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Welcome to a project made to reorganize the love-hate relationship we all have with Half Life 2 Roleplay. This is Combine Military Roleplay like it should be. This project will serve as a great way to see if we can finally set aside most of the bad aspects of a lot of Half Life 2 Roleplay Servers. We are a community, not a company. We all work together to make things better for one another. Whether it'd be taking policies that are radical at face value but really work on a commutative level or to allowing the players to form more then the staff could ever know. We work things out. One thing you should know before you join is that it will be the END of your Drama days. If you wanna act dramatic or wanna suck up to staff and try to get power. You will be caught, eventually. We do not tolerate this madness and hope we can prevent most of it, unfortunately like most things it still will happen.
Our server takes you to a recognizable world where the Combine Empire has finally taken over the world. This has left the world to a state of chaos and war. Who fights wars? The Military, so the new structure of government on Earth led by Dr. Breen has made a new initiative with a human Military, rather then what we've seen with the Overwatch Transhuman Arms program. This project is to take aspects of what made Earth's military great and use that to create a general sense of well being to our benefactors. That we are trying to become ready for assimilation to become another soldier species.
[Denizen Lore] Denizens in our roleplay are just a mediator between choosing sides. Except the catch is that if they choose to be pro-UU they can never really go back to a city. They would probably be amputated for escaping such said place. Yet you could remain neutral as well or turn to the path of destruction with the resistance. This life is yours and no one else can make your choices. If you are lucky enough it is possible to transfer over to the conscripts or be lucky enough to join the resistance. It depends on what you want to do.This is where your adventure begins.
[Conscript Lore] Conscripts are the military power. They carry western weapons and western gear, the best of the time before the seven hour war. While there are no augments you and your forces could invade any city and take out a 8'9 OTA soldier just by not being controlled by external forces. Yet some have flaws and you are now a community, a community of soldiers banded together with the blood of brotherhood.
[Resistance Lore] You like many others volunteered for a fight that could end your life against the regime of the Combine. You do not believe the tales of unity and have evidence to prove it is otherwise. So you resist any and all people for the most part. The Coast is like a second home for you and now these conscript assholes are invading. It is your job to take the fight to them once again.
Side Note: We aren't here to say critically what lore is or what it isn't. It is really what you make of it. I personally took the liberty to go and look at how real soldiers acted by watching a few documentaries and a few theatrical films. They aren't the Police like some Combine Military Roleplays would have you believe, they are just Soldiers fighting what really is an endless war, unlike those other endless wars that ended.
Conscripts|Combine Military Forces|Universal Union Military Forces
These are the forces controlling and occupying the lands. These are the so called 'MpF' although they have no ties to the Police. Yet everyone will probably shoot them anyway unless they lack a weapon. They are here on a mission 'To remove the resistance and their operations in the local area' "We Came, We Conquered, Except there was nothing here"
Divisions of the Conscript Infantry Infantry: Welp... you started here. YET if you make it your career you get the fun jobs and the fun weapons. You get to drive the basic vehicles parked around the base. You get to actually be outside of the base without your squad while everyone else needs a specific reason to go outside that has to be radioed and confirmed by a high rank. WhichSnipers Team: Sniper teams are made of just two people. A sniper and spotter. The Sniper gets to fire the gun, and well the spotter gets to hold binoculars. This is only a position you want if you are gonna tag with a friend for a long time while you are waiting some contacts. (I am guessing these will be the ERP teams...)Combat Medic: You have the uncanny job of learning about medicine. (NOT BIOGEL YOU PRIVILEGED WHITE 7'9 SECTORIALS) You get to roleplay all the cuts and gore that happens when healing someone who just got shot with an assault rifle when they decide it'd be a fun joke to test out their new harness which probably didn't have Kevlar to begin with. You will be mostly taking care of people that actually will probably need surgery at a proper facility. Your job is to make sure they live until that moment.M*A*S*H*: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, although it doesn't seem like you are gonna move around much. Like the Combat Medic except you have the uncanny job of learning about surgery. Once again all the cuts and gore but you get to have the pleasure of never seeing combat and being the best jokers. Yet you don't get the highest advance tech. You are in an ex-developing nation's area, where electricity doesn't flow like the cities. You get blood bags, cool anesthetics for your anesthesiologists/nurse anesthetists, and scalpels galore. You are the doctors of the old society or the new ones of a crippling world. You have the duty to give basic medical attention to any soldier as well. Of course not in emergency surgical care.Hazmat: You have the awesome field of danger. When our benefactors graciously misdirect a headcrab canister filled with actual nitroglycerin. You get the awesome job to defuse that bomb. You also have the awesome job of testing the leech filled water for whatever reason you have. Radiation is implied so the benefit is you get a sick suit of gear that makes you look like a boss. Yet it is hot as fuck inside. You could be a possible assistant or become a real UU scientist like monitoring the changes in the environment.
