More Blast Pitt ... and a wtf moment
Most of the time when I stop playing Half-Life it's when I'm "stuck" at a point and can't go any further. Usually this comes with frustration and I struggle to know what exactly I was to do next. This was the point I had left off the last time.
I was scaling pipes and moving around, trying to avoid the radioactive ooze and trying not to get killed by bullsquids. I couldn't quite reach a platform that I was trying to jump on, but finally figured out that I was jumping from a lower pipe and needed to be jumping from a higher pipe. So after a nice running jump I had made it to the desired platform.
After getting some ammo and health packets I made it to another big open room with a pool of ooze and another bullsquid or two to kill. After scaling a long pipe I made it to a moving lift that took me a long distance upward. I was careful to look for falling headcrabs, but there were none to speak of here.
I can't remember the exact sequence of events but this wasn't an area where scientist were having a good time.
After rounding another corner I had my first truly "holy shit" moment of Half-Life up until this point.
After being totally shocked by another poor scientist being owned, I stopped. I haven't faced a monster like this before so I don't know if or how I will kill this one or if I can just escape like I've done so in the past. I'm currently out of machine gun ammo, but still have some shotgun shells and grenades.
Speaking of mechanics, I comfortably played with WASD and think this was the first time that I wasn't really thinking about the keys and how to move. I was just doing it and that let me focus a lot more on the game, instead of how to play it. I'm really looking forward to what's coming next.
I was scaling pipes and moving around, trying to avoid the radioactive ooze and trying not to get killed by bullsquids. I couldn't quite reach a platform that I was trying to jump on, but finally figured out that I was jumping from a lower pipe and needed to be jumping from a higher pipe. So after a nice running jump I had made it to the desired platform.
After getting some ammo and health packets I made it to another big open room with a pool of ooze and another bullsquid or two to kill. After scaling a long pipe I made it to a moving lift that took me a long distance upward. I was careful to look for falling headcrabs, but there were none to speak of here.
I can't remember the exact sequence of events but this wasn't an area where scientist were having a good time.
After rounding another corner I had my first truly "holy shit" moment of Half-Life up until this point.
After being totally shocked by another poor scientist being owned, I stopped. I haven't faced a monster like this before so I don't know if or how I will kill this one or if I can just escape like I've done so in the past. I'm currently out of machine gun ammo, but still have some shotgun shells and grenades.
Speaking of mechanics, I comfortably played with WASD and think this was the first time that I wasn't really thinking about the keys and how to move. I was just doing it and that let me focus a lot more on the game, instead of how to play it. I'm really looking forward to what's coming next.
5 Comments:
Don't bother shooting it. You can't kill it with guns.
Be sure to listen to the advice the few surviving guards and scientists give you.
Well done with the learning up the controls! You'll be insulting those noobs in no time :D
Ooo. I'd pretty much been reading waiting for you to get to this point. It's probably my most memorable moment of Half Life 1 (or possibly second, after the opening sequence, which I still remember almost every word of). That's not to say there aren't plenty more great bits, of course. There are loads. But, as you say, this is the first that really makes your heart pound.
I don't want to say anything about how you do it. That would ruin it.
Welcome to the Blast Pit. Hmmm...wonder why they call it that?
try not to waste your ammo on this big fella, the area is cluttered with clues, listen to guards, and be creative :)
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