Nova Prospekt dead end...

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I messaged this to Valve, but I'm not going to get an answer it seems. I have the Xbox version of this game, granted the pc version has better graphics and more detail.. they're generally the same. Here is my question, I think I have a glitched copy or something...

Hi,
I received this game for Christmas and I must say it is quite excellent, thus far. But I am having a problem that's bringing me alot of frustration. By the way, the game I'm referring to is Half Life 2 for my Xbox. The problem I'm referring to is within the level of Nova Prospekt. I'll try to be as clear as possible, so please excuse me. I finished walking through the prison cells and I jumped down into a giant shower and bathroom area where I have defeated the big antlion. I removed the debris from the double doors to find a couple holes with some antlion buddies. The game loads and I enter another doorway with the antlion holes behind me. I turn left and to the high left there is a glassed room in which I cannot see into. Straight ahead there is a gated room. To the right of the gated room there's a ladder which leads to a higher plane with nothing there. To the left there's another wing and another gate. The room has one antlion hole in it. I kill everything in the room. I go straight and there's a turret on the opposite side of the gated room. with a vent to the left of it. (Online walkthroughs suggest that I have to go through that vent when I get there). I walk backwards and look left to see another gated doorway. And here is my problem. Every online walkthrough says that this is supposed to be a blue force field in which I'm supposed to pull a plug with the gravity gun an enter. But in my case it's just a gate with no sign of entry. I backtrack through the game back into the big shower/bathroom rooms, nothing there. I'm not new to the first person shooter genre, and I've played games far more difficult with less trouble than this. I really think that my version is glitched in some manner.

Every online walkthrough says a force field should be where I'm at, and there is not one. Please advise or I must ask for a different copy of this game.
Thank you for your time
John Kyle
 
ok i'm a little confused
if you have just defeated the antlion guard in the showers then you go out the blocked doorway, kill the enemies in that area - soldiers and manhacks
then there is a room to the left where there is a vortigaunt on a dentists chair with electricity being sucked out of him
throw in a grenade to proceed
 
I've made a small pic what it looks like in the PC version. Hope it helps.
Having killed all the guys in the big room, you have to go left. At the end of the corridor, you should find the energy field. Remove the plug at the other side of it and you can open the small gate in the room next. Go up the stairs and press the button inside the upper room with the glass windows in order to open the room with the vent in it.
 

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wow, my copy is certainly glitched... I'm taking pics now.. I'll put them up at photobucket
 
to respond to your picture... the green arrow pointing up, and to the left (the lowest arrow). Well where it turns left, I have a gate there that I cannot open.. if I look down that hall.. I see the force field.. but I can't get through the gate..
 
CruelSynergy said:
to respond to your picture... the green arrow pointing up, and to the left (the lowest arrow). Well where it turns left, I have a gate there that I cannot open.. if I look down that hall.. I see the force field.. but I can't get through the gate..
Have you killed all the enemies in the area including the turrets?
Also, don't dubbelpost.
 
yes.. the entire area has been empty for some time.. it's weird.. I have a gate like I mentioned by the guy's arrow.. but nobody seems to mention one being there..
 
CruelSynergy said:
yes.. the entire area has been empty for some time.. it's weird.. I have a gate like I mentioned by the guy's arrow.. but nobody seems to mention one being there..
I think it would be real helpful if you could upload those pictures right about now.
 
It seems that there's a trigger inside that map which failed. have you tried playing the level all over again?
 
no I haven't.. is that an option? remember it's on xbox, not pc
 
yes, it is an option. in a game with trigger events it is possible that triggers with certain required events are not.. well, triggered properly. the opening of the door you mentioned could be such a failed trigger..

i never saw that there is a door at the place you told us. it i guess it is triggered very early in the map.

only a suggestion nevertheless..
 
unex said:
yes, it is an option. in a game with trigger events it is possible that triggers with certain required events are not.. well, triggered properly. the opening of the door you mentioned could be such a failed trigger..

i never saw that there is a door at the place you told us. it i guess it is triggered very early in the map.

only a suggestion nevertheless..
I think it's triggered when you take down the turrets, which explains why you never see it, your back is usually turned.
 
turrets are all taken down and knocked over.. pictures just finished uploading...

next post is with link.. just remindin' ya guys I'm still here.. please forgive the photo quality

When I said "option" I meant is it an option to restart the level?
 
Ok
Hallway by which I entered the area
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture027.jpg

This picture is the left side of the gate that I cannot pass. Down that hallway I do see the force field to the right
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture026.jpg

The gate I cannot pass through.. is it supposed to be there? force field is beyond it
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture025.jpg

room I cannot see into
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture024.jpg

Useless ladder I referred to. Beyond that gate is a vent that I'm sure I have to go through
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture023.jpg

Shower area in which I first entered.. dead Queen Antlion
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/divinejc/Picture022.jpg

well, your thoughts?
 
When I said "option" I meant is it an option to restart the level?

And I meant, yes, it is an option to restart the level. see explanation above.

Edit: Third picture. That gate isn't supposed to be closed, as I said. Try to replay the level.
 
hm.. maybe I can if I go to 'new game" i'll keep you updated
 
On the XBox all you have to do is press start and go to the "Restart Map" option. And I think you had to press a button in order to get threw that gate, I just beat this mission a few days ago on my XBox.
 
nah.. no buttons need to be pressed for it to open.. and 2. restart map only goes to the last save point.. you need to go to "new game" and scroll through the levels till you find the one you want
 
ill help

so if your at the part where u find the tourchered vortugiant just toss in a granade right near the plug and it should blast out the plug from the socket..good luck
 
nail20619 said:
so if your at the part where u find the tourchered vortugiant just toss in a granade right near the plug and it should blast out the plug from the socket..good luck
He already got it :|
 
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