Dumb Question - Walking Forever???

Sluggs on 26/12/2003 at 21:42

I know this is a rather dumb question but i'd love to know something...

OK. You're playing Project IGI right? You wander off from the mission and walk over the hills far away yeah? What i want to know is...

If i keep walking, will there be an end somewhere or does the terrain just keep on building up as i walk, and end up walking forever?

Told you it was a dumb question! :eww:

henke on 26/12/2003 at 21:54

Also, maybe you should put "Walking forever IN PROJECT IGI" in the topic-title.

Also, if you have the game why dont you just try it?

David on 26/12/2003 at 21:55

Project IGI uses a rehashed flight sim engine, so it can render massive outdoor environments (<a href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/071/071933p1.html?fromint=1">producer of IGI 1 says 10,000,000KM²</a> :eek:.)
You can walk and walk for miles coming across nothing, but in the end you will end up by a steep mountain you cannot climb, which is the edge of the game world.

Z on 26/12/2003 at 23:44

I managed to walk for several hours (not non-stop) through the level with the arms dealer base and the invulnerable helicopter and all. I forget the name. You'll often come up against mountainous areas which you cannot climb, but the randomly generated terrain usually sees to it that you can get up somehow if you try. You can get some pretty spectacular views, and I personally found going AWOL and mountaineering to be more enjoyable than the rather humdrum, average "real game"

Eventually, after successfully traversing a very, very high mountain range, I saw another large valley which was really glitchy and corrupt, with bits of the sky showing in the ground. I took this to mean that I had gone too far, and quit the mission. Oh, and the randomly generated terrain (the world outside the immediate game area) does not get rendered on that handy GPS thingy.

Actually, my main motivation for all that walking was a personal conviction that somewhere, literally miles away from the gameworld in one of the levels, you could find a secret easter-egg base or building or bunker or tree or something. I don't think there is one.

Z

Shadowcat on 27/12/2003 at 01:58

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Originally posted by David
producer of IGI 1 says 10,000,000KM² :eek:.)

Actually, he says 10,000,000 sq. km, not 10,000,000 km2. A slight difference there :) (still gigantic, though).

mopgoblin on 27/12/2003 at 03:30

Both areas are exactly the same - ten million times the area of a square with sides of length 1 km. It's (10,000,000 km)2 that is a larger area.

Shadowcat on 27/12/2003 at 10:52

If you want to be very strict with your syntax then you can argue that that is correct, but I would always read 10,000,000km2 as meaning (10,000,000km)2, and 10,000,000 sq. km ~= 3162km2.

Admittedly I left a space between the 10,000,000 and the km2 when I wrote my reply, which was probably a mistake.

You could also argue that you should bracket the (km), or else km2 would mean 1000 times 1 square metre, but that would also be crazily pedantic, IMO...

Is there a standard convention for this, anyone? I'd be interested to know whether or not I'm talking out my arse :)

Sluggs on 27/12/2003 at 12:22

Z, I'm sure there must be something to find in the hills far away. There must be an easter-egg - There's gotta be, hasn't there? All that open space?

There was a day i spent roaming the environment because i wanted to know how far i could go. I too spent a few hours hiking. It's great knowing that the huge Mountain you can see in the distance can be reached and climbed! :D

I personally love IGI because of this. It's great having so much freedom in a game to do what you want. I haven't played it for while now. One night i think i will install it again and jamm the forward key down and leave it like that overnight and see where i am in the morning! There's the possibilty that this trick may not work because i could have gotten stuck whilst climbing! It's worth a try.

Oli G on 27/12/2003 at 13:24

Why not just go for a walk in the real world?

WingedKagouti on 27/12/2003 at 13:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Shadowcat
If you want to be very strict with your syntax then you can argue that that is correct, but I would always read 10,000,000km2 as meaning (10,000,000km)2, and 10,000,000 sq. km ~= 3162km2.

You're confusing 10,000,0002 km with 10,000,000 km2.

Quote:

Is there a standard convention for this, anyone? I'd be interested to know whether or not I'm talking out my arse :)

km2 is the standard.