[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[ChicoCahill]

I'm at the lighthouse, firing rockets at this gunship. I was told to go into the lighthouse, because they're rockets in there. And there's a secret passage way on the cliff. Now, here's where I need help, I fire rocket after goddam rocket...It never hits the bloody ship, NEVER! ......what can I do? I try just going to the secrect passage way...but I just fall down into the water.

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you have to blow up the ship before you can go down the secret passage

[filter04]

i'll blame you as much as i want. this thread is not just for you, n00b.

And as the original threadstarter, agentsmith said, before all the threads got merged:

The excitement is at full force now. In anticipation for even more posts on this subject, this will be the official thread to discuss the following.....

Post your in game screen shots.

Requests for help (computer related as well as Steam)

General Discussion.

If you are stuck at any point in the game, post for assistance here.

Also, please keep in mind, use the spoiler tag.

i have no problems with you asking for help, and it's not going to ruin the game for me, but you seem to have never heard of discretion. :rolleyes:

kthxbye.

Edited November 17, 2004 by filter04

[Varsity]

It's the HL2 effect (only multiplayer games are registered on the graph)!

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

you have to be kidding me :no: , first youll want to get off the train :yes: . and it is the start, nota bit near the start. something tells me your goign to need a guide

guys, i'm stuck..

spoiler mode on (highlight to read)

the bit near the start after the GMAN has spoken to you and you are on a train with two other guys - what do you do next??? I've been stuck on this for hours and dont have a clue what to do!!

:blush:

help me please because it looks like such a good game!!

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[ForeverUnknown]

you have to be kidding me :no: , first youll want to get off the train :yes: . and it is the start, nota bit near the start. something tells me your goign to need a guide

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of course i'm kidding!

[partyboy]

Got this game yesterday and is great.

but i want to know if some other people are experiencing this because i have not seen anything about it......

When you first start playing the game, it pauses quite frequently and says "loading" it is a little annoying as it breaks the gameplay.....when i installed the game and it was unlocking through steam....it did say that it was to busy to register and would send an email later to confirm when done...so i cannot play in offline mode yet...dunno if this makes a difference.....

cheers

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

didnt see that, srry fonz

of course i'm kidding!

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[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

LvL load, jsut 1 level loading to the next, happens online/offline

Got this game yesterday and is great.

but i want to know if some other people are experiencing this because i have not seen anything about it......

When you first start playing the game, it pauses quite frequently and says "loading" it is a little annoying as it breaks the gameplay.....when i installed the game and it was unlocking through steam....it did say that it was to busy to register and would send an email later to confirm when done...so i cannot play in offline mode yet...dunno if this makes a difference.....

cheers

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[DoNuTs]

Can ANYONE tell me what's wrong with this picture ... ?

[filter04]

erm, is there meant to be another half to that window? :rofl:

[partyboy]

LvL load, jsut 1 level loading to the next, happens online/offline

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thxs for reply....i was a little surprised though....it must have attempted a load at least 4 times and i have only just reached the scientist guy right at the beginning (Gf's and HL2 don't mix :p ) but if that is normal and everybody gets it then that's cool.....guesss i need a raptor drive x2 and raid 0 :-)

[Kupo-Cheer]

Can ANYONE tell me what's wrong with this picture ... ? [/b]>

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That scientist is supposed to be Dr. Breen.

[AgEnTsMiTh]

Don't blame me, this is where people come for help. If you don't want it too be spoiled, I seriously don't know what the **** you're doing in this thread.

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If you took the time to read my instructions, you would have seen that I flat out said if your going to post any spoliers, tag it with just that SPOILER (Y)

[blackice912 Veteran]

Can ANYONE tell me what's wrong with this picture ... ? [/b]>

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haha, he's out to take over the world!

Anyways, I just beat the game...and now I'm all depressed. But I won't say why. Because you should find out for yourself. And then be depressed.

Though I have to say, the ending was pretty neat.

