PATIENT ZERO - A Half-Life Short [S2FM] 

Damned good job

Goddamn man, nice iob. You made something comparable to the originals created by Valve.

And a damn good job too, mate! I barely even recognize my own voice (Victor 9-2), I sound like an actual Half-Life character! Bravo.

Amazing Vocoding

Would you be willing to share a tutorial for the community so people could create their own fan films?

Now I'm sad he can't realistically do any of this full length without literally sacrificing himself to do so. Unless we crowdfund, but again I don't see it being fruitful I suppose.

for sure

amazing to see such talent

We are the movie 🤫👣🦘👍

@@greenbean2222 Money wont fix the issue he just needs more people to help

Gordon can chew through combine soldiers because he's experienced (fighting HECU and Xen), well armed and very well armored. I'd guess the average rebel is poorly equipped and armed, without much real combat skill.

Puts the city 17 uprising into some perspective. Imagine what the initial riots were like before it turned into street fighting. You can probably picture wall hammer units acting as riot shield teams against a crowd of citizens, up until some one pulls a trigger on someone. It also goes to show how inspiring Gordon Freeman was during his time in HL2. The guy not only blazed through the city on his way out, but took the fight to the combine itself Given the supernatural nature of his arrival, and no doubt that vortigaunts spoke of it, to the average citizen, Gordon was a godsend

@@nicholastuttle2445 this animation gives gordon an almost legendary stature, id like to think he doesn't chew through soldiers as much as outsmarting them, with him being a scientist and all that. fueled by PTSD and morphine the whole time.

@@nicholastuttle2445 To get a better feeling for realism, play HL2 with 50% capped health, no armor and maximum speed is walking. I once roleplayed in New Vegas with a realistic amount of gear (like completely realistic, what i would actually likely carry in that situation) and compared to a regular playthrough it was extremely hard.

@@nicholastuttle2445 Gordon can chew through Combine soldiers because he's the protagonist of a video game, it wouldn't be much fun if instead of 50 health points soldiers had 200 like Gordon, and could aim worth a damn.

Friendgame effective.

I think that’s why they don’t use the “friend-game” tactic anymore after HL:A (maybe)

They have slightly different voice procedures, too. The CPs is closer to that of IRL cops while those of Overwatch is closer to that of IRL militaries.

CP are human beings, they answer like humans would even after training. Combine soldier however is closer to biocomputer than human. "He" or rather "it" is shaped like human but under that armour there is nothing related to human. Sure there are smaller drones that prolly were engineered from regular people but if I remember correctly mostly if not all responses were preprogrammed into each unit (they dont think what to say but like a program shovel predefined answers that are closest to specific pattern - also vocal cords are expendable so there is only speaker left). Think of it like more of a bioterminator unit.

@@BOTmaster15 You're right in that Overwatch troops can't really be called a humans anymore in the traditional sense, but they are all made from regular humans. Mostly CPs that got "promoted" or actually volunteered. Transhuman soldiers are scary mfers, both in the way they think and look.

I m sorry but could you provide me with the specific example? I would really like to understand what you meant here

@@F.M671 at the start, around 0:13, you can hear the CPs talk. They had several “uhh” and “uhm” in their sentences, probably because they’re not used to it yet. Now skip to the part about the soldier. He speaks fluently and without any problem. Just like a robot.

I'd say it's even a level above what Valve did in HL:A.

Yeah life this is not valve lebel its beyond and far ahead

Valve doesn't even do cutscenes. This is beyond them.

Valve don't really understand how dark the world they have created is. They make the characters too cheerful for a world where there is practically no hope for a better future. Here the atmosphere is nailed perfectly.

​@@nsv8613 They understand all things perfectly, they just dilute the atmosphere and do not want to Half Life turned into a horror.

I'm glad but am genuinely surprised he was mercy killed. I genuinely felt bad at the scream. Even the gasps or random dying vocalizations from the CP made me feel bad. Goddamn it SFMs like this aren't added to some kind of art history list I'm gonna be upset cuz this is by all definitions art

​@@delmuswu-tangbroadnax9056the combine doesn't "mercy kill". They just kill.

Well he would have ultimately died because of blood loss, but yeah that scene really sent chills down my spine

​@@wll1500 he would still have died, but it would be more painful and longer

@@rach_66the point is that he eliminated the threat entirely so there was no risk of them surviving long enough to still shoot at him

It feels like the soldier says it out of some twisted sense of humor.

@@ETIL_ Standard procedure to filter out the dumbest targets, probably. Grunts in HL:Alyx do the same thing at one point.

