Unused HL2 Citadel Explosion

[miknoian]

Why didn't they use this!!! THIS LOOKS FRIKEN AMAZING!!!

[iamnanosec]

if in hl2 ep3 if it ever comes out or if valve creates hl3 it'd better have a scene where a portal to a random part of deep space opens up and the citadel gets torn apart and sucked in.

[deadfishy666]

How many groups, materials and bones that thing has! I don`t wanna know!!!

[ZetaVS]

Download link?

[DaFuqMan]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX

[TheHalflife123]

its unused because its fake and gay

[Rfl4222]

@TheHalflife123 why the fuck does everyone say that!

[TheHalflife123]

@Rfl4222 do you think yourself then that it's realistic?

[boynedmaster]

@Rfl4222 RayWilliamJohnson reference

[Scarlov87]

where did the gravity go?

[NYRavage]

PART FIVE!! BOOBY TRAP THE CITADEL!!

[nukedrabbit9]

They used this in Episode 1, it was just covered with special effects.

[Tuberuser187]

@nukedrabbit9 I wish they had toned down the SFX so you could see the debris better because it would have looked a lot cooler

[3lgar1]

I accidentally the whole citadel.

[Nightmare011111]

-Gordon freeman

I will press this red button!

-Dr.Breen

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

-Gordon freeman

What the fuck is this?

-Alyx (out door)

LOL

-Gordon freeman and Dr.Breen

Piiiiii

[Crunor]

I love those two highest rated comments :D

[Harisdoubled]

very good,but they did the right thing by not using it 'cause the debris is not detailed

[Waroftheworlds112]

@Harisdoubled The cards and model they used in game weren't that detailed, but were scaled down enough or viewed from the right angle so it would look good.

[MicCornWill]

what the fuck

[bunnybomb7670]

To do this when ingame press alt and f4. It REALLY WORKS!

[xCCCPCLANx]

@bunnybomb7670  lol u mad ? everybody knows what it does so go out kid

[TheShiftyPete]

Isn't that from the starting sequence of Episode 1?

[Nevvklear]

breen farted

[CamelBallZee]

HOLY FUCK THEY BLEW UP MY APARTMENT!

[Commando61]

QUICK! DUCK N COVER!

[robloxbloxxer224]

Gordan: hey breen! barney told me to say this to ya! : fuck you!

[ziptostheelite]

pretty empty citadel :O

[Bluedino549]

Okay, I got the Source SDK, so i'm gonna remake the endmap of HL2 EP1 and get this citadelanimation.

That's gonna look awesome, I hope.

I leave the top out, due to the Explosion in HL2 an then it kicks ass!

[Jason1999mambu]

I need This Map In Version HALF-LIFE 1 PLEASEEEeeeeeeEEE

[marcin4645]

@Jason1999mambu you cant its source

[halo676]

@Jason1999mambu To enable this for HL1, Go to your windows folder & delete system32. Then restart your computer.

[tonihomi]

@halo676 lolz

[IshowFUNNYvids]

@halo676 hahahahaha i am crackin up hahahaha some people are actually gonna do it!

[CRF567LIO56]

@halo676 wow

You are Crazy or What?

Worsest trap ever

[Jason1999mambu]

i mean Half-Life 2

[dev02ify]

That's just like the citadel i made in gmod out of those huge phx props after i pressed reload which unfreezed it :)

[idonthatethissite]

Why didn't u use that, VALVe?

I mean, is so impressive to see a so solid structure being fragmented that way...

[ZZSFAN]

@TheJunkman1986 Linkin Park - What i've done

[SMGJohn]

It explodes like that because the reactor that explodes is in the bottom of the tower

[RExplosionStudios]

it isn't a single prop, I'm a mapper and the citadel exploding is actually (pretty stupidly) multiple models.

[UNSCODST13]

it didnt really look all that big to me....until the pieces starting to fall all over the ground then i was like "holy shit thats fuckin awesome!!!!!!"

