AI Upgrades as follows: 1) Four can attack at the same time instead of only two. 2) Advanced Flanking. 3) Faster reaction. 4) More aggressiveness. 5) Fearsome Combine Elites. 6) Better awareness. 7) Respond dynamically to threat (value, range, number). 8) Aim for the head when fighting necrotics. 9) The ability to jump for more mobility. 10) Combine melee attack can knock out parasites from necrotics.
Patches as follows: 1) Combine melee attack can be interrupted by high damage only. 2) Combine won't give hand signals when avoiding danger. 3) Combine won't get blinded when throwing Pheropodes on them. 4) Elites will launch dark orbs if they've clear line of sight with their target only, and won't act like Soldiers lobbing extractors over walls.
So true. The sound is really amazing in this game. I remember playing this with 5.1 surround sound with the sub woofer placed under my desk so when I would use the grenade on the SMG the explosion would create this massive gush of air from the subwoofer. It was amusing to say the least but there are so many great attention to detail things in this game that it all adds up into an amazing experience
@@czajkowski2352 Exactly. This game is super old, but I still find new cool things about the whole universe just by reading through wikis and watching these videos!
Yo. It makes so much sense that they call their grenades extractors. If they really wanted to kill with their grenades, they wouldn't make them tick and blink. They're designed that way to keep enemies moving and potentially flush them out of cover. Hence, extractor.
Came down here to say that. They should have kept that on in the game, haha. Helps sell the idea of them being "post-human" and mentally transitioning into being full synths.
@@daxter69420 they can literally take half a clip of submachine gun without showing any difficulty to move after than, when in real life one bullet of the weaker pistol makes you drop down on your knees and cry, so yeah it's kinda bulletproof
@@lenny9672metrocops are known to be fully human, so them speaking English makes sense, while Combine Soldiers (and above) are Trans Humans (no not the gender thing), which means they are not fully human, so it would be kinda surprising for them to speak fully English
@@Unstable_constant It does make for an interesting thing to think about. Why do they use medical terms? Do the combine overlords choose it because it scares humanity? Does the medical terminology perfectly describe their view of the earth and it's inhabitants? Or is it translation "error", as in the words they use don't have the same meaning in the two different languages?
1) Un-alert 2) Seeing you in the distance 3) Thinking about opening fire 4) Moving to open fire 5) About to open fire 6) Reconsidering opening fire 7) Taking a majority vote regarding opening fire
Check out the Death Trooper dialogue chatter from Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)! They speak in distorted and “scrambled” vocoders to mask their words from the enemy, and only they can hear what their comrades are saying,
Naw that's why I looked up videos like this. It sounds cool and intimidating as hell. They are highly organized and combine modified death squads. If you weren't a protagonist superhero they would annihilate everything in their path.
I mean... I'm into airsoft and having radios and a team using this effective combat dialogue would be kind of cool.... Actually getting combine outfits for a game would be funny af!
Finally, another person that though that line was surprising sad, he acknowledged the situation and is reporting for what is most likely the last time.
I never realized how well designed the voices and call outs were. It is a shame since the overall game design compromises it. It seems like their AI and voices were made for a slower and more methodical tactical game and yet in the game itself you run around fast and kill them quickly, barely giving them a chance to show their prowess.
The one moment when I felt the game's level design approached its potential was midway through the missile-silo, when there are two parallel tunnels, and heavy things like engine-blocks to throw around. That's one spot where tue AI could actively box me in, and where I could attack with physics without a blatant OH LOOK AT THIS HUGE SAW BLADE or UH-OH, BARRELS.
They need more health. It's as simple as that. That's all Minerva Metastasis does to them and it tricked everyone into thinking the mod author tweaked their AI.
517342 The main issue, was many of the methodical ai features were cut or limited, with some features being in the code (i.e custom cover animations, where they would peek from walls and barriers to fire them crouch again, differentiating as each would reload), there was also to be formation and roles played as well, where a commander would signal each soldier where to go and stay or to move up on him, in the early game métropolice were to engage in an “arrest” movement where they would aim their gun at you whilst another would try and detain you
@@ionbing2884 Yeah. When replaying HL2 and its episodes, I tweaked the text files a bit to give the AI more health, more damage, and give myself more damage taken and less ammo and magazine capacity for weapons. It was like playing a whole new game, one that was actually a challenge to complete. Although in parts where you have to escort AI companions, the difficulty really ramped up since they just couldn't deal with the extra health and damage the enemies had. Especially the part where you have to escort Father Grigori through the graveyard, he just kept dying because zombies had like 200 hp and 150 melee damage. He just couldn't deal with those numbers.
@@endhimrightly3408 The HECU soldiers in original HL1 are not a challenge. They sometimes blow themselves up. The only reason they give the impression of challenge is that they fire their under-slung grenade launchers. To all wanting a more challenging and otherwise improved HL2 experience: get MMod. It's the bomb.
Anyone who owns Garry's Mod may be interested to know that in the July update, they've fixed Combine soldiers, so now the soldiers use their pain sounds again.
really cool how they kind of speak like the hl1 grunts sometimes, all disjointed and robotic. they are after all an evolution of the grunt enemy basically.
The same code is used to form sentences as in HL1. Nothing has changed, but it just sounds better for the overwatch since they have surgically implanted voice synthesizers.
It fits the combine better than the HECU grunts, since the combine overwatch soldiers actually have voice modulators surgically implanted into them. Therefore, the structure in the code of how dialogue sentences are formed perfectly complements them. It feels more authentic than the HECU grunts.
@@CallMeAsna The HECU radio chatter is that way because proper voicelines didn't fit on the CD so they stitched the callouts together like a TTS program does.
5:48 "Overwatch request reserve activation" just like in real life there's active and reserve armies, it's basically another way of requesting reinforcements, he's not requesting permission to use the alt fire on the AR2 as some suggested.
