[Stealth]

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







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

[phreak]

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.

[Stealth]

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

[aldo_14]

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

[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

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

[aldo_14]

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

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.

[vyper]

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!

[Stealth]

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... :-/

[Fineus]

Follow the path round, and up the jump.

[Stealth]

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?

[Stealth]

ehh nevermind. got it.

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

[Stealth]

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?

[Krackers87]

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.

[aldo_14]

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.

[Stealth]

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

thx

[Grug]

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

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.

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.

[Stealth]

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

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

[aldo_14]

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?

[Stealth]

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

[aldo_14]

tut-tut.