True that, true that. Only the Half Life 1 grunts can come close to them or be on an equal level, apart from that I can't really recall other muffled badasses - besides some robots in some games at best.
Don't even mention the Combine soldiers, blame the advisor's, why do people get angry at our own brainwashed modified race? they're just the brainwashed puppets that do objectives by their superiors.
Emlyn Picton I actually think the visuals have held up extremely well, due to a very tight art direction and economy of resources. Everything's a bit mushy up close, but wide shots look amazing still.
feels like this will always be , sound quality isn't really a big problem since combine radio is supposed to sound like they talk trough gasmasks and with radio chat , thus the magic valve did to edit these voice lines literally immortalized the sound of combine which can be compared to any game at any time and would still stand strong.
The only thing that isn't perfect about the audio is very occasionally there are areas with literally no sound. And as for visuals, the only thing I could criticise is that geometry is extremely angular.
No, I mean why is it weird that they have an offworld assignment? Mainly the reason why The transhuman arms are made is for offworld use like they did to striders and gunships on their original world to earth. soon earth will be a barren rock due to resource suck up, so the Combine will leave with their transhuman forces for "offworld use."
I think it means going to war, because at that point Earth was well controlled by the Combine, and I highly doubt other advance worlds are as easy to control.
COD tries but all their chatter is just the most generic stuff and its like uhhhhhhhhh, at least valve made their own code names for stuff but all the COD developers couldnt do that either
STALKER comes pretty close with story and atmo, and, relative to its budget, ones-up Half-Life for storytelling and beats it in gunplay, but sadly is lacking in puzzles. Metro 2033 tries and does great visuals, but has terrible and generic sound effects. I can't think of other really atmospheric terror games except CoD W@W and Black Ops 1.
What is interesting in listening this is that you can realize the Combine soldiers actually still feel stress ("Shit!" being a stress release due to a immediate danger, in this case a grenade thrown at them) and have a limited range of feelings.
+MagiculzPWNy Me too. I feel sad for them. As sad you get get for a force that enslaved entire plants and dementions, killed thousands of innocent people, and turns people into lifeless computer slaves.
Le Jansson It's from a motorola FRS radio b/c I have one and it makes the same roger beep sound but the one heard here is lower pitch like it's run through a voice changer.
I love that quote "Shit 300 bugs!". I laughed out loud at that. Never paid attention to the radio, it sounded like "hollywood pilot chatter". In other words, meaningless garbles of jargon and coordinates.
From all the official sound files I heard and from what I know, Team Sundown-Three is the team that fired flares in the tunnels and sent out manhacks during the first Nova Prospect level (The Beach).
Cielo Pachirisu they use Californian ones but only the Civil Protectio nsues them. As an example: 11-99 i think it means "Need backup" 10-99 i think it means something like "My partner is down and i need backup"
Gabe Newell Too bad your team radio fucked the voices so much that we will never be able to understand what they are saying during the gameplay. The combine voices are like 1 step above the voices of the marines from the first one, after playing the second one I was able to go back to the first one and understand everything they said, that's how fucked up the voices are, my ears adapted. Now I have to wait for HL3 so I can adapt again and understand the stuff the combine in HL2 are saying.
snark567 Man.Maybe you just cant hear right.They have modyfied bodyes and are ment to sound like that.You can understand every single word that comes out of theyr mouth
+Gabe Newell Yeah, you had your radio chatter guys use CHP (California Highway Patrol) 10 and 11 codes. They are common (some codes, at least) around America in various Departments and State units.
Well the ones in game usually fight you, so they say things really fast and in short phrases which is a good idea. The ones who are speaking long phrases are sitting in one place, and basicaly commanding other units. Sense Overwatch Soilders are still humans they would be speaking like a human in passive situations.
+austinchery True. Including the groups that are being paid by George Soros, like Black Lives Matter. And the idots that are waving with Mexican and communist flags and would accept Sharia law, while (sometimes violently) protesting a democratically elected U.S. president.
Thats because HLA takes place five years before the events of Half-Life 2. Which means HLA Combine soldiers were less lethal than HL2 Combine soldiers.
+Gabe Newell Rise and shine, Mr. Newell. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job, but it's time for you to get to work. And all the effort in the world will be going to waste if you... well, let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong time system can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Newell. Wake up and smell the fans' hunger... For Half Life 3!!
