second one you come across, as the first one would get you fried in the laser.
[A Bumpy Ride]
Yeah, Monster's Inc...ok, sorry for that. ^^ Look around on your journey to
see Combine not wearing suits and masks and also to see some other
interesting stuff. You end up in a rather small room, with the hatch opening,
making you fall out. Whatever you do, don't commit the same mistake I did
once: You can turn around quickly and press E again to stay inside the
capsule forever. There is no way out there again, besides loading the last
autosave (or some other save file, of course).
[A New Weapon]
Sometimes a bug instantly kills you after this area has been loaded
completely. If this happens, you have to load a save file from the last area
and hope for the bug to not appear again.
Anyway, you are taken away all your weapons (hey, didn't this already happen
in HL1?), but the machine somehow can't handle the gravity gun, which is
turned into a super gravity gun in the process. Wait for four Combine to
storm the room. This is the perfect chance to try out the new gun. How? There
are no loose objects around here? Well, simply aim at the enemies directly
and either pull them in or hurl them away. Furthermore the new gravity gun is
able to heave heavy objects like the computers found all around the Citadel.
Restock at the wall panel (from now on those panels both give health and suit
energy; the latter one even up to 200). Rip out a monitor, move on and hurl
it at the Combine in front of you. Quickly proceed as new Combine keep
spawning. Pull them in briefly and drop them to be able to pull in another
one. If you and the enemies build a straight line, then pull in the first
enemy and toss him at his companions. Hop over the railing and hurl the two
Combine into the light pole to see its devastating effect on any living
being...which includes you as well, so watch out not to get too close to it.
Go along the right, kill a lone Combine and ride up the lift. Pull in the
left-most energy ball both to turn off the force field and to have a powerful
weapon at your disposal: Toss the ball at the elite Combine and then pull in
another energy ball to also dispose of the normal Combine. Patch yourself up
at the wall panel.
Shut down another force-field, kill numerous Combine and keep up the pressure
on them as they keep spawning. Swiftly move on to stop the spawning. Use
another wall panel and leave this area.
[A sloooooow Lift]
Easily dispose of two Combine. Then head for the open hall, press the switch
and run to the wall panel. Defend yourself against hordes of scanners,
manhacks, Combine and elite Combine coming from various directions. Ignore
the computer and the energy balls. All it takes here is a straight forward
attack against the enemies and some healing whenever possible.
After a while the lift in the centre of the hall will reach your level, so
step onto it to be taken up automatically. This is one of the most difficult
passage of the game and it can get really tedious on hard, but unfortunately
there isn't a lot to tell you about it. Keep moving, look up to see where
enemies might stand and hurl energy balls at them. Whenever you are close
enough to an enemy, try to pull him in directly instead of using the plasma
balls.
Once you're finally up, you definitely deserve the health panel. Stop before
the force field on the left to wait for a few Combine running into your arms.
Move out into another high hall and haste through as you eliminate a few
small groups of Combine. Use the health panel.
Drop down and quickly pull in the capsule on the left. Use it to safely reach
the second capsule, hurl the first one at the Combine in front of you, pick
up the second one and also hurl it at the enemies after reaching capsule #3.
As you are extremely close to the Combine now and as there should only be a
few of them left you can attack them directly. Run on, pick up another
capsule and shoot it at the other Combine across the bridge. Hide behind the
capsules on the left, wait for any survivors to come near and dispose of them.
Not it's time to fight a strider with the super gravity gun. Stay behind the
capsules, pull in an energy ball, peek out on the left and fire at the
strider. Hide again and repeat. If your cover gets blown apart somehow,
constantly strafe from the left set of capsules to the right one and back
again while rapidly shooting off energy balls. Lower the force field at the
other end of the bridge after the battle and hop down.
[Another Bumpy Ride]
Heal yourself and enter another capsule. A laser scanner unfortunately
recognizes you, forcing you to take another path than the other capsules. See
those big frog-like things below you at one place during the ride? I wonder
if those appear in Episode 1 or any later episode.
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[The Portal]
After the long and interesting dialogue you have to follow Dr. Breen. See
that thing he speaks with? I guess that has to be some sort of Combine Queen
or something like that. Shortly after you get back your super gravity gun and
Alyx enables you to enter the lift your nemesis escaped with.
Listen to some more text; then move along the wall on the right, kill three
Combine and move up the ramp until you can pull in the six energy balls of
the first two force fields. Proceed to third one. As you shut it down you
should ignore the enemies coming up from behind. Hop onto the thing that goes
up and down and let it take you up to some enemies. Kill them and move on to
a small platform at the inner circle. It takes you up to near a health panel.
Jump towards it, patch yourself up, ignore the enemies below and hop onto
another platform near the panel. Just watch out not to fall down. Ride the
platform up, close in on three enemies, kill them, turn left and take one
last platform up to the final battle.
Position yourself at the far end of the platform. Two gunships will come in
through the portal. Since there are two streams of energy balls around you
will have to use these to crash the gunships. Stay at the far end, pull in
energy balls, fire them off at the left enemy (luckily, they don't zoom
around as they usually do) and strafe around a bit to hide behind the column
in between your attacks. Once the first one is down, strafe to the right to
repeat the procedure against the second gunship.
