You are now the Commanding General of HECU and all U.S. military forces responding to the Black Mesa Incident.
How do you handle the situation.
Black Mesa disaster.
You are now the Commanding General of HECU and all U.S. military forces responding to the Black Mesa Incident.
How do you handle the situation.
Only way to stop the ayys teleporting in is to kill the Nihilanth, and without HEV suits none of the troops can even reach it (never mind that even with all required gear the vast majority would just get themselves killed in Xen)
Unironically all you can do is try to clear the path to the Lambda Complex for Freeman, move everyone inside the building once he's there, and hope he manages to kill it reasonably fast while you hold off Xen creatures
Obvs this is all with hindsight, but in theory if step one of the op was asking the scientists wtf is going on and how to stop it then it's theoretically possible
Doesn't Xen have oxygen?
There's Osprey's deployed to Black Mesa, it could carry Marines from point A to point be on xen could it not?
You could also get seabees to build bridges from one floating rock to another.
I don't see why it would have to be exclusively Gordon fighting in Xen.
What about Race X and the Combine though
As far as I remember the Combine was not aware of the existence of Xen until the Mesa incident. The theory is that the Nihilanth were slaves of the Combine but some somehow, were able to scaped to Xen and then they themselves slaved the native alien population and once the portal was open by Freeman, invaded earth so they could flee from the Combine all together. Race X is not Canon but they could either be another alien race from Xen or, a Combine counterpart that wanted to invade earth too
>Race X is not cannon
moron
>Gearbox gay
Homosexual in denial
Remember those synths you saw in the Citadel used by the Combine? They kinda look like Race X aliens.
My theory is, that Race X is another alien race enslaved by the Combine. After the Cascade, Gordon not only opened a gateway to Xen, but to the Race X dimension as well, which the Combine later exploited to travel there and enslave them just as they did with Xen creatures and used them as biomechanical war machines. Striders and Hunters kinda look Race X-ish, just like Gunships, they are very insect like pretty much like Race X.
You are forgetting about the nuke that was brought with you that Gman WILL try to detonate if given the chance and in all likelihood try to engineer events to get it to detonate despite your efforts.
Gman was also the one who gave the orders to the military to kill all of the scientists you can see him handing over some papers to a military officer at the beginning/training area of Opposing Force. The Combine wanted all of the scientists death so no one could help them close the portal, it was all part of their plan.
The Gman isn't with the Combine.
He's a third party in this.
>Third party
Is he really? Why is he so "invested" on his employers success? To me it seems he's being more than force to cooperate with them, maybe the Combine controls his home world and he's being forced to work for them
Why does he bankroll the resistance. Why is he so invested in Gordon's success? Why is he watching Adrien so closely?
Because hes a pervert
That just tells me he's also a slave of the Combine and is trying to save himself by helping Freeman and keeping a card under his hand as backup, either that or it's also all part of the Combine plan but as seen on episode 2, he fricked up and is trying to save his ass by covering it up
G-Man is either a Nihilanth or Vortigaunt using a high amount of power to shape shift as human, as he is seen constantly fidgeting with his tie bc both races have a third arm there. A few other Xen species have this anatomy but lack the abilities to pull off something like shape shifting. He's definitely Xen in origin.
If He's a voritigaunt why do the other voritigaunts stop him in half life 2 episode 1?
If he's combine then why does he work against the combine.
If he's Xenian than why does he want Gordon to kill the nialanth?
The only 2 explanations is that he's literally a G-man working for the U.S. Government as that's the only Organization that he doesn't frick over, or he's working for an Unknown third party.
>If He's a voritigaunt why do the other voritigaunts stop him in half life 2 episode 1?
I agree he's not a vortigaunt, but that was a betrayal. That's why he was surprised about it. In HL2 one of the vorts tells Freeman "We serve the same mystery". Which makes sense because the vortigaunts were liberated from the Nihilanth's mind control because of him orchestrating the Black Mesa incident.
G-man is working alone, that's just the strongest way to interpret his character. Extreme individualism vs extreme collectivism. that's why he was willing to sacrifice the entire earth to the combine just to provoke a counter-attack, and why he prefers to focus on a few individual actors rather than any one faction.
If he works Alone, who are his employers?
None. His interests are his own.
Frick, you're right. I think my point still kinda stands as if he is an employee that implies he's a willing actor. He even gives Gordon a choice to join or die, which is still more ethical than mind control. That also makes the word Mystery even more literal. Them being the enlightened ones managing the fates of the masses.
