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Half-Life 2 Hints
There's another sniper further along, and he always sees me coming!
1 of 13: Approach his perch carefully, using whatever cover you can find along the way.
2 of 13: Start off by running up behind the huge cylindrical red tanker.
3 of 13: Once you make it there, use your gravity gun to suck in the explosive barrel that's on the cement platform ahead and to the right, then throw it at the explosive barrels you can see further down the tracks to blow them all up. (You don't want those things being shot by the sniper when you're near them.)
4 of 13: Now sprint across the tracks, jump onto the cement platform, and take cover in its far corner. The sniper will surely have seen you by now and started shooting.
5 of 13: TIP: Stay under cover and use the gravity gun to pull in the supplies that are down at the other end of the platform.
6 of 13: Quicksave, then wait until right after the sniper fires a shot to go back out into the open.
7 of 13: Run forward toward the large flatbed with the big logs and explosive barrel on it.
8 of 13: You'll want to crouch down and walk under the left side of the flatbed quickly, before the sniper blows up the barrel on top of it.
9 of 13: Keep as far left as you can while moving forward, or the sniper may hit you with a shot or two.
10 of 13: When you come to the other end of the flatbed, turn and whack a headcrab, then run forward to get behind a red train car.
11 of 13: Run along the left side of the train car to get to where you can safely lob a grenade into the sniper's nest.
12 of 13: After he's down, you can jump into the train car to restock on grenades.
13 of 13: ALTERNATIVE: You could just go past the train car and onward without grenading the sniper.
