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Half-Life 2 Hints
How can I get through this room safely?
1 of 13: To avoid the well-placed laser alerts, you'll have to jump up onto things, go over stuff, and so on.
2 of 13: To start with, you can't get past the first two laser alerts unless you walk across the top of the machine they're on.
3 of 13: Jump onto it a little ways back, then walk past the lasers and hop down on the other side.
4 of 13: The cluster of four lasers down near the floor can all be jumped at once.
5 of 13: Get up onto the small piece of machinery next to them and keep left as you jump across. (Don't let the sound of the suppression gun firing while you do this startle you.)
6 of 13: Find the pipe that goes along the wall and carefully hop onto it.
7 of 13: You'll need to jump over a laser beam as you move along the pipe to its other end.
8 of 13: Use the pipe's other end to jump up onto the tall machine just past it.
9 of 13: Jump over to another machine (the one that's across the floor where a hopper is) and then to another one past it that has a small white pipe coming out of its topside.
10 of 13: Drop carefully onto the large white pipe that's near the machine's other end, then go along it and jump onto a slightly higher white pipe.
11 of 13: That higher pipe will get you past the last few laser alerts, and you can drop down near the security control panel. (It's just to the left of a health station and a pulse rifle energy orb stash.)
12 of 13: Use the panel to not only turn off all the laser alerts, but to also unset any hoppers that you didn't reset.
13 of 13: NOTE: If your entire squad doesn't soon run up and rejoin you, go back to where you left them to pick the rest of them up.
