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Behind the scenes

Alyx helpless without Gordon’s flashlight.

• This chapter is the first example of Alyx’s new co-op features and combat abilities. As she is the only protagonist equipped with a gun, Gordon having only the Gravity Gun (although he originally was to have no weapon at all), he has to help her killing enemies by aiming his flashlight at them in dark areas, otherwise she does not see them and thus cannot defend herself properly and could get herself killed. He can also throw objects at enemies, but Alyx will always be able to manage all the attacks on her own with a minimum of support from Gordon. She also cannot move in the dark if Gordon disappears with his flashlight turned off, and will call for him helplessly, in a scared tone.
• Gordon originally couldn’t operate the power boxes in Episode One and would have to wait for Alyx to do it. But developers removed this due to the fact that this exposed Alyx’s most robotic tendencies. Gordon would’ve had to let Alyx finish what she was doing first and then wait for her to work. This led to frustration. What developers learned is that in order for Alyx to be more reliable, she has to finish a task quickly and then move on.  
• This chapter also first introduces the Zombine.

In completely dark sections, Zombies will tend to spawn faster if the flashlight is turned off.

In completely dark areas where the flashlight is the only source of illumination, the team found that they would often end up with grossly over-exposed views and the HDR parameters were to be modified. In particular, they drastically shrunk the region of the screen where the flashlight’s light is located, which is bigger in Half-Life and Episode Two. It permitted them to concentrate only on that area and thus increase the sense of claustrophobia.

In that chapter, the player is also forced to block Antlion burrows with cars in a collapsed parking lot, while Alyx helps him fight the Antlion, but without giving him any clues on how to block the burrows.

The elevator scene is one of the most tricky parts of the game for the inexperienced player. When Gordon and Alyx arrive at it, its power is down and has to be reactivated through a powerbox located at the other end of a big and completely dark room. When the power is turned on again, Zombies swarm the area, and Alyx and Gordon must bear a huge standoff while waiting for the elevator to come, mirroring scenes from previous games such as the teleport scenes at the end of Blue Shift or in the Half-Life 2 chapter Entanglement. The first iteration of this battle was originally very different. The space was larger, had water in it, and was not completely dark. The team cut water in favor of more Zombies, as Water is relatively expensive, performance-wise. The area was made smaller to ensure that the player would see the elevator and recognize the problem that needed to be solved before the fight starts. The team applied a completely dark setting in order to enhance tension and to leave the battle as a final test of the players’ low-light fighting skills, which had previously been developed over the course of the episode. Finally, they added a wire running along the ceiling from the elevator to the powerbox to give the player a guide as they familiarize themselves with the area.

The City 17 vista where Kleiner is seen on the Breencast after reaching the surface is intended to be «an explicit visual reward for surviving the elevator battle.»

The turning of the tide

With the absence of Freeman and Alyx, many in the Resistance, including Isaac Kleiner and Calhoun, had assumed the worst; that they had been killed in the explosion that destroyed Nova Prospekt. In reality, the damage to the Combine translocation device resulted in a relativistic delay; while Freeman and Alyx experienced only mere moments, outside the teleport sequence over a week had passed.

Following their return, the pair led efforts to disable a series of generators in order to loosen the Combine’s grip on the districts closer to the Citadel. While these efforts were successful, Combine troops managed to capture Alyx Vance. Proceeding deeper into the city, Freeman and Calhoun launched a raid on the Combine’s field command post. Where others had failed, owing to heavy pulse artillery emplaced upon the roof, their team succeeded; they infiltrated the building, freed captured fighters, and disabled the artillery, allowing reinforcements to pour into the central city districts.

Determined to re-acquire their lost command post, Overwatch forces launched a ferocious counter-offensive, heavily reinforced with gunships, Striders, and heavy armour. Despite suffering heavy losses, the counter-offensive was repulsed with near-total casualties, impairing the Combine’s defensive manoeuvres against the rebels.

Reception

Barry White of Citizen Game stated that the first part of the film » my mind» and «Considering the comparatively [sic] paltry resources…at their disposal this short still manages to be better than every video game movie currently in existence.» Wagner Au of NewTeeVee contended that the first part «is one of those rare viral videos that seems destined to launch a breakout success», and added «non-gamers are likely to be impressed by its rollicking action and bravura special effects.» Au believed its popularity was due, in part, to the fact that the video is adapted from Half-Life 2. Patrick Goss, writing for Tech Radar, said the in-game footage from Half-Life 2 «blended almost seamlessly into live action footage» in the film.

