Life's end mod bug? Created 15 years ago2009-08-08 20:07:44 UTC by DiscoStu

Just did a search on the forum and found no topics about this.

I just came across this one on the Map Vault yesterday. It's great, and exceeded my expectations. But I've come across this strange problem where either HL crashes with Windows asking to send or not to send the error report - and I can't go on because that's all. WHAT the hell is wrong? I can't be the only one that has experienced this.

I've loaded an earlier save slot in case the last one got corrupted somehow, but when I get there it just crashes again and again. And then one time it didn't, and the level change took me to an off-world point with a tilted view angle as if I died and I can't even noclip off it. It's truly f'd up.

Screenshot here

This is in the transition from "le30" to "le31". "le30" is where the alternate universe lab is at.

Also, I just noticed a 101kb file that was created at the time of the crash, with the name "szwufkjaz, 0". Opening it with Notepad reveals random stuff and references to game entities and other stuff.

I've never come across this problem. All I know is that Life's End is epic.

Find the keycard. Open the next door. Repeat.

Sorry, I've never had this bug with Life's End. I have experienced it in the very distant past, though. It was while testing some level changes in SP maps from my ealiest mapping days. I never worked out a solution, but if I looked them today I'd probably guess it's a faulty level change setup. It could possibly even be tied to WON HL.

You have to remember that Life's End was released in 2006, long after WON was left behind.

Oh well. I found I can't load anything from map 30 on. Only save slots up to map 29 don't crash the game. If I'm lucky, like 1 out of 20 or 30 times it will load but I'll be stuck in the void with a tilted view, unable to noclip back to the world.

Whatever, there are other things I can do. It was very good up to this point.

I never had this issue in WON or Steam HL. I still run both on my PC in order to test my mods.

Why don't you just load up the map from the console and use cheats to restore all the weapons and ammo you had up to that point?

Sorry to hear about that bug DicoStu. I never experienced it (nor has anyone else contacted me about it) while testing or playing Life's End.

I'm happy you enjoyed it up until the crash, tho

I built Life's End on WON HL, version 1.1.1.0. Is that the version you're using?

Are you using Windows Vista? I've been told about weird errors with that.

Otherwise i'm afraid i have no idea. Sorry.

Ohh King Daniel himself here! Good work

I'm using WON HL 1.1.(something else) on Win XP SP2. This is the only time ever I've experienced this.

If only I could map for Source, I'd offer to help you port it to it. But... oh well. Maybe later.

I suppose I could follow srry's advice now...

Edit: And he was right. I found that it kept doing it if I loaded map 30 and continued up to 31, so I had to start right from 31. It turns out I was so close to the end!

The mod was great. Although the ending left me with a strange feeling of despair. Damn you, Daniel!

So anyway, dismiss my thread now.

the level change took me to an off-world point with a tilted view angle as if I died and I can't even noclip off it

Way back when I was finding out how level chages worked, this happened to me. I hadn't made the level changes correctly (im certain of it).