: I believe the rationale for that was to limit the player to 1x health. I.e.
: you could use shield recharger panels during a Vid, but carrying over more
: than that to a new level was not.
: Something like that.
: It was first proposed in the data fork of M2D by Jason Jones, IIRC. Reference
: is on the linked page and also quoted here: Now you got me remembering
: that little wait we needed to do at the end of a solo film to be certain
: that it recorded all the way up to the end! Those were the days.
: You rebel against their rules their silly human rules ?
Yes, unless there are no save terminals in the map, which is OK for doing it then, like in the Vidmaster's challenge or "expert only" secret levels, but in any other token such as a main map or a normal secret level, it's bad design.
Some cases do make sense, like the Big House though.
