Hey Half Life experts, do you know about the boss glitch?

[Incarnate]

Anyone ever encounter a bug at the final boss fight where he doesn't die?

The first time I played this as a kid back in 1998 I could not beat him. I blew up his brain, then hopped up into his open skull wondering what I was supposed to do. I later bought the GoTY copy and never saw this bug once. And I never heard anyone else ever mention it.

Did this bug get patched out in later versions or did I just glitch the game somehow? Back in 1998, I was playing this on a cracked copy without the CD, so I wondered if that played some role.

[🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle]

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Anyone ever encounter a bug at the final boss fight where he doesn't die?

The first time I played this as a kid back in 1998 I could not beat him. I blew up his brain, then hopped up into his open skull wondering what I was supposed to do. I later bought the GoTY copy and never saw this bug once. And I never heard anyone else ever mention it.

Did this bug get patched out in later versions or did I just glitch the game somehow? Back in 1998, I was playing this on a cracked copy without the CD, so I wondered if that played some role.

You must break the 3 crystals that are on the walls above him to damage him,
otherwise you won't be able to kill him.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by 🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle:

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Anyone ever encounter a bug at the final boss fight where he doesn't die?

The first time I played this as a kid back in 1998 I could not beat him. I blew up his brain, then hopped up into his open skull wondering what I was supposed to do. I later bought the GoTY copy and never saw this bug once. And I never heard anyone else ever mention it.

Did this bug get patched out in later versions or did I just glitch the game somehow? Back in 1998, I was playing this on a cracked copy without the CD, so I wondered if that played some role.

You must break the 3 crystals that are on the walls above him to damage him,
otherwise you won't be able to kill him.

I did, if I remember correctly. I jumped in his head and smashed the head crystal too.

He also stopped attacking me. That was moment I assumed I might have broken the scripting of something.

[SV BOY]

you have to break 3 yellow crystals that are on the map, damage him until his head opens, find the trampoline which sets you off high and shoot thr inside of his head

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by SV BOY:

you have to break 3 yellow crystals that are on the map, damage him until his head opens, find the trampoline which sets you off high and shoot thr inside of his head

Yeah, did that. His brain was exposed and he shot out lightning, but the ending didn't trigger.

I just sat on his head and hammered away at nothing long after the glowing crystal disappeared. He ceased attacking me, so clearly the fight was over, right?

Never been able to replicate the glitch. I remember my cracked copy of the game having issues. But maybe my memory is mistaken after 24 years.

[Cat]

He's not talking about destroying the crystals, the op did that and managed to get the killing blow on the boss. The problem is the game didnt finish or load to the next chapter. I got this bug once where the big baby was spinning around with blue and green lightning coming out his head forever and I was softlocked. This happened in the PS2 version.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Cat:

He's not talking about destroying the crystals, the op did that and managed to get the killing blow on the boss. The problem is the game didnt finish or load to the next chapter. I got this bug once where the big baby was spinning around with blue and green lightning coming out his head forever and I was softlocked. This happened in the PS2 version.

So I'm not crazy!

[SV BOY]

sounds a bit odd but perhaps reloading an older save where you start the fight would help? half-life can be really janky at times,

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by SV BOY:

sounds a bit odd but perhaps reloading an older save where you start the fight would help? half-life can be really janky at times,

I was referring to an incident that occurred like a quarter of a century ago. So, that's really not a possibility!

I'm just curious if this was a widespread issue or not. I know speed runners soft-lock games sometimes.

Also, I swear I had a similar issue with a cracked, Russian bootleg copy of San Andreas. And my HL game was a cracked copy. Don't know if devs hid in anti-piracy protection back then or not.

[calembredaine]

it is definitely a thing. i remember playing a mod which conserved old, now patched bugs, and it was one of them.

[🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle]

Originally posted by Cat:

He's not talking about destroying the crystals, the op did that and managed to get the killing blow on the boss. The problem is the game didnt finish or load to the next chapter. I got this bug once where the big baby was spinning around with blue and green lightning coming out his head forever and I was softlocked. This happened in the PS2 version.

That has only happened to me in HLCOOP On-line (Half-Life campaign mode for HL).

When a player died at the same time as the boss, it didn't switch to the next map until the map time limit expired (in HL Single Player campaign there is no time limit on the maps)

[Yzal]

I wasn't aware that glich was on the Steam version still, i played the old CD version of the game years ago and i remember it happening there.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

I wasn't aware that glich was on the Steam version still, i played the old CD version of the game years ago and i remember it happening there.

No, I'm not talking about the Steam version. I mean the original version from 1998.

The version that I own (the GotY CD version that came with Blue Shift and Opposing Forces in 2000) was completely bug-free in my experience. It was just the original version.

[🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle]

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

I wasn't aware that glich was on the Steam version still, i played the old CD version of the game years ago and i remember it happening there.

No, I'm not talking about the Steam version. I mean the original version from 1998.

The version that I own (the GotY CD version that came with Blue Shift and Opposing Forces in 2000) was completely bug-free in my experience. It was just the original version.

The original version from 1998 worked fine on: windows 98, windows xp.
I have not tried it on: windows 7, windows 8, or windows 10.

It is possible that in newer versions of windows you may need to run in compatibility mode with win xp sp2, and perhaps install net framework 3.5

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by 🎮Nλmeless ⁧⁧🎮Bλttle:

Originally posted by Incarnate:

No, I'm not talking about the Steam version. I mean the original version from 1998.

The version that I own (the GotY CD version that came with Blue Shift and Opposing Forces in 2000) was completely bug-free in my experience. It was just the original version.

The original version from 1998 worked fine on: windows 98, windows xp.
I have not tried it on: windows 7, windows 8, or windows 10.

It is possible that in newer versions of windows you may need to run in compatibility mode with win xp sp2, and perhaps install net framework 3.5

This particular bug is (or I should say was, this happened 22 years ago) a scripting issue with the original game on the intended Windows 98. It's a bug, not an issue running it on newer systems. I probably should have clarified that.

I was just asking how common it was.

[SV BOY]

pretty much uncommon tbh