Can't end Delta Labs 1!!!
 

I'm on my Nightmare run and got to the end of the Delta Labs Sector 1 level and the elevator won't let me on! It says "Low Power" despite me having turned on the reactor and completing every objective. Now my mission objective just says "Find the Main Portal" and there's nothing else for me to do. I've gone back through the level a couple of times now and nothing. I don't have any save files outside of this level, so I can't start at the end of the last mission or anything. Am I screwed out of all of this hard work getting to this point!?!?

I believe the button you're trying to use is not supposed to work, turn left slowly until you see a Level 1 yellow button, click that, end mission.

If not... you're burned.

Welp I'm burned then. There's no other button to press and I just watched a video walkthrough and I did everything correctly. Time to start the game over! Yay!

Make sure you keep two or more saves this time. One at the previous level, one at the start of your current level, then one for current level progress. Then replace then as you go along.

Well I had plenty of save files, it's just that I only had saves from that level and even loading from my earliest save file didn't make a difference. I'll just have to keep at least one save from the previous level each time now. Lesson learned. I was only 3 hours in but those were 3 tough hours.

glitch is triggered if you press the exit lift before you power the generator. you'll know for next time :)

I cannot support this enough!

There's another thread regarding the ladder glitches. It happened to me and was forever stuck in a room. Reloading saves did nothing as once the level is loaded, nothing is going to change. You need to start the level over and I was like 4 levels back (thankfully past Hell so they were short).

I kept a save right before I activated end level switches and always kept 3 levels worth of saves. This is just my collectibles run so not as bad as Nightmare, but still.

Okay, can you be a bit more detailed on that statement? I'm at the end of this level too, with the next earliest save being 3-4 levels back, and hoping to find a way to fix this.

Thanks in advance.

^This.^

I use all the save slots, but I always keep 1 save from the very start of each level until I've reached the next one, when I overwrite it. I encountered this glitch too, but I reloaded from the start of the level and did it all again, and it worked.

I'm on Erebus 4 on RoE now, so I should finish my Nightmare runs tonight. Just the MP to mop up then.

I cannot believe they did NOT fix this. I remember reporting this to id back in September 2004, like a lot of other people. Damn, I totally forgot about this, until today. And now I'm stuck in front of this stupid elevator. Again. :mad:

Same here. I ran into this bullshit on my nightmare run and had to restart the game because of it. Can't believe that id is too lazy to fix a 9 (!!!) years old glitch. Screw them. Replaying that mess that Doom 3 is makes me wonder how bad Doom 4 is going to be, the last good id game was Quake 3 imo..