HLA is only 5 years before HL2. This is only a year after that. But yeah, I really like the bad lying, trying to make themselves seem more human than they are.

@@eternal7912 Oh, I thought it was more because of how much the Combine progressed from HL:A to HL2

​@@czajkowski2352 I was merely correcting the "10 years since HLA" part (because this video is only 1 year after HLA), not so much how the Combine changed since then. In that regard, you're right.

The Combine commandos like the one here are pretty much super soldier tbh. Modified and programmed to fight, donning enough armor to shrug off most small arms, inhuman strength, reflex and durability. And yet they are just the local militants of the Combine, and not the main forces that defeated Earth in 7 hours. No wonder why only our main characters can stand a chance against them.

Now imagine how scary is Gordon Freeman.

They pretty much are - Combine soldiers are modified cyborgs. Your average combine soldier will probably have little issue overpowering the average man.

Yeah, people give the Overwatch soldiers shit for their AI and gameplay, but I've always thought that realistically, they would be quite formidable. More machine than man, with little in the way of emotion, and combat training programmed into their brain. They would be terrifying, not to mention the alien weaponry they use. I mean that plasma shotgun puts any real hand held gun to shame in terms of destructive power.

OTA are supersoldiers technically.

Or he's just lucky he managed to scavenge some slugs instead of buck or bird, haha.

It’s cool because in half life alyx the shot gun shells in the game are buckshot and when fighting the charger it takes several hits with it to kill it and seeing how this rebels shot gun got him in two shots was just amazing

They will have a pressure effect and will deal damage, but they absolutely will not penetrate it in the slightest

@@rewrite1239 Depends on the plates. And depends on the slugs as well. Lead slugs won't pierce the same as AP which are quite rare.

Entropy Zero makes shotgunners fit the "combine killer" description.

Damn you’re observant, these SFM projects are no joke when it comes to the little details.

another amazing detail is when the combine soldier shot through the wood into the guy, it filled the guy's head with wood splinters, feel like that's something 99% of animators would miss out on

Guess you can say… its a HALF life.

War is brutal over all hell we don't even need plasma weapons to do some wild shit. This mans animation skill and audio creation is amazing!

Imagine the HL2 city uprising with this level of carnage

I wish i had 4 people I know having free time at the same time. This short would be so much fun to do in live action.

@@Armin2012doom music

He's the hipster Master Chief!

for real. even those mines pack a huge punch as Gordon.

even for gordon freemen without a shit ton of luck, respawns, and the player with potential hundreds of hours of pure experience he's basically fucked

@@hashbrown_blitz8869 Yeah have you ever played Half-Life 2 in VR on hard with no loading saves? Yeah didn't think so. Even Gordon's fucked, he only survives because of the meta-knowledge the player provides him.

@@ozvoid1245 the player is basically demigod in games

That's more than annoyance, it's pain. The Combine had to leave that particular biological response intact. His plates soaked up most, if not all of that burst... But all that energy still has to go somewhere. It'd hurt like hell getting stitched like that, even if we're talking about "only" an intermediate cartridge and your armor stops full penetration. It is also possible at least one _did_ get through the armor or a gap between plates

Aww man, I wanted to keep it a secret.

@@TheParryGod Hahaha for real tho these are incredible, man.

E

Stray 2: Combine Forces

I still have nightmares about that cat

wow, it's you! and only 18 minutes ago

also yeah, definitely. i imagine that by hour 5 they'd most likely obliterated all of Earth's major armies, probably governments too. Though, Doctor Breen could have also had a part in it. I assume being the closest allowed him to communicate better, as well as being the only one willing to give the Combine terms that were agreeable to them. (ie basically slavery but I'm in control) but yeah, 1 day of full on conflict? They'd be lucky if any human buildings at all remained.