Mannn, Even 18 years later I'm just impressed with how well the voice lines were done. As prior service Army I kinda get a sense the chatter sounds both military AND police SWAT which is PERFECT.
Yeah i just come back here after watching some cop training roleplay and i was like "wtf they sound exactly like combine soldiers". The developers put a lot of effort in Half Life 2
@@RescoeZ they're saying it in that order because they delivered Freeman, and ghost is merely a codename based on a coded phonetic alphabet. In special operations ground units are frequently codified as Golf Tango+[unit callsign] while air units will frequently be called by callsign only without numerals as they are often only 1 vehicle per code word subdivision to denote varied CAS platforms
@@reallydontlikethem I actually think ghost two refers to Gordon because in the cut HL Alyx soldier audio, there’s a line that says “Overwatch, Freeman 3 delivered”, with Freeman 3 referring to the player.
I can understand why Valve took out the pain sounds but I think they should have at least left the minimum damage lines in. The "Target ineffective" line is probably my favourite, nothing like your enemy saying "I barely felt that".
And I like that while alot of their humanity has been lost, they still retain some form of emotion that wasn't scrubbed out. Notice how when you're on low health they cut the professionalism and jargon and straight up just say "Affirmative, we got him now." Or "That's it, wrap it up."
One cool thing I found while perusing the voice files is how they handle numbers. By combining clips together, you only need 30 or so voice clips to say any number possible. 1-19 are unique, but past that it's just multiples of 10 up to 100. For example, 125 is "one" + "hundred" + "twenty" + "five"
While everyone here is amazed by the radio, garrymos hl2rp (half-life 2 roleplayers) have been using these for years and actually communicated with one another using these lines. pretty fun
I've always loved the sound of their vocoder, it's so well made. It's so amazing and interesting to see how they interact with each other and the names they use to identify an enemy or weapon and how they ask for support when the enemy is not an easy target.
@@mredgeworth4428 yeah like when metrocops are injured. The first injury (if it doesn't nearly kill them) they'll report they're still going, then when near death they'll call out and try to take cover.
@@RescoeZ that's for civil protection officers but sadly for the overwatch soldiers they rarely take cover when getting shot they only do that when reloading they aren't like heuc from HL1 after all
@@RescoeZ can you pls tell me if there are any maps that make the Combine AI shine because most of the level design doesn't support the AI causing them to rush and charge not flank and take cover
you can really see why the combine took over, they are tactical and smart, and even when they are about to die they keep it to the books, they are shown to even talk like soldiers, like “that’s it wrap it up” and “we got him now”
@@capitanpastabase6342yeah, main combatants were synths created by the combine like synth infantry and whatnot, i think soldiers were drafted at about after the 7hr war to manage installations and outposts across the grid as a security measure against any rebellion and aliens, and cops for high citizen concentration areas, that about right?
@@polishbot The Metrocops were to help oppress the civilians, the Transhuman Arms was Breen's attempt to impress the Universal Union and prove that Humanity could be useful and worth maintaining.
They're a lot more complex than you think, they have cut lines of code that make them much more deadly. Even increasing their health actually makes them use their abilities more.
@@elektra81516 There's also a failure to use certain markers in levels that would let them use their more advanced tricks. Really, this is part of why FEAR's AI was remembered as being so amazing. They employed a HL1 trick (having the soldiers have a lot of situation-responsive lines) with greater fluency while also making sure the AI guys and level guys were working close together so that the AI could make the best use of the space it was in. There are parts of HL2 where they obviously did this (for example, when you raid the Civil Protection hardpoint early in the street battles), and parts where they didn't.
I have (again) forgotten to include a line, this one being "Overwatch reports possible hostiles inbound". Might not bother some, but if you're like me, it bugs greatly.
The Combine soldiers are really cool. Their equipment and weapons are awesome. Plus, the level of their training and discipline is very high, in addition to a very creative use of wordplay. Top notch stuff.
that's a damn good point. I guess you could explain around it that Gordon's suit picks up the signal but can't quite adjust the frequency so it ends up distorted? lol nevertheless I like it this way, sounds intimidating as it was intended instead of John giving a shoutout to Tim over Overwatch radio in ABSOLUTE CRYSTAL CLEAR voice "so heeeyy, how's your day, buddy?".
Radios? I always thought you hear them directly but muffled because of armor. Also if we investigate unarmored Combine soldier model, we can assume they have laryngophone implanted
Oh hello, funny you say that because that's exactly what I did for TF2, in fact I made several other soundboards of other voices and for music, you can catch me on TF2 using 'em. steamcommunity.com/id/adriftingsoul/
Well, sadly, there aren't many people still interested in Half Life. Not because it's a bad game, no. I'm pretty sure all of us old fans are still fans and always will be, Half Life is an amazing game but the problem is with more and more kiddos comming to internet every year and giving popularity to shitty games made for nothing other than profit.
For so many of these lines, especially the last man standing ones, I keep expecting the sound of a shotgun blast and their final scream since I usually flank and kill them before they can complete their line.
It honestly amazes me how much detail Valve put into even the smallest parts of this game. They could have easily just had the soldiers spouting incoherent generic military terms or, even more lazily, have just made the soldiers make a bunch of static computer sounds and it really would not have been noticed by anyone playing as combat goes fast enough that you have no time to intake and understand what the soldiers are saying. But no Valve had to take the time creating their own sub-language for the soldier dialog that featured completely fictional code words, phrases, and names that all were coherently spoken in nature and relayed to exactly what the soldiers were doing or what the player was doing. It makes me wonder if they finished the game in like 2002 and just spent the rest of the development time doing random shit like this. I mean it did pay off.
