because several have asked, here's (some of. probably the ones you care about) the mods used in the video. to state the obvious, the vast majority of this video was made in gmod. ➡Animated Prop Tool ➡Roleplay Props Extended ➡WAC Aircraft (and WAC Community 3) ➡Food and Household items ➡[Breaking Bad] Saul Goodman ➡Garry's Bomb 5 Base ➡[simfphys] - Armed ➡Easy Animation Tool ➡vFire - Dynamic Fire for Garry's mod ➡[simfphys] American Truck Simulator AI Vehicles (this is probably the one you're looking for) ➡[simfphys] Suzuki Esteem 1998 (Better Caul Saul) ➡(simfphys) Liebherr 316 ➡SW Crane ➡GTA V Construction Site Propspack ➡[simfphys] Left 4 Dead 2 Vehicles ➡[ZBASE] Black Mesa: Blue Shift NPCs ➡Consolidated Buildings Pack ➡Zippy's Gore Mod ➡Combine Armored PMs and NPCs ➡Cinematic Camera ➡Beta Combine Units ➡[simfphys] Declasse Sheriff SUV ➡[VJ] Too Many Antlions ➡Mixed Enhanced Civillians { Playermodels & NPC's } ➡ballin' (SWEP) ➡GTA 5 - Worker [P.M/Ragdoll/NPC] ➡Smooth Camera ➡Smooth Mouse Look (Minecraft's Cinematic Camera) ➡[CTVehicles] Combine Prisoner Transporter (+simfphys) ➡Splatoon 3 - Moai Statue ➡[DV] Decent Vehicle - Basic AI ➡[simfphys] GTA IV Vehicles ➡(CBH's Trains) CBH Trains Base ➡rp_city24_v3 (this was used near the end for the mantismen council in the new city hall)
I wouldn't call this urbanisation. This is the opposite. Urbanisation in my mind means densification. This is not densification. If you ignore the apartment buildings, because good luck finding new apartment building in america they are either old or like 50 stories, not the midrises we see here, this city is less dense than a european village on account of the Parking lots.
This is a weird convergence of my Half Life 2 watching habits and Urbanism subscriptions, and I’m all for it. The right video in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Next: osha aproved highway 17 or renovate highway 17 Reasons: -broken safety rails -collapsed roads -collapsed bridges -rockslides Theres also a leech problem so we need to increase the seagull population.
You've managed to convince me the only reason Half Life 2's Gordon Freeman is helping the resistance and trying to drive the combine out of Earth is to have the freedom to create 17-lane highways, 3 story parking lots spanning 30 football fields and infinite walmarts, his actions are part of a greater plan.
fun fact: out of the four videos i've made since january, this is one of two that's taken over a month to make from start to finish. the good news is that stuff is going to start coming out a lot faster, so stay tuned (including some very special content as well). i currently have no intention of releasing the map(s) used in this video on the steam workshop. maybe i'll change my mind though. hope you enjoyed! peace out.
Man I can't even begin to imagine how much efforts you've put into these videos, love your content man keep it up you're literally my favourite youtuber rn!
I certainly enjoyed, and with some refinement, I think you could release it on the Garry's Mod workshop and SFM workshop if you really wanted, and let's be honest, most of us really want to play on this map. However, we do not control all of your actions so it's up to you what you want to do
One of the reasons half life 2 grew on me so much is that it really does remind me of the environment I live in 😭. The scenery is amazing. I still pause and look at the scenery when replaying. There's just something about half life 2's style that makes me love it.
Unfortunately mantis men have a low natural lifespan so the council never thought to allocate funds for long term road maintenance. The whole city collapsed into concrete dust and massive muddy potholes in the next few years...
Combine be like "What happened to that one small planet we control?" "Well, an infrastructure development project was implemented, and the head developer led a revolt and the extermination of our entire security force using bugs."
You can optimize the parking spaces by applying a parking lot stripe overlay to the surface, or if the texture is available, a parking space texture that can just loop This has been your drive-thru hammer advise
I remember when cyberpunk 2077 came out, I was taken aback by how pedestrian friendly the city was. There's only like 6 parking garages in the whole city!
"Make it more American" You do realise the that there was a version of City 17 in the Half-Life 2 Beta that was exactly that!!!! Just saying. It Exists.
One thing that is amusing is that part of the design of City 17, is that it is settled within the European countries somewhere sorta. (Exact location isn't well... specified because both terrain and city layouts don't really match any real world cities or terrain directly AFAIK) but.. like also the fact that it is a city kinda frozen in like the late 1990s to early 2000s roughly if I recall the time periods of the Half Life universe correctly for when the events of the Black Mesa incident took place... but uh... regardless, There are just many things a city of that age would... kinda sorta lack in areas, alongside in terms of what would have been available fo the original local population prior to the black mesa incident... so ya know.
