Really, not even once? I started replaying Half-Life yesterday with the intent of counting mandatory crouch jumps; I’m up to Lambda Core, and there are only two times where you have to crouch jump. Technically only one, since you can get through that part of OAR without the tram. But I still count that as them trying to force us to use it.
But yeah, your point still stands, crouch jumping was far from mandatory in Half-Life.
Where was the part that truly requires a crouch jump?
I just replayed it, and it looks like I’m wrong. I’m glad you made me rethink. It was the beginning of Questionable Ethics (screenshot). Until now, I never knew you could disable the electric current and have the door open. :zip: I never bothered to try. My first impulse was always to jump on that container (which actually doesn’t require a crouch jump, you can jump on the middle of it) and then crouch jump past the fence.
Cool, so no mandatory crouch jumps. 
EDIT: Fail me. Ignore this.
Ah, now that you say that, I remember there being mention of crouch-jumping during the early tutorial. Hadn’t needed to use it until that point. My comment about the objects near the water tube exit still holds true though.
But crouch jumping is absolutely essential to jump on top of anything anywhere in BM?!
I’ve noticed that the long jumps requires some practice. Unless you want to “always run”.
Try it yourself:
Then try it without pulling up your legs:
I’m wondering when is the first time in the game you find a gun. I found some pistol ammo in the locker room but i havent found a gun yet so please tell me where is the first gun you can find?
I’m stuck in the big elevator room on level 4, when you have to crawl in the shafts in order to reactivate it. I can’t jump on the boxes, it seems my jumps aren’t high enough. I saw a walkthrough and the player had no problems, so i think it’s a bug. :[
Jump and crouch. You’ll need to know this to progress pretty much everywhere.
Oh. Sorry for the stupid question and thanks!
I cant go forward , when u are in canals , the waters covers up everything , and there is this whole , but water aint high enough so i can get out of there any ideas?
So, I am stuck. I checked online and saw what people did in the original HL. right at the beginning, I run passed the big yellow laser after it kills the scientist, then instead of messing with the crouch jump (apparently, I do not crouch then jump and I jump and while in the air hit crouch), but either way, I would just charge over the fire pit instead. Then I would be in the laser room, where the dead cop and crowbar are in HL1. Well, I found the cop and searched the entire room, but no crowbar.
Maybe this is planned because the windows in the doors were already broken out, but then I charge through the rest and end up at the train station. i watch the dude fall and can’t do anything out there.
I assume that I need to go back in, but the only option that even halfway makes sense is to go into the security section since the window is broken open. The problem that then comes up is that there is a little guy that is in there and I have no weapons, so I die.
I am sorry, but I am a little frustrated that I am stuck so early in the game. I checked online. I checked as many websites as possible, and the crowbar used to be in the room with the red lasers, but it is not there.
Is my save game somehow glitched since the cop is in there and I need to start over (I am at the very beginning anyway) or is this a change that was put in?
I know it is a super simple answer, but from my eyes, I am getting stuck at the very beginning since there is no clear answer (and it is making me really want to start using cheat codes already, which I really should not be doing this early in the game). I stay with the cop and wait for him to die and hope he did not use all of the bullets in his gun (I remember in HL1 I would help him, but that required the crowbar).
So, please tell me, is the crowbar supposed to be there and the game glitched on me, or is there something else I am supposed to do and if I am supposed to do something else, what is it?
Sorry for the long post, but I really want to enjoy this game and got stuck at the very beginning which is very annoying to me.
P.S. - I know this is the wrong section for it, but it is mostly on topic: if you guys make updates, you should really explain the crouching jump a little better, because I was crouching then jumping, which apparently is not the correct thing to do even though it really seems like I should do that based on the instructions. Yes, the last time I played HL was a very VERY long time ago.
There is a guard when you first get back to the level the locker room is on. His pistol is the first gun you can get. You get the crowbar in the same general area.
You crouch jumped in Half life aswell
just crouch through the broken window
I did not get the Pistol as I kept him alive
Sorry, I should point out that I figured that part out, and since you said nothing about the crowbar, I am guessing the Black Mesa team pulled it away from the original spot. I made it all the way to the train station (you know, they show some dude hanging on then falling to his death out there). There is a locked security door, but the window is broken open to get into the security area.
The problem is that inside of that security area, there is a little guy that kills me. Well, I can’t even get into that place because the little guy waits at the broken window and the moment I get close to that broken window, it jumps at me and since I have no weapons, I have no way to defend myself and die.
I mean, am I supposed to not have a weapon and try to survive all these things coming at me while trying to figure out what to do from changes?
I am not talking bad in any way, shape or form, but am just trying to make sure that what is happening with me is happening with everybody else (if it is supposed to happen like this and everybody gets dominated like this in the beginning, then cool, but if not, then I am missing something). I just have no idea what I am missing.
Going through that window is not an option because the little jumpy monster thing keeps killing me when I get close to the broken window.
If you have problems finding the crowbar, just proceed.
Walk until you find it.
A hint is that someone in the facility used it in order to barricade something (a door maybe?) so that another something very scary (I dont know, a rat? a cockroach? a zombie?) wouldnt get to him. In other words, the devs placed it so that it actually fits in the story.
Just proceed onwards, like I said. You shouldnt be able to miss it. You HAVE to pick it up in order to get further in the game - otherwise it’s a dead end down there with all the disaster!
And it shouldnt be long after you pass the lasers. If I remember correctly you will have to climb a ladder and stuff before you get there.
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