Heh, though that chatter was distorted to be uninteligible on purpose, during the game action I can't make heads or toes of what the heck they are saying, much like the Announcer. Great vid, mate, a little more to show how great HL2 is.
Damn, surprisingly deep and realistic voice lines. Especially when they get stressed, they are using their call sign very calmly ... And then start to scream haha (Like at 5:00) I don't know if this is intentional though, could be a combination of takes.
I really hope Citadel actually releases because this video has made me obsessed with the idea of a game that let's you command and control combine forces while hearing their unique banter and comms.
I appreciate the effort you put into this, really explaining the code words and making it sound authentic by including complementary "affirmative" voice lines and all that. I've never really listened to the Combine chatter before (partly because you can't really distinguish what they're saying over the heavily distorted transmissions lol), there's a lot of interesting things going on.
0:33 - Idle Statements 2:01 - First contact with player 2:42 - Moving to attack 3:09 - About to start firing 3:24 - Still alert and perusing enemy 3:35 - No one has seen the enemy in 5 seconds 3:49 - No one has seen the enemy in 10 seconds 4:12 - Enemy found after long lost 4:30 - Enemy gernade 4:38 - Danger (fire, players vehicle) 4:55 - Soldier down 5:18 - Soldier throwing gernade 5:43 - Last soldier remaining 6:19 - Player near death 6:32 - Player dead 7:03 - Enemy sighted (Generic) 7:15 - Enemy sighted (Citizens/ Rebels) 7:22 - Enemy sighted (Alyx/ Barney/ Dog) 7:33 - Enemy sighted (Antlions) 7:51 - Enemy sighted (Zombies) 8:10 - Enemy sighted (Head crabs/ Barnacles) 8:20 - Death 8:31 - Modded voice line 8:49 - Pain 8:58 - Taken damage but didn't hurt too much 9:10 - Taken heavy damage now seeking cover
Just a long mask, a Combine soldier can be seen in Nova Prospekt without his mask on and has a more or less intact head, just scars where the surgery happened.
Notice how devolved these dialog lines are compared to civil protection. they show little to no emotion, they just speak with clarity and in an organized matter. they don't say "look out!" or "that's a grenade!" they remain composed and refer to grenades as bouncers. instead of shouting out That's him! when sighting freeman it's just "contact confirmed" their human elements and memories have been stripped to the point where they may as well be machines. they would kill their own family members without question.
There are many things that have made me fascinated in Half-Life 2. This just shows that how well Valve did their job in creating content for their games, just like how do they make all things interactable in Half Life: Alyx.
5:43 up to 6:17 Half Life 2 Combine Soldiers Last Soldier Remaining Lines and Quotes: “Overwatch, request reserve activation.” “Overwatch, requesting skyshield.” “Overwatch, request winder dispatch.” “Overwatch, sector is not secure.” “Overwatch, sector overrun, repeat, sector overrun.” “Overwatch, team is down, sector is not controlled.” “Sector outbreak! outbreak! outbreak!” “I am final team unit, request backup!” 8 in all! I got it now! This is all the same in Episode One and Episode Two as well! Hope you like it! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
@@onionero 5:43 up to 6:17 Half Life 2 Combine Soldiers Last Soldier Remaining Lines and Quotes: “Overwatch, request reserve activation.” “Overwatch, requesting skyshield.” “Overwatch, request winder dispatch.” “Overwatch, sector is not secure.” “Overwatch, sector overrun, repeat, sector overrun.” “Overwatch, team is down, sector is not controlled.” “Sector outbreak! outbreak! outbreak!” “I am final team unit, request backup!” 8 in all! I got it now! This is all the same in Episode One and Episode Two as well! Hope you like it! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Good luck, i've been for the lore since march 2017, i have a life but its so interesting in 2 years i still found some stuff, is it about beta or retail always something new
Here's a video explaining Combine soldier AI that I find interesting ua-cam.com/video/PR5gjP-Kk3s/v-deo.html
@Man-Eating Bush GCFScape
Yo no tengo el combine de tu foto en mi half life 2 porque ?
AI Upgrades as follows:
1) Four can attack at the same time instead of only two.
2) Advanced Flanking.
3) Faster reaction.
4) More aggressiveness.
5) Fearsome Combine Elites.
6) Better awareness.
7) Respond dynamically to threat (value, range, number).
8) Aim for the head when fighting necrotics.
9) The ability to jump for more mobility.
10) Combine melee attack can knock out parasites from necrotics.
Patches as follows:
1) Combine melee attack can be interrupted by high damage only.
2) Combine won't give hand signals when avoiding danger.
3) Combine won't get blinded when throwing Pheropodes on them.
4) Elites will launch dark orbs if they've clear line of sight with their target only, and won't act like Soldiers lobbing extractors over walls.
New health and accuracy values as follows:
Metrocop = 40HP (first levels)
Metrocop = 60HP (final levels)
Combine Soldier = 80HP
Combine Elite = 110HP
MP7 proficiency:
Soldier = 15 (Easy)
Soldier = 9 (Normal)
Soldier = 6 (Hard)
SPAS-12 proficiency:
Soldier = 6 (Easy, Normal, Hard)
OSIPR/AR2 proficiency:
Soldier = 9 (Easy)
Soldier = 7 (Normal)
Soldier = 5 (Hard)
Elite = 7 (Easy)
Elite = 5 (Normal)
Elite = 3 (Hard)
I always loved the sound design of this game, such an important aspect of world building
So true. The sound is really amazing in this game. I remember playing this with 5.1 surround sound with the sub woofer placed under my desk so when I would use the grenade on the SMG the explosion would create this massive gush of air from the subwoofer. It was amusing to say the least but there are so many great attention to detail things in this game that it all adds up into an amazing experience
It's games like this that make me want to be work on Sound Design for video games.
