HL2 - 'OUR BENEFACTORS' Section

Guyz,

I appear to be stuck again. In the 'OUR BENEFACTORS' section this time.

What's the point of that huge black thumper? What do I do to get past
the thumper?


Scanboy

explains what this thumper thing does.. i don't recall any thumper after beating the game.

he might be talking about the big maching that is eating the city. It's the citidel right? Jdub, your talking about the part right after you kill the ant lion king right? If that's what you're talking about you have to put some boxes next to a ledge on the left side of the "thumper" corridor. then you go on from there.

Originally posted by andy_wh2000@Nov 25 2004, 01:29 PM
he might be talking about the big maching that is eating the city. It's the citidel right? Jdub, your talking about the part right after you kill the ant lion king right? If that's what you're talking about you have to put some boxes next to a ledge on the left side of the "thumper" corridor. then you go on from there.

I think it probably is the Citadel.

How I got there - I assisted in bringing down some of the Striders with the RPG, then when the last one had been dispatched, Dog shows up with a growl and lifts up one of the CP fences to reveal a hole. I jumped through that hole and found myself in a tunnel. Then the 'LOADING' bit ...... (yawn) ......

Then I find myself at the end of a tunnel with a missing section and the other end seems to be a dead end, so the clue is to go down. But when I am down there, what next? There are no boxes. Only a white discarded car and tanker with a missing cab (the part where the trucker sits in to drive the lorry).

I can get myself onto one of these ledges, but they all lead to other ledges and there seems to be no way to proceed further.


Scanboy

ok after dog opens that gate and you jump in the hole....let it load!............................................. .................................................. ......................still loading........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. still loading , hold on................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....................................ok stut-stut-stutter loading done!! now you have to make your way along the cliff wall till you reach the pipes sticking out the side, ....make your way to the second pipe which is underneath the first pipe you see on top...ok, then once on second pipe turn around and face the big alien building or whatever is is and jump on top of the thing thats moving up and down, you'll see it!! and then from there jump off that when it moves to the top and get off it and make your way inside...................got it?

Originally posted by gatekeeper@Nov 25 2004, 05:22 PM
ok after dog opens that gate and you jump in the hole....let it load!............................................. .................................................. ......................still loading........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. still loading , hold on................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....................................ok stut-stut-stutter loading done!! now you have to make your way along the cliff wall till you reach the pipes sticking out the side, ....make your way to the second pipe which is underneath the first pipe you see on top...ok, then once on second pipe turn around and face the big alien building or whatever is is and jump on top of the thing thats moving up and down, you'll see it!! and then from there jump off that when it moves to the top and get off it and make your way inside...................got it?

OK ... I am now in the big alien building. Some of those thumpers / stompers are also operating inside. What next?

(I may have to wait until the sun goes down, before I can carry on, because the sunlight is making it hard to see anything (what's with the guyz at Valve? Why do they have to make all games so dark that I frickin' can't see anything despite turning all shadows off with 'mat_fullbright 1'???) and the flashlight doesn't last very long.


Scanboy

turn up your brightness on your monitor. or duct-tape a towel to hang down over the windows.

I just finished the game and it friggen rocked!

Originally posted by gatekeeper@Nov 25 2004, 05:22 PM
ok after dog opens that gate and you jump in the hole....let it load!............................................. .................................................. ......................still loading........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. still loading , hold on................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....................................ok stut-stut-stutter loading done!! now you have to make your way along the cliff wall till you reach the pipes sticking out the side, ....make your way to the second pipe which is underneath the first pipe you see on top...ok, then once on second pipe turn around and face the big alien building or whatever is is and jump on top of the thing thats moving up and down, you'll see it!! and then from there jump off that when it moves to the top and get off it and make your way inside...................got it?

Gatekeeper,

I am now a lot further on from my last post.

I managed to navigate the path to the teleport pod from the ledge you mentioned - had to use flashlight a lot of the time.

Once there, I was stuck again. Then I found this website:-

http://faqs.ign.com//articles/568/568789p1.html

which seems to be a full complete HL2 walkthrough.

There's a second one at:-

http://faqs.ign.com//articles/568/568483p1.html

which only goes as far as ch. 4 ('Water Hazard'), but nice ASCII HL2 logo. (Too much free time on your hands, man!) B)

Seems I am near the end.

From the first website, I soon found that all I had to do was to cross the walkway to get to the other side before getting into the other teleporter pod on the left track with the 'USE' key ('E') - avoid the teleporter pod on the right track because all it does is it goes into the teleport portal which doesn't really do anything except turn your screen white when you are caught in the teleport beam (which forces you to restart the level).

Once in the pod, you are then treated to some eye candy as you take a trip in the pod through the Citadel, past some scanners (can't shoot them while you are in the pod) and three striders (can't shoot these either), before you lose all your weapons in the confiscation field except your gravity gun. To kill the CP guards, push away with the left mouse button instead of pulling them with the right mouse button. The way forward should be now straightforward.

.... .... .... (fierce firefights with CP guards) .... .... ....

See those pulses of energy going up and down the white beams? I discovered that you can pluck an energy ball with the pull feature on the grav gun (right mouse) and fling it at the CP guards. Only trouble is, when the CP guards start firing, the energy ball explodes into smithereens. I soon found that you can equally pull one of the CP guards and fling him at his other colleagues, which is guaranteed to get laughs. How cool is that? No other game has anything like that, which is why HL2 is probably the coolest game at the moment. I have also found that you can also smash the video communication relays with the push feature of the grav gun.

.... .... .... .... .... .... ....

Just finished 99% of HL2. The graphics/physics/weapons/scenery pretty rocks, but the one thing I couldn't get past was trying to stop Dr. Breen from escaping. How do I stop him? Tried to hit the white light above Dr. Breen's head, he was in the sphere going up to the portal at the time, and it didn't seem to have much effect.

Had to take HL2 off the computer, to make some space for DOOM III which I will be playing next.

Tried to post this reply yesterday (Thurs. 25th Nov. '04), but the servers at GamersHell.com were acting as if they were clogged with treacle - took forever to get a page!


Scanboy

Ehm Scanboy, the Hellp section is for Hellp
So for other opinions plz go to the HL2 section of this ubercool forum

thx