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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints

How can I get onto the central bridge section?

  • 1 of 11: Did you try sprinting for it before the portal storm knocked it screwy?
  • 2 of 11: If you had, the game would've arbitrarily blocked you with invisible force fields. Don't you just hate it when it does that?
  • 3 of 11: Check the two huge side rails of the bridge section you're on.
  • 4 of 11: The one on the left is bent upward a bit at the end nearest the central bridge segment.
  • 5 of 11: It almost looks like a ramp!
  • 6 of 11: So now you need to figure out how to get up onto that rail.
  • 7 of 11: If you haven't busted open the supply crate on the nearby side platform, you could jump onto it and then onto the rail.
  • 8 of 11: Or you could very carefully jump onto the side platform's railing and then onto the bridge rail.
  • 9 of 11: Or you could shove (or drive) the muscle car over to where its front end is right next to the bridge rail. Jump onto the car's front end, and then onto the bridge rail.
  • 10 of 11: Once you're up on the bridge rail, run along it and jump over to the central bridge section.
  • 11 of 11: As an alternative, you could jump to the central bridge section from on the other bridge rail, which is easy to jump onto from on the back of the wrecked truck. However, the jump from this rail is a *lot* harder to do right.