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Depot / Nova Prospekt Cell Block 3.

HL2 Depot - CELLBLOCK 3 (MELEE AND BARRICADES)

• Cellblock profile
• Most battle is happening on ground floor - the top floor provides a breathing space from which to watch and intervene in player's favour, though stray antlions sometime come up the stairs or through windows.
• Lower floor is swarming with antlions, but player can pick them off from the safety of the mezzanine/catwalk, thus easing escape through collapsed floor and to level exit.
• Med supplies
• Player can drop bugbait or grenades onto soldiers below, softening the area before entering via damaged area of floor-bars.
• Corridor split with cart system using barred mezzanine track (see reference)
• dead Antlion Guard
• Player entrance (laundy)
• guard catwalk
• Scripted sequence - soldiers erect barricade, only to have antlions burst through ground behind them.
• If player did not kill or bugbait guards (a) at start of level, they will have to be fought to pass.
• empty cells with working doors can be used as antlion containers via bugbait, alternative to combat.
• Isolated guards holed up in cells
• Soldier ragdoll
• Earlier Barricade destroyed and overrun by antlions. (player has to find place to climb/squeeze through)
• Med supplies, wounded soldier.
• As player comes around corner, antlions break through barricade at end of hall, and overwhelm guards at (b). Player can bug bait guards (a), or a cell, or fight through
• Dead antlion guard
• Guards (a) have backs to player, player is free to ignore them or ambush them
• Barricades
• Player has to drop into cluster of soldiers but can use height advantage (and/or bugbait) beforehand.
• Flimsy barricade, can be broken through by bugbait or weapons. Guards inside are being pushed up against it by antlions attacking from rear.
• Antlions also enter through windows
• rusty cell doors not always enough...
• Player Exit (to showers)

Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar

Eric Kirchmer