>>17110914>its like people in an island making spears and thinking they can fight off anything then the entire us military pays a visitno, its more like the entire world in the interwar period just before WW2 suddenly gets invaded by the entirety of NATO. they wouldn't do very well but NATO would not fucking steamroll at all, infact they'd be held back quite a bit and then people would quickly adapt and start pushing back.
>that being the field that makes them unable to reproducetechnobabble bullshit i refuse to take into consideration i hate that stuff
>they could simply stop peoples bodies from functioning entirely with a field like thatif they could do that they would've done that from the start and just mopped up all of humanity and turned us into synths and took the scientists from black mesa prisoner as guinea pigs.
>maybe humanity figured it just can't win a war of attritioneasily able to be won as the combine would have to portal in resources while we have our own home-grown.
>it's there to make the game fuck normie game devs for not going into autistic detail about wars and militaries.
>the beta stuff is cool tho yea its a shame its scrapped but i like retail for being a bit more uniqueim pretty sure beta was scrapped purely cuz of the leak and valve going "nooo we cant release it anymore cuz the whole story is out! lets rewrite everything just to be unique!"
sorry if i sound a bit heated i just hate shit like this so much you have good points and are being very very polite and nice right now