NCOs and Junior NCOs: You have taken the opportunity to receive leadership training. You probably asked for it because you were the top tier loyalists. So the responsibility to take these drags and make them soldiers is yours. You don't have to be drill sarge dick but you still have to show some power. You have to know regulations like a priest with his bible. Every character hates you but these are your soldiers. You have to keep them safe. Some denizen may appear nice but then shoot us later.VIDEO
Military Police: You are the only thing close to a metropolice force here. You arrest soldiers who conduct violations. You also do anything with actually arresting civilians. Which is rare, this would mostly be if one of those UU nuts. You mostly keep order though because most situations don't require a formal arrest. This is the military and some standards like fist fighting are usually neglected as full punishments unless someone really knocks someones boots off.
Administration: No Army can run without a bureaucrat in charge, and yet because we aren't in a war of full blown tactics. This is where we see the always made fun of 'Desk Officers' who sit and have no security risks. Yet without them an army could never run. Most of your really high folks are in this branch because the resistance is an insurgency that pops ups and doesn't try to do some sorta predictable war plan. Since most insurgencies are run and gun terrorist groups.Technicians: From Vehicles to computers. You guys are the troubleshooters. Without you most of the technology would fail. Even the fact that you don't understand most of it doesn't make an excuse of why you can't fix it. So try anyway because without you my Combine OS computer freezes and I sure as hell can not read this Combine language manual to fix it.Side note: We make roles as we need them. Nothing is set in stone so many of these could be taken away as complaints come in or as new suggestions are made.
Denizen|Citizen|Refugee
Now that the pussy ass military is done. We get to talk about the PEOPLE! You are the people who will be creating a massive community. You do what you want with more freedoms but you are illegal refugees. Expect fear of everyone around you. You are the most dedicated of roleplayers. You have the job to create passive roleplay. You of course can earn money/loot by doing PassiveRP jobs/scavanging, but you have to tend to stay away from doing anything too serious. You get to see and glamour in the days when insurgents fight or maybe you cry inside because now the friendly green army men don't trust you. You will probably pick a side quite quickly, but I hope not. You should stay a denizen, it'll be a blast!
Resistance|Insurgency|Lambda|"MaybeAllahuAkbar?"
You are mostly people who want to destroy the entire system and go back to the way the out lands and coasts used to be like. You hate soldiers and these symbols of how the UU can be a little bit good. You thrive on the propaganda of when they do bad. You recruit in masses and use the same Kalashnikov guns that other revolutionaries used. Whether you just want non-UU leadership to Anarchists to those who want to restore that old 'Soviet Union'. Your ideas are the greatest ideas your mind thinks. So FIGHT the power and continue to survive.VIDEO
Welcome to Variance Gaming
We are a community hosted on the founding principles of debate. Things go through in and out through the fighting of voices of concerned players. We found our principles by looking at what other communities have done wrong within the past. We find ourselves trying to not be stuck in the past. We sometimes fail, but that is where you! Yes, You! The player base can totally help us on board. Everyone on this community is like a mini-idea or developer machine. When we pitch our ideas all together and make things happen the community machine begins to spur to limits of the unknown!
We currently have a lack of staff. Yet rather then looking for people that can 'Minge Filter' because anyone can do that. We are looking for people that know how to do events by heart and can discuss ways to pull it off. If you want to become a staff member to abuse it, DarkRP is a good place to go so that is why any bullshit generic logic 'I want to help the community' is unacceptable. Time doesn't make you staff either. You could have played 100 hours on our community yet you just sat there and asked for staff every sixth hour of that time. Quality Staff over Quantity because minge filtration can be easily sorted.
If you join our server you will be able to download the package immediately when you start walking towards the highway. I like for players to be able to read signs before they play so here is a couple already put up
I'd like to also point out a personal policy of mine when it comes to roleplay.
We really hate people that play just to kill others as well. Its not fun to have people killed because mr. asshole felt like roleplaying a RDM like thing is fun. Yet because of standards it is really hard to detect this type of behavior before it is too late. So we need your help to moderate it. See someone doing a lot of things where they receive benefits like guns and the first thing they do is try to kill someone else? That is a flag a staff needs to know about. Remember you do not need items to roleplay, weapons in such said roleplay are a privilege not a right.
I realize many of you might have some bland questions. I might as well already post the answers for them. So here we go!
Q: Do you have a forum?http://variancegaming.site.nfoservers.com/forum/index.php https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yw7JkTqZ3GJRLk7ralKSTcF6pLBcJD1TcrArPPwWmKc/edit @Outcasted still asks 'WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!'no maybe a bad background now on Cloudsixteen. But I do hope to make friends rekindle haters of course.
