Shorepoint Base
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Shorepoint Base,[3] also known simply as Shorepoint, is a Resistance base that appears at the end of the Half-Life 2 chapter "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." and at the start of the chapter Highway 17.
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Overview[edit]
Very close to Ravenholm, Shorepoint is the first of a string of Rebel outposts scattered along the Coast. Along Highway 17, it precedes New Little Odessa, and seems to have once been a group of warehouses before the Combine began to drain the ocean. As most of the time along the coast, shipwrecks are lying in the sand nearby and the water does not come under the pier anymore.
Features[edit]
Shorepoint has two entrances: one is accessible from train yards leading out of Ravenholm and leads to an old garage with damaged cars, then to what appears to be the main building, where the radio, supplies and wounded Rebels being looked after can be found. Additionally, the base houses a Scout Car which can be lowered on the beach by a magnetic crane located among the piers. The second entrance to the base can be accessed from the beach by climbing a ladder leading to the main pier. In order to keep Antlions from jumping up into the base, two stolen Emplacement Guns manned by two Rebels are mounted on each side of the crane.
Personnel[edit]
The leader of Shorepoint is apparently Leon. The mechanic and crane operator is a woman named Noriko. The base also includes other Rebels such as Winston, Daniels, and Jacobs, an unnamed nurse who takes care of the wounded, and a Vortigaunt. Alyx and Eli Vance apparently spent some time there, since she states they are the ones who left there the Scout Car they both "put together".
Appearances[edit]
Half-Life 2[edit]
After exiting the Ravenholm mines, Gordon Freeman goes through a railway section protected by Combine Snipers that leads him to the back of the base.
When Gordon arrives on the spot, it appears the Combine has discovered the base, as Combine Soldiers are attacking it. The attack fails when Gordon helps the four Rebels (Leon, Daniel, Winston [already hurt and on the ground], and an unnamed woman) dispatch the remaining soldiers.
When Gordon meets Leon, the base has established a transmission with Alyx, who states her father has been taken by boat to Nova Prospekt. While Alyx will manage to get there by train, Gordon must travel along the coast with the Scout Car. He then proceeds to the next Rebel station, New Little Odessa, after a small mishap with the crane's magnet while lowered on the beach with the Scout Car.
Behind the scenes[edit]
In Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, Laura Dubuk talks about the creation of the magnetic crane introduced at Shorepoint and featured again at Dock 137: "When it came time to gather reference for the magnetic crane, I got my camera and a friend and I drove down to west Seattle where there are a number of them. For the crane interior, I used the inside of a bulldozer and the reference was complete."[2]
Shorepoint introduces many new NPCs: the Combine Sniper, the Combine Soldier, the Antlion Soldier, and the seagull.
In the playable Half-Life 2 leak, Shorepoint Base's exterior map (d2_coast_01) is slightly different. The Scout Car is held by wedges, there is no Noriko (placeholder male sounds are used instead), no Rebels manning two mounted AR2s (only two Rebels with MP5K, and farther), no Antlion Hill, and much fewer Antlions.
Trivia[edit]
Helping the Rebels dispatch the Combine soldiers during the battle witnessed upon entering the base is not necessary. Whatever the player does, the Rebels will win the battle; it will just take longer without helping them.
Gallery[edit]
Pre-release[edit]
Concept art for the magnetic crane.
Shorepoint in the playable Half-Life 2 leak.
"Keep out" sign on the beach of the leak Shorepoint Base.
The Scout Car on Pier 87 in the playable Half-Life 2 leak.
Retail[edit]
Shorepoint on the Coast map, at #1.
Combine Sniper above the tracks near Shorepoint.
The G-Man glimpsed near Shorepoint.
A parking lot alongside tank cars and wrecked vehicles.
The battle inside the warehouse.
Rebels and Combine Soldiers fighting, with Daniels on the right.
Daniels firing at the soldiers.
Leon firing at the soldiers.
Daniels and Jacobs tending to Winston.
Ditto.
A nurse tends to a wounded Rebel.
A Vortigaunt in the Shorepoint Base.
Alyx's communication to Shorepoint.
Pier 87, with the crane and the Scout Car.
The overview of the base.
Rebel defending the pier with an Emplacement Gun.
Ditto.
The Scout Car waiting on Pier 87.
Noriko sitting at the crane's commands.
The Scout Car being lowered on the beach by the crane's magnet.
The Scout Car falls upside down when the crane's magnet fails and Antlions attack.
A shipwreck near Pier 88.
Antlion Soldiers near the base.
The bridge Gordon needs to spring over.
List of appearances[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ WC map pack
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 176
- ↑ File:Coastmap sheet.png
| Preceded by Ravenholm |
Half-Life 2 story arc journey | Succeeded by New Little Odessa |
