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

Piņata Party (EP2_BREAK_ALLWEBS)

  • 1 of 6: You'll need to break open every web cache in the game to get this achievement.
  • 2 of 6: Web caches are items like armor and ammo that are stuck behind webs in the antlion cavern areas.
  • 3 of 6: There's one web cache in Chapter 1 and eight more in Chapter 2.
  • 4 of 6: The Chapter 1 cache is in the flooded cave area in Section 2: Antlion Caverns.
  • 5 of 6: Note that even though there are two webs to bash in that cache, you only have to bash the first one to get the achievement credit.
  • 6 of 6: See Chapter 2's Section 2: Escort the Vort hints for four more web caches, and the Section 3: The Larval Extract hints for the last four.