Stuck on MINERVA Metastasis Half-Life 2 Mod

[Mike_Amiga]

I'm in a big complex with a huge blue/white beam of light running through it's middle. The little note/advice text thing long since disappeared and I don't know how to bring it back up for a hint. It said something like "you have to destablise the power conduit by shooting at it from above."

So I've gone up these 2 walkways and can get pretty high above this beam of energy/light thing and have pressed 2 switches which turned off 2 stabalising energy beams that were firing into the main one. I've tried the rocket launcher, grenades, all my guns to no effect. The beam seems to just disintergrate anything shot at it. So how i distablise it any more I just don't know.

Any help greatly appreciated. Might get a few screen shots up if it helps.

[weirdami]

try jumping on it.  :-P

[Mike_Amiga]

Tried that too, it obviously kills you since is disintergates your weapons. I kind of figured that, but game for a laugh init.  :-D

[Mike_Amiga]

This is what is looks like.

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[Mike_Amiga]

Ok, this is dumb! I know the game is on an alternative OS but it's a game! It should have stayed in games imho. :madashell:  :-?  :griping:

[CD32Freak]

@Mike_Amiga

Your post made me curious about MINERVA, so I downloaded and installed it. Lets see if I could figure this problem out :-)

[ChrisH]

I got stuck at that point too!  I did eventually get past (and the rest of the game is just *awesome*), but I can't recall how I got past...

It may help to know that there are a few glowy power things on the outer walls, and I recall that these can be destroyed some how.  I'll see if I have any save games near that point...

[ChrisH]

The two switches uncovered the 4 glowing power stabilisation things on the outer wall near the bottom platform.  Throw some grenades into each of them.

Once all four are destroyed, they cannot stabilise the enormously powerful energy beam being sent down from a geosynchronous satellite, if the beam should become unstable...  Be prepared for a twist that turns this from a merely "very good" mod into an awesome one!

P.S.  There is no need to cheat (I see your pheremone pouch!), just put the difficulty on "easy" (which is the equivalent of "normal" on most HL2 games).  There is ample ammo/health/armour provided...

[CD32Freak]

Well, I'm not even there yet, because I'm stuck too :lol: The machine confiscated my weapons including my good old crowbar :-( How am I going to survive without my crowbar? :cry: I'm in a room where I believe I have to unplug the power connector of a shield wall, but how? :-?  

[ChrisH]

If you got that far, then you are surviving fine without any weapons - just run :-)

But to reach that power connector, you need use those ammo boxes (crates) that are conveniently piled near by...

[CD32Freak]

No, I didn't, I just started a new game in chapter 2 to get to that beam thingy and see if I could help Mike out, but now I am the one who needs help :lol:

Yes thanks, I saw those ammo crates and thought:"Hey, look at those lovely crates, I wish I had a crowbar" :lol: No, I'm just kidding, I stacked those crates, but they kept falling thanks to a great feature called gravity :-P

Anyway, I've tried a couple of times and managed to pull the plug. Beam thingy here I come :-D

[Mike_Amiga]

That's the bit where i first whacked in cheats, cos i found if i didn't i was soon shot to death by 2 combine troops.

[Mike_Amiga]

I didn't think to stack those boxes, just tried various ways of cracking them open in the hope a weapon was inside. I think I got one open with a sliding door.  No weapons tho!  :-(

[CD32Freak]

Hey, that's very clever to use a sliding door to open an ammo crate! :idea:

Well, I managed to blow up the beam machine and continued my journey further up, but now I'm stuck again :lol: I'm at a platform that should go up, but the switch is broken and now I have no clue what to do :-? However, I know there is always a way out! :-)