2 are manipulated humans that have been converted into cheap brainwashed combat units with very low training They arent the real combine, rather a very cheap way to keep earth in check as they dont even waste their own soldiers

Sandwich_masterX stop

@@emergence109 why they want half life 3 so be patient

Sandwich_masterX it actually is now haha

If every comment is hearted, then no comment is.

HAHAHAHAHAhahaha!!

Nerdy Nachos 🤔🤔... what?

@@couldntfindaname966 you need a high IQ

Nerdy Nachos hmmm... u may be right 🤷‍♂️😒

To be fair, that was merely a token police force that Gordon fought, not the invasion force.

Get it. November 19th is its 20th anniversary and there might be a sale. Grab the Orange Box and Half Life, it's worth it.

@@sandwich_masterX. Thx for letting me know!

I played them out of order, starting with 2 and then Ep. 3 and then going to the first one. If you start at the very beginning, then play the other 2 games you will enjoy it. The story is completely unique and I really can't think of any other sci-fi universe even remotely similar in style or lore to the Half-life universe. It really makes you think about what is going on in the game and it may not give you a ton of information explaining a bunch of stuff outright, but it gives just enough info just so you can come to the proper conclusions (with your own spin on them too). Gameplay is solid as well, for a game so old it is amazing how well it plays still (in my opinion and i am sure others as well). Also the whole silent protagonist thing is actually pretty nice, besides the info already given about Gordan Freeman, it lets you come up with your own story in a sense. You should definitely play them, and if the graphics are a problem then I do believe the modding community for them has some graphic overhaul mods. anyways, just figured i would throw in my 2 cents.

There is no ep3 though ;_;

Johnson Meat Tower how the fuck did you play episode 3, are you a time traveler, and can you give me ep 3

Yep

noice

Looks great, nigh-realistic. Valve really knows how to make life-looking games. Can't wait to buy the beer I owned Gordon as Barney.

EckhartsLadder Damn man you should do some Warhammer battles Ecks you know we're fans of your channel as well hell even ships battles etc

T-70 X-Wing VS E-Wing PLEASE!!!!!

git prenkd

I’m doing that now lol

HAL 9000 i think that "The Spiffing Brit" did it already . =)

lmao

It was a fight. We got knocked out after seven hours of combat. Its supposed to be a refence to the six day war.

@@johnwest5957 I get that but I think we'd rather make the earth uninhabitable than let them invade us.

Kenneth Kates Don't forget the Mass Effect trilogy.

Joey Frye I did forget Mass Effect. Next video I will add it

@@kennethkates3140 keelah sa'lie

You could just edit it in?

@@battleoid2411 He meant in future videos.

@Edward Branton A strider, of course. The combine has modified and brainwashed soldiers, so there would be a 0% chance of some of them escaping or refusing to carry out orders

Ronan Linnett Where'd he go?

Roland Deschain where ever youtubers go when they're not making vids

Ronan Linnett But he has been making vids?

Roland Deschain nvm this is tradition I do this on all his new vids I catch

Ronan Linnett ah alright.

This unfunny joke is old And there's already a lot of shit to debunk this First of all, Gordon is fighting the combine OVERWATCH, not the combine MILITARY. Second, If that portal never closed, they'd be dead in less than an hour, since earth doesn't have a military force anymore. Why? Because the earth fought back the MAIN COMBINE MILITARY with their Trained Marines, Air force etc. not undertrained guerilla forces.