Gameplay Hints
- HEV Forms are balanced to be able and win any kind of challenges,but some are more powerful in the first half of the game while others are in the latter
- If you are very low on health and start bleeding,crouch for a few seconds and your life gauge will refill completely. When you are safe,get a morfine shot and life leech some weak enemy (like headcrabs).
- Solid Snake has always an alternative to raw fighting,thanks to his stealth suit,the chaff grenade and high speed.
- Liquid Snake is best used when you are certain that you will be the first one to hit the opponent.
- The only way to stop Gray Fox from losing health is to stay cloacked.
- Don't be stubborn if you keep dying and see you can't kill them all: running away makes the game faster paced and more enjoyable. However,killing all the enemies saves you FPS!
- Save your allies and let them heal you and themselves before a big battle,but don't hesitate killing them all if they betray you after a faulty grenade throw or something like that.
- Any fight can be won easily with bullet time and an headshot.
- Striders can be killed not only by the RPG as in normal HL2, but also by other weapons. The best ones to do so are the AWP,the vulcan cannon,the chaff grenade or any weapon of the secret hev form Gray Fox. Not as powerful but still useful are the I-Rifle and the M3,or picking up a mine with the gravity gun and tossing it at the strider's face with the berserk g-gun.
- Against melee attacks,the ability that grants best defense is the HEV Shield. Against ranged attacks,the Fortune Device grants complete invulnerability (because they will never hit you). Nothing can protect you from blasts and explosions,instead.
- In the canals levels,the best way to navigate is to aim the boat directly at the closer combine,run over him,and then proceed to the next one. This way you won't be hitting walls or taking wrong ways.
- When playing the Gordon Tales gamemode,every time an helicopter is chasing you in the Canals and Water Hazard chapters,your airboat is of the armed type. Use the gun mounted on it to destroy the buzzer,because its bombs are far more dangerous now.
- The spit of the bullsquid is homing: don't even try to avoid it,eliminate the beast as quick as possible.
- The houndeye's sonic blast is longer ranged than in HL1,watch out!
- Stalkers are scary but weak,kill them with melee weapons if you can.
- You can destroy gunships very fast if you fire your whole clip of rockets at the same time and make them hit the monster all together.
- The berserk gravity gun works better against zombies,especially poison ones.
- Play the VR Training to not only learn the basics of the mod,but also to discover all the cheat codes.
- The secret hev form Gray Fox and other extras can be unlocked by winning the game once,meaning you have to go in the Citadel chapter and stop Breen from teleporting away.
- Explore the Options -> Keyboard commands to find and customize the new action buttons as the Melee Attack,Throw Grenade,HEV Forms menu and fastkeys.
- Lowering the resolution,detail and audio quality settings to low is not ashameful and brings better performance in battle.
- Enter Cheat:
GodMode (Enables god mode)
Buddha (Enables a special god mode where the life bar goes down,but you never die)
AllWeapons (Give all the weapons)
Noclip (Fly through walls)
Ai_Disable (Enemies don't think anymore)
Impulse 82 (Creates a jeep)
Impulse 83 (Creates an airboat)
sv_infinite_aux_power 0/1 (Give infinite aux power)
mat_depthbias_normal 0/1 (See through walls)
mat_fullbright 0/1 (Shadows on/off)
mat_yuv 0/1 (Black and white mode)
GrayFox (Kills all the fun)
Give [item] (Possible items: item_healthvial,item_medikit,item_suit,weapon_hand,weapon_crowbar,weapon_pstunstick,
weapon_physcannon,weapon_bugbait,weapon_pistol,weapon_357,weapon_coltflaregun,weapon_smg1,weapon_ar2,
weapon_alyxgun,weapon_shotgun,weapon_m3,weapon_p90,weapon_crossbow,weapon_ar2sniper,weapon_rpg,weapon_frag,
weapon_cluster,weapon_prox,weapon_chaff,weapon_slam)
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