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you start on the left side and need to get throught the gate directly across from you. However just as you take a few steps toward it, a loud roar will be heard. Alyx asks you if you heard that. It is then that A gigantic creature like a mixture between a wolf, a human, a dragon, bull and a machine that is about the size of three buses stacked on top of eatch other end to end, jumps over the gigatnic snow drift to the north. alyx will swear and ask what the heck the combine have been up to. Get your true gamer caps on, it's game time now!

First off, let's list the fragiel cover here. The two rest rooms and the store room on the lower left will take a beating from the monster, but will break after a while. You can tell how long the'll last via theri aperance.

Next up is the news van in the left side of the lot. It'll hold but will get knocked off the parking lot and into the water so don't stay in it too long.

The strategy for beating this behemouth (as alyx deams it) is to first run right between it's legs. IT's slow to turn. You'll head toward a crate in between the tall lamp posts. Try to taunt the monster to either stomp it or smash it by shooting rpg at it from infront of the box (alyx will coment that the rockets are not even tickling it.)

Eatch time the creature moves to atack, get outta there other wise insitant gameover. The crate will take about four atacks from the monster till it breaks open, revealign a full out missile launcher. Alyx will comment that "now we're bringing out the big guns"
The gun can only fire one missiel at a time and is already loaded. Get into the chair a tthe back of it and fire at the monster. It'll freak out and swat at the ground, bursting another box sending rockets for the missel launcher to all four conrnors of the map. Your job here is to retrevie and load the missels and fire at the monster untill it catches fire. At this point you can harm it with regural rockets from your rpg, but becare ful as if the thing gets its hands on you, you'll watch a cutseen where you get eaten or thrown off the ledge.

Note: if you are low on heath or ammo, seak out the news van. It will throught the battle get tossed around the parking lot by the creature. However, when you land the blow that sets the monster on fire, it'll toss the van into the ocean.

when you land the final blow, the moneter will fall over and cover the area to the botom of the map. You'll unlock the "Behemoth" atcheivement.

during it's death fall, the creature will inadvertantly break open the lading bay door of the dry dock.

Heal up with what's left in the parking lot and exit to the right...

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2021 draco rex here. I remember this. I remember the entire map sequence i did here. I still feel this is where half life 3 could go, but now with the events of half life alyx possibly throwing the ending of half life episode 2 into question, i'm not so sure. I am sure that i'm better at mapping some things these days, though. Still, this was a damn good adventure. I wish i still had the graph paper i drew all of this on.