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Re: General Info not covered in the FAQ

Posted By: Wolfchild
Date: 2001.5.24.09.07

In Response To: Re: General Info not covered in the FAQ (Jon Ivanovich)

: Thanks for the responses, but i think i need some more
: discourse-

: I think that, since we really are a cyborg in that game,
: time could stop once we uplink to a computer. 5 Hours
: wouldn't be more than 2 seconds, really, since we
: would just be doing a massed DL of the data.

Except that there's no hint in the story line that this goes on. In fact, since time does not stop when viewing terminals in M2 or MInf it strongly implies that this does NOT happen.

: Well, i heard that if you mod the game to allow you to
: jump up on a window to space in Arrival AND make it so
: the character would be small enough to fit, that you
: could run out and see some writing on the wall that
: would not be viewable in any other way. Of course,
: rumors are rumors, and i have not attempted to verify
: it.

This would require a custom texture (probably more than one). Such writing could not be made up of many polygons with contrasting textures because:

A) It could not be on a wall since only one poly face can make up a wall

B) It could not be on a floor or ceiling because if it were I would have seen it in the geometry when I was converting Arrival to UT. And I didn't.

I guess it could have been in the leaked beta or in the demo but it's not in the release version. It's also possible that such a texture could be hidden someplace other than the Shapes file or in a non-standard format. This would require that the engine would have to have been modified especially to find and display this one texture just for this one little East egg, Color me skeptical.

woof

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