PV - The Missing Road

[tatu]

Who would have thought that PV hold secrets? When build 96 was created, all level had started to get things scrapped, folige etc. and PV is no exeptions. PV is missing a few roads.

Looking at the TrnPlacement texture in TestScene reveales that this part, once was covered with a road, you can see that the terrain has been raisen once.


Look at:


And you can see the roads missing.


This was probably removed so the player couldn't skip the puzzle to start the power I think.

[machf]

Yes, the fork in the road is still there but the right side road isn't...

[Draconisaurus]

Yep, Sam came a long way in restoring the level, I wonder when he's going to release what he did..

And btw, it seems likely the player would have been prevented from going out of the area by the bridge, which we can now see requires power to activate. Or anyway, the bridge should probably be in an upright position until you can lower it with the lever. That's probably the one they were talking about with the bridge sinking into terrain..

[Rebel]

I'd like to know who set up that draw bridge & the other bridgeworks crossing the mountain runoffs. I assume they were temporary or a simple rush job as the models really aren't up to snuff with most other work in the level.

[glitchhunter09]

You can still skip the power restoration part of the stage and jump over the bridges with the weird invisible blocks too. It takes a bit of running and jumping but it is very much possible to bypass doing the Geothermal plant. I've done it numerous times so their efforts weren't as successful as they had hoped obviously.

[tatu]

I think that in the beginning you where suppose to start the plant before the keypad to the harbor worked

[glitchhunter09]

I've beat the level by simply walking through the gate of the harbor (which can be done in the final so obviously they just moved the gates to the lab level and didn't realize that the gates had a minor flaw in them where you could walk through them without opening them.

[Hilwo]

I think that in the beginning you where suppose to start the plant before the keypad to the harbor worked

Think so too, as she mentions the power to the keypad looks dead.
Though after restoring the power she'll still say it.

[tatu]

I think that in the beginning you where suppose to start the plant before the keypad to the harbor worked

Think so too, as she mentions the power to the keypad looks dead.
Though after restoring the power she'll still say it.

Could also be a leftover since they build the levels in Max, before the the engine was start to build. They always wanted the game to be one huge island without any loading section

[RexHunter99]

I think that in the beginning you where suppose to start the plant before the keypad to the harbor worked

Think so too, as she mentions the power to the keypad looks dead.
Though after restoring the power she'll still say it.

Could also be a leftover since they build the levels in Max, before the the engine was start to build. They always wanted the game to be one huge island without any loading section

Actually they wanted to do that in the initial design brief but dropped the idea because it wasn't pheasible on the computer systems back then. Also, in school you're taught that File I/O operations in programming are slow and should never be relied on except at load-time.

[Draconisaurus]

Making that voiceover not fire if the power was restored is as simple as a single line of script. 'Nyways, yes, some of the material we have suggests the plan was for to Anne to be able to reach the Harbor door and find the keypad unusable, until she restores power, which also powers up things in the Harbor and Lab. Scripting the keypad to not work at first would be slightly more involved - unless you just put an invisible block in front of the buttons, heh. The base texture shows that Anne could originally walk over to the Harbor gate before going to the Geo Plant very easily at first - unless there were other obstacles we don't realize.