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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints

Okay, how can I get to this one's power box?

  • 1 of 13: As usual, look around for an alternate means of leaving the area you're in since the door can't be opened yet.
  • 2 of 13: There's a vent shaft opening down at floor level a ways left of the door, right near where you found the hopper.
  • 3 of 13: Soon after you turn right in the shaft, you'll find a small opening on the right with some rungs on one wall. Skip it and go straight unless you want some armor batteries.
  • 4 of 13: When you turn a corner and see that the shaft ahead has an opening at its end, stop there and quicksave your game.
  • 5 of 13: If you proceed forward, a chunk of the shaft will break off and fall, taking you with it. Worse yet, the room you fall into is full of laser tripmines and explosive barrels!
  • 6 of 13: As for the elevator, it'll start plummeting downward the instant you set foot in it.
  • 7 of 13: After you escape the screwy elevator, you'll find that your only option is to enter another explosive-packed room.
  • 8 of 13: Find the half-broken window in one corner of the room and kill the poison headcrab past it before jump-crouching through.
  • 9 of 13: In the cramped area beyond, find the grate-covered vent shaft in the back wall.
  • 10 of 13: When you get to some rungs, climb up them, then blast the covering off another shaft opening.
  • 11 of 13: You'll find yourself on a ledge higher up in the elevator shaft you took the plunge in earlier.
  • 12 of 13: Go along the shaft until you reach a weak-looking grating that's covering an opening in the shaft floor. Looking down through it, you'll see that yet another room full of explosives awaits you below.
  • 13 of 13: That room happens to be the one with the power box and the power-lock doors, so use the power box to open the doors and get Alyx to rejoin you.