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Half-Life 2 Hints
Building Combat Tips
1 of 15: When you get to the doorway that leads into the building, wait for your squad to fully catch up with you.
2 of 15: Run across the hall and into the room with the armor recharger, quickly shooting down the cop who's hiding behind the overturned desk to the left.
3 of 15: After your team kills the cop in the other nearby room, check it for a supply crate and go get your armor back up to 100 with the armor recharger.
4 of 15: When you're ready to go, find the stairs and go down them. If you go up, all you'll find is a sentry gun that you could easily have skipped.
5 of 15: Break the supply crates at the bottom of the stairs, then move into the doorway that leads to another hall and shoot down the cop who appears in the nearest doorway across the hall.
6 of 15: Run into his room for cover and to get your squad out into the hallway to do some shooting. Peek out the door and help them if you want to keep them alive.
7 of 15: Watch for more cops to appear as you move down the hall, plus one who stays in a room behind a desk barricade. He can take down several of your squad members if you don't go get him first.
8 of 15: When all those rooms are clear, head down the stairs to find *another* cop-infested hallway, starting with one hiding behind a counter with boxes on it.
9 of 15: Before you go all the way down the stairs, shoot the boxes off the counter, then shoot the cop who's behind it.
10 of 15: At the bottom of the stairs, shoot the one cop that you can see down the hallway, then check the area behind the counter for an armor battery (or save it for after the next big combat).
11 of 15: Duck into the first room down the hall past the counter and stand so that you can see out the door at an angle.
12 of 15: Toss at least two frag grenades so that they bounce off a wall and end up exploding down the hall a ways. Hopefully, you'll take out a few cops that way.
13 of 15: Switch to the gravity gun to dispose of any manhacks that fly into sight, then use the nearby tall green file cabinets to squash cops as they approach.
14 of 15: Then peek out and use the SMG or whatever to help your squad finish off the last few cops.
15 of 15: That will *finally* be the end of the cops in this building, so go back upstairs and use the armor recharger if you need to. (Note that there's a health station at the bottom of the next flight of stairs if you need it.)
