Benefactors, containment room, no gravity gun!

[gridbug]

I just posted this as a reply in a similar thread, but after searching through several others, I found that apparently I'm the only one with this particular problem???

After the "pod tram ride" and I get dropped into the containment room, it takes all my weapons away, INCLUDING the gravity gun. So I'm left with absolutely nothing to do, and when I try to move around it's like I'm wading thru molasses! No guards show up, both doors are shielded, the four panels are doing their thing, but I'm totally stuck.

According to a walkthrough I read, after all my weapons disappear I'm still supposed to have the gravity gun (super powered, too) but I don't and no matter what I try I can't get it back. I've saved, reloaded, switched weapons prior to dropping from the pod, but I keep getting the same result... nada.

Anyone know what I can do here? Thanx!

 

[Mahalis]

So the gravity gun is actually getting destroyed? Odd... Try entering "map d3_citadel_04" at the console - that's the first level where you spawn with the super gravity gun. If that doesn't work, verify game cache in Steam.

 

[Adabiviak]

<SPOILER if you haven't played HL2 yet>


The gravity gun gets knocked out of your hands like the others, but it shorts out the system when it tries to destroy the gun. This is when it turns blue. The field should die - pick up the gun and have a ball. The first time I was here, I thought it was dead and couldn't figure out how to get past the guards who would totally own me. Then I found the gun... Anyway, it takes a second for the room to go through these motions. If it doesn't let you down after, what, a minute count, the above mentioned trick should work.

 

[gridbug]

I'll try it again, see what happens... it's strange, when I land in the room and the female voice mentions "unauthorized weapons detected" and the four wall panels activate, whatever weapon I'm holding just vanishes. I don't see my weapons taken away, it's just whoosh, gone, and that's it. I've looked all around the room and there's no gravity gun anywhere...

I'll the console tip too...

To be continued, and thanks for the tips!

 

[gridbug]

BTW, how do I verify the game cache in Steam? Thanx!

 

[Mahalis]

Right-click the game in your Games list, select Properties, go to the Local Files tab, and click "Verify integrity of game cache..."

 

[gridbug]

Success! I just loaded the map in the console and put myself back in the "disarming" room and everything worked normally! Thank you for the tips, just finished the game and plan on going back for more!