Halflife 2 "<level Name Removed>" Chapter.. Help

SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
edited November 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">HELP ME</div> <span style='color:orange'>Level was Dark Energy. Shouldn't have been in the thread title. I'm disliking the fact that I had to read the first line or few of this post just to determine whether I"d need to put the level title in here now that it's not in the thread title.</span>

WARNING... POSSIBLE SPOILERS INCLUDED IN STATEMENT BELOW


So Dr breen is getting away, the portal is going up, im on the top floor, and there are all the energy balls taht i can grab with my new cooler gravity gun... so i grab a bunch and shoot the Gyrocopters down no problem....

Then what... ive tried bashing the portal with Energy balls, taking as many out as i can to "deprive it of power".... ive tried shooting the door things so they bounce back up and "close the portal".... nothing....

Im out of ideas... and Dr breen keeps getting away...


What to do???

Plz help...

Btw... BEST DAMN GAME EVER!!


~Jason
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    Just keep smashing the portal (make sure you're hitting the part with Dr. Breen in it). You should see parts of the machine fall off as you're doing it.
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    Tempsuspended 1 day for giving away the title to the level in the thread title. <b>I. DON'T. HAVE. THE. GAME. I. DON'T. WANT. SPOILERS.</b>
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    first shoot the balls at the 2 metal flaps outside the portal then just aim at the portal and start blasting the balls at it

    ignore the flying thingies if dont quickly enough they shouldnt affect you
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  • SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Marik_Steele+Nov 18 2004, 12:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Nov 18 2004, 12:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Tempsuspended 1 day for giving away the title to the level in the thread title. <b>I. DON'T. HAVE. THE. GAME. I. DON'T. WANT. SPOILERS.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Sorry....

    Diddnt realize chapter names were spoilers...

    Id figure anyone reading it would say "wow i havent gotten to that chapter yet, (as in... i dont recognize that two word chapter name) better not read it"

    But... ok... sorry

    I mean that chapter name doesetn exactly tell much of anything about anything... but ok... my ban was served..... ok ok ok sorry

    ~Jason
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    well.... Alyx tells you what to do before you even go in that direction...
    What are you there to destroy precisely?
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  • DelarosaDelarosa Naturally Custom Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10214Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited November 2004
    select for instructions.

    <span style='color:#041E2D'>
    the sheild parts rotate around, you need to shoot inbetween them, and hit the ones from the 'inside'
    </span>
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    I find it really ironic that I can't see the level title in the title of the thread, thus I can't determine weather or not I will be spoiling my game by entering the topic or not having only played half way through the game.

    Marik, titling is the way they oranize the levels in this game, its just like any other game where you see "level one-level two" and so on. As soon as you press start game the first thing it does is gives you a list of all the chapters and allows you to select which one you want to play. They are hardly spoilers.

    Would you tempsuspend me for posting a thread for starcraft if it was new and I said "Starcraft; Need help on Protoss campain"?
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Nov 19 2004, 03:04 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Nov 19 2004, 03:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I find it really ironic that I can't see the level title in the title of the thread, thus I can't determine weather or not I will be spoiling my game by entering the topic or not having only played half way through the game.

    Marik, titling is the way they oranize the levels in this game, its just like any other game where you see "level one-level two" and so on. As soon as you press start game the first thing it does is gives you a list of all the chapters and allows you to select which one you want to play. They are hardly spoilers.

    Would you tempsuspend me for posting a thread for starcraft if it was new and I said "Starcraft; Need help on Protoss campain"? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I came back to this thread figuring there may be at least one reaction to the tempsuspension.

    Referring to HL1, if someone had told you they were needing help on a level called "Surface Tension," yes, it looks like a plain old scientific term...until you're actually playing the game, at which point you may be only halfway towards that level before you can guess it refers to a fight on the earth's surface. Likewise, knowing that a chapter is called "Dark Matter" may not seem too harmful to me right now, but when I'm actually playing, it may prematurely give away part of the game.

    On a sidenote, up until now I was also completely unaware HL2 has a chapter selection system. I won't say the comparison to StarCraft is entirely irrelevant, but I would imagine my comparison to the game's own prequel is equally or more valid than a comparison to an RTS, a genre where the majority of games have playing as more than one species/army/race/whatever as a main advertised feature.
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Marik_Steele+Nov 19 2004, 08:15 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Nov 19 2004, 08:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> On a sidenote, up until now I was also completely unaware HL2 has a chapter selection system. I won't say the comparison to StarCraft is entirely irrelevant, but I would imagine my comparison to the game's own prequel is equally or more valid than a comparison to an RTS, a genre where the majority of games have playing as more than one species/army/race/whatever as a main advertised feature. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well there definately is a chapter selection. Granted its a little buggy at the moment (it gets stuck on chapter 8 even after you have compleated past that point) but it is the locating feature of the regions of the game. Trust me, the valve chapter titles are far more vauge and undescript than any persons three second attempt at describing a part of the game would be. They added chapter selection into HL:S too acctually...

    I just found it somewhat annoying that I acctually had to come into the thread and read thread content to determin weather or not I could be of any help, expecially since I have only half compleated the game and am intentionally avoiding spoilers because I don't want to know anything about the end, which I have heard from numorous sourses is the best part of the game.
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  • HawkeyeHawkeye Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1855Members
    edited November 2004
    I sure as heck wouldn't want to have my spoilers <span style='color:orange'><explicitive></span> ruined. I mean all those god<span style='color:orange'><explicitive> <explicitive> <explicitive></span> mother<span style='color:orange'><explicitive></span> morons that don't know how to keep their mouth shut! They give it all <span style='color:orange'><explicitive></span> away!
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    edited November 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Marik_Steele+Nov 19 2004, 08:15 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Nov 19 2004, 08:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Referring to HL1, if someone had told you they were needing help on a level called "Surface Tension," yes, it looks like a plain old scientific term...until you're actually playing the game, at which point you may be only halfway towards that level before you can guess it refers to a fight on the earth's surface.  Likewise, knowing that a chapter is called "Dark Matter" may not seem too harmful to me right now, but when I'm actually playing, it may prematurely give away part of the game. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If someone asked me for help on a hypothetical chapter called "Meeting of Minds", I'd tell them I hadn't got that far, and I wouldn't get any spoilers. "Meeting of Minds" could mean anything, as could "Surface Tension" or "Dark Energy". If someone asked me for help on that chapter where, you know, Gordon Freeman has to fight his evil twin brother Ronaldo, <i>then</i> I would be ticked off.

    In fact, if anything, editing out the chapter name makes it <i>more</i> likely that a spoiler's going to occur, because we can't tell what chapter he's referring to unless we read the spoiler! Just like you noted in the first post!
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Nov 19 2004, 11:20 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Nov 19 2004, 11:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> [...]
    In fact, if anything, editing out the chapter name makes it <i>more</i> likely that a spoiler's going to occur, because we can't tell what chapter he's referring to unless we read the spoiler! Just like you noted in the first post! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why don't we just end this by agreeing that it would've been a lot easier for all involved to just put the chapter # in the title instead of a name?
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    edited November 2004
    Fair enough.

    All I know is that it's after chapter 12, in the vain hopes that someone would read this post before the first. You can't find out the names of the chapters until you get to them in-game (and you have to go to "new game" to find out), and I haven't gotten to the part the thread author's talking about.
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