Strange and Unusual sighting (DX 1)

Emerald Wolf on 2/10/2008 at 06:43

Not sure if this has been discovered yet (I've never heard mention of it before) but in Hong Kong there is a spectral body floating in the canals at its SW corner near a flight of steps. You need the visual enhancement Aug at level 2 to see it (ie: infraview). I'd post a picture of it but my image hosting site is no longer available and I'm too lazy to find a new one.

(My theory is that the body belongs to the former red arrow leader)

demagogue on 2/10/2008 at 06:55

Try (http://tinypic.com/)

Emerald Wolf on 2/10/2008 at 09:04

Okay here are some "before and after" shots (sorry if the images are a bit too bright, I had to adjust them to make them viewable)

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http://i34.tinypic.com/ja84sx.jpg

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http://i37.tinypic.com/fxyvb6.jpg

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http://i35.tinypic.com/2craoef.jpg

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http://i36.tinypic.com/2n0keqf.jpg

Edit: The body itself sadly can't be manipulated (it would have been nice to find some loot on him, like a thermoptic-camo maybe), however you can blow it up to produce some non-invisible giblets.

DDL on 2/10/2008 at 14:54

That's hilarious. Nice find!

I suspect that's the body of the supervisor from versalife: if you don't kill him when you're at the versalife offices, and then get the specs for the nanosword, I think that corpse should turn visible to represent versalife being 'dissatisfied' with his performance.

Since (unlike NPCs) corpses don't have code to magically make them leap into the gameworld from miles off to the side, they just made the corpse hidden...and then forgot that augVision doesn't apparently care whether something is hidden or not when overdrawing the skins (which is a bit of a coding oversight, let's be honest).

Jonas Wæver on 2/10/2008 at 16:10

If you're thinking about Hundley, that's not quite accurate. You're close though, it's "John Smith", the guy who can help you get into the the labs if you kill Hundley (isn't it something like that?)

The tag of the body is John_Smith_Body, the FamiliarName of the guy in Versalife is John Smith, and they look exactly the same, so: Same guy :)

I guess MJ12 don't like their employees letting spies into the labs.

D'Juhn Keep on 2/10/2008 at 18:50

That's really cool. When did you take those screenshots, Emerald Wolf, before or after breaking into Versalife? I wonder if they wanted his body to appear there after you break into Versalife but forgot about it or something.

Vraptor7 on 2/10/2008 at 20:31

Interesting find.

van HellSing on 2/10/2008 at 21:00

Self-hypnotic defect in JC's R-grade unit, I say.

Emerald Wolf on 2/10/2008 at 21:35

The screenshots are from just before I left Hong Kong, but I didn't interact with "John Smith" (I just hacked a random computer). Perhaps I should go back and see if interacting with him changes anything.

van HellSing on 2/10/2008 at 21:55

By the way, what's up with your graphics? Are you using 16 bit mode or something?