Half-Life: Alyx - 07 - Jeff [Hard]

Chapter 7: Jeff After intense and escalating encounters with Combine troops, Alyx finds herself in an abandoned distillery, filled to the brim with spectacular drinks. However, it is also home to Jeff, a monstrous Xen creature that is blind as a bat but uses its exceptional hearing to hunt its prey. With Jeff hot on her heels, Alyx must run, think, definitely not shoot, and live to tell the tale. Playlist with all completed chapters: Notes: - The snapping Xen growths at 0:29 will not damage Alyx, even if she sticks her fingers into their mouths - If the player chooses not to save Larry right away, he will simply repeat his “idle“ voicelines - Larry wears a spiked helmet, presumably to prevent headcrabs from latching onto his head - I missed a resin at 5:47 - do a 180 turn and it will be resting on some Xen growth - Though Larry warns Alyx to keep quiet, she will never get attacked by Jeff until after she opens the shutter at 9:49, even if she makes a ton of noise - Alyx can shoot at Jeff right after the reveal at 9:57 and not get noticed until he is done killing the headcrab - It is impossible to kill Jeff, shooting him will only give away Alyx’s location and anger him. Interestingly enough, if shot, the skin on Jeff will visibly heal, as shown in this excellent video: - If caught by Jeff, he will vomit corrosive acid onto Alyx’s face, resulting in an instant kill - Jeff’s back is covered with the same kind of Xen growths that emit spores into the air. If standing close to Jeff, Alyx must cover her mouth to avoid coughing - Similar to the alarm bell trap in Chapter 4, Alyx can avoid the speaker coming online at 15:58 by first rewiring the node closest to the speaker - Opening the door too quickly at 19:19 will topple the crate, attracting Jeff’s attention - It is possible to kill the Headcrab before it manages to bump the bottles off the ledge (19:41) - It is possible to peek and even crawl inside the vent that the Headcrab came out of, at 20:37 and again at 20:46. I was not able to due to my room size - Wearing a respirator (25:35) will eliminate the need to cover your mouth when passing by Xen spores. The first respirator in the game can actually be found back in Chapter 3 - Jeff will destroy the storage room door at 27:58 if Alyx makes noise inside the room - Jeff will focus solely on the control panel at 30:55 until it stops beeping - Alyx can go right up to him if she wants to - Sparing Jeff is an option, as opposed to activating the compactor to crush him (31:40). Doing so will result in slightly altered dialogue between Larry and Alyx Trivia: - Bringing bottles of vodka with you to the next chapter will result in a unique conversation between Russell and Alyx - At 5:11, even though Larry told Alyx his gun was grabbed by the Barnacle, he never picks it up from underneath the Barnacle’s corpse - Jeff is shown to be created from a dead Hazmat worker, as evident by his suit. This is why he is able to walk through Combine forcefields - What’s left of the dead Hazmat worker’s face can be seen on one of Jeff’s “mouth“ flaps - It is evident that a large battle took place between the Combine and Antlions, as shown by the various Antlion giblets (22:13)