@Snythic From my understanding, the grunts are just that. Grunts. It's the next step on your path to join the Trans-human arm. To add to your example, they elongate words. "annnnd still holding." Vs the Ordinal who are very direct. So to join the combine you sign up for civil protection, get a good few beatings in, and get the chance for modifications and memory wipes. You become a grunt. From them saying "sorry" i can guess they might remember the time before the combine or at least still have some empathy with their species. Eventually they move up the ranks and become an Ordinal with more memory wipes and other perks. Now they are trans-human soldiers.
No, you want to play different game. "Dishonored" like - focusing world life. But valve is lost in gimmicks like vr instead. There really is little of world building in alex with all that fancy vr thing. It's the same as with graphics - technology grows gettingmore time-consuming so devs get lazy to put soul into it.
@@rusampler1877 Lmao you're clearly mistaken, or just not a Half-Life fan. I'm getting this game when I get a VR headset, and I can guarantee I'll enjoy it.
Kinda reminds me of the nova prospekt transmissions. Hearing the combine command network trying to figure out what’s going on and organize accordingly as you go about causing more trouble. In half life 2, they were being swarmed by countless ant lions before being obliterated by a teleporter explosion. In half life alyx, they’ve just suffered a critical breach in containment of what’s arguably the most dangerous entity in the multiverse
Expected him to *kick* the other soldier... "He's kicking me" "Overwatch says stop kicking me" "He kicked me again" "Overwatch says you are authorized to be amputated" "He's not amputating" "He's shooting me to d-" (Other soldier) "He's dead"
@@wifin6644 its not mo-cap bro mo-cap's usually have framerate limit, you can tell mo-cap very easily during transitions, valve have done something special to blend different animations at native framerate, so it doesn't look like diff. animations are replaying..
"Damage... Seventy... Eighty... Nin....... Total." *"Total?"* "Total." I swear the grunts in this game are the most convincing portrayals of people in any video game ever.
@@Glacieux well to be fair if they screw up tasks there would be punishment like amputation of body parts and such and seeing as the cps and combine soldiers in hla are more human like and more expressive in emotion and personality then i assume they would be shitting their heavy armored pants when they have to tell overwatch that they messed up their tasks
@@TheExperienceYT That's something for national guards, if you become a combine regular soldier, you are basically a combine combat cyborg with no recognition of your former self.
Didn't see anyone quoting the second one, and I think that one is severely underrated. "Command requesting damage assessment. Command requesting damage assessment." "Overall damage 70-? 80 percent... Uh, 9-... Total." "Total?" *Looks around* "Total." "Deploying reinforcements."
He seems to be very much stressed out due to what happened. You can tell by how he's frantically looking about and hesitates to respond to Overwatch, and he keeps on changing his answer until he gives up and just finishes the sentence.
@LOAN NGUYEN Yeah, I like how there is kinda a large difference between the combine restrictions. Like how citizens can were casual clothing and how there are more luxuries in there apartments, it makes it look like over time more restrictions came in. Possibly Alyx is reason all the restrictions came in!
@LOAN NGUYEN Well HL2 Combine were strict. They would shoot you in the beginning of the game when your going through metal detectors if you threw something at them like a Pepsi can. Also HL2 Gordon arrives right when they started their large resistance against the combine which means restrictions had to be worse. I mean you could aggravate AI since Half Life. If you hit Barney with a crowbar or something he would attack and kill you.
My idea why combine in HL2 are so inhumane then In Alyx is due to the advancement of memory wiping and augmentation. It shows that early Combine solders still held onto some emotions
The Grunts in HL:Alyx are the equivalent of Civil Protection in Half-Life 2, who are more or less still completely human (hence why Barney is able to infiltrate CP safely without getting his brain scrambled). The higher-ranking Combine Soldiers in both games are transhumans with augmentations and are much less human.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 i'm talking about the actual games. hl2 came out in 2004, hla came out in 2020. but i get the point, i'm just being a smartass and giving the "real" reason.
Could be he’s the last survivor of a clean up squadron with the ‘damage assessment’ being how much he can estimate how much his squadron has been through. His body movement does show a sense of panic or at least some nervousness. If I had to report the damage of... I don’t know what part of the story this is but if I had to inspect a deep and dark facility with head crabs and Zombies and who knows what else that can ambush the squadron at any point in time, I’d sure be breathing hard. Or probably not breathing at all.
@@49mozzer grunts are still mostly human they have the least amount of augmentations so they are just upgraded humans not fully converted or fully controlled by the combine.
Dunno what it is exactly but there's just something about the atmospherics of 0:13 that are so on point. The ominous music, the lighting, the bewildered grunt who doesn't know how to express how bad the damage is. I already know this is gonna be one of the most memorable games ever for me.
