Tried to be clever...wasted an hour! *spoilers*

[Rehumies]

The scene where you run through the small mine-tunnel and reach the area where Alyx gets injured by the Hunter.

I spent quite a long time to carry all the crap I could find and hauled them in the house where's there button is to open the gate is. I did all this to be able to jump back from the hole in the roof to see how the game would react....Only to realise that after pressing the button you can't jump through the hole anymore, since a solid invisible wall will appear on that spot.

I probably try to be clever again at some point with same failure result. But it's so fun!

Anyone else have had similar experiences?

 

[Captain M4d]

On HL2 in Route Kanal where you have to find that valve to rise the water levels in order to reach that passage, I thought I had to stack all the barrels up so that I could reach it. I spent an hour stacking up the barrels correctly and after trying to jump onto the passage a million times, I realized I just had to turn up the water valve and I could reach the passage easily.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

On that seesaw puzzle at the beginning of HL2, where you have to put those concrete blocks onto one end so you could jump of the other end and onto the flat surface.

I tried getting onto the end where you place the blocks; pushing it down with my weight. Then I ran across only to faceplant myself into the wall

 

[Matt_Vinyl]

A couple of similar things that I 'tried'...

1. Sand Traps (I think) where you have to go along the seafront and there are the guarded outposts. I thought you had to 'go around the back' after storming the first one. So I tried (fruitlessly) to pile up crates to climb up onto the cliff. After much failure I just tried going along the front and circling round to take out the next outpost - worked first time. Doh!

2. When you fight the second Antlion Guard in Nova Prospekt - the trigger is you jumping out the control-room window - the combine soldiers then back into the room and get mashed by the guard. I struggled a bit here on Hard setting (not much health / suit) so tried chucking all of the filing cabinets out the window first to give me something to stand on where he couldn't get me. First hit and they all went flying leaving me straffing around to avoid instant death. Heh.

3. Classic mistake of thinking you 'can't' destroy the Hunter-chopper (when you're supposed to!) and trying to open that gate without getting ripped to shreds...

 

[Dinnesch]

I took very long to find out that rockets fired from the rocket launcher go to where the crosshair is after having launched them. I spent hours trying to take down Stryders/helicopters without knowing why all my rockets missed.

 

[Crazy_killer]

On HL2 in Route Kanal where you have to find that valve to rise the water levels in order to reach that passage, I thought I had to stack all the barrels up so that I could reach it. I spent an hour stacking up the barrels correctly and after trying to jump onto the passage a million times, I realized I just had to turn up the water valve and I could reach the passage easily.

Oh wow that's exactly what I did, I spent a long time stacking barrels haha.

 

[Vegeta897]

In route kanal where you have to put a bunch of weight into this one thing in order to keep the ramp upward so you can ramp over the wall with the airboat, I wedged some barrels under the ramp instead.

 

[xombine]

I took very long to find out that rockets fired from the rocket launcher go to where the crosshair is after having launched them. I spent hours trying to take down Stryders/helicopters without knowing why all my rockets missed.

Woo, I'm not the only one

 

[pilot7893]

In AntiCitizen One, at the part with the staircase after Alyx gets captured, I spend 30 minutes trying to figure out how to go up, only to realize you had to go down.

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

Woo, I'm not the only one

I did the same thing at the Episode 1 finale. I thought the Strider was using it's "**** Everything Cannon", but in reality i just fired, and hid behind cover... blowing myself up...

 

[ríomhaire]

There was this thread a while back where a guy successfully built a ramp to jump over the force field at the start of the train-bridge.

 

[The Brick]

That was me, and it worked. I had a less awesome experience of trying to bring dog's playball with me all throughout the game. I got very far, but I can't remember where I had to leave it behind, as it was 5 years ago, just after the game was released.

 

[StarBob]

I did the same thing at the Episode 1 finale. I thought the Strider was using it's "**** Everything Cannon", but in reality i just fired, and hid behind cover... blowing myself up...

I really got a kick out of visualizing that.


How did you play all of HL2 and all of Episode one before figuring that out?

