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Half-Life 2 Hints

How can I get to the pump station's highest levels?

  • 1 of 11: From the bottom of the station, you need to head up the slanting concrete to reach a walkway with a railing.
  • 2 of 11: Near the spot halfway up where three white pipes go into a dark wall niche, you can either go up the narrow concrete ramp to the left and then across some pipes and up some planks, or you can get on the wide slanting concrete to the right and then get behind the pipes and jump over the railing.
  • 3 of 11: TIP: Before you go up either way, check inside the dark pipe niche with the flashlight on to find a box of .357 ammo that you can pull out with the gravity gun.
  • 4 of 11: Now you need to get to the little red shed that you can see across the station on your level.
  • 5 of 11: A panel in the shed controls a cargo lift that you need to use to get up to the station's next level.
  • 6 of 11: To get up higher, climb a nearby ladder that's on the side of a light blue-green metal structure, but be ready for Combine elite soldiers to appear on a higher walkway.
  • 7 of 11: From the top of the ladder, walk along the large white pipes until you get to the top of the lift you just came over on.
  • 8 of 11: There are two ways to get across to an upper walkway that you can see over near the other side of the station.
  • 9 of 11: Another Combine elite will rappel down onto the upper walkway that the earlier two were on as you start moving around on your new walkway. Deal with him the same way you dealt with the first two.
  • 10 of 11: Go along the walkway until you find a ladder that you can climb to get up to the two highest walkway levels that you can reach.
  • 11 of 11: There are a few last soldiers to deal with before you have the place entirely to yourself.