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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints
Once I'm there, how do I destroy the chopper?
1 of 10: As you exit the under-the-train-car area, look to the left to see Alyx up on a platform.
2 of 10: Stand and look at her to get her to toss you a health kit, then start looking around for cover to use while fighting the chopper.
3 of 10: There's some fairly good cover right near where you came out from the crouch-only area.
4 of 10: There's also good cover in the building across from that, especially in the corner of the upper walkway with the armor recharger.
5 of 10: The place I found to be best for cover while fighting the chopper is behind all the protective sheets of metal along the walkway on the same side of the area as the building with the armor recharger.
6 of 10: The way to damage the chopper is to use the gravity gun to throw its little time bombs back at it.
7 of 10: It's very hard to hit the chopper with the bombs, so you'll want to employ the classic "quicksave after every hit and quickrestore after getting badly shot up" strategy.
8 of 10: You should wait in a good cover area until a bomb lands near you, then grab it and throw it at the chopper.
9 of 10: It'll take several hits to destroy, so have patience and stay under cover most of the time. (Especially when it starts spewing bombs out like crazy, which it'll do after one of your hits.)
10 of 10: If you're careful, you can take down the chopper without taking hardly any damage, and you can then easily get up to 100 health and 100 armor by raiding the area's supplies.
