Problems on the Iceberg mission.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:18 pm
This is my first post on these boards. I have H&D 1 with expansion pack which I finished a long time ago. Found H&D2 at a great price in GameStop the toher day so I bought it. I hadn't experienced a single glitch in the game until I got to the Icerberg map.
On this map, I have found two distinct problems and a third one that popped up a couple fo times.
#1, after sniping everything I can snipe and then moving into the station with my crew, I kill the Sub Skipper and get a message telling me I have success for stopping the sub from leaving and I have success for finding the station. Then it tells me I have new objectives one of which is to now find the radio station. That's pretty easy to do but for somereason, no matter what I do, I don't get success for finding it. I have even gone as close to the radio as possible as I can but I don't get the white frame telling me that I can interact with it. I have tried to re-enter the radio station at different times but no success. This is a fatal flaw and is keeping me from finishing the map.
#2, I can't open all of the doors. I learned to get around this by packing my entire crew into the area and waiting for them to open the doors. Then I switch to that person and explore the room. This happens in the largest building with the dog in one fo the rooms. The same building with the documents. It also happens in the radio station. The room behind the radio has the door in the corner to the right of the radio but when I approach the door, I don't get the white frame with [door] in the center so I can't interact with it. Again, I had to pack the radio station with my crew and wait for one of them to finally open the door. So this is not a fatal flaw as I can work around it. However, it is not ideal and if it happens on another map, like the one where you have to go it alone, or one where you don't have the luxury of runing around in a room waiting for someone to open a door, then it can be a fatal flaw.
#3 is also something i found a work around for. Twice while trying to play the map, my #1 guy, my medic, got killed because when I chqanged to an appropriate character to take into the sub, with the others folowing, he got stuck halfway on the gang plank. When I exited the sub, he was running in place with his body sicking up out of the gangplank. Nothing I did would save him. He couldn't move on his own and if I took over him and tried to get him out, he eventually woudl fall all the way through the gangplank and the ice cold water kills him in about 5 seconds. Easy fix is to only take one other teammember on the sub. Doing this I never encountered a problem. Bottom line though is that I tried the map many times but the one thing I can't get past is finding the radio station. Nothing I do registers that I actually found it and like many of the doors, I can't interact with the radio which seems to e the key according to the walk-through I just read. I figured it would be a good place to start to see if I was doing something wrong on my end.
Now here's the kicker. Since I don't have the internet, I am at the library downloading the 1.12 patch right now. I hope this fixes the problem but I didn't see anything in the readme's for any of the patches that tells me it will be fixed. I'm hoping it is specifically addressed in the patch but was left out of the readme by accident.
BTW, I have an XP3000+ Barton running on an ASUS A7N8X-Dx board with 1GB Ram and an nVidia card. Can't remember the vid card numbers but 5800 or 5900 256Mb sounds about right. I also have Windows XP Home.
On this map, I have found two distinct problems and a third one that popped up a couple fo times.
#1, after sniping everything I can snipe and then moving into the station with my crew, I kill the Sub Skipper and get a message telling me I have success for stopping the sub from leaving and I have success for finding the station. Then it tells me I have new objectives one of which is to now find the radio station. That's pretty easy to do but for somereason, no matter what I do, I don't get success for finding it. I have even gone as close to the radio as possible as I can but I don't get the white frame telling me that I can interact with it. I have tried to re-enter the radio station at different times but no success. This is a fatal flaw and is keeping me from finishing the map.
#2, I can't open all of the doors. I learned to get around this by packing my entire crew into the area and waiting for them to open the doors. Then I switch to that person and explore the room. This happens in the largest building with the dog in one fo the rooms. The same building with the documents. It also happens in the radio station. The room behind the radio has the door in the corner to the right of the radio but when I approach the door, I don't get the white frame with [door] in the center so I can't interact with it. Again, I had to pack the radio station with my crew and wait for one of them to finally open the door. So this is not a fatal flaw as I can work around it. However, it is not ideal and if it happens on another map, like the one where you have to go it alone, or one where you don't have the luxury of runing around in a room waiting for someone to open a door, then it can be a fatal flaw.
#3 is also something i found a work around for. Twice while trying to play the map, my #1 guy, my medic, got killed because when I chqanged to an appropriate character to take into the sub, with the others folowing, he got stuck halfway on the gang plank. When I exited the sub, he was running in place with his body sicking up out of the gangplank. Nothing I did would save him. He couldn't move on his own and if I took over him and tried to get him out, he eventually woudl fall all the way through the gangplank and the ice cold water kills him in about 5 seconds. Easy fix is to only take one other teammember on the sub. Doing this I never encountered a problem. Bottom line though is that I tried the map many times but the one thing I can't get past is finding the radio station. Nothing I do registers that I actually found it and like many of the doors, I can't interact with the radio which seems to e the key according to the walk-through I just read. I figured it would be a good place to start to see if I was doing something wrong on my end.
Now here's the kicker. Since I don't have the internet, I am at the library downloading the 1.12 patch right now. I hope this fixes the problem but I didn't see anything in the readme's for any of the patches that tells me it will be fixed. I'm hoping it is specifically addressed in the patch but was left out of the readme by accident.
BTW, I have an XP3000+ Barton running on an ASUS A7N8X-Dx board with 1GB Ram and an nVidia card. Can't remember the vid card numbers but 5800 or 5900 256Mb sounds about right. I also have Windows XP Home.