Man.. for a bunch of walking targets these guys actually had a lot of shit going on behind the scenes. Pretty impressive Valve, much more convincing than most games where all you ever hear is "GRENADE!" and shit.
I loved that moment just before you disabled the first combine thumper before Nova Prospekt. knowing that small action would ultimately begin a chain of events that would lead to the war in C17, and the final retaliation against the combine in over 20 something years
now THAT is great to hear! You're doing a great job of translating all of this for us to understand - makes it even MORE interesting to go deeper in the HL universe - so big up for you mate! :)
Heres the existing phonetic alphabet for the Combine Apex Boomer Delta Echo Flatline Helix Ice Jet Kilo Mace Nova Payback Quicksand Ripcord Sundown Tango Uniform Vector it would be nice if volvo had the whole alphabet in the game files because i really think this alphabet is badass
Wow this makes Half life event more awesome. I never saw the combine as actual people working together, just as hazards in the way! Now I know they're bit like humans
Barney joined Civil Protection, but still is member of resistance, which means he did not undergo any brainwashing or surgeries to join CP ranks, meanwhile Soldiers are 100% loyal, and you can see on several occasions such as citadel or nova prospekt a Combine Soldier without top part of uniform, with many different cuts and surgical tools still "stabbed" into him. They are also once seen attached by face to monitors, in a line, like 10 of soldiers.
this is because CP officers still have their humanity left, theyre litteraly just cops forced to do their jobs and if not they and their family gets killed or sent off to another universe as slaves
Yeah, Nomad and such are teams or code names. Also some of them are locations Hardpoint Nomad is a team that stays in one place for example as they have their own "Perimeter Restrictors." those teams might be in control of some kind of a base or checkpoint. Black-4 and Delta-2 seem to be Sectors, but Combine have a code name for evrything really, like Boomer which means dropship.
Uhh, at the end of Episode 2 we see the super portal closed. Now with that said, that means all the Resistance members have to do is use gorilla tactics to slowly kill off the remaining Combine on Earth. Then the human race can live in peace and freedom
I know that, I am not stupid. But honestly, why would do want to? They only want the freedom of Earth back. The Combine can have there evil fascist empire.
I don't get why these have CP voices mixed in with Overwatch soldier voices. Soldiers would never use 10-codes, and CPs wouldn't be able to string together that much military jargon without needing to stammer.
The combine realize that by stringing together all the jargon because the resistance wouldn't be able to decipher it, also half the combine are metro POLICE OFFICERS!
rexisprime12 Why would Police Officers and Military soldiers share the same channel? Also, isn't this all supposed to be radio chatter form Nova Prospekt? What are CP's doing in Nova Prospekt? also, as far as i know, military jargon like this is simply to make radio conversations faster and to the point. Anyone could "decipher" military jargon if they knew in what context it't used in. If anything, 10-codes should be the ones to be used to prevent deciphers.
The lines used by soldiers are a little deeper than the ones used by the metrocops. Different cadence, too. The soldiers can say a lot of syllables in a very short timespan.
And I thought that Combine troopers were speaking gibberish when talking between themselves! Thanks to have added subtitles. I was sure they only spoke english when the policemen were giving you orders.
prison_soldier_activatecentral "Overwatch activates Central transport Stabilization Teams." prison_soldier_boomersinbound "Overwatch confirms double boomers dispatched inbound, ghost drop inbound, prepare for skyshield heavy suppression and wrapup." prison_soldier_bunker1 "Hardpoint Nomad, reactivate perimeter restrictors and report. Hardpoint Nomad, reactivate your perimeter restrictors and report. Nomad, get those restrictors back on line, your sector shows active biotics." prison_soldier_bunker2 "Hardpoint Shadow, report blackout status. Hardpoint Shadow, report blackout status. Hardpoint 139 is oneway. Hunter 6, detach, sweep and confirm." prison_soldier_bunker3 "Leader 9 to Hardpoint Stinger report containment status. Post Stinger, do you read? Team 4, team 9 assemble and reinforce, leader 9 closing for local control." prison_soldier_containD8 "Primary has moved to a containment zone. All remaining teams dispatch to Delta 8. We got him now." prison_soldier_fallback_b4 "Fall back and reinforce sector Black 4, Overwatch requests skyshield sector reinforcement. Drop is inbound." prison_soldier_freeman_antlions "Warning, primary target is, uhh, engaged in, uhh command and control tactics with biotics. Repeat, primary target has tactical C&C of biotics." prison_soldier_fullbioticoverrun "Central transport facility, Nova Prospekt contact blackout, full biotic overrun." prison_soldier_leader9dead "Leader 9 deserviced, Judge 3 field promotion active." prison_soldier_negativecontainment "Uh, negative, no sector containment, no confirmation on target one vector. We have secondary perimeter overruns, what is ETA on skyshield drop?" prison_soldier_prosecuteD7 "Drop Reinforcement teams deploy and prosecute sector Delta 7, contact confirmed with primary target. Target is non-mobile, hunters, scan for possible accomplice." prison_soldier_sundown3dead "Team Sundown 3 deserviced, Helix 2 go active and intercept, Leader 12 out." prison_soldier_tohighpoints "All perimeter units, displace to internal highpoints and prepare for final prosecution." prison_soldier_visceratorsA5 "Team Sundown 3, set viscerators in sector Apex 5, and advance for contact. We have biotics in the perimeter."
