needs to see your antlions again. Admit it: You've missed them, right? Show
your love by tossing the sentry gun away as well as two more up the stairs.
Recover in a prison guard room where you also should switch the cameras to
see what to expect later on: Another antlion queen! Go up another set of
stairs, push two cannons aside and swim through the next room. Feed some
objects lying on the ground to the Barnacles to zip by.
Climb up the rubble. See and hear the glass breaking above you? As you open
the next door four super headcrabs fall down the ceiling. Stay in the hallway
and use the gravity gun while constantly moving around. Leave the hallway and
drop down one level and enter the hall. Try your best to hit the two sentry
guns above you with the barrels and radiators strewn around. If you can't do
it, go up the stairs, hide behind the columns and try again with new objects.
If you still keep missing you have to run up all the way (guarding yourself
by carrying a barrel) and use the gravity gun directly or try to push them
aside with a normal gun. Go through the hallway on the highest level.
[Force Fields]
Kill a headcrab to clear the path to the queen. Drop down and quickly crawl
through the holes in front of you to get to the lavatories where you can
circle around while fighting the big bug. Use the gravity gun on anything you
can find (except for the explosive barrels which should only be shot at from
a distance) to deal lots of damage, especially with the radiators. Once
you're done with it, your smaller antlion buddies are at your side again.
Open the door and send your bugs along the hallway to rid it of some Combine.
Against the two sentry guns, though, you have to act yourself. While they
concentrate on the bugs you can run along on the left side and crash the guns.
Quickly turn around and send your allies down the hallway on the right to
fight some additional Combine and manhacks. After the dust has settled,
approach the force field at the end of the passage. There are two Combine
hiding behind it, but they are dumb enough to come out eventually, being easy
enemies for your antlions. Now pull the trigger with the gravity gun and
activate the switch inside.
Leave the room. Around the corner is a newly opened gate. Look under the
stairs for a supply crate before moving up. Toss a pheropod at the entrance
ahead to both clear the trip bomb and to dispose of the Combine around the
corner. Activate the next switch to open yet another gate and search for
items on the upper level. Drop down and send your bugs through the gate to
take out a sentry gun. Afterwards haste through, pull away the vent girder
and crawl through. Hold the plank and the concrete block into the fan to
destroy it eventually. Move on, killing a lone Combine with the pulse-rifle
and pulling the plug with the gravity gun. Wait a few seconds to give the
antlions the time to at least kill any remaining Combine here. The sentry gun
on your left has to be dealt with by you, though.
[Big Hall]
Walk up the stairs and lob a pheropod down the hall which should be enough to
clear it. Advance further, sending the antlions up front so they attract the
fire of the machine gun station up ahead. Run behind them and around the
corner to get out of danger. Pick up the explosive barrel with the gravity
gun and throw it at the sentry guns down the corridor. If you miss you have
to enter the room, hide on the right and throw other things at them.
Go up the stairs and let your insectoid buddies do some more work. At the end
of the passage, briefly go up to see two Combine and retreat into one of the
cells. Simply let the antlions take care of these Combine as well as of some
more in front of the machine gun. It may seem tempting to use it against them,
but don't do it (at least not on hard) as you would be under fire from two
directions.
Don't go over the small bridge, but turn left and once again send the bugs in
first to clear the oncoming corridor of a bunch of Combine. Proceed, go over
the other small bridge and throw a pheropod into the opening on the left to
eliminate a sentry gun and two guards. Stock up in the guard room, activate
the switch and watch loads of Combine desperately trying to close in you. You
don't even have to do anything to make the bugs tear them apart.
Simply enjoy. ^^
Go through the gate nearby.
[Laundry Hall]
Fresh up your health in the room ahead. Phew, luckily the Combine have
already killed the queen that roamed around here. Toss a bug bait around the
corner and then again around the next corner. The antlions distract the
sentry guns, while you can attempt to throw a radiator at them or just run
into the corridor and hide in the room on its right side. Watch out for the
trip bomb in the dark when using the gravity gun through the far-most opening.
Next, throw a pheropod into the big hall. It might not seem to be good for
anything at first, but if you stay patient the bugs will eventually kill an
all too courageous Combine and after that they should be powerful enough to
clear the hall. Look at the right side of the hall for a dark passage with a
toxic zombie. Since there are lots of big objects scattered around, he isn't
any true danger. Search for some items and return to the hall.
