Precaching assets (GoldSrc)

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Assets must be precached in order to be loaded, or else they will fail to load.

In Half-Life, for example, trying to spawn a NPCs, like Alien Slave (Vortigaunt) on a level which does not have such NPCs, will cause the game to quit to menu.