Gunships | Half-Life Lore
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- The Combine Gunship is one of the most tactile and resistant pieces of weaponry in the Combine Army? What can it do, where did it come from and how can The Resistance take them down? I went to the Half-Life universe to find out.
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00:00 Intro
00:45 The Lore
06:30 Behind The Scenes
09:43 Outro
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Aquatic animals are already used to dealing with 3D space so it makes sense they'd make excellent air units.
Maybe I was on to something!
@@Skyrionn Absolutely! I've been watching all your HL vids and you're really putting out one quality content after another! I hope your channel grows more in the future.
@Buggy Boi but that wouldn't really carry over when they are so heavily modified. They probably have heavily modified (if not completely replaced) the brain anyway so it would be easier to just program it to fly. Also, these are probably now mass produced in factories where they have never been aquatic animals, so that experience would not matter. This is all assuming they are even aquatic, they might have been some kind of flying alien whale which would make the decision to make them air units A little more reasonable. They would already be light and aerodynamic.
@@Skyrionn It could even be that their native planet had an especially dense atmosphere and they would already be accustomed to being airborne for a duration.
All of this lore is hurting my brain.
I never realized how gunships were fielded individually for open locations, and in pairs for urban environments, but it makes a lot of sense. Yet another example of Valve being gaming geniuses.
They were so smart. And one day, we'll hopefully see another Half-Life game by them!
@@Skyrionn, just know this comment of yours has aged poorly. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
I would love to see someone make fan art of a gunship with out its combine technology like the jets and gun etc
That would be cool!
Also look Gros as hell
Anomolocaris
Someone do this!
It’s gonna be an aquatic creature, that’s for sure.
I always got the impression that gunships and striders were synthetic organisms rather than slaves. This makes even more sense for the gunship since its shaped perfectly for its rotor and other parts. They also both have a combine symbol stamped on them as if they were somehow manufactured or grown in a lab
wouldnt make sense that they have dorsal fins and armour plating on top if that were true
If the combine really have consciousness transfer and host bodies, like theorized with the advisors, then it's possible that many of the military synths we see aren't just autonomous drones, nor instinctual animals, but war machines mentally piloted by combine intelligences. This might explain their active use of strategy in combat, and ability to communicate with each other(as well as other elements of the combine forces) and follow orders.
I believe the idea is that they took a base organism and then genetically modified it
i mean it's pretty well known that the sytnh are... well synthetic. they are conquered species improved and synthetically made
‘Shaped perfectly’? It was just remade
Imagine how frustrating they would be if the RPG wasn’t laser guided
Probably why the 7 hr war was lost because most AAMs, SAMs and Manpads are radar guided or heatseeking and it likely took a while before they decoded to try laser guided anti tank or AGMs but even those are much slower and larger and could probably be shot down regardless of attempts to evade
@@toptiergaming6900 well in that universe the rpg from half life had a laser guide 20 years ago so I think it was just sheer power in numbers
@qcompressed1409 I assumed that RPG was a laser guided ATGM similar to the Javelin, and Gordon was just desperate and used it on the helicopters
@@toptiergaming6900 it’s a badass looking sci fi rocket launcher any Tom dick and harry with a suit of power armor would have grabbed it
@@toptiergaming6900 the HL1 RPG is a so called "Armbrust" Recoilless Light Anti Tank Weapon from germany, designed to be fired from enclosed rooms, so it has minmal backblast. It does not have a laser guidance unit but is just a straight firnig RPG.
Never saw large scale use in the Bundeswehr as the Bundeswehr took the Panzerfaust 3 into service.
In the last 20 years this weapon has been largely replaced by the RGW90 MATADOR.
The HL2 version is more like an AT4, wich also does not have a laser guidance unit
criminally underrated channel, you should do the combine dropship next, please
It's now on the list
@@Skyrionn what about g-man?
It seems like its shell is similar to a striders. That makes me think that they are both from the same planet
@@Pyromain3650 no aliens are native to Xen
I think the carapace is artificial considering when you whack at it with a crowbar it makes a metallic sound and sparks
@@Pyromain3650 I’m pretty sure the combine used striders and gunships before they even had access to xen. These creatures had to have come from another combine invaded planet / universe
@@-TheLegendHimself- Oh okay good to know
@@Pyromain3650 none of those creatures you mentioned are from xen
also, note that the "blades" of its propeller look very close to insect wings.
