This wasn't supposed to happen in HL2...

[fatal1ty]

When your on your buggy rampage, and you get to the Lighthouse point part of the game (where the friendlies want you to help fight off the gun ships and say you'll give'em morale if you stay). So once you complete all that and he tells you to go down that path in the bottom of the lighthouse, that isn't very safe but it's the only way (or something like it), and so you are walking along the side of the cliff and you fall down onto that box...anyways when i did that for the first time, before i fell off the little ledge onto the box (where if you normally would fall, it was made so you couldn't get back up to the lighthouse) i wondered if that guy was supposed to be following me or something so i stopped half-way b4 going down the ledge and then gunfire started goin off and what not so i got even more excited.

ANYWAYS...to make this novel shorter, i ran back up there and to my confusion was hearing the Combine radio noises and different types of gunfire and what not, even the bullets themselves, but no people and no sources for the gunfire.

I am in no way criticizing valve for this cuz i wasn't intended to go back up there and so they just wanted it to sound like a gunfire started up again and instead of wasting time having dudes running around they just had the appearance of a gun battle...however after that moment i soon realized it was just a game and lost all the absorption that valve got outta me and was kinda disapointed by all the disapointment i felt.

yeah so i got a screeny of the invisible gun battle if ya'll are interested...but other than that...dog rox, and them buddies who fight along side u when u get back to city17 totally suck. i realized after running and gunning 4ever that they all died way the the first gunfight and i was like DUUUDE HOW LAME.

screenshot:

here

 

[Mechagodzilla]

There's no-one shooting at you. You're hearing a battle going on up in the town. After you leave, even more combine come in and fight the remaining resistance members.

 

[destrukt]

cheater

 

[fatal1ty]

meh. come on guys this isnt tough to comprehend...

i went down, touched a scripted point when the gunfire would start up again, beat the system and went back up, only to see gunfire but no ppl shooting the bullets.

did you look at the screeny?

 

[bliink]

I know what you mean.. they should have made it so the lighthouse was damaged and you couldnt backtrack

 

[FoB_Ed]

NEWS FLASH: Half-Life 2 is a game

 

[diluted]

I didn't think you could get back up there without noclipping.

 

[freeman2]

If Valve did make it so if you go back to the light house you will see people running round, someone would make a thread and post "what was the point in putting all that in if no one is supposed to see it, which adds more loading time to that level".

End result what ever Valve did it would not be right.

As regards the people that fight with you in city 17 this has been dealt with in other threads, it has all been done already. Anyway didn't spoil the game for me as the point is for freeman to get through to the citidal.

 

[freeman2]

I didn't think you could get back up there without noclipping.[/QUOTE

You can't diluted you are correct.

 

[subtlesnake]

This happened to me with the last Ant Lion Guard battle. If you jump down in the wrong place it doesn't trigger the event and you can see imaginary gunfire in the next room.

 

[Mr.Wotsit]

Every form of made up entertainment has bits where you can destroy the illusion if you want to. They obviously made the right choice here.

So why are we talking about it?

 

[azz0r]

Well you know the bit where you come back from Nova and its been a week, you and dog leave to go on the street while Alyx and Kliener look for dog, well if you noclip back in the room he does he keep searching and saying random stuff

 

[The Monkey]

Well you know the bit where you come back from Nova and its been a week, you and dog leave to go on the street while Alyx and Kliener look for dog, well if you noclip back in the room he does he keep searching and saying random stuff

You mean looking ofr Lamarr, right?

 

[azz0r]

Yeah, ofcourse, duh

: paranoid :

 

[SuperFurryPhil]

I stared at a piece of grass for 3 weeks and it didn't grow, and the sun stayed in the same place in the sky! WTF!?? Thanks Valve. Do you think I is stupid or sumfinnk? I hate you.

 

[Malfunction]

They do this to save your PC a few resources. Why havae actually units fighting up there with you not needing to cross their paths?

 

[Nindoze]

I stared at a piece of grass for 3 weeks and it didn't grow, and the sun stayed in the same place in the sky! WTF!?? Thanks Valve. Do you think I is stupid or sumfinnk? I hate you.

lmao

But yes, i dont see whats the big deal lol

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Theres a bit where Gordon has to run away, and theres vortigaunts in the other room (i wish i could remeber where) but if you noclip back in, combines randomly spawn in a door unarmed, and the vortigaunts just stand there zapping them down saying 'we must protect the free man' kinda funny.

 

[fatal1ty]

regarding not being able to do that without noclipping...

well i did. i refuse to use cheats until i at least beat the damn game, so ha!

im not complaining im just saying it was lame.