In half life 2 this is deliberate, and as i have heard, even higher ranking once in alyx. Combine soldiers are not human anymore, their memories and personalities have completely been altered and/or replaced. Read up on combine lore in general if youre interested, they do worse war crimes in half life 2 alone than ww2 germany, russia and china did combined. One of the punishment to dissidents was to amputate their legs and arms, screw some plates and prostetics into the stumps, take out their internal organs, cut off their ears, cutting off the nose, screw a metal plate with tiny eye cutouts onto their face(hence cutting the nose, so it fits), having blinders left and right, removing all sexual organs completely, and only feeding them through an implant with some nutrient sauce that can barely get their system running, leaving them both conscious and in excruciating pain both during the process, and afterwards. They also have a brainchip that forces them to act out whatever they are being told. In hl2, it is hinted that they still remember who they are, which shows as the citadel gets damaged and the mind controll stops working and they all freak out, cry and scream horrendously
Repair or extraction needed What is its call sign I don’t know We’re there any deaths I don’t know What’s your partner doing He’s kicking it Tell him to stop Over watch says stop kicking So He stopped kicking it
@The flööfy möth Basically its a standard military term for the name of some-important team/thing/asset that gets used as an identifier over radio. Ex. Bravo Six from modern warfare is a call sign.
"I don't know." *Looks over at kicking grunt* "He's kicking it." *Faces him* "Overwtach says stop kicking it" *Other grunt stops kicking it.* "Hey stopped kicking it" God I love that line. Its so funny
I can just imagine what that first grunt heard. "He's kicking it." _< : : WARNING, UNAUTHORIZED CONTINUOUS DAMAGE OF EQUIPMENT WILL RESULT IN TEAM RECALL AND RECYCLE. 20 STERILIZATION POINTS DEDUCTED FROM TOTAL. : : >_ "..." "Overwatch says stop kicking it."
0:13 even this walking animation just gives the guy so much more personality somehow (or just makes him look more like a real person) valve truly is a god of video games
The guys that are talking with overwatch sound like two brothers calling their mom for advice on how to fix the washing machine, and one of them starts beating it for it to work.
I feel so bad for most of these combine solders, most of them are just trying to survive, unable to get food, they joined the combine to live. They probably joined as civil protection, then had a good record and was forced to be an elite.
Imo seeing them act more human is way spookier than when they behave like robots, they're still full of thoughts and emotions despite being turned into brainwashed cyborgs, they look at other human beings and see nothing in common with themselves, regardless of the fact they still act like the people they used to be.
@@minime8867 the grunts are brainwashed. A good rule of thumb for telling if a combine is brainwashed is the weapons they use. Non brainwashed units use weaker arms since they aren't trusted enough to use the more powerful ones. Also, grunts are ranked as echo 1, meaning they are brainwashed because the combine don't give you a rank unless you are brainwashed and modified. The grunts even have metal frames attached to their skulls and their eyes removed for cybernetics.
Is cuz hl alyx is a prequel it shows pre combine soldiers before they were transform in what we see in hl2 , civil protection (police) still the same on both tho humans
@@randomcatdude VALVe has a way with making MOCAP look lively instead of lifeless, like in L4D with their stuntman who did over 100+ death animations. It just goes to show VALVe's attention to detail
I just realized that HL2 combines never had a single conversation, HL1 had at least 3 And I love how they used 2 different versions of the dialogues, this is something we never saw or at least I never saw in any other game. This is really a huge improvement.
That's because the ones in HL2 were Soldiers and Overwatch Elite units which are like Cyborgs, humans that got their personality removed. These units however are Grunts and unlike the Soldiers in HL2, Grunts seem to be more combat trained CP (Civil Protection). Which would make sense since CPs are fully human thus containing their personalities.
@@ath3392 True but also lore-wise Combine Soldiers are augmented/cyborg while the Overwatch Units (the white ones) are more machine than human striping them of any humanity. Soldiers have no emotion but the Overwatch are almost just straight up robots. CPs however are fully human though as you said we never heard them have actual conversations except from "pick up that can" and the one who talked to Barney when he was undercover. Weither it was because limitations or something idk but I'm glad they made CPs more expressive too in HL:Alyx. The Grunts in HL:Alyx seem to be fully human too thus making them have more chatter and overall human too. I almost felt bad for killing them lol.
Well if you noticed in Half-Life 2 that some of the Combine Soldiers at Nova Prospekt stutter and sound confused when talking about Freeman controlling the Antlions with the Bugbait which means they retain some humanity when it comes to certain emotions along with still feeling pain and fear.