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

I did the same thing with the rockets in the original Half Life, just after getting the rocket launcher on the cliffs ... I spent ages trying to take down the chopper you encounter right after that before realising I could steer the rocket.

 

[StarBob]

Wow I feel like a genius for figuring it out straight away... I think all it took was me moving my mouse after I shot the rocket one time.

I still don't get how you'd beat HL2 without figuring it out. I mean how would you shoot down the combine chopper...beast...guys? You have to redirect the missle or they'll shoot it down everytime.

 

[Frits]

Plus, the whole thing is explained to you by the elderly rocket guy in HL2, who only starts talking when you enter his 'class'...

 

[Vegeta897]

Wow I feel like a genius for figuring it out straight away... I think all it took was me moving my mouse after I shot the rocket one time.

Or because you should have known it's the same as in HL1?

Or because if you were a real fan of the game you'd have seen the E3 videos (Coast, to be specific) before it came out!?


DID YOU NEVER PLAY HL1 OR KNOW ABOUT HL2 BEFORE IT CAME OUT!? I BET YOU FOUND HL2 BECAUSE OF ORANGE BOX HUH?

 

[McGooTheWise]

That was me, and it worked. I had a less awesome experience of trying to bring dog's playball with me all throughout the game. I got very far, but I can't remember where I had to leave it behind, as it was 5 years ago, just after the game was released.

I'd figure you could get it all the way to the teleporter at the end of entanglement. I remember always taking every turret I found in Entanglement and using every one at the finally, then being sad because when I stacked them all in the telelporter they glitched the game, and I came out the other side of the teleporter stuck half way in the ground.

They disappear too.

Plus, the whole thing is explained to you by the elderly rocket guy in HL2, who only starts talking when you enter his 'class'...

Odessa Cubbage.

 

[StarBob]

Or because you should have known it's the same as in HL1?

Or because if you were a real fan of the game you'd have seen the E3 videos (Coast, to be specific) before it came out!?


DID YOU NEVER PLAY HL1 OR KNOW ABOUT HL2 BEFORE IT CAME OUT!? I BET YOU FOUND HL2 BECAUSE OF ORANGE BOX HUH?

Well I was talking about HL1 to begin with... and I don't recall even hearing about HL1 before it came out and my friend told me to play it... and I'm pretty sure he didn't forwarn me to aim the rocket with the laser dot.

 

[Matt_Vinyl]

I guess it's all a bit confusing as this thread is in the Half-Life 2: Episode Two sub-forum.

 

[Setä Hemuli]

I carried all the red exploding gas barrell things through the beginning, to be able to kill the hunter before it impales Alyx I actually thought I was going to make it, but then I noticed an invisible wall in the hole you crawl through after opening the gate. Had to leave the barrels outside the invisible wall, but when the scripted sequence started they all vanished, except one, which didn't have the power to kill the fu**er (though I'm almost certain it did inflict damage...)

 

[The Monkey]

I tried for 10 minutes to cut off a power chord in Ravenholm using a sawblade, thinking it turned off an electrical fence. I realized then that there was a button for it.

EDIT: Yay, 15000 posts. That's certainly a large portion of my life well spent.

 

[JUL3]

I took very long to find out that rockets fired from the rocket launcher go to where the crosshair is after having launched them. I spent hours trying to take down Striders/helicopters without knowing why all my rockets missed.

This.

& in Highway 17 on top of the bridge, I stacked up all the crates etc. I could find to climb over the force field, because I thought I could dodge the train on foot. Turns out I was wrong.

 

[Naph]

Never had these problems, I'm just that awesome at games.

 

[AHTDestroyer]

I was stuck on the roof-tops near the Nexu Building trying to find a way to kill the strider with small arms fire. It took me around 12 minutes that I had to actually go to the Nexus Building, disable the "Death-Cannon" and then collect the rocket launcher from utop the Nexus building and then kill the Strider(An odd seven or eight shots to kill a strider in the Hardest of difficulties).

 

[Colonel Kernel]

An odd seven or eight shots to kill a strider in the Hardest of difficulties.

Don't you use the RPG's laser guider?