Architecture

City 17 represents an interesting juxtaposition between the old world and the alien Combine influence. Keep in mind that the very nature of the Combine is to assimilate other species into their power; they adapt rather than destroy and rebuild. Apartment buildings are converted into command centers; sentry towers are attached to tall office buildings; the railway station is being used to transport victims to Nova Prospekt, a human experimentation and augmentation facility. The buildings’ original functions should be clear to the player, as well as the Combine’s perversion of those functions.

The buzzword for City 17 when Half-Life 2 was in development was «Eastern European architecture». This basically means that buildings should seem old and strong; brick, stone, and to a lesser extent concrete work best. Balconies, pillars, and spires are common. Streets are not built on a grid basis, instead the precise arrangement of roads and buildings has evolved over many hundreds of years. Since it is probable that City 17 was under Communist rule for some decades leading up to the 1990s, it was likely to have been in a dilapidated, outmoded state even prior to the arrival of the Combine.

Certain buildings can appear elaborate if they are for public use — museums, libraries, government buildings, and so on. Refer to the entry on Eastern Europe for more general architectural hints on the region, as well as real-world images.

Prelude

The unexpected return of Gordon Freeman to City 17 had the effect of galvanising the populace’s spirit of revolution. Freeman’s quasi-mythical status among the minds of the citizenry garnered the attention of the Combine, who sought to detain or kill Freeman. An initial attempt to apprehend Freeman failed, which saw him escape to the laboratory of his friend and former Black Mesa colleague, Eli Vance. A subsequent raid on the rebel outposts failed to capture Freeman, although Eli was taken prisoner and detained in Nova Prospekt. Freeman and Eli’s daughter, Alyx Vance, vowed to infiltrate the penitentiary and free Eli.

Moving through Ravenholm, a series of Combine raids on rebel coastal settlements met with mixed success, although they failed to neutralise Freeman. Freeman and Alyx launched a raid on Nova Prospekt with the aid of hundreds of Antlions, which, although failed to free Eli, resulted in the inadvertent destruction of the entire facility. The destruction of the prison, a bitterly hated and feared symbol of Combine oppression, inspired the citizens of City 17 to launch an armed revolt against Combine rule.

Production

The film was created by Toronto-based David and Ian Purchase, who use the professional name of the Purchase Brothers. Before Escape from City 17, the Purchase Brothers had directed several commercials, including one for Coca-Cola. David contended that they worked as commercial directors in order to support their independent projects. They were both fans of the Half-Life series, and decided to start Escape from City 17 as a way «to showcase and promote their talents further, and experiment with several post-production techniques they’d developed.»

The two had a budget of $500 for Part One and $250 for Part Two; the computer equipment and software employed for the development of the film belonged to the Purchase Brothers from previous projects. According to David, the money was spent on the live-action elements of the film, saying that «The costumes, and used/broken airsoft guns made up the bulk of the budget.» The two had no crew to support them, and were not paid for their work. Many of the elements of the film, such as the background and sound effects, were extracted from Half-Life 2, «graphically enhanced, and incorporated into the live action with ‘a lot of complicated tracking and rotoscoping.'»

Behind the scenes[edit]

«One of the reasons that we liked Eastern Europe as a setting was that it represents the collision of the old and the new in a way that is difficult to capture in the United States. You go over there, and you have this collision between all of these things, the new architecture, the old architecture, the fall of communism…there’s a sense of this strongly-grounded historical place. We left out the Gothic themes associated with Prague and vampires and looked into a different aspect of the region.»

― Viktor Antonov

When responding to a question in a Reddit AMA about whether he researched any Eastern European cities for City 17, Viktor Antonov wrote that «it was based on childhood city Sofia», and that «it had mixed elements» from Belgrade and Saint Petersburg.

During the development of Half-Life 2, Valve made many reference photos of the larger Seattle area where Valve is based, including, among others: Airport Way S (for decrepit brick building textures), Macy’s on Pine Street (for the Manhack Arcade), an USCGC ship in the harbor as a reference for the Borealis, magnetic cranes in west Seattle and the Queen Anne radio towers for the antenna near the Manhack Arcade.

Overview

Dilapidated tunnel with Ceiling Turrets with empty magazines.

Following the Combine invasion and the Seven Hour War, the City 17 underground was apparently no longer used and fell into serious disrepair. However, it is possible that Resistance members used the underground even before the rebellion, as there are numerous bodies to be found, only some of them being recently deceased.

After the destabilization of the Citadel, the underground becomes severely infested with Headcrabs and Zombies, as well as Antlions, who, following the collapse of the Combine’s defensive field (previously powered by the Citadel), start establishing a foothold in the city via the tunnels.

