Half-Life 2: Lambda Locations

3 – A tunnel in a cargo container — there’s a “fake sun” bloom effect nearby.
Meh; you’ll find it somehow. Ain’t that hard with a properly adjusted TV.

4 – Look in the red car after blasting the platform with the Overwatch
emplaced pulse gun turret.

5 – After evading the chopper, Freeman will be in the sewers with barnacles.
There’s a ladder before that leads down to this cache.

6 – After getting the submachinegun in the sewer tunnel with large pipe (and
the initial encounters with hacks), drop down at the exit for the cache.

7 – There is a large round silo structure underground just before the first
radiation pool (you only see it as a half-column); the middle level on the
half-silo’s side leads to the cache.

8 – At the first radiative waste pool, inspect the sides.

10 – The supply cache at the red barn (station 12). Drop it in by wrecking the
wood bar jamming the pulley wheel (in the barn’s attic).

11 – After floating the ramp with the blue containers and hopping the
obstruction, there is a pipe near the first dropship that is suspiciously
open. Use barrels to reach this cache.

12 – After blasting the first (make-shift) Overwatch gate (this is the one you
blow a barrel to door ram the gate open), check the bridge the second rocket-
firing Overwatch APC is parked on. The cache will have an ambsuh — when you
come back out, two Overwatch will fast rope and attack at the gate exit.

13 – After escaping the rocket-firing APCs and wall of fire, the game will
load a new section of map. After the loading point, look for a cache hanging
from the ceiling. Bring it down by removing the concrete 8-blocks from the
counterweight basket. The marker is on a column near the basket with the
supplies.

14 – Go past the gate labelled “Gate 5″ and go right where the scuttled ships
form a blockade (you should pick up a .357 Magnum from the Overwatch station
at Gate 5). Check under the metal bridge with the train atop it. The cache is
near the spot where the chopper starts hounding your boat with bombs.

15 – The chopper will temporarily stop attacking with bombs once your boat
reaches some short tunnel sections (all broken up so a stray bomb can surprise
your M.I.T. ass). A square sewer room after these short sections will
have “669E B ARN 6″ stenciled on the wall; check that room for the stash. The
boxes can be brought to your level by destroying the wood pylons with the
catamaran.

16 – When the chopper resumes chasing your boat, you will find a short section
of overhead roads that cross perpendicularly to the canal; these obstruct the
chopper and forces it to drop bombs. Immediately after this section, you will
find the boat in a Terminator 2-like aqueduct (where the T-1000 is trying run
down the wiener John Connor with the Governator chasing ‘em both on a
motorcycle). There is some green grafitti on the left side of the aqueduct
that marks the supply cache. Since the chopper will be around, make sure to
sprint out and back to the boat. Remember you can just shoot the box (or use a
grenade) to break it for the achievement marker.

17 – With the chopper chasing your boat, stop when two Overwatch guards rappel
down. Check the area before the Overwatch “fast-rope” down. You should find a
Host-like sewer structure (watch the movie) for the cache. Other words to
describe this structure: drain sluice, sewer anus, waste water aqueduct.

18 – After getting the pulse gun welded onto the boat, you come onto a fork in
the canal. Take the right fork to a dead end inhabited by Overwatch and zombie
head crabs. The cache is in the make-shift Resistance patrol tower.

21 – At the car traps, jump over the fence and get the supplies using the
second car as the launch point.

22 – After meeting Father Grigori (and where he tells you his name), there is
a large street with zombies (they not infinite) and a long ladder to the exit.
Don’t leave for the exit until you check the rooftops for a hidden attic with
the cache.

23 – After exiting the mines (and Mr. Cart Chopper), check above the mine’s
exit for a secret. Watch for the neuro-toxic headcrab hiding there.

25 – Check the first house along the highway; this is the house with the neuro-
tox headcrab zombie and the first thumper you see in the game.

26 – After using the crane to move the buggy to the next section of highway, a
Combine bug gunship makes an appearance. There is a rocket crate in a wrecked
mini-van to supply Freeman with the ammo to waste it. Drive past the mini-van
with the rocket crate and find a blue car. That marks the stash (it is just
off the road).

27 – At the first Overwatch wall (where the crossbow is found), there is a
small area walling off a generator with the stash. Carry a drum or large box
to the break in the fence to get inside.

28 – Before going under (and through) the large metal truss trainbridge, you
stop at an Overwatch held farm with headcrabs and a windmill. The truss bridge
is where you need to use the buggy’s turbo to 2Fast-2Furious the oncoming
Combine armored freight train (and swerve left to escape) once you disable the
Overwatch forcefield on the otherside. From the farm’s windmill, go across the
dirt road leading to the bridge head and locate a fenced off storage area (it
is in shadow, so it may be pretty dark on your screen) with a variety of
headcrabs (neuro-tox and normal). Smash everything for the cache. Grenades
work in getting rid of the monsters and nabbing the marker credit.

30 – The switch to turn on the thumper is in a shanty town. On the beach
(true). By the docks (fake). At 8 o’clock (fake). In Pasedena (fake). Locate
the stash at the very top shack, or opt to break the box with an SMG grenade
(you can do the weapon code and refill the ammo). Note you will have left the
dune buggy at the Resistance lighthouse camp some time ago.