First Grunt: Repair or extraction needed 2nd: I don't know 1st: "I don't know" 1st: He's kicking it Overwatch *tells the 1st one to tell the other to stop kicking the strider* 1st: Overwatch says stop kicking it 2nd: *stops kicking it* 1st: He stopped kicking it It sounds like two kids on a phone with their mom
Love how valve just casually drops one of the most amazing VR games ever made and then just dips yet again. Would be amazing if we got another half life VR game with these amazing graphics and just pure love put into it, maybe just a bit longer.
Their dialogues feels like they're next stage of Metrocop. When they can do overwatch tasks, but only in quarantine zone. None of their memories gets erased and they keep their old personalities.
Damn they act so human, new theory what if at the time before Gordon came OTA soldiers also werent transhuman yet and were just like civil protection, only a higher rank. But then they got idea of modyifing them.
Based on the version of the Combine Grunt model with the mask blown off, showing a very modified face, and the dialogue lines alluding to things like on-the-fly specific brainwashing, they definitely aren't unmodified, but based on these voice lines they're also definitely nowhere near as far along in the dehumanization and total brainwashing as the Combine troops would be by the time of Half-Life 2.
I found one that you missed! (I think it's a grunt that says it). During the strider battle, when you begin fighting the combine foot soldiers, the voice line "Deliver damage assessment to Overwatch. Repeat. Deliver damage assessment to Overwatch." plays.
I'm toying with the idea, it's finding the right clips for it. Unlike HL2s voice files which are mostly individual words, the voice files for HLA are mostly full sentences. EDIT: That's not true actually, a lot of HL2's voice lines are full sentences. But it's easier to tell what they are saying via their script files and audio, and are easier to splice.
Isn’t there another scene right before the garage fight? A lone grunt is looking over the edge, and command is constantly asking for a damage assessment, but the guy starts shooting you and never answers?
Felix C. There’s a scene file in the level, and a couple lines of dialog that aren’t used in this video, but I don’t know the exact lines (since I can’t open the scene file). I think I’ve seen it pop up on closed captions for some lets players, but it tends to get interrupted cause they’re spotted early
g3o.graphy_2526_ this is after all that. After the strider activates before fighting the combine squad in the garage. Right before an ordinal jumps on a car hood
Imagine playing as a combine on a Half Life Game Edit:I forgot to say like a oposing force sequel but without Sheppard and the realization of a combine soldier
Yeah like one of these grunts before they got turned into what they were in HL2. Like you could play most of the game fighting for the Combine, and wind up trying to escape when you realize what they plan to do with you.
I'm not sure what would be funnier-- Overwatch literally just saying "Relay message: Stop kicking it" or Overwatch saying something really verbose that just boiled down to "stop kicking it"
I can just imagine what that first grunt heard. "He's kicking it." _< : : WARNING, UNAUTHORIZED CONTINUOUS DAMAGE OF EQUIPMENT WILL RESULT IN TEAM RECALL AND RECYCLE. 20 STERILIZATION POINTS DEDUCTED FROM TOTAL. : : >_ "..." "Overwatch says stop kicking it."
Tbh, this makes it more sad. These grunts are just Civil Protection Officers with proper military training. Removing them of their humanity and replacing their organs with mechanic bits shows how brutal the Combine is
![Half-Life: Combined | A Half-Life Cinematic [S2FM]](/img/1.gif)
"We're not dumping it into the pit because it's safe" Love that line
I read that as so as they said it lol
Is that a reference in HL1 where HE grunts throw Gordon Freeman at trash pit thing?
@@sunclonkt7839 trash compacter
i dont get it?
breaking bad reference
scenes like this makes the Combine feel more human, understandable as these soldiers are way less far into the enhancement process
Not as far as half life 2, where they’ve lost all memories and emotions
@@jimlucas9353 yeah, i think this was a deliberate choice from Valve to do that
@@jimlucas9353 It was a few years in between.
@@dutchdoggo Yeah I think they got rid of there emotions so they can follow orders with no hesitation
@Snythic From my understanding, the grunts are just that. Grunts. It's the next step on your path to join the Trans-human arm. To add to your example, they elongate words. "annnnd still holding." Vs the Ordinal who are very direct. So to join the combine you sign up for civil protection, get a good few beatings in, and get the chance for modifications and memory wipes. You become a grunt. From them saying "sorry" i can guess they might remember the time before the combine or at least still have some empathy with their species. Eventually they move up the ranks and become an Ordinal with more memory wipes and other perks. Now they are trans-human soldiers.
Overwatch says stop kicking it
He stopped kicking it.
SHE'S HERE!
