.____ ___. .___ | | _____ _____\_ |__ __| _/____ | | \__ \ / \| __ \ / __ |\__ \ | |___ / __ \| Y Y \ \_\ \/ /_/ | / __ \_ |_______ (____ /__|_| /___ /\____ |(____ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ .____ __ .__ | | ____ ____ _____ _/ |_|__| ____ ____ ______ | | / _ \_/ ___\\__ \\ __\ |/ _ \ / \ / ___/ | |__( <_> ) \___ / __ \| | | ( <_> ) | \\___ \ |_______ \____/ \___ >____ /__| |__|\____/|___| /____ > \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ ==================================================================================== Half Life 2 ==================================================================================== ==================================================================================== 'Lambda Location Walkthrough' By Andrew Flannery ==================================================================================== ==================================================================================== Introduction ==================================================================================== All throughout Half-Life 2 you will come across Lambda symbols. Lambda symbolises the resistance that you, Freeman are coinciding with to help bring down the Combine that you unleashed back in Black Mesa. This symbol will be in the most unexpected of places, scribbled on walls, docks, under water and high, out of reach places. Located near these Lambda symbols are supplies left behind by the resistance. These supplies will consist of ammo, med kits, and suit chargers, everything that is needed to help you triumph over the enemy. The survival of mankind depends on you... ==================================================================================== Red Letter day ==================================================================================== "It's funny you showing up on this day in particular" - Alyx - 1 - This is where the fun begins. Alyx will lead you to the first Lambda symbol, which is scribbled on the wall next to the soda machine that reveals entrance to the secret lab. There isn't exactly a cache of goodies here like in all the others that we find (which I have still yet to work out why), but it counts anyway. ==================================================================================== Route Kanal ==================================================================================== 2 - The first cache in this chapter is after you walk across the roof of the train, and knock down some wooden boards on the entrance to a house that you escape through. The cache is to the left upon entering. 3 - This cache is easy because it is in a small vent shaft that you have to crawl through. It is the only way around so you can't miss it. 4 - After killing the combine soldier on the torrent, you will enter a tunnel. Immediately you will see the Lambda symbol on the left wall of the tunnel above a red car. You need to jump over the red car (which took me ages to figure out) and collect the supplies. 5 - After the first sighting of the Helicopter you will escape through a blue door. Head down the stairs and should see the Lambda symbol through the grating in the floor. Collect the supplies via the ladder to your right at the button of the stairs. 6 - Soon after you will walk across a large orange pipe that is shooting out hot steam that will hurt you if you walk through it. After getting to the other side break down the wood boards to the right (the Lambda symbol will be on the wall here), drop down and crawl under the pipe to claim the cache. 7 - After dropping down into a sewer type section of the game, you will encounter a few man hacks and a two or so combine soldiers. After this you will find yourself in a blue looking type tunnel. Near the end of this tunnel is a section to the right. Head in and climb the ladder and make your way across on the unstable looking structure. At the end is the cache. 8 - Straight after coming out of the tunnel, there will be a radiation pool below. Look right and you will see the cache. You will need to turn left however, get on top of the pipe and walk along. ==================================================================================== Water Hazard ==================================================================================== 9 - Starting this level you will be in the boat surrounded by radiation water. You drop down and hit clean, fresh water. About 100m or so away along is an alcove with a ladder. Climb up and get the cache. 10 - Coming out of the tunnel you will see a red shed. Pull you boat up at the steps and look up. Swinging from a rope is another cache. Enter the red shed, kill the zombies and find your way to the very top of the shed. You will now have a better view of the cache from here. Hit the barrel jamming the cog with your crow bar and the cache should fall into the water below. Jump down and get the goodies. 11 - After floating the ramp with the blue barrels you see a dropship over head. You will then see three combine guides. Run them over and you should see an open pipe to your right. Use a barrel to jump up there and swim through to get the cache. Warning: there is a zombie waiting for you at the other end. 12 - Directly under the second APC tank is the next cache. There are some broken bars to the right. Inside is a head crab and upon existing, two combine soldiers will make an appearance. 