In addition, they also serve as pilots and gunners of the Combine Hunter-Choppers. Overwatch Soldiers are also tasked with guarding high-security areas, monitoring Stalkers in the Citadel, and serving as guards in Nova Prospekt. They can, however, be found anywhere the Combine requires direct military action, as soldiers can be quickly transported to a desired area via Dropships. Overwatch Soldiers are initially encountered in the coastal wasteland outside Ravenholm, patrolling the highways for Resistance activity and staffing Combine outposts. During combat, soldiers make use of squad tactics and will attempt to flank enemies and provide cover for one another. The rest are usually carrying pulse rifles. Later in Chapters 11 to 13, the squads have soldiers of four to eight, one or two being Overwatch Elites and sometimes including a shotgun soldier. Using these standard-issue weapons, Overwatch Soldiers typically work in squads of four to six, each squad having at least one soldier armed with a shotgun and another armed with a pulse rifle.
Overwatch Soldiers are equipped with MP7s, shotguns or AR2 Pulse Rifles, as well as grenades. These helmets have glowing blue goggles and appear to be a cross between an old Soviet PMG and PBF gas mask. Perhaps the most advanced piece of equipment found on Overwatch Soldiers are their helmets, which cover the head entirely and are equipped with air filters and radios. Several insignias can be found on their arm pads, signifying their position in the Combine regime. Standard Overwatch Soldiers, like other soldier variants, wear standard-issue blue and grey camo body armor over their mid-sections with padding on their arms, thighs, and groin. In contrast to Civil Protection, whose duties are to enforce order within suppressed population centres, soldiers of the Overwatch are tasked with more hazardous actions requiring skill and tact: from patrolling the treacherous borders of Combine-controlled territory to raiding Resistance-held strongholds.Īs military personnel as opposed to law enforcement, Overwatch Soldiers are given access to military-grade equipment and tactical combat training, making them more formidable opponents than Civil Protection Officers.
Overwatch Soldiers (also known as Combine Soldiers by Citizens, and "Stabilization Teams" by the Overwatch Voice), are the basic transhuman infantry units of the Combine Overwatch, composing the backbone of the Combine's military presence on Earth. “If the transhuman forces are to prove themselves an indispensable augmentation to the Combine Overwatch, they will have to earn the privilege.”
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