Snow Facility

[CSM]

This is just a vague rumour that ive seen making the rounds, it is this, that the snow facility from which we saw Mossman make a transmission is not at the poles as common sense would dictate but is in fact located somewhere in Eastern Europe which is were we all generally agree is were the game is currently set, its quite plossible, the Combine could easily have screwed up Earth's weather system and so it could be winter in some locations, it could also have something to do witht the "Project".... speculate away people

 

[Vass]

I agree. It could be all these things, but I have no specific info leading me to believe any which way, mate. It could just be Siberia.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

It says it's the Artic Base in the commentary. Listen to it,thats what its there for!

 

[bigburpco]

This thread serves no more purpose.

 

[Darkside55]

The polar base is northwest of City 17 on the same continent. City 17's near a coastline; from there you travel northwest and end up at Kraken Base. I'm looking at a map of it right now. It's quite a distance away, maybe a few hours by flight, but it's apparently on the same landmass.

 

[Lightice]

Uhh...Do you know the meaning of the words "Polar" and "Arctic"? Near the North Pole, that's what they mean.

 

[Vass]

The polar base is northwest of City 17 on the same continent. City 17's near a coastline; from there you travel northwest and end up at Kraken Base. I'm looking at a map of it right now. It's quite a distance away, maybe a few hours by flight, but it's apparently on the same landmass.

Well it might not be then Siberia. So City 17 is SE of the Artic base? It must be in Scandinavia.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

The Epi One guide says City 17 is in Ukraine.

 

[Inyssius Grey]

The guide is wrong. No one has revealed anything about the location of City 17, and the only thing we know is that someone did say that Half-Life 2 was set in a place "like" eastern Europe.

 

[CSM]

Inyssius Grey is right no official annoucement has ever been made as to the EXACT location, the Prima guides are not exactly 100% official, its been admitted its somewere in eastern europe but nothing more, there's speculation of course from the language in the graffiti and architecture

 

[laughterkillsme]

yeah, I think your confused over what they said. The art inspiration was taken from the lead artist's hometown. The actual location, however, is never given. You just know the general location in the world, which probably serves the story since the land around you is nameless and faceless.

 

[Darkside55]

There's been numerous attempts to figure out where City 17 is, and I don't recall any definite answer coming up. Eastern Europe somewhere, Russia perhaps...but it's not supposed to be based in any real location, I think. Or rather, it's left up to your imagination where it is. But from the map I have here it's situated a few miles from a western shore; there's a gulf between it and Kraken Base, which is where Mossman is.

 

[Polaris]

In Raising the Bar is description of place very similar to this Artic base - it could be Weather Control (it was surrounded by snow and it's Combine project)...

 

[Darkside55]

Yep, that's the place above Kraken Base. For those of you with RtB, look on page 177, chapter .05. You'll see the map that shows C17, the path of the Borealis (the ship that never made it into the final game), up to Kraken Base on a tiny little arctic isle, then up to the weather control station on the actual landmass. Also note that the legend states that Dr. Mossman is at Kraken Base.

Kraken Base and Weather Control aren't the same thing though, at least not in this early version. And if I were to hazard a guess I doubt that controlling the weather would be the Combine's big secret project, or even an important thing the resistance needed control over, especially now of all times.

 

[Eejit]

I've always taken the hidden co-ordinates from the (second?) halflife2.net test Valve made for us pre-release to be as close to a 'real' location as we'll get.