I like how the cars drive over the dashed lines. Nice detail. Finally a perfect city! No sidewalks, all hot parking lots that catch the sun and don't drain rain water!
Thank you Mooldbun for bringing this topic to light I can't thank you more for doing this, when I watch other TH-camr's commentary on the HL2 world I am in awe at how they missed this crucial point, this is C17 Eastern European Slavic post commie hell hole that didn't enjoy the same freedom and democracy as America, this is why you don't see big highways that ensure our freedom of travel, to traverse this land that God bestowed it to us and to bare witness the beauties of this Country, a big parking lot that spans entire blocks of neighborhoods that ensures the citizens of this country the freedom of parking where ever we want without risk of commies taking our property away, HL2 tears down the fake utopia of "walkable cities" pushed by communist liberty hating people.
i'm planning on doing a "behind the scenes" in the near future. @AzuriteCoast is correct that gmod was largely used for the in-game portions but the maps were all "handmade" with hammer, which took up a good portion of this video's development
If this really was a video the seriously criticised a fictional city in a video game for its bad urban planning, it would have been the key piece of evidence in my "we are running out of things to make content on and really fast" TED talk.
Y'know, I thought this was gonna be a video about looking at City 17's layout and theorizing what would make the most efficient layout while following a bunch of city building codes and guidelines, a la those videos that count how many OSHA violations something has, while still keeping everything intact. What I got was much better.
Idk if you have checked, but most of HL2 and HL Alyx are made with inspiration from the city of Sofia Bulgaria. Art Director for HL2 Was a bulgarian called Viktor Antonov. He made the push to make city 17 the eastern European city it is today. Great stuff, makes me proud to be Bulgarian
Ok here’s one thing that really bugs me about this since C17 is somewhere in eastern Europe and in the footage it shows mainly American locomotives meaning that they would have had to get multiple American locomotives and railcars all the way into Europe and not only that some of the rail infrastructure might have to be completely redone to fit the amenities of American rail equipment and also some regulations might have to be changed completely too Meaning that a lot of just the rail system would be extremely expensive.
i remember seeing footage of this one hl2 gameplay where gordon went to an abandoned city WITH ruined cars civilians driving cars is possibly (citation needed) canon, they were regular wrecks and not combine vehicles, also given that (im assuming that most CPs were originally HECU once the countries surrendered) this could be canon too in another city
Still better than Chicago, which is like 90% suburbs, 5% city center (where traffic is horrible, and it takes forever to walk to places), and 5% O'Hare International Airport. Good god, O'Hare has SO. MANY. RUNWAYS.
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because several have asked, here's (some of. probably the ones you care about) the mods used in the video. to state the obvious, the vast majority of this video was made in gmod.
➡Animated Prop Tool
➡Roleplay Props Extended
➡WAC Aircraft (and WAC Community 3)
➡Food and Household items
➡[Breaking Bad] Saul Goodman
➡Garry's Bomb 5 Base
➡[simfphys] - Armed
➡Easy Animation Tool
➡vFire - Dynamic Fire for Garry's mod
➡[simfphys] American Truck Simulator AI Vehicles (this is probably the one you're looking for)
➡[simfphys] Suzuki Esteem 1998 (Better Caul Saul)
➡(simfphys) Liebherr 316
➡SW Crane
➡GTA V Construction Site Propspack
➡[simfphys] Left 4 Dead 2 Vehicles
➡[ZBASE] Black Mesa: Blue Shift NPCs
➡Consolidated Buildings Pack
➡Zippy's Gore Mod
➡Combine Armored PMs and NPCs
➡Cinematic Camera
➡Beta Combine Units
➡[simfphys] Declasse Sheriff SUV
➡[VJ] Too Many Antlions
➡Mixed Enhanced Civillians { Playermodels & NPC's }
➡ballin' (SWEP)
➡GTA 5 - Worker [P.M/Ragdoll/NPC]
➡Smooth Camera
➡Smooth Mouse Look (Minecraft's Cinematic Camera)
➡[CTVehicles] Combine Prisoner Transporter (+simfphys)
➡Splatoon 3 - Moai Statue
➡[DV] Decent Vehicle - Basic AI
➡[simfphys] GTA IV Vehicles
➡(CBH's Trains) CBH Trains Base
➡rp_city24_v3 (this was used near the end for the mantismen council in the new city hall)
зделай видео о высоте цитадели !
only a bit through the video and i was like "why is that revolver comically long" so that explains it
That's a lot of mods!