@@jasonx1174 Its a pain in the arse.
Its and very few games get this right as of today
@@TimberWulfIsHereand then implementation takes time
8:06 That headcrab looks like it's under arrest.
DROP THE NEUROTOXIN
Headcrab: I AIN'T DO NUTTIN!
Headcrab : Dat Neurotoxin aint mine!
It was Planted!
STOP RESISTING
Overwatch got some free parasites
Between the chaos of fighting I never realized these were done SO well. This is amazing
Lol, I remember as I once was playing, my younger brother asked " do they even speak English?". The deeper you dig into half-life, the better it gets.
I once typed notarget in console, just to hear what they are talking about
Yeah lol ... I never thought it was this deep.
@@czajkowski2352 Exactly. This game is super old, but I still find new cool things about the whole universe just by reading through wikis and watching these videos!
Tone down the rest of the game and, yeah, very detailed voice acting.
Yo. It makes so much sense that they call their grenades extractors. If they really wanted to kill with their grenades, they wouldn't make them tick and blink. They're designed that way to keep enemies moving and potentially flush them out of cover. Hence, extractor.
Is that why they also call them "Bouncers"? Like a bouncer, it kicks the enemy out of an area so they're back out in the open?
@@Thlormby Nah I think that's literally because of how much they bounce.
Thebestusername1000 I haven’t seen them bounce, more like rolling
@@Thlormby A good example is when you throw them on a wall, they'll bounce off and additionally bounce a bit of a distance on the ground.
Half life's grenades are the most satisfying to throw in gaming I think
I love how they would refer to their bulletproof vests as “bodypacks” that’s pretty cool
Came down here to say that. They should have kept that on in the game, haha. Helps sell the idea of them being "post-human" and mentally transitioning into being full synths.
they seem to be sealed into their suits for combat so it makes sense
Not very bulletproof
@@daxter69420 they can literally take half a clip of submachine gun without showing any difficulty to move after than, when in real life one bullet of the weaker pistol makes you drop down on your knees and cry, so yeah it's kinda bulletproof
@@calevineuh but then again these soldier's don't abide by the logic of "ow im really hurt" and keep pressing on
I never realized combines point at enemy grenades and stuff like that.
The screenshot at 4:38 perfectly demonstrates it. And it's quite funny. It's like he's going "Err guys, barrel, right there!"
Combines got a lot cooler and more intimidating after this video.
They’re basically stormtroopers on steroids.
AND CAN AIM BETTER
@российские военные ,
The only big problem the Combine face is that Freeman is a fucking juggernaut.
@@DinnerForkTongue for me Freeman is doomsayer's cousin
@@DinnerForkTongue Not to Mention Freeman's G-man powered Plot Armor
@российские военные , I mean you must be blind to not hit the Popsicle-orange thing that's moving at 3 meters per hour.
The first time I actually realized they speak English was when they got me under 10 HP and I heard them say something like "We got him now"
No “pick up that can”?
@@lenny9672metrocops are known to be fully human, so them speaking English makes sense, while Combine Soldiers (and above) are Trans Humans (no not the gender thing), which means they are not fully human, so it would be kinda surprising for them to speak fully English
You have probably learnt all of this by now but just saying
@@DiegoRoses thanks for the clarification
Np
interesting how in eyes of combine any resistance is seen as an "infection" or "disease"
Lol well they turned into a sort of white blood cell or killer T cell that keeps the city sterile and "infections" at bay :3
@@underdude9818 Also literally keeping the city (and planet) sterile.
In CP chatter death penalty is referred to as "amputation" - pretty cool how hl2 uses language to convey combine ideology
even though they turned the world into a literal dump
@@Unstable_constant It does make for an interesting thing to think about. Why do they use medical terms? Do the combine overlords choose it because it scares humanity? Does the medical terminology perfectly describe their view of the earth and it's inhabitants? Or is it translation "error", as in the words they use don't have the same meaning in the two different languages?
4:40 I like how the guy on the right is pointing at the barrel like
"YO DUDE, I THINK THIS THINGS DANGEROUS!"
dude its hand shape is as messed up as an asylum bro
Damn V8 engine
he's so concerned about the barrel that he broke his hand when pointing at it
Now all we need is that pointing back while looking forward meme
1) Un-alert
2) Seeing you in the distance
3) Thinking about opening fire
4) Moving to open fire
5) About to open fire
6) Reconsidering opening fire
7) Taking a majority vote regarding opening fire
8) opening fire
9) "overwatch, sector is not secure"
both you and black kid from the suburbs are funny
@@slightlyamusedblackkidfrom9153 both you and averagelum
Direct Democratic Forces 😂😂
10) oof
Am I the only one finding distorted radio chatter like this very badass?
Check out the Death Trooper dialogue chatter from Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)! They speak in distorted and “scrambled” vocoders to mask their words from the enemy, and only they can hear what their comrades are saying,
Naw that's why I looked up videos like this. It sounds cool and intimidating as hell. They are highly organized and combine modified death squads. If you weren't a protagonist superhero they would annihilate everything in their path.
Nope
The police chatter of NFS Most Wanted (the 2005 one) is pretty badass too, especially at higher heat levels.
I mean... I'm into airsoft and having radios and a team using this effective combat dialogue would be kind of cool.... Actually getting combine outfits for a game would be funny af!
I used to think of them as just a nuisance. I never realized they were so coordinated. Now I think they're pretty cool.
"I came here to laugh at you"
Nice profile picture.
Oh, hi family :3
@@sopmodii1505 isn't that a arknights parody of it
@@seronymus is there anywhere you don’t turn up
@@mikeg8876 Wouldn't that require you turning up first everywhere to see me? 🥺🤨
You: Move!
