Stuck: Stay on the rocks.

[jjjayb]

I don't know what the name of the level is, but you have to stay on the rocks so the Antlions don't get you. I got to the part where you can turn on a generator behind a little house so the big hammer thing keeps hitting the ground. (what is the purpose of turning that on anyway?) From there I head to the next rock formation. No matter what I jump on, a GIANT ant lion comes out after me. How do you get past this?

 

[pmweb9873]

Okay, you know where that thing is going up and down. Well, from where you are standing, just behind that there is an area with rocks. You need to get to them. You can use the method of grabbing two large flat objects with the gravity gun and doing a leap frog with them over to the rocks. Then just hop up on the rocks and you'll be good to go. The actual thing going up and down doesn't do anything.

 

[01000101]

The giant hammer is to keep the ant lions away. If you get up close to it you'll notice the A.L's won't come near it. Best thing to do with the Giant ant lion is to run towards a little building, a guy will be there to help you. I used the crossbow while zoomed in on the big ant lion, seemed to work really well. Try throwing some exploding barrels at it also.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Those things are built by the combine to stop the ant lions (they are afraid of THAT much seismic activity, you learn more later)

The giant antlion guard, kill it, run to the Vortigaunt, he'll take you to the camp.

 

[The Dark Elf]

the hammers are thumpers, opposite of the effect they have in Dune.

While that map is annoying as hell, i thought it was really cool, panic setting in whenever I hit the sand, heard a rumble and was quickly dead lol

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Those thumpers reminded me of in HL1, that's what those things must've been there for on Xen. To prevent Ant Lions from harassing the grunts/slave Vorts.

 

[aerasal]

i just bunny hopped across to the ledge

 

[pmweb9873]

You know, you can get through that whole area without expending one round and you don't even have to turn on that thumper anyways. Its kinda pointless to have there. But I love having those ant lions as partners.... they were even more effective I thought than the humans were.

 

[Cunbelin]

I loved building bridges and building little causeways, I actually went back after a death and did the whole thing again just to do it without setting off any antlions. the big metal panels are the best, they seem to be really light but also good sized, and they could be thrown ahead of you.

 

[J3susIsMyL0rd]

Heya!!

Ok first off, the thumper will keep the ant liions away from you while you are near it. But like as previously posted, u can just keep building bridges and dont really need it at all

As for the giant ant lion, you HAVE to face him. You can't avoid him... but if you run past him aways, there is a small fortress and a guy with a gun will shoot the ant lion for you.. but you'll still have to fight it, its not too tough a battle tho. Just unload on him haha.. and shootin the barrels into him work really well too. So yes, you cant avoid the giant ant lion fight, becuz right after that he gives you the antlion pheremones FROM the dead body of the giant antlion. Hope that helped and made sense. Be blessed

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