Still want the map. Please put on the workshop. Idc if its laggy af because of the parking lots, give me it now!
6/10 not enough hostile architecture benches
so true
@@moldbun freeman won't be ballin on MY watch!
Whats hostile architecture? Sounds unappealing. We only work with urban-compliant defensive architecture
@@sd1gaming don't tell Dr. Freeman to 'not be ballin', he has an arsenal, and his most dangerous weapon, that has the most kills, is his Crowbar
actually, I'd place it as, 20/10 no Hostile Architecture
This video should've been called "Making an alien overlord cyberpunk dystopia noticeably worse".
idk i think the combine were worse
At least the architecture isn't THAT depressing @@DrPizzle
Making a European city into an american one, impressive.
On another note, wish Cave Johnson could see the mantismen army.
"Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts."
imagine if cave narrated this lmao
He'd give them some lemons.
this somehow looks more depressing than the actual city 17 😭
It's because the city is Americanised
Just like real life
The price of capitalism
Society, becoming even more, Society... Huh, interesting..
@@robux3993cant to forget -bribing- lobbying!
Most unrealistic aspect here is that the project was underbudget and on time. My immersion is ruined.
And appeasing unions instead of union-busting
@@warweasel2832
And it actually works and doesn't fall apart in 2 years
Before, Resistance was fighting Combine
Now, Resistance is fighting Urbanization
I wouldn't call this urbanisation. This is the opposite. Urbanisation in my mind means densification. This is not densification. If you ignore the apartment buildings, because good luck finding new apartment building in america they are either old or like 50 stories, not the midrises we see here, this city is less dense than a european village on account of the Parking lots.
This is a weird convergence of my Half Life 2 watching habits and Urbanism subscriptions, and I’m all for it. The right video in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
woah i didn't know they added Houston, Texas into Half life
The combine mind cannot comprehend this
mindbroken zogbine
i want the combine back into city 17
Next: osha aproved highway 17 or renovate highway 17
Reasons:
-broken safety rails
-collapsed roads
-collapsed bridges
-rockslides
Theres also a leech problem so we need to increase the seagull population.
MORE SEAGULL SEX
Intrusions by wildlife, mainly -rogue mantis men-
I mean... Antlions, a feral ancestor species.
i'll get the construction teams on it
aw hell naw they turned city 17 into an uninhabitable hellscape for anyone without an automobile 😭😭😭😭
also splatty 3 music, respectable
You've managed to convince me the only reason Half Life 2's Gordon Freeman is helping the resistance and trying to drive the combine out of Earth is to have the freedom to create 17-lane highways, 3 story parking lots spanning 30 football fields and infinite walmarts, his actions are part of a greater plan.
so are gmans employers walmart?
mr.. freeman.... build me.. a. walmart......
this is actually the “one year plan” that russell and alyx were talking about in hlx
LMAOO@@moldbun
6:58 You turned the station into an Amtrak station lmao💀
i was hoping someone would notice that
@@moldbunSo… how often the train goes?
fun fact: out of the four videos i've made since january, this is one of two that's taken over a month to make from start to finish. the good news is that stuff is going to start coming out a lot faster, so stay tuned (including some very special content as well).
i currently have no intention of releasing the map(s) used in this video on the steam workshop. maybe i'll change my mind though.
hope you enjoyed! peace out.
I’d definitely wanna drive around the Americanized city 17. I’ll pay for the best new apartments and become the first resident
I would love to play on these maps.
Man I can't even begin to imagine how much efforts you've put into these videos, love your content man keep it up you're literally my favourite youtuber rn!
I certainly enjoyed, and with some refinement, I think you could release it on the Garry's Mod workshop and SFM workshop if you really wanted, and let's be honest, most of us really want to play on this map. However, we do not control all of your actions so it's up to you what you want to do
Why didn't you use decals for the parking spaces?
“More American”
I’m fucking atomising myself
You are a bunch of atoms already.
You know I love the idea that the mantis men that Mr Johnson talks about are really just the Antlions, I’d support this theory ngl.
Good. Now, transform the Half-Life 2 Beta American Washington style into a European one.
Heresy.
Темный & зернистый?
all the competent people were killed by the combine
except for the One Free Man
Gman can bring competent people
One of the reasons half life 2 grew on me so much is that it really does remind me of the environment I live in 😭. The scenery is amazing. I still pause and look at the scenery when replaying. There's just something about half life 2's style that makes me love it.