Because of the large number of Zombines in the underground, it is possible that the Combine were attacking Resistance members hiding there when Antlions and Xen wildlife were allowed access.

Features

The City 17 Underground mostly consists of underground parking lots, maintenance tunnels, and storage areas. All or most of these facilities are in serious disrepair and many are infested with Zombies and Xen wildlife. There are many storage rooms and lots, as well as sewage pipes. The passageways connecting other areas also contain handwheels to open gates.

Final hours

The ramifications of the teleporter’s destruction was immense: it sheared off the top of the Citadel, causing immense structural damage, and overloaded the building’s power grid, triggering an irreversible meltdown of the reactor core. The overload disabled the Combine’s global Citadel network, precariously isolating Combine forces garrisoned on Earth. An unintended side-effect was the deactivation of City 17’s network of forcefields and thumpers, allowing the Xenian wildlife that inhabited the surrounding countryside to infest the city. Troops on both sides soon found themselves caught in a multi-pronged crossfire between these disparate combatants. The destruction of the teleporter had one major consequence: the birth of an infant superportal.

The Resistance had been able to gain control over the Combine’s broadcast system; hitherto used to disseminate Overwatch propaganda, it was now used to coordinate rebel efforts. Rebel fighters also restored power to a freight station, permitting evacuations of unarmed citizens from the city. The protracted and ferocious combat took its toll on the morale of rebel fighters, with some feeling that the totalitarian, though nevertheless comparatively safe, rule of the Combine was preferable to the heavy fighting they had experienced, and began to express dissatisfaction with some rebel leaders, such as Isaac Kleiner. They came to characterise Black Mesa’s reckless pursuit of scientific advancement as the true cause of their plight.

Freeman and Alyx voluntarily infiltrated the Citadel to affect a temporary stabilisation of the core, buying more time for evacuations. There, they discovered the Combine were planning on using what power remained in the core to send a transmission through the superportal, requesting reinforcements to crush the revolution. However, the mere act of transmitting the message would collapse the core, causing a dark energy flare.

With the reactor steadily collapsing, both sides executed a mutual evacuation from the city. Having already lost control of the situation, the Combine withdrew a significant portion of its remaining forces from the city, leaving behind numerous, although scattered and often unsupported regiments of troops to delay the rebels as long as possible. Striders in particular razed entire districts to the ground, destroying vast swathes of the city. These forces could not contain the rebels, however, as they evacuated as many refugees as they could before withdrawing on the restored train network.

As the final trains departed, the Combine sent the transmission packet, collapsing the Citadel’s core. The core exploded in a dark energy flare, destroying what remained of the city and most of the surrounding area, finally ending the battle.

NPCs

Virtually any NPC will fit in City 17, with perhaps the exception of antlions, as City 17 is probably fortified against wildlife and is located away from the coast. It has been speculated that the machinery at the base of the Citadel works to discourage antlions — Antlions do however appear in City 17 in Half-Life 2: Episode One.

Since almost anything can go in the city, wise NPC placement becomes a matter of timing. If making a single-player map, consider when in your storyline this level occurs. If making a multiplayer map that includes NPCs, focus on the player’s abilities at the time they would encounter the opponent or ally.

References

1. Double agent for the Combine, defected to the Resistance late in the battle
2. Status unknown, presumed dead with the possibility of him having transferred his consciousness into a «host body» of the Combine Advisor
3. Double agent for the Combine, defected to the Resistance late in the battle
4. Assuming all gunships the player sees are unique. Also includes gunships under construction in the Citadel. From the start of Anticitizen One to the end of Episode One
5. Assuming all dropships the player sees are unique. From the start of Anticitizen One to the end of Episode One
6. Assuming all Striders the player sees are unique. Also includes Striders transported by dropships. From the start of Anticitizen One to the end of Episode One
7. 10 Advisors are seen in the launch room inside the Citadel. At the end of Episode One, 14 pods can be seen launching. Assuming this includes the original 10.
8. Lower estimate counts all rebels killed in scripted events, corpses, and zombies. Higher estimate includes all live rebels encountered by the player (including Vortigaunts at the start of Episode 1), assuming all such people could be and were killed in the battle. From the start of Anticitizen One to the end of Episode One
9. Assumes all soldiers encountered that can be killed are killed by the player. Also counts zombines, corpses, soldiers killed in scripted events, and stalkers. Assumes all those who remained in the Citadel were killed, and the stalkers in the train crash. From the start of Anticitizen One to the end of Episode One
10. This dropship crashes inside the Citadel in Episode One
11. Dialogue from the consoling couple heard through the floorboards in Episode One

Gallery

Alyx recovering from the train wreck.

