They Hunger

[Donny]

I haven't played Half Life for several years and never realised there were so many mods available when I found out I thought I would try They Hunger.
After some experimentation I managed to get it to run however, of the 3 parts installed only part 3 opens.
Suggestions anyone as to what the problem is and how I can get it to start at part 1?
Thanks

[MrEWhite]

Only part 3 opens. Episode 3 comfirmed.

[UndeadScottsman]

Try loading the Training Room; this is likely a glitch being that there was never an official Steam version of They Hunger; in the original Won.Net version, they replaced the "Hazard Course" button with a button to got the first episode; and replaced the "Start Game" with a button that goes to episode 3, so returning players could just skip to that.

Another thing you could do is go to common/half-life/Hunger/, open up the liblist.gam file in a text editor and change the startmap to "thintro"

[Donny]

Thanks for the suggestions UndeadScottsman, I tried new game / training / play and it still started at part 3. I opened up the liblist file and startmap already had "thintro". I've looked at the config file and cannot see anything there that might allow the selection or deselection of a particular game I've searched the game files and cannot see anything obvious that might be removed to prevent 2&3 running. I've also tried several different download sites in case my files were corrupted. I'll keep trying and also visiting here.

[UndeadScottsman]

Hmm.. I just did some testing and the liblist.gam file is definitely controlling this. It should look like this

// They Hunger Info File
game "They Hunger"
gamedir "hunger"
url_info "www.planethalflife.com/manke"
url_dl ""
version "3.0"
hlversion "1100"
size "142600000"
type "Single"
startmap "thintro"
trainmap "they30"
gamedll "dlls\einar.dll"
cldll "1"
svonly "0"

That SHOULD start at the beginning with the cutscene by the radio station. I can't imagine what else can be going on. See what happens when you type "map thintro" into the console.

[Donny]

Hi Undeadscottsman,
My liblist.gam file is exactly as yours so I tried puttting "map thintro" into the consol as you suggested and the first episode opened cutscene by radio station problem solved thanks very much for your help it was appreciated.
I am assuming the game will now progress as normal to second and third parts any suggestions for a fix if the second episode will not open?
I don't get much time for gaming at the moment so it may take a week or two for me to complete part 1. In the meantime I've been playing Darkstar just like playing Half Life for the first time again.