Striders have feelings too
Right?
@@Skull_Gun I was getting vibes of "Don't kick that thing, it's worth more to the Combine than you are."
LMAO Imagine the Overwatch voice telling the guy to tell the other guy to stop kicking
"he's kicking it"
"...stop kicking it"
*he stops kicking it*
"he stopped kicking it"
CatLoredRunes good one valve
he looked disappointing when he had to stop
"Overwatch said stop kicking it"
I think that Overwatch already know the behaviour of the kicking Combine and asked if it was doing some stupid shit
Snitch Life
"Overwatch says stop kicking it" instantly killed me. God I wanna play this game.
No, you want to play different game. "Dishonored" like - focusing world life. But valve is lost in gimmicks like vr instead. There really is little of world building in alex with all that fancy vr thing. It's the same as with graphics - technology grows gettingmore time-consuming so devs get lazy to put soul into it.
@@rusampler1877 Lmao you're clearly mistaken, or just not a Half-Life fan. I'm getting this game when I get a VR headset, and I can guarantee I'll enjoy it.
@@branchy2000inc Not like I can battle marketing of top corporations. So enjoy your non-critical opinion, fan-boy.
@The Xenomorphian That's virgin arguments that chads don't care. So your validation is invalid.
@@rusampler1877 you're such a fucking redditor
That one grunt must have terrified to be in the position where he has to tell command that everyone's dead.
Kinda reminds me of the nova prospekt transmissions. Hearing the combine command network trying to figure out what’s going on and organize accordingly as you go about causing more trouble. In half life 2, they were being swarmed by countless ant lions before being obliterated by a teleporter explosion. In half life alyx, they’ve just suffered a critical breach in containment of what’s arguably the most dangerous entity in the multiverse
He sounds so horrified from seeing what happened to his own brothers in arms. He can barely even say a word.
It's likely his capacity to feel fear is diminished somewhat due to combine augmentations.
Time stamp?
Znsjwusjandndjsosks
“He stopped kicking it”
The other combine looked so sad when he had to stop kicking it ):
yea
Yeah boi
Hahahahaha my name boi
Expected him to *kick* the other soldier...
"He's kicking me"
"Overwatch says stop kicking me"
"He kicked me again"
"Overwatch says you are authorized to be amputated"
"He's not amputating"
"He's shooting me to d-"
(Other soldier)
"He's dead"
He was watching his step they wouldn't want to fall down and activate their grenades
These moments are great. Even more human than metrocops in hl2.
there's nothing more human that dumping something potentially harmful to human/Combine well-being
Maybe there is a good reason for that
Because in here they still had sort of their humanity. In HL2 combine already plucked their humanity and there were only machines.
@@ladyselin35 Civil Protection/metrocops ie the first combine you fight in HL2 are 100% human.
are they humans?played only black mesa and alyx i tought they were aliens underneath
The animations are so close to real life movement is insanely amazing
tru
That's because it's motion capture. It's like 2D animation made with rotoscoping.
@@wifin6644 not all of it. Most of the characters are hand-animated
For instance the Vortigaunt sequence
@@wifin6644 its not mo-cap bro mo-cap's usually have framerate limit, you can tell mo-cap very easily during transitions, valve have done something special to blend different animations at native framerate, so it doesn't look like diff. animations are replaying..
"Yes we mocap'd. I acted out the scenes before I got in the suit" - Jamaal Bradley, animatior at Valve.
I love how that one grunt says “total….” Like he knows he’s about to get sent to offworld assignment
"Damage... Seventy... Eighty... Nin....... Total."
*"Total?"*
"Total."
I swear the grunts in this game are the most convincing portrayals of people in any video game ever.
The combine Soldier sounds so devastated when delivering the damage assessment.
@@Glacieux well to be fair if they screw up tasks there would be punishment like amputation of body parts and such and seeing as the cps and combine soldiers in hla are more human like and more expressive in emotion and personality then i assume they would be shitting their heavy armored pants when they have to tell overwatch that they messed up their tasks
@@LittleSombreroDog Actually when Overwatch says amputation it means death. So if they fail they get killed.
@@me67galaxylife I think along with their families as well. God damn the combine!
@@TheExperienceYT That's something for national guards, if you become a combine regular soldier, you are basically a combine combat cyborg with no recognition of your former self.
Didn't see anyone quoting the second one, and I think that one is severely underrated.
"Command requesting damage assessment. Command requesting damage assessment."
"Overall damage 70-? 80 percent... Uh, 9-... Total."
"Total?"
*Looks around*
"Total."
"Deploying reinforcements."
