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Concept - to - Beta Comparison

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My intent for this thread is to compare what's in the beta more specifically to old concept art and/or pre-release screenshots. This thread is not for any discussion connected with the final release of the game - just pretend the game was never released. ;)

I wanted to start this now for two reasons. 1) I'm bored and can't wait 2) I have a comparison already 3) I'm actually about to go to bed anyway.

I was looking through some of the Tres concepts in my own folders, when I took a closer look at this...

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See that stuff behind the raptors in the far background? I think it was Mickey or someone who first pointed it out and wondered what it was. Of course, the discussion was a dead end. Now that we know there was a Stego down by the still pond in PV, I looked at this image with a fresh perspective.. wondering suddenly if it might be from PV, as so many other images like it are.. And jesus! That dark stuff is probably the Mayan crap from JR that we've tried to place in the terrain cut-out this whole time! It even shows the entrance seen only in reverse here -

EDIT: Alright so this one doesn't show it.. I'm not sure where the version of this image is that has the dark slanted walls on either side + ceiling. But hopefully you remember.
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- Though you can still only barely see it... The beta will be able to show better how well this compares, of course.
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Actually It does look like it could fit up around there except of course, the terrain there seems very flat for that specific area of PV, and also that it fits in quite nicely just north of the GeoPlant where we all believed there was a set of pumps set into the ground where there's a shitload of terrain tesselation. The shape of the hills suggest the location as well as the flatness of the area (well more accurately the way the terrain slopes slightly but remains rather flat or the same.
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Mhmm, well it's such an old image that I'm sure the terrain changed a lot, wherever it's from. It could also be a custom scene made to show off all these assets, including the Mayan stuff there.
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Well, it looks like you got it mostly right, the rocks are in the right place, I'll try from a slightly different angle...
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Oh, and that other image you're looking for is in the scanned magazine article...
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Hmmm yes, though the hill in the back is definitely higher in the pv terrain, and I think the spot where the dinos are is a bit more level in the early image.
And yeah, I suspected it might be there, but it's not too important..
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Does it look similar?
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Where is that? I don't reconize it..
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Up there in PV.
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Ooooh! I gotta check out PV a bit better when I get time :P.
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Yeah it looks pretty damn similar now :yum: Pretty cool little spot. Makes me wonder if more was planned for it in early stages.. (like, other than the T easter egg).
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