A group of Zombies walking towards Gordon and Alyx.

Alyx fighting a Zombie.

Alyx fighting Zombies.

Dead Zombines and two Emitters in a Razor Train.

Alyx protecting herself from Gordon’s flashlight.

Maintenance room.

Small parking lot with an Antlion burrow.

Poison Headcrabs in a parking lot.

The same parking lot (slightly different) in a menu background map.

Collapsed ceiling and damaged cars.

Destroyed parking lot with Antlion burrows.

Ditto.

A flooded room.

The exit to the surface.

Alyx watching Kleiner through Breencast right after reaching the surface.

Appearances

A Zombine running at Alyx and Gordon with a grenade.

Half-Life 2: Episode One

After stabilizing the Citadel long enough to make their escape, Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance become trapped in the underground after the Razor Train they are riding in derails and crashes. After battling hordes of Zombies, swarms of Antlions, and overcoming various other obstacles, Gordon and Alyx are able to locate an elevator, which they manage to power up and ride to the surface, escaping the hordes of Zombies. Almost arrived to the surface, they have to find a handwheel to unlock the final gate, after which they discover how much more City 17 is ravaged and that Isaac Kleiner took over the Breencast network to deliver vital information to the city’s inhabitants.

External links

See also

• City 17 locations

Герои

Вокруг героев в будущем будет завязан весь геймплей. В тюрьме у Альянса находятся герои Сопротивления, задача сил Сопротивления высвободить их. В свою очередь Альянсу необходимо поймать их и заточить в тюрьму. Пока у Сопротивления нету освобожденных заключенных Альянс не имеет права втаргаться на терроиторию Сопротивления (только в редких случаях), но как только кто-то из них будет освобожден, силы Альянса имеют права проводить любые операции на территории Сопротивления.

Аликс Вэнс

Быстрая и проворная девушка, предпочитающая действовать в одиночку

• Повышенное кол-во здоровья
• Повышенная скорость бега
• Повышенный прыжок
• Хорошая амунция

Барни Калхаун

Первоклассный агент внедрения, способен в одиночку выполнять самые трудные задания

• Повышенное кол-во здоворья
• Быстрая смена маскировки
• Инвиз?

References[edit]

Combine OverWiki has more images related to City 17.

1. ↑ Half-Life 2
2. ↑ Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 166
3. ↑ Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 238
4. ↑ WC map pack
5. Breencast
6. ↑ Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
7. The Half-Life 2 chapter Point Insertion
8. ↑ Half-Life 2: Episode One
9. ↑ Half-Life 2: Episode Two
10. The Overwatch Voice in the Half-Life 2 chapter Point Insertion
11. Half-Life 2 leak
12. Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 168

Plot

The two main characters of Escape from City 17.

Part One

Around the beginning of the first part of the film, scientist Isaac Kleiner, through a large video monitor, is warning that the Citadel will be involved in a destructive event which will probably irradiate a large area around it. Against a backdrop depicting City 17, including the Citadel, with parts of it on fire, Kleiner then advises that anyone left in the city should evacuate promptly. It is later revealed that he is communicating by speakers within the settlement, and the film proceeds to illustrate combat between Combine forces and the Resistance. Two male Resistance members are introduced in a train-yard, with one asking by radio to others away from their location whether any trains are leaving. Receiving a response, he is told that the last train from that yard left earlier, and that he should try to get out of the city by foot or continue trying to locate a train. Civil Protection officers soon appear, and the two engage in combat throughout much of the rest of the film. They are eventually caught upon an open stretch of railway, with a Combine hunter-chopper bearing down. As the chopper, whilst firing weaponry, passes overhead of the two, the film cuts to a black screen.

