Navigate Part 13 of Half-Life: Opposing Force, dealing with marines, barnacles, and explosive barrels to reach the Surface Access lift.
Walkthrough
- 1When facing marines in the hallway, retreat to the top of the ramp to allow them to kill themselves with grenades, or crouch halfway down the ramp and shoot them as they appear. Alternatively, jump on the lower floor to get a better view of the upper walkways.
- 2After clearing the marines, you can use the barnacle bridge as a shortcut, skipping some combat and supplies.
- 3If not using the shortcut, jump onto the conveyor belt past the barnacle tongues to reach a room with assault rifle clips, a first aid station, and an HEV wall station.
- 4Locate the lowest green crate in the large crate stack, then jump from crate to crate to reach the highest green crate.
- 5Jump from the highest green crate to the high-up conveyor belt and follow it to a room.
- 6Quicksave before entering the room. Move in just enough for the marine on the other side to see you, then quickly back up near the conveyor bend.
- 7Wait for the marine to move next to the explosive barrels, then shoot the barrels to kill him. If the marine blows up the barrels, damages you with a grenade, or replicates, quickrestore and try again.
- 8As an alternative, blow up the barrels as you approach the room, throw a grenade toward the marine's sandbag wall before he sees you, then charge him.
- 9Search the marine's side of the room for a first aid station and ammo.
- 10Look down to the lower floor and note the turrets and laser alarms. Quicksave.
- 11Drop down to land next to the fire door's button, then go through the fire door and jump over the laser tripmine (quickrestore if anything goes wrong).
- 12Turn left past the tripmine and move forward. Look up to see a marine's legs on an upper walkway.
- 13Shoot the marine's legs, then wait for him to move towards stairs leading down. He should be caught and eaten by a barnacle.
- 14Trick two other marines into the same fate. If a marine makes it past the barnacle, you will have to shoot him.
- 15Quickly run up the stairs while the last marine is distracted by the barnacle, or kill the barnacle with your pistol before going up.
- 16Look for shotgun shells on a small green crate near a sandbag wall.
- 17Go up more stairs and run along the walkway until you can turn left into a wide concrete corridor.
- 18Continuing past this point on the walkway leads to a first aid station and assault rifle clips past a barnacle.
- 19Go down the concrete corridor and across another barnacle-tongue bridge.
- 20You will reach an upper walkway over an area where marines were previously killed.
- 21Go around the walkway and bash crates to find an armor battery.
- 22Locate the stairs leading down to a lower walkway, then take stairs to the floor where marines were.
- 23Bash all crates on that floor for more supplies.
- 24Find the large "SURFACE ACCESS" lift in the back and use its button to open it.
- 25Get on the lift and use its interior button to ascend to section c1a3b.
- 26Section c1a3b: BRIEF SURFACE RUN
- 27If the lift jams upon loading, crouch and move to break free of the glitch.
- 28After the lift stops, crouch-hop past it, turn left, and run for the corner with the first aid station. Stay left to avoid being seen by outside marines.
- 29Quicksave. Go through the left side of the large doorway, immediately turn left, and run past two sets of wooden crates.
- 30Turn right and run for the open door past another set of wooden crates. Crouch as you drop to the door on lower ground.
- 31As soon as you are through the door, climb down the ladder to reach section c1a3c.
- 32Section c1a3c: DROPPING DOWN A SHAFT
- 33Finish climbing down the ladder. Bash crates for ammo and use first aid and HEV stations to recharge.
- 34Move to the vent access door to open it. Back up as an explosion sends debris down the shaft.
- 35Have your assault rifle ready in case of any remaining marines.
- 36Quickly move through the vent access door and drop to the ledge on the right.
- 37Turn and try to drop onto the broken fan before dropping to the metal walkway below.
- 38Find the large opening in a wall next to the walkway and run down it to return to section c1a3.
- 39Section c1a3 (again): CRAWLWAY EXTRAS AND SILO DOOR CONTROL ROOM
- 40At the end of the shaft, quicksave before dropping to the narrow ledge below.
- 41Move along the ledge and enter a vent shaft.
- 42Go forward until you see an opening on your right. Drop down onto a green crate.
- 43Turn and crouch-walk under an unbreakable vent grating to get shotgun ammo.
- 44Crouch-jump back onto the green crate.
Tips
- Marines are less likely to kill themselves with grenades on the upper walkways and may run around, including on the upper barnacle bridge.
- The barnacle bridge shortcut skips some combat and supplies, but not a significant amount.
- If a marine tries to go down the stairs soon after another is eaten by a barnacle, he may make it past and require you to shoot him.
- Marines may kill the barnacle, so stay back and use your pistol or grenades.
- If the lift appears to jam upon loading section c1a3b, crouch and move to break the glitch.
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