Well 10-108 is a real one, officer requesting assistance. 11-99 Officer needs help is real, that's used for emergencies and 10-99 is officer down. Code 3, is commonly used as a type of priority code, so code 1 is low, code 2 is moderate and code 3 is high priority or emergency. Other police units across the globe may use something similar but by default that is a US one. Metrocops and Overwatch use a lot of Medical terms to confuse radio chatter to outsiders. They also use as Mitchell said sectors and objectives rather than roads, suburbs or areas which is actually common for military to do. The Combine in game use Contact reports, that give the soldiers position, his bearing to the the contact and the range, Which is basic infantry comms practice. So honestly the developers didn't come up with much new things, it was more just getting out the Thesaurus :)
New Radio Chatter video up as a throwback if anyone still likes those
Saints Sasha buntaaaaa
rip buntas va
We all like them (at least i do) the combine are soooo badass and i wish they won also #bestvideogamevillain
New radio vidéo for Half Life : Alyx ? :D
Everyone loves your content dude
"the higher pitched a girls voice is the more attracted she is to you"
Girls talking to me:
The ideal Male voice
I lost count of the amount of times I asked a girl out, and she told me to get my restrictors back online since my sector was showing active biotics.
@@giob5883 ha lmao
@@giob5883 my Emoji keyboard/selector is broken, dammit
@@giob5883 Hardpoint shadow report black out status.
The Combine may be evil, but you gotta hand it to them. They know how to carry out a hostile takeover and sound badass while doing it.
True that, true that. Only the Half Life 1 grunts can come close to them or be on an equal level, apart from that I can't really recall other muffled badasses - besides some robots in some games at best.
Don't even mention the Combine soldiers, blame the advisor's, why do people get angry at our own brainwashed modified race? they're just the brainwashed puppets that do objectives by their superiors.
Unknown now we have star wars death troopers in rogue one..... but they all died on the first death star and scarif :/ wtf disney
To be honest i like them better then the rebels. Minus the major characters such as Barney or Alyx
These guys aren't combine, they're just brainwashed human soldiers of the empire
Does anyone else agreee (at the time at least) that this was a visual and audio masterpiece?
Spinzfuzor Brah
Still is.
Emlyn Picton I actually think the visuals have held up extremely well, due to a very tight art direction and economy of resources. Everything's a bit mushy up close, but wide shots look amazing still.
feels like this will always be , sound quality isn't really a big problem since combine radio is supposed to sound like they talk trough gasmasks and with radio chat , thus the magic valve did to edit these voice lines literally immortalized the sound of combine which can be compared to any game at any time and would still stand strong.
+PikkaBird yes
The only thing that isn't perfect about the audio is very occasionally there are areas with literally no sound. And as for visuals, the only thing I could criticise is that geometry is extremely angular.
"Mission failure will result in permanent off-world assignment." Bruh.....
So?
+Kenny Arendt
ikr. Literally kicking them off the face of the earth
+Godless 1 Do you even understand why I made this comment?
No, I mean why is it weird that they have an offworld assignment? Mainly the reason why The transhuman arms are made is for offworld use like they did to striders and gunships on their original world to earth. soon earth will be a barren rock due to resource suck up, so the Combine will leave with their transhuman forces for "offworld use."
I think it means going to war, because at that point Earth was well controlled by the Combine, and I highly doubt other advance worlds are as easy to control.
