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Combat Tips
1 of 7: Have your bugbait ready as you move through the next doorway and turn left.
2 of 7: Immediately toss bugbait at the soldiers you see ahead and retreat back the way you came (but don't reenter the shower area unless the antlion guard is dead).
3 of 7: After waiting awhile to make sure the antlions finished off the soldiers and manhacks, you'd better go see about helping them with the sentry guns.
4 of 7: There's one gun past a barred gate that you can't get to yet, but there are two on your side of the gate that you can approach and knock over.
5 of 7: Get close to them by using the nearby concrete structures as cover.
6 of 7: Once you're close, grab something with the gravity gun and duck out of cover long enough to throw it at one of the sentry guns, then repeat with the second one.
7 of 7: After you knock over those guns, the antlions can get through to the nearby side corridor and take down the soldiers in there. (If the gate to this corridor isn't open yet, just wait until the soldiers open it.)
