AlienNation couldn't figure out how a person gets into the secret room without noclip, so he decompiled the map looking for clues. He found three switches but he didn't know what they were. He found roughly where they were with noclip.
It was either him or I who figured out the sequence, we were both looking through the map heavily with noclip for a while that day.
I posted a video of the sequence and the viewpos of the buttons. I used setviewpos to just appear where they were and shoot them and demonstrated how it opened the lava gate. At that time I didn't think it could be done normally.
SyncError said that it could. I figured that yes, you could get from button #2 to button #3 fast enough if you hauled ass, and perhaps from button #3 to the gate in time, but triggering button #1 without cheats seemed impossible. I even tried throwing grenades from the chandelier and I couldn't hit it.
Pika figured out that you could indeed hit it with a grenade which broke the case wide open so to speak. I sent him a demo of me doing all the switches and he uploaded it.
Then there was some discussion over what the best route/way to do it was, which resulted in more videos.
Here are the four that I personally uploaded which kind of show the "evolution" of the matter:
edit: sound effects and textures kind of remind me of this: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/moteof.htm, wonder if he's been approached to do maps for QL, since that puzzle map kind of made an impact when released.
i was thinking about a topic *map secrets* or *easter eggs* would be cool
i saw some 102 member flying through Arcane Citadel to the secret room with 2 skelletons and a plate on the wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZDkOL7gfPE&hd=1
what was it ?
open own server
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or start practice game
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