Mere number quoted first one either
Everyone mostly came here for stop kicking it
i couldn't really make out what he was saying. i'm guessing most of us are in the same boat
He seems to be very much stressed out due to what happened. You can tell by how he's frantically looking about and hesitates to respond to Overwatch, and he keeps on changing his answer until he gives up and just finishes the sentence.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 yeah
Why are RUclips users so delighted about quoting things?
Yes, I saw the video, thank you.
You can hear HL2 CP beta radio sound after "incoming reinforcements"
The beta version of it
CP Death sound?
I think it also appears in the "take him down!" line in the intro to hl2
I see I'm not the only one with a keen ear.
Yea I can spot it a mile away
I like how the grunts still have some of their human personality left
@LOAN NGUYEN Yeah, I like how there is kinda a large difference between the combine restrictions. Like how citizens can were casual clothing and how there are more luxuries in there apartments, it makes it look like over time more restrictions came in. Possibly Alyx is reason all the restrictions came in!
@LOAN NGUYEN Well HL2 Combine were strict. They would shoot you in the beginning of the game when your going through metal detectors if you threw something at them like a Pepsi can. Also HL2 Gordon arrives right when they started their large resistance against the combine which means restrictions had to be worse. I mean you could aggravate AI since Half Life. If you hit Barney with a crowbar or something he would attack and kill you.
“You wanna grab some donuts?”
oh, i couldn’t. i already had seven before i came to work.
MIKE AND DAVE
Mike: Oh, dave! *seinfeld theme plays*
Sadly I think there helmets are really hard to remove
Do you know who took all the donuts?
"Repair or extraction needed.
"I don't know.
"I don't know.
"He's kicking it.
"Overwatch says stop kicking it.
"He stopped kicking it."
lmao what a snitch
GET DOWN SHE HERE
My idea why combine in HL2 are so inhumane then In Alyx is due to the advancement of memory wiping and augmentation. It shows that early Combine solders still held onto some emotions
Until they figured that out, and completely changed it
The Grunts in HL:Alyx are the equivalent of Civil Protection in Half-Life 2, who are more or less still completely human (hence why Barney is able to infiltrate CP safely without getting his brain scrambled). The higher-ranking Combine Soldiers in both games are transhumans with augmentations and are much less human.
could also have something to do with 16 years of technological advancement lmao
@@adog3129 HL:A takes place 5 years before the events of HL2.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 i'm talking about the actual games. hl2 came out in 2004, hla came out in 2020. but i get the point, i'm just being a smartass and giving the "real" reason.
I noticed that grunt who was reporting damage is heavily breathing. He's probably injured or sth.
Could be he’s the last survivor of a clean up squadron with the ‘damage assessment’ being how much he can estimate how much his squadron has been through. His body movement does show a sense of panic or at least some nervousness. If I had to report the damage of... I don’t know what part of the story this is but if I had to inspect a deep and dark facility with head crabs and Zombies and who knows what else that can ambush the squadron at any point in time, I’d sure be breathing hard.
Or probably not breathing at all.
He looks kinda stressed too.
@@UP51L I thought Combine soldiers didn't experience pain, exhaustion an fear after their augmentation.
@@49mozzer grunts are still mostly human they have the least amount of augmentations so they are just upgraded humans not fully converted or fully controlled by the combine.
@@The.Rot. Seems like a liability.
The kicking it boys are kind of cute
both
I like the flashlight
They're boyfriends
Relationships should be 50/50, he kicks the dead strider and I relay to him that overwatch wants him to stop.
@@marc4177 BTS fans be like
Dunno what it is exactly but there's just something about the atmospherics of 0:13 that are so on point. The ominous music, the lighting, the bewildered grunt who doesn't know how to express how bad the damage is. I already know this is gonna be one of the most memorable games ever for me.
about that...
@@jkeebla What about it? It was a good game
@@Knapperoni it was a great game just very forgettable for some reason
@@jkeebla Forgettable? Did we play the same game?
I love how Overwatch is basically a helicopter parent in HL:A
“He’s kicking it.”
“Mom says stop kicking it.”
“He stopped kicking it.”
I wish there were more moments like these.
1:00 "why, is it dangerous?"
" *we're not dumping it in a pit because its safe* "
Comedy in the Half-Life series has reached it’s peak
And that's why the bullsquids skin (in hl2 beta) turned red
It all makes sence now
@@karlmarx592It's a combine zombie
It's like a like a
Zombine
Idk why but "he stopped kicking it" made me laugh so hard
Same
I really like how the second soldier is animated.
I think that's motion capture, not manual animation.
RandomCatDude Oh.
@@MisterJohnDoe yea all hla animations are mocap
@@MenderSlen579 even alyx, technically.
