Navigate Part 16 of Half-Life: Opposing Force, including the firing chamber, oxygen and fuel area, and giant fan.
Walkthrough
- 1Return to the firing chamber. Go along the walkway to a room where you must hit a red switch to change which door is open, which will take you back to section c1a4b.
- 2In section c1a4b, turn right after exiting the door-switch room and move towards the area with a bullsquid. Shoot the explosive crate next to the bullsquid with your pistol, then finish it off if the explosion did not kill it.
- 3Turn and shoot the explosives on the nearby path until they detonate.
- 4Crouch-walk across the blue pipe that survived the explosion.
- 5On the other side, break open the two non-explosive crates to find health packs.
- 6Move down the corridor until section c1a4d loads.
- 7In section c1a4d, move along until you reach an area with an unopenable fuel room door on the left and a ladder on a metal platform on the right. Do not climb down the ladder; instead, jump over the railing next to it.
- 8As soon as you hit the floor, run for the large floor grating ahead. Bash it open and descend the long ladder beneath it.
- 9At the bottom, get onto the large brown pipe and move carefully along it until it divides.
- 10Go down the left pipe until you reach a short ladder leading up to a large bashable grating.
- 11Before bashing through, shoot the zombie visible through the grating with your pistol.
- 12After climbing up, locate a small room with grenades to resupply.
- 13Move down the corridor to get section c1a4e to load.
- 14In section c1a4e, find the opening control for the closed door on the wall to its right.
- 15Warning: Two zombies are just past the door. Toss a grenade at their feet as the door opens and back up to avoid the explosion. Finish them off with shotgun blasts to the head if necessary, or try to run past them on their right side.
- 16Past the door is a huge shaft with a giant fan. Move around the upper walkway until you find a ladder to the lower walkway.
- 17Climb down a ladder from the lower walkway to reach a short, narrow platform leading to the fan's button panel.
- 18Warning: Quicksave before using the button panel to turn the fan on. Immediately start running backwards to climb the ladder without being affected by the fan.
- 19Jump into the space over the fan to be blown to the top of the shaft.
- 20Use your crowbar to bash through some boards.
- 21Once floating above the boards, move to a large vent covering on a wall and bash it out.
- 22Warning: A headcrab is just past the vent covering. Toss a grenade in there and back away.
- 23After the explosion, drop into the vent shaft and move along it.
- 24When you reach a large metal vent covering, turn on your flashlight and shoot a headcrab through the covering before bashing it away.
- 25Past that, you will encounter a board barricade. Shoot the headcrab through the barricade, then bash through it to return to section c1a4d.
- 26In section c1a4d (again), bash through some metal vent coverings around the corner past the barricade and drop down to find yourself next to the fuel room.
- 27Warning: There are three zombies and a headcrab in the fuel room. Use your pistol to headshot (a shot that lands on the enemy's head, usually an instant kill) the first two zombies you see.
- 28Go through the doorway and blast the third zombie with your shotgun.
- 29Shoot the headcrab from a distance with your pistol; it is on top of a green machine next to two red lights.
- 30Go to the control panel left of the headcrab's machine and press the "OXY ON" and "FUEL ON" buttons.
- 31After the lights next to the buttons illuminate, find the ladder in the alcove to the right of the headcrab's machine and climb it.
- 32Use the control on the wall to the right of the door to open it, then head down the corridor on the right to return to section c1a4b.
- 33In section c1a4b (yet again), return to the blown-up walkway and cross it by crouch-walking along the blue pipe.
- 34In the door-switch room, hit the switch to be returned to section c1a4i.
- 35In section c1a4i (again), go past the doorway into the rocket firing chamber to a red railing. Jump onto the railing and crouch-drop to the floor below, losing approximately 20 health. Alternatively, try getting onto the left end of the railing and hugging the wall while going down, using the "Jump" key or direction keys.
- 36As you go along the walkway, you will come across a wide gap.
- 37Warning: Quicksave before attempting to cross the gap. Take a running jump across the left side of the gap.
- 38Get out your shotgun, run forward without stopping until you reach an area with a zombie.
- 39Quickly double-barrel the zombie in the head to kill it. This tactic also allows you to cross a new walkway breach.
- 40Enter the door-switch room past the zombie and hit the switch to return to section c1a4b.
- 41In section c1a4b (fourth time), exit the door-switch room to find yourself in the area with the bullsquid you killed previously.
Tips
- The explosion from the initial explosive crate can kill the bullsquid.
- Crouch-walking across the blue pipe is necessary as it is the only part that survived the explosion.
- The health packs are found in non-explosive crates after crossing the blue pipe.
- Jumping over the railing instead of taking the ladder saves time.
- Bashing the floor grating and descending the ladder leads to a hidden area.
- The left pipe after the division leads to the fuel room area.
- Grenades are useful for dealing with groups of enemies, such as the zombies past the door in section c1a4e.
- Running backwards immediately after activating the fan is crucial to avoid being harmed.
- Bashing through boards and a vent covering leads to a new path.
- Shooting headcrabs through vent coverings or barricades before engaging them is a safe strategy.
- Headshots are effective against zombies.
- The "OXY ON" and "FUEL ON" buttons must be activated to proceed.
- A faster and less resource-intensive method to reach the lower area in section c1a4i is by jumping from the red railing.
- Running without stopping after crossing the gap in section c1a4i helps you reach the zombie area quickly.
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