Part Two

The story begins around the time of the first explosion of Nova Prospekt as war is seen to break out in City 17, eventually leading to the first explosion of the Citadel. A male undercover Rebel saves a female Rebel from Combine soldiers, but the latter, not speaking or unserstanding English, is initially seen to distrust her rescuer. Eventually they get on the way out of the city as it is engulfed in street war, with Striders tearing down buildings. Along with other Rebels, the two endure heavy combat and are seen to bring down a Strider with a Rocket Launcher, SMG, and a Sniper Rifle. Eventually, the two become romantically involved. Travelling by the Canals, the couple then joins with two other Rebels seen escaping the City in Part One, but the male Rebel, caught off-guard, soon gets shot by Civil Protection and dies in the arms of his newfound friend. The remaining three Rebels, chased by the Metrocops, escape into a Zombie-infested tunnel, where the female memeber, distracted in her grief, is attacked by a Headcrab which latches onto her head. The other two members are attacked by the Zombies and are driven back, unable to help their companion. The tunnel, though inhospitable, serves as a shelter against the second explosion of the Citadel, which is seen to tear down what is left of the City. The female Rebel is unable to remove the Headcrab with her hands but, still conscious, she manages to load the spare pistol given to her earlier by her deceased friend and shoot the parasite without harming herself. The three are then seen to drive back the Zombies and escape into sunlight.

Сопротивление

Сопротивление пытается нарушить работу системы правопорядка, вызволить важных персон из Нексуса и добиться полного уничтожения Альянса.

Основная задача — вывести из Нексуса важных персон и удержание их на базе максимально долгое время.

Иерархия

Силы повстанцев делятся на 2 группы:

• Отдел внедрения — проведение диверсий, разведки, шпионажа
• Армия Сопротивления — проведение силовых операций

Отдел внедрения

• Разведчик (ходит по улицам города, следит за передвижениями сил Альянса)
• Шпион (внедряется в силы Альянса, извлекает статегически важную информацию)
• Диверсант(внедряется в силы Альянса, проводит диверсионную деятельность на статегически важных объектах)
• Заместитель главы отдела внедрения
• Глава отдела внедрения

Environment

City 17 is, obviously, a city, and as such buildings should work as borders for a level. Otherwise, Combine fences or, for smaller gaps, police themselves can be used. Buildings should be large and tall, not only to create better visual blocking but to create a slight claustrophobic feel, which may be desired.

Again, since this is a city, there is considerably less vegetation than other areas. Grassy areas should appear to be gardens or lawns, not open fields. The general sense of disuse and dilapidation means that vegetation is likely to be overgrown and unkempt. Also, since Half-Life 2 appears to be set during the late autumn, trees are almost bare and dead leaves are scattered over nearby pavements.

Ивенты

Ивенты делятся на 2 группы:

• Автоивенты
• Модерируемые ивенты

Расписание:

• Автоивенты: 19:00 (пн, вт, ср, вс)
• Модерируемые ивенты: 21:00 (чт, пт, сб)

Автоивенты

Ивенты должны включатся автоматически или ручным способом в заданные промежутки временни или при малом кол-ве игроков.

Нашествие зомби

Из всех щелей начинают лезть толпы зомби, всем живым игрокам стоит объединится что бы противостоять масштабной угрозе

Немезида

Один из мирных жителей становится зараженным вирусом, который делает из него машину для убийства. Противостоять ему может только армия.

Помещательство

Мирным жителями выдается оружие и разрешение на убийство всего что попадается на глаза.

Необходимо будет набрать состав ивентологов которые будут продумывать и проводить собственные ивенты на отдельных картах

Initial fighting

For over a week, the citizenry of City 17 took up arms and openly engaged the Sector 17 Overwatch troops occupying the city. Combine forces set up a heavily fortified command post near the Citadel to coordinate their efforts. The suburban districts, chiefly policed by Civil Protection forces, were rapidly lost to rebel forces, who began tearing down symbols of Combine rule, such as Wallace Breen’s broadcast monitors, and fighting was sporadic. However, closer to the city centre nearer the Citadel, the fighting had grown fierce, with well-equipped and well-supplied regiments of Overwatch regulars, buttressed by Synth and armoured support, engaged in heavy combat with entrenched rebels. Although the rebels were severely outmatched, Combine troops found it difficult to dislodge the dogged rebel fighters. Combat soon became building-to-building, and casualties mounted.

To mitigate this attrition, the Combine bombarded fortified rebel strongholds with headcrab canisters, resulting in outbreaks of the parasites throughout the city. This strategy backfired on the Combine, as Combine soldiers themselves fell prey to the parasites, and forced them to engage mutated humans as well as rebel fighters. Heavy support units, such as Striders, tore entire blocks apart to neutralise rebel troops. The ruined buildings became perfect cover for snipers; some lone snipers pinned down whole squads, stalling the advance closer to the Citadel until they could be flushed out.

Combine forces meanwhile utilised energy barriers, barricades, and mobile walls to isolate rebel forces and hamstring their progress. In an effort to break the deadlock, Barney Calhoun began amassing fighters from all over the city to launch an offensive against the Citadel, which, if successful, would mitigate the Combine’s decisive advantage in firepower.

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