The destroyed section of the dam after the explosion. Barney Calhoun re-establishes the link with a barrel, triggering the explosion and destroying the door.

In Blue Shift, HECU Marines attempt to blow up a door in the coolant generator area under Section A-17 Prototype Labs in the chapter Power Struggle, but the wire is broken.

Another appearance of dynamite in Opposing Force is a small charge of approximately 5 sticks sitting next to a dead soldier and scientist in a broken X-ray tunnel in Sector E.

In Opposing Force, it is used by the HECU in the chapter Foxtrot Uniform to blow up a section of the Hydro-Electric Dam and destroy the Gargantua.

In Uplink, dynamite is used by the HECU to blow up the locked door leading to Sector F's Transmitter Dome.

Several packs are set up above tracks in Sector E Materials Transport, others are set up in the stairs in the Launch Center's Launch Control building. There, dynamite traps, either triggered remotely or by tripwires, block the way to the High Altitude Launch Center.

The dynamite is first encountered in Sector E in the Half-Life chapter On A Rail. This type of equipment has many commonly used names, including side rails, bed side rails, half rails, safety rails, bed handles, assist bars, or grab bars, hospital bed rails, and adult portable.

Dynamite has two formats, the first one being a trap, detonated either by tripwire or correographed detonation, in which it must be avoided by means of a puzzle of fast thinking, and the second style being as a means of advancement in which an exit must be blown open to move onto the next portion of the level, proving either way as an important part of storyline and the game itself.ĭynamite only appears in the first Half-Life and its expansions as either a manueverable trap or as a means of advancing onto the next part of the level, appearing 6 times throughout the games. Anomalous Materials Unforeseen Consequences Office Complex We've Got Hostiles Blast Pit Power Up On A Rail Apprehension.

Theyre used in On a Rail, as well as a few Xen chapters. There are three other sounds, thehorror2, thehorror3, and thehorror4. N/A Dynamite is an environmental trap consisting of bricks of remote detonated explosives used around the Black Mesa Facility for industrial and defensive purposes by the HECU, being used to force access to unreachable areas of the base, or as an effective alternative to stopping Gordon in his tracks. The sound is 'Half-lifeValvesoundambiencethehorror1.wav'.

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