the Overwatch establishment on Earth most likely entails very little to almost nothing of what the Combine invasion of Earth was like since most of the policing entities on Earth are post-human troops and reversed engineered human assets/war machines. The Striders & Gunships (Synths) are the most likely to have been in the 7 hour war, yet the overall nature of what left the Overwatch to police Earth is a mystery. The raising the bar book described the Combine (probably in a general term to the collective race as a whole, or even it’s origin) as a “ever evolving synthetic virus”. Which is pretty significant since early concept art of the Combine synths would suggest that these alien entities constantly mimic and adapt technology against what they invade. Also evolving and weaponizing synthesis/biology. For example, the early gunship concept art seemed arachnid-like, with an implanted nose canon that was like a projectile machine gun instead of a pulse canon, which leads me to believe the gunship was a root of Combine synthetic creatures that permanently adapted itself to Earths environment while “mimicking” the tech of a military helicopter to hunt down human resistance. So that’s probably a good idea of what the Combine was like in it’s true nature, at least in the beta, but I’d like to think that its the same in retail, but the Combine influence on Earth suggests that they adapted and absorbed many human forms of medical logic and organization, primarily of course militarism of human characteristics. Which led to everything from the use of advanced A.I, radio connections and codes like a hive mind, and highly advanced armies of trans-humans soldiers to inject and sterilize human “malignants” of the likes. Everything in order with serial numbers, symbology, labels etc. In short, what the Combine was like before all that, most likely may have been very different to the peace keeping influence on Earth 20 years after the invasion. Probably like what the RTB book had described. A hyper-invasive, ever evolving synthetic virus. Evolving, assimilating, adapting… indifferent, brutal reconfiguration from the void… combine… humans were probably the first species that it encountered that were advanced in such a way. (The Combine apparently would rather discard humanity into forgotten extinction but their out of the box thinking is unique to them. The detection of local teleportation technology, & the alleged breakthrough of it would lead to the attempt of extracting it. Which is hard since it seems the only ones who could master the local teleportation is limited to just a few scientist from Black Mesa. The Combine could as easily siphon the entire population of a team of scientists to give them the tech, but with how abstract this situation is, it means the Combine Earth forces have to try and extract it by strangely forward means of hunting them down with infiltrate and destroy teams of post human troops. ironically, until absorbing human logic & intelligence, the Combine behaves like an immune system, while the humans opposing the Combine with their flexible & “magical” thinking is to the Earthbound Combine, a fatal disease that must be annihilated at all cost. An interesting & poetic way to see of how much a horrifying force like the Combine are so much as to be almost afraid of the free will, intellect & tenacity of humans… The Overwatch A.I literally enforces orders to Overwatch troops AND metrocops like as if they were white blood cells… “Sacrifice. coagulate. Clamp…” The cold and unfeeling response to troops being KIA… “Unit deserviced”… The Combines perception to humans unwillingness to be slaves and resist is akin to an immune system detecting the presence of cancer/disease… out of the systems control, spreading rapidly, a danger to the entire body… “amputate” the cancer from the body… Humanities will to be free & resists… their flexible “magical thinking”… to not be apart of the body… to potentially make it fall apart and die… That’s how threatened the Combine influence on Earth are of humanities distinct intellect… they’ve never came across such a species most likely. It’s so thought provoking that a leftover presence/influence of what is literally an inter-dimensional cosmic horror of a viral infection, once revolutionised by human science and logic, resembled the function of what they were supposed to infect and exploit, till it dies… that’s what the Combine presence is doing to earth. A virus that functions like a collective body, sucking a planet dead and dry… risking a deadly infection trying to extract a crucial technology, from something so uncertain and complex, unlike anything the immune system is used to… that’s why they were so brutal in their oppression. removing humanities ability to reproduce, yet the resistance, backed by higher forces could still topple the entire thing… Gordon would be that final nail in the coffin…) The goal to allow humanity to live on so that they could develop local teleportation is what made the Combine ghostly presence on Earth to reconsider some slow & indecisive process.. it’s very clear that the Combine itself is either very unmotivated/careless or unable to commit a heavy process on Earth to extract this alleged local teleportation… probably both. it’s possible the Combine views Earth as a side project handled by a satellite/ghost presence to undertake the slow extraction, given very slim resources to work with… like as if the Combine influence on Earth is really really hard to maintain on Earth, so the larger Combine body would rather focus on other things in its expansion… perhaps the Combine expansion is so large and distant from the Earth frontier that There wasn’t much focus or care for the operation on Earth, and many resources wouldn’t be needed to undertake the process to extract an alleged technology. I personally think the Combine for some reason swept Earth aside in negligence of any real effort to maintain the underfunded outpost, and just gave out the resources that they did for the assumed chance of extracting a critical technology. Back to the main subject. the Combine before Earth probably didn’t even use the concept of fielding a common symbols, since they were probably an inter-dimnsional horde of evolving, synthetic invaders that were more virus-like (that probably looked insect-like than anything else) than a hyper-organized, A.I driven force that resulted of the Combines contact with human logic and technology on Earth.

@@StalinSpokeYiddish this was actually really interesting, now i want more info on the combine before earth.., how their society functioned before arriving on earth. i think the rtb book proposes a really good theory for it.

