Last Lambda Cache is Bugged

[King Robert Baratheon]

It's the one towards the end of the Follow Freeman chapter, right after you kill that strider that's patrolling around this broken building you're in (and those floating robots that take blinding photos of you are following you around). You jump this gap and there are three loot boxes. I break them and loot them, but nothing happens. I'm 99.9% sure i got all of the other ones. What's going on here?

[King Robert Baratheon]

Uninstalled this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. I tried restarting the Follow Freeman level by selecting new game and chosing the Follow Freeman chapter, but when I get to that last lambda cache it's still bugged. What a bunch of bs.

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by King Robert Baratheon:

Uninstalled this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. I tried restarting the Follow Freeman level by selecting new game and chosing the Follow Freeman chapter, but when I get to that last lambda cache it's still bugged. What a bunch of bs.

It's not... some lambda caches are actually moved :)
You can either try to find them or check the Lambda Locator in Guides section.

Achievements where added way back in 2009 since original HL2 did not have them and HL2: Update was not on Steam at the time, it was more like a patch for the original game. Some of the hard to find lambda caches where moved in more accessible areas and I might missed to restore those with the Steam version.

However HL2: Update is more focused on bringing the visual quality on par with Episode Two or better. If you are a fan of achievements you could expect later on "community made achievements" in Steam workshop.

Sorry for the issue created.
-Filip

[Owlet VII]

Do you plan to restore the cache locations in a future update? It's not something I would call very important, but it would be nicer IMO if Update didn't change the original level design.

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Do you plan to restore the cache locations in a future update? It's not something I would call very important, but it would be nicer IMO if Update didn't change the original level design.

Yeah it will be restored back.

[Owlet VII]

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Do you plan to restore the cache locations in a future update? It's not something I would call very important, but it would be nicer IMO if Update didn't change the original level design.

After playing through Update's Water Hazard again, I needed to come back and say that it is important because the changed cache locations don't makes sense from an environmental storytelling perspective, because they were both relocated into Combine controlled facilities.

Yeah, Filip already responded that he's gonna fix it, but I wanted to go back and correct myself.

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Do you plan to restore the cache locations in a future update? It's not something I would call very important, but it would be nicer IMO if Update didn't change the original level design.

After playing through Update's Water Hazard again, I needed to come back and say that it is important because the changed cache locations don't makes sense from an environmental storytelling perspective, because they were both relocated into Combine controlled facilities.

Yeah, Filip already responded that he's gonna fix it, but I wanted to go back and correct myself.

i don't remember much from this thread. To be honest, working that hard to get all of the other achievements and not being able to get the last one (whichever that was) was kind of traumatizing (because I had no idea which one was missing) and I blocked this from memory. I still don't plan on ever going back and trying to find out which one was missing.

[magazine permafrost]

Originally posted by King Robert Baratheon:

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

After playing through Update's Water Hazard again, I needed to come back and say that it is important because the changed cache locations don't makes sense from an environmental storytelling perspective, because they were both relocated into Combine controlled facilities.

Yeah, Filip already responded that he's gonna fix it, but I wanted to go back and correct myself.

i don't remember much from this thread. To be honest, working that hard to get all of the other achievements and not being able to get the last one (whichever that was) was kind of traumatizing (because I had no idea which one was missing) and I blocked this from memory. I still don't plan on ever going back and trying to find out which one was missing.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=501156275
this works for HL2: Update BTW, not just vanilla HL2

[FractiousFire37]

I followed the Lambda Locator guide and checked if any were missing. Found them all! BUT Lambda #45 didn't update and I didn't get the Lambda Locator award. :o(

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by FractiousFire37:

I followed the Lambda Locator guide and checked if any were missing. Found them all! BUT Lambda #45 didn't update and I didn't get the Lambda Locator award. :o(

I'm really sorry you had to go through this. I actually went through the entire game again a little while back and the missing lambda locator did finally activate and now I have all of the achievements! Even though I'm happy that I found it I still think it was kind of traumatizing to have it bug out initially. After the missing/bugged out lambda location activated for me I stopped playing and didn't even remember that I made this thread/discussion. I might have uninstalled and reinstalled the game, but unfortunately I REALLY don't remember what I did before trying again. I just hope you can get your missing Lambda Locator too.

[Ewki]

Originally posted by King Robert Baratheon:

It's the one towards the end of the Follow Freeman chapter, right after you kill that strider that's patrolling around this broken building you're in (and those floating robots that take blinding photos of you are following you around). You jump this gap and there are three loot boxes. I break them and loot them, but nothing happens. I'm 99.9% sure i got all of the other ones. What's going on here?

I know I am 3 years late to this thread :D, but I just played the Half-Life 2 update and had the same issue as you did with the last cache number 45th in the game was going around it numerous times but achievement just wouldn't pop up or register it in the gamestats txt file (I converted HEX to binary and counted it more than 10 times to be sure, it was always saying its 45 cache that is missing) but it was 44 cache that was missing in my case(I figured out that simply by reading lambda locator guide and I couldn't remember if I did that one, got suspicious and went back to 44 cache in the anti-citizen one then achievement immediately popped up for me. I don't know why gamestats counted that as 45, but that was the issue for me actually relaying on gamestats to tell me which cache I missing led me to believe it was 45 while it was 44, although gamestat was correct about others (11,12,15,16,27,30,34,40,42) are the ones I missed going through the game first time xd

I know my response is late but might help someone else cheers

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by Ewki:

Originally posted by King Robert Baratheon:

It's the one towards the end of the Follow Freeman chapter, right after you kill that strider that's patrolling around this broken building you're in (and those floating robots that take blinding photos of you are following you around). You jump this gap and there are three loot boxes. I break them and loot them, but nothing happens. I'm 99.9% sure i got all of the other ones. What's going on here?

I know I am 3 years late to this thread :D, but I just played the Half-Life 2 update and had the same issue as you did with the last cache number 45th in the game was going around it numerous times but achievement just wouldn't pop up or register it in the gamestats txt file (I converted HEX to binary and counted it more than 10 times to be sure, it was always saying its 45 cache that is missing) but it was 44 cache that was missing in my case(I figured out that simply by reading lambda locator guide and I couldn't remember if I did that one, got suspicious and went back to 44 cache in the anti-citizen one then achievement immediately popped up for me. I don't know why gamestats counted that as 45, but that was the issue for me actually relaying on gamestats to tell me which cache I missing led me to believe it was 45 while it was 44, although gamestat was correct about others (11,12,15,16,27,30,34,40,42) are the ones I missed going through the game first time xd

I know my response is late but might help someone else cheers

Some of them are located in different areas on the same map compared to the original. Back then, some players tended to skip certain sections, so I placed a few lambdas more directly along the player's path. You can refer to the Guides section for the exact locations of the lambda caches.

However note that if you allready did that and achivements on Steam did't register then this is a Steam issue that is also present in the original game. You have to remove or make a backup of the game file called "gamestate.txt" that's inside hl2 dir witch communicates with Steam for fetching achivements data. I never had this issue but even today after 20th anniversary I still see this issue isn't resolve and I can't do anything sine it's not game related.

If you encounter any issue on game/gameplay let me know so I can adressed it.

Cheers