Half-Life Question
 

Mods, please feel free to move this thread to its proper location. I just wanted to start in in General so that I'd be able to get a quicker response.

Ok, so who here has played Half-Life? I need a hand.

I havent been playing very long, so Im not very far yet. Im still in the Black Mesa facility, not long after everything went to shit.

I walked into a big, mostly empty room. Stairs leading up to a lever at the end of the room. I pull the lever, two of the little alien dudes pop out of a vent, and the platform infront of me starts to go down. I run down the stairs, dispatch the little aliens, and jump onto the platform. The jump damages me a bit, but I survived.

So the platform comes to a stop and Im in a new room. Bunch of boxes, a pool of water infront of me, and from where I am I can see two health boxes, and a hallway off to my left. No baddies around, so I figure I aughta go fill up my health and wander on down the hall.

Herein lies the problem: I cant move.

I can look around, I can shoot, but the arrow keys do nothing. Neither do the alternate controls, or jump.

My question is, is this a glitch (which Ive ran into more than once already), or is there something that Im supposed to do that Im not seeing?

Bumpity Bump-Bump

is your PC strong enough to run the game smoothly or is it in the lower end of the suggested requirements?

No idea, the box didnt have any specs on it.

My PC is pretty good though...not state-of-the-art or anything, but it should be powerful enough. In 2004 it was pretty much top of the line, so I'd think it should still be good enough?

I wouldn't say it's a problem with your pc...I mean, it really doesn't take much to run halflife...
I'd say, try to replay the former level, and make sure you're standing in a different spot at the time that stuff happens...sometimes that's a way to get around glitches that fuck shit up...the game isn't frozen, so it'll probably work.

But then again, sometimes games are just fucked...I had a copy of the original halflife trilogy thing with "blue shift" and "opposing force", came with counterstrike and all that...everything worked fine, but blue shift froze halfway through...annoying, I was liking that.

Try what I said.

Download a patch and restart your campaign.

original half life?

your talking original H.L..

linky
http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/halflife.php

i could tell you but em afraid em not a big fan of the game

If you mean the platform at the left on top of the room from where you can see down below into the room full of crates and the health portal and the pool, then that one usually causes the freezing of movement. You can look around and do anything you wish, but you cant move.

Your best bet is (if you have saved in the lever room) to start it again, jump onto the ramp as it is going down, fight off all the crabs and DONT JUMP till it nears the floor of the room down below. Then you can easily walk from there onto the new room, fill up the health you lost, then move on down the hallway and open the door to the next section.

awwwwwwwwwww take the fun out it why dontcha!!

'kicks your ankles'

ouch!!

damn that hurt, forge!!

grrrrrrr :mad:



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