Its even worse when you learn that all the citadels on earth (at least 24), were dropped from the sky through the portal storms all over the earth at the same time. Not only is dropping a 2 mile high building like a bomb a devastating kinetic attack, the citadels then erupted billions of synths and robots to assimilate everything, and they did this everywhere on the planet. There was no defensive choke point, no corridor to build through defences, earth was blindsided from all directions at once and genocided into submission. The combine you see in game is no more than a tiny security team performing counter-insurection. Earth is of so little value that the combine dont even keep their own soldiers there, they just recruit from the local population instead, just like real life when america sends "advisors" to recruit locals for counter-terrorism and maintain order without hardly any of their own resources. Thats why the advisors are called advisors in-game ;) theoretically they arent even high ranking members themselves, makes you wonder how far up the ladder goes.

That power armor Gordon is wearing must a MJILNOR prototype.... 😉

Good luck out there, Gordan!

@@arthurchadwell9267 it is called the Hazardous Environment suit, HEV suit for short, and it did get upgraded to have a shield generator along with faster movements and reaction time none to dissimilar with what Spartans can do. However to be honest… Spartans have better armor overall and a recharging shield.

@@shcdemolisher they don't have gordons crippling morphine addiction tho

@@conni4518 Morphine A D M I N I S T E R E D

I loved that scene too! The violence is on point👌 The second shot going through the wall and making a bigger hole also shows that the soldier takes no prisoners and instead makes sure everyone in his wake is dead.

Reminds me of sandstorm, the groans, screams and cries of your enemies is a sudden break from the carnage and gunfight that makes the game a fantastic one.

@@UnknownOps are you refering to insurgency: sandstorm or something else?

@@pixleplays305 yep, I’m referring to Insurgency Sandstorm

The camera angles the colour correction the expected door switch the close ups mise en scene and cinematography is outstanding, top notch high quality stuff.

State of malfunction and panic, death can hit humans the same way. But for something to be half machine half man... The kinetic factor is what draws out the "wiry abrubt death"

Kind of mercifully of overwatch to shut the unit down than have it suffer a long painfull death as its cybernetics struggle to keep it alive.

@@peterprokai1329 basicamente est esto: ia del cuerpo combine: puede mas? nope? goodbye **sonido de cierre**

@@peterprokai1329 Though this is more of a positive sideeffect more than anything. If anything overwatch pulls the killswitch so that no information can be forcefully extracted.

iirc they're actually still dying and drowning in blood, but Overwatch just recognizes the sound as unuseful radio noise so they're just wailing in agony, all sound being drown out by the screech of their vitals monitors flatlining, while their transponders are remotely shut off by her to clear the air waves. as heavily modified and twisted by metal and wires as they are, they're still largely living beings. despite the surgeries replacing their eyes, ears, vital organs, digestive tracts, the combine has yet to find a suitable and convenient artificial replacement for blood, bones, sinew and brains. anything alive still takes a minute to turn off after you pull the plug.

First comment pointing it out I belive. Good eye!

@@TheParryGod And thank you sir for the great animations! They are unworldly! Thank you so much for the recognition of Bulgaria too!

@@TheParryGod Which furthers my belief that city 17 is in Sofia Bulgaria!

It is set in a fictionalized version of Sofia. The map of HL:A is almost a 1:1 copy of a section of the city.@@crismaster7498

@@TheParryGod Thanks I didn't know that. I have heard a lot of counters to that like the 7 Days newspapers that say there are local are in Russian and the languages are very different from Bulgarian and almost unintelligible. I do not know if it is a mistake by valve but after all it is a fictional city. Great video though and I am still finding new details everytime I rewatch them.

Es interesante como saben antes de la operación, en qué casos ya saben cuándo van a ganar y cuando van a perder 💀

And now imagine you are beeing sent against Anticitizen One. He already took out several squads of soldiers without breaking a sweat, what the fuck are you going to do?

Ofcourse not freeman with a metal stick

Couldn't agree more!

@@jasperzanovich2504 realistically? Shoot him with a pulse round and he bleeds to death since they are insanely powerful and human tech that isn’t the size of an APC wouldn’t do shit to stop it.

Slugs aren’t that great at penetrating compared to something like most rifle calibers, but it’s still the best they’ve got. Good catch.

@@FootOfOrion I know, but he's not using a rifle, or at least not THAT kind of rifle (the shotgun might be rifled though), so slug rounds are probably the best thing available given the weapon he has. The rest of the rebels have pistol caliber weapons, and the one guy with an assault rifle was the first to die, so the guy with the shotgun was really their best chance.

@@xxfalconarasxx5659 btw that shotgun guy looks like the last survivor from Anti-Citizen. same model, and have the same tattoos on his face.

