Raising the Bar is a mod based off of the idea of amalgamating the earliest concepts of Half-Life 2 into a coherent story. This mod is not a leak-fix, nor is it a concept art recreation gallery; it will be a full story with inspiration from the old material as well as our own ideas of how to make it all fit together.
Captain Vance concept art
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Concept art of Captain Vance made by ZitaX
It looks amazing! But I would portray it as being way older... as shown in the RtB snippet of concept art, he was quite an old, elder commander.
The actual Captain Vance model just used a rebel head, though.
It wasn't supposed to be a rebel head in the first place, but the devs recycled it after Captain Vance was merged with Eli Maxwell.
yea making him look older would be kinda pointless seeing as is he is just old enough to have been a fairly young officer when the 7 hour war broke out making him a 20+ year veteran seeing as he looks like he is in his mid to late 40s here.
HL2 takes place roughly 20 years after humanities initial fall after all.
If i'm not mistaken in the original plot it was 10 years instead of 20 years!
In our version, it's more like 15 years
it was never really specified only hinted at its assumed to be roughly around between 15-25 years after the 7 hour war.
10 years is far more suitable for the retail version seeing as alot of the trees and oceans apparently are still around as shown in the maps
15-25 years is far more fitting for the betas as the combine have been in those iterations busy stripping the earth of all it resources as shown in some beta maps like the wastelands, air exchange, depot, & various early industrial areas of city 17. There is also the darker more polluted and toxic air that is also referenced numerous times in the betas.
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