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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints
How can I possibly make it through the parking garage alive?
1 of 14: Only by "plugging" the antlions' spawn-holes like you did that other one recently.
2 of 14: There's only one usable car on the bottom floor (the red one that's off by itself), so run over to it and quickly grav-blast it to where it covers the nearest spawn-hole.
3 of 14: Then find the long, skinny ramp-like piece of concrete that leads up to the next floor and run up it.
4 of 14: Just ahead of you, you'll see a green car stuck in a large open doorway.
5 of 14: Go through the other doorway to the left after moving the supply crate out of your way, then grav-blast the car down to the lower floor.
6 of 14: Drop down after it and use it to "plug" the nearest antlion hole.
7 of 14: Get back up onto the second floor, then run around to the other side of it and find the skinny concrete beams that can be used to run up to the third floor.
8 of 14: Go to the other side of that floor using the small stick-out concrete pieces along the back wall or the narrow concrete beams that go across the center.
9 of 14: In the back, you'll find a large door with a turn-wheel to the left of it that will slooowly open the door as you turn it.
10 of 14: As with the previous antlion-and-turn-wheel area, you'll need to plug all the antlion spawn-holes before you even try to use the wheel to open the door.
11 of 14: Drop down into the nearby lower-floor room that has a white car and a "sleeping" zombine in it.
12 of 14: Quickly kill the zombine and use the wheel to the right of the large door down there to open it up.
13 of 14: Then grav-blast the car out to where you can plug the final antlion spawn-hole with it.
14 of 14: That's all an *immense* pain, especially on Hard difficulty, so check the helpful tips below if you need to.
