Half-Life: Alyx Official Thread

[the last man]

the fact that the game seems to just be reusing old overwatch announcements is a bit disappointing

 

[constantdisplay]

the fact that the game seems to just be reusing old overwatch announcements is a bit disappointing

im sure I heard that they got ellen mclain back, so there might be a mix of old and new announcements?

 

[the last man]

im sure I heard that they got ellen mclain back, so there might be a mix of old and new announcements?

hope so, after spending years hearing "ATTENTION PLEASE: ALL CITIZENS IN LOCAL BLAH BLAH BLAH" it'll feel really tired if they just reuse old stuff

 

[constantdisplay]

hope so, after spending years hearing "ATTENTION PLEASE: ALL CITIZENS IN LOCAL BLAH BLAH BLAH" it'll feel really tired if they just reuse old stuff

doubt it's much of a big deal for most normal hl2 fans though as most of the overwatch announcements are only used like, once or twice in actual hl2 and it's easy nostalgia points

hl2rp has warped us bro

 

[welcome to the Retirement]

hope so, after spending years hearing "ATTENTION PLEASE: ALL CITIZENS IN LOCAL BLAH BLAH BLAH" it'll feel really tired if they just reuse old stuff

confirmed they only put the old audio in the trailer and VR home demos to nostalgiabait

 

[john]

doubt it's much of a big deal for most normal hl2 fans though as most of the overwatch announcements are only used like, once or twice in actual hl2 and it's easy nostalgia points

hl2rp has warped us bro

all these hl2 fans tripping on nostalgia while we overdosed a long time ago

 

[dallahan]

looks so dope

 

[MaXenzie]

i lowkey like that they're reusing announcements

gives me mega nostalgia

 

[Deadpool]

another interesting thing is that despite seeing civil protection as we know them in merch (pins) and promo art, we actually don't have any footage of them in game what so ever

plus we see Civil Protection APCs standing right where the OTA are shown in the trailer
and we hear CP biosignal sounds upon killing OTA

could it be that these early oats -are- the Civil Protection?

or that the combine haven't dabbled in human modification yet and don't have a distinct separation between their police force and military yet and just use unmodified humans everywhere?

perhaps what we assumed to be early combine soldiers are actually civil protection officers?

i think in gameplay 3 when they kill the combine alien grunt seen im promo arts he also has a biosignal loss so i think its still ota or just oversight from valve

edit: i was late on my terminal screenshot

 

[dallahan]

Holy shit this Citadel is so HUGE that I had to get really far away

i just realized

if you had to zoom out a fuckton

imagine the size of the maps you can create in source2

 

[Stelios]

i just realized

if you had to zoom out a fuckton

imagine the size of the maps you can create in source2

The actual citadel model is not as big as the one you see in game, it's just in the skybox

The way a skybox works is that everything around the sky_camera entity will be seen around the level, but much bigger
For example, this is the skybox I have on my edit, you can see a smaller version of the citadel, some buildings and that zombie I just spawned

And here it is when upscaled x16, in the actual level, with the other buildings and the citadel

The engine will most likely be better optimized, so hopefully we'll still be able to have bigger maps though

 

[dallahan]

The actual citadel model is not as big as the one you see in game, it's just in the skybox

The way a skybox works is that everything around the sky_camera entity will be seen around the level, but much bigger
For example, this is the skybox I have on my edit, you can see a smaller version of the citadel, some buildings and that zombie I just spawned

And here it is when upscaled x16, in the actual level, with the other buildings and the citadel

The engine will most likely be better optimized, so hopefully we'll still be able to have bigger maps though

i am aware of how the skybox works

but imagine if that thing is not in the skybox but an actual prop of sorts

 

[GenericPlayer]

I know a few folk said City 17 could be Sofia, but considering we see Gordon messing around in the coast line in HL2, what if it's actually Varna instead?

It's still Bulgaria, and it's right on the coast of the Black Sea.

 

[Deleted member 3818]

I know a few folk said City 17 could be Sofia, but considering we see Gordon messing around in the coast line in HL2, what if it's actually Varna instead?

It's still Bulgaria, and it's right on the coast of the Black Sea.

I thought it was Kiev nah?

 

[GenericPlayer]

I thought it was Kiev nah?

it's never really specified where it is but, kiev doesnt really have a coast y'know?

 

[Deadpool]

I thought it was Kiev nah?

it's anywhere but not kiev. speculated to be bulgaria, romania, baltic states. either way it's confirmed to be bulgaria because of the art director and valve basically making it super obvious in alyx as compared to it being ambiguous in hl2

 

[Deleted member 3818]

What confirmed that it’s in Bulgaria?

 

[Cindy]

nervous laughter

 

[Dan]

city 17 probably isn't meant to be equivalent to any irl city whatsoever, if they ever give it a pre-war name i imagine it'll be someplace fictional. seems like it's probably in bulgaria though, pretty big that valve is even giving us that much knowing how vague they usually are

 

[Dallas]

mad how you got a city so near the coast yet there is no indication from the urban layout of a coastline

almost as if it's a vidya