pull in an explosive barrel and hurl it down at the two enemies pretty much
right in front of you. Climb down the ladder one level, look for good stuff
(especially behind the red container) and then drop down to the hopper.
Ignore it and go through the door where another hopper awaits you. Approach
it and briefly retreat once it jumps up.
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[Snipers]
Open some supply crates and go outside. Haste along the left wall, hiding
from the sniper up ahead whenever possible. Then, once you are next to a
truck and a trash bin, run behind another truck, then behind a car and
finally rush towards the sniper. Beneath the window you are safe, so take
your time and throw up a grenade. Open the supply crates. Carefully go around
the corner where another sniper controls the street. Haste across the street
into the room with the big windows. Break open a supply crate, leave the room
and run on to the right, while strafing and jumping to hopefully avoid some
of the sniper attacks.
Enter the left building; kill two headcrabs with the gravity gun and a super
zombie in the dark area with the shotgun. Enter the bathroom for some medi
kits. Head down the ramp and go over to the hurt rebel. Defend him against
some zombies with the shotgun. Further down the water corridor are two super
zombies. Either use either use the pulse-rifle or the shotgun. It depends on
which ammo you can afford to use at the moment.
Go up the stairs to some zombies you can luckily ignore completely: A sniper
on the left takes care of them. Once he's done with them, lob a grenade into
the sniper's window. In case you keep missing, there is a grenade crate
nearby. Move on to meet Barney, asking you to eliminate two snipers. They
aren't visible at the moment, so walk up onto the roof to trigger them. One
is at the end of the roof (go down one storey to get him) and your second
victim is on the left, attackable from the roof (of course both of them are
behind windows again).
Approach Barney, help him against two toxic headcrabs and follow him down a
pile of rubble to a Combine console he manages to hack to open the path to a
supply crate and two poisonous headcrabs (gravity gun).
[Big Bertha]
Go outside to a small backyard and pull in an explosive barrel from the right.
Hurl it up at two Combine and a Sentry Turret. Smash the supply crate and
move on to see the true power of the Combine weapon you are aiming to destroy.
Go down the stairs, destroy the hopper, use the gravity gun against the
Sentry Turret on your left and destroy yet another hopper.
Outside you will have to tackle the super weapon: A devastating beam comes
down at a certain spot every few seconds. This spot is always right at the
point you are going to be at when the beam strikes. Since you can see where
it will strike next, you can try to dodge it. When you see it in front of you,
stop and go back a few feet, as the weapons also has a blast radius. Note
that you are safe under a roof or any under solid object. Head for the
container near the pit for some health and some cover. Then get back out,
turn left and run over the rubble. Somehow you seem to be more safe here than
on the street. Head for the door, enter the building and kill two Combine
with the pulse-rifle.
After patching yourself up at the health panel, open the next door, wait for
the beam to strike again and run outside, heading for the small bunker ahead,
which is only lightly guarded. Ignore any other enemies on the right and just
proceed ahead to the next building. Two Combine will leave it when you
approach it and another one waits inside. Pick up some more stuff and leave
on the right. Head for the museum or whatever it is to be safe from the super
weapon, but on the other hand you will have to face four normal Combine and
an elite Combine. You might want to consider using not only the pulse-rifle
but also its secondary fire. Walk past the main entrance, pull a plug behind
the force field and enter the museum.
[A Visit to the Museum]
Open the left door. See those blue laser lines? These activate sunken Sentry
Guns which observe a certain area after having been activated. This one,
luckily, is rather harmless. Walk into the laser, step back and you should be
fine. Roll a grenade at the Gun while it is up to destroy it. In a small room
behind you are infinite grenades and two supply crates.
The main hall. Hurl a grenade at the Combine appearing behind the force field
at the exit sign and finish them off with the pulse-rifle. Then break the
blue lasers nearby and destroy the two Sentry Guns. The first one can be
struck without entering its area of sight, but for the other one you have to
swiftly go around the corner, throw the grenade and retreat. Eliminate two
Combine in the dark.
Go up the stairs, pass by on the lasers and rescue some reinforcements. Then
equip a grenade, break the lasers, quickly step around the left corner and
toss a grenade into both Guns without them being able to even see you.
