Shortly after the citadel exploded, Gordon's train was teleported to a beach in which was farther away from white forest than he anticipated. He makes his way through the coastline, caves, and outlands to destroy a combine weapon capable of destroying the rocket in white forest.
Concept Industrial Area - *OLD***
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Concept of an industrial/outland area. *OLD*** *OLD***
AWESOME!
Looks pretty good. But I wouldn't expect an industrial area to be so grassy. If there is gravel I can't see it from this perspective. Unless this is so far after the invasion the grass has just grown over it all. Perhaps also throw some random stacks of crates and barrels around?
Industrial area hasn't been used for years... it will get some grass.
well after the combine took over a majority of the old human buildings would be abandoned since well HL2 takes place around 20 or so years after black mesa. So yea it makes sense that everything is rundown & overgrown.
PS make the building more rusted/weathered. even for being abandoned such structures would have to be somewhat maintained by survivors. X military, & later resistance members. Thats the only possible explanation that such buildings could survive with out collapsing over 20 some odd years. Also those grassy areas need more trees & shrubs & I mean alot more. look up pics of Chernobyl & part of it that have been abandoned for 20+ years. will give u guys a good reference about how fast plant life will overrun human structures.
I'm quite aware of all of the different things you guys have pointed out. but notice in episode 2 a lot of the buildings are still there. Same concept here. There will be rebel and combine resistance at various places in the game. Places are over grown. But there just arn't that many half life 2 foliage props that we can use. I'm not going for a very overgrown look in this section.. just because I don't think it fits too well on this one part. I've looked at countless photos and references. And I'm quite aware of how fast plant life can take over ^^. Just stay tuned to see how this turns out. All in all, I think it's pretty fantastic.