Man I hate This.

[Barney Fife]

Spoiler.
.
.
Spoiler
.
.
Last chance.
.
.
OK Love this game so much that I can’t stop playing and I think I can say at this moment that I’m addicted beyond help.
I played this game in couple of days and am so deep inside I became part of Gordon. Matter of fact I think I am Gordon. But there is one creature that I hate the most and is ruining my game and it is that flying helicopter, Bug, Gunship the one that you can only kill with the lazar-guarded missile, which by the way so off the mark you have to shoot ten rounds to get single hit doesn’t even matter how well you aim, hell your missile might even end up killing you. :flame:
Now I encountered these creatures four times throughout the game so far. Three times I had to take them out and once I had to avoid them. But this tops everything thing up its when I have the Antlion as my allies and we go by way of the beach clear it and then climb up the side of the mountain go through the water drainage through the pool and finally come up to the heavy guard-tower plus ground resistant and finally when I cleared what seemed to be the freaking military camp two of these things show up. Well thanks to my Anlion Followers I can keep up with them but they freaking kicking me in the (Know what). Now I know sometimes challenging is not your best option but I can’t seem to find a way out.
Some one please tell me what I’m doing wrong.
My two years old is asking me “Dad what does son-of-bitch mean?”
For Christ sakes this is embarrassing.

Thanks In Advance.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Gragh! Wrong forum.

Read the walkthrough!

Help forum!

That said:

It's not really that hard to hit a gunship, is it? All you need to do is wiggle your mouse around, get the missile behind them and paint 'em with the laser dot. In this section, it's best to stay under cover until you can make a run for it without being shot at the gunships. I believe there's a room you can get into with lots of rockets inside it and a couple of Combine soldiers you can shotgun. The room makes good cover. Hell, I don't know - just stay in cover as much as you can, try not to waste rockets...it's quite a hard part of the game but not impossible.
You can always turn the difficulty down to Easy just for that bit.

 

[Barney Fife]

I’m sorry chief I thought this was the right forum otherwise wouldn’t post. Also I swear I looked for that walkthrough even google it.
So you mean when I fire my missile I have to keep that Lazar dot on target? I think that’s what I been doing wrong by running like a freak and finding cover as soon as missile fires away. God I’m Damn Ass.
.
.
Thanks a million and sorry for post at wrong section.


BTW Great site.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

No, you have to make the missile go past the gunship, then zoom around and hit it in the back. A missile from straight ahead will get shot down. Aim the laser dot away from the gunship until the rocket has gone passed it, then keep it locked on the gunship again.

 

[Sulkdodds]

In Half-Life 1 you could turn off the laser sight for fire-and-forget, but in HL2 you can't. The missile will go where you're aiming. That might be why you've been blowing yourself up. Didn't you listen to the Colonel guy when you first got the rocket launcher?

Problem is, the gunships aren't stupid. They'll try and shoot down your missiles and they're pretty good at it - but this means that they'll be concentrating on the missile and not on you. If you use the laser sight to send the missile wiggling about all over the place, the gunship will have a hard time intercepting it and you can usually get a hit just by confusing it. So yeah, a good tactic as AJ said is to fire past the gunship and then bring the missile round from the rear.

 

[Barney Fife]

In Half-Life 1 you could turn off the laser sight for fire-and-forget, but in HL2 you can't. The missile will go where you're aiming. That might be why you've been blowing yourself up. Didn't you listen to the Colonel guy when you first got the rocket launcher?

I guess I didn't. Guess that's reason why I'm messing up like you know who.
That's hell of a tactic guys and there is no reason for me to lower difficulty since I now know how to use the missile.
.
.
Sorry guys for wasting your time like this. Your help is highly appreciated.

 

[Barney Fife]

Jesus I already beat them damn that easy only if I knew. Thanks guys form being GOD!

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Hehe glad you got the hang of it now, theres been a few people who have come here doing the same thing, but only about 5 or 6 Quite good fun to play with the RPG. Your posts made me laugh, hopefully you'll stick around, and check out some of the HL2 mods in the making, some that are out and being updated. You've got it in your veins already.

Spoiler.
My two years old is asking me “Dad what does son-of-bitch mean?”
For Christ sakes this is embarrassing.

Thanks In Advance.

This post had me in stitches! Now teach him how to blow them out the sky

 

[Barney Fife]

Hehe I'm glad that I made your day. Those gunships are hell of a power; they never miss and they will take you down in hurry. I thought the helicopter in the canal was impressive but these gunships, they own man. And this time he is got a friend.
.
.
I was playing the Hard level of the difficulty, cuz I believe playing easy makes you kind of run through the game. But let me tell you something, the hard will actually make you feel the bullets sometimes my health goes down to single digit in no time and I start to crave for health pack like a chain-smoker. I thought about lowering the difficulty to easy for that gunship part, but that felt like cheating that level and I knew it was me doing something wrong not the game or the coders. GOOD JOB VALVE no game made me say son-of-a-bitch in a long time.
.
.
I usually read HL2 stuff at planethalflife.com but from now on I will change my official Half Life site to http://www.halflife2.net/ and I am a regular here from now on. I like great sites with beautiful staff..
.
.
Again hat’s off to all of you HalfLife.net staff for helping out an old Goof like me hehe.
.
.
.
We’ll see you all again.

