Breakdown - City 17 Citadel; the Combine's Throne (Half-Life lore & behind the scenes)

#Halflife #Source #combine
In today's video, we will look at all sorts of facts related to City 17's Citadel, a gargantuan building and a seat of political and technological power for the Combine.
Special thanks to Valve for making the music used in this and Thomas Connell for the icon used in this video's thumbnail.
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00:00 Intro
00:17 Overview
03:30 History
07:28 Gameplay
07:42 Production
09:07 Odds & ends
09:24 Outro

[@S1nwar]

the citadel also goes pretty deep underground because you fall for quiet a while in episode 1.

[@tango_mango.11560]

it’s like a city inside a tower, but it’s an alien research facility with a side purpose to control a city

[@S1nwar]

the inconsistent scale of the ingame models adds nicely to the mystique of the building. you never really understand the ground plan of the thing no matter from where you look at it ingame. makes it feel really alien and superior. it beeing constructed from a portal in the sky is also a nicely exotic idea.

[@ApertureAce]

Yes, in early versions of Half-Life 2, a citizen described entire city blocks vanishing and leaving an enormous chasm in the ground shortly before the Citadel was teleported in.

[@XxBallzNfryrxX]

Yeah, the lowest I heard was around 2 kilometers and the highest height was 8 and a half kilometers

[@gravital5213]

The citadel wasn't complete. We saw that the combine we're expanding into the ground, so who knows the real height of the citadel

[@Geiger_]

I keep forgetting Crab-Synths are actually canon

[@bullseyecanada]

Great overview. Lots of detail we normally don't get to see.

[@maciejkamil]

A beautifull video! I felt as if I was watching templin institute, but about HL exclusively.

[@I_Am_Transcendentem]

You forgot to mention that the core in the middle of the citadel was eventually moved underground and seen in ep1

[@letsgame9740]

The coolest thing I believe is that the Citadel was originally gonna be alive

[@thg1nrediar]

good video continue!!

[@deruntoten6163]

Please keep up the good videos

[@VCSoldier_]

I hate the idea that there are "other citadels" when it's made very clear that the citadel in city17 is the ONLY one, voicelines even say this "don't say that too loud, this is his main base of operations"
Not only is the word citadel primarily used to be the name as a main building for a entity.
The idea of multiple citadels doesn't even make sense because its stated that the combine are locked on earth, which is why they try and create a superportsl with the now destroyed citadel core
Also adding the fact the suppression field was completely removed as the citadels reactor was destroyed in half life 2s ending

[@cmdrrileysv4000]

The discussions on the Combine Overwiki do a good job at summarizing why I chose to go the multiple Citadel approach for this video:
combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Citadel#More_than_one_Citadel_on_Earth.3F

[@vertigo7082]

I think it is the main citadel for sure, but in ep2 iirc Kleiner talks about a whole citadel network, makes sense since every city in CMB occupation needs a HQ for deploying forces.

[@user-bv7zo6vd4m]

@vertigo7082 I thought he was talking about the entire combine empire, not just their assets on Earth

[@IgorBogdanoffs]

Dude really blurred two buildings for no reason

[@thefallenking6037]

3:02 wait but this is GLaDOS from portal 1 and 2

[@exsliposive]

No. Its ep2 new citadel voice.

[@ayy_yip]

same va

[@procyon6370]

wait until you hear about the announcer in TF2

[@EL1TEHD1]

Bro doesn't know