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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints
How can I avoid falling down into the zombie-filled room below?
1 of 12: Don't tread on those boards.
2 of 12: To find out which boards are weak, hit the floor at various points with regular-fire gravity gun bursts. If you're targeting a weak spot, the gravity gun will zap it (though not break it). Otherwise, it'll just make its feeble little "nothing's there" noise.
3 of 12: Once you've located the nearest set of boards that are weak, shoot them out with the shotgun or whatever to reveal the room and the zombies below. (Also, pick up and throw the bedframe at the center of the floor to break even more boards.)
4 of 12: Then wait while Alyx shoots the zombies for you.
5 of 12: NOTE: She might not shoot zombies that don't "wake up" and move around, so you may need to put a pistol round in them to get them going.
6 of 12: After she's done, use the gravity gun to pull up supplies from the room below.
7 of 12: Or drop down there and get the supplies that way.
8 of 12: If you drop into the room for any reason, find the door with the board over it and remove it.
9 of 12: NOTE: You may have to knock some furniture away from the door first.
10 of 12: Move along to reach a room with some health packs and some cracky floorboards that won't break, but that you can overhear some amusing conversations through.
11 of 12: Remove the board from the door in that room and go through it to find yourself back on the stairwell you climbed earlier.
12 of 12: When you get back to the weak-floor room, walk along its left edge to get to the other side.
