Windows Episode 2 Achievements Guide

Hey folks, I thought I'd put together a mini-guide to getting all the achievements unocked in Half-life 2/Episode 2.

Most achievements are automatically completed merely by completing the single-player campaign. Others... not so much. answers will be spoilered out, and you are welcome to contribute, I for one am going crazy trying to figure out "Little rocket man".

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Achievements:

Bone Breaker 0-30

Kill 30 Enemies with thrown Physics Objects.

Spoiler

Put away the guns!

Deadly Harvest

Kill enemy with a hopper mine.

Spoiler

Boxes of hopper mines exist in the bug tunnel defense room in "This Vortal Coil" chapter

Hot Potat0wned

Kill a Combine Soldier with his own Grenade.

Spoiler

More difficult in Ep2, because grenade-throwing soldiers are rather rare. Good luck

Grave Robber

Steal a Zombine's Grenade.

Spoiler

Zombines can be found at the end of "Freeman Pontifex" and the beginning of "Under the Radar"

Acid Reflex

Kill an Antlion Worker

Spoiler

Found in the chapter "This Vortal Coil". Use the Shotgun.

Get Some Grub 0-333

Squish every Antlion Grub in Episode 2.

Pinata Party 9

Find and break every web cache in Episode 2.

Spoiler

There are 9, all(?) are in "This Vortal Coil".

Into the Breach

Help Griggs and Sheckley hols off the antlion invasion.

Twofer

Defeat both anlion guards outside the White Forest

Hit and Run 0-20

Run over 20 enemies with the car in Episode 2.

Meet the Hunters

Survive the Hunter Ambush with Alyx.

Puttin' on a Clinic

Defeat the chopper in Episode 2 without any misses.

Spoiler

Practice, Practice, practice. as you are not on the clock during this battle, wait until the chopper closes in to use his gun, but make sure the ball mine doesn't blow up in your face.

Gunishment!

Destroy the Combine Autogun in the junkyard.

Spoiler

Stay low, and wind your way through the cars. don't think you can move while the gun is distracted, or move faster than it. you cannot.

Cache Checker. 0-5

Find every radar cache in chapter "Under the Radar"

Spoiler

Locations as follows:
(Not in order, incomplete. someone wanna help me with these?)
Under the floorboards in a shack at the back of a container yard.
Inside a Van.
In a cave.
Suspended from a tree after the collapsed tunnel (thanks DougEdey)
A few in buildings. You really have to be blind to not find these

Gordon Propelled Rocket

Unlock the rocket launcher lambda cache in the chapter "Under the Radar"

Spoiler

If you complete the previous achievement you will find it.

Pedal to the Metal

Beat DOG in a race to the white forest Base.

Spoiler

I find if you use a boost at the beginning to get ahead, then stay out of the river, maintain speed, and don't hit obstacles, it's a pretty easy race.

Quiet Mountain Getaway

Survive the ambush at the White Forest Inn.

Little Rocket man

Send the Garden Gnome into space.

Spoiler

this one's been driving me batty. anyone solved it?

Secondary Silo Secured

Secure the launch doors on missle silo 2.

Neighborhood Watch

Save all buildings outside the missile silo from destruction.

Spoiler

this one will be tough. from the commentary it sounds like it's scripted for you to lose at least one.

Defense of the Armament

Save the missile silo from the Combine offensive.

Payback

Kill a hunter with its own flechettes.

Spoiler

This one is easier than it sounds:

Use the gravity gun to hold an object in front of you. the Hunter drone will shoot it's exploding flechettes at you, and they will stick to the object. wait until they emit a power-up noise, then throw the object (flechettes et al) back at the hunter. If you are sucessful, it will look like you hit it with an energy ball from the combine rifle.

 

is this the same achievements you get on xbox 360?

 

no. xbox has a few more. this one is for pc.

 

the final radar cache is

Spoiler

suspended from a tree after the collapsed tunnel. not hard to miss really

 

Well, the 360 version has more, but those are for the other games contained in the Orange Box, I think the achievements you get in Ep2 are all there on the PC version.

 

How do you get the rocket launcher out of the workshop in 'Under the Radar'? It drove me batty for ages before I gave up! I was flicking the 'floor' up and down with the grav gun, but I couldn't get it to fling me up high enough..

Ah, think I found an answer

Spoiler

Use a hand grenade, doh!

 

Yep, through a grenade underneath it and then stand on it.

 

The Garden Gnome, I *think* would involve bringing a garden gnome to the space station and putting it in the hatch with LaMar. Difficult as the only gnome I spotted was near the start of the game.

 

Apparently you can lodge it somewhere on your car which makes things slightly easier

 

That Bloody Gnome !!!! I`ve just got it past the Chopper section but it`s been giving me a real headache cant seem to properly lodge it in the car it keeps falling out then i have to go back and find the dam thing !

 

It's similar to the companion cube in Portal

 

Except i like the companion cube and hate the Gnome !

 

lol that part got me a bit frustrated.

Spoiler

I thought I had to use the gravity gun since when I shot it down the swinging piece moved up a bit. Then I looked up and saw the dead guy stuck at the top... a nade burn mark under it and a nade box behind me.... eureka!

Still need to go back and get some of those achievements I missed. I know there's no gamerscore involved here but it still feels good to get them done

 

let us know how it goes stig,

this is one of the more ridiculous achievements. like the gold medal time runs in portal.

 

where is the gnome in the game? I want to load at that point and take it through.

 

Do you *have* to take the car? Can you not just walk it? The gnome is in the room here you first make contact with the base IIRC.

 

Well on the chopper section You have to take the car as Alyx doesnt get out of it lol, so i ended up taking the car through the first section then running back for the Gnome else the Chopper chases you ! see what i mean about headache !

 

Well finally made it, Got that pesky Gnome to the rocket and sent him on his way. Hope he`s happy in his new home

http://www.2and2.net/files/4713c9fd442fc.jpg

Also came across a secret room ripped from the LOST series hehe I love finding Eastereggs

http://www.2and2.net/files/4713cac3494fb.jpg

 

*WARNING, MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*





I did it! And no there are no other gnomes, then the one in the beginning, played the game 3,5 times, also found out Doug Lombardi said there are no others then that one. So yes I went through the whole game carrying it.

And I'm slamming my head on the keyboard, cuz first time round.....I forgot to close the hatch lol, so I'm gonna have to redo the bits after these screenshots, and post the screenshot of the achievement later lol!

The part with the car and helicopter was excruciatingly difficult, everytime you jumped the gnome would fly out of the car, you have to jam it between the rear seat and rear windscreen, face down. But when you crash or jump it flies out. SO SO SO difficult.

Bye bye gnome, and bye

Spoiler

lamarr!! That was really sad lol, but she wouldn't come out, oh well!

In the mean time tried squashing all grubs, and came 8 short. Dang lol. I did earn the neighborhood watch achievement, man that one was hard.

I was almost too late when the strider ran to the sawmill, what I did is, I handbraked my car in front of it's gun, and landed three SMG grenades on it's head while it was a bout to fire, and then it just froze in that position, didn't walk didn't do anything, the other ones when they ran I was in time.

All was played on Hard difficulty aswell.

I'm gonna start on redoing the last bit in a couple of minutes.

 

Got it, finally, after closing the flippin hatch.