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Half-Life 2 Hints

Section 3: More Barred Gates and Breen Blather (d2_prison_04)

  • 1 of 12: When you come to some stairs, walk up them slowly and prepare for combat in the area ahead.
  • 2 of 12: After checking for supplies in a large alcove, you can either continue along the regular way (see next several hints) or take a shortcut.
  • 3 of 12: If you're skipping the above shortcut, then save your game and head for the doorway at the other end of the "B4" corridor.
  • 4 of 12: There are two sentry guns down the hall from that doorway that are facing your way.
  • 5 of 12: When you go through the doorway past the sentries, toss some bugbait ahead toward the stairs while staying in the corner so that the antlions will take care of the manhack attack (with you providing gravity gun backup).
  • 6 of 12: Soon after you go up the stairs to the second-floor walkway, you'll have lots more soldiers to kill.
  • 7 of 12: Once you're on the third-floor walkways, you'll need to find a control room from which you can open some of the barred gates on your floor.
  • 8 of 12: In the control room, wait until the antlions finish off a few more soldiers on the walkways, then look around for a way to open the two nearby barred gates.
  • 9 of 12: There's a wire leading from the nearest gate to a red-lit switch on a control panel, so try using it.
  • 10 of 12: TIP: Before using the switch, toss bugbait to get all your antlions out of the control room, then use the gravity gun to move a desk or other item to block the control room entrance. That'll make sure no soldiers can get to you.
  • 11 of 12: After the antlions finish off the last batch of soldiers, use the health and armor rechargers in the back of the control room and look around for other supplies. (Also, use the security monitor to get an early glimpse of Combine elite soldiers.)
  • 12 of 12: When you're done, head through the newly opened gates near the control room to get to Section 4: A Farewell to Antlions.