The gunship AI is simply amazing for 2004. In my opinion this is how dragons should have operated in Skyrim and other similar games
One thing I appreciate is the movement animations they have. There was particular care in making it really seem like their back rotor is giving them the movement lift as they turn and pivot in accordance to the direction that they are moving instead of an animated entity just floating around a sky box.
It kinda freaks me out wondering what other kinds of worlds the Combine's captured humans have been deployed to ravage
Probably my favorite Half-Life creature, its so unnerving with a somber story and make some disturbing sounds when you fight it.
Yeah those roars are fucking awesome
i think these things used to be sea creatures
Maybe I was right...
@@Skyrionn probably
@@Skyrionn its the fins that probably give it away
No kidding
It's heavily implied, not only because of their anatomy but because of their animations as well. They literally "swim" through the air and it's likely that they still think they're in the water, unaware that they're being used as an aerial combat unit for an intergalactic alien army.
Apologies for quality of the voiceover this week! I moved house and the acoustics in my office are super echoey!
This is different? Still sounds amazing.
Maybe I'm over-thinking it then 😂 😂
Sounds normal to me. Course I do have ear infection.
Half Life Lore : How did Gordon s H.E.V suit from Black Mesa , ended up in Kleiner s Lab ? There are some things you cannot alter , The G man was clear on that piece of continuity : As for the suit..i think you earned it . Even the vortigaunts took Gordon with his H.E.V suit on . A possible answer was a slow teleport . The G man attempted to teleport Gordon but he got captured by the combine while attempting this and has only been able to teleport Gordon Suit. Remember Kleiner said I modified your suit so it s that suit he used to go to Xen and defeat a lesser master
For me HL2’s most memorable level has to be THAT gunship encounter on The Bridge when you’re facing one of these killers with far fewer options for cover and movement. My first few attempts ended in either being peppered or falling off an edge while trying to avoid being peppered, or both, and in those deaths I gained a whole new respect for these bizarre adversaries.
I'm glad you mentioned the morality of it. If there was a half life movie I'd hope they'd have certain resistance members sympathetic to the creature to reflect this.
"You're free now."
If it makes you feel any better, there probably isn't anything left of the original creature, so it isn't really enslaved
@@jackdaniels5071 good point, how else do they aim bot my friggin' rockets...
@@kissingersange1812 spite powered bullets, that's how
Like telling an attack dog that he is off the leash.
Does there really need to be scene like that? Considering most of the time they will be shooting cp or overwatch soldiers.
I love these Half-Life bio-mechanical creatures. They are so cool!
There is so much lore in HL universe that is unexplored
The canon reminds me of a mosquito’s proboscis. With its compound eyes and the fact that the Combine are an intergalactic, multiverse, dimensional-shifting, and reality bending empire, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Combine stumbled upon an alternative dimension or timeline in which they found giant mosquitos and thought to themselves, “Yeah, we could modify these. Just replace the wings and their abdomens with a giant fan and replace their proboscis with a giant gun!”
I like the combine attack helicopter better, shame it isnt seen that much in the game
I just feel like these things where somewhat insect like. I mean the head looks very similar to the head of a fly, and those two back protrusions could be antennae modified to act like radars for incoming rpgs. But by far the most damming peice of evidence is if you look at the motor wings on the propeller once it stops flying, they look like insect wings.
Also the eyes are unmistakably inspired by insects
I didn’t know about the belly cannon. Is it not used often? How have I never seen a gunship use it?
They were never coded to use it during the campaign which is a shame tbh
@@aquaraptor2146 Not really.
Yes in the beta
It's a cut feature.
I know that they use it in gmod
I was just listening to 'That long train ride' and here is a new half life video by you....and you started using lab practicum again 🔥
Its coloration higly implies it used to be aquatic since a light underside and dark top half is a really efficent way for sea creatures to camolfauge themselves.
Combining organisms with machines is pretty cool ngl
Based
Eager to be enslaved I see my little urbanite bugman
The belly cannon should be in the behind the scenes part since it's a cut part.
Episode 2 final fight would have been hell
The just send 1 gunship who is ignoring the people shooting at it
It goes above the rocket silo
And a single blast does the job
One of the minute details I always found eerie was how when they flew past powerlines the cables seemed pulled towards the gunship like it was magnetizing them.
Its the air created by the rotors, same thing happens with the attack helicopter
You mention in the Behind the Scenes section that you were meant to fight a gunship that destroyed cover as the fight progresses in the Episode 1 Hospital... but that actually does happen. You fight a gunship in the attic of the hospital and it destroys portions of the roof as the fight progresses. So, that did actually make it into the game.