[MrBoxen]

Makes you want to say"HOW THE FUCK ARE GORDAN AN ALYX STILL ALIVE"

[psychogeneral63]

ofcourse it wont be used.

if it will explode you wont see 1000 pieces

you will see more than 10 million pieces 0_o

[Olirap]

the explosion originates from the wrong place the reactor thingy that blew in HL2 was at the very top of the tower O_o, valve made a continuity error :P

[drotonmanXD11]

@Olirap the reactor was at the center, not at the top like in hl2, if you see the episode 1

[Olirap]

@drotonmanXD11 my bad :P

[Olirap]

@drotonmanXD11 i have given myself a thumbs down :D

[drotonmanXD11]

@Olirap lol that´s pretty good

[Olirap]

@drotonmanXD11 well... i am amazing ;D

[confirmer42]

That's neat, I bet it would look awesome with some energy effects.

[TahuNuva2008]

I like this one better!

[Itsover90]

It would be funny if Dr.Breen came out flying out of the citadel.

[owner876]

Whats the name of the song?

[MacGyverinSpace]

" NOTICE This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright " love how it doesn't say what WMG is or why it needs to authorize sound on this video...

[SuperEmoBros]

@MacGyverinSpace 

[Nukepositive]

It's a shame we never really got a good look at that sequence. It was so shrouded in effects that I just assumed it was vaporized until we saw the wreckage in Ep 2. It looks like it took a lot of time and effort to do that, too.

[fireware1]

10011 Stick Bombs were used in the making of this video

[viggetheman]

I'm to lazy to look myself, but isn't that the same explosion used in the end of episode one?

[Bob0p]

was used in e1

[August668]

I have this map whenever i try to load the map my gmod crashes

[daM1NT3]

this is the animation at the end of ep1

[comet1337]

no wonder they didnt use this.

especially from that distance.

it would be impossible to survive the shock wave of an explosion that big.

not to mention the falling junk.

but yeah, its awesome

[TeamMemberStudios]

This would actually have been awesome.

We need a fanmod of a different city, with this as the destruction of Citadel. Think, This happening, (With explosions) and then a superportal or something opening. Frickin. Awesome.

[EdikShepherd]

Dr. Breen had beans again

[noe39584]

@metzGRR not nuclear i think it was fusion

[IPD07]

lol fusion is nuclear, as in.....Nuclear Fusion?

[steffankaizer]

l.ol looks a bit like when saurons tower fals

[Computergeew]

There is only one explanation for this.

Dr. Breen's first sighting of a hacker.

[MADNIKstudios]

@pilot7893 this is more reallistic due to the citadel's dark matter reactor overloaded and the portal's collapsing magnetic force would literally rip the citadel appart because of the gravity and magnetic forces.

[trechan]

They should've combined that explosion with the explosion you see in episode 1 at the end

[grovestreetgman]

holy shit...

[pilot7893]

Eh, it seems a bit too speedy to me. Something as large as the Citadel should slowly collapse in on itself from the base, sorta like the WTC did.

[PatabookG5]

All the striders and gunships that stayed in there are OWNED

[warhawk1995]

The citadel has more pieces in it than that and it isn't the full animation shown at the end of episode 1 [as shown from hl2], but good vid of the map.

[giovaniprodan3]

fuck.

[EdikShepherd]

Looking at that debris, I feel safe saying this: C17 forecast is looking grim, massive showers of metal this afternoon followed by what should be a lovely sunset

[Hororrgun]

HAHAHAHA

good one

[Minnakht23]

Well... that was AWESOME!

...still... it's a bit of shame that we don't get to see what pulls the lowerpart of the Citadel pieces up.

[serespon]

only saying if he was left inside, jesus..

[serespon]

If Freeman was in the citadel with explosion... holy shit. no Episode 1...

[CristianGrecu2]

Mabey the citadel has a mind of its own

[zonetropper]

i have RA2 and seen that

[Soapers123]

What does Red Alert 2 have to do with this!?

[zonetropper]

IDK

[zonetropper]

lol citidel is drilling hole in earth

you can see that from hl2 our benafactos when thump like weights is pounding the the ground

I realy don't belive that the citidel eats city17

for 1 citadel is the base of the town and if it was eating there will be all kind of combine(unseen) bildings. i can say that they are modfying the city like medival

we can see that from like wall baracades of the city and big small gates. Wich are chekpoints

[Virginityrocks]

WRONG. The citadel's thumpers were replicating the effect of the thumpers used to scare antlions away. They send huge pulses deep through the ground the keep antlions out of the city. It's to protect the citizens. Alyx confirms this in episode 1 when she says "Antlions? In city 17? Huh... Makes sense since the citadel was a defence mechanism", or something to that effect.

