Nihilanth has slaves (Vortagaunts), but he himself is a slave to the Combine, sort of like Breen.

After a while, a being called Nihilanth noticed these portals and saw this as an opportunity to strike. What happened was when we caused the resonance castcade, and the portals started to open around the facility, the first bunches of creatures where just random animals. But besides Votrigaunts, where did all the rest of the Zen go? I know the Antlions came from Zen, but what about the Houndeye, Bullsquid, Tentacle, Snark, etc. Anyway, after we killed the Zen leader, it set their slave races free, which included the Vortigaunts who now allied with Earth. Headcrabs were already in the first Half Life so did the Zen use headcrabs as well? Is that also were barnacles come from? I never played Half Life 1 but I know the *general* storyline. In the First one, portals open to earth and Zen aliens start pouring in. What I don't understand is how the first ties into the second Half Life. Fast headcrabs are the fast and agile ones. They don't seem to send these guys out often, though as they're the rarest headcrab in the game.ДЇast and agile? Poison headcrabs are the slowest ones but take you down to 1hp in one hit. They can 'kill and move on', and don't need to be a zombie to be more effective.

Poison headcrabs are fast and agile, and are harder to see in darker places. Why would the final boss of HL1 be a combine synth? The Combine aren't in HL1.Poison make the headcrab carrier. only this time we won't last 7 minutes'). A fleet of similar power would have arrived through the super portal in Ep2 if the rebels hadn't destroyed it (hence why Eli says 'it it will be the 7 Hour War all over again. But once the humans were successfully enslaved the warships and larger synths would have left as there was no reason for them to remain. Originally posted by Sovereign:The Combine forces we see in HL2 & Eps are just a small garrison force made up of their smaller synths, the Combine fleets that wiped out most of humanity during the war would be way more powerful.

only this time we won't last 7 minutes').ДЄlso you can't judge a FPS enemy's realistic capabilities from the perspective of the player character, most FPS protagonists are unrealistic one-man-armies and Gordon is no exception.ДЄlso also the fact that their lighter synths (strider, gunship etc) can take 7 direct hits from guided rockets before dying is actually quite impressive considering that most human attack choppers can only take 1 or 2.ДЄlso also also you have to take into account that the portal storms caused by the Combine's super portals was damaging human infrastructure and teleporting xen wildlife on to earth in large numbers, futher desrupting humanity, making them a softer target. The Combine forces we see in HL2 & Eps are just a small garrison force made up of their smaller synths, the Combine fleets that wiped out most of humanity during the war would be way more powerful. Headcrab canisters can easly be avoided and you can just toss a grenade in their hole that headcrabs go out from

Hunter choppers probably wasnt even a thing because combine couldnt copy paste them in their spastic war Why didnt countries started a nuclear war they almost did when 2 big countries got into a argument of 'no ! m0r3 th3n U!!!' Considering rebels use metropolice armor and dont die that easly Im pretty confident military grade bullet proof armors and juggernaut armors can do a lot more than that Striders are absolute trash they literally get killed from a rpg spam 1 man with a hazard suit can take down 5 hunters with a SPAS shotgun that isnt modified and an entire soldier squad with miltiary grade armor cant take down 1?what the в™Ґв™Ґв™Ґв™Ґ? None of their snyths have rpg protection only bullet (nearly every country has missile launchers so)

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