Exploding portal to Xen.

[BeanMChocolate]

I'll keep this one short. Scientist activates portal to Xen, the beam turns red and the portal machine explodes. Has anyone else had this happen? I am stuck in a constant loop of spawning, running, then dying which is getting on my nerves!

[Katx]

Have you tried skipping the damage trigger in any way, thats the only time i had that happen to the portal ?

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

You have to defend the portal, the scientist and yourself at all costs until the portal opens. It is very disorienting for new players.

[BeanMChocolate]

The scientist dies immediately after activating the portal only yelling "SHTAHP!" before dying without warning. I think I might have triggered some sort of bug with an anti piracy code by saving in a multiplayer server. Sometimes when I die, I go back to one of the multiplayer deathmatch maps instead of where I last left off in the story. This also happens without warning.

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Originally posted by McBean56545:

The scientist dies immediately after activating the portal only yelling "SHTAHP!" before dying without warning. I think I might have triggered some sort of bug with an anti piracy code by saving in a multiplayer server. Sometimes when I die, I go back to one of the multiplayer deathmatch maps instead of where I last left off in the story. This also happens without warning.

You played a Deathmatch server before you joined on singleplayer. Restart the game and reload the save, or the previous save.

[BeanMChocolate]

I do that and sometimes it works, other times I will still end up in a random multiplayer map. Here's what happens. Loads singleplayer, dies, game loads multiplayer map, I reload and re-save singleplayer, dies, singleplayer loads, dies, singleplayer loads, dies, loads multiplayer map, loads singleplayer in frustration, re-saves again, dies, single, dies, single, dies, loads test map??? Quits, cries, takes a nap, eats a snickers. I bought the game during the summer sale because I don't have the best paying job.

[BeanMChocolate]

the whole test map thing is a joke...

[StormSpiritGB]

why are you playing this in multiplayer that's probable reason for your problems alot things in game wont run correctly in multiplayer might be breaking logic auto script

[SeriousCCIE]

yeah I think you should not have been saving progression in a multiplayer game as a single player.

(and I bought the high texture pack on CD before it was released for free, and I didn't have the best paying job then... nor now. but the CD came with blue shift and opposing forces, though...I had to install both after proving I had the original halflife CD. None of this fancy pants internet DRM back then!)

[BeanMChocolate]

I wanted to mess around with being the only one on the map... I have a tendancy to do that.

[phillippi2]

If I remember correctly, this happens as a result of latency. Try doing this in Sven Coop instead. This was something they fixed early on

[BeanMChocolate]

I play HL by my self the whole time. I just like to wander around the multiplayer maps alone to blow off steam... No pun intended. I have never been with another player.

[BeanMChocolate]

Also, I will have to get to any further comments tomorrow as my parrents installed this app called Circle that essentially flips you the bird if you try to play any games past a certain time. I'll be back. (I quoted the Terminator despite having the skill of an infant with no fingers... Ironic...)