32 – After solving the puzzle to get past the first Overwatch forcefield (and
having the Pheropod back in action once more), you should have access to the
prison cells. You need to visit the cells before meeting the spinning fan –
head to the prison cells’ second level. Locate the marked cell and open “sez
simalcrum” using the gravity gun’s push mode.

33 – In the prison laundryroom (large room that’s white with Silent Hill
washing machines), locate a small maintenance passage on the lowest level
leading to a cache. Beware the neuro-tox enemies in the hallway; an Overwatch
will spawn in the laundry room if you head into the side tunnel.

36 – Locate the hole from the train station street (where the game started)
that drops down to a hopper-laden (landmine) area. Shortly afterwards, there
is a large street with a Strider (cinematic – you don’t fight it) and then an
alleyway that has a small hut with two inert hoppers. A small shack across
from the hut with the inert mines is the cache. Shoot the explosive barrel to
reveal the entrance.

37 – During some house to house fighting, you will find a basement with three
Overwatch gun turrets (the GLaDOS portable kind) and a hole leading to some
stairs (optional) and a hallway (way forward). Go up the stairs to the streets
to a side area — you will be between two City Destroyer walls — grab or
break the boxes from the cache on the street.

38 – In the tunnel where hordes of hack-bots are swarming, get past the
blockage mid-tunnel then double back (in the second section) to the dead end.
The bonfire hides the cache symbol — the glare from the fire matches the
yellow marker almost perfectly.

39 – At the Resistance building where you lower the metal pedestrian bridge
(this is the second metal bridge encountered). If you are at the one bridge
that is lowered by the Resistance guy, you are at the first bridge (you first
see that first bridge from the ground, and the resistance guys raise it to
stop the Overwatch assault). Go past that first metal bridge into a series of
holes in the floor populated with headcrabs and a zombie. Once you hit rock
bottom — like Homer Simpson grabbing gummi from a coed’s sweet can — Freeman
and company start heading up through broken floors to a second metal bridge.
The room just before you lower the second metal bridge is the spot with the
cache.

40 – In the building with the barnacles (basically a little bit from the
previous location), drop down to the lowest level, blast the Overwatch, and
locate the stairs going up. To the right of those stairs going onwards is a
hallway that needs the gravity gun (or pistol if you are full of items) to
break the cache. Note that going up the stairs to load the map means you went
too far.

41 – After Alyx orders Freeman to go underground in the large break in the
street, you come to a vertical shaft of some sort. Fight off Overwatch and
zombie, then head to the bottom. There should be a marker indicating the
cache. Just watch for the bottomless pit.

42 – Shortly after the vertical shaft, there is a large sewer tunnel with
zombies, headcrabs and Overwatch fighting. Drop to the lowest level of the
sewer tunnel and go foward until you encounter the neuro-tox headcrab zombie.
Kill it and look for a narrow part of the tunnels. There is a small square
hole in the side of the narrow spot with the cache. Gravity gun your gear.
Note if you are at the moving platform and its control box, you went the wrong
way.

43 – Continue in the lower tunnel with the neuro-tox headcrab zombie. Hop over
the motionless pistons and zap the boxes near the marker for another cache.
Note if you are at the moving platform and its control box, you went the wrong
way.

44 – In the large room with the moving platform and the 8 billion Overwatch
soldiers blocking your progress, look for a red container on the upper level
of the warehouse. Follow the narrow walkway hemming this container to the
cache.

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Web Cache 1 – In “To The White Forest”, Freeman will be alone in the dark
mines once he grabs a crowbar. He will pick up a shotgun, blast some acid
ants, and come across a shallow pool populated by ant lion grubs, acid ants,
and ant lions. A second pool will be deep enough for Freeman to diver under a
submerged tunnel to reach the other side (and see a drowning ant lion). Before
encountering Drowny the Ant Lion, the deep pool has an underwater web cache
you can break using any attack.

Web Cache 2 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil. You should have
survived the Starship Poopers scene and have the Vortigaunt as your partner.
The first room encountered past the shutter with acid ants has a web cache and
is right at the entrance to it.

Web Cache 3 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil. After going through
the acid ant room past the shutter, the vortigaunt may something about acid
ants and their rock spray; basically one cache is at the entrance of the room,
the next one (this one described) is at its exit.

Web Cache 4 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil. After the acid ant
room past the shutter, there is a long tunnel leading to the man-made section
of the mines. This cache is in the ceiling at the entrance of that long tunnel
and unlike the cache at the exit, there is no live grenade from this cache.

Web Cache 5 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil. After the acid ant
room past the shutter, there is a long tunnel leading to the man-made section
of the mines. This cache is in the ceiling at the exit of that long tunnel and
unlike the cache at the entrance, drops a live grenade once the cache’s web is
broken. You may also hear the vortigaunt say something about the acid ants
being more aggressive because their grubs have been destroyed.

Web Cache 6 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil and in the large
elevator room after evading the Ant Lion guardian. This one is in the wall. On
entering this room, check the wall adjacent to the room entrance.

Web Cache 7 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil and in the large
elevator room after evading the Ant Lion guardian. This one is in the wall,
near an old water boiler.

Web Cache 8 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil and in the large
elevator room after evading the Ant Lion guardian. This one is in the ceiling
above the spare gear. The spare gear is used to repair the elevator motor.

Web Cache 9 – The rest of the caches are in Vortal Coil and in the large
elevator room after evading the Ant Lion guardian. This one is in the ceiling
above the mine cart tracks.