Where is actual City 17 situated? Is it Russia/Baltics/Bulgaria or is it somewhere else?
Where is actual City 17 situated? Is it Russia/Baltics/Bulgaria or is it somewhere else?
Kayden Morgan
Alexander Wood
if i remember it was in lativa
Josiah Hill
considering you can drive to nova scotia it should be east coast north america
Justin Barnes
very similar to Riga. But there were too much Cyrillic letters in City-17, it's not like Latvia
Jace Cox
how would you explain cyrillic letters and soviet cars and overall baltics atmosphere?
Jayden Hughes
the closest hints that could be given to us would be the two maps found in rebel bases
Jacob Parker
aaaand where is this?
Ian Jackson
The art director for the game was Bulgarian and there a couple of signs in Bulgarian in the city, for example ЦИMEHT.
Anthony Johnson
were Russian cars common in Bulgaria?
Why are there so many resemblances to Baltic region then?
Jaxon Mitchell
Sofia, Bulgaria is where the art director is from so that's the most commonly accepted place.
Nathan Ortiz
There's no specific location. Just Eastern Europe.
Matthew Jenkins
Do they really have that enormous amount of trabants too?
Adam Fisher
reminds me of serbia
Levi Campbell
>were Russian cars common in Bulgaria?
of course they were
Grayson Martinez
i thought it was ukraine? that guy who gives you the rpg is called "Odessa". in that sort of society, perhaps they call authority figures of the resistance by the region they control. the name "odessa" could simply just be a hint that it's in ukraine as well.
Carter Perez
>Yes it was based on my childhood city Sofia in Bulgaria. It had mixed elements from Belgrade and St. Petersburg. I wanted to capture this specific atmosphere of Eastern and Northern Europe.
Proof: reddit.com
Lucas Edwards
Yeah, port and city itself is very similar to Sevastopol, former Ukraine
Lucas Ramirez
>former Ukraine
Wow. Das rasist!
Christopher Hernandez
Carson Hughes
that's latvia
Jeremiah Miller
the location was meant to be vague but...
I assume it was bulgaria because there were newspapers scattered about in the litter on the streets that had headlines written in bulgarian and there were a few buildings with bulgarian writing. Not to mention highway 17 I believe is supposed to resemble the drive along the highway of the black sea not to mention you see yugo cars scattered about which were only common in the balkans as far as i know
Jose Cooper
Could have sworn it was based off of Odessa in Ukraine. But I think in general it's just "dystopian Eastern European city".
I'd imagine Russian (Soviet) cars were rather common throughout the Soviet bloc.
Jackson Long
as I remember in the game seeing an Advertisement for a pest control chemical written in romanian
Jaxson Gutierrez
You are all fucking autists.
Just read comment of the HL2 game designer, Viktor Antonov: reddit.com
David Howard
The original beta map closely resembles the riga coastline
combineoverwiki.net
Do keep in mind the original story featured a helicopter trip to the arctic too which isn't that unrealistic seen from the baltics
Michael Myers
damn that really doesn't help much.
The left map looks like it could come from croatia or greece as I used to live there and their coast line was jagged with islands and with fjord like areas. The right map doesn't resemble any place in particular. Maybe like Varna where there is a body of water cutting through the edge of town that feeds into the sea