Has anybody done this?

[dj_flameskull]

Call it lame but what i discovered here pretty amused me..

when i was in the prison cells, remember those auto turrets that shoot anything that moves? I actually made good use of these pests. What i did was get behind one of them and picked it up wid my grav gun so the turret is facing forward... I leave the rest for you to imagine. :cheers: :farmer:

i carried it to almost everywhere i went. heheh!

this saved me a lot of ammo and i think this trick is usefull when playing hard mode.

 

[ship]

Most of the guys on the messageboards have, yes, done this. It's a good little trick, wouldn't you say?

 

[dj_flameskull]

yep! and oh. so i see, it is now an old trick in the book.
any other peeps who want to share some tricks here?

 

[Sid Burn]

lol... I've done this technique also... and yeah!!! it was pretty helpful killing all the combines with ease.

 

[gazoox999]

I didn't think of that one. All I did was hide in one of the cells and shoot any combine that came past my door with a shotgun.

 

[pimplife2]

AAWAWAW growse im gonna throw up

 

[Angel of Loss]

It's a good trick, but it doesn't work verry well if you don't know where they're coming from .
I used it the first time I had to use the turrents, but after that I just used the Magnum, the Shotgun and the 'mp7'

 

[sfc_hoot]

Has anyone tried bringing one of the turrets with them back to Kleiner's lab (through the portal)? I wonder if they would attack him, or Lamarr. :O

 

[bboymatty]

thats cool idea, but probs wont work, it would screw up the sequencing, plus all the freindly units are impervious to damage

 

[Varsity]

They don't make it though the map change.

 

[Overwatch]

Has anyone tried bringing one of the turrets with them back to Kleiner's lab (through the portal)? I wonder if they would attack him, or Lamarr. :O

I tried, but the turret wouldn't fit in the portal together with me and Alyx.

It probably would not have worked anyway, i doubt Valve actually scripted the teleport the teleport any objects that happen to get inside.

I've managed to kill Barney and my whole squad with a turret on Follow Freeman however. :

 

[SimonomiS]

They don't make it though the map change.

I tried, but the turret wouldn't fit in the portal together with me and Alyx.

It probably would not have worked anyway, i doubt Valve actually scripted the teleport the teleport any objects that happen to get inside.

I've managed to kill Barney and my whole squad with a turret on Follow Freeman however.

Hmmm conflicting statements, whos lying?

 

[Seppo]

Yes, that is a good trick, but...

I found it more amusing to catch manhacks and use them as an extremely violent tool to butcher combines, watching how the saw blade horribly drilled into the bones of the not-so-innocent victims

 

[Jeremy 42]

In the chapter "entanglement" there is that really hard part where you get 3 turrets and have to fight off like... hundreds of combine, there is a trick to it. I figured, why didn't they give me four? you know..... and then realized, combine will not try to go through a blockade.... stak up the boxes! and then, on the ouside, stack up the barrels, so that no manhacks can get through (they would take down the boxes if you left them exposed.)

Then you just set up the 3 turrets inside the hall's open end facing out, and crouch inside one of the turret box things. If you made your barrier well enough, the manhacks will not be able to take it down, and all the combine will go around and get mauled by the guns.

 

[big_king_frosty]

A little sercret (to me) that i took great pleasure of finding out was that you can grab the manhacks with the grav gun. I played the whole game and didnt know.

 

[Jeremy 42]

A little sercret (to me) that i took great pleasure of finding out was that you can grab the manhacks with the grav gun. I played the whole game and didnt know.

well, with common sense you would have realized that anything non-organic, and not to heavy could be picked up....

 

[dj_flameskull]

when u get the organic grav gun, u can just use the combines as ammo. hehe. just grab one of them and throw them against a group of atacking forces. its so amusing to watch them get knocked like a bunch of bowling pins.

- here's another trick: to make good use of the squishy bug baits. since these things are infinite, after you finish the level where u ally with ant lions, you can still use the squishy balls against the combines. Just throw it direct at them and the smoke would make them look like they're dancing when trying to fend off the smoke. So they become sitting ducks.. all u gotta do is fire away. hehe!