2:24
"Shit! 300 bucks!"
I know that feeling Mr. Combine, when you realize that you've spent that much cash in Steam in a day.
+Sky Breeze Combine "SHIT THERE GOES $300"Me ":| why why *face palm*
When steam sale happens
shit! half life 3 only 300 bucks!
hahaha
Starts at 2:23
Developers need to learn from Valve's games. Things like these subtle voice lines really create an atmosphere and a driven story.
Pillsbury Daweboy I mean to be fair Halo has been doing this for a while now.
StyroNo 1 lol Valve has been doing this since the first half life which was made in 1998. Before Halo 😂😂😂
*Lol yeah, halo has been doing this for a while now, but
Half life has been doing this for MUCH longer*
COD tries but all their chatter is just the most generic stuff and its like uhhhhhhhhh, at least valve made their own code names for stuff but all the COD developers couldnt do that either
STALKER comes pretty close with story and atmo, and, relative to its budget, ones-up Half-Life for storytelling and beats it in gunplay, but sadly is lacking in puzzles. Metro 2033 tries and does great visuals, but has terrible and generic sound effects. I can't think of other really atmospheric terror games except CoD W@W and Black Ops 1.
What is interesting in listening this is that you can realize the Combine soldiers actually still feel stress ("Shit!" being a stress release due to a immediate danger, in this case a grenade thrown at them) and have a limited range of feelings.
you almost piety them. They are victims of the combine as well.
+MagiculzPWNy
Me too. I feel sad for them. As sad you get get for a force that enslaved entire plants and dementions, killed thousands of innocent people, and turns people into lifeless computer slaves.
+Jacob LaBeck Those monsters! Slaving plant life and demented people.
All those planets and dimensions they enslaved is bad too, I guess.
Jacob LaBeck Even the striders, hunters, dropships were species before enslavement.
+MagiculzPWNy I know.
I would love a game where you play as the combine.
***** that should be some sort of DLC for half life 3....*sigh*...
***** There is a mod and there is Garry's mod HL2RP
Demetrius Rafael No, he means a proper Valve-made combine expansion
Nuclear Productions I know but those all the only available options.
I'd love a "talk" button just to hear the creepy voice XD
most badass comms in a game ever
True
Fraenstandem Also the first F.E.A.R. had very badass communictions in game
Viscon= visual contact
HECU? No? Ok.
@@fastwing3295 Nope.
"Failure will result in permanent off-world assignment."
I wonder how many lives I've ruined...
Paragon Josh they were nuked with Nova Prospect anyway
The soldiers don't have much emotions
This is so scary.... wow... just think of this... when every time they are talking about a *suspect* or *overrun* ... they're talking about you!!
TokyoHart and try their best to not being relocated to "off world assignment"
I think overrun refers to the antlions
DogsRNice depends there are many cases of overrun from antlions to full scale rebellion
The worst part is they are forced to do this without mercy...
Anti-Citizen One = Gordon Freeman
Vance Subprime = Alyx Vance
God Valve made an incredible job with the soldier voices! ! ! !
***** OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD
ultimatemikegaming99 same with all male citizens obviously not including Gordon
James Dominate DOUBLE OMG
ultimatemikegaming99 hehe
true that homie
my old walkie talkies made that sound in the end that these radio has, thats why i allways pretending i was half life guy when i was young
Le Jansson It's from a motorola FRS radio b/c I have one and it makes the same roger beep sound but the one heard here is lower pitch like it's run through a voice changer.
It's so hard to hear what they're saying in game.
Usually cuz gunfire
So, yeah. It is >n
Yes guns all time
What i actually understood was shit, bouncer and death sounds
I want a mod that is just all the soldiers yelling SHIT! every time they see Gorgan Mememan
(Radio chatter)
I Don't Know Why But Combine Radio Chatter Is Very Interesting To Me.
These Combine voices make the game so real! I love it
The original "overwatch."
copy.*EARRAPE*
why do i keep re watching this
Por que é muito legal!
Hardpoint Nomad get those restrictors back online, your sector shows active biotics.
(Radio chatter)
+Combine Overwatch You're doing a good job on patrol.
+Combine Overwatch Overwatch.
+Combine Overwatch any suspicious activities yet squad 134?
Negative, everything is currently in place.
Combine Overwatch
10-4 keep alert
wait, am i seeing things or is that an antlion...gaurd...
