How to manipulate objects

[SirGrotius]

This is a very basic question, but it has had quite an impact on my game.

I'm on the Entaglement level, setting up turrets, and once they're knocked down, I can't pick them up and put them straight again. I press "E" to pick up the object, but I lift them horizontally off the floor, I can't seem to manipulate them into an upright, vertical position so they can shoot again.

How do I do this?

(Besides viagra)

 

[63]

Have you tried your manipulator?

 

[Naudian]

That shouldn't happen...
You pick them up with the gravity gun and they should automatically stand upright.

If they won't, try restarting the chapter or something...

 

[Lightice]

For some reason they don't always stand upright, although they should. Maybe you should try dropping them and putting them back up...

I ended up putting them in the way I didn't need to worry about their placement or even if they would still stand - I just blocked the doors, activated the turrets in their closets and hid in the empty one. For half of the time the soldiers' AI didn't even register my presence and I could take the remaining ones out with my shotgun after they broke through my barricades and only got couple of bullets and a single manhack thrown in my way.

 

[Hullu]

how did you block the doors? and what doors are you talking about?

 

[$kelet0r]

grav gun

 

[SirGrotius]

What is "the manipulator" is that another name for the gravity gun?

On a related note, I'm pleased that there's a section of the game that has resulted in my demise a number of times (playing on normal).

 

[Lightice]

how did you block the doors? and what doors are you talking about?

Y'know, the turrets were in a small room with doors on both sides. I blocked them with some crates from nearby, as the soldiers don't actually come before you activate the last turret.

...Or are we talking about the first turret puzzle? Or the third?

What is "the manipulator" is that another name for the gravity gun?

Yes.

 

[Beerdude26]

Yes.

Sorry, you're wrong
The Gravity Gun is this:

The Manipulator is this:

They're two different weapons.
As for your problem, it indeed should go upright automatically.

 

[SirGrotius]

Oh dear, this is not good news, I'll try earlier in the level again.

The reason I thought this strange was the first time I had to set up turrets they did go upright automatically, but in the second scenario (the impetus for this thread) they did not. In fact, they'd always go horizontal, even if I banged them against a wall to position them vertically, they'd just move back to horizontal.

 

[eriknba]

Sorry, you're wrong
The Gravity Gun is this:

The Manipulator is this:

They're two different weapons.
As for your problem, it indeed should go upright automatically.

techinally, he's right...the gravity gun is techinically know as the zero-point field manipulator.....altho there is also the manipulator....so...everybody's right!