​@XLINE Ye it's the same dude

The shotgun round looks unusual. Considering we've seen the shotgun guy earlier in Anti-Citizens, he must have took it from the Combine Charger and that's why it worked against the heavily armored soldier

at that point he deserviced his manhack and threw it to off floor relocation

Well, combine shooter a less is a amenazar.

Play on hard, you'll stop believing that.

And as well, the size and stature, and the weight - the metrocops, well, the truck shifts under them as it will, sure. But the soldier makes a dedicated carrier for metrocops and prisoners creak and groan on its suspension as he moves. He's got that front seat not just out of leadership priority and respect from the others, but because he's physically completely different to the point that he'd change the vehicle's handling on a side seat. And it stays apparent later, whether it's his very, _very_ distinct footsteps during the final parts, or just him towering over the others and having a shape that doesn't look quite right at times despite still looking like just a bulky human at others. And his reactions in the other scenes, like when they're all running and he has notably different body language, more controlled than the others.

@@ultmateragnarok8376 To put it simply, he’s built different

@@TheGamingToaster not simply, literally too lol.

@@ultmateragnarok8376 Also notice how as soon as the exit the vehicle, the CP´s draw their weapons and nervously scan the area, where as this big motherfucker just gets out of the truck zero F´s given. He doesn´t give a shit if he lives, gets shot or dies in the process. Man´s there on a mission. And he´ll get it done one way or the other.

@@ultmateragnarok8376 what’s a spikewall?

I like how it also sounds like agonal breathing considering how Combine Soldiers looks like more like a corpse.

I think it would've been a lot creepier if the soldier was able to use it's vocoder to mimic a normal human voice, only to have it distort on the last couple of words.

The way you can't tell, when it turns to shoot the rebel with the MP5, whether the sound it's making is agonized grunts from the bullets, sounds of exertion from moving with that damage being dealt to it, or just expression of anger at being attacked and interrupted during a transmission - there's not enough there to determine what it's thinking. It's impossible to read, making it only the more uncanny and inhuman.

His breathing sounds like it's being done through multiple plastic tubes. It's super fitting, kudos to the sound designer(s)

@@thegrayseed2792 combine soldiers can't talk normally anyway, their vocal cords are linked directly to their radio to still be able to talk even while being out of breathe (since there's no air in their sentences, they don't have a recognizable voice between themselves)

I mean it would make sense for Combine Overwatch units to make use of non-verbal communication like nodding and handsigns Makes it very usefull if the combine wants to sneak in somewhere or coordinate a silent ambush It's already a tried and true method irl so for the combine it makes total sense

@@gyrtiasnecrotaros4710 True, you can even see the soldiers in HL2 doing hand signals.

Nonverbal communication is super important in any military setting. You can see the soldier doing a hand signal at 4:38 to tell the CPs to stack up at the door

Interesting perspective

After-all, just because they're augmented doesnt mean they're stupid

Honestly, I think if the Protectors rebels were prepared, they could've won, no casualties. There weren't any nigh-unkillable death gods in the squad that time, unlike here. Just speculation, though.

@@TDOPB i completely agree with that. If only the Protectors crew had destroyed that scanner, they wouldn't have been wiped out

It's like poetry. It rhymes.

I'm friends with one of the rebels, I have to say I am so proud of him. Very good job throughout! Splendid!

Hi vaati

I need more...this was just too good...

seeing you here is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Bruh ain't no way

Thank you very much for the kind words and your support! I hope to continue making these for as long as I can.

@@TheParryGod What is your end goal?

@@theturkishbadger No matter the end goal, he's already acheived a lot.

Bro Ur a bot ??

@@Kazuyamuchi yes

Holy shit your right

Dude I'm glad you pointed that out, that's actually a really cool detail.

You are a certified Valve fan for understanding this

Glad my voice performance sold the moment, haha.

@@TheParryGod Absolutely amazing my guy

no, nono NONONO- wait wait wait.. WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT D:

A bit misleading when you refer to the civil protection as CPU, considering how combine soldiers are humans that actually operate with a combine CPU (computer chip) inside their brain. Civil protection being regular humans are referred to as just CP.

1, We don't know what's inside the head of a combine soldier so what you're saying is pure speculation. 2, I wouldn't think a singular person will get confused by the comment as computer parts can't scream in fear to my knowledge. @@PhamvanDong

I don't think it's exertion so much as it is pain from the multiple wounds he's sustained by that point

his armor deflected all of the bullets. dont think if he had any pain@@wll1500

Or he just cant bend over because of all that armor... Some of you guys are reading way too deep into these scenes lol

@@MrSHURIKENCHO yes that is also true

@@user-oj1zr7wx9z people in any fandom do it, but these videos are full of comments with people not knowing what int he fk they are even trying to imply. Just trying to be seen as "observant" or something

​@@MrSHURIKENCHOyeah

@@MrSHURIKENCHO honestly that’s fair

They don't in HL2, only Alyx.

ngl even if he really meant it, the voice would be scary enough to keep me hiding lmao

It’s probably a phrase they are programmed to say when they lose sight, a creepy machine trying to imitate behaviour but failing from never bothering to be sincere p.

