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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints

Section 3: Running Around Through Buildings (ep1_c17_02b)

  • 1 of 15: Past a short dark passageway, you'll come to another room where someone had too much time and too many explosives on their hands.
  • 2 of 15: After killing off the zombie torso and looking for supplies, find the stairs that lead up to a locked door.
  • 3 of 15: When the beeping of a Combine "door-be-gone" charge starts up, retreat back to the room below.
  • 4 of 15: In the room past the blown-away door, be *sure* to get the crossbow from the shelves in the back, then look around for a way to move on.
  • 5 of 15: Just past the force field are stairs leading up to a big street battle between the Combine and some resistance members.
  • 6 of 15: After the street is clear, search all up and down it for supplies and dropped weapons. You may find an RPG that a dead resistance member dropped. (If not, a live RPG-toting resistance member should join you as a squad member.)
  • 7 of 15: Optionally use the gravity gun to shut the safehouse's TV up, then find the doorway that leads to the stairs.
  • 8 of 15: Check the small lambda-marked storage room, then head up the stairs until a parasite rocket crashes into them, blocking your way up.
  • 9 of 15: After Barney talks to Alyx and lowers the nearby bridge, he'll *finally* give you a crowbar. I don't know about you, but I was really missing that handy tool!
  • 10 of 15: On the other side of the bridge, remove the board from the big wall hole and go up its little ramp.
  • 11 of 15: Hide in the side room with supplies while a gunship flies close by, then check the area to the right of the stairs for more supplies.
  • 12 of 15: Be careful of headcrabs on the stairs, plus poison headcrabs and zombines just past the stairs.
  • 13 of 15: As soon as you go through the door leading outside, soldiers will appear on the building across the street from you, and the gunship will make another flyby.
  • 14 of 15: After the gunship is gone and the soldiers are dead, it's safe to lower the nearby bridge and cross to the other building.
  • 15 of 15: Cross the bridge, watching carefully for any soldiers you might have missed earlier, then turn down the left hallway to reach Section 4: A Gunship, Lots of Zombies, and Two Sentry Guns.