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Half-Life 2: Episode One Hints

BUG WARNING

  • 1 of 6: Alyx can get really screwed up and mysteriously lose her gun if you don't do things right here.
  • 2 of 6: The danger seems to be confined to those who meet these specifications:

    * Easy difficulty (so gunship only takes 3 rockets to kill)
    * have RPG with 3 rockets from previous areas
    * use my shoot-through-the-hallway-windows strategy
  • 3 of 6: As I stated in the Hallway Combat Tips, the gunship is invincible until you enter the rickety wooden building that's past the combat hallway.
  • 4 of 6: However, to make the gunship vulnerable, all you have to do is approach the bottom of the stairs that lead up into the wooden building.
  • 5 of 6: But if you go back and destroy the gunship before you go to the top of those stairs and a bit forward, Alyx may mess up and lose her gun after the gunship is killed, which stalls the game at the shotgun rack later on (because she never takes a shotgun or lowers the nearby force field.)
  • 6 of 6: So no matter what difficulty level you're on and what your RPG situation is, always run up the stairs in the wooden building and move forward at least a little before destroying the gunship. That should avoid the bug in all cases.