Was the citadel destroyed?

[sightly_bird]

In the AM trailer you see sceens which look like they are in the citadel. Also, the stalkers are present, which were found in the citadel.

 

[Asknoone]

The Citadel is not destroyed, it is instead going into meltdown during the course of Aftermath. By the end of Aftermath, the Citadel will take out City 17.

 

[Sulkdodds]

The answer is not yet. The Citadel is still standing but whatever crazyhouse reactor keeps it powered is now going critical pending (we assume) a super-massive detonation.

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Yeah but heres a intresting question: How the hell did they get out? Because if you noticed the only way in or out of that office was that prisoner transport or whatever it was called. And it looked like it was one way....

 

[Teh Pwned]

And how did Alex escape that huge explosion? And how did dog find you in a pile of rubble? (From the vid.) Were you thrown off the citadel and landed so hard that you made a crater in the street that dog had to dig you out of?

All your questions and more will be awnsered in... Half-Life 2: Aftermath!

 

[Loke]

I want to see the Citadel get smoked in this bigsuperduperhyperflukerfidiolikini explosion at the end of Aftermath, similar to F.E.A.R. I WANT DESTRUCTION!

 

[sightly_bird]

I want to see walker and mr.T duke it out. That would be destruction.

 

[Angelus]

And how did Alex escape that huge explosion? And how did dog find you in a pile of rubble? (From the vid.) Were you thrown off the citadel and landed so hard that you made a crater in the street that dog had to dig you out of?

GMans doing id say

 

[Oppressor]

As to be seen from the trailer, the trains are running and the mad stalkers are active. But the light is out, making everything dark. And as also seen in the trailer, Gordon and Alyx faces the Stalkers in-game, signifying the fact that Gordon surely start off in a pile of rubbish inside the collapsing Citadel, digged out by Dog. There wouldn't be no reason going into The Citadel if you were outside it, right?

 

[Asknoone]

I very much doubt you start off in a pile of rubble, I believe thats somewhere else.
The area looks very none Citadel, and its doubtful Dog actually went into the Citadel.
That'll be somewhere else, but yeah, it starts in the Citadel.

 

[Apocalypse89]

Yeah but heres a intresting question: How the hell did they get out? Because if you noticed the only way in or out of that office was that prisoner transport or whatever it was called. And it looked like it was one way....

There surely is an easier, more direct way to the top of the Citadel. I doubt that Breen's takes a long, uncomfortable pod journey every time he wants to go to or leave his office(I really don't think that he spends 24 hours a day there). My guess is that the elevator that you take up to the teleporter goes down as well, or that there's some other hidden exit you don't see in your brief stay there.

Just think about how Gordon infiltrated the Citadel. He entered from some random hole in an obscure side of the structure. He then made his way through abandoned and empty parts of the building to a secluded pod "cleaning" station, and hitched a ride. He was soon detected and dropped in some random side hallway, from which he fought his way through more side hallways to another pod station. He was then detected again and sent up to Breen's office.

Thus, Gordon probably chose the longest, most inconvenient way possible to get from the bottom of the Citadel to the top. Most likely he'll use a different way going down.

 

[iMMuNiTy]

There surely is an easier, more direct way to the top of the Citadel. I doubt that Breen's takes a long, uncomfortable pod journey every time he wants to go to or leave his office(I really don't think that he spends 24 hours a day there). My guess is that the elevator that you take up to the teleporter goes down as well, or that there's some other hidden exit you don't see in your brief stay there.

Just think about how Gordon infiltrated the Citadel. He entered from some random hole in an obscure side of the structure. He then made his way through abandoned and empty parts of the building to a secluded pod "cleaning" station, and hitched a ride. He was soon detected and dropped in some random side hallway, from which he fought his way through more side hallways to another pod station. He was then detected again and sent up to Breen's office.

Thus, Gordon probably chose the longest, most inconvenient way possible to get from the bottom of the Citadel to the top. Most likely he'll use a different way going down.

Agreed. He'll be taking the "official" way out of the Citadel in AM, judging by the trailer.

 

[Teh Pwned]

Or him and alex will jump in a cannon and shoot themselves out.

Oh, that crazy Freeman.

 

[Asknoone]

Not only that, when Mossman is escorting you to the office theres another door to the left.

 

[iMMuNiTy]

Not only that, when Mossman is escorting you to the office theres another door to the left.

Evil noclipping person.

