Combine shifting walls

[DesertChicken]

What are those Combine wall structures that are placed around City 17 that seem to be made of many narrow chunks. The ones that move seemingly randomly.

Spoiler

one was right after Dog attacks the combine guys for the first time and he opens the gate for you, then turns around to get the dropship. If you stay in that area for a little while, the wall structure behind you starts to move

Why the heck do the walls move?

 

[jimmyjam]

they are part of the citadel, slowly eating away at the city

 

[GiaOmerta]

they are part of the citadel, slowly eating away at the city

As said above.

The Citadel slowly 'eats' away at it's surronding for additional resources.

Spoiler

The Citadel serves as a factory - command center. It requires resources.

 

[Asknoone]

I am nto sure they are used as resources. I think its just a means of guardign the citadel. You only notice them eating away at the city in streetwar...its mostly likley to push away the resistance.

Also in Nova Prospekt they are destroying the prison there, probably to make room for more structures.

 

[Flyingdebris]

i don't know, i think they are right about the structure eating the city. It seems to feed off the city like a fungus

 

[Madcow]

Eating the city?

Err..?
I thought those black things was just some kind of a wall.
And the black things going up and down was gates or something.

 

[azz0r]

In raising the bar it states (if my memory servers me) they are there as a defence and they push forward eating the city for resources.

So both.

 

[Moth]

From the strategy guide:

A gigantic combine wall of metal is chewing and slowly smashing the city and resculpting the area in its own darkened image

The walls are part of the citadel, which is slowly expanding downwards into the earth, whilst expanding simultaneously outwards through the city.

 

[marshmallow]

It's amazing how much someone has to rely on outside resources to know a lot of info about this game.

 

[Mediocrity]

It's amazing how much someone has to rely on outside resources to know a lot of info about this game.

At least it brings the community together. :cheese: Nothing like being able to speculate/complain with plenty of like-minded people.

 

[we11er]

lol when people say "eating" they don't mean it literally!

 

[big_king_frosty]

Itd be good to get a birds eye view or fly by of the citadel to show wher and how the walls are moving further out.