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Street Combat Tips
1 of 8: When you first reach the street, a strider will be shooting up the place as it stomps by over on the right.
2 of 8: You'll want to keep yourself and your squad back under cover until it's gone. You don't have enough rockets (minimum of 5) to take it down, anyway.
3 of 8: TIP: Have your squad stand back at the spot where two pulse rifles are on the ground (unless you've already picked them up). Two of your squad members should soon discard their SMGs in favor of the more powerful pulse rifles.
4 of 8: After the strider's gone, go out on the street and look to the left.
5 of 8: Use your pistol to shoot the metro cop who's on a lookout tower near the other end of the street.
6 of 8: As you head that way, several scanners will fly by and drop hopper mines.
7 of 8: You can easily deal with the hoppers using the gravity gun. (And you can shoot down some of the scanners if you want to try for an armor battery or two.)
8 of 8: There are several headcrabs wandering around the street, so either hang back while your squad shoots them, or throw hoppers at them to blow them up.