Edit: Is anybody having problems with the game suddenly slowing to around 2-3 frames per second, only to be fixed by changing your AA or AF settings? :huh::

Edited November 17, 2004 by blackice912

[S.MULLA]

heres the ico file from the DVD. stop pm'ing me for the icon...!! :p

hl2.ico

[Kupo-Cheer]

My thoughts on Half-Life 2 thus far: Its been really great, voice acting is superb and the character animations and detail are the best of any game made to date, The physics and the actual USE of physics for puzzle solveing and just fun makes it so much cooler. The graphics even on low kick ass (only reason I'm running on low is because I only have 256mb of memory and its almost unplayable because of it...), especially the outdoor environments. Well, since I'm in a rush to get back to playing, I'll just mention the bad times too. I've seen a few weird bugs so far, one being that I have to run in windowed mode or suffer a weird video problem where half the sceen is unviewable. I've used a vehicle to get someplace in a map you obviously werent supposed to be able to get to since the ground there was missing. Last, the only reason I'm typing this now and not playing is because I ran into the weirdest bug where everything stopped and the ground dissapeared, my hard drive was being accessed constantly, and everything froze, even my mouse, so I had to restart. One bit of caution: don't bother playing with 256mb of ram... seriously, it really is close to unplayable. I have a great framerate and the game runs perfect besides the studder when accesssing the hard drive sonstantly, and the 2 minute long load times every 5 minutes or so of playing. I'm hoping to get some more memory VERY soon so I can actually play this game without the frustrations I've been having so far, because the gameplay is just the best. Play Half-Life 2 if you havent already...

[Lovell]

aye to short imo, the end environment is incredible though :o must have took them ages to do it.

[elliot]

LvL load, jsut 1 level loading to the next, happens online/offline

Hell-In-A-Handbasket before you drive me completely insane, would you PLEASE reply to people underneath the quote. I don't know why you insist on replying above them but it's completely illogical.

[Got3n]

man so many people with problems, it took me 6 min to autheniticate, and i have yet to have any problems. I guess im one of the lucky ones.

[mick0142]

when i heard barney talk i saw sports night in my head, then it clicked, and i was really happy :)

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scratch that, sorry, i didn't get much sleep before posting this, not barney. eli

his voice is the same guy that was the boss on sports night (if anyone else watched that show)

[Lexcyn]

haha, he's out to take over the world!

Anyways, I just beat the game...and now I'm all depressed. But I won't say why. Because you should find out for yourself. And then be depressed.

Though I have to say, the ending was pretty neat.

Edit: Is anybody having problems with the game suddenly slowing to around 2-3 frames per second, only to be fixed by changing your AA or AF settings?  :huh:

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I agree about the ending bit, and I am also depressed :p

[quick]

Only played an hour or so last night.. game is as billed...

Great thing thing is the 16:9 Ratio support....! rox!! And the windowed mode at 16:9 (1280x720 res) on my 50" LCD HDTV is really impressive.. no comparison to DOOM 3.. didn't have 16:9 i had to stretch the window to fit my screen.... Huge plus there...

Game play is smooth, i really like the shooting it's very easy to control...

Game only had one bug for me so far... Some how my custom keyboard keys got lost.... Maybe somehow that was my fault dunno..

Other then that.. very impressive... can't wait to get home and play some more :p

[Fade68]

Well at least some of you are able to play the game, it's taken me over 12 hours to validate my key, download the updates, and have the block removed from the games files.

Sux's.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Well looks like buying it on Steam paid off... bought it on the day the pricing packages were announced (about 10 minutes after in fact) and then reloaded steam at 8:01AM GMT (1 minute after servers were activated) and was playing at 8:10AM... not one crash, not one hiccup, worked 100% as advertised. Thanks Valve :)

[quick]

Well at least some of you are able to play the game, it's taken me over 12 hours to validate my key, download the updates, and have the block removed from the games files.

Sux's.

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These problems are only happening with the store bought dvd/cds?

I downloaded thru steam, gave an error when processing my order, said too busy to process, but go ahead and play and will will get back to you to confirm the order... download was fast only 3.5 hrs... wasn't expecting that...