DeepHour wrote:
Playing Half Life 2 first time round, I was having all sorts of trouble with the Myrmidont, some kind of gigantic version of the antlions. During my seventh or eighth attempt to defeat it, the creature tossed me into the air with a headbutt, and I landed on an otherwise inaccessible ledge. The Myrmidont, which had no projectile weapons, couldn't touch me up there and I was able to pick it off at leisure with a shotgun. You could attempt to make that happen over 100 times and would never succeed. Still felt afterwards that I hadn't 'properly' defeated it.
If it's what I think it is, the Antlion guardian, then that's probably easier than you made it out to be. I believe that area is littered with explosive barrels and other debris. Use the gravity gun and you can defeat it rather easily using the surrounding environment. Alternatively, you can get in a few decent shots with the shotgun and the secondary grenade on the SMG (assuming you have any left, of course). Combine (no pun intended) both, and you'll be able to take it down easily. Just in case you wanted to go back and defeat it "properly" this time.
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