Yeah the code for bCanHaveMultipleCopies pickups is really weird. As far as I can tell, picking one up when you already have one does the following:
Checks you can have more.
Adds the number you have alreaady to the NumCopies of the one you're about to pick up.
Destroys yours.
Gives you the new one.
Which makes keeping track of the skins a bit tricky. Smoke's done it, but then, he's clever.
That NSF level is weird. You blow up the generator, but Paul's mission fails. He doesn't come back. When Jock forces you to go see Paul in HK later, you have to go to the NSF warehouse again to send a distress signal.
Yeah and the architecture changes in the meantime. As well as the outside area, as it's no longer possible to go over the rooftops to get to this place when Paul sends you there.
Fulgrymm wrote:Yeah and the architecture changes in the meantime. As well as the outside area, as it's no longer possible to go over the rooftops to get to this place when Paul sends you there.
That's because it isn't the same building. Look at how you get to the first building: you go through Osgood and Son's. The next building with the sat dishes is reached by going through the gate at the opposite end of Hell's Kitchen. They are two very similar buildings, no doubt, but they're different places all the same.
Actually, my good sir, they are supposed to be one and the same. The only reason you can't get to it from Hell's Kitchen is that it's been blocked off by the riot police, which is why you have to go around in the first place. Paul himself says the satellite dishes are kept in the warehouse where the NSF had the generator. I can't imagine them having more than one of those, as in all likelihood you'd have to destroy that one also. It's either developer oversight, or just a small error in the script. Probably the latter, since going through Osgood's doesn't quite make it all the way around the perimeter of Hell's Kitchen to match up with the altered warehouse. Just another quirk in the game I suppose. Like how the 'Ton is supposed to have a third floor, yet the stairs only go up to floor two, and the elevator door to floor three is only a decal.
Given the level of attention to detail throughout the game, I think it's highly unlikely that they'd make a mistake like that.
I is supposed to be a separate building. It has different architecture, it's in a different place, and Paul gives you a photo of it: why would he bother if it was the same building you'd been in earlier?
You want proof, pay a visit to the NSF headquarters. Down in the basement, protected by boobytraps, a datacube sits on the edge of a table: my report to the militia leaders. Here, I have a photograph of the building. It's a couple of blocks to the west, behind the bar.
I think that's the warehouse paul was storming while you go knock out the generator building and it's EMP generator.
But yeah: they do look awfully similar if you don't think about it too much. It was only on my third playthrough that the penny dropped for me.
If you load up the first warehouse level (called 02_NYC_Warehouse) and save the game, your location in the savegame menu will be listed as "NYC - Warehouse District".
If you load up the second warehouse level (04_NYC_NSFHQ) and save the game, your location will be listed as "NYC - 20th Street Warehouse".
Besides, the first warehouse has a bigass sign on the side saying "OSGOOD & SONS", and the second warehouse does not. It also looks quite different when you examine it. They are both warehouses and they both utilize the same texture scheme, however (presumably to recycle resources), so the confusion is quite understandable.
Making two completely different maps for the SAME LOCATION is not a mistake you make. The first warehouse was made by Bob White and the second one by Marshall Andrews. You do not get two different guys to make two different maps if they take place in the same location, guys. That's basically throwing money out the window.
It wasn't a mistake, it's deliberate. And by the way, those rooftops may well be my favourite piece of level design in the entire game.
It's a sad reflection on how one's mind adapts to the DX playstyle that when I get to that bit now, I don't think "Hmm..which approach is the least likely to get me killed"..I think "Hmmm...free sniper ammo now, free grenades later, or free grenades now, free sniper ammo later?"
Hahah, I usually don't think at all, usually I take whatever approach I haven't tried before, and in the cases where I've tried all approaches, I pick the one I enjoyed the most of the first time
It's not like the DX AI poses much of a threat to me anyway, these days.
I move through DX mostly on autopilot nowadays, especially the first few levels, go round the statue, climb containers, rescue gunther if I think about it on time, climb up the stairs, try not to get noticed, talk to the guy, go back, etc. It's a shame, really, I should erase all memory of DX and play it again like it was the first time.
