Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit DOES NOT WORK! HELP!

[Bjornke]

I am at the part that requires me to dres up in the Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit, but when I go to put it on, I prss E, walk really close up to it and a whole bunch of other stuf but they keep on telling me to get it on, they do not have all day, and I am getting frustrated because I do not know how! It does not work, does anyone know how to get it on, or how to fix the problem.

Thanks,

Bjornke

 

[kineaesth]

Press the button on the small control panel next to the suit.

 

[Bjornke]

I have tried everything, I am at the beginning, when you are in the Lab and you are First presented with it, however, I cannot seem to get it on. I have been trying to get it on now for a while and have tried everything. Appearently I cannot go any further without having it on. Please help me,

Thanks,

Bjornke

 

[Bjornke]

I have trid the Small Control pannel now several times, still no luck....

 

[Captain M4d]

You pushed the button in the middle of the control panel before you go down to where the suits are?

 

[Naudian]

Walk into the damn suit. If that doesn't work, did you use the impulse101 cheat by any chance? Because that would have equipped you with a suit, making it impossible to put it on again which is why nothing is working...

 

[kineaesth]

This is Half Life 2, I think.

[edit] - Naudian, that goes so well with your avatar.

 

[Bjornke]

I have walked into it, pushed every possible button on the control panel to the VERY LEFT of the suit, the glass window is open, and if there is another Control Panel in the Lab with the Bubbly things in it, please tell me.

I have also imputted this into the console:

ai_norebuildgraph 0

In an effort to fix the problem, I haven't reloaded the game yet, but will be doing so here now.

 

[Polaris]

Are you using Steam account...?

 

[Bjornke]

Ok, I reloaded the agme, and still no luck....I do not know why it will not let me get into the Suit on half Life 2.

 

[Bjornke]

game* and Yes, I am using a Steam Account.

 

[kineaesth]

There's an edit button on posts you've made, so you don't have to double post

Does the scene where a headcrab attacks Barney (the guy in the cop uniform you meet at the beginning of the game) occur?

 

[Bjornke]

yes, It Does

 

[Captain M4d]

**** it! We'll do it live!

 

[Naudian]

You don't already have the suit on, right? You can tell if there is a HUD displaying your health.

 

[Bjornke]

opps, haha, I do already have the suit on

So if I lready have the suit on from the Beginning after I hit up Buddha, and Impulse 101 cheats, (I did the cheats at the very first time I entered the game) then how do I get past this pat sense the people in the lab still want me to get it on....

 

[Naudian]

You'll have to start a new game and choose the Red Letter Day chapter. Don't turn any cheats on until after you get the suit :thumbs:

 

[Bjornke]

Ok, did hat. Thanks dude. Works now.

 

[Calhoun]

**** it! We'll do it live!

I can't read it! There's no words on it!

@Bjornke: For future reference if you're going to use cheats, creating new vehicles may interfere with the game from progressing as well and leave you stuck because it's not the proper vehicle you're supposed to be in. Noclipping through an area and bypassing a scene or trigger also tend to interfere with the natural progression of the game.

 

[Darkside55]

The HEV Mark V is a notoriously buggy piece of equipment. If possible, downgrade to the more stable HEV Mark IV, or find yourself a Mark VI, which uses a design closer to the Mark IV than the Mark V.

 

[kineaesth]

Look mate, this has gone on long enough. Your completely superficial angst about the V is just pathetic, and now you're throwing your retarded opinions all over unrelated threads.

The V is a perfectly good piece of equipment. Why can't you accept that? It's seen me through many a chemical spill, reactor core leak, and gunfight on a dam. It's not the Mark V's fault that you 'decided' that it didn't have a helmet, and so didn't press the button to extend the helmet, and so got shot in the ear. YES it's terrible, blah blah, but can't you see that you're becoming obsessed? Can't you see what it's doing to me? To us? It's tearing us apart.

Also, the Mark VI is for girls and sissies.

 

[Darkside55]

The Mark V has numerous problems besides making me a modern-day Van Gogh; problems that arose when converting the models to interface with alien tech it was never intended for. Most V models still have a flaw wherein the auxiliary power is diverted from critical functions to power additions that are, at best, situational. The Geiger counter is less precise. Heat dampeners don't work as well. The combat plates allow for more mobility, true, but at reduced protection and requiring a more demanding EN field--which wastes battery life. Battery life powered by extraterrestrial energy cells we still don't understand! Mark Vs also have a low user-sync rating, as evidenced by this very thread.

