Staying in Ravenholm/Getting Annabelle Glitch

Describes two exploits at the end of "We Don't Go To Ravenholm" - one that allows you to stay and fight alongside Father Grigori, and another that lets you kill him and obtain his rifle.

Getting Started

All you need to do is play up to We Don't Go To Ravenholm. After that, save the game once you finish fighting your way through the cemetery with Father Grigori. You will be able to choose whether to continue fighting alongside him or to kill him and take his rifle.

Glitch 1 - Staying in Ravenholm

Don't want to abandon Father Grigori? Want to slay zombies alongside him until the very end? This minor glitch will let you get back under the exit gate, and fight once more by Father Grigori's side.

To start, you'll need a radiator from one of the apartment sections of Ravenholm. Carry one across the lift to the cemetery, where Father Grigori will tell you to follow him to the mines. Hold onto that radiator and kill the zombies along the way until you reach this gate.



From here, you'll need to position the radiator so that it's on its edge, not its side. Here is how it should look:



Now, you'll need to crouch, and slowly move backward while carrying the radiator with your gravity gun. Move back bit by bit until the gate closes on the radiator. If done right, it should start releasing smoke and create a gap big enough to crouch under.



Don't touch the radiator too much, as it will drain your health rapidly. Crouch under while minimizing contact with the radiator, and you'll probably catch Grigori in the middle of his short dialogue.



What you do next is entirely up to you. Grigori will set fire to the front of the crypt, but you can move around the flames on the left and camp inside the building with him. Eventually, he will vanish, but have fun killing zombies with him while you can!







Whenever you get bored, you can just crouch under the gate again and resume the story of Half-Life 2.

Glitch 2 - Obtaining Grigori's Rifle (Annabelle)

Follow these steps to be able to carry Annabelle, Father Grigori's famous lever-action rifle, around the game. Annabelle will overlap the spot used to hold the AR2, but that weapon can still be selected using number keys instead of the scroll wheel.

Remember to save frequently so you don't have to constantly redo each step!

To start off, you'll need three objects of small stature. The easiest method is to use three cinderblocks from the graveyard, but two bricks and a radiator also work. I'll just be doing this with a radiator and two cinderblocks.



Once you have the necessary items together, stack them with the radiator on the bottom, and the two cinderblocks on top. If you're doing the brick method, any order may be used. However, they must all be placed against the left side of the gate.



Now, just like in the first glitch, slowly crouch under the gate until you reach the other side.



Get behind where your pile is, as Grigori walks to the gate to give his last bit of advice. Once he gets close to the fence, start pressing your primary fire with the Gravity Gun on the middle cinderblock to apply pressure to the pile. Repeat until the middle block launches off at Grigori and knocks him to the ground. If the block fails to kill Grigori, either reload your save or attempt to send the top block at Grigori.



Somewhere near Grigori's corpse should be his rifle. Look for its distinct brown-and-gold colors on the ground of the graveyard. Crouch down and try to drag it under the gate using the Gravity Gun's alternate fire.



Now pick that weapon up and take it as your own! It shares ammo with the .357 Magnum, holds two rounds in its magazine, and has a low rate of fire. These issues can be circumvented by holding reload while firing, which makes it fire automatically while new rounds are loaded in.



It reuses the Shotgun's model in first-person view. If this annoys you, there are mods that change its appearance to fit the third-person model.

Conclusion

You can carry Annabelle all the way until your weapons are destroyed near the end of the game. It instantly kills Combine Soldiers on headshots and serves as a useful weapon for long-range combat.

Thanks for reading!

[Unidentified Ultimate Usurper]

actually works holy shit im so happy about this epic trivia

[MIRROR]

i would rather slap you that you face palm

[MIRROR]

this is for when you dont need the cheats.

[kiwistarfish]

Or type in: give weapon_Annabelle or something along those lines... turns out the "give" command does not require sv_cheats 1

[Grand Duchy Of Wales]

Bartharlamew
But you'll have to install an addon to get the actual viewmodel

[Bartharlamew]

or you could just get garrys mod

[RED]

or you could just use the staying in ravenholm and just lightly zap the radiator once gregory is near it, he'll probably die. but point is getting the shotgun.

[Matt]

"I don't know why it looks like the shotgun in first-person, but at least it functions." It's because it was never meant to be obtained by the player in the first place, so why make a viewmodel that won't be seen?

[Кітту⠀Каτ🐾]

Also works with a sawblade and two cinderblocks.

[lolznoboz]

heres an annabelle fix http://gamebanana.com/skins/78680