0:53 I can Imagine one of them saying “How long has she been standing there?”
I like how they gave the Combines more personalities than HL2 with a random combine saying “Pick up that can”.
In half life 2 this is deliberate, and as i have heard, even higher ranking once in alyx. Combine soldiers are not human anymore, their memories and personalities have completely been altered and/or replaced. Read up on combine lore in general if youre interested, they do worse war crimes in half life 2 alone than ww2 germany, russia and china did combined. One of the punishment to dissidents was to amputate their legs and arms, screw some plates and prostetics into the stumps, take out their internal organs, cut off their ears, cutting off the nose, screw a metal plate with tiny eye cutouts onto their face(hence cutting the nose, so it fits), having blinders left and right, removing all sexual organs completely, and only feeding them through an implant with some nutrient sauce that can barely get their system running, leaving them both conscious and in excruciating pain both during the process, and afterwards. They also have a brainchip that forces them to act out whatever they are being told. In hl2, it is hinted that they still remember who they are, which shows as the citadel gets damaged and the mind controll stops working and they all freak out, cry and scream horrendously
@@MrMegaMetroid do you have any clip of the combine without mind control of the citadel I'm pretty interested
@@LittleSombreroDog well in alzx from what ive heard they are still volunteers. Bit rusty on all of this myself though
The metro police from half life 2 were not combine soldiers. The “pick up that can” guy was still completely human with no augmentations.
@@Average_K Not quite true, they still get memory replacement and stuff over time, to get acces to "higher" prviliges.
Watching the combine is so cool, would be sick if there were even more scenes like this in the game
Repair or extraction needed
What is its call sign
I don’t know
We’re there any deaths
I don’t know
What’s your partner doing
He’s kicking it
Tell him to stop
Over watch says stop kicking
So
He stopped kicking it
Call sign?
I don’t know
@The flööfy möth Basically its a standard military term for the name of some-important team/thing/asset that gets used as an identifier over radio. Ex. Bravo Six from modern warfare is a call sign.
@The flööfy möth Glad I could help.
i cant tell if this is a reference to friends or not
Its moments like those that make me want to replay games more and more hope the next half life installment has more scenes like these
0:48 he looks so sad bc he cant kick it
"I don't know."
*Looks over at kicking grunt*
"He's kicking it."
*Faces him* "Overwtach says stop kicking it"
*Other grunt stops kicking it.*
"Hey stopped kicking it"
God I love that line. Its so funny
I can just imagine what that first grunt heard.
"He's kicking it."
_< : : WARNING, UNAUTHORIZED CONTINUOUS DAMAGE OF EQUIPMENT WILL RESULT IN TEAM RECALL AND RECYCLE. 20 STERILIZATION POINTS DEDUCTED FROM TOTAL. : : >_
"..."
"Overwatch says stop kicking it."
I love the grunts.
They’re both badass and adorably human at the same time. Unlike the combine soldiers we see.
0:13 even this walking animation just gives the guy so much more personality somehow (or just makes him look more like a real person)
valve truly is a god of video games
MOTION CAPTURE
The guys that are talking with overwatch sound like two brothers calling their mom for advice on how to fix the washing machine, and one of them starts beating it for it to work.
I can imagine the overwatch voice saying "STOP. KICKING. IT."
I feel so bad for most of these combine solders, most of them are just trying to survive, unable to get food, they joined the combine to live. They probably joined as civil protection, then had a good record and was forced to be an elite.
Imo seeing them act more human is way spookier than when they behave like robots, they're still full of thoughts and emotions despite being turned into brainwashed cyborgs, they look at other human beings and see nothing in common with themselves, regardless of the fact they still act like the people they used to be.
Grunts are not brainwashed, higher ranks are, most metro police are not brainwashed.
The grunts are human.
Metropolice show personality
@@minime8867 the grunts are brainwashed. A good rule of thumb for telling if a combine is brainwashed is the weapons they use. Non brainwashed units use weaker arms since they aren't trusted enough to use the more powerful ones. Also, grunts are ranked as echo 1, meaning they are brainwashed because the combine don't give you a rank unless you are brainwashed and modified. The grunts even have metal frames attached to their skulls and their eyes removed for cybernetics.
-He's kicking it
-Overwatch says stop kicking it
-He stopped kicking it.
Damn, I laughted at this
I like half life Alyx because it gives these guys personality, they aren’t just mindless drooms like in half life 2
well i think they were originaly designed to be mindless drooms, thats why transhumanity
Is cuz hl alyx is a prequel it shows pre combine soldiers before they were transform in what we see in hl2 , civil protection (police) still the same on both tho humans
I feel like civil protection officers Mike and Dave of Accursed Farms may have given the devs some inspiration...
