What do you think society became some 100 years after the combine were kicked out? Do you think there'd be combine holdouts with advisors guiding guerrillas against the government? Maybe they regained control but lack of contact with the overworld made them "humanize" so that they assimilated into human culture. Maybe after a millenia it's like the ottoman empire and the 3000s advisors are half-human. Maybe the advisors half-collapsed into civil war so there's a city 17 combine but also a city 12 and a city 9 combine, maybe they even have a combine holy roman empire where there's technically a single combine but there are many smaller combine kingdoms leading from different citadels under loose control

>>716520224 (OP)
Why did they cut the Fast Headcrab? Are modern Half-Life fans a bunch of castrates?

>>716520493
Now that i think about it do headcrabs even have genders? Their entire reproductive cycle never involves sex, unless they ejaculate into the poison zombie and place their eggs inside it like fishes

>>716520493

>Almost immediately we cut the fast headcrab and the fast zombie from Half-Life 2," Casali said. "The shock of having that guy come around the corner and latch onto you before you'd even know what was going on was just too much."


>"Trying to avoid jump scares," Davis pointed out, "Because jump scares are terrible in VR."

>>716520493
HLA plays mostly before HL2, does it not? Fast and poison headcrabs were created by the Combine via genetic modification. The first time we see them in HL2 is Ravenholm, which was very recently bombed by the Combine in terms of the HL2 story, possibly even after Gordon arrived. Given that they were not used in the headcrab shells at all during Gordon's approach to the airboat, it is reasonable to assume that Ravenholm was their debout.

>>716522058

First fast is in route kanal

>>Arlene is the very first victim of the Fast Headcrab, first introduced there. Seeing her attacked and killed can only be achieved by moving to the end of the Canals where the metal gate is, then returning

>>716522531
Hah. Never knew that, I'll check it out if I ever have another playthrough.

>>716520224 (OP)
I doubt there would be any combine hold out left since they have no real way of keeping up their numbers, that being said even after a hundred years there would still be plenty of places fucked by xen wildlife

>>716520224 (OP)
if they aren't getting supplied then they wouldn't exist
if they are getting supplied, there's nothing humans can do

>>716520224 (OP)
There won't be civilization 100 years after half life 2. The Combine already drained too much water from the planet. What sea water there is is infested with leeches, leeches that would have no doubt killed all terrestrial lifeforms in the seas.
At best you can have some small mad max like tribal villages fending off whatever lifeforms from xen flourished on earth. That is if there is enough vegetation still alive to create oxygen. Which with the drained water isn't a guarantee.