Stuck on Highway 17 transition

[viado games]

Everytime I go to that under the bridge section, where you can't use the car anymore, my game crashes in the loading screen. I will try to reboot my pc and see if it works.
Anyone had this issue?

[zxcv]

Yup, just had the same crash, haven't tried if it works after reboot yet.

[qwertylesh]

Hello, for you two;
this part of the game goes d2_coast_07 first part - where the top area is blocked by forcefield and only a door on the side of the bridge leading to d2_coast_08. in 08 the player spans the underside of the bridge to reach a button that will turn off the forcefield in d2_coast_07 the player backtracks to d2_coast_07 second part the field is down and player faces off with a train to get to the top back of the bridge which leads to sandtraps chapter (d2_cost_09)
map info can always be looked up here - https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_map_reference#Highway_17

you should both load the map you're up to directly from options menu 'developer tab'with -vrdev lanch params in your steam game settings (recommended) or; use console and keyboard and run the map command. (but this ways less convenient)
The newest build on Main and pre-release branch has more fixes for Save corruption crashes however those updates only came out two days ago, so in-case you happen to be playing off an older save. I'm recommending you to Load directly using the map command instead and abandoning the last save progress can help reduce the risk of crashing.

if you did most of 07,08 skip to 09, otherwise load directly to the most appropriate part 7/8

[viado games]

Originally posted by qwertylesh:

Hello, for you two;
this part of the game goes d2_coast_07 first part - where the top area is blocked by forcefield and only a door on the side of the bridge leading to d2_coast_08. in 08 the player spans the underside of the bridge to reach a button that will turn off the forcefield in d2_coast_07 the player backtracks to d2_coast_07 second part the field is down and player faces off with a train to get to the top back of the bridge which leads to sandtraps chapter (d2_cost_09)
map info can always be looked up here - https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_map_reference#Highway_17

you should both load the map you're up to directly from options menu 'developer tab'with -vrdev lanch params in your steam game settings (recommended) or; use console and keyboard and run the map command. (but this ways less convenient)
The newest build on Main and pre-release branch has more fixes for Save corruption crashes however those updates only came out two days ago, so in-case you happen to be playing off an older save. I'm recommending you to Load directly using the map command instead and abandoning the last save progress can help reduce the risk of crashing.

if you did most of 07,08 skip to 09, otherwise load directly to the most appropriate part 7/8

Thank you very much for such a quick answer! My plan was to use the console, I didn't knew about the developer tab, will do it.

[viado games]

Returning here just to thank the answer again and to say it worked perfectly.
I spawn without my weapons tho'.. But I used the give all/everything button, I wasn't much far from obtaining the last ones tbh
So yeah, nice

[qwertylesh]

Great to hear! you'er very welcome and I concur yeah, -vrdev is very handy, unfortunately the loss of extra ammo/gear is a consequence both for direct map loading or starting out at any given chapters (you can also unlock all chapters with a cvar - sv_unlockedchapters 14 )

Be mindful that enabling svcheats will turn off getting achievements for the playthrough (and the disablement of getting them also will persist in saves made during the playthrough)