I love that quote "Shit 300 bugs!". I laughed out loud at that. Never paid attention to the radio, it sounded like "hollywood pilot chatter". In other words, meaningless garbles of jargon and coordinates.
"Hard Shadow, report blackout status."
*Screams of the damned*
From all the official sound files I heard and from what I know, Team Sundown-Three is the team that fired flares in the tunnels and sent out manhacks during the first Nova Prospect level (The Beach).
I love that they're using the actual (US) police codes for the Combine. It's those little details, you know?
Cielo Pachirisu they use Californian ones but only the Civil Protectio nsues them.
As an example:
11-99 i think it means "Need backup"
10-99 i think it means something like "My partner is down and i need backup"
Gabe Newell Too bad your team radio fucked the voices so much that we will never be able to understand what they are saying during the gameplay.
The combine voices are like 1 step above the voices of the marines from the first one, after playing the second one I was able to go back to the first one and understand everything they said, that's how fucked up the voices are, my ears adapted.
Now I have to wait for HL3 so I can adapt again and understand the stuff the combine in HL2 are saying.
snark567 Man.Maybe you just cant hear right.They have modyfied bodyes and are ment to sound like that.You can understand every single word that comes out of theyr mouth
Gabe Newell I have a suspicion that they can't understand themselves so when they talk they just pretend.
+Gabe Newell Yeah, you had your radio chatter guys use CHP (California Highway Patrol) 10 and 11 codes. They are common (some codes, at least) around America in various Departments and State units.
Well the ones in game usually fight you, so they say things really fast and in short phrases which is a good idea. The ones who are speaking long phrases are sitting in one place, and basicaly commanding other units. Sense Overwatch Soilders are still humans they would be speaking like a human in passive situations.
0:36 Sounds like children screaming for their lives,
Nope nope nope and double nope.
“Its the radio I swear!”
I KNOW RIGHT
its a radio straight signal line i think or Just no one is Talking
@@barszczsosnowskiego3359 no shit
Children dont exist in this game
I assume the primary target is Freeman...
or the bugs.
Antlions*
A lot of this is from fighting the Antlions that overran Nova Prospekt.
Nova prospekt combine's is my favorite and combine shotgunners
Kim Lindahl nova prospect has a cool Easter egg of a combine out of his suit
The sounds in this video give me a feeling of control and fearlessness in a fictional situation of worldwide chaos and panic :)
Pieter Aalders Soooo....everything good?
+Seedaron Haha, the world is in chaos and panic now that Donald Trump is president. Both the elite and the masses.
The world isn't in chaos and panic. Only people causing the panicking are the feminists and the SJW's.
+austinchery True. Including the groups that are being paid by George Soros, like Black Lives Matter. And the idots that are waving with Mexican and communist flags and would accept Sharia law, while (sometimes violently) protesting a democratically elected U.S. president.
I've listened to this so much that now I can understand them without captions.
I have a problem...
Leader 9 was so badass. All the other bunkers were raided by Freeman so Leader 9 wanted to face Freeman by himself
I really love the combine radio chatter in the game, makes me feel like there's depth to what's going on. :)
I was on patrol the other night I heard this on the radio, scared the hell out of me.
At first I thought it was a joke. Turns out someone was being controlled by parasites.
CP-2873 uh
How'd you hear otas Nova Prospekt radio signal?
Imagine having this as a ringtone, and just in the middle of work it goes off
all this effort and time, and you usually cant hear any of it in game ! amazing stuff
This shows that the overwatch actually have feelings, fear of Gordon, zombies, antilions, all sorts of enemies.
2:28 Arrrggh.... *(Shadow 1 Signal Lost)*
So I got it in my mind to play Half Life 2 again, and I find it remarkable just how good the A.I. really is.
Scarier and more tactical than HLA’s combine soldier chatter.
Agree
Thats because HLA takes place five years before the events of Half-Life 2. Which means HLA Combine soldiers were less lethal than HL2 Combine soldiers.
I like the normal soldier with the blue goggles. They look like the Psycho from Borderlands
***** I didn't like my own comment, idiot.
TheExplosiveTurkeyLeg Psycho from Borderland look like the Overwatch soldiers from Half-life 2.
AitoSuomiVideos Overwatch soldiers are nicknamed the Combine by the resistance.
And reason you are telling me this?
