Guys, i've just read a HL2 theory from twitter and i was like omg fr fr ?? I resumed that theory with grok, as it was damn huge So, you guys ever wondered how did Freeman manage to humiliate a multiversal empire like the combine in HL2 ? Well, ever since the resonance cascade, Gordon had some kind of "unlimited" respawn. Besides, when Freeman went off Gman's hands, vortigaunts gave him possibility to respawn every single time thanks to the vortiessence. As the theory claims, no matter how low the chances are, as long as they're not 0, Freeman will revive as many times as necessary The only way these "unlimited respawns" become useless is if the chances of winning, in certain scenarios, are absolute 0%. And the only moment in the franchise where we could have had 0 chances of winning was if we rejected G-Man's offer at the end of last chapter of HL1, which would lead to G-Man sending gordon to a xen place with tons of enemies and without any weapon. Although gordon may still revive, it'd be useless, as he'd be stuck forever in that place, however it wouldn't be for long, as Vortigaunts would eventually find him, however it'd cause the HL2 events to take very later and become a major challenge for the ressistance (just imagine how good that theory had to be, that even the HLA NoVR dev retweeted it)