Afterwards enter the room behind the Guns to find two wall panels and the
first shield generator. Use the gravity gun as you did when Alyx lowered the
shields on the square. Go back to face lots of Combine and an elite Combine
coming up the stairs you already came up from. I highly suggest a well aimed
secondary fire of the pulse-rifle.
Now search for a bridge near the stairs (not the one opposite of it), walk
over it, take a right and enter a room you are about to get trapped in. Stay
close to the various openings in the walls (patrol along all of them) to get
a shot at some Combine behind them. After a while one of the doors is about
to be opened. Hit the two hoppers with the gravity gun so they land near that
door. Once the door is open, a few more Combine enter the room, getting a
taste of their own hopper medicine. Finish them off with the pulse-rifle.
Also watch out for the other door which will also be opened (not as obviously,
though) by two soldiers. Move on, go through the lasers and do not destroy
the guns. Instead bunny-hop towards them and wait in between them for them to
cease fire. Then deactivate the generator, which also takes care of the Guns
and restock at the health panel.
Go over to the other wing of the building (either via the bridges or via the
main staircase), tell your squad to stay back and break another blue laser.
Toss a grenade at the only Sentry Gun and hide behind the table until the
grenade explodes. The Gun guarded some grenades and health.
Now again tell your squad to halt and enter a nearby room with lots of red
lasers and a hopper at the entrance. Dispose of the hopper, jump onto the
structure right in front of you, walk left past the first few lasers and hop
onto the block up ahead. Turn right to jump over the next lasers. Get onto
the round thing with the pipes sticking out, walk around it and jump onto the
pipe at the wall. Your way leads up the shelf, onto the right shelf and then
onto the big solid console nearby. The rest should be self-explaining over
the pipes to the switch which turns off the whole security including the
hoppers.
Destroy the last generator which triggers loads of Combine and elite Combine
to spawn on the ground floor at the main hall. Throw down a few grenades and
kill the survivors with the pulse-rifle. Follow Barney down through the exit
passage, destroy three hoppers, use the wall panels and proceed to a Combine
console, Barney is about to hack. Enter the newly opened gate, take out a
Sentry Turret (gravity gun) and two Combine (pulse-rifle) to clear the way up
to the roof.
[On the Rooftop]
Simply run along the roofs, killing some Combine with the pulse-rifle (and
taking cover, while your men keep fighting) until you reach a health panel
and a suit energy panel. As you use these, a gunship takes off. Fire off your
first three missiles from where you are at the moment and then head back to
the beginning of the roof area. There is a missile crate and luckily the
gunship stays rather close here so you can take it down pretty easily.
Stay near this crate for a while until you see a dropship coming from the
right. Hit the strider down below to not get bored as you wait. The dropship
drops three Combine and an elite Combine which will open the gate at the
panels, rushing towards you. Staying close to the gate is pretty much
suicidal on the hard difficulty setting, even if you use the hoppers, but
staying near the missile crate allows for a good overview of the situation
and the enemy position and it allows for the use of the missile launcher.
Just wait for the enemies to come into reach and kill them.
Move on to near the gate and snipe at an enemy in a guard tower. Move on
until you stand behind a container. Pull in the three supply crates, smash
them, bunny-hop to the switch near them, activate it and hop back. This
lowers the bridge over to a heavily guarded building where infinite enemies
keep coming. Fortunately you also have just triggered four rebels to join you.
Stay behind the container, waiting for the first three enemies to run over
the bridge. After having killed them, get onto the bridge yourself and use
the secondary fire of the pulse-rifle to kill three more enemies across the
bridge. Now let your squad lead the way and use the secondary fire again upon
reaching the other end. There shouldn't be much resistance left and as the
Combine stop respawning as soon as you successfully cross the bridge, you can
simply clear the rooms in close-quarter battles with the pulse-rifle. Drop
down the stairs.
[War of the Worlds]
Welcome to the spectacular battle against the striders. Run to the front
porch of the museum where some rebels are already fighting against the
striders. Fire off your first three missiles and run on into the pit up ahead.
Walk through the canal, wait for the second strider to cease firing and
quickly run out of the canal and up the rubble. Then take a left into the
building where you can nab some missiles. Fire them off, leave the building
through where entered it and head for the bunker in the centre of the plaza.
Again, pick up some missiles and use them to finish the job.