"He's kicking it"
"Overwatch says stop kicking it"
The grunt:😢
"He stopped kicking it"
The movement is so fluid and smooth
Sounds like me when I tell my dad that my brother is doing something annoying 0:39
These lines were all really endearing.
The movements are really realistic its really like you are in real life, valve is so great but sadly they cant make much more games
They used motion capture for all human NPCs in HL:A, so of course it looks really realistic.
Ohh rightt
Man! After so many installments in the Half-Life franchise, we finally get Real Life! Thanks Valve!
@@gamingmaster6377 FINALLY. Full Life
@@randomcatdude VALVe has a way with making MOCAP look lively instead of lifeless, like in L4D with their stuntman who did over 100+ death animations. It just goes to show VALVe's attention to detail
Been waiting for these, thank you!
I just realized that HL2 combines never had a single conversation, HL1 had at least 3
And I love how they used 2 different versions of the dialogues, this is something we never saw or at least I never saw in any other game. This is really a huge improvement.
That's because the ones in HL2 were Soldiers and Overwatch Elite units which are like Cyborgs, humans that got their personality removed.
These units however are Grunts and unlike the Soldiers in HL2, Grunts seem to be more combat trained CP (Civil Protection). Which would make sense since CPs are fully human thus containing their personalities.
@@countersphere2924 Perhaps ... Or the devs just didn't bother or found a chance to make them chat. They do talk but it is hard to understand them
@@ath3392 True but also lore-wise Combine Soldiers are augmented/cyborg while the Overwatch Units (the white ones) are more machine than human striping them of any humanity.
Soldiers have no emotion but the Overwatch are almost just straight up robots.
CPs however are fully human though as you said we never heard them have actual conversations except from "pick up that can" and the one who talked to Barney when he was undercover.
Weither it was because limitations or something idk but I'm glad they made CPs more expressive too in HL:Alyx.
The Grunts in HL:Alyx seem to be fully human too thus making them have more chatter and overall human too.
I almost felt bad for killing them lol.
@@ath3392 But even the more robotic units in Hal Life Alyx seem a bit more human too so I'm glad for that.
Well if you noticed in Half-Life 2 that some of the Combine Soldiers at Nova Prospekt stutter and sound confused when talking about Freeman controlling the Antlions with the Bugbait which means they retain some humanity when it comes to certain emotions along with still feeling pain and fear.
"Overwatch says stop kicking it"
Why did I laugh so hard when he stopped
It's really immersive seeing them having conversations and you're hiding... It's IMMERSIVE
I love them, they sound so innocent.
I highly appreciate the Closed Captions!
"His Kicking It.., Overwatch Says Stop Kicking It.., He Stopped Kicking It." For some reason, I find it abit cute and goofy
First Grunt: Repair or extraction needed
2nd: I don't know
1st: "I don't know"
1st: He's kicking it
Overwatch *tells the 1st one to tell the other to stop kicking the strider*
1st: Overwatch says stop kicking it
2nd: *stops kicking it*
1st: He stopped kicking it
It sounds like two kids on a phone with their mom
“Overwatch says ‘stop kicking it’.”
*_”I WILL NEVER STOP KICKIN’ IT.”_*
[Can I Kick It by A Tribe Called Quest plays loudly]
"Overwatch says stop kicking it"
*sad noises*
They made them have so much more of a personality in this game and I love it
Love how valve just casually drops one of the most amazing VR games ever made and then just dips yet again. Would be amazing if we got another half life VR game with these amazing graphics and just pure love put into it, maybe just a bit longer.
1:24 probably my favourite line in any game ever 😂
they gave the grunts battle droid style comedic lines, love it
Their dialogues feels like they're next stage of Metrocop. When they can do overwatch tasks, but only in quarantine zone. None of their memories gets erased and they keep their old personalities.
Mom says you aren’t allowed to kick that
He stopped kicking it. That part was truly wholesome LOL
i rlly wish they added more of these, i loved them
Damn they act so human, new theory what if at the time before Gordon came OTA soldiers also werent transhuman yet and were just like civil protection, only a higher rank. But then they got idea of modyifing them.
Based on the version of the Combine Grunt model with the mask blown off, showing a very modified face, and the dialogue lines alluding to things like on-the-fly specific brainwashing, they definitely aren't unmodified, but based on these voice lines they're also definitely nowhere near as far along in the dehumanization and total brainwashing as the Combine troops would be by the time of Half-Life 2.
