Alien Combine Soldier

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Alien Combine Soldier
General information
Type	Soldier
Affiliation	Combine
Individual information
Health	100
Attacks / Weapons	Combine Pistol
Game information
Designed by	Ted Backman
Entity name	N/A

The Alien Combine Soldier is an enemy cut from Half-Life 2 and the predecessor of the Overwatch Soldier. Like most of the Synth or alien-style soldiers, the concept was abandoned to avoid any direct representation of human-scale alien enemies and instead depict the Combine as a more elusive force. Its design was probably recycled for the Combine Advisor and appears to be loosely inspired by the Kingpin, an enemy cut from Half-Life.

Overview

It was to move like a snake or a worm. Another version was to have dingy yellow polished skin, yellow lenses, use an energy whip at close range, and wear thick plastic gear with an insignia in the back. Based on the energy whip they wielded it's possible they might have shown up as Civil Protection units.

Gallery

Other version with yellow lenses and an energy whip.

The yellow lenses are seen again in a more recent version, a camouflaged Overwatch Soldier, which can be found as a model for the Overwatch Sniper in the playable Beta files, although all Overwatch Soldiers were to look that way at this point of the game's development.

The Kingpin, which the Alien Combine Soldier was very loosely based off of. Most notably the tail.

List of appearances

• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)