Ok, so just replayed Ep II and missed some gameplay...

[SpectreBlofeld]

Ok... so, I was just re-playing Ep II for the first time since release (other than replaying White Forest battles incessantly).

You know the part wherein Alyx gets Hunter'd and the Vortigaunt picks her up and you have to plow the way to safety?

The first time I played, I went through the whole course of balancing weights on elevators, etc and clearing the way for Vorty to carry Alyx down to the chamber with the Antlions.

This time, however, I found a hole in the ground covered with planks and just crow-barred my way through them, after which I fell into ant-lionville, and plowed through... until I reached the chamber, where, oddly enough, the Vortigaunt was ALREADY waiting with Alyx, as if he found a faster way there than mine.

Has anyone else experienced this? The fact that you can apparently just skip past 5-10 minutes of Zombie fighting and weighted puzzles by just crowbarring your way downstairs, and finding out that the Vortigaunt didn't need any help down there after all?

And no, there was no cheating involved.

 

[kineaesth]

Conclusion - Vorts are magic.

 

[giant384]

umm....im preety sure you get stuck in an elevator and fall down so the vort has to get to the location himself. then you go on your own through the antlion caves

 

[LandStander]

Yeah you didn't miss anything. As soon as you remove the crowbar, the elevator drops, and the Vort takes off with Alyx.

 

[kriztov]

Ok... so, I was just re-playing Ep II for the first time since release (other than replaying White Forest battles incessantly).

You know the part wherein Alyx gets Hunter'd and the Vortigaunt picks her up and you have to plow the way to safety?

The first time I played, I went through the whole course of balancing weights on elevators, etc and clearing the way for Vorty to carry Alyx down to the chamber with the Antlions.

This time, however, I found a hole in the ground covered with planks and just crow-barred my way through them, after which I fell into ant-lionville, and plowed through... until I reached the chamber, where, oddly enough, the Vortigaunt was ALREADY waiting with Alyx, as if he found a faster way there than mine.

Has anyone else experienced this? The fact that you can apparently just skip past 5-10 minutes of Zombie fighting and weighted puzzles by just crowbarring your way downstairs, and finding out that the Vortigaunt didn't need any help down there after all?

And no, there was no cheating involved.

You serious? I always end up in that elevator, I didnt know there was any extra gameplay

I'm serious, I didnt know. I always thought that was the designed pathway. Ah well, I'd better play through that again.

 

[Xendance]

I don't understand... there was another way?

 

[Shippi]

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[attorney general]

Not sure what your talking about.. I remember removing a crowbar from a gear and falling down the shaft.. I don't remember balancing weights so the vort can go through.

 

[Naudian]

I think the OP is seriously confused. :|

If not, PICS!

 

[Jintor]

I remember balancing weights and crap, but what's this crowbaring a hole in the ground thing? D:

 

[kriztov]

I think he may be pulling somebody's proverbial leg. In other words, fake post is fake.

 

[bbson john]

I remember balancing weights and crap, but what's this crowbaring a hole in the ground thing? D:

There is no balancing weights. Where are you talking about?

 

[Naudian]

^ Obviously talking about those puzzles where you have to weigh down the elevators with heavy objects.

 

[bbson john]

I can't find a shortcut. :/
Where, exactly,is the hole?

 

[LandStander]

He's getting his level continuity screwed up. The vort isn't carrying Alyx anymore when you get to those puzzles.

 

[Shephard]

I never cleared the way for the vortigaunt, I just found my crowbar stuck in some elevator thingy then fell down into the mines, finding the vortigaunt in the antlion chamber later on.

 

[Jintor]

I never cleared the way for the vortigaunt, I just found my crowbar stuck in some elevator thingy then fell down into the mines, finding the vortigaunt in the antlion chamber later on.

That's exactly what you're supposed to do. :/

 

[SpectreBlofeld]

He's getting his level continuity screwed up. The vort isn't carrying Alyx anymore when you get to those puzzles.

You're absolutely right. Sorry guys; I was confusing it with the part where you and the Vortigaunt are looking for the extract.

Sorry 'bout that. Half the game takes place in a cave... got confused.

 

[Druckles]

Hmm... find it annoying when you climb a ladder and the vort doesn't "climb" it until you're unable to see him. Wanna see a vort climb a ladder.

Bloody magic vorts. Wanna kill them again like in Half-Life. Bloody zappy aliens.

 

[Omnomnick]

WTF, i am confused, is he talking about zombie and antlion fights before he leaves us for the 'Different path' or is there some alternate route inwhich you actually help the vortagaunt reach Grigs and Sheckley...If so, where is this magical hole...

 

[Xendance]

The only hole I remember breaking is after you met the acid antlion.

 

[Rizzo]

He just corrected his misstake... He replayed it, and thought that you where supposed to lead the Vort down the mine. So no, no short cut.

 

[giant384]

silly OP you should know this by now. valve would never make the game non-linear