Lost mission location isn't retconned, it makes sense on the map

[BonciuADV]

Please forgive my post quality.

I wanted to find if the Mars City underground in Lost Mission was actually near the original underground, and just found out it is! IDK if this is a coincidence or if the developers actually thought this out, but look at this badly edited map:

Now i'll make a possible route for the monorail, so Mars City, Recycling Sector, Site 1/2/3, Delta and Communication and Exis could be connected.

 

[Captain Ventris]

A Doom 3 thread?! How did you escape containment?!

[BonciuADV]

4 hours ago, Captain Ventris said:

A Doom 3 thread?! How did you escape containment?!

By getting broken to the submolecular level by a process that destabilizes the atomic structure of pulverized iron oxide and separates it into subatomic particles which are then siphoned off to create new elements.

Like alchemists of old the Elemental Phase Deconstructor allows us to transform red Martian soil into clean air, fresh water and hydrogen fuel, the building blocks for a sustainable human friendly Martian environment. And this is only the beginning.

With continued research we envision creating evermore complex molecules, even organic matter itself. Atom by atom the UAC is building an even brighter future for humankind.

 

[Caffeine Freak]

@BonciuADV Very interesting. I'd be intrigued to see if the team actually made the layout of The Lost Mission make total sense in relation to the base game. 

 

One thing I will say about the layout of Doom 3: out of curiosity, I once put all the Delta maps together in the editor, because I wanted to see if Delta 1 actually lined up with where they had you exit out of the ceiling crawlspace in the Delta 3 area (this is in Delta 5, *after* you get back from Hell), and... yeah, it's not even close. It's like a mile away. So I'd be interested to see if they actually took the time to line things up in The Lost Mission.

 

I don't know how the rest of the Doom 3 maps line up with each other.

Edited March 17, 2022 by Caffeine Freak

[Datacore85]

Memorial version of Doom 3 with The Lost Mission ? Nice !

[Tetzlaff]

Nice find. My first thought was that maybe Lost Mission was based on a scrapped part of the original game, but it doesn't look like it. So probably a coincidence.

 

By the way, were are those map graphics from?

Edited March 16, 2022 by Tetzlaff

[BonciuADV]

On 3/17/2022 at 1:23 AM, Tetzlaff said:

Nice find. My first thought was that maybe Lost Mission was based on a scrapped part of the original game, but it doesn't look like it. So probably a coincidence.

 

By the way, were are those map graphics from?

They are from the official Prima Guide. Prima also has a nice and detalied Quake 4 walkthrough. Sad that they don't make stuff like that anymore.

[Arl]

Interesting.