How are Half-Life 2 and Half-Life: Alyx timelines connected?
If you don't know the end of Half-Life: Alyx, stop reading.
At the end Half-Life: Alyx, we see how
this story converges with Half-Life: Episode 2, Alyx is taken away by the G-Man and her father lives again.
All the info I was able to find is related to that part of the game, but how is this new story connected with Half-Life 2?
How can
Alyx find Gordon Freeman after he arrives to City 17? Why does she not remember what happened during the prequel and joins Gordon on his journey?
What are the interactions with the other characters?
Eli and Russell should be expecting Alyx to return from the Vault.
Best Answer
Here are my two cents (Obvious spoilers):
The HL 2 series and HL Alyx don't share the exact same timeline, where the narrative of HL Alyx continues onto the HL 2 series, logically because Eli Vance inevitably dies in HL 2 Ep2 but is saved in HL Alyx in the future, also because Alyx is kept in stasis in the end 'awaiting' an 'assignment'. As you pointed out, it doesn't make sense that she returns to Earth before the events of HL 2 to find Gordon Freeman without knowing what happened in the prequel, unless the events in the prequel never happened. But I like to think that HL Alyx and its sequels provide a separate timeline created by G-man and whatever happens in the future can be subject to change, just like the ending of HL 2 where a new timeline is technically created when Alyx and Gordon are rescued from the explosion of the citadel. It should be clarified by Valve in the next installment in the half life series but all we can do is assume what happens after Alyx is 'hired' and how she actually disappears from the alternate ending of HL 2 Ep2, which assumes all events in the HL 2 series took place normally until the end.
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Are Half-Life 2 and Alyx related?
Alyx serves as the protagonist of Half-Life: Alyx, set five years before the events of Half-Life 2 and its episodes.Is Half-Life: Alyx a prequel to Half-Life 2?
Half-Life: Alyx takes place five years before the events of Half-Life 2.Is Half-Life: Alyx in an alternate timeline?
The game ends here, though if you stick around until after the credits you'll find one more interactive scene where you actually step into the shoes of THE Gordon Freeman. Jumping forward in time, players now find themselves in an alternate timeline in which Dr. Vance is still alive.In what timeline does Half-Life: Alyx take place?
Half-Life: Alyx takes place smack-dab in between the events of the first game and the second, roughly five years before Half-Life 2. It's a period that, until now, has remained largely unexplored by the Half-Life series.The Complete Half-Life Timeline - From Half-Life to Half-Life Alyx
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