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How can I get to the barrel room's upper walkway?
1 of 6: One way is to find where the wall meets the floor at a slant and run up that. (Look near the ladder.)
2 of 6: You can get to a small section of the upper walkway that way, but the rest of it is closed off by a barred gate you can't open.
3 of 6: To get to the other part of the walkway, find the section of it that doesn't have a railing. (It's near one corner of the room.)
4 of 6: You can get up there by jumping onto an upright barrel and then onto the walkway. (If you blew up all the explosive barrels in the room, you'll have to carefully set a regular one upright to use for this.)
5 of 6: Another way is to get up onto that big rusty light-blue pipe that runs along near the ceiling and goes down into the floor right next to the walkway.
6 of 6: Once you're on it, walk along to where the pipe turns toward the walkway, then crouch-walk carefully to where you can drop down onto the walkway.
