Apparently the dam island was originally going to be an objective, you had to jump on a boat to get there, there is a large machine gun over there, I suspect it was taken out due to distance being so large and the fact that it would have been pretty boring to cover that much open ground, and the game looked better with it over there as it encouraged speculation and realism. The APC, they said didn't they, there were issues with what would happen if you got hit while in the cab etc and it didn't add that much to the game and it was probably a lot of specific code for something so small. They missed the deadline multiple times and would have been under huge pressure to finish it ASAP (tiny inexperienced overworked team). The multiplayer caused controversy when they put it in as it was so late, but it was by far the right choice as it turned a great game into a legendary one. The citadel was a crude looking "level" mostly used to Test AI and navigation long before multiplayer was implemented AFAIK. There are over 60 people in the credits, maybe some fresh perspectives are needed. It was a miracle the game was as good as it was, it has a lot of flaws by todays standards but at the time it was really fresh and career defining game at the time and its a special game for a lot of people, the last great decade (90's while all of us were young and new etc :). that game for 10+ million people cements the happiest decade for (most) of their lives. the only problem is when you work on a game like that, I would imagine you'll spend the rest of your life never being able to beat it. Its like friends, or those childhood actors like Culkin in Home Alone, Id imagine its quite a difficult thing to deal with.

@@quakecon2009 great info they should definitely track down those people and ask questions. So many wonderful mysteries!

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