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The Orange Box: Portal Hints
What's the best way to deal with this ambush?
1 of 13: To start with, choose the spot that you use to portal onto the higher floor carefully.
2 of 13: From the grate you just portal-bypassed, move forward to a wall, then turn either right or left.
3 of 13: Fire an orange portal onto the bottom of the upper-floor wall you see ahead of you, then go through your blue portal to get there.
4 of 13: That'll trigger the turret doors to open, so quickly run forward and left toward the side of the nearest wall pillar.
5 of 13: Standing next to that pillar, you should be out of range of all of the turrets.
6 of 13: Reset your orange portal to be in the wall right next to the pillar, then look for opportunities to ambush turrets with blue portals.
7 of 13: If you move out from behind the pillar and look left, you should see a turret up in a room. It'll also have a good chance of seeing you.
8 of 13: Quickly fire a blue portal into the back of that turret's room, then go through the orange portal to end up behind it.
9 of 13: That'll make it easy to pick the turret up and drop it to the floor below, which will overturn and deactivate it.
10 of 13: Go back through the portal to your safe pillar and look across the room to find a turret near the opposite corner.
11 of 13: You should be able to shoot a blue portal into that turret's room from next to your pillar, so do it and go overturn that turret.
12 of 13: Go back through your portal and then pick your next target.
13 of 13: Keep it up until all of the turrets have been deactivated.