After that, return to the far left of the platform and hurl plasma balls into
the portal core to break off those spinning plates.
That's it! You've just beaten HL2. Congratulations.
4. Weapons DDD
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Crowbar:
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Primary Fire Mode : Swing the crowbar.
Secondary Fire Mode: n/a
Ah, the famous crowbar; one of your most reliable aids in the original Half-
Life. Unfortunately, though, it loses almost all of his purposes once you get
the gravity gun. Before that, use the crowbar to break crates apart, to
destroy manhacks and to fight headcrabs when trying to save ammo. Afterwards
you can at least still use it against normal zombies and toxic zombies unless
there are objects lying around you can toss at them with the gravity gun. Oh,
and also don't use the crowbar against Barnacles as you could do in HL1.
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Gravity Gun:
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Primary Fire Mode : Toss something away.
Secondary Fire Mode: Pull something to you and make it float in midair right
in front of the gun.
Probably the best idea Valve had: The gravity gun can be extremely fun to use
and it allows for a lot of experimenting. Use the gravity gun to destroy
crates, to defeat manhacks, antlions and any kind of headcrabs (by attacking
them directly), as well as against antlion queens, normal zombies and toxic
zombies when there are heavy solid objects lying around.
Furthermore it can perfectly toss away those pesky sentry guns and mine balls
and in combination with concrete blocks, explosive barrels and radiators it
even is a great weapon against the Combine as long as you know how to aim.
Explosive objects that are thrown away with the gravity gun explode on
landing, so this can both be a great danger to any enemy and to you, so makes
sure to only do this when there is a lot of space around you and when the
enemy is quite far away.
Also employ the gravity gun to pull in items that would be out of reach
otherwise.
While you can use the gravity gun to pick up grenades and throw them away, I
really don't recommend this as they might explode right in your face this way.
Only try this in multiplayer when it's a make or break situation.
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Pistol:
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Primary Fire Mode : Normal Shot
Secondary Fire Mode: n/a
The standard pistol works well against headcrabs before obtaining the gravity
gun, but after that it should only be used against single normal zombies.
Unlike other Ego-Shooters, Half-Life 2 has a pretty lame pistol and you
definitely shouldn't use it except for the two situations I mentioned above.
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Magnum:
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Primary Fire Mode : Normal Shot
Secondary Fire Mode: n/a
The magnum kicks ass in any game it appears in and so does it in Half-Life 2.
It is somewhat slow, its reload time is a pain and its ammo is rare, but it
sure hits hard. Use it when you need to take out any kind of (non-mechanical)
enemy quickly or when you just feel like going rampage.
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Sub Machine Gun:
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Primary Fire Mode : Rapid Fire
Secondary Fire Mode: Grenade
This gun used to be my weapon of choice in the first Half-Life. Unfortunately
it is way less effective in the second one. The normal fire is decent, but a
magazine is a lot earlier empty already than you'd expect, it is imprecise
and it doesn't deal as much damage as it should. The grenades on the other
hand are great as they are powerful and as they explode immediately upon
contact. Still the grenades on their own don't make a good weapon and
switching to the SMG just to fire off a grenade also isn't a good thing to do.
Bottom-line is: Use the SMG when you are low on pulse-rifle ammo and on
shotgun ammo or when you have lots of health left and not too many enemies
around.
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Pulse-Rifle:
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Primary Fire Mode : Rapid Fire
Secondary Fire Mode: Disintegrator
Best. Weapon. Of the game.
Seriously, the pulse-rifle has a high rate of fire, it is pretty precise even
at long distances, it is extremely powerful and after about half of the game
you will find pulse ammo at many fallen Combine. Furthermore the secondary
fire is a feast to use as well. You fire off a big ball of plasma energy
which bounces off any walls a few times, instantly killing any living enemy
upon contact. Since its ammo is scarce, though, you should save it for really
hard passages. Another (minor) downside is that the secondary fire not only
dissolves the enemies, but also their weapons.
Use the pulse-rifle against Combine and elite Combine and also on super
zombies if you feel like you need to. It can even be used to snipe at enemies
if you run low on crossbow ammo. Just don't waste the pulse energy which
especially means not to use it against weak enemies and to aim for the
Combine's heads.
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Shotgun:
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Primary Fire Mode : Single Shot
Secondary Fire Mode: Double Shot
Well, it's a shotgun. I guess you know what that means: Great damage in close
quarter, but extreme scattering at long distances. The shotgun is of good use
against any kinds of zombies and headcrabs, but should also be used against
Combine inside of buildings to save the pulse ammo. The secondary fire
basically is the same as the primary one, differing in that it takes two
shells and hence dealing twice the damage. If you are confident in your
aiming skills, I recommend the double shot against Combine, as it would
otherwise usually take two hits ion hard difficulty to kill a Combine.
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Crossbow:
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Primary Fire Mode : Single Shot
Secondary Fire Mode: Zoom in / zoom out
Other Ego-Shooters might have sniping weapons that are both more effective
and cooler, but at least you have a sniping weapon after all. Zoom in at an
enemy (never even think of fighting enemies up close with the crossbow) and
fire off a slow bolt. Not only are they slow but they also are bound to
gravity, which means that they lose height as they fly. Furthermore the
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