Plus why the hell would there be a "deploy helmet" button? Come on! How the hell was I supposed to know that; this thing didn't come with a manual! The Mark IV even had a manual!

I'm just saying, the Mark Vs are a bad product and need to be recalled. If there wasn't something wrong with them, do you think they would've gone back to Mark IV tech? I'm trying to educate to save lives here.

Also the Mark VIs are great. They're just like the Mark IVs, just with a shiny silver coating.

 

[jet_porkins]

Mr. Snrub approves of this thread.

 

[Jintor]

I still say the Mark V is a perfectly stable piece of equipment - all the accident reports I've seen are marked "User error".

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Mark V has a built-in console.

 

[Darkside55]

Consoles have been a feature since Mark II and were also integrated into the PCVs.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Mark V has better graphics, but incoming VI has Quad-SLi support.

 

[Dr.Freeman]

The Mark V rocks.

 

[xombine]

Mr. Snrub approves of this thread.

lmao that makes me wanna watch that episode now

 

[tschumann]

Mr. Snrub approves of this thread.

I like the way Snrub thinks.

 

[kupocake]

Personally, I think you can't beat a good Mark III. The modular nature of the Mark IV is all very well and good, but I'd rather take the Full Armor Mark III to a firefight, or the basic model into a Rad-filled chamber. Not to mention the fact that before the cascade, there simply weren't enough Mark IV's created to make it easy to do field repairs on. I think everyone's resistance group should have a Mark IV in their arsenal (nothing beats its versatility), but the Mark IIIs will always be the workhorses of any force until it's possible to mass produce that kind of technology. The Mark V is the definitive all-rounder, but they never completed the spec right? I heard they never even sorted out the shape of the catheter pan, so women can't use it for extended periods of time (though HEV has never really accommodated big boobs anyway. Or hair.) and the guy they made it for must have been hung like a horse in the first place.

And I thought the Mark VI was vaporware? And no, i'm not still talking about Catheters.

Wait... what?

 

[kineaesth]

Would you still trust your life to a III these days? I don't think so. They were great back in the day, sure, but these days?

Darkside brings up some fair points about the V that I have submitted to - it really was as if the V was a concept that was shipped early. It has a lot of new ideas and methods for user interface (I loved the zoom), but it is a tad finnicky, perhaps.

I disagree that they need to be recalled, however. What I love about my V (only ever had one :thumbs, is that every time you put it on you get the feeling of harnessing some sort of new, exciting, and, sure, possibly unwieldy power. It's not, at it's core, a bad product, just... Different. Unusual. Quirky.

To each his own, I guess. Darkside thinks the VI's shiny silver paint job is sexy, I think it makes him look like a homosexual 50 year old Italian trying to fit in with the cool kids.

 

[kupocake]

Would you still trust your life to a III these days? I don't think so. They were great back in the day, sure, but these days?

So far as bullets are still bullets, the combat versions of the Mark III don't suffer at all. and I think the build quality makes up for a lack of mobility. They'll plug away at you for ages in a good one. I wouldn't want to go toe to toe with a Strider though, but realistically, how often do you?

Easier to customise your paint-job too. After the Mark IIIs they put some weird voodoo coating on that give you 0.00001% extra protection from beams, and makes it a total bitch to spray. And certain colours only: no matter how hard I try, pink and white just don't seem to hold.

And the Mark IV's spyware is a total ****ing bitch. Anyone can track you if they know you're wearing one.

No seriously, what?

 

[McGooTheWise]

U guys ar nubs. mark 1 all the way!

 

[Darkside55]

If all you really want in your suit is to be impervious to everything around you, nothing tops the Mark I. They make you look like an extremely obese robot, and your mobility is limited to that of a toy soldier, but I swear that thing could probably shrug off a missile. They didn't even need things like energy fields or automated first aid; nothing could touch the thing. At that time they weren't even being developed for combat prospects, like the IIIs and up; they were just intended to protect you from damn near every kind of hazard you might face working in a radiated area. You could get an I-beam dropped on you and you'd probably shrug it off...if the concussive force didn't kill you, that is. But hey, the suit wouldn't be dented.