 

[$kelet0r]

Hehe I'm glad that I made your day. Those gunships are hell of a power; they never miss and they will take you down in hurry. I thought the helicopter in the canal was impressive but these gunships, they own man. And this time he is got a friend.
.
.
I was playing the Hard level of the difficulty, cuz I believe playing easy makes you kind of run through the game. But let me tell you something, the hard will actually make you feel the bullets sometimes my health goes down to single digit in no time and I start to crave for health pack like a chain-smoker. I thought about lowering the difficulty to easy for that gunship part, but that felt like cheating that level and I knew it was me doing something wrong not the game or the coders. GOD JOB VALVE no game made say son-of-a-bitch in a long time.
.
.
I usually read HL2 stuff at planethalflife.com but from now on I will change my official Half Life site to http://www.halflife2.net/ and I am a regular here from now on. I like great sites with beautiful staff..
.
.
Again hat’s off to all of you HalfLife.net staff for helping out an old Goof like me hehe.
.
.
.
We’ll see you all again.

hey good for you :thumbs:
now get back to finishing the game - today being the 1st anniversary of hl2

 

[Beerdude26]

hey good for you :thumbs:
now get back to finishing the game - today being the 1st anniversary of hl2

omfg you're right :O

If you finish the game now, you'll be one of the magical few :O

 

[ríomhaire]

You have to shoot the missle behind the gunship and shoot it in the ass. Cubage says so when he gives it to you.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Moral of the story: always listen to annoying British colonels with moustaches.

 

[Adabiviak]

Welcome to the forum nonetheless, Barney. That part is, in my opinion which surely differs from others', among the hardest.

I've played this game through so many times, I miss that first-time feeling when I see, well, without spoiling it, all the things that make HL2 so good.

 

[MTG_Maro]

You could also corkscrew the missile.

 

[DannyC.]

I kind of skimmed all the posts, so I don't know if anyone has given any of my advice.

Yes, the missile will follow exactly where you point the launcher. Once you fire it, the gunship should start to fire at the rocket instead of you, so I like to send it in a spiral toward it then when it stops firing, hit it.

I hated that part as well. Here's where I went: Go through the little canal looking place where they're shooting at you (make sure you get the items and chargers in the little room), and let the antlions fight the troops. Keep shifting from cover to cover, go up the steps, then in the far corner there should be a small... um.... ally? Type? Thing? Anyway, that's where I stayed. I occasionally throw a pheropod into the canal place so the antlions can take a lot of the hits. Trust me, you DO NOT want them to block you inside that ally against the wall (am I spelling that right? Ally?).

Good luck!

 

[Barney Fife]

hey good for you :thumbs:
now get back to finishing the game - today being the 1st anniversary of hl2

Dang it. I don't think I can make it. I'm in the jail house now, I don't know how far I have left and those guards putting up hell of a fight.
Those Antlions are really helpful though they sometimes trap you in and scare you the living crap as they pop-up from the ground. and I somehow don't trust them. My guts tell me sooner or later they gonna turn against me.

Moral of the story: always listen to annoying British colonels with moustaches.

I know now but at that time i remember saying "Yeah, yeah, whatever, give me the gun you English people always lecture with your perfect English and mustaches" you know, Just being typical self-righteous, hardheaded, stubborn all American boy. hehe. :x

Welcome to the forum nonetheless, Barney. That part is, in my opinion which surely differs from others', among the hardest.

I've played this game through so many times, I miss that first-time feeling when I see, well, without spoiling it, all the things that make HL2 so good.

OMG now you tell me. I was in that camp for the whole yesterday afternoon man. My civil liberty was violated in every way possible. It was dark and it was me and my four little Antlions. Man they got gun-down like little cockroaches and in a split second, four fresh Antlions show up asking for more. Without them I couldn't find time to even fire the RPG.
At first I didn't know how to use the dang thing as I fire and take cover while I have that dang on laser beam pointed at my crotch. Go ahead have your way with your imagination about what happens afterward. yeah just about when that missile is three inches away from that dang gunship it goes "Oh! Crotch" and makes a U-turn.

You could also corkscrew the missile.

How? You do corkscrew motion with mouse?

 

[Beerdude26]

How? You do corkscrew motion with mouse?

You make circular movements with the mouse.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I know now but at that time i remember saying "Yeah, yeah, whatever, give me the gun you English people always lecture with your perfect English and mustaches" you know, Just being typical self-righteous, hardheaded, stubborn all American boy. hehe. :x

2 tips: Listen to what the NPCs tell ya, and edit your posts, don't do four posts in a row. It's against the rules:thumbs:

 

[Barney Fife]

Understood. There I got it. Detele the other posts for me please. I can't seem to find how. Or some one tell me how to delete it.

 

[Beerdude26]

Understood. There I got it. Detele the other posts for me please. I can't seem to find how. Or some one tell me how to delete it.

You can't. But I'll report them to be deleted. :thumbs:

 

[ríomhaire]

Mods don't delete posts on request.

 

[$kelet0r]

they just did

 

[Sulkdodds]

First time I've seen them do it though.