AitoSuomiVideos I thought you meant a certain combine soldier.
They remind me of the death troopers from rogue one
sAm Da Man99 yeah, when I watched Rogue One I immediately thought of the Combine
sAm DA MAn06
No...
you mean the Death troopers of rouge one remind you of the Combine.
Gold and Diamond
The concept of rippy rippy.
So true
SAME
11 years later I just now realize that there's CP voicelines mixed in with the soldier lines
That shows they are at least still partly human.
Damn, I fuckin love these radio sounds
Yup
I find myself speaking like this on the voice chat in TF2.
***** i would love a soundboard like this to play around on servers
Nah i use the codes and military style chatter in ArMA 3 it really adds to the immersion when you get some friends in your squad and talk like this
I did this in a Roblox game called the stalker reborn. The "humans" are combines.
Dude stfu tf2 is dead
@@MetrixGoat Tf2 is still kicking. Still has a very active playerbase, not dead. Cry about it, little baby.
Someone ls tell me who voices these masterpieces?
You should know, you hired him
+Christian Crowley he has 3 LIKES HALF LIFE 3 FUCKING CONFIRM !!!!!!
+blingbadboydx Now five.
+Gabe Newell Rise and shine, Mr. Newell. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job, but it's time for you to get to work. And all the effort in the world will be going to waste if you... well, let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong time system can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Newell. Wake up and smell the fans' hunger...
For Half Life 3!!
That joke is so old by now. I've already given up on the Half Life series.
One thing I Iove about hl2 combine than hla is how much calmer the voice is making it more professional sounding
I think the Nova Prospekt Guards can be more concious than the normal overwatch soldiers
"11-99, officer needs assistaince!" - that was almost total gibberish to me - until now!
Am I the only one reminded of The Combine when I think of ADVENT in Xcom 2?
2:47
Someone needs to make this into a message notification sound
Man.. for a bunch of walking targets these guys actually had a lot of shit going on behind the scenes. Pretty impressive Valve, much more convincing than most games where all you ever hear is "GRENADE!" and shit.
I loved that moment just before you disabled the first combine thumper before Nova Prospekt. knowing that small action would ultimately begin a chain of events that would lead to the war in C17, and the final retaliation against the combine in over 20 something years
S**t! 300 bucks! WTF does the Combine not want money?
he needs to pay 300 bucks :P
Miles Manners A car costs way more than 300 bucks so they are stupid.
i think they went to a bar and now he has to pay 300 pucks for the drinks :D
Miles Manners That must suck.
for him :D
Leader 4 is our hero
20 rebels disliked it D:
All hail the Great Combine Empire!
+Imperial Overseers 21
So if i like it i'm a loyalist?
Giniro I am against the combine, but I can still enjoy this if I'm a rebel.
ASK COMBINE KILL THEMMMMMMM
Defeats all of the world's army in 7 hours can't defeat one man with a crowbar.
I still like the combine
When 2020 police start getting tired of riots
uhoh.jpg
... they get their asses kicked by a guy in an orange popsicle suit with a gravity gun and an army of man eating bugs?
I remember this vid having those old ass annotations. RIP.
2:28
Gordon Freeman: *Headshot*
Combine: AAAAHH
That "bio signal lost" sound is probably the most satisfying enemy death sound in any game ever.
1:06
I'M FUCKIN' INVINCIBLE
You can fuck with people hard core if you play this in your car stereo. Make sure you have a crown vic, or a impala.
I dont know how i ended up here, but this makes me want to replay HL2
me too
now THAT is great to hear! You're doing a great job of translating all of this for us to understand - makes it even MORE interesting to go deeper in the HL universe - so big up for you mate! :)
Shit! 300 bugs!
That has got to be the best line of the year
Heres the existing phonetic alphabet for the Combine
Apex
Boomer
Delta
Echo
Flatline
Helix
Ice
Jet
Kilo
Mace
Nova
Payback
Quicksand
Ripcord
Sundown
Tango
Uniform
Vector
it would be nice if volvo had the whole alphabet in the game files because i really think this alphabet is badass
Some of these are either units names or terminology like ripcord meaning to get the fuck out instantly
SHIT 300 BUGS!
SHIT, 300 BUCKS! $$$
XD!!!
SHIT TREE HUNDRED FUCKS
300 ducks
i love the sounds in between that the radio makes...
