I launched Half-Life 2 only to discover that all of my saved games had be wiped mysteriously. The Support board on Steam suggested a “Cheat” I could use to jump to my last point. I did so. Now Stupid Barney is apparently stuck in place, unable to open a door for me. Is it poosible that the cheat messed up another part of the game?
“Cheats” in the console-input context of the term are really developer shorthand for debugging tools. Jumping arbitrarily into any point in the game with developer mode will mean you haven’t activated the events that happened before that point in time. It’s not so much that you have to worry about leftover zombies or have to backtrack, since in-game locations have become quite independent of each other. It’s more that you might jump into a sequence that started earlier in in-game “time.” (If that makes, uh, any sense?)
In short, my advice is to jump to the point previous to the one you have jumped to, if that’s possible with the HL2 cheats. That way you can probably start the sequence of events and triggers in the correct order and Barney should unstick.
The other way I can think of doing is downloading a savegame from someone who has completed the game. IIRC, in HL2, that should mean you can start your game from any chapter/part of the game, which means you shouldn’t have to spend more than a few minutes catching up.
Additional:
If you can’t find a completed savegame, use the following command in the console to open up all chapters:
- “sv_unlockedchapters #” (Note: 15 is end credits)
Ex: sv_unlockedchapters 14
NOTE: For this to work, you have to have typed in sv_cheats 1 to enable the cheats first.
Otherwise, you can use the “map” command in the console (sv_cheats 1 enabled first). In the spoiler box below is a table of locations. Simply find the place you need and use the "map
d1_under_04 Spawn the lab chapter near the end.
d1_trainstation_03 Spawns in the train station after the second load point.
d1_trainstation_05 Spawns in the train station after the third load point.
d1_canal_09 Spawns in you in the canals after the eighth load point.
d1_canals_12 Spawns in you in the canals after the eleventh load point.
d1_canals_06 Spawns in you in the canals after the fifth load point.
d1_canals_05 Spawns in you in the canals after the fourth load point.
d1_canal_10 Spawns in you in the canals after the ninth load point.
d1_canals_03 Spawns in you in the canals after the second load point.
d1_canal_08 Spawns in you in the canals after the seventh load point.
d1_canals_07 Spawns in you in the canals after the sixth load point.
d1_canals_11 Spawns in you in the canals after the tenth load point.
d1_canals_04 Spawns in you in the canals after the third load point.
d1_canals_13 Spawns in you in the canals close to the end.
d1_eli_01 Spawns you after the canal, outside of Eli's Lab.
d3_citadel_02 Spawns you after the first load point in the Citadel.
d3_citadel_03 Spawns you after the second load point in the Citadel.
d3_citadel_04 Spawns you after the third load point in the Citadel.
d1_breen_01 Spawns you at the beginning of Chapter 13.
d3_citadel_05 Spawns you at the end of the Citadel.
d1_canals_02 Spawns you deeper in the canals.
d3_c17_09 Spawns you in City 17 after the eighth load point.
d3_c17_12 Spawns you in City 17 after the eleventh load point.
d3_c17_06 Spawns you in City 17 after the fifth load point.
d3_c17_02 Spawns you in City 17 after the first load point.
d3_c17_05 Spawns you in City 17 after the fourth load point.
d3_c17_10 Spawns you in City 17 after the ninth load point.
d3_c17_03 Spawns you in City 17 after the second load point.
d3_c17_08 Spawns you in City 17 after the seventh load point.
d3_c17_07 Spawns you in City 17 after the sixth load point.
d3_c18_11 Spawns you in City 17 after the tenth load point.
d3_c17_04 Spawns you in City 17 after the third load point.
d1_eli_02 Spawns you in Eli's Lab.
d1_under_01 Spawns you in lab
d2_prison_01 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt
d2_prison_06 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt after the fifth load point.
d2_prison_02 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt after the first load point.
d2_prison_03 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt after the second load point.
d2_prison_07 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt after the sixth load point.
d2_prison_04 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt after the third load point.
d2_prison_05 Spawns you in Nova Prospekt near the end of the level.
d1_town_01 Spawns you in Ravenholm
d1_town_02 Spawns you in Ravenholm after the first load point area.
d1_town_03 Spawns you in Ravenholm after the second load point area.
d1_town_04 Spawns you in Ravenholm after the third load point area.
d1_canals_01 Spawns you in the canals.
d3_c17_01 Spawns you in the city 17 rebellion
d2_coast_09 Spawns you in the coast area after the eighth load point.
d2_coast_06 Spawns you in the coast area after the fifth load point.
d2_coast_02 Spawns you in the coast area after the first load point.
d2_coast_05 Spawns you in the coast area after the fourth load point.
d2_coast_10 Spawns you in the coast area after the ninth load point.
d2_coast_03 Spawns you in the coast area after the second load point.
d2_coast_07 Spawns you in the coast area after the sixth load point.
d2_coast_11 Spawns you in the coast area after the tenth load point.
d2_coast_04 Spawns you in the coast area after the third load point.
d2_coast_08 Spawns you in the coast area near the end of it.
d1_under_02 Spawns you in the lab chapter after the second load point.
d1_under_03 Spawns you in the lab chapter after the third load point.
d1_trainstation_01 Spawns you in train station
d1_trainstation_02 Spawns you in train station after the first load point.
d3_citadel_01 Spawns you near the beginning of the Citadel.
d3_c17_13 Spawns you near the end of City 17.
d2_prison_08 Spawns you near the end of Nova Prospekt.
d1_town_05 Spawns you near the end of Ravenholm.
d1_canals_end Spawns you near the end of the canals.
d2_coast_12 Spawns you near the end of the coast area.
d1_trainstation_06 Spawns you near the end of the train station.
d2_coast_01 Spawns you on the coast (Vehicle)
credits Starts you at the credits
intro Starts you at the games Intro.
For instance, if you were to want to go to Ravenholm, the correct command to enter would be “Map d1_town_01” (without quotes)
That’s what I used, but he just won’t budge. Keeps telling me to go to the roof. I’m not sure what earlier thing I should have done.