In Hammond's house, has anyone noticed...?

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In Hammond's house, has anyone noticed...?

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When opening up the InGen Town level in TresEd, has anyone ever noticed that the floor
of Hammond's office is named to be the floor of a guest bedroom? And that the room across
it is named map room? Does anyone know if the empty 'map room' was ever meant to be
Hammond's office at some point?
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Didn't know that. I will check it out! :)
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Just checked and it's really interesting. This would explain why you can walk out to the balcony in both rooms. I think you where going to jump across the balcony from the master bedroom into the map room.
This could also explain why they removed the map table in the retail game. Maybe it was placed in the middel of the room, and when they moved it, it was just looking bad, and decided to put it on the wall insted.

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tatu wrote:Just checked and it's really interesting. This would explain why you can walk out to the balcony in both rooms. I think you where going to jump across the balcony from the master bedroom into the map room.
Sounds interesting, I'm gonna see if I can make that jump.

Though I'm not entirely sure, as this voiceover was meant to be played at the star map:

VH48: We sealed the eastern gate for the last time. Gazing from my study window, I hit on a simple mnemonic for the passcode. Like Nedry, I felt like I had to keep backdoor open.

So it sounds like the keycard puzzle was already planned at an early point. Though the map room and his
office could have been planned to be seperate rooms, I guess.

One a side-note, the study doesn't even háve a window! :P
edit: Or maybe they're boarded up? Don't remember, can't check right now.
tatu wrote:This could also explain why they removed the map table in the retail game. Maybe it was placed in the middel of the room, and when they moved it, it was just looking bad, and decided to put it on the wall insted.
That does sound like a good explanation in my opinion.
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...when I first re-played the game two years ago now (..wow, that's gone quickly) I had no idea of the ridiculous white keycard in the back, by the "obvious" rock/star chart. That's always seemed a bit unlikely and, almost unrealistic, in a sense. But anyway, I tried jumping from one balcony to another to see if it was in the one at the end, or close to it, from one of the rooms in his house - I never did manage to make the jump, but that was when I was much less familiar with the game.

I think it may still be possible to do, but having that as a way of getting something wouldn't be unlikely, I don't think, in earlier ideas/versions of the game...
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I don't know, I want to take a look for myself first. But somehow I have the feeling
Tatu is right. Maybe they once planned those panels in build 96 to be used as a
bridge to get to the other balcony - even though you'd probably have more luck
trying to fly over there.
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You can make the jump, but it's an absolute pain. Years and years ago, before TresEd, someone in the Trespasser community made a scavenger hunt saved game in the town level. One of the items was hidden on the other balcony, and you had to jump over to get it. It took many tries, but I'm sure you can do it. I suspect that if that was going to be a part of the game, they would have had a plank or something, like Hilwo said.
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Tatu, did you ever try to re-contact Phil Salas to ask about this?
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Off subject, but which dev's head is in the Test Scene in the final version of the game? The head at 5:44: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGSpS-62 ... ideo_title

Btw, it's not in the Night Test Scene or the Beta 96 Test Scene. It's only in the final version of the test scene at day.
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glitchhunter09 wrote:Off subject, but which dev's head is in the Test Scene in the final version of the game? The head at 5:44: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGSpS-62 ... ideo_title

Btw, it's not in the Night Test Scene or the Beta 96 Test Scene. It's only in the final version of the test scene at day.
Um, this has nothing to do with this topic whatsoever...?
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Hilwo wrote:Tatu, did you ever try to re-contact Phil Salas to ask about this?
No, not yet. I will! :)


As for the answer for Glitch question: the head is not of a dev, but from a devs friend, I don't know the name of the devs friend tho.
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Ah! okay. lol. Thanks. That's been bugging me for like.... um.... two years now. lol. Any, I apologize for hijacking this thread Hilwo. Carry on. Oh btw @ Tatu, why isn't he in the Easter Eggs section? I was expecting to see a little section about the head. We can continue this in PM. I've hijacked this thread enough with sily questions. lol.
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glitchhunter09 wrote:Any, I apologize for hijacking this thread Hilwo. Carry on. Oh btw @ Tatu, why isn't he in the Easter Eggs section? I was expecting to see a little section about the head. We can continue this in PM. I've hijacked this thread enough with sily questions. lol.
That's okay. I'll start a new topic for stuff people would like to see added to the easter eggs section :)

And thanks tatu :)

Edit: posted in the existing easter eggs section instead.
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