Maybe I'm missing something?
You were meant to flee the damaged loft and it would continue to destroy the building around you
@@cyber_dragon_123 Ahhhhh. Got it.
When I was younger I thought they were literal synth whales. I guess they were just giant space alien flies, I can imagine sythesizing a tiny fly lmao.
They do have fly eyes
HL2 would never be what it became without the gunship. I had no idea its targeting of your missiles was unintentional, it works so flawlessly its hard to believe.
The gunship actually looks like its just the head of the creature. And the rest of the body has been disposed off. And its neck has been replaced with helicopter blades.
@v8matey yeah I get the sense that synths are like 10% original creature and 90% combine, or even just original creations based on a creature (hunters seem like this to me). The original might have looked different, we really don't know. The way they have the same chitinous armour either indicates they are from the same planet or the combine has modified them all in the same way, so the body color might even be wrong.
And the dropship is a decapitated insect who's body is controlled by electricity
And it has mouths on legs.
It looks like a flying orca/shark/dolphin with heavy guns and propeller and jet
I always thought they were a mix between a whale, a shrimp and a dragonfly
honestly , valve was really innovative in designing a new way of presentng enemies as not just metal bits but living creatures and really show how evil the combine were
it would be cool if in the half life 3 or episode 3 we could see these things being created or original animals i mean those animals but without combine technology
and we could pet them
Wait a minute, does it actually use that second weapon in the game? I don't think I've ever seen that actually be a weapon.
These gunships look cute, the way they move like a fish :3
Half Life Lore : How did the vortigaunts tracked , located Gordon in a false vail of time ? Answer : That suit of yours is full of tracking devices , perhaps G man first stripped Gordon of his suit to give it to Kleiner so the vortigaunts can have nothing to track Gordon
I never noticed they deployed 2 in urban areas and only 1 in open areas, thats such a sick detail
Yet another great video from you, great job!
Thank you - there's more to come!
1:51
Theropod legged gunship variant.
I remember the first time I realised they were a living thing. Felt wrong to shoot them down.
The gunship's animations are so fluid and smooth
I've always found Gunships interesting. I like how when you get a hit on them, they make that angry sound as if they're swearing at you.
Looks like giant bugs from another planet to me. Reminds me of flies.
I can see that
Looks like a bug orca/shark.
What I believe is that the gunships were creatures living in gas planets that had a special environment where gas was liquified in a sense so that the creatures could fly. Now they are excellent at flying because they used to fly in their world, with the extreme modifications the combine makes on their bodies I think they tried to make them fly just like in their world but in earth, by attaching various modifications such as the turbines and its back which reminds a lot a helicopter.
How have I played through all the games without ever seeing them fire the belly cannon even once?
It's not used in the main campaign, but in hammer it somewhat works.
I think the propeller might actually be made of organic material because after i shot one down and i investigated the wreckage, i noticed the blades looked more like individual dragon fly wings with their shape and how translucent they where.
I wonder if the Combine is in actuality a super intelligent AI out of control on a god complex with the need to live forever
Probably has a directive to expand and conquer. Same thing with glados who is obsessed with testing and she couldnt stop it like in Portal 2
A Half-life/Quake crossover. Strogg vs the Combine with the humans in the middle.
i hope this channel explodes seriously great work
Dude thank you!
I played hl2 when it first came out, and have played through it several times since.... I never really picked up on the whole "combine enslaved all these species" to the degree of a lot of the tech was actually THEM. I love the mystery that HL provides, however, slightly more explanation as to what the gunships actually are, as far as trapped living organisms, would have been nice. I think the citadel sequence towards the end where you saw them being converted would've really set the tone. I wish we had gotten the darker half life 2 that was proposed
Great video. Great to see more Half Life 2 love this year!
More to come!
theory. Predatory flying creature from a dimension/planet with a much thicker atmosphere, one where it's appedenges would be used to literally swim through the "Air". would likely be floating about at a higher altitude using it's downward facing eyes to spot prey
Thank you for responding to my request about the Lore behind Gunships! Very Interesting Video again. :)
No problem! I'm always happy to take requests :)
Thank you so much! And by the way excellent research on your video. Great Job!
9:30 I feel all of the things you mentioned at the same time about the Gunship.