[zonetropper]

thx that makes sense

i haven't tought about that

[Methodologyofmadness]

Yeah, they did.

[finbomartini]

How does it eat its way through city 17? Is it like, organic, like the buildings spread and infect human architecture I guess.

[roxasfruit]

if that happened at the beginning of the game, gordon would still be having wonderful dreams!

[Firebug255]

I beleve they put this in because they MAY of had the idea of making animation of blowing the citadel,but took it out w/ G-man

[Tighen31305]

Beautiful^^

[Tweak2911]

is this in real time?

[BuildAnythingClan]

epic

[MarcelGERMAN]

Oh, they have to glue you back together...

[DeDaDoDu]

IN HELL!

[Treviath]

dun dun dun dun dundundundun DUN

[santi97loco]

@DeDaDoDu that was on team fortress 2!

[patrick12522]

What is the name of that map?

[michael1384alt]

I hate WMG.

I like the way it implies that there is NOTHING in the citadel.

[lifehole1]

well, you wouldent see it/ it would be disintigrated by the explosion..

[Mashermat]

In response to michael1384alt

It wasn't a finished animation, jeez.

[michael1384alt]

My word. Grow a sense of humour.

I had heard about how bad Youtube commenters were but JEEZ!

[Mashermat]

@michael1384alt

Hahaha, don't have a shit fit, I just typed the word "jeez".

[SirValor1177]

lol the irony

[plandercozeron]

в тему написал )))))))))))))))

[danin900]

citadel was suppose to explode at the middle of the game....

[gggggmmmod]

LOL LOOK AT THE END XD

[Ogaitnas900]

THE CITADEL WAS LIKE, LOL JK :P

[macoudex]

no entendi a que va todo esto..

y por quitaron el audio....

censura...

[BillyDa59]

Rendering something like that isn't that hard. All's that was, was a simple animation. It's the exact same thing EP2 does with all it's crazy physics.

[TheRarehuman]

WHY te hell valve haven't used such as good animation!?

[gordonfreeman162]

Het plz gimme the map!

[DDub107]

WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?!?! XD

[OverwatchSniper]

Should have included this :(

[M4pster]

This was used, it was in episode 1 after you get on the train.

[xgcwardog]

No, the Citadel was a static prop at the end of EP1. Only a flash of light from the ground.

[mrGlitch2000]

Don't forget it was a static prop in the skybox.

[xgcwardog]

Well yeah, rending something that large in scale through Source is pretty hard.

[mrGlitch2000]

With most Source engine updates they try to make the special effects and graphics a little bit more better. But they leave the physics alone because they think it is good enough.

[stoopdapoop]

rendering something that large is hard in any engine. Not just source.

[xgcwardog]

I've seen some massive things rendered without any problems in several engines. Unreal Engine, Cryengine2, and so on.

[stoopdapoop]

no, you've seen massive things rendered on those engines, but not without a problem, to run crysis on max practically needs a dual 280 rig. And Unreal uses the similar tricks to what valve uses to get their sizes up.

[Hl2InACan]

@xgcwardog Actually, Valve was very smart with effects like these in source. They use models with animation, instead of brushes to reduce lag. Therefore there will be no issues. Great Job Valve! ^^.

[SquadTrooper]

@xgcwardog Or at least at the time HL2 EP 1 was coming out.

[taurenmilkco]

@xgcwardog You ALSo saw this happen if you looked very carefully.

[OTVbonks]

aw .. they should've used this WITH the flash of light and awkward explosion at the end of hl2ep1

[yomomasface]

Needs some Death Metal RIGHT as it explodes XD lolz

[chaoselite7]

can some1 send me a link for this map or it is for gmod 9 :S cause i got gmod 10

[cheeseninja2]

AWESOME!! but music is overused and therefore failz

[xgcwardog]

No, the actual citadel didn't break into peices and fall apart, there was just a flash of light at the end of Episode 1.

[chaoselite7]

true but can you give me a link for the map???

[mommasboy168]

valve should have used that

[PIMPINFO]

:O SWEET!!!

