History VideoGame / EntropyZeroUprising

* ForWantOfANail: Things are not going well for the Combine, but in the first few days they seem to be holding the line and even gaining ground. Then you fail to reach a railroad junction in time, making the Combine unable to stop a shipment of supplies and heavy weapons from reaching the city, which is implied to be one of the factors allowing the Rebels to hold out long enough for a certain power-armored man to reappear and turn the tide, eventually leading to the destruction of the Citadel.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: This mod shows the flipside, following shabby troops pushed into frontline service by necessity. [[VideoGame/EntropyZero2 While certain Overwatch Elite agents are going after extremely important fugitives with all the backing the Combine can provide]], Civil Protection units find themselves on their own, with barely a Strider or Overwatch squad for backup. Even their HUD reminds them of their low status, deducting credit points from their accounts for exhbiting unwanted behavior.

''[[https://www.moddb.com/mods/entropy-zero-uprising Entropy : Zero - Uprising]]'' is a spin-off of ''VideoGame/EntropyZero'', developed by the modders [=Employee8=] & Filipad. The mod is being released episodically, with the first episode released on April 9, 2023.

It depicts the events of the [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 City 17 Uprising]] from the point of view of a Civil Protection officer just walking his beat on the day the Nova Prospekt teleporter explodes. As the Uprising begins and control of the city starts slipping from the Combine's grasp, he and his allied CP officers find themselves called to carry out increasingly dangerous missions.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The better of the two endings for the first episode entails [[spoiler:the protagonist betraying Civil Protection, joining the Resistance, and successfully convincing Bec to defect with him]]. Getting it is no walk in the park, as you have to refuse to drink the memory-erasing water each time you're prompted, and doing so causes Overwatch to deduct from your maximum armor as punishment; disobey their orders to drink the water at every single opportunity, and you'll be left with a mere 25 max armor.
** [[spoiler: This is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] though, as this ending's post-credits scene takes a time-skip to Half-Life 2: Episode One's events, showing Victor deciding to remain in City 17 as the rebels escape, despite being offered to go alongside them and how imminent the Citadel's, and thus the city's, destruction is, apparently due to the protagonist's grief over his wife's death taking too much of a toll on his conscience.]]

** [[spoiler:The first episode can alternatively end with the protagonist betraying Civil Protection and joining the Resistance, which becomes an option if you refuse to drink the memory-erasing water enough times. If this occurs, the final battle pits you against several squads of Combine soldiers and synth units instead of rebels and traitorous Metrocops.]]

** [[spoiler: This is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] though, as this ending's post-credits scene takes a time-skip to Half-Life 2: Episode One's events, showing Victor deciding to remain in City 17 as the rebels escape, despite being offered to go alongside them and how imminent the Citadel's, and thus the city's, destruction is, apparently due to his grief taking too much of a toll on his conscience.]]

** [[spoiler: This is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] though, as this ending's post-credits scene takes a time-skip to Half-Life 2: Episode One's events, showing Victor deciding to remain in City 17 as the rebels escape, despite being offered to go alongside them and how imminent the Citadel's, and thus the city's destruction is, apparently due to his grief taking too much of a toll on his conscience.]]

** [[spoiler: This is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] though, as this ending's post-credits scene takes a time-skip to Half-Life 2: Episode One's events, showing Victor deciding to remain in City 17 as the rebels escape, despite being offered to go alongside them and how imminent the Citadel's destruction is, apparently due to his grief taking too much of a toll on his conscience.]]

** [[spoiler: This is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] though, as this ending's post-credits scene takes a time-skip to Half-Life 2: Episode One's events, showing Victor deciding to remain in City 17 as the rebels escape, despite being offered to go alongside them, apparently due to his grief taking too much of a toll on his conscience.]]

''Entropy : Zero - Uprising'' is a spin-off of ''VideoGame/EntropyZero'', developed by the modders [=Employee8=] & Filipad.

* [[ForeGoneConclusion Foregone Conclusion]]: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption The Combine will lose the war for City 17.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Or [[FaceHeelTurn Face-Heel Turn]], depending on your point of view. The first episode ends with your squad fighting a large group of Metrocops turned rebel. It is not made clear if these Metrocops were undercover rebel agents the whole time or have only turned with the balance of power shifting towards the Rebels.]]

* MauveShirt: A Metrocop with one lens of his mask lit up and one in a blood-spattered uniform are two recurring characters who (unlike the regular Metrocops you're fighting alongside with) keep surviving despite the odds.