And I still stand by my VI. It's aesthetically pleasing and it's just a refinement of tried-and-true technology, rather than trying to innovate. Also Kupo, they're not vaporware, there were just a limited number of them created before Black Mesa was dissolved. They were originally developed for hazardous offworld environments.

You probably wouldn't care for them though because unlike the IVs, these can't even take paint jobs. They're straight silver and that's the only color you'll find them in.

 

[kineaesth]

Oh, god, the Mark I, good times, man. I once took a depleted heptonium mortar round to the chest, completely by accident, (**** you, Jeremy) and all that happened was I fell over. It was brilliant. I was listening to a cd at the time, and it skipped, that was about it. Also I mainly fell over because I was drunk as shit. We just buffed off the explosives residue from the chest panel.

I guess we're cool, then, right? I like the V for its unique, modular design, kupo likes the III for it's old school charm and reliability, and Darkside likes the VI because he can wear it to all the gay nightclubs.

Just kidding.

 

[kupocake]

I came a little too late to the party to fully appreciate the Mark I I believe. Just seems like a novelty machine now... the Mark IIs though, that was a breakthrough machine if still a little impractical.

You probably wouldn't care for them though because unlike the IVs, these can't even take paint jobs. They're straight silver and that's the only color you'll find them in.

Oh I've seen these Mark VIs actually, but without branding we'd just assumed they were another Mark V prototype (and we salvaged them for parts, they were pretty beat up...). Considering that the Mark VI is more like the Mark IV as you say, perhaps they were developing in two separate directions with the Mark V and VI? Kind of like the situation you had with Microsoft Windows before the turn of the century, with NT versus 98-based architecture?

Oh god, what?

 

[kineaesth]

Considering that the Mark VI is more like the Mark IV as you say, perhaps they were developing in two separate directions with the Mark V and VI?

Totally what I've always assumed, yeah. I mean, they're not the most... Open of manufacturers of Haz-Mat-Env suits.

Mark V did seem like a radical re-modelling of almost everything we'd come to expect from an HEV suit. It was one of the first suits I broke in by myself, though, so I have a bond with its architecture. One would suppose that they decided that this new direction wasn't working and reverted to tried and tested methodology, specifications and abilities for the Mark VI, but personally I think it was because the V was too radical a change. Maybe we'll see traces of its design seep back into future models, once they've ironed out the 'kinks'.

I'm so very excited for the VII, did you see the article about it? It looks amazing. If those thrusters on the legs and back are going to make it into the production model, and don't go haywire like on the II V.1.00.03.2, (I still have nightmares about that), then...

Just wow.

 

[kupocake]

I was most excited about the rival tech they were developing at Aperture. More about the agility than the armor, but exciting nonetheless. I think it got sidelined somewhere along the way when they shifted their focus to teleportation, but Black Mesa HEV kept going right, so why not Aperture Environments too?. Aperture were always a little dodgy on the ethics though, there's no telling what the onboard AI could be capable of if it went err.. 'insane'. Though at least it couldn't throw you off any buildings and kill you.

 

[Darkside55]

I don't trust Aperture, and I'll tell you why:

For some reason, whoever's in charge of their R&D is insane. If I didn't know any better I'd think this company was run by some off-kilter, malevolent personality who's just trying to see how much tech they can cram into a small space without killing the user. I fear that any kind of personal, protective suit they designed would have a warp core shoved in there for the hell of it. I don't see the practicality of that and frankly the idea that I could be doing my job and suddenly be shunted 50ft. into the air through some teleportation malfunction isn't a comforting thought.

As for the Mark Vs and VIs going in different directions, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Mark Vs were developed to replace the old military PCVs. More mobility, I can understand. A zoom feature? Sure, if you need to focus on a crack to weld, something like that. But cutting back on the Geiger counter? Upping the morphine stores inside the suit? Converting it to use technology that one would only encounter in Combine-occupied areas? A leg module that actually kicks into turbo mode?! Why? This thing was an undercover military project.

Or made to compete with military projects...

*tinfoil hat*