1:33. combine soldier says 1o3. they are supposed to say "1 zero 3". just a simple military mistake
He’s saying 10-103, which means disturbance, line is from a metrocop.
Their voices finally dropped!
0:09 "-prepare for special HEAVY suppression aand wrap-up"
Wow this makes Half life event more awesome. I never saw the combine as actual people working together, just as hazards in the way! Now I know they're bit like humans
Most likely, yes. You can actually find tutorials on RUclips how to change your voice to sound like a Metrocop or an Overwatch unit.
Barney joined Civil Protection, but still is member of resistance, which means he did not undergo any brainwashing or surgeries to join CP ranks, meanwhile Soldiers are 100% loyal, and you can see on several occasions such as citadel or nova prospekt a Combine Soldier without top part of uniform, with many different cuts and surgical tools still "stabbed" into him. They are also once seen attached by face to monitors, in a line, like 10 of soldiers.
this is because CP officers still have their humanity left, theyre litteraly just cops forced to do their jobs and if not they and their family gets killed or sent off to another universe as slaves
All units fall back and reinforce sector blade 7 and prep for restock and clampdown. weeew custom chatter
Copy that overwatch, 647E is moving to strike area, kinetic strikes active, raining hell.
Copy that, strikes are cancelled and the last hunter we have is going out, over
Hunter-chopper is down, repeat chopper is down!
Copy that elite shock teams 1 through 7 will assault while sniper teams cover
Elite teams 2 and 4 are down along with snipers 1 and 3!
The Quote "All perimeter units, displace to internal highpoints and prepare for...final prosecution." makes me apprehensive.
Now I realize they're people :(
they're not lol. they are aliens
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
**sarcasm**
AaronTheGuy wtf
sarcastic...
AaronTheGuy okay i understand u can stop lol
Nova Prospekt Combine radio chatter ASMR to chill and code to.
sonud off radio 1:19
I just love how fucking intimidating it sounds
Asmr
Yeah, Nomad and such are teams or code names. Also some of them are locations Hardpoint Nomad is a team that stays in one place for example as they have their own "Perimeter Restrictors." those teams might be in control of some kind of a base or checkpoint. Black-4 and Delta-2 seem to be Sectors, but Combine have a code name for evrything really, like Boomer which means dropship.
Long live for the combines
The Resistance will live on!
The resistence cant do anything to destroy the Combine Empire BUAJAJJAJA
Uhh, at the end of Episode 2 we see the super portal closed. Now with that said, that means all the Resistance members have to do is use gorilla tactics to slowly kill off the remaining Combine on Earth. Then the human race can live in peace and freedom
But i say THE RESISTANCE CANT DESTROY THE COMBINE EMPIRE,the combines lives in another planet and they are millions
I know that, I am not stupid. But honestly, why would do want to? They only want the freedom of Earth back. The Combine can have there evil fascist empire.
We made a really badass Earth Branch of our Union.
I don't get why these have CP voices mixed in with Overwatch soldier voices.
Soldiers would never use 10-codes, and CPs wouldn't be able to string together that much military jargon without needing to stammer.
Overwatch soldiers are used in cities too.
Ohh shut it
The combine realize that by stringing together all the jargon because the resistance wouldn't be able to decipher it, also half the combine are metro POLICE OFFICERS!
AceTheGreat so if actual Soldiers were deployed into a city, they'd magically start using 10-codes?
rexisprime12 Why would Police Officers and Military soldiers share the same channel? Also, isn't this all supposed to be radio chatter form Nova Prospekt? What are CP's doing in Nova Prospekt?
also, as far as i know, military jargon like this is simply to make radio conversations faster and to the point. Anyone could "decipher" military jargon if they knew in what context it't used in. If anything, 10-codes should be the ones to be used to prevent deciphers.
Ok they are starting for me to be scary.
This made me want to play hl2 SOOOOO hard but i only heve ep2 and dont want to crack
GGPL Its you
GGPL from the other metropolice radio chatter
Same BUT I JUST GOT HL2 FOR $0.64 CDN ON THE STEAM SUMMER SALE!
"We have H.E.C.U over her-"
my friends last words before getting gunned down
What does "Pick up that can" means?
That was just at the beginning of the game where a CP unit littered on the floor and made you pick it up.
*****
I threw it at his head like 50 times :P lol
It means he said pick up that can!!!
