Getting past him requires a lot of caution, precision, and fortitude. Jeff is definitely one of the most tense and memorable encounters in all of Half-Life: Alyx. If that happens, just grab a new one off the carcass of some poor soul who doesn’t need theirs anymore. You should be warned that they eventually wear off, although it takes a while.
It makes everything so much easier now that you can give your full attention to navigating around Jeff. Pop one of these gas masks on your face and there’s no more need to cover your mouth. The vodka distillery has half-mask respirators laying around that will do this work for you.
So I’d keep my left hand over my mouth, move about, and then switch when it’s time to toss something to distract Jeff. However, that means my movement is on my right hand, and I can’t really get around when it’s over my mouth. For instance, I’m left-handed so I prefer to throw bottles with my left hand. Combine Gas Masks and the real life influences.A look at the Metrocop/Civil Protection, and Combine Soldier Gas Masks from Half Life 2 and the real world mas. You’re left to manage enough actions that you have to mentally keep track of which hand to keep over your mouth. That’s why you need to hold one of your controllers up to your mouth, effectively preventing Alyx from breathing in the spores. Breathing them in will cause Alyx to cough, which, in turn, causes her to get her head ripped off. However, it’s those spores that add a degree of complication. Anytime he’s in your way, just chuck something across the room and he’ll flock to it like a moth to light. So, you throw vodka bottles around to lure him in different directions, enabling you to flee the opposite way. I thought on the wiki it says that they use similar masks as the combine. The trick to Jeff (which you’ll quickly learn or die figuring out) is that he only reacts to sound. Those same masks were actually used for the Combine in the fan film Beyond Black Mesa. He’s like a walking venus fly trap with the temperament of a starved silverback gorilla. He, uh, doesn’t have what we’d conventionally call a head. By the way, does this guy look familiar?Ĭhapter 7’s Jeff is a total sonuvabitch, some kind of hideous monster created by the spore-spewing flora from Xen. Here’s the part where I tell you it’s nothing but spoilers ahead, and throw down the obligatory buffer image so as to divert any wandering eyes. No one has ever been so wrong about something. That’s why I welcomed the chapter called “Jeff.” I figured it’d be a breezy narrative-based bit, probably meeting a new resistance fighter who’d help my cause, or something like that. Long, stressful segments in creepy environments where there’s never enough downtime to feel a sense of relief. Half-Life: Alyx has some very long chapters, especially in the early-going. So while watching the Half-Life 2 Beta: 2001 Storyline Full Walkthrough on youtube I found on the map c1701 (Revision 13) that by a security camera at 3:04 it shows a Gas Mask citizen standing right next to a early metro cop.