@@sgt.eclair the hgrunts actually do in HL1 through the VOX announcement system

@@naturesquad9174 Those are humans though tbf

Made him sound like nothing more than a dying beast, lacking any humanity whatsoever.

And the weapon blast sound is extremely well done, really feels like it packs a punch. got ptsd from that thing just from watching the video

It feels weird though because for me I rooted for the combine here there the bad guys yeah but it feels good to see the combine military win since there usually made a mockery of.

Right? I immediately noticed the AKS-74U, it would make sense there would be quite a collection of Soviet arms in City 17, as most reference sources for the art team were straight from Sofia, Bulgaria, a country that was a very loyal satellite state to the USSR. Their army consisted of almost all Soviet equipment even by the 7 hour war.

not to mention the different between height of the CP and the Combine solider.

unless youre alyx and have more plot armor than barney in blue shift

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 The games would be quite infuriating if they played like real life. They are power fantasies.

@@TheParryGod grai+ diabolical mode proves that

by the time hl2 happens they've taken all the actual good stuff offworld to fight other wars, leaving only what they thought was necessary to hold earth

@@MenachemSchmuel we all know that spikewall's shotgun ain't nothing against HEV Suit

@@MenachemSchmuel woosh

@@naturesquad9174 you dont know what a woosh is

@@naturesquad9174 That isn't a whoosh

(human) pitbull

is this short acted or fully animated? - its so good I can't intuitively tell

@@theroyle7098 Animated lol

Also he was panting at 6:53

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Damn I should've used my main to comment this, oh well.

to be fair they're literally made to be mostly robot with limited sentience for creativity, so it's gonna take some punishment for it to go down and its easier to armor

@@weirdgamer9566 They are not being more robotic in reactions, not slower, but much more faster, augmentation was supposed to make them less humane, no sense of fear, sorrow, or doubts, clean serving of orders, also the elite combines, as we're said in lore, can be respawned via mind keeping shit in citadel or elsewhere. Also part of the augmentation is biotic other is mechanical, they are not cyborgs or mutants, they are very good combination of it, machine and flesh. They still eat and drink since they operating as organic being, what Is more confusing how working synthetic airships, drons and striders?

I believe that most ( if not all ) combine soldiers and up are vat grown with personalities imprinted on them from successful soldiers that were either captured or turned collaborator during the first years of occupation, once the combine got what they thought they needed from the planet they exported most acquired assets offworld to fight in their multiversal wars, after that, they subjected the remaining humans to a slow and painful extinction

Or even a TV show

@@jackdaniels5071 OR ANYTHING THAT IS CONTENT, I LOVE THIS UNIVERSE I NEED TO KNOW MORE!

@@littlefrank90 even a third game if that's too much to ask for

No you don’t. They’ll absolutely ruin it by making Gordon a transgender black person

​@@OneFreeMan17oh yeah, i forgot about the *MODERN AUDIENCES*

we only heard one shot, so tom is still alive.

It's nice symmetry as well - they're both stuck in the same situation on opposite sides of this. The Combine forced it to be this way, but while one of them joined and the other rebelled, neither can really change anything.

Nice catch

@@ultmateragnarok8376 Well said.

Child po-

​@@ammielmarcos4947not funny

Sent fucking shivers down my spine. Brutal.

@@Hanfgurkenhasser agreed my brother. agreed.

Definitely

It sounds like Tyler1 :D

@@contrast_editing tyler 1 should play half life alyx, i think it would make for some funny moments, especially when fighting Jeff

That's quite the praise, haha. Thank you. Very glad you enjoyed it.

@@TheParryGod It's really divine, we are waiting for more similar content!

That head model is actually from RE3 remake. Not sure if it's a reused one from RE2 but probably.

@@TheParryGod I was close, nice choice of head models, good sir.

Thank you so much for the kind words and the support! Glad to hear these had such an impact on you. Good luck with your future projects!

Wait it's the same guy? Goddamn bro survived like 3 videos now lmao

Yeah, I noticed that too! I love these little bits of continuity between the videos. Makes it feel that much more alive.

