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Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 20, 2004, 02:13:28 pm

I'm in the 'sewers', running around... and i dropped down into this room, onto some barrels, and there's a bunch of those red things flying around and attacking me.  i killed them all, but now i'm STUCK... and i've been looking around for half an hour, and i can't figure out where to go.  there's the "big" room with the flammable barrels (first picture), then if i climb down the ladder, there's two pipes (i can't get into) with water.  then if i climb UP the ladder onto the pipe, and walk down it, i come to another room, with water in the bottom (third picture) and ladders and stuff... no way out as far as i can see.

what am i missing? someone who's played this want to help me out? thx

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EDIT:  lowered picture quality so they weren't a few hundred KB

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: phreak on November 20, 2004, 02:40:16 pm

In the first picture, you need to go down the ladder to get to a tunnel, but its too high to jump on to.  in the last picture there's a valve right below your crosshair.  turning that should raise the water level so you could swim through the pipe.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 20, 2004, 03:54:13 pm

oooh ok. makes sense.

how do i turn the valve though?  cause i could've sworn i tried going up to it and pressing "E".  or maybe i just shot it instead

anyway, i'll try that.  THANKS :D

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 20, 2004, 05:36:47 pm

Press 'e'.  You may just have been at an odd angle or not close enough.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 21, 2004, 12:24:47 am

yeah that's what it was, i wasn't close enough.  you know how the pipe goes downward, away from the valve... i was at the bottom of it, so i was too far away from the valve for "e" to work :p

now i'm getting tired of riding that damn air boat ;)  (even with the gun on it)

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 21, 2004, 06:41:28 am

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Originally posted by Stealth
yeah that's what it was, i wasn't close enough.  you know how the pipe goes downward, away from the valve... i was at the bottom of it, so i was too far away from the valve for "e" to work :p

now i'm getting tired of riding that damn air boat ;)  (even with the gun on it)

Pain in the arse, innit?

Can't say I'm fond of the bit after it in Ravenholm, either.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: vyper on November 21, 2004, 09:09:23 am

Spoiler:

Teh boat (or hover bike), rocks in my opinion. I love doing the little dare devil stunts in it at certain parts. My only complaint is that I haven't been able to steal a Combine tank yet! :D

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 21, 2004, 01:18:40 pm

ok i'm stuck on another part (actually i only got stuck 30 seconds ago, but i'm too lazy to figure it out)
it's when you're on theair boat, and you enter like a large area, and there's two of those tank things shooting missiles at you.  then you have to get off the boat, and go into a container and blow up two drums, so the doors of the container open and you can go through.  then i'm stuck.  i can't figure out what to do once i drive through... :-/

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Fineus on November 21, 2004, 01:58:08 pm

Follow the path round, and up the jump.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 21, 2004, 07:04:24 pm

ooh yeah ;)  i remember, i was looking for something, right before you hit the jump, there's a little open space, and i was looking around for stuff.

OK how about this... you're in that place and that crazy guy's yelling at you, and there's those turkey things all over the place, and you make it to the top of the roof, and he's like "here, you'll need a more suitable weapon", and he throws you a shotgun, and he's like "keep going, i'll meet you at the church".

hmk, so ... where do i go.  i'm on the roof, and he's just given me a shotgun, so now where do i go?

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 21, 2004, 09:30:08 pm

ehh nevermind. got it.

may as well turn this into a "Stealth's HL2 playing experience"... i'll keep you all up to date ;)

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 24, 2004, 01:19:42 am

OK i'm stuck here now... where you've just left the beach (where you're using those antlions to attack the bad guys) and you go through the sewer pipes for about 30 seconds, then you're in a place with a bunch of watch towers, and you take the guards out there, then a damn gunship appears... i killed it (i think), and then a SECOND one appears... i can't find anywhere to run away to.  i found the crate with all the RPGs, but 99% of the time my RPGs miss the damn gunship anyway.

two things
1)  how the hell do i finish this part...
2)  is there an easier way to kill the gunships than i know of?  what i'm doing is waiting till i get a clear shot, then shooting at them, and like i said, most of the time it misses, and they end up spending 10 seconds trying to shoot it down, as the stupid RPG keeps going in circles trying to find its target.  OCCASIONALLY i'll get lucky and hit one.

so how do i beat this thing?

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Krackers87 on November 24, 2004, 01:34:01 am

The RPG is laser guided, what you need to do is make the rocket spiral around the gunship so it cant shoot the missle down, then move the crosshairs over the gunship and the missle will turn back round and pile into it. Always aim for the back.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 24, 2004, 05:46:10 am

This is the prison exterior in Nova Prospekt, isn't it?

Anyways, hide in the guard towers - make sure to crouch under the windows in a safe corner.  It'll usually fire a flurry of shots then back away; pop up, fire a rocket into it and make sure to hold the laser sight onto the gunship until the rocket can hit it.  If you hit it once, you can usually 'shake' it enough to pop off another rocket.