@@Jeddostotle7 yup
"He's kicking it. Overwatch said kicking it! He stopped kicking it" funniest conversation
I found one that you missed! (I think it's a grunt that says it). During the strider battle, when you begin fighting the combine foot soldiers, the voice line "Deliver damage assessment to Overwatch. Repeat. Deliver damage assessment to Overwatch." plays.
The Combine Grunts in this game actually remind me a lot of how the military was in Half-Life 1
You should do some radio scenarios like you did with the HL2 Combine voice lines.
I'm toying with the idea, it's finding the right clips for it. Unlike HL2s voice files which are mostly individual words, the voice files for HLA are mostly full sentences.
EDIT: That's not true actually, a lot of HL2's voice lines are full sentences. But it's easier to tell what they are saying via their script files and audio, and are easier to splice.
@@RescoeZ Dew it!
You really should!
Isn’t there another scene right before the garage fight? A lone grunt is looking over the edge, and command is constantly asking for a damage assessment, but the guy starts shooting you and never answers?
Any recordings of this?
Felix C. There’s a scene file in the level, and a couple lines of dialog that aren’t used in this video, but I don’t know the exact lines (since I can’t open the scene file). I think I’ve seen it pop up on closed captions for some lets players, but it tends to get interrupted cause they’re spotted early
Yes. That's the second one in this video.
g3o.graphy_2526_ this is after all that. After the strider activates before fighting the combine squad in the garage. Right before an ordinal jumps on a car hood
“Overwatch says stop kicking it”
“Mom said it’s my turn of the Xbox”
Same energy
0:01 is this a breaking bad reference? “It’s a barrel, you can roll it” I think the line went like that
i really want it to be a breaking bad reference, but.. they didn't say that? not that i heard? idk
I think it is, as they could’ve easily rolled it lol
That last Grunt probably reminded the teacher about homework when they were in school
"Overwatch says stop kicking it!"
"He stopped kicking it.."
i love how after the "he stopped kicking it" he looks down like "awww man"
0:28 is it only me or anyone heard half life 2 beta metrocop end sound something like that
It is
“Overwatch says stop kicking it”
“He stopped kicking it.”
@@RescoeZ*grunt walks off rubble*
Combine soldier: Repair or extraction needed.
Overwatch: Report condition
Combine soldier: idk
Overwatch: report Registered number
Combine soldier: idk
Overwatch: report operations
Combine soldier: hes kicking it
Overwatch: Cease activity immediately
Combine soldier: overwatch says stop kicking it
Combine soldier 2: *stops*
Combine soldier: he stopped kicking it.
"He's kicking it."
"Inquire him to cease protocol."
When the soldier was told to stop kicking it he looked sad
I like that grunts have there personalities still
Overwatch says stop kicking it.
That is my new favourite line next to the right man in the wrong place.
Man I gotta replay this once I have a better PC. What an incredible game to start VR with, enjoyed every second of it.
I wonder what Overwatch’s response to “He’s kicking it” was.
0:32 favorite conversation
Imagine playing as a combine on a Half Life Game
Edit:I forgot to say like a oposing force sequel but without Sheppard and the realization of a combine soldier
Yeah like one of these grunts before they got turned into what they were in HL2. Like you could play most of the game fighting for the Combine, and wind up trying to escape when you realize what they plan to do with you.
@@WhenToastersAttack entropy zero 2 came out recently, has exactly what you need.
@@jeremychicken3339 thanks for the info! Need to check it out
I'm not sure what would be funnier-- Overwatch literally just saying "Relay message: Stop kicking it" or Overwatch saying something really verbose that just boiled down to "stop kicking it"
I can just imagine what that first grunt heard.
"He's kicking it."
_< : : WARNING, UNAUTHORIZED CONTINUOUS DAMAGE OF EQUIPMENT WILL RESULT IN TEAM RECALL AND RECYCLE. 20 STERILIZATION POINTS DEDUCTED FROM TOTAL. : : >_
"..."
"Overwatch says stop kicking it."
I love watching grunts goofing around
“Overwatch says stop kicking it.”
“Awh.”
He looks so sad after being told not to kick it
“He’s kicking it. Overwatch says stop kicking it.”
He stopped kicking it
Get down! she's here!!!
'he stopped kicking it'
Overwatch says stop kicking it 🤓
overwatch says stop kicking it...
I'm dead 💀
they really made them feel a bit more human with these lines, especially them conversing
Overwatch said it is my turn to play
But I only just got on it.
The grunt has to be my favorite combine soldier.
I like how they treat overwatch as their mom
Now i'm just imagining overwatch scolding her naughty children
@complexit lol
Tbh, this makes it more sad. These grunts are just Civil Protection Officers with proper military training. Removing them of their humanity and replacing their organs with mechanic bits shows how brutal the Combine is