Me, an intellectual: *DISPLACE!*
*RIPCORD! RIPCORD!*
*Bodypack holding. Request 3cc stimshot*
Yiğit Efe Yüntem ISOLATE!
why I say *Move!* to u?
Not smart people: I see them
Gamers: VISCON VISCON LAUNCHING EXTRACTOR
6:01 "Sector is not secure". That's too sad that he understands that he will be killed to with his friends. :(
You should check the zombine lines ...now those are dark.
@@lyrecanavi . . .
are you suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure they're soulless killing machines
are you *sure* sure
@@hboogy101 They aren't actually. They still have emotions, though not like ones we do...
Finally, another person that though that line was surprising sad, he acknowledged the situation and is reporting for what is most likely the last time.
@@antonio-onism9814 but they still don't have friends, they lack almost all empathy
6:10
I always heard this as, "oh frick oh frick oh frick!" which is a pretty good reaction to all your allies dying. But "Outbreak" makes more sense.
I always thought it said: *"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"* as if instigating their squad members to pull it together and have another go at Freeman.
I like both of you guy's takes on it
@@Pllayer064 I always thought that too, haha.
"Sector eleven. OH FRICK OH FRICK OH FRICK"
am i the only one who hears them say outbreak when you throw a grenade?
I never realized how well designed the voices and call outs were. It is a shame since the overall game design compromises it.
It seems like their AI and voices were made for a slower and more methodical tactical game and yet in the game itself you run around fast and kill them quickly, barely giving them a chance to show their prowess.
The one moment when I felt the game's level design approached its potential was midway through the missile-silo, when there are two parallel tunnels, and heavy things like engine-blocks to throw around. That's one spot where tue AI could actively box me in, and where I could attack with physics without a blatant OH LOOK AT THIS HUGE SAW BLADE or UH-OH, BARRELS.
They need more health. It's as simple as that. That's all Minerva Metastasis does to them and it tricked everyone into thinking the mod author tweaked their AI.
517342 The main issue, was many of the methodical ai features were cut or limited, with some features being in the code (i.e custom cover animations, where they would peek from walls and barriers to fire them crouch again, differentiating as each would reload), there was also to be formation and roles played as well, where a commander would signal each soldier where to go and stay or to move up on him, in the early game métropolice were to engage in an “arrest”
movement where they would aim their gun at you whilst another would try and detain you
@@ionbing2884 Yeah. When replaying HL2 and its episodes, I tweaked the text files a bit to give the AI more health, more damage, and give myself more damage taken and less ammo and magazine capacity for weapons. It was like playing a whole new game, one that was actually a challenge to complete. Although in parts where you have to escort AI companions, the difficulty really ramped up since they just couldn't deal with the extra health and damage the enemies had. Especially the part where you have to escort Father Grigori through the graveyard, he just kept dying because zombies had like 200 hp and 150 melee damage. He just couldn't deal with those numbers.
@@endhimrightly3408 The HECU soldiers in original HL1 are not a challenge. They sometimes blow themselves up. The only reason they give the impression of challenge is that they fire their under-slung grenade launchers.
To all wanting a more challenging and otherwise improved HL2 experience: get MMod. It's the bomb.
Mobile users are jumping for joy right now
Is it coming out on mobile?
If it is which platforms?
@@szymsonthatmemeguy3181 It's not, the longer subtitles just means they dont have to frantically pause the video to read the subtitles.
@@SuperSamcity true
@@szymsonthatmemeguy3181 It actually had been mobile but only for NVIDIA Shield tablets. There's also Portal 1 on the same devicr
Half Life 1 exists for mobile devices
Anyone who owns Garry's Mod may be interested to know that in the July update, they've fixed Combine soldiers, so now the soldiers use their pain sounds again.
Sigma
really cool how they kind of speak like the hl1 grunts sometimes, all disjointed and robotic. they are after all an evolution of the grunt enemy basically.
The same code is used to form sentences as in HL1. Nothing has changed, but it just sounds better for the overwatch since they have surgically implanted voice synthesizers.
I don't know if you already knew this by now, but their beta voicelines we're just vocoded HECU Grunt voicelines
I like how they tried to recreate the HECU Grunt radio chatter in Half-Life 2.
Personally, it sounds 10x better AND cooler.
It fits the combine better than the HECU grunts, since the combine overwatch soldiers actually have voice modulators surgically implanted into them. Therefore, the structure in the code of how dialogue sentences are formed perfectly complements them. It feels more authentic than the HECU grunts.
@@HexdaHeresiarch agreed, hecu kinda out of placed with their radio filter, even if they are not using one, yes i know its old
virgin "Overwatch request reserve activation" vs chad "MY ASS IS HEAVY"
Dont get me wrong the Combine soldiers do sound cool but the HECU radio chatter is just too iconic even if it isn’t realistic
@@CallMeAsna The HECU radio chatter is that way because proper voicelines didn't fit on the CD so they stitched the callouts together like a TTS program does.
8:10
Well damn it looks as if the soldiers are arresting the headcrab xD
Nick Fulton man they’re so racist
@@st4g095 that's how life under the combine works
It's because it's black isn't it?
"Affirmative, we have the headcrab."
"What did it do?"
"It committed war crimes, and raped many citizens."
"..."
The entire picture looks kinda adorable when you forget about the headcrab's abilities.
Good job, nice to see my childhood game content.
Lol, you here
Nobody cares about your childhood, get lost and dont come back ever.
5:48 "Overwatch request reserve activation" just like in real life there's active and reserve armies, it's basically another way of requesting reinforcements, he's not requesting permission to use the alt fire on the AR2 as some suggested.
In Half Life : Alyx, the soldiers will request “Weapon Amplification” in combat. So that’s a pretty neat detail
Six, Five, four, three, two, one *FLASH FLASH FLASH*
“BOUNCER,BOUNCER”
*F l a r e d o w n !*
*C o n t a c t c o n f i r m e d !*
Outbreak!, Outbreak!, Outbreak!
