Gnome....

Craig Coope wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:15:39 +0000, Shawk <shawk.RemoveThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
> wrote:
>
>> Craig Coope wrote:
>>> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:41:16 GMT, Robotech_Master <robotech.RemoveThis@eyrie.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:14:44 +0000, Mark Morrison <drdpikeuk.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you carry items through level transitions ?
>>>> Yes. That's the whole point of the gnome accomplishment.
>>>>
>>>>> If I pop something in the back of the car, will it carry over with me
>>>>> ? Or do you have to be carrying it ?
>>>> There's apparently a place in the back of the car that you can drop it
>>>> and it will stay there unless you crash or jump. There are also a
>>>> couple of places in the game where you can leave it while you go do
>>>> some other things and then have it still be there when you come back
>>>> (the room where the Vortigaunts are treating Alyx, and the room where
>>>> Alyx covers you with the sniper rifle while you go get the car--though
>>>> in that case you have to leave it right by the door you will later
>>>> open and be quick about snagging it with the gravity gun when you come
>>>> back).
>>> Too be honest as long as you save all the time I can't say it will be
>>> easy to lose him for good...although it still doesn't make it any
>>> easier to actually do or quicker...
>>
>> ...don't rub it in.
>
> Actually....surely you have an auto-save atleast to go back to?


Yeah... just that I played so far past - it but I'll have to bite the
bullet and go back for Jnr. The feelings of guilt for leaving him are
cracking me up...
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"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:15:34 +0000, Shawk <shawk.RemoveThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
> wrote:
>
>>Shawk wrote:
>>> Craig Coope wrote:
>>>> About 2 weeks before I bought Orange Box I remember reading a
>>>> thread
>>>> about Ep2 and the "Gnome"...
>>>>
>>>> What's all this about then?
>>>>
>>>> I didn't see such a thing!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4061/sorrywr7.jpg
>>>
>>> http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/6478/seriouslyet8.jpg
>>>
>>> If you recognise the room in the second picture its well worth
>>> having a
>>> poke around in there...
>>>
>>
>>
>>OK... I lost Gordon Jnr almost immediately after the screen captures
>>above when he got trapped the wrong side of a chain-link fence. I
>>played on in disgust with myself for nearly an hour and now I'm
>>wondering whether I go back to an early part and get him or just play
>>the damn game. Twas much easier when you just had to shoot folk
>
> Can you carry items through level transitions ?
>
> If I pop something in the back of the car, will it carry over with me
> ? Or do you have to be carrying it ?

It will still be there. The problem was keeping it IN the car. I could
not find a place that it would stay without sliding out on a bend, or
going flying off a jump. Also, watch where you leave him when doing
other tasks. Sometimes you come back to the same place, sometimes you
don't. One level in particular I had to re-do from the beginning.
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When going after the car which you have to bring back across the bridge,
do not leave the gnome with Alyx because you don't end up at the same
place. I shot him with the grav gun onto the close end of the bridge
(where you see the G-Man walking).
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