Walk up, throw a pheropod into the short corridor on the right, run past it
and open a supply crate in a room nearby. Use a pheropod in the kitchen and
rush in, hiding behind any solid objects afterwards. Toss something against
the left sentry gun and then run to the other one. Stay away from the gas at
the hole, since it will easily be lit up. Send the antlions into the corridor
behind the hole and once the Combine are dead, run in there yourself and head
for the two right-most sentry guns. These can't hit you here, but afterwards
the other two can, so hurry when tossing them down. Go back to the open
entrance to the corridor in which the two guns stood to find a supply crate.
Walk up the first set of stairs. Before walking up the second one, throw a
pheropod up there. Restock and say good bye to the antlions. Who knows if
it's forever this time? Well, I know, but I won't tell you. Don't wanna spoil
anyone. Anyway, drop down through the broken window to find out where the
gunfire you can hear comes from: The right door is blown open and some
Combine come through it. Ignore them, though, as they are totally fixed on an
antlion queen. Wait for the queen to win and then first use the gravity gun
and afterwards the shotgun to end this battle, which actually is pretty easy
in comparison to the other queen encounters.
Push aside some junk in a corner, crawl outside, break open two supply crates
and kill a zombie. You've basically just left Nova Prospekt, but the prison
still doesn't want to let you part off. Go through the strange-looking
passage and place any object under the ledge on the right so you can hop into
the opening before the metal structure outside crushes you. Fortunately
you're in no hurry as it takes a while. Defeat a single headcrab and drop
down.
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[She's back]
Drop down and move along until you meet Alyx. Follow her into a lift. Take
out three Combine with the pulse-rifle after the ride, but also let Alyx do
some of the work. After she has hacked two consoles you are in for a rather
hectic battle: Follow Alyx while eliminating various Combine with the pulse-
rifle and be quick about it as Ms. Vance is about to take lots of damage
otherwise. Once up the stairs, go around the left corner to kill a lone
Combine in Alyx' back. When the area is secure, enter a dark room for a
supply crate. Then follow her to an interesting story scene. Seems like you
didn't really leave Nova Prospekt, but you have just entered its interesting
parts.
Alyx opens the next door, but retreats to assist you from a distance. Open
the left door in the dark passage to access two supply crates guarded by two
super headcrabs. Afterwards enter the guard room. Find a hidden vent by
pushing the cupboards away. Crawl through, killing three headcrabs on the way.
At the end, toss the girder outside and hop down to give any surviving
headcrabs the rest with the gravity gun.
Wait for Alyx to open the left gate. Advance to the guard room and look at
the monitor. It shows four Combine approaching the other entrance to this
room. Wait for the correct moment to lob some grenades through the broken
window towards the gate. Then switch to the pulse-rifle and do the rest. Look
into the next hallway to see two more Combine. Give 'em a grenade. Now just
one more grenade to the sentry guns inside the hallway and you're done for
this battle. Go back to the guard room for a grenade crate.
Return to the sentry gun hallway, enter the left corridor and throw a grenade
around the corner. Equip the pulse-rifle to kill any Combine that has
survived there and in the upcoming room. Throw a grenade through the force
field into the room with the plug to advance. Lay down a sentry gun with the
gravity gun and two more of them with a wide grenade toss down a corridor.
[Defence]
Dispose of two Combine with the pulse-rifle. After that you have to act
relatively quickly. Open the right cupboard (there's a button right at it)
and pick up one of those sentry guns, Alyx has just recalibrated. Place it
down one of the sets of stairs. Put the other one at the end of the other
stairs. Behind the force field Combine soldiers are about to rush in for a
few minutes, as well as three manhacks near the end. Stay on the upper level,
assist either sentry gun a bit with the pulse-rifle and when one side is
clear for the moment, run over to the other side. If you hear a sentry gun
siren and a heavy shooting where the gun stood, it has been thrown down.
Quickly go to it and put it back up by simply pressing E, walking a few steps
forward and backward and dropping it again. Then go back up and assist the
other gun. In between you can also use the health panel at the wall. Once the
manhacks appear, concentrate on them and crash them at any wall via the
gravity gun.