*Sweeper Zero e x t r a c t o r l i v e !*
Mannn, Even 18 years later I'm just impressed with how well the voice lines were done.
As prior service Army I kinda get a sense the chatter sounds both military AND police SWAT which is PERFECT.
We dont care, get lost and go to work.
@@Amis5474Which service member stole your girl? Is that why you’re so mad?
Yeah i just come back here after watching some cop training roleplay and i was like "wtf they sound exactly like combine soldiers".
The developers put a lot of effort in Half Life 2
@@Amis5474why are you so pissed dawg?
8:07
Headcrab: "I thought she was 18!"
"she was 18 in dog years"
I JUST saw your Combine chatter video for the first time yesterday :D
I don't know why I feel bad for the "Last soldier remaining" at 5:43
"Sweeper Zero is final team unit, request backup."
at around 6:46 when they say Ghost Two they're not referring to a unit they're actually abbreviating the term "ground team" with phonetics
Ghost Two actually refers to Gordon Freeman, as Ghost on its own is one of several names used for air units.
@@RescoeZ they're saying it in that order because they delivered Freeman, and ghost is merely a codename based on a coded phonetic alphabet. In special operations ground units are frequently codified as Golf Tango+[unit callsign] while air units will frequently be called by callsign only without numerals as they are often only 1 vehicle per code word subdivision to denote varied CAS platforms
@@reallydontlikethem I actually think ghost two refers to Gordon because in the cut HL Alyx soldier audio, there’s a line that says “Overwatch, Freeman 3 delivered”, with Freeman 3 referring to the player.
Awesome dude. Now I can finally see the text.
Nice touch adding in some hurt lines as well. Makes the combine seem more militaristic and not zombies
I can understand why Valve took out the pain sounds but I think they should have at least left the minimum damage lines in. The "Target ineffective" line is probably my favourite, nothing like your enemy saying "I barely felt that".
@@RescoeZ they put them back in for HL Alys, i remember a combine saying "Death Ineffective" after ignoring a grenade that exploded nearby,
avatar sauce pls
5:23 Repeating "flash flash flash" made it kinda funny and more believable that they are humans.
And I like that while alot of their humanity has been lost, they still retain some form of emotion that wasn't scrubbed out.
Notice how when you're on low health they cut the professionalism and jargon and straight up just say "Affirmative, we got him now." Or "That's it, wrap it up."
i heard on highway 17 under bridge
Marks
0:35 Idle Statements
2:02 First contact with player
2:40 Moving to attack
4:32 Enemy granade
6:35 Player dead
What Combine said: "Stay alert, report sightlines."
What I heard: "They work to hurt my wife."
1:39
How the fuck did you hear that
This is awesome, thank you for your hard work!
You're welcome.
One cool thing I found while perusing the voice files is how they handle numbers. By combining clips together, you only need 30 or so voice clips to say any number possible. 1-19 are unique, but past that it's just multiples of 10 up to 100. For example, 125 is "one" + "hundred" + "twenty" + "five"
While everyone here is amazed by the radio, garrymos hl2rp (half-life 2 roleplayers) have been using these for years and actually communicated with one another using these lines. pretty fun
“I kid you not over watch, he turns into a pickle. He identifies as pickle Rick. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.”
And then she was turned into a potato, they call her potatOS, funniest shit I've ever played
*Dagger Six, Overwatch, you are sentenced with permanent off-world relocation, return to Foxtrot Omega Bravo for transportation*
"Overwatch, visual confirmation of Papa India Charlie Kilo Lima Echo"
I've always loved the sound of their vocoder, it's so well made. It's so amazing and interesting to see how they interact with each other and the names they use to identify an enemy or weapon and how they ask for support when the enemy is not an easy target.
As of an update in September 2019, Combine soldiers use their pain and injury call out sounds again.
Does this have something to do with the AI take cover when getting shot ?
@@mredgeworth4428 yeah like when metrocops are injured. The first injury (if it doesn't nearly kill them) they'll report they're still going, then when near death they'll call out and try to take cover.
@@RescoeZ that's for civil protection officers but sadly for the overwatch soldiers they rarely take cover when getting shot they only do that when reloading they aren't like heuc from HL1 after all
@@RescoeZ can you pls tell me if there are any maps that make the Combine AI shine because most of the level design doesn't support the AI causing them to rush and charge not flank and take cover
@@mredgeworth4428 probably the Coast levels, they tend to have more room to move around.
"PICK UP THAT CAN"
*Pacifying!*
0:45 When a combine hears someone say “Ok boomer”
Overwatch, Boomer contained, holding till code 13... *BLIP*
Heard some familiar dialogue in Half Life: Alyx so I came back here.
Some of the terminology helped me in some hectic firefights!
99.99 % of the time:
*Inaudible Mubbles*
*GUNFIRE*
*BEEEEEEEEEP*
0:49 he said the funny word
he did it
he did the funny
What a savage one niner.
guys he’s so funny... half life 2 combine soldier said BOOMER!!!!!!! laughing moment
Ok boomers
so there's this combine soldier, he turns himself into a pickle, he becomes pickle combine, funniest shit I've ever seen
We have located the funny.
8:06: that Headcrab is in deep shit.
Dude, this is so cool! It makes the Combine Soldiers feel like real people!
Literally watched your video yesterday glad to see an update
yea same. The algorithm is too good.
6:24 I love how arrogant the Combine sound with these lines
you can really see why the combine took over, they are tactical and smart, and even when they are about to die they keep it to the books, they are shown to even talk like soldiers, like “that’s it wrap it up” and “we got him now”
You probably know this by now, but just in case, these soldiers didn't took over the Earth. They were created after the Combine conquered the planet.
