Concept art for a Heavy Combine unit. Actually i wanted to do a transhuman with a synth parasite and a baby strider corps as head. To show the cruelty of the Combine, with bioengineering experiments on humans and synths. So it's mainly a guy with a strong build => Big guy or bodybuilder (which we don't see in the half-life universe at the moment ? Maybe an idea for creating now models with different body shapes) with a thick layer of tactic / Kevlar equipment. It would have an alien/synth parasite as/on arm, created by the Combine to control the weapon (the weapon could be half alien/mechanical => A sort of bioengineering), with the idea of the weapons of Race X in Opposing Force. (Inspired by an old concept art i did for @Syph0 years ago) Parts of the armor would be pieces of synth armor, like chitinn. (This is why there is a strong resemblance to pieces of the Strider) I wanted to go in the style of Big Daddy in Bioshock. A heavy unit moving slowly. With gutural noises. And for the weapon I also started from the principle that it could be a super-powerful laser, like the striders' shots or like a long-terme laser like the one of the stalkers.
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A Combine with a helmet that resembles a Strider.
It's bound to be painful walking around with a tiny strider on your head
Gives me Half Life 2 beta vibes, pretty cool!
amazing art