Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode One

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The one free bullet achievement
By Splash Colour
This guide will 100% get you the one free bullet achievement.
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Getting the achievement
The achievement: The one free bullet!

How to get the achievement?

To start off you first need to start from the begining of the game from fresh.

Firstly after you start the game, you'd need to go through the whole story of the game without using any weapon except only one bullet to open a padlock on a gate after going through the vents. The next thing is that if you are needing to take down the gunship, use rockets to kill it.

You are allowed to use rockets to kill and destroy the combine car that shoots rockets at you.

Then just keep going through the game until you get near the end where strider is and kill that with rockets. Remember to always use gravity gun mainly through the game.

Once getting to the train, few minutes you should get a achievement pop up 'The one free bullet'.

Weapons allowed said by community
  • Gravity gun
  • SMG Grenades and hand granades
  • Crowbar
    and auto mounted guns
You can use rockets, but make sure to not shoot them direct and shoot near the target.

Methods of getting the achievement posted by the community
  • 1.Shooting the lock, then reloading the same save file.
  • 2.Load a different save or Restart the game and play it from the start.
  • 3.Using the pulse ball attacks from the enemies with the gravity gun and killing them with their own pulse ball is fine.
(more content will be added in future by the community!)

Easier method to unlock the achievement
By going into console and input physcannon_mega_enabled 1
To restore gravity gun to normal input into console physcannon_mega_enabled 0

The Guide is truely made for you to unlock this achievement.

Thanks to the community for reading this guide and helping with updating this guide with ways of unlocking the achievement.

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Jamie
248 Comments
ThatWardrobeGuy Mar 25 @ 1:29pm 
mfs it literally says rocket kills are allowed on the achievement
german2070243 Mar 16 @ 5:24pm 
Good guide :p2wheatley: :p2turret:
Rylander02 Feb 7 @ 9:50am 
Rockets don't seem to count when hitting vehicles (gunship or the armored car). Sorry that this came a few weeks after this probably would have been helpful randomidk.
Star Platinum Jan 21 @ 3:35am 
hey when i shoot the rocket to the uhh gunship does it count as a bullet
BabyZzz Dec 22, 2023 @ 2:02pm 
Appreciate this guide!
artorigusknight Nov 29, 2023 @ 3:40pm 
does the crossbow aim is considered to be a shot?
Splash Colour  [author] Nov 27, 2023 @ 3:57pm 
Not sure, best do some testing
Silverclaw Nov 27, 2023 @ 10:37am 
I saved the game right before I shoot the lock and played it normally until the end of the game. If I load the game to the same point again and not use guns anymore will I get the achievement? (So I can save time for at least an hour of gameplay)
Demonlords Sep 18, 2023 @ 5:17pm 
Loading a save invalid the run?
fart Aug 8, 2023 @ 8:22am 
physcannon_mega_enabled 1 is a cheat!

But how do you bypass it?
sv_cheats 1
physcannon_mega_enable 1
sv_cheats 0

Save game.
Quit game.
Restart game.
Load game.