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Section 2: Antlion Guard and Barred Gates (d2_prison_03)
1 of 10: In the next room, kill the headcrab that's hiding behind the supply crate by hitting the crate with a gravity gun blast, then search around for supplies (including an SMG grenade on the floor).
2 of 10: Get the big crates out of the room's other doorway so you can walk down the hallway and jump over a rail to enter a big shower room. (TIP: First, drop any nearby supplies that you can't use right now over the rail so you can get them later.)
4 of 10: When the side corridor is clear of enemies, you need to figure out how to get through the barred gate that's next to the room with the force field on its doorway.
5 of 10: Right past the gate are some stairs, but look under them before you go up them to find a hidden supply crate with a pulse rifle energy orb in it.
6 of 10: When you reach the top of the stairs, scrunch yourself into a corner and toss some bugbait ahead of you so that the antlions will trigger the laser tripmine (notice the red laser beam near floor level) and go after the soldiers in the nearby room.
7 of 10: After the soldiers are dead, find out how to open another barred gate and then get over to it.
8 of 10: The area just past this gate is a real pain because there's one sentry gun facing the gate, plus two more behind a force field past the gate and to the left.
9 of 10: Near the force field's plug, there are some supply crates next to an unopenable barred gate. Just stand and watch as antlions swarm all over the soldiers on the other side of that gate.
