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What is so unexplainable about the crossbow? It's got drawstrings like a normal crossbow, and it has a powered heating unit built in to rapidly heat up the ammunition. It appears to have been improvised from spare parts, and is probably powered by one of those energy packs you find everywhere.

Yeah, that's right. Completely slipped my mind.

I think that the crucial role that scientists like Vance and Kleiner play, is that of organization. Eli Vance in particular is a great leader. He seems to be responsible for creating the alliance with the Vortigaunts. They masterminded the underground railroad effort, and I believe they were...

When I got my new GeForce6600, I noticed that Barney's room was much darker than it used to be also.

You have to consider though, that all we saw was an initial explosion. If Valve desires it to be so, the room could stay relatively stable for a little while. I just want to show that if Valve wanted a dropship to rescue Breen, they are completely capable of making it happen.

For those who doubt that a Dropship could rescue Breen, I made something in GMod that should put things in perspective.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to argue here. The Combine isn't the only big player in the multiverse. There is always a bigger fish, and this third party probably battles with the Combine every day, and the Vortigaunt arm of the Combine's empire may have been forced to retreat to Xen.

Well, if you remember, a security guard was talking to you in the room outside the room you were ambushed in. He got shot in the back by an assassin while he was giving you a warning. Of course we know that Barney was a throwaway character, and I don't want to argue about whether that is always...

To add to that, most of the signs on the buildings are written in Cryllic.

Look at my next to last note. I think Breen was responsible.

Alright, here is my version of the story, which I feel is much better. -The Combine conquered the Vortigaunt race and thousands of other races all across the multiverse. -Xen is one of many Combine outposts on the interdimensional fabric. -Humans stumble upon Xen some time before the resonance...

I just looked at it. It is pale green on my monitor. I stand by the idea that it is a updated version of the same collar. The idea that the Combine enslaved Xen, Gordon freed them, and now the Combine is replacing them with humans while the vortigaunts rally with them against the Combine to...

It's the same collar. It's green and metallic. It looks different because HL2's artwork is much more detailed. The whole Vortigaunt model underwent a big makeover. Same goes for the collar.

Would you like to tell me why there is a Vortigaunt slaving around with a broom in the train station? He's wearing slave collars, and the Combine is his master.

Yes, since I believe that at that time Vortigaunts were under Combine control, Nihilanth and friends were just as much the Combine as the Human Overwatch troops are the Combine. Doug is referring to the collective Combine which Nihilanth and the Vorts were part of as slaves. Remember that the...

I believe that Doug didn't make a mistake when he told us that. My position takes his literal word, and your position assumes he messed up.

How can you say that he didn't lead you to Nihilanth, when he congratulates you for your destruction of it? The death of the Nihilanth was the goal. It's how you proved your worth. I think that the GMan set up the resonance cascade disaster. What was he doing in Black Mesa in the first place...

The Combine is indeed an evil empire, and they are certainly massive, spanning many universes. I believe there is another great empire, which may be just as evil, and there is friction between these empires. There is a great war, and we only know the Combine half of it. A new faction will be...

I posted a thread dealing specifically with Lombardi's quote in the other forum. I have a different take on it. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=104686

There is a lot of debate over the following quote by Doug Lombardi: "We had a glimpse of the larger threat when we were working on Half-Life 1. In other words we knew that once you cleared out the Nihilanth, you were going to discover something worse beyond it. We knew that some immense...