Canals or Sewers? news - Episode 17 mod for Half-Life 2

Hello friends!

Before we begin, I would like to make a statement: if you are interested in the development of Episode 17, and have a talent for art, I ask you to send me a private message. Artists, mappers, 3D-artists, Sound designers. Very much needed new people to the team! I hope you will respond to the request.

Frankly, this news should appear at the end of August. I very much delayed. Maybe this is due to the release of Battlefield 1 Open Beta ... joke. In fact I read Sherlock Holmes, and I wanted to make the main character a detective, and move all the action in England. And it is also a joke :)
Such a long delay caused by the sudden shortage of personal time (I finish the university), and optimization of locations. But the university - the main reason.

One of the most tedious locations in Half-Life2, personally me, the are canals. Once again I replay in HL2, I just want to skip this location. So Valve has not made it interesting: there any speakers, and the feeling that you're like a little rat, running on narrow tunnels. It's horrible.
In Episode 17, I want to make this location the really varied and interesting. Therefore, the city channels will be replaced by a collector. The City 17 has 3-sector collectors: Blue Sector, Green sector, and Orange sector.

Blue sector

Blue sector - a sector of sewers under the industrial center of City 17. This is the first sector in which visit the player. Advantageously, this sector is not really running. Periodically you will meet a group of citizens who are trying to hide violence with the Alliance soldier. And of course the main enemy for you it will be the soldiers of the Civil Defense. Many place this location you seem already familiar from the original part of the game. But these places I have tried to make the present unrecognizable.

Green sector

The green sector is neglected areas sewers City 17: destroyed premises, many ways of filtering urban water overgrown vegetation. This sector of the world inhabited by the Xen fauna, which trimmed out the cremators. So simple that no one will leave the sector, because at the foot of its release hunts Hydra...The green sector is probably the biggest sector sewers. Gameplay will make you move all the time and you have to move up to get out. This sector has not even done half, but on "paper" depicted the entire event plan.

Orange Sector - residents City 17 called it "Dead sector". This sector of sewers which is directly behind the wall city. It is in this way people escapes from the city. When the Alliance established a huge turret on the wall, due to which it was impossible to leave the city or enter. Where death reigns, and if you thought that through all the city of sewers have been difficult, "Dead sector" will show you what the present is difficult. This is probably the most recycled Half-Life 2 Beta map. Most likely, even those who are interested in Beta, simply do not understand what this place is. And then I wanted. Sewers that are in the location in HL2 Beta, not a interesting, and unfinished. So I decided to make their own changes in the overall concept of the last sector sewers. I draw your attention that the sector is not a portion of the game where you received the airboat in HL2(!)

Once again, I want you to have shown interest in Episode 17. And I hope - I have obtained. That's not all the information about the sewers City 17. Soon I will upload screenshots with any additional information about the location. It will also be interesting for you. Thank you for watching the Episode 17. Many thanks to the people who subscribe to my project. I really appreciate your feedback! Please comment on all media, so that I can communicate with you and to correct that maybe I missed. Thank you and see you soon!