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What are the red lasers for?
1 of 10: The red laser beams are trigger beams.
2 of 10: You may or may not be able to make out some small deployable auto-turrets near these laser beams.
3 of 10: Cut through the beams and these turrets will fire, so you will have to make a decision.
4 of 10: If you can see the turrets, you might have a chance of disabling them quickly. Once you begin shooting at them, they begin shooting at you, so just keep firing until they go down in smoke. (One good way to handle this is to stand so that you can only see one leg of the turret, then fire at it with the handgun.)
5 of 10: You can try to avoid the beams, but it is often very difficult to do.
6 of 10: Or you can just run right through them. There is usually adequate coverage nearby from which you can assess the situation at hand.
7 of 10: Run through the beams and listen for turrets powering up. If they start firing at you, you need to seek better coverage because they can see you. Strafe from cover to cover and open fire on the turrets.
8 of 10: If you can, you might want to toss a grenade over near the turret for a quick resolution to your problem.
9 of 10: Once all of the turrets associated with the beams have been disabled, the red lasers pose no threat and you can pass through them freely.
10 of 10: If this is your first encounter with the red lasers/deployable auto-turrets and you are in the green section of Storage Area 1, be sure to grab the MP5 automatic machine gun that's on the floor near an explosive box. You will need it in a while.
