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Combine Assassin
General information
Affiliation	Combine
Type	Soldier / Assassin
Individual information
Weapon(s)	Rifle Dual pistols Foot kick
Game information
Entity / spawn codes	npc_fassassin
Designer(s)	Ted Backman[1]

 

The Combine Assassin,^[1] also known as Female Assassin or simply Assassin, is a transhuman enemy cut from Half-Life 2, the successor of Half-Life’s female assassin and a predecessor of the Overwatch Elite, who inherited her helmet.^[1]

OverviewEdit

The Combine Assassin is mostly a slimmer and female version of the Overwatch Elite, with an almost identical helmet.

She uses two automatic pistols (and originally some kind of rifle^[1]), and a variety of melee attacks. She is shown to be a quick and resourceful enemy, moving swiftly and performing flips, rolls, and other movements. She also wears heel springs, recycled as the Advanced Knee Replacement for Chell in Portal, that improves her movements and speed. The armor and padding are almost completely absent, allowing the assassin to move quickly. When she dies, the light on her helmet slowly goes off.^[2]

Five individuals were to be seen "stored" frozen in tanks in the Borealis.^[3]

FateEdit

The Combine Assassin survived as the female Combine Sniper in the arcade version of Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Survivor, as several custom player models.

GalleryEdit

Concept art for "I.A. Latham", simply referred to as "female protagonist" in Raising the Bar. This denomination likely refers to a very early version of Alyx (being "protagonist" and not "antagonist"), where she was to wear leather straps and probably a breathing mask with a single "eye", recycled in the Combine Assassin, and originally to retract and reveal the face.

Concept art for the final version.

Detail of the Combine Assassin's heel springs.

The Combine Assassin's red light effects.

One of the five Combine Assassins "stored" frozen in tanks on the Borealis in the mod Missing Information.

Ditto.

The tanks.

Ditto.

Texture file for the head, showing hidden elements, such as the head of a frightened man and Ted Backman's stylized signature on the bottom-left.

Custom Combine Assassin player model in Half-Life 2: Survivor, with the cut Sniper Rifle.

Ditto, on the right, with a shotgun.

Female Combine Assassin model.

TriviaEdit

• The Combine Assassin was originally going to wear the Advanced Knee Replacement that Chell wore in Portal, but due to the cut of the Combine Assassin, the Advanced Knee Replacement applied for Chell later when Portal was in development.

List of appearancesEdit

• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Survivor (Non-canonical appearance)

ReferencesEdit