I've never been shot by their Belly-gun
what ever is under the combines control
is lost
there is no saving the ones that are already shooting you
and id kill what id have to
and prey that something unmodified somewhere survives
Being a CP basically is turning into a cop but with more murder and dealing with rebels.
the fuck? I have never seen the gunship fire that belly laser before.
it was left unused in the game, but can be seen in some E3 material from around 2003, and in g-mod
update: I replayed Half-Life 2 and you can hear, and possibly also see, a gunship firing its belly cannon as it flies by during the final battle in "Follow Freeman!"
Great video!
Ive never seen the laser thingy being used in game? Ive played hl2 so many times, how did i miss this?
It’s not really used.
Skyrionn, you forgot one very important character: GMan. Great series though.
The hard thing about that is that there is no confirmed facts about who he is, where he comes from, who he works for. I think it would be lot of conjecture.
I think the synth crab and the other synthetic aliens appear in the hl 2 universe are all the same species due to the shelling and its looks
if you see the blades at the back when still you can clearly see that tose are dragonfly like
They're definitely the "Stalkers" of their species.
Feel like listening to a overwatch voice from a citadel... xD
Being a fan of dolphins and beluga whales, this was always one of my favorite NPCs in the HL universe. I always wanted to pet them and see what they feel like
They will shoot you
Big ole bug orca.
AYO YOU FINALLY DID IT!!!
Finally got down the list!
I think the gunship and striders are related because of the head and the weapons
Clearly one of my favourites. Valve made something so unique... Brilliant
the combine are one thee most evil species iv ever heard of
Another thing is that they're most likely not the main aerial unit, and only are deployed on Earth because they are able to easily fly through the atmosphere. The combine most likely has multiple types of aerial ships for different environments, so when they saw us use helicopters with rotor blades, they most likely brought out the gunships because of the simular flight mechanics.
I have finished all the HL games 8/9times? Never seen the belly canon used once.
cus it was sadly scrapped from the release. it was part of the beta and can be used in gmod.
Will there be a lore behind the combine dropship?
8:00 The gunships to me resemble Eurypterids
If you think about it the combine's choice of species for their gun ship really strange be it that they chose an aquatic animal for what is essentially an Apache helicopter lol
They kinda don't convey any personalities or personalities. I just saw them as a kind of Helicopter that you need to fight now. Many games had helicopters you fought with rocket launchers.
Can you make a video about the combine dropship
The gunships and dropships are alien whales, they think they're swimming.
@Sagey08YT I said this elsewhere, but they are so heavily modified I don't think this would make sense. The combine has to program them to know how to shoot, turn rotors on/off, etc, so this wouldn't really be possible. Synths are probably more descended and loosely based on an original creature, now just manufactured from scratch. Also, some might be combine original creations.
Valve needs to make gunships smarter so that they can't keep missing every time they fire
I didn't even know about the belly cannon
So I am relooking at the gunships and part of me can't help but see manitees, infact whenver I really blur my vision, I see manitees.
Actually ya, be aquatic makes sense. The big part with the fan would of just been a large tail flap.
Do the entire combine Fleet army
I never saw the gunship use the belly gun i didn't even know that this weapon exist
Since the Dropships and Gunships do possess a level of intelligence, it wouldn't be too far off to say that they had the capabilities to initiate attacks and strikes without the need of a superior.
Which is why I love the Combine. Unlike something like Star Wars, they have ships that possess levels of intelligence that can help them in their battles. Not to say the Separatists' droids couldn't do that too. It's just that an organic's intelligence seems more suited to these types of tasks.
Actually according to gmod the thing on the sides are the eyes the things at the head is just sensor
I always thought they looked like big flying manatees.
They look very much like The Undine Ships I meant to say. (Species 8472, Borg.)
Can you please do more portal vids?
I'm happy to take some suggestions!
Improved audio. nice
I don't think I made any changes to my regular process for this video apart from having a super echoey room- can I ask what seems to have improved?
@@Skyrionn just the voice is little bit different
Ah okay. Thinking back, I do think I made it quieter than normal. - 10db instead of - 3db
@@Skyrionn interesting
Gunships are my favorite... if i had to become something in the Combine arsenal it'd be a gunship.
atleast i would have more "freedom" than the groundtroops.
You are doing good lad 👍
Really appreciate it :D
the wing look like maple seed
Looks like a Prawn/Shrimp without a tail
I can see that
A more scary version of the flying whales from Final Fantasy?
sea creature theroy: this was a shark and got captured by the combine and idkkkkk...............
8:15 the map(colored) looks simular to the skibidi toilet base (ep 67pt4)
Take a shot everytime he says "the creature"