Half-Life 2: Episode Two Update

[aoanla]

That Strider assault is still the most irritating unfun set-piece in any game I've played, mainly due to the Hunters. (I've managed to save the Sawmill, but the third Strider is intensely unfun due to the two Hunters with it, and my inability to aim with logs on the Gravity Gun.) It's unlikely that I'll finish the game, so I'll probably write a

Comments

[rimspace]

I recommend something of a workaround:

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god

this will not, of course, prevent the hunters from removing the magnusson devices, but it will let you concentrate more on dispatching them than worrying about health.

That said, I have yet to adopt this tactic myself.

[aoanla]

I was actually considering

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(because: what better way to kill Hunters than with a Super Gravity Gun? Although, I'm unsure as to if this will also detonate Magnusson Devices when I try to pick them up...)

[eisenhart]

I found those parts to be the most fun parts of the game...

huh.

[aoanla]

I enjoyed some parts of the Antlion sequence, but some parts were really irritating. I can see why some people hated the entire thing; I can also see how someone might enjoy all of it.

[jordanis]

Where can you find these stats?

[aoanla]

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=stats
is the index page for Valve's statistics pages.
The links to anonymised aggregate statistics for various Valve games are at the bottom.