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Half-Life Hints

I've reached a dead-end with some downed electrical equipment. Where do I go?

  • 1 of 10: First, crouch and walk underneath the barbed wire barricade that's past the second small land mine area.
  • 2 of 10: Perhaps there is a way out of this area after all.
  • 3 of 10: Rather than thinking laterally, think vertically.
  • 4 of 10: Can you get on top of any of the nearby buildings?
  • 5 of 10: One of the electrical structures has fallen against a building. It would be simple to climb.
  • 6 of 10: It is electrified, so you will have to figure out how to turn off the electricity before you can attempt to climb it.
  • 7 of 10: Climb up the fallen structure once you can. You will be on the roof of a storage building.
  • 8 of 10: Start searching the roof for some sort of entrance into the building.
  • 9 of 10: You will eventually find a hole in the roof.
  • 10 of 10: Drop down it and into the storage building.