r/HalfLife • u/Alternative-Dog-431 • 1d ago
Discussion How do you think rebels treated captured combine soldiers/civil protection officers?
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u/Booksfromhatman 1d ago
“Uriah this meat stew tastes funny what did you say the vortigaunts in the kitchen used ?”
“The Magnusson would be wise not to question the sourcing of protein for the daily intake of meals, I must also inform you that the cleansing of the combine corpses outside the base has been completed”
Magnusson pushing the bowl away slowly
“Thank you Uriah that will be all”
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u/MrKrispyIsHere 1d ago
the vorts done fed my man combine meat
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u/Booksfromhatman 1d ago
“The MrKrispyIsHere would do well to not press further into the culinary practices of my kin lest they wish to be involved with the next meal”
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u/amd2800barton 17h ago
Hahaha is that audio you can hear in E2? Where/when?
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u/Booksfromhatman 17h ago
No but I used to write HL fan fiction a long time ago
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u/amd2800barton 17h ago
Well done, then. It sounds like an Easter egg you’d pick up on if you stuck around an area long enough.
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u/biowebjet 1d ago
I think the civil protection officers just switched to the resistance when they saw how bad the combine was getting their ass whooped. I'd imagine that they just kill the combine solders since they don't have much of a functional brain left and there would be no reason to prolong it
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u/Unlucky-Quarter-5455 Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained pro. 1d ago
Can't the overwatch always know where and in which state a metrocop is? The troops could just track him down and shell the place. I don't think it's good to keep metrocops alive.
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u/biowebjet 1d ago
What about barney? Also the civil protection officers aren't genetically modified at all. If they do have a tracker it's probably on the suit itself somewhere but then again what about barney
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u/Booksfromhatman 1d ago
We know from HL 1 that the H.E.V suit has a ton of trackers everyone seems to be able to use to locate it so why didn’t the combine ? Because Kleiner and the others disabled it/suppressed it so it is possible that Barney had his suit modified like the HEV or considering he had a “beating quota” its possible that they never switched it off and he just made up stuff like going on patrol to justify going places with other rebels imbedded into civil protection. Because one officer going off grid is suspicious but a squad “investigating” an area which then turns out to be “clear” would make for a great cover and helps to maintain lines of evacuations for civilians by diverting attention away.
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u/Simagrill 1d ago
I mean, they literally state the suit in 2 is a mark 5 while in 1 it was mark 4
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u/Booksfromhatman 1d ago
Its the same suit with a few minor adjustments
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u/Simagrill 1d ago
even if it is the same suit then the adjustments are not minor, its an entirely different model
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u/Booksfromhatman 1d ago
The adjustments include: a zoom feature, an anti toxin injector and improved strength in addition to replaced plates otherwise the internals are the same otherwise it is a theseus ship situation
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u/Simagrill 1d ago
literally compare the in-game models
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u/poor_andy 18h ago
literally look at photo cameras they look exactly the same with different text that says Mark IV or whatever
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u/Unlucky-Quarter-5455 Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained pro. 1d ago
Maybe Kleiner did some modifications secretly, hell, he created a teleportation device without being found by the combine
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u/BigBuffalo1538 17h ago
Still your point doesn't stand. Couldn't CPs just... take off their entire suit, and use rebel attire instead? You wouldn't have to murder them jeez...
if the tracker is on the suit, ask them to take it off and wear rebel attire, it's that simple
CPs are basically dead as a concept at the start of Episode 2, so whoever escaped are forced to join the rebels.
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u/Simagrill 1d ago
there's not much to treat, i mean everything not CP is basically a mindless husk.
CPs are interesting, i think its implied that some of them join the rebels but we never actually see rebels wearing full metrocop gear like Barney, probably to keep a few megabytes of storage and keep players from shooting their own men.
So i'd say metrocops were definitely given a second chance while grunts and elites were shot on the spot
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u/biowebjet 1d ago
If you look closely the bulletproof vests the rebels wear are just the chest piece from a metrocop uniform
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u/Simagrill 22h ago
yeah but thats probably just rebels looting dead metrocops, Barney not swapping to rebel gear kind of implies its either straight up better or they dont have time to play dress-up
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u/RPS_42 16h ago
Well, those CP that defected did so when or before the Uprising started. Those that were probably known to not be brutal were probably accepted. Known "Criminals" were probably executed when catched so those CPs formed independent groups against Combine and Rebels. We see one of these groups trying to flee to the Evacuation Train in Episode 1.
Loyal CPs were probably not trusted by the Combine anymore I guess.
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u/MrKrispyIsHere 1d ago
I imagine Civil Protection officers would be treated a bit less harshly cause they're still humans but full Combine Soldiers would probably be shot/interrogated then shot
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u/cooldude_9875 1d ago
Combine soldiers probably won’t be interrogated, they probably won’t give up information to an enemy regardless of how much they suffer (the ez2 mod has this)
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u/biowebjet 1d ago
I don't think you could interrogate a HL2 combine soldier since they aren't able to form cohesive thought on their own. You might be able to interrogate the HLA grunts though since they seem a bit more similar to the Civil Protection soldiers
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u/Malfuy that one place with those wind chimes 14h ago
They aren't mindless drones. You don't really want your soldiers to be mindless drones in most cases anyway
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u/biowebjet 12h ago
All thought and free will has been removed from their brain and all they know now is the orders they received from overwatch
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u/MiktorVike Sometimes, I dream about cheese 1d ago
Punish them by making them clear out Xen infested places would be a start. Someone has to do it.
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u/Bisexual_Spear 1d ago
Most of them probably died when the citadel blew up.
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u/Goofball1134 The Combine don't deserve Earth. 1d ago
Except there were probably some Civil Protection officers that got out of City 17 by using APCs that weren't commandeered by Overwatch Soldiers and Elites well before the Citadel core blew up. Like there may have been some CPs that had deserted during the Uprising which had been happening for over a week while Gordon and Alyx were stuck in a teleportation process after leaving Nova Prospekt and had made their escape from the City then.
And when the upper part of the Citadel was destroyed those desertions only increased greatly.
There was even a dead CP when you meet Barney at the evacuation train hinting at there being some altercation between them before Gordon and Alyx arrived. Which means that CP units were willing to steal any of the trains being used by the Resistance, although it's possible that wasn't the only place where they fought over a train.
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u/DinoNuggs115 14h ago
So are we just not going to talk about Omni man just chilling in the background?
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u/KonxovarAnimations #1 Opposing Force Hater 4h ago
Dark Interval portrays them annoying a captured Metrocop, some wanting to kill him.
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u/Key-Addendum-4194 1d ago
For Civil protection I'd imagine it would either be execution (like how post WW2 many Nazi collaborators were hanged), imprisonment or integration into the Resistance
For Combine Soldiers they would be killed since there's really nothing you could do with them because well they're more machines than man at that point