Nooz' Nihilanth Guide v1.1 E-Mail to nooz@mailexcite.com or ICQ to 8308120 1. Intro and What's New 2. What is Nihilanth? 3. Weapons to Use 4. Weapons to not Use 5. How to Kill Nihilanth 6. What Now? 7. FAQ 8. Credits 9. Copyright and End Notice - 1. Intro This is the guide to kill the boss from Half-Life, Nihilanth. More on Nihilanth later. I made this guide because Nihilanth is very difficult to kill, and if you waste the wrong weapon. well. you can't kill him. This guide just tells you how to kill him and all the other info you need on it and the end of Half-Life. RE: I am not a mega Half-Life genius just because I'm the only one with a guide for Half-Life's Boss on GameFAQs. Sure, questions about the game are ok for me to answer but don't give me extremely hard questions unless its extremely extremely, life-dependantly important. And if it is, write it clearly so I know where you are exactly. Its difficult to answer questions that just say, `I turned on the power and it won't work' or ` I cant find my way out of this bit with the water' because I have had a few questions like that and I have just had to try my best at the section I think you are at or sometimes if I don't know where you could be, I ignore the message. I get a lot of messages in my e- mail so don't be angry if your reply is late ok? Cool. What's New? V1.1: After about 500 billion e-mails about the fact that you can kill tanks (I can't seem to do it) I am changing it. A few new questions in FAQ. And a couple of other notes stuck around the place. - 2. What is Nihilanth? Nihilanth is Half-Life's boss. He is massive, greenish yellow, and he spawns these annoying little red flying aliens that really bug you. Nihilanth has only 2 attacks, but they are good ones. They are: Little White Ball of Light: This hurts! This knocks off more than half of you life! Avoid these at all costs. Green Teleportation Sphere: Obviously it takes you somewhere where you have to fight through all this crap and difficult jumping to get back. Try to avoid these but if you desparetly need ammo, take them. Nothing more can be said about Nihilanth at the moment, without of course, ruining the guide. - 3. Weapons to Use These weapons will give Nilly-poo a lot of pain and suffering. Crossbow: Extremely Effective. Use it until ammo runs out. Rocket Propelled Grenade: Very Effective. Unfortunately you will probably use it to de-activate Nilly's `god-modeness'. Auto-Matic Effective. This one also shoots grenades (save those). A fair bit of damage is given to Nilly. Pistol/Revolver Effective. Use this for someone annoying. You'll see. If you have any ammo after you killed the baby Nilly, shoot the real Nilly. Gluon Gun Average. Use on the baby Nilly, but by all means, use it on the real Nilly if you want. Tau Cannon Average. Same as Gluon. Hivehand Poor. Use this as a last resort. Nilly takes little effect, if any. - 4. Weapons not to Use Shotgun OK I guess, but not reliable at all. Snark You can't throw that high! They come back any way. Grenades You can't throw that high! Hand Satchels Hello! You need to lay them ON THE GROUND!!!! Claymore Nilly will NOT pass through that red line. Crowbar If you try this, you need or have had a lobotomy - 5. How to Kill Nihilanth. Here is the guide. You start off in an arena. Nihilanth will be on a pedestal in the middle. Three large glowing crystals give him power. A pesky red thing with a twin Gluon Gun (I think) flies around trying to kill you. Large Stalagmites stick out of the ground. This is Nihilanths Arena. Recommended you start off with 100 Health and as high as possible HEV. Race behind a large stalagmite quickly. Get your Rocket Propelled Grenade ready. Aim for one of the 3 glowing crystals around the room. Shoot it and shoot it again. 2 shots should get it. Do the same for the other 2 crystals and when you run out of ammo for the RPG, use a Tau Cannon, Gluon Gun, Hivearm or Revolver to destroy the remaining crystal(s). Remember, save after doing anything major (after each crystal is gone, after the baby Nilly is gone etc. etc.) A flying red thing will emerge. Kill it, but not with the Crossbow. It's a tough critter. Now, get you cross bow, and while still behind the stalagmite, shoot Nilly until you have no more crossbows left. Then give it all the bullets you can, but not the grenades from the Automatic gun. After you've cleared your ammo right off, get your Automatic ready. Go to one of the three hover discs in the room. Hover up to the next ledge carefully and hover up the next one. Remember, don't stand in the life pool because you will be killed if you are there too long. Now launch the grenades into Nillys head. Keep doing it until he dies. Now carefully fall into the mud and watch him getting simply electrocuted to death. - 6. What Now? What now? Well. you get to have a little chat with that bloke that you see sometimes in the game. He explains to you in an evil, snakelike voice that he caused all of this and that you would be a perfect employee at his work. You have a little choice here but no matter what you do, its black. THE END!!!! - 7. FAQ This is a FAQ for the whole game, not just Nihilanth. E-mail me at nooz@mailexcite.com or ICQ me at 8308120 to ask a question. Q: I can't get through a door because I don't have access. What's wrong? A: Get a security officer or scientist to open it. Talk to the person with E until they come with you. Go to the door and they will let you through. Sometimes they let you through after a `yawn' talk. Q: Is there any way to get past the train thing at the beginning? A: No. Q: Can I kill the tank? A: Yes! You can! God knows how (Uh-oh, here come the e-mails) but you can do it! Don't ask me how. I think you gotta shoot the top or something :/ Q: When I go up this one elevator, there is a bunch of explosives. When I use my crowbar on them, I die. How do I get past them? A: At the bottom of the shaft, where you hop on, lay a satchel grenade (the one that detonates on command) on the floor of the elevator. When its at the top, detonate, bring the elevator down, and hop on. There is a slight glitch here sometimes. You can't seem to move. This cannot be fixed the same way every time so press everything you can until you are `unstuck'. Q: I'm looking in the window of a door and people are getting rescued by rescue ropes, how do I get to them? A: DON'T!!! They are NOT rescue ropes, they are a type of enemy. Avoid them! Q: Is it possible to kill those purple witch things in Xen? A: Not that I know of. Although I haven't really tried to kill them. Any questions I receive will immediately go on this FAQ. E-mail nooz@mailexcite.com or ICQ 8308120. - 8. Credits. Sierra/Valve: Making the game. My knowledge: For writing the Guide. You! The reader: For reading it. YOUR NAME HERE: If you submit an FAQ question. - 9. Copyright and End Notice. This Nihilanth guide is Copyright 1998 by Nooz. This Guide should only be found at GameFAQ's (www.gamefaqs.com). This is NOT to be distrubuted without authors (my) consent. You may print for personal use. Thanks for reading this guide. Check out my other 2 FAQ/Guides, N64 System FAQ/Guide and Iggy's Reckin Balls FAQ. I am writing a few other FAQ/Guides such as, Banjo-Kazooie, Legend of Zelda: Ocaraina of Time, Space Station: Silicon Valley and the Hell Blade series. Thanks for reading. E-mail: nooz@mailexcite.com or nooz@excite.com ICQ UIN (preffered) 8308120.