Then over another fence and onto the graveyard. Equip the gravity gun and use
it against lots of normal zombies. You will find many saw blades and concrete
blocks and in addition Grigori helps out a lot, so you really don't need to
waste any ammo. Your main task should be to look out if any enemies come from
behind. Once your back is clear you can have a look if it is necessary to
help Grigori. Watch out with those explosive barrels and you probably won't
have any problems here. At the end your ally opens a gate for you to crawl
through while he stays back to watch over his people...yeah, whatever. If you
want to, stay there for a while and watch Grigori kill lots of zombies or
just move on.
[The Mines]
Look down the shaft. There are wooden bars at the walls, which can be used to
carefully drop down. Fall from bar to bar until you come to some health paks.
Turn left to find some supply crates in a small room. Carefully drop down to
the ground where an infinite amount of different headcrabs roams around. Thus,
quickly run over to some stairs near a blocked tunnel, walk up the stairs and
jump over to the bars on top of the gate. Try to stay up there, so you can
easily shoot the (non-infinite) headcrabs below with the pistol. Also use the
explosive barrel to your advantage. If you happen to fall down behind the
gate, equip the gravity gun, clear the area and ignore the barrel; it's too
dangerous.
Across the gap you can see some health and ammo. In order to get them you
have to quickly step over the bar on the right, as it breaks apart when you
do. Down in the water you better not turn on the flash light. There's near to
nothing to see and you need quite some air to get through. Surface near the
Branacle tentacle, jump over the wooden gate and dive on to a long tunnel,
leading to the surface. Turn on the mine cart which will constantly ride up
and down, being a threat both to you and any enemy. Walk up to bait a few
zombies following you out of a niche on the left. Go back to watch them being
overrun by the cart, then go into the niche yourself. This triggers some more
zombies up ahead, as well as some more as you go into the second niche. At
the end of the cart path you will face your last zombies before running up
into the sunlight.
[Daylight]
Wonder what Valve had in mind for you once you reach the daylight for the
first time after leaving Ravenholm? It's, it's, IT'S...a railroad
track...oh....wow.
Besides the health on your left and some supply crates you can also grab some
good ammo by climbing over the crates to your right, disposing a poisonous
headcrab and crawling in at the yellow lambda symbol. As you move on, a super
zombie starts its long way towards you. Without the darkness and with so much
time for preparations they kinda've lost their scary impact. Blast him with
the shotgun. A few moments later you will see three zombies being taken out
by a Combine sniper up in the bridge-like construction. Wait until he's done
with them and then toss a grenade into the sniper's window. Don't worry: He
cannot hit you unless you go out too far.
Another sniper, but this time you are right in his area of view. Hide behind
the train, wait for him to shoot, then run over to the crates on the right,
again wait for him to shoot, advance a few feet and after that hide behind
the next wagon (the one with the wood on it). Do yourself a favour and don't
try to be too smart, by picking up some junk with the gravity gun, using it
as a shield; a single sniper hit will break through the object right into
your body. Crawl along under it on the left and kill a headcrab with the
gravity gun. The rest is fairly simple. Move around the red wagon on its left
side and throw a grenade up into the window. Inside the wagon you can find
some ammo.
Pass the dark area to witness a small battle between two Combines and some
aliens. Don't just watch it, though, but manipulate it to your advantage:
Blast the soldiers with the shotgun while they are distracted. The remaining
zombie and headcrab are a pushover for your shotgun. Grab the pulse-rifle in
the container. Out in the open you trigger two Combines to enter the yard on
the left and another one to come along the rails up ahead. Light up the
explosive barrels on the left and retreat back into the tunnel, so only the
lone Combine in front of you can possibly hit you. Use the pulse-rifle
against him and eventually against the two others if they survive the barrel
explosion. Go around the train wreck and onto the yard to trigger two more
Combine coming out of the building ahead. Pick up a barrel with the gravity
gun and toss it at them. Then enter the building where you witness another
battle; this time between four Combines and a few rebels. Assist them (you
know who I mean). The rest is only conversation and restocking.
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[Antlions]
Enter the buggy (See the ammo crate at its back? There's unlimited SMG ammo
in it.) which will be set down by the crane automatically. Also note that the
buggy can be put back up if it gets knocked down, by using the gravity gun.
As you might have already heard, it's mating season for the antlions. You
don't risk being humped like when meeting Lamarr, but these big insects crawl
out of the sand, afterwards trying to assault you via jump attacks.
