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It would pick a squad member to protect based on each NPC's LOS (presumably, of the player) and distance. If it took enough damage quickly, it would enter a 'pissed off' state and close up, shutting down the shield. The shield could only be generated if the Shield Scanner was open (read: the mechanical tentacles were coming out of it). It indicates that the Shield Scanner was meant to protect NPCs in a squad it was paired with by generating a shield in front of the NPC. The most interesting part is that the Shield Scanner has dedicated code, showing what it was originally meant to do. The eye also has a different color than it does in the final game. The Shield Scanner is in the prototype, but has much simpler and rougher textures. This suggests that enemies were able to launch grenades from guns that have grenade launchers (specifically the OICW), but the ability was removed some point down the line. Of note is that the prototype Combine Soldier has animations for launching grenades from the old AR2, the XM29 OICW. Fortunately, there is a set of earlier voice clips that lack the extreme garbling, making it easier to understand (they are still very low quality, however). The voice modulation for his voice clips are completely different and makes it extremely difficult to understand what he's saying because of how garbled he sounds. He also lacks the lingo that the final Combine Soldiers use and does not talk to the Combine Overwatch voice.

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Like the prototype Civil Protection, the Combine Soldier uses full sentences instead of the spliced-together-words system that the final Combine Soldier uses.

He also uses completely different sounds in the prototype. Some examples include kicking the player instead of hitting the player with his gun, a clunky grenade toss animation that has the Combine Soldier tossing with his left arm instead of right, and a different running animation. The prototype Combine Soldier not only lacks a lot of animations compared to the final version, but also has differences to animations they share in both versions. The Strider logo lacks transparency, making it look like he had a black box with the texture on it pasted on his back.

The prototype Combine Soldier has yellow underarms instead of white, a lighter camouflage with a different pattern, a darker head, red eyes, and what appears to be the logo on the Strider and Combine Gunship pasted on his back. The most noticeable difference are his textures. The Combine Soldier is very similar to his final incarnation in behavior and in the equipment he uses.

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