Alyx appears once again, revealing a shocking bit of story. Carry one of the
sentry guns and take a left behind where the force field was. Clear the path
from all the junk, go down the stairs and place the gun right in the doorway
to easily kill three headcrabs. Break open a supply crate pick up the sentry
gun again and proceed to a flooded and electrified room. Shoot the gun over
to the platform up ahead (with the gravity gun) and follow it over the pipes.
Kill two headcrabs, shoot the cannon over to the exit out of this room (at
the fence) and pull in two crates to build a small bridge over to the exit.
Jump onto the first one, drop the second one in front of it, pick up the
first one, drop it ahead of you and so on until you are back on solid ground.
Turn left to see some ammo you can reel in with the gravity gun.
Move on with the sentry gun. First enter the left room to recover; then walk
up to the Combine, which triggers some zombies to stand up and attack you.
Simply retreat to the flooded room and place the sentry gun. Up the stairs
(at the very top is a supply crate), past the crates and the cupboard which
block an entrance and up some more stairs (while still carrying the sentry
gun along) to face two Combine. Place the cannon at the opening on the left
or if you don't carry it along: Use the pulse-rifle. Pick up some ammo in the
guard room and jump down.
I consider this to be one of the most difficult situations in the whole game
if not even the most difficult one: You have to defend yourself against
hordes of Combine and manhacks, spawning just about everywhere. Swiftly enter
a small room with three sentry guns behind a force field. Place two of them
at the left entrance of this room and the other one at the other entrance. If
you have kept another one all the way as I told you, use it to reinforce the
single cannon. Have the pulse-rifle in your hands and watch out for anything
around you. If a cannon is pushed aside, put it back up. If a Combine
attempts to attack a cannon in close-quarter, kill him. If a Combine appears
in front of the cannons, trying to shoot at you, hide in the cupboard. When a
manhack appears, switch to the gravity gun and destroy it. The main threat
are the grenades. Whenever one rolls into your little fort, you better run
out and head back after the explosion, putting the sentry guns back in place.
Switching to the gravity gun to toss them away is too risky in my opinion. In
between the attacks you should refill at the two wall panels.
Look around for items (there is an SMG ammo crate, but the pulse-rifle is way
better of a choice in this fierce battle and you should find more than enough
ammo for it after the battle as well) and follow Alyx down the stairs.
[Dr. Mossmann]
The lights are turned off, but don't worry: The Combine light up the place
soon after. Still have the pulse-rifle equipped and head for the single
Combine around the right corner. Move along the right side of the fence and
hide between the crates as you somewhat surprise the enemies on the other
side of the fence. If you run out of pulse ammo, switch to the SMG. Restock
at a health panel and follow the only available path to another story
relevant scene. After entering the Combine teleporter hall, turn left and use
the two wall panels to fill up your health and suit energy.
Listen to the dialogue and watch the whole scenery until Alyx tells you to
cover here. Place two of the sentry turrets at the glass openings and the
last one in front of the force field next to the Combine teleporter. Stay on
the centre platform while lots of Combine try to rush in from three different
places. The turrets will settle the situation nearly all on their own; just
put them back into place if they get struck down by a grenade. If you get
hurt, heal yourself at the wall panels. After a while Alyx finally gets the
teleporter back up, allowing you to escape.
[Dr. Kleiner]
Enter Dr. Kleiner's lab and search for a suit energy panel, an energy item
and a supply crate while your allies have a conversation. At the end, drop
down into the hole near D0g.
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[D0g]
Walk out, approach the car wreck and watch D0g going rampage on the Combine.
Afterwards D0g will open up a path for you. Go through, climb over the fence
and walk over the rubble on the left inside the house.
[The Uprising]
Ah, you're back to the play ground - but - they have nearly completely
destroyed it. Not it's personal! Proceed to the main station, destroying two
sentry drones and meeting four rebels on the way. The uprising really has
begun, so take them with you as your squad. Pressing C sends them to where
you currently aim at; pressing C twice makes them follow you again. Another
rebel drops down some supply crates. Pick up their contents and look out for
two Combine opening a gate to your right.
[Hoppers]
Usually you would have to clear the hole, jump down and try your best to
avoid the blast of the hopper mines, but there is an easy way to get through
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