Unfortunately mantis men have a low natural lifespan so the council never thought to allocate funds for long term road maintenance. The whole city collapsed into concrete dust and massive muddy potholes in the next few years...
Like every Midwestern city...
Oh well, more space for parking now
A considerably large nudge: "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"
Weak humans asking for wine: "Now this is an avengers level threat"
I feel like this is some bs the combine and rebels would genuinely team up to defeat
Combine be like "What happened to that one small planet we control?"
"Well, an infrastructure development project was implemented, and the head developer led a revolt and the extermination of our entire security force using bugs."
You can optimize the parking spaces by applying a parking lot stripe overlay to the surface, or if the texture is available, a parking space texture that can just loop
This has been your drive-thru hammer advise
I remember when cyberpunk 2077 came out, I was taken aback by how pedestrian friendly the city was. There's only like 6 parking garages in the whole city!
least obvious Cave Johnson propaganda:
(seriously though this video is amazing)
Mmmm, yes, I love car-centric urban infrastructures influenced by motor companies
Yes
Yes.
The fact the Boston MBTA decided to relocate to Ravenholm has me rolling
Oh god… oh god… this hurts but I can’t look away
I'm sorry Dr Breen you weren't so bad in hindsight
Half Life 2 but Kleiner’s lab is a mcdonald’s and Black Mesa East is a walmart
Waking in the US makes you wish for an City 17 winter
How to improve City 17 infrastructure:
1. Remove intergalactic suppressing empire
2. Forge an army (of ants)
3. Establish shadow state (with ants)
Going to send this to my European friend so they have an aneurysm
is this real
I think this is real
yes. valve has confirmed it will be in half-life 5
@@moldbunwow bold choice to skip 3 and 4 but sure Valve as long as we finish Half Life for good
@@moldbundid u actually make this a map
@@moldbunin the sense if you uploaded it to the workshop
Someones finally fixed City 17's hostile architecture! Love to see it
Mantis men trained in iambic pentaverate, Shakespeare would be proud!
"Make it more American" You do realise the that there was a version of City 17 in the Half-Life 2 Beta that was exactly that!!!! Just saying. It Exists.
Really well put together. It's nice to see an 'American View' of this tragic city as a non-American.
You've earned my subscription to your efforts.
This is somehow more evil than anything the combine would ever design.
Shouldve shown the CPs serving eminent domain notices LMAO
this is how you make the combine look good
I think this is a joke right? Even the combine isn’t this evil
One of the highest quality HL2 themed shitposts i've seen in years. Good job.
One thing that is amusing is that part of the design of City 17, is that it is settled within the European countries somewhere sorta. (Exact location isn't well... specified because both terrain and city layouts don't really match any real world cities or terrain directly AFAIK) but.. like also the fact that it is a city kinda frozen in like the late 1990s to early 2000s roughly if I recall the time periods of the Half Life universe correctly for when the events of the Black Mesa incident took place... but uh... regardless, There are just many things a city of that age would... kinda sorta lack in areas, alongside in terms of what would have been available fo the original local population prior to the black mesa incident... so ya know.
lmao what a fun video idea, and I love all the small scenes you built in GMod for it, I really enjoyed this! :D
I love how this feels like an old school machinima, kinda like Ross Scott's Civil Protection skits
you already know it's gonna be a good day when moldbun upload
I like how the cars drive over the dashed lines. Nice detail. Finally a perfect city! No sidewalks, all hot parking lots that catch the sun and don't drain rain water!
if cave Johnson successfully became a robot then found out about the combine
Thank you Mooldbun for bringing this topic to light I can't thank you more for doing this, when I watch other TH-camr's commentary on the HL2 world I am in awe at how they missed this crucial point, this is C17 Eastern European Slavic post commie hell hole that didn't enjoy the same freedom and democracy as America, this is why you don't see big highways that ensure our freedom of travel, to traverse this land that God bestowed it to us and to bare witness the beauties of this Country, a big parking lot that spans entire blocks of neighborhoods that ensures the citizens of this country the freedom of parking where ever we want without risk of commies taking our property away, HL2 tears down the fake utopia of "walkable cities" pushed by communist liberty hating people.
Well, you made Detroid out of a Bulgarian city. Impressive
the combine came down to earth to prevent this
disappointing that you aren't blowing up rn, this content is so good
I would LOVE to know how you made this whole thing! (Edit) specifically the animated characters and the multiple moving vehicles
My best guess is Garry's mod
i'm planning on doing a "behind the scenes" in the near future. @AzuriteCoast is correct that gmod was largely used for the in-game portions but the maps were all "handmade" with hammer, which took up a good portion of this video's development
@@moldbun sick! Thank you!
