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| “ | Why do we always have to clean up a mess the grunts can't handle? | „ |
| ~ A male operative in Half-Life: Opposing Force complaining about the HECU's apparent incompetence. |
The Black Operatives are supporting antagonists in the first-person shooter video game Half-Life and the secondary antagonists of its expansion pack, Half-Life: Opposing Force. They are divided into two groups: female operatives and male operatives.
Appearance[]
Every black operative is covered in a black suit from head to toe. Each gender can be distinguished by the types of clothes that they wear. Female operatives wear black spandex jumpsuits and carry microphones as headsets. All of them wear night vision goggles. Male operatives wear black combat gear and balaclavas. Some of them wear night vision goggles whereas the rest have exposed eyes. Unlike the female counterparts, male operatives wear earpieces inside their masks.
Tactics[]
Black operatives rely on stealth instead of brute force. They are almost completely silent during combat, refusing to yell whenever injured. They are also quick and able to jump very high. Most of the black operatives are equipped with SMG's with grenade attachments. Some male operatives use sniper rifles as an alternative weapon. Female operatives have cloaking devices that can enable them to become partially invisible. Up close, black operatives use punches and martial arts kicks as melee attacks.
Relationships[]
HECU[]
The black operatives have a covertly hostile relationship with the HECU. Both sides seem to be allied in the first Half Life game due to AI not having the two fight one another. The black operatives' existence and role are expanded in Half Life: Opposing Force however. They are sent to eliminate all witnesses of the Black Mesa incident, including HECU marines, and destroy the Black Mesa compound after the HECU fail to contain the Resonance Cascade. Upon arrival, every black operative either kills or interrogates a HECU soldier. They consider the HECU to be incompetent and inept. A male operative even states resentment for taking care of the HECU's responsibility.
Black ops will always attack Adrian Shephard and anyone following him.
Gordon Freeman[]
Although Gordon Freeman has relatively few encounters with them, female operatives respond with hostility towards him. This is due to the females' protocol, prompting Gordon to fight back and kill several of them.
Trivia[]
- Although no official expansion pack was released to give the player the ability to play a black operative, a Half-Life mod known as Half-Life: Opposing Force: Ultimate Attack, was made to allow players to do just that. The mod deals with a black operative being sent to a city that has been overrun with aliens during the Black Mesa Incident, and to help cover up the events whilst facing HECU marines. The game's ending ties with Half-Life: Opposing Force, in which the player arms the nuclear warhead that is responsible for destroying Black Mesa.
- Female operatives appear both in the original Half-Life game and its expansion, Opposing Force. Male operatives appear only in Opposing Force.
- Compared to the HECU, black operatives have very little dialogue.
- The female operatives, by default, have jiggle physics in their breasts. This is completely removed in Opposing Force, the PlayStation 2 port of the game, and any version of the game released in a country where censorship is heavy, such as Germany.
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