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Half-Life 2 Hints
Run for the Crate Strategy
1 of 14: First, use up the rockets you have on the gunship, remembering to fire at it through the doorway as it flies right by you.
2 of 14: When those rockets are gone, you're going to have to make a run for the nearest infinite-rocket crate.
3 of 14: Don't go outside onto the catwalk and take the ladder down -- you'll be shot to pieces by the gunship in no time.
4 of 14: Instead, find the stairs inside that lead down into the junk-strewn room and jump over the railing to reach its lower floor.
5 of 14: Shoot up the nearby Combine soldiers, then make a mad dash across the path to the bridge structure.
6 of 14: The gunship will blow something up that causes rubble to fill the passage to the left, so head right and up the stairs.
7 of 14: Run across the catwalk to the left (not neglecting to jump the small gap in it), then hurry down the following set of girders.
8 of 14: TIP: To speed up your descent, run and jump from one little broken catwalk segment to another, but quicksave your game first since there's a good chance that you'll slip and fall to your death.
9 of 14: When you reach the bottom, drop down onto the lower walkway and hurry up the nearby ladder.
10 of 14: Now you'll be in the small shed with an infinite RPG rocket crate just outside it.
11 of 14: After quicksaving and waiting for the latest strafing attack to end, run outside and get some rockets. (Or use the loose rockets you stored inside the shed earlier if you did that.)
12 of 14: Take cover again during the next attack, then start doing some attacking of your own.
13 of 14: If you hit the gunship with three rockets earlier, it shouldn't take long to kill it now.
14 of 14: TIP: After the gunship's dead, you might want to return to the control room area and pick up leftover supplies and recharge at the control room's health and armor stations.