Bro at least say NTA before you say some shit like that lol
The inter-dimensional MIC
I don't think he's Combine. But it makes sense of a Xen creature to outgrow the dimension and become their own political entity across realities. Maybe brokering access to the bridge world like a tollbridge or maybe had a falling out with Nihilanth. Maybe is a Vortigaunt and betrayed his fellow aliens to slavery. They made a thorough effort to portray G Man as uncomfortable with being human in body language and speech patterns which makes me doubt he's a standard human glowie. Let alone his abilities.
Meant for
Vortigaunts were from Xen and not ultimately allied with the Nihilanth once freed, so it's not unheard of for multiple interest groups from the world. G man betrays the US Gov with the rest of Earth by enabling the resonance cascade to cause the 7 hour war. The unknown third party option would be what I'm arguing for, just as a Xen liaison, as it was the transport hub.
He is a rouge Advisor who picked a human form. Remember that scene at the end of HL Alyx, when he reverts back time and the Advisor that caught Eli suddenly looks at you as if he can sense his presence, even though he's outside of time and space? Also, Vort energy seems to be the only effective way to kill an Advisor and it's the only kind energy that can harm Gman, or the very least contain and subdue him.
>Only way to stop the ayys teleporting in is to kill the Nihilanth
Nope. Portal Storms kept happening across the world well after the Nihilanth was killed. I think it was implied that the storms were what caught the Combine's attention in the first place.
By the time the game ends it was too late to stop the portal storm, in ep2 the resistance closes the combine portal with a rocket almost immediately after the citadel goes boom, so the other guy has a point, if you want to save humanity you'd need to send everyone to xen and kill nihilanth first, and then launch the rocket from black mesa to close the portal, and pray you were quick enough to avoid more destruction
not shoot at the only qualified people who understand the situation. turn it into a 24 hour war instead of a 7 hour war and still lose
Just shoot ayys bro it's that easy we have billions of bullets bro just shoot em lmao
>trying to counter a resonance cascade with military force
Fricking Americans man.
nukes nukes nukes nukes nukes
Send everyone through the rift.
Bullet in my head. Not even thinking about it.
I'm not getting involved with this shit.
You have to know before that 1. freeman is an ally and 2. lambda complex exists/there's a way to stop this, so if you have that information you try to contain the situation by the end of the first day (on a rail/ satellite launch) so the president don't send the spec ops and try to nuke the facility the next day, once you have control of black mesa you send everything you got through the portal, kill nihilanth and pray the combinedon't come back to face frick humanity.
You'll have to move enough forces to track and kill every xen insect that spilled over to america too, good luck trying to shoot down the flying manta rays and killing all the allien grunts/gargantua/tentacles killing people all over new mexico
Don't kill any scientists except Breen if the G-Man hasn't tried to save him already--put a bullet in his traitor ass real fast.
Save the other scientists so we can figure out how to fix the Portal Storms, support Freeman as much as possible, perform a full evac once he's in Xen.figure out a way to kill the G-Man so we can stop the Combine.
>figure out a way to kill the G-Man
How can you kill a man who can teleport and stop time? Not even the combine with app their might was unable to kill him, merely contain.
KILL FREMAN
Working for the US Government precludes you from being a pervert?
It's a requirement.
Order everyone to hang back and wait around drinking coffee and eating danishes in the operations center while swapping stories and waiting for everything to work out on its' own.
I would join the Universal Union with my bros.
After the ressonance cascade, earth is fricked beyond repair, might as well become an augmented human.
Yes but you lose your balls.
They're useless even with the supression field down.
Nuke it from orbit
The biggest issue is that you'd have to go against direct order. The best wiggling room you'd have is to take your time, secure your own evacuation before anything else and """gather"" the scientist before executing them (you could justify that by telling its easier to execute people that dont hide).
When SHTF, you try to evacuate in good order with as much scientists as possible, maybe leave some units to help them on their last ditch attempt, and go low with everyone to make the core of the future rebellion.
>Form perimeter
>High altitude recce with drones/ISR/sat imaging
>Inform white house and the NSC
>Request all tier one/CIA/NSA/FBI/DoE/DoD assets to the area NOW.