I don't think It's wallhammers chestplate. Wallhammer was way too big for that. Looks more like an ordinal's chestplate. Also we see that he gets captured after anti-citizens in one of his other videos, so if he took it from wallhammer it would have been confiscated. The ordinal chestplate would have to have been acquired after he escapes custody.

Man's bloody tough then, surviving overwhelming odds with no protective suit nor protection from a superior being is very impressive

@@eyesack6845 didn't they turn him into a stalker? I saw a hint of it in the same video where he was being beaten up by the CP

This is fan made? 😢 I wanted this to be a real game coming out soon

Oh same. Literally everything theparrygod has made is canon in my mind.

@@johnconnor7501 huh?

Valve should hire him! Perrygod gonna be the next Marc Laidlaw.

A movie for the new installment of the hl series would be amazing

I hope they don't based on what happened to Syama Pedersen's "Astartes Project" after being hired by Games Workshop. Dead silence 💀

@@lucjanpakulski1083 GeeDubs sucks, and has a bad anti-fandom reputation. I have less distrust for Volvo

@@Horny_Fruit_Flies This, Valve as a company is very hands off. The exact opposite of GW which puts mandates on what mods can be on the Total War workshop.

@@lucjanpakulski1083 nah they wont. valve isnt like gw in that respect. source: look at all of the sfms that exist. in fact, source film maker is valve's tool for making their trailer animations yet look at how valve was like here, we'll give you our tools for free, now go ham.

I also noticed that.

He have his orders, and that is matters, since failure is leading to utilisation of failed unit and rebuilding him. So he is not gonna rest till work is done.

Yeah, I always love when SFM animators show off the difference between the Metro Cops (who are just people in the suits) and the other Combine Soldiers who have actually been "upgraded" by the combine

@@Freelancer837 Yeah, that's why I really enjoyed the police station segment from the beginning of Entropy Zero 2; it was cool just seeing what these guys get up to when they aren't out on duty.

bro sitting like the fucking black ops logos

THORAX??? BRUH HE TOOK OFF HALF OF HIS RIBCAGE

bro why did you say thorax like that man a bug?

@@potatolord7284 It is technically accurate. The chest is the Thorax :P

@@creamboyfuengshwei Thorax means ribcage area

@@potatolord7284cuz anti-citizens are an infestation of bugs xD

It honestly makes me want to see a true team based multiplayer shooter between the combine and resistance (more tactical and lore focused than HL2DM) where you can use each sides' advantages and strengths to either feel unstoppable with combine might or feel like an underdog outwitting impossible odds as a rebel

But that scream from the mp5 rebel made me feel horrible for the rebels

@@hatti... Imagine being the Combine and unlocking a Strider like a UAV powerup. And we control it by miming it's legs with our fingers with the motion controllers.

Oh wait, I'm supposed to root for rebels?!

The combine look cooler and are absolutely brutal, I’m rooting for them.

Damn didnt even respond anyway you are very kind for donating

@@bingus1895You got a good point!

@@sirbenedict6635 he usually responds im just surprised the one he didnt respond to was a dono

@@bingus1895 was this not $250? I’m not saying he’s a douch or anything just disappointing a little.

@@sirbenedict6635 250 Argentinian Pesos, or about $1.25 USD / €1.18 EUR.

One mine killed only two of CP units, while 3-rd "Respawned", Spike only lost his manhack drone, barely give a shit to any shot he received, only thing that actually hurt him was the slug shell that was directly shoted at his eye, and still, if he was a bit more durable or wound less lethal, that guy would be another bloodstains on dust covered floor.

@@user-CPU-APF Imagine two Spikewall soldiers like him. *shudder* This rebel squad only fought a literal patrol team yet lose 3/5 (or 4/5 even, given the silence at the end) of it's members. And not even a full team, they were taken out by a single, lone, soldier. Really hammered the fact that if the Combine wanted the rest of mankind dead, they would have done that already.

I like the line" Why is there *a soldier* with them?" They already knew a single soldier is a serious issue

@@VGLounge An regular soldier, not the elit or heavy armd one! They would just get the hell out of there.

This is why Gordon Freeman is built differently

The same with those roller mines - without the gravity gun you actually have no way of getting rid of them.

Well when it came to the hoppers u could just easily dispose of them with a few shots, which is how I dealt with them because I was too lazy to pull out the gg

​@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182you can get rid of em with explosives in my first playthrough of half life I did not know that the grav gun could pick up roller mines so I used grenades to destroy them

​@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182and you can let them bounce off you until they hit water, in gmod I found out water can destroy them.

I would have added them in water hazard

Well the humans can't. Combine don't have to worry about that, they are bioengineered to no longer need leg day. This is why the rebels are doomed without Freeman or at least without Hazard Suits.

cant wait for that one!

