Climbing The Citadel in Half-Life: Alyx

Just install this (V4 or above), load up SteamVR, click ADV settings at bottom and I dunno something there, it was fiddly to even get to that screen lol

[teodorofreiberger]

valve employees: what is he doing?
Gabe Newell: hes beginning to believe

[Leckck]

Fun Fact: the citadel gets transparent at the top to blend with the clouds of the skybox to look like its so tall that can reach the clouds, this technique is also used in half life 2

[panokostouros]

Valve employee: *"Damn it, Bob! You were supposed to patch this weeks ago!"*

Bob: *"I know, but I wanted to see if Philip would discover it!"*

[spinningninja]

I like how in each shot of Phil he’s wearing progressively less clothes lmao

[PekaCheeki]

Breaking news: crazy man climbs the combine citadel with only his hands and no ropes! Must watch footage!

[Dragon.]

The crazy part is, that he climbed that distance with his real arms, an arm length every swing. How far was that? 2km? 3km? Crazy.

[MegaFPVFlyer]

I love it how we're getting hours of entertainment out of HL:A despite the fact that it hasn't released yet

[VraccasVII]

This is fantastic, I love being in an age where someone needs actual physical exertion to discover things in a virtual world

[holysayingsofrobin]

Me:”Dad? What is that crazy lady doing on the citadel?”

Dad: *”CLOSE YOUR EYES, HONEY!”*

[simonandersson]

*Valve employee:* "Hey, should we like block off the non-playable area?"

*Other employee:* "Nah, it's not like somebody's gonna spend half a day climbing the citadel or something"

*Philip:* "Hold my beer"

[Calthecool]

Me: Mom can we have NoClip?
Mom: We have NoClip at home.
NoClip at home:

[krllx]

Philip: *Climbs the citadel with his bare hands*




Dr Breen: "What's the meaning of this? Who are you? How did you get in here?"

[haydenhung]

"hey guys, desinc here. Today we'll be looking at prop flying in half life alyx"

[Reilers]

Overwatch: "Alert, an undentified personal is floating up to the citadel core. Someone please stop him."

[elliehugg]

_"You must not ascend the great tower for it shall bring death and the end of your generations."_

[erinrizzo]

Normal peoples workout: weights jogging and some other stuff

Philip workout: climbing the citadel

[jrrym]

Valve: We want the player to see as much as possible
Philip: Much as possible is Not enough.. *Breaks game going beyond skybox*
you never cease to amaze me, sir xD

[KoalaTContent]

2:04 Seeing the historic Citadel from that angle while it's under construction gave me chills. This is a huge moment in the lore of a story we've known for decades

[RogueBard]

I feel like Philip's first instinct when loading into Half-Life: Alyx will be to break the game. No doubt.

[CIDEStheharasser]

*Combine Soldier:* Sir, we have detected an intruder outside the Citadel tower. Do you want us to peruse this intruder?
*Dr. Breen:* Of course, where is this intruder now? Have they breached the tower yet?
*Combine Soldier:* Uh, they haven’t breached the tower. Right now, they’re... climbing it.