In Black Mesa, the Vortigaunt slaves in Xen are clearly shown to be oppressed and will never attack Gordon unless explicitly controlled by an Alien Controller, and they even help him progress by shutting down forcefields and alarms. except in the first area of the factory, where they would only retaliate if Gordon attacked them first. In the original game, the Vortigaunt slaves in Xen would attack Gordon Freeman on sight. Adaptational Heroism: While players familiar with Half-Life 2 onwards already know that the Vortigaunts are nowhere near as malevolent as they seem, Black Mesa takes pains to show that they really were in a bad way before Gordon killed the Nihilanth, emphasizing their sympathetic traits.Accentuating this is a trio of ospreys fleeing the facility while helicopters and jets dogfight with alien craft. Here, it's a full on Last Stand for the HECU, as an alien craft destroys a convoy trying to flee the facility, forcing the remaining soldiers and surviving tank to dig in against Gordon. Adaptational Context Change: The final HECU encounter on the surface in "Forget About Freeman!" is never given much context in canon, but presumed to be a token force guarding the entrance to the Lambda Complex. They're shown to have been attacked by headcrabs before they could ensure Gordon's demise in the compactor, with one zombified and the other reduced to meaty chunks, presumably having panicked and blown himself up with a grenade.
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