That combine soldier was an special unit

elites are not canon to HL:A i think

@@hcpsmansdddeglm ok, so? This is clearly an elite, he has a skull insignia

​@@bl4ckrabb1the isn't an Elite Soldier, pretty sure he's a Spike Wall unit

Yeah that was so badass. And how half of it sort of lags behind as it turns. Really brilliantly done

I don't think it was angry, due to having everything non-combat related removed from it so emotions would be removed too. It's probably just its body being pumped up with drugs to increase movement speed, awareness, and reflexes so the body has to compensate with harder breathing.

@@DolphinsAreWeird Or he just got the wind knocked out of him. I mean, shit hurts.

spikewall does not seem too human, you should look at its general body shape at the beginning where its visible from all sides and the joints when it walks

If you run it back frame by frame, at 6:18 when it zooms up to Spikewall before he locks his shoulders and engages the MP5 rebel, you can see blood spurting from gunshot wounds in his lower and upper back. I think the recoiling/hunching was from pain before his biobag got painkillers and stimulants into him.

@@DolphinsAreWeird While the Transhuman soldiers' humanity is heavily suppressed, it still exists to some degree. In the game Alyx, the soldiers can all laugh out of sadism. In Half Life 2, the soldiers can panic and are apparently affected by speeches if that one speech by Breen in Nova Prospeckt indicates anything. The Universal Union may change a lot of an individual, but at a certain point, it's just not feasible to remove all of a subject's humanity, assuming they could at all. It's probably ideal to at least retain a few human traits for optimal performance while suppressing the other ones.

so horrifying when you're not a scientist with a crowbar

​@@squingussquingle or the daughter of eli vance

combine: we employ advanced military tactics and use high energy weapons and bulletproof armor, no rebel can take us out orange science man: *lightskin rizz stare and clicks M2 with shotgun*

@@hatti... tell me youre a zoomer without telling me youre a zoomer

@@TannyWanny God I fucking hate the degenerate slang the latter half of my generation came up with.

Yeah, idk if spikewall is a canon since this is the only time i had ever seen one but it seems to be a wall hammer combined with an ordinal. It has the heavy shotgun but uses cells instead of shells(kinda like the ar1 ordinals uses but a shotgun), Has access to manhack(s), decently mobile, seems to be the Squad leader, good armor(except the head). But minus the shield of WH.

@@gront5172 I believe its meant to be a more HL2 like version of the Wallhammer, so like a newer model after HLA.

@@dr.gorgeous the time this animation is set in is a year after the events of HL:A (but probably different time line). So it would make sense.

Is this part of some game? Ancient geek here. A little help?

@Stefan Schleps The half life franchise

I second this! Elite animation!!

You're perfectly on point. The emphasis on the Unions pure power through a single unit alone is shown beautifully in this SFM. And I believe the ONLY reason Freeman lives for as long as he does is due to aid from a time manipulating entity (G-man) whom is constantly paving the way for his success. And an Elite animation would be a real treat.

Where do you find all this HL lore? The game hardly expounds on it and there are no novels or other supplementary literature beyond the game.

Freeman is him

The soldiers are basically just modified humans with implanted memories/training/combat experience. And yeah Freeman is basically the messiah destined to free humanity with the player controlling him so he obviously has plot armor, so the combine seems much more incompetent in Half-life 2. Either that or the modifications made later on (10 years after half life Alyx, where supposedly many of the rebels have been stomped out, maybe the combine synths remove more of their soldiers "faculties" so there's no way they could turn on the combines back, but also making them much more incompetent in combat (because they can't think for themselves). You have to remember that in the universe, the CPs are people, and the combine soldiers are the modified synth troops. The elites even more so. During half life alyx the soldiers are probably somewhere in between, with the combine still figuring out all their modifications etc. Even with the promise of rations, seeing your family etc, you'd have to imagine a large number of civil protection deserting or betraying their units because they're literally helping to stomp out any hope humanity has left. Which is quite demoralizing to anyone but a straight up psychopath. Anyone reading this should really consider playing Entropy Zero and the sequel. It's on steam and is about this very exact thing. Basically a guy who is just a straight up warrior and also super loyal to the combine (they are *also* promising him his wife or something in return, but he does hate humanity) And they end up making a bunch of copies of him. In the sequel he wakes up as an elite, supposedly the "last" of his clones (we assume the rest had been killed by rebels and/or Gordon Freeman) but they have, in a last ditch effort, risked it all by returning him his "faculties" basically making him a thousand times more effectiv, to hunt down Dr. Mossman