Stuck @ Route Kanal

[purplepower]

I just started playing and i'm stuck @ Route kanal. After defeating the cops and the manhacks i go into a shaft and then fall down the ceiling into an open space with a lot of explosive barrels and manhacks. After defeating the manhacks there's some puzzling to do.
The open space where i'm in is connected to another open space via a tube. The two areas r blocked by a fence but u can reach the other side via a tube. There's a ladder that goes into water at the bottom but it also reaches the top of the ceiling.

When i climb up the ladder to the top of the ceiling i can jump on a huge pipe which leads to the other side. I can't reach the other side cuz there's an iron fence. But i can jump on the iron fence to climb from left to right.

When i climb down the ladder into the water i can acces the tube via a stack of barrels. So now i'm on the other side and i can climb up the ladder but here's the deal. I can't jump on the iron fence. So i can't climb from right to left to reach the other side.

I think this is a bug. Why is it possible to jump on the right side of the fence but not on the left side ? It's the same fence.

Anybody has this problem ?

 

[petey_chalflife]

Hmm.. I just passed this part earlier today. I think I may have done the same thing as you... I started to try and stack barrels and get into the tube but I realized it wasn't working out too well. I was a little confused by your post... but try this:

Once you drop from the hole into the area and you kill all the flying things...

1.) Climb the ladder in the first area and get on top of the pipe. Walk across the pipe to the higher part of the area and then walk into the other side where there is that huge metal fence blocking the two seperate areas.

2.) Now heres what I think your missing... In the fenced area your in you'll see a ladder. The ladder leads down 2 levels all the way to the water at the bottom. You'll notice various tubes all the way down. From the top where the ladder is you can begin to step down tube by tube by crouching/walking slowly or whatever and eventually just above water level you'll reach a little red knobish sorta thing. (you're able to see where it's at if you just go to water level in the area and look around the pipes... you'll see it)

3.) Turn the knob and the water will begin to rise. I'm not sure if you've done this or not. Go back to the first room and swim through the tube again back into the other area. If you bust up the floor of that area boxes and stuff will float to the top. Use them to get to the other side...

Something like that... raise the water level, you'll get it. :thumbs:

 

[petey_chalflife]

after looking at your pics...

You'll see for 3/3a(fence) pics your on the one side and your staring straight into the room with all the pipes. It is evident to me now that you haven't raised the water level. Go back to the other side, crawl down those pipes, turn the knob and your good to go...

 

[FireGiver]

wow how the hell did you get to the other side of the fence without raising the water level???? hahahahaha

 

[purplepower]

Thankz petey_chalflife,

I found the red knob and raised the water level. Now i can continue my journey

 

[gozer]

>> wow how the hell did you get to the other side of the
>> fence without raising the water level????

By dropping all 10 barrels down from the room above, then stacking
the barrels (very tedious), then climbing on the barrels and
walking through the tunnel.

BUT, then you get into the second room (and the water level
is low) and there is no way out. At least I couldn't figure any.

Which leads me to my question -- Does HL2 let you get into
dead-ends with no way out? I figured I must be doing ok, since
the game let me get into the room, but I still think that room
is a dead end (when the water level is low).

Does anyone know?

 

[Ebenol]

>> wow how the hell did you get to the other side of the
>> fence without raising the water level????

By dropping all 10 barrels down from the room above, then stacking
the barrels (very tedious), then climbing on the barrels and
walking through the tunnel.

BUT, then you get into the second room (and the water level
is low) and there is no way out. At least I couldn't figure any.

Which leads me to my question -- Does HL2 let you get into
dead-ends with no way out? I figured I must be doing ok, since
the game let me get into the room, but I still think that room
is a dead end (when the water level is low).

Does anyone know?

It's not supposed to, but I'm sure there are places you can get yourself into, but not out of.

 

[doomed - uk]

Which leads me to my question -- Does HL2 let you get into dead-ends with no way out?

Yeah, but in a different sense for me. Near the end a Strider failed to follow a scripted event for some reason and blow a hole in something and I ended up trapped.

In reality I could still have got past by stacking stuff and leaping over, but invisible walls stopped me from continuing in the game, so I have to reload an earlier game.

 

[pwg]

stuck in ravenholm

I am in a room with two windows and a ledge outside but i can't jump out.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

You should just be able to jump out. If you can't jump at all, it's a bug.