Half-Life: Alyx – Escaping “Captivity”: How to escape the map with no cheats

Escape

In chapter 8: “Captivity”, you get to wander around a zoo. Just past here: 
 
 
 
there’s a part where you can look up to see a crumbling office above you: 
 
 
 
Being curious, I stacked up a couple of boxes to see if I could climb up: 
 
 
 
And it turns out that you can! There’s a little office up here, although the desk seems much too short to me: 
 
 
 
Let’s stack up some more things: 
 
 
 
Surely the game will stop us from climbing on top of those: 
 
 
 
Surely we can’t go any higher! 
 
 
 
This is actually pretty cool. You can “see through” most rooms on the map (the explanation has to do with something called “normals”, but the simple version is that the game only draws the insides of rooms, so the ceilings and walls will all appear see through to you): 
 
 
 
It gives you a very cool opportunity to wander around and see parts of the game up close that you wouldn’t normally be able to: 
 
 
 
Although much of it, of course, will look very broken from places you’re not supposed to see it from: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy exploring! 
 

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