13 - As soon as the next section loads you will see a swinging Lambda cache to the right. By removing the bricks from the basket on the ground, you will lower the basket in the air. Collect the supplies. 14 - You will meet a helicopter that starts to drop bombs. Immediately you will come to a bridge with a train parked on it. Jump out of your boat and to the left, under the bridge is the cache. 15 - During the helicopter chance you will drive through a section of broken pipe. At the end of this is a square underground area. "669E B ARN 6" has been scribbled on the right wall. On the left side is a wood structure. Ram is with your boat. 16 - The game will load a new section of the map. At the very next save checkpoint you should see green graffiti to the left on a wall. Jump out of your boat, sprint up and two boxes of supplies will be at the end. 17 - Immediately after is another cache. After you turn left out of the last section, there will be a dam wall to your left with the lambda symbol (just before the bridge). Jump out and get the supplies. 18 - You will get your new fancy gun mounted on your boat. After this there will be section of the map that needs to load. You will then come to a section with two paths to take. The right path will be filled with junk, boxes, barrels, etc. Head to the end and climb the ladder to a small man made shelter. Be careful! Upon existing there will be one zombie and about half a dozen head crabs. ==================================================================================== Black Mesa East ==================================================================================== 19 - Just before climbing the ladder up onto the dock at the very beginning of the level there will be a Lambda symbol. This is just like the first one. There is no cache of goodies. Just by looking at the symbol counts. It's a little strange, but maybe the cache was stolen by the combines! You never know! ==================================================================================== We don't go to Ravenholm ==================================================================================== 20 - There are two ways to get hold of this cache. Grab some boxes and climb up into the section to the left from where Fr Grigori appears from and it is in an alcove to the right. Or enter the room after turning off the gas to extinguish the fire. Head into the room. Shot the zombies and head crabs. Head up the steps where the zombies came from and climb up to the vent above. Make your way through and drop down at the end. 21 - You will come across two blue cars, that work on some type of pulley system. Jump on one of the blue cars and then jump into the section that has the Lambda symbol printed on the front. 22 - You will exit a house through a window with a million or so head crabs and zombies below you. At the end of the street is a ladder and a save checkpoint. At the top, walk across and enter the attic to the left. The Lambda cache is here. 23 - After existing the mine that Fr Grigori sent you down look above the exist. A Lambda cache should be here. Watch the head crabs. ==================================================================================== Highway 17 ==================================================================================== 24 - Just before entering the first tower you come across, there is an abandoned shack on the side of the road. Break the supply crates inside the shack. 25 - At the first thumper, there will be another abandoned shack. Enter through the basement outside the front of the shack. Break the supply crates on the second level to make it count. 26 - After the next gunship appears there will be a whole wreck of cars that block the road. After pushing your way through the blockage there is a lonesome blue van on the left side of the road. Break the crates inside. 27 - You will come to an enemies base where you need to down the force field. Around this area find a fenced off generator. Climb over the broken part of the fence and crack open the supply crates. 28 - The next lambda cache is located behind the windmill at the next enemy outpost. The crates will be behind some gray tin sheets, along with head crabs. 29 - There will be another enemy base with a windmill. Gunships will repel combat troops to the ground. In the shack here, there is a bathroom. In the main room there is section above the bathroom. Standing in the middle of the main room, face the bathroom, look up and just below the roof is the small section. Simply pull the supplies down with your gravity gun. 30 - Where the generator to turn on the thumper is discovered, there is a shack with no roof across from you. Above that is another white shack with the Lambda symbol symbol on the wall. Use your rocket launcher or a grenade to crack open the crates. ==================================================================================== Sandtraps ==================================================================================== 31 - You will come across two turrets high up on a ledge. In this room there is a window covered by wooden boards. The Lambda symbol can be clearly seen under the window. Jump through the window and collect the supplies. 