Can't complete Aircraft Carrier level.

[Marasmusine]

I can't finish the game because on the "Defend the Carrier" level there are areas in which I consistantly hit a glicth that causes me fall through the floor into the void (or sea). I'm now at a bottleneck (the lower deck where you see the big alien war machine skim through the water and sink a cruiser) and there's no way to progress. Reloading the checkpoint or game, or loading an older save file doesn't rectify this.
The only joy I've had was a situation where I fell under the deck but it didn't drop me into the sea, but I did have vantage point to watching the AI marines hilariously also fall through the deck to their deaths.

Earlier on the same level, I was able to walk through the door (and I mean _through_ the door) into the command room, which doesn't trigger the cutscene there. I had to go back and forth a few times before I realised I had to activate the door to trigger it.

Dunno what to do now, I guess quit this and move on to Warhead?

[Marasmusine]

The aliens can also shoot their ice cannons through the walls. Anyone else get this?

[s3bsta]

Have you verified the files? I don't recall having anything like these issues.

[Marasmusine]

I'll try that and report back.

[Marasmusine]

Well, the deck _floors_ became tangible again, but now I'm falling through the stairs in area immediately afterwards! "Get up here quick, player, there's something Big up here!" Guys, I would do if the stairs were made out of solid matter. I can use maximum strength to jump up one floor, but can't quite make the next.

I think I'm done with this bugfest, but at least it's given me some giggles. I hope that Warhead and Crysis 2 aren't so bad.

[MrMcSwifty]

Actually, this is all pretty common. If you Google it, you can see a lot of people have issues with the carrier level. Falling through floors, crashing, flickering textures, broken scripts, and TAC cannon not locking on, etc etc...

I'm reasonably certain this is an issue with newer systems when running the game with either the 64-bit executable, or in DX10 mode. I can't remember which one specifically causes it, but I've never once had any of this happen under 32-bit Windows XP.

Obviously it's 2015 so that's probably not an option for you :P

I'd recommend you try running the game with the -dx9 command option, and if you're using the 64-bit exe, try the 32-bit, and vice versa. (you may have to scour a 64-bit exe off the net somewhere)

Then... and this is important... restart the chapter. Don't just reload your save. Once this nonsense happens, it corrupts your savegame and it will never go away unless you just restart the chapter from scratch.

Good luck.

[Marasmusine]

Are there similar issues in Warhead (just started it, no problems yet,)

[MrMcSwifty]

I won't promise it's completely glitch-free, but in general I'd say it's considered much more stable. Nothing that immediately jumps to mind, like that carrier level. And it performs a bit better too. :)

[Rockhead Gaz]

I managed to get through the Aircraft Carrier bugfest by playing in DX9. And like McSwifty said, be sure to restart the chapter from the beginning.