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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
258 Comments
CrityCrit 18 Jun @ 2:59pm 
Yeah i got it i just forgot you had to shoot the lock have not played in years so made sense lol. :VBOY:
Splash Colour  [author] 18 Jun @ 8:24am 
yes
CrityCrit 17 Jun @ 10:43pm 
This may sound dumb but so i shoot one bullet than never shoot again I just want to make sure
High voltage 6 May @ 2:00pm 
Wow! I really appreciate that it specifies 'HL2 EP1 only.' It's great how each achievement clearly indicates which game it belongs to.:steamsalty:
avopikus milk lord the 5th 16 Feb @ 2:51am 
is the airboat mounted gun allowed?
SoulFishst 29 Nov, 2024 @ 11:14am 
do the pulse balls from the ar2 count as bullets?
LEO 24 Nov, 2024 @ 8:36am 
I was running whole HL2 with only gravity gun and rocket launcher.
haven't got the achievement
and then I saw that I needed to run HL2 Episode One.

great :headcrab:
Hypie Neon 9 Aug, 2024 @ 11:12pm 
Apparently I got this achievement and don't really have much of any memory of doing it. Guess it wasn't that bad.
GKEEPER2o8 25 Jul, 2024 @ 9:07am 
No way I just wasted 2 hours just to not get the achievement for some fucking reason
Yousek 6 Jul, 2024 @ 2:17pm 
That's fucking dumb that i have to waste time on act 1 where only weapon is gravity gun ... and of course alyx disappear due to checkpoint loading after the train.