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Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”
Posted By: GodotDate: 1/11/22 8:50 a.m.

In Response To: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go” (Gopherofdoomies)

: I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but a thought just struck me.
: On the level Come and Take your Medicine (Terminal 1), Durandal says: “It
: must seem peculiar, fighting the S'pht when they are whom you seek to
: free. You should be told that they deliberately fight poorly, that they
: are constantly resisting their slavers.“

: Now of course, the immediate reaction might be, “Are you sure about that?”
: Even on this level, the S’pht aren’t pushovers, and they sure don’t seem
: to be going easy. But then I thought about the fast-firing S’pht on the
: level “Where Some Rarely Go”.

: Sam Morris on the Story page asks why these S’pht are so much tougher than
: all the rest of the S’pht in the games. Perhaps each S’pht has the ability
: to fight like this, it’s simply that they are holding back during their
: fights with the player. Maybe the experiments that were being conducted on
: the S’pht at Perimeter Garrison 7A removed whatever mental inhibitions
: they had to this kind of fighting.

: While there are a few holes in this theory (like why don’t the Rampant S’pht
: fight like this, or the S’pht in the first game before you ally with
: Durandal), but overall, I think it’s a possibility, unless I’ve missed
: some evidence that would contradict it. Otherwise, I’d love to know what
: you guys think!

This one comes up every few years or so. This is probably the 7th iteration.

Discussion goes something like this.

A DA guy (let's call him Chris) fucks messes up the Physics Model for this level and no one notices until after the game is released.

A DA guy (let's call him Chris) fucks messes up the Physics Model for this level, the beta testers point this out but nothing is done about it because it is not a fatal error and there is a lot more stuff that is fucked messed up to fix. This is actually a true story.

A DA guy (let's call him Chris because everybody hates Chris) explains that this was all in a beta version of the game but... "Greg and I had a lot of fun with this level and with the terminal texts, which were substantially edited and shortened for the final game. Originally I went nuts and wrote about ten terminals which had all sorts of random crosstalk on the Phfor[sic] network (but they were only funny to Greg and I).

This is actually a true story. But don't ask me for the beta... I mean there is something like 20 of them.

But don't believe me.

Cheers
Hamish

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Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Gopherofdoomies 1/10/22 9:37 p.m.
     Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”VikingBoyBilly 1/11/22 5:16 a.m.
     Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Godot 1/11/22 8:50 a.m.
     Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Durandal_1707 1/16/22 6:34 a.m.
           Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”treellama 1/18/22 11:50 a.m.
                 Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Durandal_1707 1/19/22 4:55 a.m.
                       Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”treellama 1/19/22 5:07 a.m.
                             Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Gopherofdoomies 1/19/22 9:07 p.m.
                                   Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”VikingBoyBilly 1/21/22 9:08 a.m.
                                         Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Durandal_1707 1/22/22 8:03 a.m.
                                               Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Godot 1/22/22 8:23 a.m.
                                                     Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”ukimalefu 1/23/22 12:16 a.m.
                                                           Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”VikingBoyBilly 1/23/22 3:28 a.m.
                                                           Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Lion O Cyborg 1/24/22 4:27 a.m.
                                                           Re: Fast Spht on “Where Some Rarely Go”Durandal_1707 1/24/22 10:18 a.m.

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