HL2RP² Lore Questions Thread

[Señor Jaggles]

the actual dates of invasion etc, won't be

any occurrences from old iterations you wanna carry over (within reason) can go ahead to fit character backstory (like some big civil authority figures, events that happened, anything like that)

Wondering how all those CA characters ended 💀💀💀


Edit: itd be cool to know what happened to the chars of people who had CA, how they would've liked their chars to end up after the citadel incident of c17 and stuff

 

[Deleted member 8325]

@Numbers this is more of a general question but are we still gonna use the old weapon pack tffa or what was it called?

 

[Numbers]

@Numbers this is more of a general question but are we still gonna use the old weapon pack tffa or what was it called?

TFA, but new weapons

 

[Hunk]

Wondering how all those CA characters ended 💀💀💀

credits to @Lewis!

 

[Hunk]

Wondering how all those CA characters ended 💀💀💀


Edit: itd be cool to know what happened to the chars of people who had CA, how they would've liked their chars to end up after the citadel incident of c17 and stuff

jk but it'd be hella cool if people brought their CAB character back (those who survived) but as some wasteland wanderer or war refugee or something

 

[MaXenzie]

not a lore question but i dont see a roleplay question page

I'm concerned about the long-term character development prospects for combine players since the eventual end-goal is that you become an OTA and effectively wipe most chardev via memory wipes

 

[Numbers]

not a lore question but i dont see a roleplay question page

I'm concerned about the long-term character development prospects for combine players since the eventual end-goal is that you become an OTA and effectively wipe most chardev via memory wipes

you either go rogue, or you end up a husk of what you were before. admittedly, the main appeal of the faction is getting to play that dehumanization out in the first place. a lot of people want to jump on the opportunity to play soldiers, and characters aren't meant to last forever

 

[FreeSpy]

you either go rogue, or you end up a husk of what you were before. admittedly, the main appeal of the faction is getting to play that dehumanization out in the first place. a lot of people want to jump on the opportunity to play soldiers, and characters aren't meant to last forever

some could even want to end up only as a phase 1 grunt who still has some human traits left but is basicly a mindwashed soldier for a multi-universe empire who got encircled on some dump

 

[MaXenzie]

you either go rogue, or you end up a husk of what you were before. admittedly, the main appeal of the faction is getting to play that dehumanization out in the first place. a lot of people want to jump on the opportunity to play soldiers, and characters aren't meant to last forever

but since you have to apply to become a soldier, you could theoretically just never apply and forever remain a civpro?

 

[FreeSpy]

but since you have to apply to become a soldier, you could theoretically just never apply and forever remain a civpro?

phase 1 grunt doesn't require application, it is based on in game actions so basicly if you wanna be a civpro forever go RL

 

[Numbers]

but since you have to apply to become a soldier, you could theoretically just never apply and forever remain a civpro?

no, because that's applying to become the second phase soldier (standard hl2) - applying for civil protection means you will get to play the first phase (alyx esque grunt soldiers)

 

[MaXenzie]

no, because that's applying to become the second phase soldier (standard hl2) - applying for civil protection means you will get to play the first phase (alyx esque grunt soldiers)

oh

not keen on what is effectively a time-imposed character death via promotion

 

[Hunk]

the eventual end-goal is that you become an OTA and effectively wipe most chardev via memory wipe

thats what the Advisors want us to think 😏

 

[Señor Jaggles]

oh

not keen on what is effectively a time-imposed character death via promotion

i mean unless im wrong there's quite a diff between grunt and soldier in terms of personality/etc

 

[Deleted member 8325]

can OTA work against combine? looks kind of impossible since combine wipes their human memory but would be cool if it was possible
like in Entropy Zero

 

[MaXenzie]

i mean unless im wrong there's quite a diff between grunt and soldier in terms of personality/etc

aye but you're still losing a good portion of your character even at the grunt phase

specifically you lose "attachments and conflicts that interfered with duty in their old lives"
to me this reads as you just losing memory of every character you've met that isn't a cop or grunt

 

[Numbers]

aye but you're still losing a good portion of your character even at the grunt phase

specifically you lose "attachments and conflicts that interfered with duty in their old lives"
to me this reads as you just losing memory of every character you've met that isn't a cop or grunt

pretty much, it is the death of a character in a way. there is no beating around the bush

that's what we were selling when it came to the combine side when i first pitched this idea months ago, no reason to change it now

 

[Appetite Ruining Kebab]

aye but you're still losing a good portion of your character even at the grunt phase

specifically you lose "attachments and conflicts that interfered with duty in their old lives"
to me this reads as you just losing memory of every character you've met that isn't a cop or grunt

isn't this simply solved by the fact that you are choosing to get into this faction, knowing it works like this?

if you want your character to be permanently the same just play rebel or apply to be a rank leader or go rogue theres plenty of options on the table & its better than narrative stagnation imo

 

[MaXenzie]

pretty much, it is the death of a character in a way. there is no beating around the bush

that's what we were selling when it came to the combine side when i first pitched this idea months ago, no reason to change it now

i wont tell you to change it, its just not my cup of tea

i mean in truth I'm opposed to adversarial roleplay in general and it seems the server is cooking up to primarily be rebels vs combine so its not like my input matters much

 

[FreeSpy]

i wont tell you to change it, its just not my cup of tea

i mean in truth I'm opposed to adversarial roleplay in general and it seems the server is cooking up to primarily be rebels vs combine so its not like my input matters much

conflict will always breed the most amount of fun, because it gives purpose. why do we passive all this time and create connections and set ourselves up with gear if not to actually go out and have a conflict? Every action story has a enemy, and your end goal is to eliminate this enemy. why make it different here?