32 - In the room with the TV monitor, and the button where you open the gate, is a section of prison cells in the next room. In between two cells on the upper level you will see the Lambda symbol. The cell door on the left slides open by using your gravity gun. Collect the supplies in this cell. 33 - In the prison laundry room, large room that's white with Silent Hill washing machines, locate a small maintenance passage on the lowest level leading to a cache. Collect the supplies in one of the side alcoves. ==================================================================================== Entanglement ==================================================================================== 34 - Alyx will open a gate for you close to the beginning of the level. Through the gate is a soda machine. The Lambda symbol is on the roof. Use your gravity gun to pull down the supplies from the top of this soda machine. ==================================================================================== Anti-Citizen One ==================================================================================== 35 - As soon as you start this level you will find your way to a car park. On the right are two green dumpsters. Stuck a box on one of the dumpster, climb up and then jump onto the ledge above. Collect the supplies in the corner. 36 - There will be a Strider attack in a street you come across. Turn down the nearby alley which is blocked by junk. Kill the combine solider in the window. After exiting the alley, to your immediate left is a red shack. Shoot the explosive barrel and collect the supplies inside. 37 - Not long after you will enter a room with three torrents. In this room there will be a hole in the ground. Drop down and take the stairs up to the street. Break the supply creates with your gravity gun. 38 - In the tunnel there will be a whole heap of man hacks attacking you. Make your way allow the tunnel and when you reach the first lot of Combine soldiers, in the second half of the tunnel, there should be a small bonfire burning BEHIND you. Collect the med kits and ammo here. 39 - Eventually you will come to a bridge that you must lower yourself. Just before the bridge, in the previous room you get some new resistance squad members (who all died instantly for me.) The supplies will be in the same room where you meet your new squad members. This Lambda cache is an easy one. 40 - You will enter a building with barnacles on the roof. After dropping down to the next section you will be faced with a Combine battle. Find the stairs heading down and you should see the Lambda symbol through the doorway of the next section. The supplies are through the fence to the left. Simply drag them over with your gravity gun. 41 - You will enter a broken down stairway type of building with Combine soldiers. At the button of this stairwell will be the Lambda symbol. It is tricky to get down to where it is (I died the first time). There is a ladder to reach the supply creates. 42 - This cache is in the same area where you meet the Zombie Carrier. There will be a small hole in a side wall. Just grab the item with your gravity gun. DO NOT HEAD UP THE LADDER 43 - Jump over the three motionless and find another cache past where the Zombie Carrier came from. DO NOT HEAD UP THE LADDER 44 - After moving up on the swinging platform, find your way to the top catwalks. At the top here there is a red shed. Around the corner of this shed is the second last cache in the game. ==================================================================================== Follow Freeman ==================================================================================== 45 - You will fight a few stalkers in this level. After escaping the stalker in the tunnel, you will find yourself in an old falling down building. Just pass the green ammo supply crate will be the last cache. This cache is hard to miss as it is directly in your path. ==================================================================================== End Comments ==================================================================================== Wasn't as easy as you original thought, was it? But in the end it is worth the trouble. I hope this walkthrough helped. If there are any omissions or errors feel free to contact me and I will be more than happy to correct them. Please check out my other walkthrough ==================================================================================== Contact ==================================================================================== If this helped you get the Lambda locator achievement please drop me an email just to let me know that this was useful to someone out there. My contact info is as follows: E-Mail: andrew.flannery@hotmail.com Xbox 360 Gamertag: TheKiteRunner Feel free to contact me about anything. If you are sending me an email about any omissions or an update or a tip, please include the name you'd like me to credit. Thanks and see you next time! Also, assuming it is the same as the Xbox 360 version, feel free to contact me on Xbox Live if you prefer. 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