Uncut NPC Recreations (Part 3)

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The next part of uncut NPCs recreations has come

Assault Synth, Alien Assassin, Combot

Assault Synth (HL2 2001 timeline) were introduced in Raising The Bar book as a sketch

We give him 2 attack variations plus metallic claws on close attack

On long dist he use Ion shot to dissolve targets

But versus aliens he use fire burn, mostly on zombies and smaller creatures

Alien Assassin (HL2 2002 timeline) were supposed to be early combine assassin variants

They can throw knives or special grenades and might use pests, alien spores to hurt target

In our recreation we made knive throw as it should be in original idea

The grenade working as a stun and suck HEV energy in a moment to limit player abilities

Combot (HL2 2002 timeline) it is a alternative variant of combine scanner, it use gas to move suspitious humans or as a primary attack versus enemies, aliens

It is the most modern npc in the timeline and even feature in beta, but our recreation is different, quicker as the retail scanner and have own particle effects, plus it can drop gas mine (new weapon) rarely for player use and fly as a divebomb at target

Acidlion, Archer, Aquasquid

Acidlion (HL2 EP2 timeline) this is early variant of acid antlion but with different abilities

He is attacker and have bigger acid explode radius, more like a moving bomber while release antlion worker is defending point and runaway from close attacks

Its harder to make him explode fully, only explosive or big caliber weapon can affect to this, but when it happen, it also have shake/stun effect at enemies in radius

Aquasquid (HL2 Aftermath timeline) it should be a water type of bullsquid and feature somewhere in early episode 2 but got scrapped at early stages/playtests

But in our recreation we found that it perfectly fit the toxic waters in original hl2 canals section

This creatures are more calm and attack unexpectedly when the target came closer

While attacking they can pull enemy in water in direction of movement for extra damage

Archer (HL1 alpha timeline) this is alien fish with sharp teeth

They can use spit clouds in water to blind the enemy and chew in different directions

On dangerous situstions they move double faster

Can be lured by throwing chumtoads or alien bees