>be the combine>you are an incomprehensibly large, multiversal alien empire with nigh-limitless resources at your disposal>somehow lose to a bunch of dumb, hairy apes that still use projectile weapons
>>748979620>The billionth thread of retards not understand the distinction between Combine the galactic empire and the augmented humans enforcing the Combines will on EarthThe actual combine conquered the world in seven hours, its almost like you didnt play the fucking game.
>>748979620They kicked the shit out of our entire planet in like 3 hours.
>>748979620If the US can use to rice farmers and sheep herders, and the Roman Empire can lose to hunter-gatherers in mudhuts, then the Combine can lose to humans. An empire isn't gonna spend its full power on a tiny threat it's not taking seriously. They're probably fighting a war on an infinite amount of fronts, since they're conquering the entire fucking multiverse
This is human collaborator on your pictureEarth was conquered by alien forces
>>748979837this post was fact checked by Dr. Breen
>>748979837Humanity winning against the Combine in any scenario is stupid. After the Seven Hour War, the Combine could've easily just euthanized most of mankind and then enslaved/brainwashed anyone still standing. Allowing humanity to retain free will while forcing them to live in a totalitarian dystopia is just asking for constant uprisings since the populace obviously isn't going to be happy living in conditions like that.
>This is the future Breen wants for humanity
>>748980516Well, they nailed it. Combine soldiers look very believable with that full coverage of thick textile armor. It's like a bomb suit only they can still move around easily.
>>748980692This is fan made, a lot of this is not canon
>>748980741That's where Breen came into it, to allow humanity to be integrated into the collective instead of just simply wiped out.
>>748980581Not to be all like 'the concept art is better' but they really went with the minimal number of polygons for the final model, lol.
Pick up that can, citizen.
>Citizen notice: Failure to cooperate will result in permanent off-world relocationHow is this even supposed to be a punishment for CPs?
>>748979837yeah the TRANS ARM oppressed the human race after the war. real subtle gabe
>>748980741The combine can easily put down every rebellion that manages to beat their slave occupation force. They probably even like when this happens because it means more military funding.
1. The combine haven’t been defeated yet, technically.2. It wasn’t just humans at work it was also Vortigaunts, various Xen flora/fauna, and Gman.
>>748981242>The combine can easily put down every rebellion that manages to beat their slave occupation forceClearly fucking not if the games are anything to go by.
Earth being healthy in Portal 2 implies the Combine lost
>>748981381Did you ever watch The Village by M Night Shayamalan?
>>748981048Considering that they are multiversal: Who the fuck knows what type of world they will plop the beat cops?
>>748981381Portal isn't canon
>>748981381>Portal 2 shows a massive wheat field stretching to the horizon>Combine Harvesters are used to harvest wheatwhat did gaben mean by this
>>748982345>>748982669I'm still mad they never ended up using this design.
>>748982743>get promoted>in addition to 2 (TWO!!!) extra rations of nutrient paste a day, you also get a swagged out little cape
>>748982843>>748982743I like it, but I understand why they didn't use it. It's too fancy and too elegant for the end stage of the combine soldier. At that point they've had all their humanity replaced, so decorations are superfluous. They're more like drones than people
What do these guys do all day?
>>748980692even if this is fanmade, it's likely pretty close to what valve was going for.the contrast between the modifications and the fact that they still act like humans with fear and sense of humor is hilarious to me, but also makes them more unsettling as a concept. you could be one of these and still have a relatively human experience, but you'd never know for sure what thoughts are yours and what got uploaded into your brain. you also could not ever see your own mutilated face, because your vision devices are attached to the faceplate that covers your face. you'd first need to detach your "eyes" from your mechanical optic nerve, then remove the gas mask, then remove the underlying faceplate, but then you'd be blind and unable to see yourself. did valve seriously think of that? also, the mechanical eyes are designed so that they can be popped out of the gas mask without ever removing the mask itself. that means you could get shot in the face and have your eyes destroyed, and you could just dig out a pair of new eyes from a vest pouch and pop them in. i've never seen more thought put into cyborg soldiers in a video game.
