Half-Life 2: Episode Two OST — Extinction Event Horizon (Extended)

Game: Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Track: Extinction Event Horizon
Composer: Kelly Bailey
Extended original version.

[gaugeStratigrad]

The Citadel textures and city textures are 2D Images that have NODRAW Textures behind them for optimization. The Small Fires, Smoke, Portal Beams shooting up to the Portal, are all particles that use a info_particle_system. The reason the blue beams rotate, is that they are parented to NODRAW Blocks that rotate. The massive Vortex that the beams connect to, are prop_dynamic, and they have two seperate components: Cloud Center, and Citadel Cloud (rough paraphrasing of the .mdl names) Luckily, the skybox texture blends well with the Vortex. The Distant trees are also just 2D Textures. The Glow in the center of the citadel is another 2D Texture. The reason that this vista is huge is because of 3D Skybox Projection, and an entity called sky_camera. (Conviently, the city and tree line textures are strecthed quite wide, so that helps the view) sky_camera can change the scale of how large it will be projected. Valve uses 16 by default. the sky_camera entity is placed far away so the vista view can be accurate. Hope this can provide some insight in to how Valve made the vista!

Another neat thing to notice is the music itself. In between, you can notice small, reversed synth notes playing. Nice!

[neonsolace]

for anyone who dosen't know what the event horizon is
The event horizon is where the escape speed exceeds the speed of light: you'd have to be going faster than light (which is impossible for any bit of matter) to escape the black hole's gravity. Inside the event horizon is where physics goes crazy. ... A singularity is what all the matter in a black hole gets crushed into

[dlproxmuacacias]

My favorite game, my favorite ost. Half life is everything for me.

This game also introduced me to the Sci-fi. I owe it a lot for that.

[joshuawoods]

The first time I heard this song in the Half Life 2 game, it gave me chills because it felt like I was inside my computer in the half life world... I will never forget that time lol, My 2 buddies were playing with me as well on their computers ha. That was in 2015 and it was the best time playing together!

[sulphurous]

The best ambient track out of them all, period. This is the final one.

[kaj]

17 years later and this still the greatest vista in all of gaming.

[thy_pure_vessel]

I like how the black smoke from the explosion grows throughout the video.

[crestfallenknight]

You know, what's special about Half-Life is that it provides such an otherworldly, fresh and, I would say, philosophical feeling that every other game series and TV show or movie in comparison feels... dirty, compared to Half-Life. Polluted with sex, jokes, stupidness. And Half Life is on whole other level: it is consistent in its "another reality" feeling. I... I can't properly explain.

Maybe thats why HL always feels REALISTIC as if you are watching a documentary of what has happened to Earth after the invasion and the 7 hours war. The tone of the game is so realistic and serious. There's some psychological and existential feeling there

[PoliceOfficer-lzwu]

I don't know why, but this makes me think of the 7 Hour War, The part when the Combine first invaded.

[commodore]

goddamn i've played this game so much and it's soundscape is so unique these tracks feel like old friends. that's the kind of feeling a composer should try to get. Not a track that get's more annoying and monotonous to listen to, but one that becomes a part of your core.

[scrubhub]

Good to see that someone still cares about HL.

[drunki_v]

"Wake Up Mr Freeman, Wake Up and smell the Ashes"

[ItsChevnotJeff]

"2022 is going to be better, I can feel it!"
2022: PORTAL STORM!!!

[nuttymanyelismate]

You and your computer when you download a Minecraft Addon, click allow on the fake adfly, install the addon, get tons of notifications telling you that your antivirus has expired and then you manage to block the fake adfly to permanently disable notifications.

[forthesakeofthenationalist]

The turning point of Universal Union suffered their greatest defeat for the very first time. Which needed to called out their master to sent help from the other side.

[Vlumpty_Vonty]

This track makes me sad for some reason and i love it for that

[evo]

This particular soundtrack was a re-used asset from the original HL2 Beta. This song was originally intended to be used as the ambience for the Borealis level set in the arctic.

[benigameplay]

Imagine standing there. That would be awesome but scary at he same time

[Machinima_Cinema]

You make some of The Best Half-Life Remixes and Extended Tracks.

[V-K]

I want to go back to 2007 for at least 1 week and play this masterpiece