[HL1:S] All Chapters are unlocked by default

[ghost]

You can select any chapter without completing or starting the chapter while playing the campaign.

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The GPU is a PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB

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[ghost]

@Theuaredead The sv_unlockedchapters cvar that controls the state of chapters defaults to 19 (since there are 19 chapters in game) because it forced to have that value in hl1/cfg/autoexec.cfg. I think this is by design because it was so since HL:S release in 2004.

[DirvingWheel]

This is not a bug, this is by design.

[alfred-valve]

Right, by design.

[ghost]

@FrenchMan @DirvingWheel @alfred-valve The game is coded to support chapter unlocks, I checked every chapter and it works fine. You have to specify what maps go to what chapter in the coding in order for it to work - I don't think they would have done that if they had intended to just leave all the chapters unlocked.

Honestly, the whole autoexec thing just seems like an accident, or at least not a very good decision, as isn't really the most reliable way to do that. People will just replace it with their own, and any commands in the original would be lost. It should probably just be removed:

• snd_obscured_gain_db 0 is flagged as a cheat, so it's not going to take any effect without sv_cheats enabled
• sv_autosave 0 just serves to make the game more difficult, and not in a very good way. While it is true that GoldSrc didn't do automatic transition saves, this doesn't make the game any worse and the community does view it as a bad thing, so that should be kept enabled.
• sv_unlockedchapters 19 doesn't help since unlocking works perfectly. Letting new players skip to endgame without a full playthrough first isn't a very good idea.

[ghost]

@pepper314 I agree, and knowing that valve hardly ever patched HLDMS and HL1S until now (HLDMS went a full 6 years without being updated with some extreme errors). So it wouldn't surprise me if they left it like this because of the old GUI of the HL2 Beta where there was no chapter select at all and used the current HL1 Steam GUI.

I mean why make a chapter select if you could select them all anyway.