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Half-Life 2 Hints

Hide Down the Stairs Strategy

  • 1 of 9: In this strategy, you're going to hide down at the bottom of the stairs near the closed barred door that you entered the area through.
  • 2 of 9: To make sure no soldiers can follow you down there, use the gravity gun to move the wooden table that's in the control room so that it blocks the top of the stairs. You'll be able to easily jump over the table, but the soldiers won't.
  • 3 of 9: Now lower the force fields on the sentry gun storage containers and turn the guns around so that they're still in the containers, but facing outward.
  • 4 of 9: The way to do that is to pick up a sentry gun, then drop it on the floor nearby. Move around to the front of it and pick it up again, then put it down in a container slot.
  • 5 of 9: As soon as the second sentry gun is placed, jump over your table barricade and hide in a corner at the bottom of the stairs.
  • 6 of 9: Hopefully, the soldiers will be too interested in the sentry guns (which they can't knock over) to even try to shoot you or get down to you.
  • 7 of 9: However, you'll have to watch for the occasional manhack flying down to your area. Have the gravity gun ready to deal with those pests.
  • 8 of 9: When the battle seems over, leave your safe area and see if there are any soldiers hanging about the control room area.
  • 9 of 9: If not, then you need to shoot down the soldier who periodically appears on the upper walkway past the force fields. (You can see and shoot him through the broken windows at the front of the control room.)