@@AzuriteCoast sorry I did forget to ask how he did it in Garry’s mod, I recognized it was Garry’s mod
Unrealistic. Citizens of city 17 would be ecstatic to be getting actual bread and water
If this really was a video the seriously criticised a fictional city in a video game for its bad urban planning, it would have been the key piece of evidence in my "we are running out of things to make content on and really fast" TED talk.
This is one of the funniest videos ive seen in a while. You got my viewership
woah okay calm down there robert moses 😰
alt title : "Freeing earth so I can instate my dystopia"
11:49 City 17 needs a shopping mall on that big area man
Y'know, I thought this was gonna be a video about looking at City 17's layout and theorizing what would make the most efficient layout while following a bunch of city building codes and guidelines, a la those videos that count how many OSHA violations something has, while still keeping everything intact.
What I got was much better.
Great job, you somehow made City 17 even more dystopian!
Its interesting to see all the former combine controlled locations being used for their intended purpose again. great vid btw :))
2:19 yoooo the tank antlion
I had this video in a tab I would get to "later". I was not expecting something this creative! Subbed!
after watching this, maybe the combine werent so bad
fun hl2 fact: antlions are programmed to oneshot specifically combine soldiers, not metropolice, not the player, but the combine soldiers
Thank you for making the post apocalypse somehow much worse
criminally underrated
If City 17 was an american city lol
It is not
Idk if you have checked, but most of HL2 and HL Alyx are made with inspiration from the city of Sofia Bulgaria. Art Director for HL2 Was a bulgarian called Viktor Antonov. He made the push to make city 17 the eastern European city it is today. Great stuff, makes me proud to be Bulgarian
bulgaria is cool and all but what if we installed a 14 lane highway and opened up franchise opportunities for subway at each fuel station?
I think this is why america was wiped off the map in the canon
what the citadel really needs is a multi-storey car park
he made base half-life 2 actually look livable
This is so bizarrely not what I was expecting but also exactly what I needed it to be. Freedom rings 🇺🇸, or, rather, freedom _”rolls”_ 🚗🚙🚕
Cave Johnson's biggest arc-nemesis
you should like turn the rail line on highway 17 into the northeast corridor complete with new rail infrastructure and a 4 track mainline
that’ll be for the “using urban revitalization to make city 17 walkable” video
Ok here’s one thing that really bugs me about this since C17 is somewhere in eastern Europe and in the footage it shows mainly American locomotives meaning that they would have had to get multiple American locomotives and railcars all the way into Europe and not only that some of the rail infrastructure might have to be completely redone to fit the amenities of American rail equipment and also some regulations might have to be changed completely too
Meaning that a lot of just the rail system would be extremely expensive.
This is exactly the kind of maximum effort shitpost I'm here for.
Also a Gmod RP server about infrastructure development sounds like a lot of fun
You have no idea how long I have been looking for this video
You know, perhaps being under the control of Combine it was better, at least people didn't die due to urbanization
1:49 gonna tell my kids this was the burning man festival
Criminally underrated content, keep it up big man
i remember seeing footage of this one hl2 gameplay where gordon went to an abandoned city WITH ruined cars
civilians driving cars is possibly (citation needed) canon, they were regular wrecks and not combine vehicles,
also given that (im assuming that most CPs were originally HECU once the countries surrendered) this could be canon too in another city
8:43 did NOT expect the (deserved) MBTA slander, LMAO
this is dope i love this style of video esp just casually fast fowarding thru dozens of hours spent in hammer for the bit
I love how realistic the language is for this
I don't know what it was I just watched but I know I loved every second of it.
Aside from the weird camera wobble at times, good stuff.
You somehow made me want to live in City 17 even less, 10/10 👍
Urban renewal messed up City 17 more than the Combine did
When i clicked on this video i didnt expect it to be brimming woth production value.
Still better than Chicago, which is like 90% suburbs, 5% city center (where traffic is horrible, and it takes forever to walk to places), and 5% O'Hare International Airport. Good god, O'Hare has SO. MANY. RUNWAYS.
Imagine the reaction of the combine and rebels when the citadel suddenly fucking implodes
Yo I recognized that train announcement anywhere. Represent MBTA
we makin it out of oak grove with this one 🔥🔥🔥
"stop, he's already dead 😭"
City 17 is already a dystopia, don't make it an even worse one.
Wine AND Eggs? who do they think they are, Jeff Bezos?
Can’t wait for the sequel that takes place 50 years later where they try to undo everything