 

[rambler]

use noclip to go into mossmans office in mesa east and eli will start talking about her.

 

[Asknoone]

Evil noclipping person.

Actually you can just see it normally......

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Oh right I forgot about that door. Though odd isn't it, that he's have his own pod stop AND a weapon stripper? What, does he get visitors often up there?
Oh and who would be in those pods in his own office?

 

[Asknoone]

Its quite possible Breen interogates people often.

 

[iMMuNiTy]

Shens. It's for decoration.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Shens. It's for decoration.

Oh please, pods for suspending people in your office is so 1997.
I bet he interrogates people or just want someone to talk to. Afterall, presuming he hasn't turned them into stalkers yet, he can pretty much commandeer anyone in the world to come to his office for a chat. As for the weapons stripper, you're right, a big tall tower in the middle of a city with the evil ruler of the entire world and the evil aliens main source of power at the top? Who would ever want to secretly bring a gun in there?

 

[Asknoone]

Can't be to careful?

 

[little.rebel]

Agreed. He'll be taking the "official" way out of the Citadel in AM, judging by the trailer.

The official way out will be the longest, ofcourse we have to fight our way out by the looks of it, and therefore it will be big level of finding the way out of the citadel.

Which of course is actaully longest way , longer than the ride in the pod on the way up. The pod ride was actaully fast way up there.

 

[iMMuNiTy]

The official way out will be the longest, ofcourse we have to fight our way out by the looks of it, and therefore it will be big level of finding the way out of the citadel.

Which of course is actaully longest way , longer than the ride in the pod on the way up. The pod ride was actaully fast way up there.

So you're basically saying... it takes shorter time for the prisoners to get to Breen's office than Breen himself?..

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

I think he's saying that it takes longer to go through the front door than to actually take the pods. Plus, would Breen go through the front door? And...does he ever actually leave the citadel, ever?

 

[AJ Rimmer]

So you're basically saying... it takes shorter time for the prisoners to get to Breen's office than Breen himself?..

Depends on how comfortable you want your journey to be I think.

 

[Oppressor]

Afterall, presuming he hasn't turned them into stalkers yet, he can pretty much commandeer anyone in the world to come to his office for a chat.

My idea is that there isn't no humans in The Citadel, they must have been made to Stalkers in Nova Prospect first.
And the pods in Breens office surely is decoration or something

As The Citadel is a futuristic enterprise, I guess their isn't no thing as a front door. Seems a little uneccesary for some reason. And Breen probably isn't outside his office that much either

 

[AJ Rimmer]

My idea is that there isn't no humans in The Citadel, they must have been made to Stalkers in Nova Prospect first.
And the pods in Breens office surely is decoration or something

As The Citadel is a futuristic enterprise, I guess their isn't no thing as a front door. Seems a little uneccesary for some reason. And Breen probably isn't outside his office that much either

Yeah there are no humans in the citadel, but if he wants, Breen can just point to someone famous he ever wanted to meet and say: "Get him to my office and strap him into a metal pod so he cant move an inch and transport him up 600 stories at 120 mph while enjoying the scenery of brutal alien invasion and torture, I want to have a nice little casual chat with him."

 

[AIDisabled]

But I'm wondering: what's the point of leaving Gordon behind? Why make him run through the whole mess and make his way out alive? Is he simply not valuable to G-man anymore?

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Well, thats whats on speculation here. Maybe he was contracted to evac the city, or maybe he was gotten out of stasis by some third party or the resistance. Don't ask me how they would do that though....

 

[Oppressor]

Exactly, how and why Aftermath takes off as it does will be a mystery until the release.
But Gordon were put in stasis, and it seems like he somehow was released by someone/something. Otherwise he wouldn't continue after the explosion, G-Man put him sin stasis because Gordons work in City 17 was done. Right?

But, let's all endure the time to feb/march, then some of our answers will be answered. And as always, we will have equally many new answers after playing Aftermath, thats how Valve works with HL. And I love it!

 

[Jintor]

The citadel isn't boom-boom-bye-bye just yet, but any moment now it's going to go solar and vapourise City 17.

 

[fokke]

Even when you're a big bad combine skyscraper I don't think you'll survive this. Clearly not even Bob the Builder can do something about that. But I don't think the reactor will take so long to meltdown that you can fit a whole game in it. Maybe AM will continue on another part of the planet. Otherwise Alyx and Gordon are toast.