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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints
Large Zombie Battle Tips
1 of 17: There are several zombies in the narrow pathway past the fence door.
2 of 17: However, you can just retreat back through the door, close it, and wait for Alyx to snipe all of those zombies for you.
3 of 17: Unless, that is, you left the fast zombie alive in garbage bin area. In that case, you'll have to stand by the fence door and shoot any zombies that get close to you before Alyx can snipe them.
4 of 17: In the back left corner of that narrow area is a crawlspace you can use to get to the next big zombie area.
5 of 17: Let the zombies down the stairs see you, then quickly retreat back through the crawlway.
6 of 17: If the poison zombie throws a headcrab your way, you can grav-blast it through the crawlway hole.
7 of 17: Keep ducking in and out of the crawlway if necessary to get all the zombies up to where Alyx can snipe them.
8 of 17: Then go down the first set of stairs and into the area on the right that has a white gas tank and some pistol ammo.
9 of 17: Use the red wheel on the tank to turn the gas on, then shoot the gas with the pistol to set it on fire.
10 of 17: Some zombies will break through a door that's past the second set of steps and come up after you. However, between the bonfire and Alyx, none of them should have any chance of getting to you.
11 of 17: Stand and watch the doorway they come through until they're through coming, then turn the gas off and go down there.
12 of 17: Go through the doorway and then the open fence door beyond it. (If there are any zombies in here who didn't come out earlier, lead them back to where Alyx can shoot them.)
13 of 17: As you turn the corner past the fence door, a zombie over to the right will knock an explosive barrel at you.
14 of 17: The best way to handle this is to turn the corner with the shotgun out and ready to shoot the barrel before the zombie can knock it toward you.
15 of 17: That should kill everything in the immediate area except the barnacle that's closest to you, and you can jump up and whack it with the crowbar if you're standing close enough.
16 of 17: Move into the room the zombie was in to get a zombine to bash through the boards covering a doorway in the back of the room.
17 of 17: You can quickly blast the zombine in the head with the shotgun, blow it up with the nearby explosive barrel, or lead it all the way back outside where Alyx can snipe it for you.