[KamakazieIdiot]

someone, somewhere should take this over, give it particles and have it cause a rain of deadly falling combine tower parts. put it on interntet and then someone somewhere shuld put it on an RP map or build or something

[qm3ster]

thats prerendered and would lag impossibly if physical. If you can affect someone, tell em to make prop pieces spawn where this animation hits ground

[KamakazieIdiot]

yep thats what i was thinking. someone should finish it off.

[natedogg672]

sweet visual

[mrGlitch2000]

Can you PM me the map if you have got it still.

[xgcwardog]

Said bastards are already either dead or on their way there fast.

[deathandkisa]

wtf at the end the citadel put it self back to get her

[xgcwardog]

The individual models had to be reset for the animation sequence. You can press that button over and over every time it resets. Basically you just saw all the parts flying back to where they started so the animation could play again.

[McGravier]

I'm curious, is this calculated in real time?

[xgcwardog]

Naw, it's cinematic physics. The physics are real source physics, but it's "pre recorded"

[reNINTENDO]

9/11? I was aware the Twin Towers broke apart into fragments, defied gravity, then spread out into space. What will terrorists think up next?

Seriously... WTF?

Anywho, this explosion does rule. They probably didn't use it because they wanted a massive explosion at the end, and you wouldn't see it anyway.

[NFSKing]

Why didnt valve use this?

WHY????!?!?

[RobotBoy655]

and how about lieing most FULL citadel in EP2???

[xgcwardog]

Sorry, didn't mean to remove your first comment, meant to hit reply. First of all, this was Garry's Mod 2007 Beta. That is the name in the steam folder, and in the game info text file, and in the GCFs, so no it's not Gmod 11 or whatever else you said.

[MCRmauricionvp]

this is awesomeness

[DragonCurse]

That explosion effect would have been so cool. But I guess my card would have burned from it.

[blahdob]

awesome!

i like that best

[masterpiraka]

beautiful. Really, if it weren't for fucking 9/11, we would be able to absorb this awsome explosion as something pretty cool. Without being stricken with sadness.

[PlankofWood1]

FAIL

[masterpiraka]

WHat? It's true. Misread it if you want.

[xgcwardog]

I dunno where you get the from, never occurred to me that it would relate to Sept 11. That citadel is an animation of an empty building exploding, it happens every week or so with demo crews bringing down buildings to build something new.

[masterpiraka]

I'm talking aboud media in general. They have to hold some things back because of disasters, and everyone's afraid to bring the fact up because they might get pelted with.......just bashing. "FAIL" for instance.

Look, I'm not a scared or mentally scarred individual thet just had a 'nam flashback because of this video, I'm just saying it looks too beautiful to be cut out for PCness.

[macerz1]

reminds me of 9\11 :(

[stevean2]

looked like the glass dome breaking for the simpsons movie lol

[Unknown20859]

what was that songs name?

[DeltaHaloPictures]

What I've Done, Linkin Park.

[masterpiraka]

bad

[curtis13082]

lol if the explosion didnt kil u then the huge falling pieces of solid metal will xD

[8ratchet8]

the name of the map is

ep2_citadel_destroy i know it i download it on

garrysmod org

[shadowrunner4]

that looked like the best buiding destruction i've seen it sucks they diden't really use it in an of the episodes up close

[jesper2620]

- SPOILER DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU

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Looks like the explosion in the end of HL2:EP1 when you excape on the train.

[xgcwardog]

I know, but I like how they have in Ep2, at that first vista overlooking City17. It seems much more dramatic to have the long pieces of the Citadel sticking out of the crater of the explosion. Much better looking than something that look like it was blown to bits.

[DeltaHaloPictures]

Yeah, they should have made a shockwave that made a cool ripling effect instead of that white light. I couldnt see after that XD

[furry4eva]

theres 2 reasons I can think of why they didnt do a ripple

1. To lazy to put it in

2. Couldn't get a ripple in without overloading most peoples graphics cards

[sgtstacker]

The name of the song is What i've done by linkin park

[MichaelBarnes]

That looks amazing, too bad there's no textures.

[DethiusWoW]

hells yea

[DethiusWoW]

amazing. must of taken them forever. and thats the perfect song to use too. good job!