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Re: DN3D: "HOW DID YOU GET HERE?"

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From: David Mackintosh
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <4ioor9$l...@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl>, Miklos Donders
<don...@cs.utwente.nl> writes
>In article <4icgnd$d...@lester.appstate.edu>, je1...@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Jason 
>Eudy) writes:
>>On 12 Mar 1996 13:25:02 GMT, Michael Straight (stra...@email.unc.edu) wrote:
>>> Near the begining of Level 4, there is the ledge looking out onto the 
>>> lake over the sub with tower guns on ledges to either side.  When you 
>>> blow up the guns you can jump to the ledges and get some stuff in the 
>>> caves.
>>
>>> One cave has a message "How did you get here?"  The duke3d.faq says that
>>> it's because you need the jetpack to get to the cave (which you can't get
>>> on that level without cheating), but I have no trouble just jumping (it's
>>> easier if you do an F7 so that you can see yourself and back up as far as
>>> possible before making the jump). 
>>
>>> What's the deal with this?  Did 3drealms really think that jump was 
>>> impossible without the jetpack?
>>
>>Apparently so, but it's easy.  I got it on the first try.  I was rather
>>confused by the "How did you get here?" sign.  It's like the "You're not
>>supposed to be here" sign on level 5, which I got to without cheating.
>>
>

-- 
Me too! I saw both these signs without cheating.  Maybe the person who wrote the
faq just could not do it?


David Mackintosh
Clwyd, Wales
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