Airboat (Water Hazard)

[meorime]

Hello!

I'm near the end of Water Hazard after I:

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got the gun added to my airboat. I've left the base, stopped for some supplies and now I'm face to face with that blased helicopter, thinking FINALLY I can take it out!

Except I can't seem to fire my new spiffy airboat gun. The key mapped to "fire" doesn't do a thing. Am I missing somehting obvious?

I know that when I was at the base and the alien was adding the gun to my boat, it was actually parked about 10 feet back from where he was working. I figured the game wouldn't care where i parked and that it would be fine...

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,
-M

 

[KagePrototype]

You best re-do the rebel outpost bit, and park the boat next to the dock.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

aye, it should just work, you don't need to do anything to activate it. It charged in the bottom right corner...so check that its not on zero. Just sounds like a bug/glitch. Reload that section like kage said. I think you're the first to have this prob. congrats

 

[drewd]

get r done dude!

 

[ship]

get r done dude!

Jeff Foxworthy?

 

[meorime]

Ah, well. I found a screenshot of what it's supposed to look like over on IGN and sure enough, my boat didn't get charged. Worse, I've been using Quick Saves instead of hard saves, and when I went to reload, all of them were gone from before the autosave. Grrrr.

I wound up:

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looking up the cheat to get the RPG in order to take down the huge helicopter at the end - I ran out of bullets for everything else and my grenades didn't even come close. Bleh. I really dislike having to get a gun I haven't officially "earned" yet.

Now, I'm at Black Mesa and have run in another possible bug - the doctor led me to the elevator, talking about the teleporter technology. When the elevator arrives, she stops talking mid-sentence, then just freezes. I get in the elevator and nothing is operable, while doctor lady stands there like a mannequin!

I haven't searched the forum for this latest bit so it may be a known issue - I'm off to search. Thanks for your replies on the airboat bug!

EDIT: Found the solution and it worked Even better, I discovered that starting the level over fixed the airboat! I'm off to replay Water Hazard properly!

Cheers,
-M

 

[ship]

Good luck, have fun!

 

[meorime]

Whee!

I have to say, that was WAY more fun - now I'm in Ravenholt (hearst?) and wishing I still had my airboat with the super-duper gun. Take that, zombies! Those things are just creepy!

Thank you again!
-M

 

[Reginald]

Ravenholm

And you get a handheld gun similar to the airboat gun later on in the game.

 

[Jintor]

You're a nice gamer! Keep that attitude!