Advisors

Half-Life Series
#1

Who/what are they?
How are they killed?
How many are there?
Are they lethal?
Why do their tongues look like that?
How the fuck are we supposed to kill them?:fffuuu:
Speculate.

#2
  1. big worms
  2. by a giant bird
  3. they are everywhere
  4. no but they help your garden
  5. because that is actually their schlong
  6. see 2
#3

Giant maggots
Look at 6
More than enough
They are the “real” combine, of course they are
Because you touch yourself at night
Maybe its impossible, maybe not

#4

The combine leaders
With an ordinary gun, like any other enemy
A Lot
Yes, one of them killed Eli
Because it is the only biological limb on their body, so it is multitask
Sneaking pass their psychic awareness of your presence, like Dog did at the end of EP2.

#5

…I was actually serious.
For example, the advisors have strange symbols on their necklace-thing. This indicates they have a language. That combined with their power over the rest of the combine leads me to believe they are the oldest of the combine.

The only one that’s been killed so far was killed by dog. Dog seems to be the most powerful entity in the game. But how is freeman supposed to kill one?
(I’m presuming there’s a showdown in ep3)
The only way I can think of-- unless there’s a new gun-- is distracting the advisor while dog kills it. I also think they can be killed by vortigaunts, but I’m not sure.

I also counted 27 advisors, minus the one that was killed. The voritgaunt seemed to mention that he could kill them, however, so who knows?(Presuming valve keeps to the number in the citadel)

Technically, we don’t KNOW eli’s dead. Alyx was stabbed with the hunters…things, but she’s okay.

I really don’t know why their tongues look like dicks. I just really don’t. I’m guessing that was a joke in valve that went too far.

#6

They are the original Combine. Their dependence on technology has reduced them to limbless slugs. It’s why they create synths to fight for them.

And Eli is dead. It was a really emotional scene, Valve wouldn’t dampen it by having him survive.

Plus it SUCKED HE BRAINS OUT

#7

There was a thread a lot like this not long ago, discussing the nature of Advisors and their role in the Combine.

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=2742

#8

Did Dog kill one? I thought he just injured it…

#9

There’s no way to know.
As I recall, there was a scene cut from ravenholm where you had to run over adviser with this bulldozer-type machine.
Also, this thread answers several questions:
https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=2742&page=2

#10

Wait, what? There was no adviser in ravenholm. And no bulldozer either. They barely existed! In fact… I don’t think we even SAW one till the very end, on breen’s monitor, other than the static image during the teleport messup at the beginning in Kleiner’s lab.

EDIT: OHHH!! CUT from ravenholm. I sincerely thought that advisers weren’t even a shadow of a thought in their minds at that point…

#11

They are space slugs with an inane set of telekinetic powers and a need to enslave entire planets
They are susceptible to high EMF, thus you can kill them with a live electric wire with a current in excess of 12,000 volts
there are maybe a few thousand of them.
No shit they’re lethal, just take a look at what they did to poor Eli
their tongues look like that b/c it’s an extension of themselves used mainly to feed
we’re supposed to kill them by shorting out a nearby electrical control panel.

#12
  1. Leaders of the Combine, flying worms,ugly bugs.
  2. Use D0G.
  3. There are many of those.
  4. I.D.K.
  5. They eat that way. (ugh)
  6. Use D0G
#13

The advisor was just a placeholder. There was actually supposed to be a Big Momma pod there, spawning headcrabs until you destroyed it with the mining equipment.

#14

Ah well.
Maybe advisors are headcrabs who have spun cocoons and will someday hatch into a beautiful gunship.
:stuck_out_tongue:

#15

Killing one is certainly a daunting task

Maybe salt…

#16

that would have been really cool

#17

1: Giant space worms
2: They’re immortal, just like me.
3: There are ten of them
4: yes.
5: I don’t know I don’t care.

#18

Amen Ohio brotha’.

#19

Besides the “Kill”-animation looking as if Eli’s brains were being sucked out of his head, nobody survives such a huge blood loss directly from a cracked skull AND an uncontrolled fall from about two meters in mid-air. I mean, that was a fuckin blood-FOUNTAIN coming from the back of his head when the adivsor was attacked by dog.

#20

Since all the cool kids are doing it . . .

  1. Limbless, featureless, dull beige alien grubs from another universe, that have conquered countless worlds with their advanced technology and freaky mind powers.

  2. Probably millions. On Earth, I’d say maybe about a hundred.

  3. I’d say so.

  4. Why not?

  5. If you watch closely during the ending Eli appears almost unaffected by their telekinesis. Albeit with a certain amount of difficulty, he appears to be able to move reasonably freely within their influence before one of them knocks him to the ground with its mechanical arm, and even then it has to pick him up manually. Maybe the Vorts gave him special training, or something? If so, it’s possible Gordon might get some of that too.

Incidentally, since we’re on the topic - the stalkers appear to have a lack of cognitive abilities. A source of Advisor chow, perhaps?

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