I saw the corpse in the rafters, but you see corpses everywhere, I didn’t see it as at all significant. I don’t know if I noticed the scorch mark, but if I did, they’re pretty usual everywhere. I noticed the grenade box, but I would never have thought of standing on top of my own grenade. Even with a piece of metal in the way, I would have assumed it would kill me.

I did like that Alyx made a comment when I left empty handed to recognise that I hadn’t solved the puzzle.

I might tackle it this weekend, but then I might play TF2 instead. I will complete it at some point, I just haven’t had the time to sit down and play through it which is how I think it should be played. TF2 and Portal are more suited to short sessions where you can jump in for a few rounds or tackle an advanced level.

But I dunno, I personally found myself going through that particular section (and indeed puzzle) as if I was going through the motions, so to speak. I thought the puzzle itself had a rather cool outcome, but for some reason it just never really felt as if it stopped my flow at any time, unlike say every Hunter battle. Also, it did pop up on the car radar – but then given it seems even less people than those that managed to get that RPG got all the crates, then I suppose it’s a bit of a moot point. Maybe I just know what clues I should be looking out for too well.

None of which explains why I did solve this puzzle, but didn’t get that you were supposed to use grenades. My first through was to do a Gravity Gun jump off the loose panel, which worked beautifully.

Anyway, I suspect the majority who didn’t find it just never went into that room – it’s off the beaten track, and you get an RPG later anyway. I know Alyx nags you about it, but people have an amazing ability to ignore or miss speech cues. Myself included.

Tom – don’t you cheat to the end, if you get that close? I do. If I’ve decided the final boss is not the type of challenge I’m interested in overcoming, I have no reservations about making myself invulnerable to see the end cutscene.

Perhaps logical thinking isn’t as easy as it appears for some.

That’s pretty sad how few people finished the game. Though to be fair, a lot of those were probably people who bought orange box for TF2/Portal and not for Ep. 2.

Also, if you press the question mark next to completion percentage for ep 1:
Games Completed (38.81%)

Our data indicates that while 50.63% of the players have reached the final map (as noted in the Highest Map Played graph below), only roughly half of those players have completed the game. This leads us to believe that either players are quitting before they see the credits, or there is a bug in how we collect this data.

Looks like more people finished in Ep. 1 then 2.