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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints
How can I get us past this fencing?
1 of 13: Look back the way you came to find a ladder nearby.
2 of 13: Climb up the ladder and move down the narrow passageway until you come to a room.
3 of 13: Jump over the metal bar and drop down to the room's floor, then raid the supply crate.
4 of 13: There are more supplies inside the large metal thing that's hanging in the room.
5 of 13: Hit the bottom of it with several quick Primary Fire bursts from the gravity gun to get it to tip over and dump its supplies out.
6 of 13: Note that the supply crate inside the thing will have frag grenades in it, and the grenade that's in the corpse's hand may go live if you try to pull it in with the gravity gun.
7 of 13: After that, you'll need to drop down the opening in the floor that the metal thing was hanging over. If it's still in the way, hit it with some more gravity gun bursts.
8 of 13: You'll fall into a mine cart and start hurtling down the tracks. There's nothing you can do about this, so you might as well enjoy the ride.
9 of 13: NOTE: If you're fast enough, you can use the gravity gun to grab a supply crate from a nearby cart before yours starts moving. However, don't do it. You'll be able to claim its contents plus a bit more soon.
10 of 13: You'll end up landing safely in some water.
11 of 13: Surface as quickly as you can, then find the ladder in one wall that you can climb up.
12 of 13: At the top of the ladder, you'll be reunited with your vortigaunt companion.
13 of 13: If you head all the way up the long sloping tunnel, you'll find that you're now on the other side of the fencing you were trying to get past. (You'll also find four armor batteries on one of the tracks near the fencing if you didn't grab that other cart's crate earlier.)
