Weird glitches/bugs in present version of the game

[holub]

So, i played this like, +10 times over the years, and now i see some bizarre bugs (on two different PCs).

Anyone else experiencing these things?

examples:
- A lot of times one of the tentacles from Blast Pit will not come back after grabbing the scientist;
- The apache helicopter on the Surface Tension Canyon almost always kills itself on the rocks with its own rockets (like 8 out of 10 times);
- Glitched particles from the beams of Nihilanth death (the ones that hit the walls);
- Nihilanth taking wayyyy to many hits to die (maybe not a bug?) - considering that you can kill it in like ~60 secs in a rush;
- An flock of alien thingyes/"birds" (boids?) spawned on top of me and g-man in the end scene '---'
- Events fail to trigger some times (characters phrases, enemies spawns - i kinda know by memory nearly every thing in this game);
- Flashlight shows depleted icon on load (go back to normal once you press it, also i think this one is a old bug);
- On the end of Power Up the concrete barriers glitch hard after you break them (like some of them respawn and are intangible after you pass);
- This one is very funny: on the chapter On a Rail, there is a part where a soldier spawn on other train and pair up with you on your train. If you move his train first before he spawns, and do the trigger, the train will go away by itself and he will spawn on the tracks '-'
-Theres more but probably are "old" bugs. Now some of these i feel like they are new (new like, post 2019 update i guess?).

I tried to find some fan patch (vanilla friendly) to fix the bugs, but no luck... (i found one for Quake XD- its kinda funny that there isnt one for Half-Life, one of the most modded games...)

if you read this thank you for your attention.

[Mewsette]

I found one glitch in the middle of Surface Tension that's given me virtually infinite HEV power! During the last security escort mission, there's a tile you can stand on while Barney punches in the passcode that leads out of the building that, for some reason, causes an overflow — and I do mean overflow; I managed to get my HEV so overcharged it started showing weapon icons as numbers!

[RocketPillow]

Originally posted by Goatsy II:

I found one glitch in the middle of Surface Tension that's given me virtually infinite HEV power! During the last security escort mission, there's a tile you can stand on while Barney punches in the passcode that leads out of the building that, for some reason, causes an overflow — and I do mean overflow; I managed to get my HEV so overcharged it started showing weapon icons as numbers!

Pretty sure that's a speedrun trick, or am I thinking of the tripmine and the door? Either one gives STONKS

[Sikobae]

Originally posted by holub:

A lot of times one of the tentacles from Blast Pit will not come back after grabbing the scientist;

This happens by not making any noise on this level, like killing the first zombie with the crowbar and not the shotgun.

[stahlhart]

I cannot push the sample cart in the test chamber; it's stuck and immovable once it finishes rising up from under the floor. This is apparently a bug that has existed for several years now. Guess I'll just play the Source version instead.

[stahlhart]

Or the Restored version, which also doesn't have the issue (just checked).

[Mewsette]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Pretty sure that's a speedrun trick, or am I thinking of the tripmine and the door? Either one gives STONKS

It's not the one with the tripmine and the door, but it's quite similar and easier to pull off. I found it by complete accident.