@@capitanpastabase6342yeah, main combatants were synths created by the combine like synth infantry and whatnot, i think soldiers were drafted at about after the 7hr war to manage installations and outposts across the grid as a security measure against any rebellion and aliens, and cops for high citizen concentration areas, that about right?
@@polishbot The Metrocops were to help oppress the civilians, the Transhuman Arms was Breen's attempt to impress the Universal Union and prove that Humanity could be useful and worth maintaining.
Combine Overwatch always seemed so bland to me before I found these videos.
They're a lot more complex than you think, they have cut lines of code that make them much more deadly. Even increasing their health actually makes them use their abilities more.
@@elektra81516 There's also a failure to use certain markers in levels that would let them use their more advanced tricks. Really, this is part of why FEAR's AI was remembered as being so amazing. They employed a HL1 trick (having the soldiers have a lot of situation-responsive lines) with greater fluency while also making sure the AI guys and level guys were working close together so that the AI could make the best use of the space it was in.
There are parts of HL2 where they obviously did this (for example, when you raid the Civil Protection hardpoint early in the street battles), and parts where they didn't.
Love all their target indications, makes them feel like an actual body of soldiers
I have (again) forgotten to include a line, this one being "Overwatch reports possible hostiles inbound". Might not bother some, but if you're like me, it bugs greatly.
It's ok
How....DARE YOU!
Nah its chill.
8:37 is basically code for "Looks like I'm in charge now"
The Combine soldiers are really cool. Their equipment and weapons are awesome. Plus, the level of their training and discipline is very high, in addition to a very creative use of wordplay. Top notch stuff.
it's funny how hl2 is kind of sci-fi, yet radios are inaudible
Well they're not meant for Gordon so I doubt thay it would be clear for him
that's a damn good point.
I guess you could explain around it that Gordon's suit picks up the signal but can't quite adjust the frequency so it ends up distorted? lol nevertheless I like it this way, sounds intimidating as it was intended instead of John giving a shoutout to Tim over Overwatch radio in ABSOLUTE CRYSTAL CLEAR voice "so heeeyy, how's your day, buddy?".
Radios? I always thought you hear them directly but muffled because of armor.
Also if we investigate unarmored Combine soldier model, we can assume they have laryngophone implanted
Combine soldier:professional and highly trained operatives.
HECU:Bros with guns.
I honestly appreciate the effort that went into making this video. You are awesome
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :-)
Thanks for compiling all this. You've earned a new subscriber.
how has no one made a soundboard for this?
because people lazy mate, but i wish someday with enough experience does one cool like this
@Noovaz410 i will pray for your soul and success, lmao
Oh hello, funny you say that because that's exactly what I did for TF2, in fact I made several other soundboards of other voices and for music, you can catch me on TF2 using 'em.
steamcommunity.com/id/adriftingsoul/
Well, sadly, there aren't many people still interested in Half Life. Not because it's a bad game, no. I'm pretty sure all of us old fans are still fans and always will be, Half Life is an amazing game but the problem is with more and more kiddos comming to internet every year and giving popularity to shitty games made for nothing other than profit.
@@antonio-onism9814 mmmm
4:33
I used to always hear "Dancer! Dancer!" and "Shut down!" once.
I heard "Down sir, down sir!" "Swear down!"
Haha, I just saw your original video and noticed this one in the description, it was barely uploaded a day ago, thank you for your work though!
For so many of these lines, especially the last man standing ones, I keep expecting the sound of a shotgun blast and their final scream since I usually flank and kill them before they can complete their line.
Overwatch Soldier: Like
Nova Prospekt Guard: Comment
And the winner is Combine Elite
Combine: clear and concise stats, amazing professionality.
HECU: *the entire navy seals copypasta*
Y O R E D E A D F R E E M E N
0:44
C O D E B O O M E R
It honestly amazes me how much detail Valve put into even the smallest parts of this game. They could have easily just had the soldiers spouting incoherent generic military terms or, even more lazily, have just made the soldiers make a bunch of static computer sounds and it really would not have been noticed by anyone playing as combat goes fast enough that you have no time to intake and understand what the soldiers are saying. But no Valve had to take the time creating their own sub-language for the soldier dialog that featured completely fictional code words, phrases, and names that all were coherently spoken in nature and relayed to exactly what the soldiers were doing or what the player was doing.
It makes me wonder if they finished the game in like 2002 and just spent the rest of the development time doing random shit like this. I mean it did pay off.
no, in fact the game was supposed to release in 2003, and they heavily rushed it for a late 2004 release
Nobody will read, get lost kid.
Thanks for making the text stay up a little longer, appreciate it.
I play this in the Warzone 2.0 proximity chat
Heh, though that chatter was distorted to be uninteligible on purpose, during the game action I can't make heads or toes of what the heck they are saying, much like the Announcer. Great vid, mate, a little more to show how great HL2 is.
Damn, surprisingly deep and realistic voice lines. Especially when they get stressed, they are using their call sign very calmly ... And then start to scream haha (Like at 5:00) I don't know if this is intentional though, could be a combination of takes.
HL 1 and 2 record indiviual words as lines sometimes to allow for variation
Do those combinations appear in the game?
I really hope Citadel actually releases because this video has made me obsessed with the idea of a game that let's you command and control combine forces while hearing their unique banter and comms.
when you're depressed 3:00
lmaoo
Oh no
@@huntersvoice2754 I see you everywhere
@@MaeWillyComp *I AM everywhere*
wolf agent
HI I AM EVERYWHERE, IM JACK
I appreciate the effort you put into this, really explaining the code words and making it sound authentic by including complementary "affirmative" voice lines and all that. I've never really listened to the Combine chatter before (partly because you can't really distinguish what they're saying over the heavily distorted transmissions lol), there's a lot of interesting things going on.