Unfortunately there's an infinite amount of those creatures in the ground, so
you should hurry and get away from the beach. Since there is absolutely
nothing to find anywhere near the beach, just follow the shore on the right
until you get to a cliff near a pier. Once you have driven up there you are
completely safe from the antlions. Take your time to jump over the gap up
ahead (use the turbo by pressing Ctrl as the standard key config). Search for
items in the hut and drive through the tunnel.
[Gunship #1]
Head back to the beach past the cliff ramp on the right and quickly move on
to the machinery on the far left. It may resemble an oil pump, but it
actually serves as an antlion blocker. Those pesky creatures cannot come near
it...when it is turned on, that is. You can shut it down, but why would you?
Ok, except for some antlion annoyance: Turn it off, watch the enemies close
in and turn it back on again. ^^
Go over to the house and to the cellar entrance on the right. Swiftly clear
the opening with the gravity gun as this spot is out of reach of the antlion
blocker. Hop down to be safe from the insects again. Kill a poisonous
headcrab (gravity gun) on the upper level, before getting up yourself. Go
over to the chimney (there's an SMG grenade in there) which triggers a fat
zombie. Simply drop down and make use of the grenade crate. Time to leave the
house through the main entrance.
Drive through the thin wooden fence and haste along the beach to the next
antlion blocker. Get off the buggy, pick up everything in the barn (there is
an SMG grenade on the truck) and walk up the stairs to the main house. Inside
you have to prove yourself against two Combine (shotgun) and another one that
is triggered outside the house in the meantime. Activate the zoom station (or
send me a better term for it ^^) to realize the Combine are already watching
a rebel outpost you are heading for. Speed on in your buggy, only stopping
for a Combine squad at an antlion blocker. The buggy cannon shreds the patrol
apart in no time. Simply "reel in" the two supply crates with the gravity gun
instead of jumping down.
After reaching the repel outpost, get off the buggy, search for items in the
various buildings and only then enter the basement of the big house (one of
your allies will show you to it after a while if you can't find it for any
reason). You are handed out the bazooka, given the perfect chance to practice
with it as a gunship appears outside. You have already seen some of these in
Water Hazard, but now they are armed...highly armed. Go up the stairs to the
balcony and fire off a missile. Not directly at the gunship, though. Then
wait for it to get behind the gunship and steer it in on your adversary. This
way you will probably get hurt quite a bit, but since you'll find loads of
medi kits around, it is more important to strike as hard as you can. Gunships
can blow up your missiles in midair if they hit them; that's why you need to
play with them. When you run out of missiles first look in the basement, then
in the small hut near the basement entrance, then inside the garage and if
you still haven't won the battle you should look inside the second to largest
house. One of your allies eventually gives medi kits to you and another one
gives new missiles to you.
Once you're done, restock and talk to the colonel in the basement to get the
gate opened. Board the buggy, approach the gate and get off the vehicle again
to let your suit be powered up by a vortigaunt. Then ride on.
[Magnet Power]
Try to break open the first supply crate ahead (at the crash site) from a
distance with the secondary fire of your buggy cannon. If you really need it
you might also get off for the second one and open with the gravity gun, but
this is pretty risky. Ride on on the right strip of sand until you see a
Combine buggy being crashed on the left. Shoot the two Combines trying to
escape from a distance as well as the other one on the pier on the right.
Then position the buggy near the crane and disembark. Activate the antlion
blocker. Walk up, equip the shotgun and go around the container to face a
Combine. Another one has spawned near the antlion blocker. Open the supply
crates before climbing up the ladder to kill two more Combines. Use the
pulse-rifle on the remaining enemy on the crane.
Find another supply crate inside a container prior to entering the crane
platform. Lower the ladder on the right to create a quick path you can take
if you have to reposition the buggy. Why reposition it? Well, you have to use
the crane's magnet to carry the buggy up to the warehouse nearby. As you turn
the magnet over to the building, three Combines open the gate and rush
outside, desperately trying to hit you. Relax and take your time thinking of
fun ways to dispose of them. Drop the buggy, grab a container, swing the
magnet, etc.. Then hit the bridge with the crane to lower it and go over it
towards your buggy. Hit the explosive barrels behind the gate to rid the hall
of three enemies and activate the switch at its end. See the map? Seems like
the Combine know about all the rebel outposts.
