Shortcuts

[Gutshot]

So, late to the party as usual, I bought the Orange box about a month ago. Outstanding on all counts, and a worthy successor.

I discovered one shortcut by accident. About halfway through Route Kanal, when you arrive at the closed gate and have to make your way through the freight yard to climb a tower and push a button to open it. The first time I played through I found the locked door under the dock, but completely missed that I could knock the lock off. Instead I parked the airboat by the concrete pier under the missing section of handrail, and just jumped up. Toss a grenade into the tower and open the gate, easy...apparently this and the subsequent run to the next loadpoint was supposed to be harder, but the gunship doesn't spawn if you never go into the room under the yard. It took me playing through several times before I noticed the "right" way to play that area. Also meaning that I never found a .357 until the end of the Ravenholm mines.

Then there's the first canal gate, where you can pistol-snipe the barrels to get the bundle of I-beams to drop down and smash the gate. I didn't find that one until I read about it somewhere. I like to go inside for supplies anyway.

Any other neat shortcuts to see?

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Some shortcuts will lead game crashing or you falling through landscape into nothingness. There are some shortcuts but be careful using them. Not so bad as in Oblivion though.

 

[Gutshot]

Some shortcuts will lead game crashing or you falling through landscape into nothingness.

Yeah, I saw that the stairs leading up to the freight yard had no texture if you hadn't already been in the room under the yard. Didn't crash or drop me out of the map though.

On my first play through HL2 I somehow evoked a bug in the physics engine, but I haven't been able to reproduce it. On Highway 17 at the station where you find the crossbow, I was using the GG to punt cars clear of the roadway. When I hit the yellow car it took off at steady speed on a straight line at about 20 degrees above level, disappeared into the mist, and then the whole game crashed. It hasn't happened again, but now I never knock a car around without quicksaving first.

 

[GLaDCuBe446]

yeah thats kinda bad seeing as you missed out on the .357 because that part was so fun with the one shot kill on the combine soldiers and a welcome change from the weak pistol and smg

 

[Dr.Freeman]

Good shortcut, but strange that I've never found it.

 

[Sledgehammer]

There's some water in Lost Coast without leeches. So basically, you can swim to the St. Olga. Very amusing to walk around in there (and sniping Overwatch from extreme ranges).

 

[Jintor]

He's not talkin' about that bit where' it's possible to sit on your boat and snipe the explosive barrels without goin' through all that tedious gameplay, is he? xD

 

[Dr.Freeman]

So, late to the party as usual, I bought the Orange box about a month ago. Outstanding on all counts, and a worthy successor.

I discovered one shortcut by accident. About halfway through Route Kanal, when you arrive at the closed gate and have to make your way through the freight yard to climb a tower and push a button to open it. The first time I played through I found the locked door under the dock, but completely missed that I could knock the lock off. Instead I parked the airboat by the concrete pier under the missing section of handrail, and just jumped up. Toss a grenade into the tower and open the gate, easy...apparently this and the subsequent run to the next loadpoint was supposed to be harder, but the gunship doesn't spawn if you never go into the room under the yard. It took me playing through several times before I noticed the "right" way to play that area. Also meaning that I never found a .357 until the end of the Ravenholm mines.

Then there's the first canal gate, where you can pistol-snipe the barrels to get the bundle of I-beams to drop down and smash the gate. I didn't find that one until I read about it somewhere. I like to go inside for supplies anyway.

Any other neat shortcuts to see?

You mean Hunter Chopper?