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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints
Soldier-vs.-Zombie Tips
1 of 11: Go through the open doors to trigger some further stages of that battle, then immediately retreat and wait it out.
2 of 11: Or watch its progress through the left door's unbreakable window.
3 of 11: After one side is totally defeated (usually the soldiers), watch out for survivors of the other side charging you in the operating room.
4 of 11: That's by far the easiest strategy for this area, but you can get an extra energy orb for the pulse rifle if you do things a bit differently. (Otherwise, you can only get one pulse rifle energy orb in room W54 a bit later on, and that's it for the whole game.)
5 of 11: One of the soldiers in this combat is an elite soldier, but he won't drop a pulse rifle energy orb unless you kill him yourself.
6 of 11: One way to get that done is to stay near the open operating room doors, strafing in and out of cover to help the soldiers shoot down and/or blow up the zombies that attack them. If you help enough, the elite soldier may survive and come after you so you can kill him and get an orb.
7 of 11: A more reliable way is to run out of the operating room and into the side room with a hopper that's nearby.
8 of 11: Have the gravity gun ready to deal with the hopper, then look through the room's glass walls to see the Combine elite.
9 of 11: Quickly kill him (perhaps with the hopper) so he'll drop an energy orb, then run back for the cover of the operating room.
10 of 11: When the combat is entirely over, go back to where you killed the elite to collect your orb.
11 of 11: NOTE: You may see and kill two elites, but only one will drop an orb.
