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The conversation probably went something like this: "Remember the guns we used in the first game? Lets modernize them!" "Right! The Glock is now a USP Match, which is fancy and new. Keep in mind these are the same guys who thought the SPAS-12 had two barrels.heavily-armored cyborgs or Gordon in his HEV suit, but it would do horrifying damage if fired into a mass of protesting C17 citizens. Sounds about perfect for policing City 17, where the main opposition to the Combine's terror regime at the start of the game are a loose network of barely-equipped and unarmored refugees and dissidents. In-game the MP7 has an enormous ammo capacity (especially compared with the Pulse Rifle), and it's most distinctive feature is being able spray bullets in the general direction of your target with little need for aiming.He is probably the one who chose the MP7 on the basis of new=better, without any experience with the weapon to demonstrate otherwise. Breen, who, as far as I know, has no military experience outside of working as the Overseer of Black Mesa. Also, keep in mind that the leader of the Combine occupation on earth was Dr.It's brand new, made of space age material and costs a fortune, therefore it must be MARVELOUS. The most recently designed ANYTHING is always the best, or at least that's how it seems if you don't know much about the objects at hand. The MP7 is a very modern gun to the point of barely being in service at the time of Half-Life 2's release. Surely the answer to all of this is reasonably obvious.It would be much easier to find millions of AK-47 rifles and MP5 submachine guns to equip the remaining twenty percent of humanity, and those weapons are much better performance and reliability wise than MP7s. Though this does bring up the issue of why the Combine didn't recycle plentiful human weaponry and be done with it.

Combine technology is hardly efficient and just seems to be 'whatever works.' The Advisers probably just looked at a list of guns and said " that one.".

I would've preferred if they made the MP7 an MP5, mostly from a logical perspective but also because it looks cool, but oh well, there's always mods. One, this is some magical variant that's so incredibly cheap to mass produce canceling out all possible negative effects, or two, it's a game and these aren't actually real guns, just fictional weapons that vaguely resemble them.

This is why they do what they can to limit our exposure to their level of technology. The worst thing we can possibly do to them is steal their tech one piece at a time and build ourselves up.

The Combine curb-stomped humanity in 7 hours.

Against unarmored but determined opponents, having to arm thousands, or even millions, of soldiers, why not just give them MP5s, or UZIs? The only advantage either gun has is low recoil and high armor penetration, moreso on the parts of the MP7 and P90, respectively. Why do the Combine use the MP7? It has low stopping power, low range, is expensive to mass produce, and is generally viewed as inferior to the P90 (and even that has pretty low stopping power).