Drive through the newly opened gate and decide whether you want to act like
some movie hero or like your typical Ego-Shooter hero: Either drive past the
four Combines, into the next hall and up the ramp through the window, or halt
nearby and clear the area before driving up the ramp. Either way you should
stop after the jump to break open a supply crate. Continue on the street
along the cliffs.Boost over the gap and ignore the gunship for the moment;
the buggy gun is totally useless against it. Stop near some car wrecks
blocking the path and give the insectoid copter a taste of your rockets. Medi
kits and rockets are scattered around, the latter one even in a bottomless
crate. After your victory, toss the obstacles down the cliff or at least
somehow out of the way, employing the gravity gun and drive on. Stop at the
blue van for some supplies.
[Mines]
Oh, how nice. Isn't that D0g's ball? Kinda! These things really are
intelligent mines that will electrify Gordon or explode in water or near an
explosion. Hence disembark, equip the gravity gun and play fetch with the
ocean. Near two car wrecks you will have to destroy two more of them and
after a little while, guess what, three of them.
Approach the shack in your buggy. Its cannon will definitely be of great help
against the three Combines. Get off, open the back door of the house and
climb into the buggy again as you have just triggered three more of your
nemesis. Search the whole estate for goodies, but watch out for two Combines
being triggered as you close in on the supply crates in the loft.
Drive on, disposing off three Combines almost already by simply shooting a
truck that's loaded with explosive barrels. Then disembark near a pile of
wrecks that block the path and pick up the crossbow on the small hill. Use it
to take out at least one of the enemies in the provisional Combine outpost up
ahead. Clear the street, drive near the force field and pick up a barrel with
the gravity gun. Go straight and just around the corner to see lots of
Combine near a police car. Toss the barrel over and repeat with another one
before retreating to your buggy. Stay on the bridge and wait for your
opponents to show up so you can snipe them away one by one with the crossbow.
Use the pulse-rifle in case you run out of ammo. Afterwards easily deal with
two mines, search for items and then push the police van away as it powers
the force field.
[Leaving the Buggy]
Roll over the stupid Combine that comes running out of the small house. Then
approach the small settlement, disembark and clear the first house on the
right. Luckily, this won't trigger any other enemies to head for you.
Afterwards run to the left-most house and kill the lone enemy while you keep
running. A few enemies will appear behind you in the meantime, so the house
provides some cover for you. Once you have killed everyone, enter the big
house, place a table or anything else under the broken stairs and get up.
Besides some items you will also find a fat zombie here, but he shouldn't
cause any problems; run past him. Outside is a path leading down and to the
underside of the bridge. Ignore the headcrab and the fat zombie.
[The Bridge]
Walk straight to some stairs. Either go up for some health and suit energy or
just directly get outside. Drop down onto the girder platform and proceed on
the bars, only watching out a bit for the Barnacle. Give the headcrab inside
the shack a taste of physics, pick up some stuff and again proceed on the
metal bars up to a platform with a ladder both leading down to some medi kits
and up to another shack. Step out, snipe at two Combine on your right, climb
up the ladder in front of you and drop down on the bars at the end of the
walkway. Advance to the next shack, kill two headcrabs with the gravity gun
(I wonder why they didn't attack the Combine) and take the right walkway to
reach the end of the bridge. Look for a supply crate before entering the
bridge's interior.
Move on until you see an explosive barrel standing on a platform to your left.
Wait in the entrance and blow up the barrel to get two Combine caught under
some metal bars. Step onto them and shoot another enemy with the shotgun.
Return to the entrance, look up and defeat quite a lot of Combine with the
pulse-rifle. Killing them a bit later face to face is too dangerous and
tossing grenades at them rarely succeeds as they dodge them. Then open the
supply crate nearby, traverse the room, go outside and take out a lone guard
high up on a sentry turret with the crossbow. Climb up and look for two more
supply crates and eventually any Combine survivors. Walk up the stairs in
another room and throw a grenade through the force field to hopefully kill
two Combine. If they survive, stay back and welcome them with the shotgun
once they leave the room. The grenade has already lowered the force field (if
you haven't got any grenades, simply use the gravity gun on the
plug...talking about high tech), so restock at the wall panels and activate
the switch which deactivates a force field near your buggy.
Get back down, killing two Combine as you quickly run back to the entrance of
the bridge's interior. Why quickly? There's a gunship on your track. Haste
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