>>748983697design propaganda posters
>>748980516love these pillow shaped niggas>>748980786yeah they're pretty great, thick fuckin armor on the parts that matter. the dick doesn't matter if you're already a combine soldier but you've got some very important arteries in the legs so i can get the crotch panel too>It's like a bomb suit EOD suits are great for silhouette stuff, you can even see they've got some of the collar going on too but if they made it taller their heads wouldn't fit. i like how the top part of the armor has some little wear lines and slight indentation from being pushed down for the helmet
>>748980692Why solid armor in the arms but only kevlar for the torso?
>>748982345>Elites get not just better guns but a total douchebag popped collar
>>748982743I don't like the asymmetry or the oven-mitt undersuit.
>>748979620The forces left behind on earth are the low-rank janitors. Episode 2 makes you shut down the portal which would bring their full giganigga military to stomp humanity again.
>>748979620>be white>get invaded by blacks, indians, muslims, chinese, and slowly watch your homeland and culture get erasedReality is always stranger than fiction
>>748982743He looks like a porta potty
use case?
>he fell for the "combine is real" propaganda oof
>>748980741play the game. The Combine is allowing some controlled rebellion so they can study human tech. The whole thing about them is that all their tech is stolen since they can't come up with anything original.
>>748990048would be a kino twist, that the Combine was just the US government all along.
>have all this cool fucking lore>don't do shit with itAt least fans are filling up that rolehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAoFQ2OmG4whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdeJ-uRrkI
>>748989996Big Breen Cock?
>>748989954Can't help but love them even though I know that underneath the armor it's just a mutilated anorexic woman
>>748990472the anorexia while still having meaty ass, thighs, and pussy showcases her top tier gene base and superhuman fertility
>>748990156Just you wait until Half Life 3 releases in 5 years
>>748979620The combine in the game are basically backwater cops overseeing a podunk town while they're strip mining the planet. They pulled out their big stuff after the seven hour war. Half-Life 2 happens fast enough to where we can close the portal before they can get reinforcements. The Combine in HL2 were mostly comprised of local "volunteers" and stuff from earth. It was made domestically which is why it's low tech compared to the higher end bio-mechanical horror shit.
>>748982494bread makes combine brap. they love their braps.
>>748989996They don't really seem like Barney's type
>>748980778>LET'S GO GRANDPA!!!
>>748979620Here is a quick summary since it seems you don't understant what happened.>Combine arrives to earth and tames it in 7 hours >could have done it sooner or outright just anhinilate us but they were far too interested in our local teleport technology + breen managed to strike a deal of slavery in exchange of our resources and joining them >combine left behind some advirsors to supervise earth and some weaponry to kept us controlled >combine soldiers are just the equivalent of mall cops and we don't see anything related to their real army until the introduction of the hunter's wich is pretty much just their scout division>the combine wasn't defeated by the end of ep 2, we just cut off their link to the main combine homeworld wich left the units stationed in earth as stranded>earth now top priority is destroy the remaining combine units stranded and hide themselves incase of retalation.
>>748979620>>somehow lose to a bunch of dumb, hairy apes that still use projectile weaponsYou mean the apex of humanity armed to the teeth with the apex of human technology and backed by what is possible a 4D humanoid creature, a rogue member of their species, or a human from the future with incomprehensible technology in addition of a foreign alien race with magic, time/energy/special manipulating powers.
>>748979620just do what they did in battlefield earth and teleport nukes into combine HQ or something
When the fuck is that Raising the Bar reprint supposed to come out? It's been almost two years since the announcement
>>748980946Well back then everyone had potatoes for computers
>>748990634this november, i believe
>>748991285>When the fuck is that Raising the Bar reprint supposed to come out?when HLX gets announced
>>748980741Isn't the idea that the Combine are so vast Earth is just a footnote to them and they might not even notice a rebellion? Kinda like in Xeelee Sequence where the ICoG sends 30 trillion soldiers to drive the Xeelee out of the Galaxy only to find out that the whole time they were fighting an automated outpost that was part of a single Xeelee autist's side project and only won because the Xeelee in question had other things going on and didn't care enough to crush humanity personally.
>>748985651they'll never be 4 popped collars cool
Obviously they aren't the real Combine, but the earth forces lost because they were comically evil assholes who couldn't even be bothered to fix anything after the invasion while treating the remaining human population even worse than the average 40k imperial citizen.Of course like 90% of the remaining humans will rebel when you beat them to death for looking at a metro cop for more than two seconds.
>>748979837>The billionth thread of retardsthe only retards are subhumans like you