>Await intel/orders
Aw man, I'm so fired
>be general shitouttaluck
>wake up to phone call
>"OHSHITOHFRICK ALIENS ARE REAL SEND THE BOOTS IN"
>frick
>review plan 'those fricking morons at black mesa opened a portal to an alien dimension and started a war with an unknown race of beings'
>step 1
>kill the science team because it's their fault and they wont let us use the alien teleport powers to portal Sadam's head into another dimension and scare the rest of the world into submission
>because apparently that's 'immoral' and 'a horrific misapplication of technology we don't yet fully understand'
>w/e
>go with plan B
>ring up the admin team at black mesa
>"wtf is going on over there?"
>"IT'S FRICKING HAPPENING!"
>Send in the troops
>Don't murder the shit out of everyone in a lab coat
>Work with science team to figure out what the frick is going on
>They explain that the plan is to launch an ICBM into the portal the aliens are coming out of
>aight.jpg
>Let them launch their teleporting nuke or whatever
>Doesn't do the job
>Aliens still flooding in
>'Oh shit there's a big alien in there making more portals!'
>They say they're gonna send some smartass in an orange suit to kill it
>lmao
>1 dude
>Yeah fricking right
>Get them to open a portal
>Order the boots to boldly go where no man's gone before
>And boldly kick ET's shit in
>In a matter of hours, the boys have found, killed, and BBQ'd the giant teleporting space alien fetus
>Xen is covered in craters, casings, corpses and tank tracks
>75% of the force sent in is KIA/MIA
>But no one's phoning home from that floating shithole any time soon
>Beers and cigars for everyone that survived
>Go home
>Sleep
>Get assassinated in my sleep by big tiddy sneaky waifu because I'm a loose end that knows too much
We need more of the big tiddy glowie assassin girls in skintight black latex suits.
Just sayin'
>"So, why did they send in half of us with MP5s and the other half of us with M4s chambered in 9mm anyway?"
If you play Black Mesa you can find on steam the "M4 insurgency (Reanimated)" mod click the one that says reanimated specifically as the other one isn't as good.
Anyways if you download that mod it ads 5.56 to the game and turns the MP5 into am M4 carbine.
BUT here's the catch, sometimes the Mod glitches out when you load a save and the original MP5 model shows up so now you have an MP5 that shoots 5.56x45.
So in order to fix this download the M727 mod, whenever the M4 glitches out you now have an M727 (practically an M4) therefore it still makes sense to have 5.56 NATO.
naruhudo...
Yeah kinda of a convoluted way to fix a minor inconsistency, but my militaristic autism could not allow for 9MM M4's and 5.56 MP5's.
>immediately order all of the highly trained physicists at the multi-billion dollar facility to be killed, gimping the country's dimensional science research for a generation and leaving Earth helpless if another power develops dimensional travel tech (or an even larger alien force notices what's happening and opens portals of their own)
>get wiped out by a mute intern with a degree from MIT
well for one I'm not gonna spread my guys out all over the place in tiny 3-4 man patrols, getting them killed by all sorts of cascade anomalies, ayyliens and rogue HEV suited scientists
they had several ground and air assets like abrams, bradleys and f-16s topside so I think I'd just concentrate on containing all exits from Black Mesa until I got a clear objective like the teleportation labs and send in my best guy in force straight to that objective
This guys slaps your girlfriend's ass, what do you do?
*waap waap dip dip*
GEEEEEEENEEEEE BROTHAAAAAÁAAAAAAAAAÁA stop TENDERISING THE MEEEEEAAATT ON THE NO-MALE FOOOODDDDD now
bring some armor piercing 7.62 ammos instead of mp5s. yes, mp5 is good to kill any unarmored xenshit or unarmored söyentists but there was certain enemies that needed more
>surround the property and block off all major MSR's in and out of Black Mesa Research Facility, establish air superiority first,
>use the EBS systems to inform locals to avoid the area,
>have EMS on stand by at major entrances to the facility,
>make contact with security staff on the inside, mustering facility staff in laboratory lobbies/ panic rooms/ parking lots,
>facilitate the rescue of government employees while engaging aliens along the way, securing the quickest routes to funnel them out,
>once facility staff numbers drop bellow 25% capacity (evacuated/KIA) begin sending in infantry elements directly into the facility while working with science staff at Lambda Labs trying to seal the breach,
>send strike teams to Xen to eliminate the Nihilanth and close the portals,
>don't nuke US soil, go home and await the Combine and the Universal Union to wreck my shit,
>join the resistance.
Just put your army in HEV suits, if it makes some pudgy scientist a super soldier give it to actual soldiers
PCV is just like the HEV, except more combat oriented.
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.