I would like to point out that the rebels have scientific minds, one of which tamed a headcrab, I think they could capture and remove the control of a combine soldier.

you literally get to fight combine soldiers after the citadel got destroyed i don't think that happened

After citadel got destroyed their commanding chips in heads got dammaged so they get their free will back, or simly rebels stealed combine uniforms

we dont care if its accurate for hl2 lore or not
HL3 will have friendly combines

if a combine soldier "came out defective" the overwatch would kill him

yes

Hello, could i have permission to use these models for my npc mod?

@cheddah
It technically would if a combine came out defective, he would just be some sort of expendable and he would join the Resistance.

this is not physically possible in HL2 lore but okay

piss combine real

is that GM_devbattle?

so the combines

just think of this, they scavenged the stuff used to transhumanize the combines and rverse engineer them for the resistance

they're lobotomized to obey the combine, so ye... ._.

where uh whwre playermodel

TRAITOR COMBINE

But by the lore of the game,it really can't be because the humans who have been occupated by CMB wouldn't fight for the rebels.

they have some in the entropy zero uprising npc pack

my favourites are probably male_01, male_05 and male_07,

@dedrabbits its also said that in beta half life 2, betraying combine soldiers existed

Overwatch soldiers have no cognitive functions in HL2. HLA combine were capable of thought and had limited free will but not enough to defect.

@dedrabbits, combine soldiers can probably get converted by vorts through vortessence

dedrabbits, the memory cleansing is good, but not perfect. If some memories are not affected or removed by brainwashing, combine soldiers can still remember past experinces. As a result, the combine soldier might become docile to the resistance and may try to live a normal life. Then, all it takes is a bit of persuation and allas...a combine defect. Definently not happening to Elites or anything higher in the ranks though

@La grotte Johnny, Sadly that can't happen due to the surgery the overwatch soldiers get, the process brainwashes them and removes a lot of parts of they're brain that make them human. However metro-cops could join up with the resistance science they have no cybernetic enhancements.

This is what happens if the combines realize what they're doing is wrong and decides to get revenge on the emperor of the combine empire by joining the rebels or if they remember who are they since they were people

what its the green Assassin material file name?

This is actually kinda cool

i think this is what happens when a group of combine rebel

https://gamebanana.com/mods/358879 im pretty sure this is the original

Their Idle pose looks like those of Citizens

you can give them weapons

when i spawn every combine they don't have weapons

weednose

so... conscripts?

What do they sound like?

Combine grunts would make sense as well

cool

the only thing that would make sense are metrocops

with Pac3 you can

Hello, love your npcs can you turn these into playermodels?

someone make thicc male combine models, straight people are everywhere

combine soldier: MY HEAD WAS BRAIN WASHED BUT FUCK, I REALLY LIKE TO FIGHT FOR HUMANS STILL

Who cares about lore when the point of garys MOD is to have fun and use/make MODS

I like this.

This isnt really lore friendly, is it

@SpecyJ I agree

This makes me want to join The Combine only to retreat to the Rebels.

I can only see rebel Combine infantry being plausible if they're converted humans who had a malfunction in their mind control, the rebels found a way to reprogram/restore Combine soldiers they've captured or they're just rebels who simply stole and repainted the uniforms.

the soldiers could only become rebels if their microchip fails which is very unlikely, anyway nice addon

Gameplay First, Lore Second. Also, considering the fact that Half Life contains a multiverse, one could argue there's a universe where the combine soldiers aren't augmented enough or something to that degree to stay loyal.

does lore really matter in a game that's made to just have fun in? i honestly like these