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Article #282754Re: Strange Easter Egg in Quake II! WTF is it???
From: Matthew Vaughan
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:55
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:55
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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message news:fO33f.19859$0c.9657@tornado.texas.rr.com... > > "Stephen Howe" <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote in message > news:434c823c$0$17367$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com... >>> 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. Well, yes, in CTF. Wasn't the hook included with CTF? It was in all but the earliest versions for Quake (that is, I don't think it was in the version where there were no CTF maps and no graphics/objects for the flags, but it always was after that), and I think it was from the beginning in Q2, wasn't it?
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