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Half-Life 2 Hints
Map Codes
The "map" command can be used to start a new game on any chapter section. You start with 100 health and most or all of the weapons that you could have gotten prior to that point.
Type map on the console followed by the codename of the chapter section you want to start a new game in, taken either from the list below or from the chapter section names in the main hints. If you use the list below, replace the * in a codename by one of the numbers in parenthesis after it. For instance, the complete code list for the Black Mesa East chapter is: d1_eli_01, d1_eli_02. To warp to the first of those areas, you'd type: map d1_eli_01.
NOTE: Instead of figuring out and typing in a map code, you could just type map followed by a space, and then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll to the one you want. (Though you'll still want to use the list below to figure out what game chapter each code relates to.)
Backgrounds for main menu screen -- background* (01 - 07)
Just the G-Man intro -- intro
Point Insertion -- d1_trainstation_* (01 - 04)
"A Red Letter Day" -- d1_trainstation_* (05, 06)
Route Kanal -- d1_canals_* (01, 01a, 02, 03, 05)
Water Hazard -- d1_canals_* (06 - 13)
Black Mesa East -- d1_eli_* (01, 02)
"We Don't Go to Ravenholm..." -- d1_town_* (01, 01a, 02, 02a, 03 - 05)
Highway 17 -- d2_coast_* (01, 03 - 05, 07, 08)
Sandtraps -- d2_coast_* (09 - 12), d2_prison_01
Nova Prospekt -- d2_prison_* (02 - 05)
Entanglement -- d2_prison_* (06 - 08), d3_c17_01
Anticitizen One -- d3_c17_* (02 - 05, 06a, 06b, 07 - 08)
"Follow Freeman!" -- d3_c17_* (09, 10a, 10b, 11, 12, 12b, 13)
Our Benefactors -- d3_citadel_* (01 - 05)
Dark Energy -- d3_breen_01
End Credits -- credits