You could also try using the ant lions for decoys - chuck the pheremone pod somewhere suitable and try to draw the gunships fire with them - IIRC it seems to focus on them for the most part.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 24, 2004, 10:19:13 am

ooooh damn.  you know what i've been doing?  i've been targeting the gunship with the laser, firing the RPG, then running... and i wondered why 99.9% of the time the rocket ends up "getting shot down" (so i thought) and exploding right in front of me.

ooooh so i have to keep the laser on the gunship the whole time.  well damn, that makes sense now. sorry for being so ignorant, this is the first FPS i've played since wolenstein, Ravenshield, and doom 3, none of which had RPGs :p

thx ;)

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Grug on November 24, 2004, 11:07:03 pm

Sorry, but I had to laugh at that last post. :p

I can say that concerning your first 'stuck' issue got me for a bit too, took me ages to figure it out... Was just about to give up when I saw it and just banged my head on the desk. :p

I have to say though, now that I've finished the game, that I do believe the Single Player of Halo2 is superior to Half Life 2's Single Player component.
But that's another story... or lack of one.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 25, 2004, 12:49:31 am

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Originally posted by Grug
Sorry, but I had to laugh at that last post. :p

oh and believe me, i don't blame you ;)

i always thought the laser "sight" was just to help you tell the rocket what to shoot at, not to keep it attacking whatever you're pointing at.  

i guess i should play more FPS games ;)

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 25, 2004, 03:54:46 am

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Originally posted by Stealth


oh and believe me, i don't blame you ;)

i always thought the laser "sight" was just to help you tell the rocket what to shoot at, not to keep it attacking whatever you're pointing at.  

i guess i should play more FPS games ;)

You did listen to the Major, didn't you?

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 25, 2004, 12:08:20 pm

not really, i remember him saying something about "so you can aim behind its defenses", but that's about it :-/

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 25, 2004, 12:37:27 pm

tut-tut.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 25, 2004, 03:07:51 pm

well i went down into the "basement", saw him, then went back outside and ran around for a while, so i only heard his voice in the background.

OK i'm stuck again:

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it's where you've just "disabled" the generator, and Alex has gone up onto the roof to "scout", and she gets shot at, and she tells you to run, so i ran... a few minutes later i end up here.  

in the first picture, where the crosshair is, that's where i need to go... i think.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 25, 2004, 05:07:30 pm

No it isn't.  Um... lemme think.

Just prior to this, you enter the room with boxes & a tunnel full of manhacks to the left, yeah?  Well, when you enter that bit, you need to head across to the opposite broken stair, and hop down.  Should find a door there or therabouts.

Basically, head down till you find an open doorway.  IIRC there's a set of crates on a ledge underneath the level you find the doorway at (the crates are at the bottom of that brown pipe, you need to shimmy on over a pipe to get to them; I never did that cos it looked a pain in the arse).  If the staircase above is broken, it means you're not supposed to get up :D

EDIT; oh, and you may want to put on subtitles... for me, I encountered the nefarious stuttering bug (including 2 outright crashes seconds before the ending sequence); also, I think the subtitles are sometimes shown when the corresponding speech is too faint to hear; a bit annoying but also useful if you can't be arsed hanging around.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 25, 2004, 06:19:13 pm

im still confused, and i still can't find anywhere to go ;(

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 25, 2004, 06:37:38 pm

Find a staircase - which is broken - on the walkway you're on when you first move into that room; it is leading down (IIRC onto another set of broken stairs).  Move some cardboard boxes from the previous room and use them to break your fall.

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 25, 2004, 10:33:52 pm

naaa that didn't work.  after trying everything possible, i figured it out.  in the second picture, right behind me there's a door, that's locked.  next to it is another room, with a window with a wire mesh in front of it, and there was one of those radioactive turkey things in it, which i shot earlier.  a few supply crates.  i figured out i can use the gravity gun through the window, to remove a bar that was across the door :-/

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 03:47:38 am

Oh, there..........

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 28, 2004, 02:07:49 pm

OK i'm stuck again, this'll probably be the last time, because i'm pretty sure i'm right at the end of the game.

it's where you have to go up that citadel thing after the doctor, who's trying to escape... the whole time alyx is yelling at you "there's combine" and "hurry Gordon, we don't have much time".  so i rush up to the top, and i'm on a platform, and ahead of me is the "portal" i guess... and Alyx screams "the portal's opening!!!"... and i see the sphere thing that breen's in coming up, and then two gunships arrive, and i shoot them down by shooting those energy balls at them... but how do i actually win the game?  i've tried shooting balls at the sphere that's moving up, and i hear alyx cry "YESS!!!" and breen says "Gordon, you don't know what you're doing!" but it's not helping, i still can't do it.

so someone help me out :(

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: vyper on November 28, 2004, 02:17:24 pm

Spoiler:

You gotta blow out the panels that are rotating around the sphere. Then erm... well, I'd say duck if it did any good :p

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: aldo_14 on November 28, 2004, 04:04:45 pm

NB: you need to move to the left / right side of the platform you're on and fire into the side of it.  You'll see this sort of group of rotating hoop; after you first hit that, a bunch of panels will pop up.  Destroy the (rotating) panels by hitting them as well, and fire in a final shot into it to finish the game :)

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Stealth on November 29, 2004, 12:51:43 am

beautiful. thanks :D

i don't like the ending.  i mean, after all that, and he didn't even get to bone alyx... what a joke.  the poor guy goes through it all, just so the creepy guy that pronounces words funny, can tell him a bunch of bull (i don't even remember what it was about)...  damn, what a depressing ending.

freeman and alyx should've lived happily ever after.  either that or he should've married that scientist woman who they thought had been working with breen, but who was on their side all along.

*shakes head*

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Rictor on November 30, 2004, 12:37:22 am

I just beat HL2

uber enigmatic ending

Title: i'm stuck in HL2. someone help
Post by: Rictor on November 30, 2004, 12:40:07 am

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Originally posted by Stealth
beautiful. thanks :D

i don't like the ending.  i mean, after all that, and he didn't even get to bone alyx... what a joke.  the poor guy goes through it all, just so the creepy guy that pronounces words funny, can tell him a bunch of bull (i don't even remember what it was about)...  damn, what a depressing ending.

freeman and alyx should've lived happily ever after.  either that or he should've married that scientist woman who they thought had been working with breen, but who was on their side all along.

*shakes head*

no, see, it Eli-Mossman and Alyx-Gordon

and the G Man is left all alone...a sad, un****able man with ultimate power.