Is the person running Valve Archive alright?
New mod set in the Alien universe, looks interesting
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Downloaded a mod ages ago that improves the view of City 17 from the citadel. It was scrapped but re-uploaded a while ago, so go download it for yourself :) gamebanana.com/mods/467382
Exploring Valve Archive, part 33 - Valve and Arkane's Dishonored precursor valvearchive.com>archive>3rd Party Developers>Arkane Studios>The Crossing (Cancelled)>Videos> Before Dihonored, Deathloop, or Prey, Arkane's earliest work was in collaboration with Valve, with their 2006 Source game "Dark Messiah of Might and Magic" being their magnum opus at the time. Seeing the promise in this studio, Valve formulated bigger plans with them, and between 2007 and 2009, the 2 studios collaborated on the…
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1Documentary-style coverage of the Black Mesa Incident. I didn't make this, but it's really high quality and it has barely views so I thought I'd share it here.
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1Hey @ladyjanethrace, just wondered, are you interested in optimising Signal Lost to work on the Steam Deck?
Let's take a moment to appreciate @dainzh's combine units, would honestly love to face these in an actual game
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What's your favourite piece of Valve concept art? Mine's Aleph from "Prospero" (above image), a cancelled game that was supposed to be this interdimensional story-based MMO where you visit different worlds
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valvearchive.com>archive>Half-Life>Half-Life 2>Art>Creatures>Citizen>rebels.jpg
One interesting thought keeps tickling my brain, and that's this: City 17 is comprised of of citizens from all around the world, so why do they all sound American?
The reason is, of course, limitations of the time. Every citizen shares the same few voice actors, and it's left to our suspension of disbelief to see each character as their own individual. Marc Laidlaw himself actually highlights the diversity he wished the game to have, even asking modders to mix different language versions within the game to "create a truer picture of City 17 that was in our heads."
[full quote here: https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/References:Marc_Laidlaw_emails/Unverified#On_the_Citizen_nationalities]
This further highlights the general citizen diversity the game was originally planning to have, not just in ethnicity and language but in design language itself. We see hints of this diversity in Half-Life: Alyx, in which citizen diversity is much more pronounced, with larger varieties of clothing combinations made possible by less limitations imposed from a newer engine.](https://media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com/media-images/1697430983671bCiDmBpBtDVhB3RC.jpg?size=normal)
Exploring Valve Archive, part 32 - Unused rebel variety valvearchive.com>archive>Half-Life>Half-Life 2>Art>Creatures>Citizen>rebels.jpg One interesting thought keeps tickling my brain, and that's this: City 17 is comprised of of citizens from all around the world, so why do they all sound American? The reason is, of course, limitations of the time. Every citizen shares the same few voice actors, and it's left to our suspension of disbelief to see each character as their own individual. Marc L…
I have a particularly strong head canon. I believe that Combine soldiers think just as much as you and me, but their memories are consistently wiped. Some of the Combine soldier lines from HLA supports this, promoting the idea that they're still "human" in there, but at any sign of questioning orders - "cognitive dissonance" - their memories are wiped, crushing any resistance they may have had. Imagine being in that scenario - you need to be completely compliant, both physically and mentally,…
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