I like how they have different lines for plain resistance, higher value targets like Barney or Alyx, and finally their main priority freeman
HOLY FUCKING SHIT JUST NOW IM HEARING THAT DEATH GRIPS SAMPLED THIS???? IM A HUGE FAN OF BOTH
4:24 I hear this too many times in gmod
"Contacy confirmed, prosecuting" is my favorite line
0:33 - Idle Statements
2:01 - First contact with player
2:42 - Moving to attack
3:09 - About to start firing
3:24 - Still alert and perusing enemy
3:35 - No one has seen the enemy in 5 seconds
3:49 - No one has seen the enemy in 10 seconds
4:12 - Enemy found after long lost
4:30 - Enemy gernade
4:38 - Danger (fire, players vehicle)
4:55 - Soldier down
5:18 - Soldier throwing gernade
5:43 - Last soldier remaining
6:19 - Player near death
6:32 - Player dead
7:03 - Enemy sighted (Generic)
7:15 - Enemy sighted (Citizens/ Rebels)
7:22 - Enemy sighted (Alyx/ Barney/ Dog)
7:33 - Enemy sighted (Antlions)
7:51 - Enemy sighted (Zombies)
8:10 - Enemy sighted (Head crabs/ Barnacles)
8:20 - Death
8:31 - Modded voice line
8:49 - Pain
8:58 - Taken damage but didn't hurt too much
9:10 - Taken heavy damage now seeking cover
You should make a playlist containing all of your voiceline videos bro
Yeah you're right, I just might do that.
I Love that little sound their radio makes, it's scary and cool at the same time.
Their lines sometimes remind me of the 1984 newspeak like viscon
5:05 "ONE DUTY VACATED" xD
These are so well made, incredible.
yesterday saw your video, today its updated, its a magic!
I noticed just now - soldiers don't have a frontal lobe? Or it's just a long mask?
Just a long mask, a Combine soldier can be seen in Nova Prospekt without his mask on and has a more or less intact head, just scars where the surgery happened.
@@RescoeZ Yea, I saw a half-naked soldiers, but thought that they are not completly "transformed" for a combat shape, like a partially done.
@@DragoEliteN The same models are used in the Citadel in Episode 1, for the memory wiping machines, implying their surgery is complete.
@@RescoeZ Ah, ok dude, thank you for the explanation and videos!
*_CONVERSION COMPLETE._*
*_BEGIN EQUIPPING UNIT WITH BULLETPROOF VEST AND HELMET AND STUFF._*
Notice how devolved these dialog lines are compared to civil protection. they show little to no emotion, they just speak with clarity and in an organized matter. they don't say "look out!" or "that's a grenade!" they remain composed and refer to grenades as bouncers. instead of shouting out That's him! when sighting freeman it's just "contact confirmed" their human elements and memories have been stripped to the point where they may as well be machines. they would kill their own family members without question.
I wonder why 5:22 is the most replayed part of the video, for me too...
Combine jargon is just so badass.
4:33
there's something i love about this line, idk why but i just love when i hear them say "BOUNCER BOUNCER!"
"Report all position clear."
"Copy."
Ranger Four is holding at code Helix.
There are many things that have made me fascinated in Half-Life 2. This just shows that how well Valve did their job in creating content for their games, just like how do they make all things interactable in Half Life: Alyx.
5:58 "Overwatch, sector is NOT secure"
This line cracks me up because I always hear it while actively murdering combine.
Like, ya think??
One of the few lines I can consistently comprehend when fighting these guys are "[Name] [Number] is final team unit"
5:43 up to 6:17 Half Life 2 Combine Soldiers Last Soldier Remaining Lines and Quotes:
“Overwatch, request reserve activation.”
“Overwatch, requesting skyshield.”
“Overwatch, request winder dispatch.”
“Overwatch, sector is not secure.”
“Overwatch, sector overrun, repeat, sector overrun.”
“Overwatch, team is down, sector is not controlled.”
“Sector outbreak! outbreak! outbreak!”
“I am final team unit, request backup!”
8 in all! I got it now! This is all the same in Episode One and Episode Two as well!
Hope you like it! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
@@onionero
5:43 up to 6:17 Half Life 2 Combine Soldiers Last Soldier Remaining Lines and Quotes:
“Overwatch, request reserve activation.”
“Overwatch, requesting skyshield.”
“Overwatch, request winder dispatch.”
“Overwatch, sector is not secure.”
“Overwatch, sector overrun, repeat, sector overrun.”
“Overwatch, team is down, sector is not controlled.”
“Sector outbreak! outbreak! outbreak!”
“I am final team unit, request backup!”
8 in all! I got it now! This is all the same in Episode One and Episode Two as well!
Hope you like it! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Wearing headphones is like the radio is right next to your ear like the soldiers. Feels cool.
1:04 "Overwatch" refers to their squad and "five six" references their grid, as their location is "grid 5 dash 1 6" in a previous quote
Overwatch is the name of the Ai within the Citadel that gives orders to the soldiers and metrocops.
Damn, this is AWESOME~✨
These sound more intimidating than ones in Half-Life Alyx. It's gonna be amazing seeing them in Half-Life 3
One day
Because Combine in Half life Alyx is early Combine... they still retain some human language
5:18 does nobody see the zombie on the cliff behind?
The voice lines you told were removed got added back into the game today
I'm getting into Half-LIfe lore now cause of these. Very interesting how these were done.
Good luck, i've been for the lore since march 2017, i have a life but its so interesting in 2 years i still found some stuff, is it about beta or retail always something new
I been using this Half Life radio chatter as an audio element in my
Full Life Mad Max car......awesome!!!
Get lost anyways