Proceed to the big pile of rubble, search for a passage through it and
restock at the missile crate. Take down another strider up ahead. Afterwards
step back and witness the striders' true power: A new strider coming from the
right fires its laser beam at the corner of the building, blowing a hole into
it. First destroy the strider then search for a health panel inside. Get back
and use the missile launcher against some Combine at a barricade down the
street. Go there, walk down the stairs and smash some crates.
[Big House]
Briefly step out onto the street to attract a Combine on your right. Retreat
and kill him when he's gotten close to you. Then head down the street on the
right, escaping into a basement on the left. Pick up the explosive barrel
with the gravity gun to hurl it at three Combine coming through the doorway
in front of you. Throughout this area new sentry drones appear, but as they
can only pester you, first defeat any real enemies or take cover before
dealing with them. Walk up the stairs while wielding the shotgun. Lure the
two Combine down into the staircase to make the shotgun more effective. Enter
the bathroom on the left for two supply crates; then pass up on the ramp to
find three more crates. Walk up the ramp, shoot the crossbow at a Combine on
the left and run over to the staircase to find some health. Leave the
staircase and walk up the concrete bar in the centre of what used to be a
room. Hide behind the debris as long as you need to safely run out and over
to the next storey of the staircase. There's a missile crate here, but you
absolutely don't have to defeat the strider outside. Only do it if you feel
like. Anyway, the next step is to hop into the passage next to the crate,
smash three supply crates and drop down.
[Big Battlefield]
Hop down into the basement, smash a crate on the left and assist your allies
in a fight against four Combine with the pulse-rifle. Smash another crate,
run up and ignore both the strider and the elite Combine. Drop into the hole
on the left and quickly head for the room up ahead where you will find cover
and two supply crates. Go around the corner, hide on the right and wait for
the second strider to pass by. Drop into the hole the strider came out of and
prepare of the three elite Combine to catch up with you. Use the pulse-rifle
against them. Break open a supply crate in the dark.
Move on until the ground below you is blown apart. Look up and use the
secondary fire of the pulse-rifle against the right-most Combine. This should
also take care of another Combine, only leaving one behind. Kill him, climb
up, smash a crate and get outside. Take cover behind the various walls,
eliminate some Combine above and run away from any grenades, but don't waste
too much time here. Don't try to kill ever enemy; instead go around the
corner, pick up some items, lean against the wall to hide from the strider
and haste into the closed room nearby. Shoot a Combine with the shotgun and
break open a few supply crates.
Go up, take down a Combine with the shotgun and definitely ignore the goodies
nearby. If you get close to them, the strider in the background will fire off
its big beam at you. Instead, drop down and keep fighting for a while until
the strider opens a new path in front of you. Drop down, hide in the small
room on the left where some crates wait to be cracked open and then haste out
and up on the left. Kill a few enemies without stopping. Afterwards enter the
building, look for some goodies on the left and walk up the stairs to the
roof. Defeat another Combine and equip the missile launcher to battle the two
striders. But before that, retreat into the staircase until the gunship flies
off. Then ignore the Combine on the other roofs, restock at the missile crate,
hide in between your attacks and whenever all of your squad members are dead,
retreat into the staircase until you have some rebels at your side again, as
these draw most of the striders' attention on them. Also don't refrain from
patching yourself up at the health panels on the ground level whenever you
need to.
After taking down the two striders, clear the roofs from the Combine, using
the missile launcher. Hey, it's fun and you there's a missile crate nearby.
Then balance over the girders at the side of the roof where the stairs end.
Drop down behind the wall, kill a Combine, pick up some suit energy in a dead
end on the left and move on, triggering D0g to appear. While he doesn't
defeat the whole opposition, he at least draws the attention to him, giving
you the chance to clear the area. Go to the barricade and drop down into the
hole, D0g reveals for you.
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[Outside the Citadel]
Carefully climb down the cliff on the left, kill a headcrab in the dark (it
guards a medkit) and drop down onto the upper pipe. Wait for the machinery in
front of you to come up, hop onto it and then quickly to the right. Turn left,
move on, drop down a bit, enter the big hall on the right, follow the rail
beneath the ceiling and drop down again, this time to the left. Drop down to
a small ledge in the hall where the human capsules come through a laser beam.
Carefully advance to enter one of those capsules yourself. Press E at the
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