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The Combine are still public enemy number one in Half-Life: Alyx, but moving the series to VR has done wonders for their overall health, Valve have told me. Whereas before “the average lifetime of a Half-Life 2 Combine soldier was probably somewhere between 10-20 seconds,” according to Half-Life: Alyx’s lead programmer and designer Robin Walker, “as soon as we started to do play-testing in VR, we saw enemies lasting for a minute or two of life. And when you’re a development team looking at that, that’s incredibly exciting because you can do some much more with AI and performance and enemy speech.”