i figure we’ll just get regular white combine troops. And as much as I dig the combine android ideas, if the Combine had androids they would have used them in the first place.
Also I wonder if Advisors are able to survive in the cold.
Probably, they seem like balls of fat and brain
Well take it like this- in order to survive where a human brain can’t Breen possessed the body of an Advisor in order to make good on his escape.
I don’t think a little snow (SNOW, Guffaw!~) is going to bug an interdimensional space worm from the most powerful military force in the universe. Plus, I think they’re important to the plot or sumthin sumthin’
Oh, and, in before: THATS JUST SPECULATION- - - MAN.
Advisors wearing fur jackets.
probably just survive on their own fat. like a whale.
i wonder if anyone’s ever brought up the idea that maybe…just MAYBE “Advisers” are not lifeforms by themselves. The Combine are made up of of synthetic aliens-machine hybrids and all kinds of mixed-race abominations. Who’s so say that these Advisers aren’t just another organic vehicle or husk. i don’t think Dr.Breen transferred his consciousness to a host body so much as he simply adopted a new way of getting around. Like climbing into a vehicle of sorts, which may or may not have fused with his current organic body.
Which means we COULD meet Dr.Breen, human and whole later on in the game.
As we already know, the Combine are called this because they are literally a combination of life-forms from different planets, dimensions, worlds, etc. Take for example the overwatch, CPs, headcrab zombies, striders (organic tissue fused with metal machinary) and other beings we’ve been shown. imagine if you will that each Adviser works like a protective shell or vehicle that different races can use universally to ensure their safety and mobility on other worlds…including cold environments.
in short, Breen’s outburst at the end of HL2 may not have been that he had to give up his current bodily state. He may just have hopped aboard a new organically-made ship he was hesitant to mess with. How many of you would be willing to hop in and fly a plane without training? …especially if it could potentially involve forfeiting the use of certain bodily features. Your genitals for example. :fffuuu:
-Kawai Tei-
Luger: “Didn’t you die?”
Becker: “I thought this was the sequel.”
Since this is the arctic (or antarctic, or other frozen wasteland), I’d like to see some sort of aquatic synth that attack Gordon as he’s making his way across. Tough chance though.
Half-frozen zombies that shatter, Terminator 2-style, when you shoot them, would be great too.
My theory is that G-man IS a synth. The Combines attempt to infiltrate the human race. Doesn’t anyone notice his eyes seem extremely odd for a huma, almost combine in their colouring
Gman’s got mirror eyes?
anyway, I wasn’t speaking of Combine w/androids. In the level in portal with the speaking turrets, Military Androids are alluded to by GLaDOS.
on the subject of the supposedly late Dr. Wallace Breen, I could see an advisor-breen hybrid with an arm that has fused onto the gravity gun as the final boss battle in Ep 3
I’d like to see a badass flamethrower.
…That melts displacements with snow materials and anything else with a snow/ice material! 
ah crap… that’s why Episode Three takes so long time. Valve is remaking the source engine to include dynamic displacements.
Maybe Valve finally found a use for the Cremator. Give those nasty things a few hefty ice-melting flame-throwers and let them loose. Melting ice/snow would be a pretty sweet game mechanic. Like digging through sand in Mario2.
-Kawai Tei-
Christ, I’ll be surprised if they release it this Era
I’d rather they took 5 Years and made an awesome game like Half-Life 1/2 instead of taking 3 years to create a half-decent Episode containing 3 chapters.
They should just abandon all games that don’t have anything to do with the Half-Life Universe and completely focus on that, I mean just look at Left 4 Dead, no story at all and all levels are just the same thing.
Or they should release a Half-Life MMO with a story system similar to The Old Republic’s to let us control our own Story.
I think we’re all over the release date shit at this point.
This game exists for the story and it’s component parts, so comparing it to Left 4 dead which centers around game play is a bit redundant. But what gets me, everyone is all like ‘Oooh shit man Portal make Portal 2!’ and like ‘Half life man do more half life!’ and were like ‘Team Fortress rocks dude! it fuckin rocks! Can’t wait til you start updating Left 4 dead!’
So what do they do? Well they get rid of achievement based updates and produce the first timely sequel in their companies history for the one game in their library no one asked for.
So fuck dude, throw us a bone, just finish up half life already.
A sex scene would be appropriate.
I want Gabe Newell to congratulate us for waiting over 10 years for the game to end by having Gordon Barney and Adrian Shepard run a train on his on screen avatar.
I am just bitter
Gordon Freeman must chose to destroy or save the Borealis.
Any time for a funeral for Eli? 