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Half-Life 2 Hints

Section 3: Gate 5 (d1_canals_08)

  • 1 of 8: When you come to a spot where the passage ahead is filled with rubble, head around it to the right.
  • 2 of 8: When you finally emerge outside, a large gate directly ahead of you will close, and a cop on a nearby walkway will start shooting at you.
  • 3 of 8: Park the airboat behind all the vertical log-like things and use them as cover while you pop the cop with your pistol.
  • 4 of 8: Now you're going to have to figure out how to get to where you can open this gate. As with the gate in the previous chapter section, there's the regular way and the shortcut way. (Actually, *three* shortcut ways!)
  • 5 of 8: Soon after you go through the gate, another chopper (or maybe it's the same one with a hasty repair job) will show up if you didn't take one of the shortcuts that avoids "activating" it.
  • 6 of 8: If the chopper does show up here, you've got one last chance to mess it up before you make the run through the areas past Gate 5.
  • 7 of 8: If you avoided activating the chopper or managed to ensnare or destroy it, you can just skim through the hints in the question below without worrying about any chopper-related things.
  • 8 of 8: Just before you exit the long, winding tunnel, Section 4: Hunter-Chopper Dodging will load.