I think I'm totally stuck! Help?

[DumbDogMiles]

I'm at the part during the Blast Pit section with those giant bladed tentacles coming out of a hole in the ground. I used all of my grenades to distract it and made it all the way to the bottom. I restarted the generator, then realized I had no idea where to go next. I managed to make it back to the chamber with the tentacles, at which point I just decided to look up a walkthrough. I found out that I was supposed to go to a door halfway down the chamber first, get two items, and THEN go to the lower level. The only problem is that I'm totally stuck on the lower level. I have no grenades left, so I can't distract the tentacles, and one hit by them is an instant death. I can barely take five steps into the room without getting killed immediately. Is there an alternate way to get by them, or did I just stumble across some design flaw and will have to restart the game as a result?

[Ṭoyoka]

You can temporarily distract them by shooting their green stalk-like bodies (if you have any weapons left). Also moving while crouching seems to not have them notice your presence. Good luck! It only gets better :)

[DumbDogMiles]

OK, sweet! I've got plenty of ammo, but I was assuming that firing them would be counterproductive because of all the noise. I'm really enjoying the game, so I was afraid I was going to have to totally restart because of this one little thing. Thanks!

[Alex Krychek, a mighty pirate]

What did the security guard tell you? "Be quiet! This thing hears us."

[constancejill]

There are grenades around and some doors are barred... it only seems logical to distract it by tossing grenades towards the barred doors while you're at another location.

[Ṭoyoka]

Originally posted by Alex Krychek, a mighty pirate:

What did the security guard tell you? "Be quiet! This thing hears us."

Unfortunately the gameplay mecahincs were quite limited for their time and so there are alternatives like the one I stated above :P

[DarthNocturnal]

I had my own share of troubles with that level last night. I felt like I was being worked into an unbeatable scenario. Wish I had known about crouching then. And nothing is worse then "slipping" on a ladder and having to quickly climb back up it.

Luckily, I roasted those blasted tentacles in the end, and now I'm not in danger of getting one-shot by some random enemy.

[5persondude]

the whole process of turning power back to that room to burn the tentacle monster is a bit much. you have to go through two areas, and to complete both of them, you have to shoot off the wood panels off both door frames in the same room w/ the tentacle monster and go through each one, then solve the puzzles down each path.
just remember to go through BOTH areas, then go back to the "Test Fire" button and burn that damn thing!!!!!!!!1!!! >:D