[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread


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just completed it and wow, its worth every minute you play it :D

Cannot wait for the next also the blue grav gun r0xx3rs!!

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Um....maybe i didnt pay attention but when did we get a blue gravity gun....is it the one that picks up the people at the end in the citadel (or when gordan gets shot by it...)....or is it something i completely missed....please reply cause now i want to know since i just beat the game.....cool ending but ****ed me off...could have been soooo much better....i was waiting for those 10-20 minute ending stories....but i hope thats the way it should be to build up for HL3 whenever that comes out. anyways....have fun everyone with hl2 whoever didnt beat it...im going to take a nap...been playing for 2 days...l8terz

Screenshot what area you mean. There are two doors that need to be opened from what I remember. One by a button in a watch tower, and one by exploding some barrels which makes a girder fall and crash into the doors.

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thank you that did it. i shot another barrel by the area eariler but i didnt see the other barrel

My girlfriend bought me the game, but she lives in Southern California. If she reads to me the CD key, can I register HL2 through steam and download the game?

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You can indeed.

Oh, so when people bought the game over Steam, they were roughly just given a CD Key to register with?

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No, the people who bought thru steam had the games added to their account as one of the games they own, so they can access, download, and run it whenever they need to.

HL2 is better than Halo2 for graphic.

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Duh... its a PC game. Any PC game can look better than a 3 year old console. Of course Half-Life 2 looks better than Halo 2 with all the graphical settings on low too... lol. Its the gameplay that matters and Half-Life 2 is just so much fun to play.

BTW I was seriously creeped out through that city with all the headcrabs and stuff with the priest who kept laughing ... man I was low on health and out of ammo! was sweating something serious.

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That's where I'm stuck, the last thing the priest said to me was "See you in the church" or something like that, and I can't find out how to get there (or the next stage).

Please help.

That's where I'm stuck, the last thing the priest said to me was "See you in the church" or something like that, and I can't find out how to get there (or the next stage).

Please help.

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If you're in this big area with a body hanging from a rope in the center and a place where you can climb onto the rooftops (wow, I dunno how to describe it...) well, theres a lever you have to pull nearby to move this little platform on a rope over to where you can use it to jump on to the next area. Took me forever to find the lever...

If you're in this big area with a body hanging from a rope in the center and a place where you can climb onto the rooftops (wow, I dunno how to describe it...) well, theres a lever you have to pull nearby to move this little platform on a rope over to where you can use it to jump on to the next area. Took me forever to find the lever...

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Yeah, that's the place, I found the lever - pushed it, then jumped up to the rooftops again, noticed a new plank on cable, carried across over the buildings...then reached a metal balcony thingy. Jumped onto the next metal balcony (it then collapses). Went through that building and ended up back in the yard (body hanging)...and can't figure out a way out :(

Yeah, that's the place, I found the lever - pushed it, then jumped up to the rooftops again, noticed a new plank on cable, carried across over the buildings...then reached a metal balcony thingy. Jumped onto the next metal balcony (it then collapses). Went through that building and ended up back in the yard (body hanging)...and can't figure out a way out :(

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That happened to me too. I think theres a second path in that building with the attic that will lead you to a new area.

That happened to me too. I think theres a second path in that building with the attic that will lead you to a new area.

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I found the attic, but it's empty - nothing in there of use...this is as far as I've got with no clue how to go from here :(

I did find a fence with a car and a plank of wood perched up to it (other side of fence, like a launch ramp), went into the lift but the controls don't work (electric problem I think).

I found the attic, but it's empty - nothing in there of use...this is as far as I've got with no clue how to go from here :(

I did find a fence with a car and a plank of wood perched up to it (other side of fence, like a launch ramp), went into the lift but the controls don't work (electric problem I think).

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Well theres a second path through that house downstairs I think.

I found the attic, but it's empty - nothing in there of use...this is as far as I've got with no clue how to go from here sad.gif

I did find a fence with a car and a plank of wood perched up to it (other side of fence, like a launch ramp), went into the lift but the controls don't work (electric problem I think).

I just finished that area, I was stuck there too, came back after an hour of tv, and i figured it out. What you have to do is once you get into the house (after the stairs collapse), you go down the stairs, it loads a new map, there will be two paths, one to the left, and a ladder directly in front of you, take the ladder, kill some guys in the room, and there will be a door on the wall to the right, go through it and continue.

Thank you, it worked - all because I tried putting WinXP into Hibernation whilst playing HL2 (you see it works with UT2004). What happened is that it disabled my "Use" key, but now I've restarted HL2 it all works again.

Thanks man - 3am in the morning and I'm gonna' play some more...in the dark :s

hmpf, not finished the game yet, But nearly there... Pretty darn annoyed if its just a "middle" part of it, I'm not waiting 6 years to finish it off :/ To be honest, I don't think theres really been much of a story at all. Nothings been explained so far, who the combine are, other than that we had a 7 hour war with them, why some of the xen aliens are helping the humans etc. Also I was under the impression that city 17 would be a bigger part of the game, It was basically all that was talked about in the months before HL2 was released. Yet again its not really explained how or why your there...

* SPOILERS (Stuck Again) *

Now I'm at the stage where the crane made my new buggy go upside down :( all I can hear is "Get that car upright, and get the hell out of here"...I would if I could. Can't figure out where the controls are for that crane (so I can turn the car upside down by myself)...quite annoying really.

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