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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints
How can I drop the Combine's force fields?
1 of 14: You'll have to find their power source in order to do that.
2 of 14: Leave the inn building via the door you entered it through to get back to the area between the two force fields.
3 of 14: Examine the second one to find that a power line is leading away from its right-hand side.
4 of 14: To get out from between the force fields so you can trace the power line, go back into the building and then out through the large ground-floor doors that one of the hunters broke through. (Or go through the basement door if a hunter got through it.)
5 of 14: Across the street is a now-open building that the power line goes through. Check inside for some supplies, including health and armor rechargers on one wall, and a pulse rifle energy orb on the floor.
6 of 14: The power line continues onward from there, so leave the building and follow the line along.
7 of 14: NOTE: The next building is also open, and has a supply crate inside.
8 of 14: You'll end up going back to the first set of buildings, up on the higher road.
9 of 14: As you round the bend in the road, several more soldiers and a hunter will appear next to the buildings and attack.
10 of 14: After they're all dead, go back up the road to those buildings, looking for two supply crates near the bend as you go.
11 of 14: The large building next to the gas station is the one the force fields' power cable leads to, but go inside cautiously -- there's a sentry turret set up in a room that's guarded by another force field.
