Where would you like to go next?

[Lone Wanderer <??"?]

Okay, so, let's just picture City 45. Say it managed to survive the fighting, which it clearly did unlike City 17 in Half-Life 2. The Citadel doesn't have an original explosion, so we can skip over that as well. I'm sure you all remember the citadel's final explosion in the end of EP1, and seeing what the city looks like from a distance at the very beginning of EP2, I'm pretty sure there'd be VERY little of City 45, if any of it left, especially what we considered our map due to how close it was to the Citadel itself. Aside from that, why would people go to a burnt out, barely standing Union city when you could go to one of the many remaining cities of the world? They're probably in much better shape than a city that just had a singularity core implode inside of it.

By the way, if anyone has ever seen the Sound of Thunder movie, the way that the city begins to appear throughout the progression of the storyline is kind of what I pictured the ruined city looking like, except with more beatup buildings and rubble sites inside of full structures.

[Statua]

I still have City 8 VMFs.

[hogs]

I still have City 8 VMFs.

yes plz

[Dixon]

Yes, KillmePlz, we must do this.

[garry :D]

City 8 can probably be turned into a ruined jungle a hell of a lot more easier than City 45.

[???Jesusfreak???]

City 8 can probably be turned into a ruined jungle a hell of a lot more easier than City 45.

In my opinion city8 is already a pile of shit anyway.

[garry :D]

City 8 v1 isn't the best looking and v2 is sitting on the brush limit at 99.8%.

I messaged Statua before I got off last night and he said that he might decide to do it from scratch. If that is the case then I can still help with it.

[The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut]

Not to mention that City 17 and City 8 are divided up by the entirety of Russia... It is in Japan(At least in our canon).

[Dallas]

Japan to Romania. Bit of a trek.

[Statua]

Scratchbuilt might be a good idea then. One problem though. The combine are using water from the planet, lowering the sea level. You notice it in coast and canal maps. How did the city get flooded? I was thinking something along the lines of a major hydro dam break which i can put it the skybox ^.^

[Sexy Frog]

I hardly think it matters. But if you use that reason, wouldn't the Union act fast to seal that up and suck the water back up?

[Statua]

I hardly think it matters. But if you use that reason, wouldn't the Union act fast to seal that up and suck the water back up?

Not if the city isnt combine inhabited. I was planning on making it 7 hour war torn and abandoned

[Lone Wanderer <??"?]

The Union doesn't have the resources to completely drain water at immense speeds, as the sea level is still reasonably present in HL2. I could see them leaving a lower elevated city that's no longer inhabitaed flooded while they do other things. I mean, I'd think that people would be less likely to inhabit an area that's flooded a ton over a city that's just open ruins. Kind of a straetigic move as well as a logistical one as a reason as to why it's filled with water.

[garry :D]

yes








discuss ideas for atmosphere/mood/features that could be implemented into a map based on a ruined/overgrown city setting

[Dixon]

Atomsphere? Well, there are lots really.

Gloomy, Bleak, Desolate. Basically the "creepy" ones.

I have a picture that MAY fit the look of what we, or just me have been thinking of.

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As you can see, it mostly fits the style but less destoryed I'd think since it's not Combine in-habited but i'd suggest something like Fallout style? That also fits.

Here are some more. (Some are from diffrent games <3)

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Maybe inside the buildings?

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I'd also like to see some feedback on these photos.