Half life 2 strider

The Strider is a towering Synth with three slender segmented legs protruding from a sleek brown beetle-like body. Boasting destructive firepower and immense strength, they serve as the Combine's main heavy-ground assault units, and are essentially "mobile guard towers".

Like other Synthetic creatures, Striders are the fusions of organisms and machines. They retained a lot of insectoid traits, such as compound eyes on their heads and fleshy growths on their joints and undersides. In addition, Striders will leak a yellow substance when damaged, and their carapaces contain a cerebral biological unit that looks very much like a larger human brain. While walking about or attacking, they produce a host of different electronic vocalizations, such as growls, groans, whoops, and howls; when killed, they give a mournful cry.

The Strider is an excellent example of the Combine's use of Synths to control the population. Its huge size and intimidating weapons make it ideal for suppressing revolutions and preventing large-scale uprisings. Individual Striders are often used to patrol off-limits City 17 streets and provide heavy support for groups of soldiers. However, in full-scale military combat, Striders are deployed instead in groups as heavy artillery to destroy all structures in an area to flush out entrenched hostile forces. Striders fit both roles well due to their various weapons and remarkable maneuverability on even the harshest terrain granted by their tripodal structure. Despite their height, Striders can crouch down in low spaces to chase enemy combatants and blast away underground obstacles with their warp cannon.

In the wilderness, Striders are often escorted by Hunters which can dispose of smaller threats; In enclosed urban areas, Shield Scanners may also accompany an individual Strider and act as spotters for it, providing situational awareness and extended sight where the huge Synth cannot see. Striders may also be transported to and from combat zones by Combine Dropships, when they will fold their legs into a compact shape that allows easier transit.

As seen in the newspapers found throughout City 17 and Black Mesa East, Striders apparently took part in the Seven Hour War, as one can be seen on the right of the United Nations building, though noticeably larger in size.

Like most striders, this one is a lone wolf, wondering around the wilderness, and despite it a female strider, she can be very dangerous and hostile to humans and against humanity.

Attacks / Weapons

• Pulse cannon
• Warp cannon
• Limb impaling using their legs

And she is 50 feet (15 meters) tall like approximately the height of a skyscraper. Striders are armored, three-legged creatures that are the Combine's main heavy ground assault unit. They are armed with a high-powered cannon and a pulse turret mounted on their head.