Aiming issue - epi 1

[Stevieweevie]

I'm going nuts. I have spent about 2 hours on the elevator trying to shoot that thing across the building that makes the lift go down but when I suck an orb using the gravity gun and fire it, it goes in a random direction and never into the thing I am supposed to hit. What am I doing wrong? Are you supposed to be able to aim the gravity gun? I finished this and episode 2 years ago but just whupped out my Orange box and I am replaying the games. I also was not able to aim in the previous rooms which meant activating the bridge took absolutely ages as well.

thanks

Seem no alt tab crashes game.

 

[JUL3]

You're using trigger two. Use trigger one instead.

EDIT: Nevermind, you're on PC obviously. Which mouse button are you clicking to fire?

 

[Damic]

Run the game in windowed mode with no border =D
Put the next align in Set launch options of the game
-novid -noborder -w 1400 -h 960 -y 0
Change 1400 and 960 to your display settings or just leave them away.

 

[Stevieweevie]

You're using trigger two. Use trigger one instead.

EDIT: Nevermind, you're on PC obviously. Which mouse button are you clicking to fire?

Right mouse button - left doesn't seem to do anything with the gravity gun.. I checked control setup and left mouse doesn't seem to list anything, doesn't seem normal.

 

[Stevieweevie]

Run the game in windowed mode with no border =D
Put the next align in Set launch options of the game
-novid -noborder -w 1400 -h 960 -y 0
Change 1400 and 960 to your display settings or just leave them away.

Ah yea good call, thanks a lot!

 

[JUL3]

Right mouse button - left doesn't seem to do anything with the gravity gun.. I checked control setup and left mouse doesn't seem to list anything, doesn't seem normal.

Your controls must have simply gone awry, dunno how that could have happened. You could simply reconfigure them to standard use. But if Damic's suggestion works I guess there's no need.

 

[Damic]

My suggestion is only for the Alt/Tab thingie. The most of the games that uses DX and are in fullscreen mode they are bitching when you use ALT/TAB (something with memory reallocation) but when you put the same game in windowed mode full screen there is no problem with alt/tab.

 

[Stevieweevie]

Thanks all and JUL3 (you were right, my controls went awry), I am now able to aim.. Man I feel like a noob, I did all this years ago. Now when I aim at the thing across the room and hit, the lift doesn't go down. I am being punished.

 

[Tmacster1]

Thanks all and JUL3 (you were right, my controls went awry), I am now able to aim.. Man I feel like a noob, I did all this years ago. Now when I aim at the thing across the room and hit, the lift doesn't go down. I am being punished.

It happens to all of us Stevieweekvie. I use to die all the time from Zombies in Half Life and Half Life 2. I've gotten better but it took me a while to get on how to kill them. I've learned that aiming is harder when you put your difficulty on Hard. It makes it difficult to hit the enemy. So you use more ammo. I don't know how it will affect the gravity gun though.