Re: Strange Easter Egg in Quake II! WTF is it???

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From: McGrandpa
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:27

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"Stephen Howe" <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote in message 
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>> Quake 2, in the first four CTF maps Id released, you could not get to 
>> some of the powerups without the hook.
>
> Are you sure that was in their minds?
> I would have thought that ID would have had rocket jumps as the means 
> which have there origin in Doom/Doom2.
>
> SH
>
Nope, I remember the ones he's talking about.   The Quad Damage is up in a 
place you could get to with the hook, nothing else, in one of the Q2 CTF 
maps.
McG.

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