Anyone know how to get the only weapon in "dark energy" earlier?

[Rocketman9mm]

I've heard it has been done, getting the

Spoiler

supercharged manipulator

for the entirety of the game. Regular codes don't give this and neither does loading previous levels after acquiring it normally. so does anyone have a clue how to do it?

 

[The Dark Elf]

I've heard it has been done, getting the

Spoiler

supercharged manipulator

for the entirety of the game. Regular codes don't give this and neither does loading previous levels after acquiring it normally. so does anyone have a clue how to do it?

you need to use changelevel not map, there's plenty of posts on how to do this, look for a thread started by PiMuRho to see how to do it properly (it works, tried it myself)

 

[MAx]

give weapon_physcannon


Or something like that.

 

[puppy]

you have to load the map in which you are given the gravity gun (I think it's d3_citadel_03)

map mapname

then you let the little gun confistication process run, in the end you DON'T touch the gravity gun on the floor.

you change map to a level where you don't actually have the regular gravity gun but preferably have the HEV suit. (anywhere between route canal and bme)

changelevel mapname

then you enable cheats

sv_cheats 1

then you can give yourself the physcannon

give weapon_physcannon

for some reason, when you have the blue g gun, weapons and ammos tend to disappear. If there's any way around this, I ignore it. So a tip to fully reload each of your weapons is

impulse 101

Alternatively, you may now change to a level after Black Mesa East so you can play it with the Uber gun instead of the orange one.

changelevel mapname

 

[puppy]

Also, I've heard of some crashes when you use the blue g gun in other maps, I myself experienced that if you try to lift (right button) the buggy, the game crashes.

I haven't notice other crashes but there might be others.

The game loses some of it's thrill when you can lift a poison zombie from a distance (way before he can even throw slow death at you)

 

[ktimekiller]

the reason for crashing when picking up buggy and other big ass things is because there is too much calculation

 

[Rocketman9mm]

thanks puppy, got it working. yeah that is the downside. every weapon besides suckin an enemy or using the jolt of the super g gun makes the enemies vaporize.