I did the door glitch after abusing the CP guy with it a jolly bit i also found it way too funny
It means... Pick up that can :/
The lines used by soldiers are a little deeper than the ones used by the metrocops. Different cadence, too. The soldiers can say a lot of syllables in a very short timespan.
2:09
SHIT
And I thought that Combine troopers were speaking gibberish when talking between themselves! Thanks to have added subtitles. I was sure they only spoke english when the policemen were giving you orders.
shit 300 bugs was weird
they are still human
300 bucks...
Adam Takacs they mean antlions
+Kenny Decoud 300 antlions well they're dead now :3
they're
Overwatch before it was cool
"Back me up, I'm out!"
prison_soldier_activatecentral "Overwatch activates Central transport Stabilization Teams."
prison_soldier_boomersinbound "Overwatch confirms double boomers dispatched inbound, ghost drop inbound, prepare for skyshield heavy suppression and wrapup."
prison_soldier_bunker1 "Hardpoint Nomad, reactivate perimeter restrictors and report. Hardpoint Nomad, reactivate your perimeter restrictors and report. Nomad, get those restrictors back on line, your sector shows active biotics."
prison_soldier_bunker2 "Hardpoint Shadow, report blackout status. Hardpoint Shadow, report blackout status. Hardpoint 139 is oneway. Hunter 6, detach, sweep and confirm."
prison_soldier_bunker3 "Leader 9 to Hardpoint Stinger report containment status. Post Stinger, do you read? Team 4, team 9 assemble and reinforce, leader 9 closing for local control."
prison_soldier_containD8 "Primary has moved to a containment zone. All remaining teams dispatch to Delta 8. We got him now."
prison_soldier_fallback_b4 "Fall back and reinforce sector Black 4, Overwatch requests skyshield sector reinforcement. Drop is inbound."
prison_soldier_freeman_antlions "Warning, primary target is, uhh, engaged in, uhh command and control tactics with biotics. Repeat, primary target has tactical C&C of biotics."
prison_soldier_fullbioticoverrun "Central transport facility, Nova Prospekt contact blackout, full biotic overrun."
prison_soldier_leader9dead "Leader 9 deserviced, Judge 3 field promotion active."
prison_soldier_negativecontainment "Uh, negative, no sector containment, no confirmation on target one vector. We have secondary perimeter overruns, what is ETA on skyshield drop?"
prison_soldier_prosecuteD7 "Drop Reinforcement teams deploy and prosecute sector Delta 7, contact confirmed with primary target. Target is non-mobile, hunters, scan for possible accomplice."
prison_soldier_sundown3dead "Team Sundown 3 deserviced, Helix 2 go active and intercept, Leader 12 out."
prison_soldier_tohighpoints "All perimeter units, displace to internal highpoints and prepare for final prosecution."
prison_soldier_visceratorsA5 "Team Sundown 3, set viscerators in sector Apex 5, and advance for contact. We have biotics in the perimeter."
Go sharp go sharp
Are the codes actually used in real life or are they made up for the game?
***** a bit of both
***** Surprisingly almost of all them are real, its just military/police radio chatter with a few words changed.
Awesome! could you give me an example?
Sector is secure im pretty sure its an military quote "Area is secure"
Well 10-108 is a real one, officer requesting assistance. 11-99 Officer needs help is real, that's used for emergencies and 10-99 is officer down. Code 3, is commonly used as a type of priority code, so code 1 is low, code 2 is moderate and code 3 is high priority or emergency. Other police units across the globe may use something similar but by default that is a US one. Metrocops and Overwatch use a lot of Medical terms to confuse radio chatter to outsiders. They also use as Mitchell said sectors and objectives rather than roads, suburbs or areas which is actually common for military to do. The Combine in game use Contact reports, that give the soldiers position, his bearing to the the contact and the range, Which is basic infantry comms practice. So honestly the developers didn't come up with much new things, it was more just getting out the Thesaurus :)
Who else thinks the Radio cut out sounds like a barcode scanner at a Target or Wal-Mart? 😂
aren't *biotics* antlions?
biotics are basically every living thing that is not combine.
Yeah, I think in this case it may mean headcrabs and headcrab zombies.
Exogen = antlion
Parasitic = headcrab
Necrotic = zombie
Paracrotic = fast zombie
Virotic = poison zombie
Biotic = Vortiguant/Xen Creatures
wiredsnowman Thaks for that.
DAFUQ!?