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The Knowledge: Cut Content

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:17 am
by dummiesboy
The Knowledge is a crash course mission for London, intended to teach you the layout of the city. It does a woefully bad job at this though, taking you to only 7 monuments by default.

However, I discovered tonight that there are actually a total of 20 usable audio files for this mission, naming off over a dozen monuments never mentioned in the mission. This is my interpretation of what this mission would look like if it wasn't cut down, with the order of the checkpoints being largely inspired by the numbering of the audio files.



There are two additional audio files naming monuments which are not present in the game. One of which is National Theatre (replaced by generic buildings ingame), and most interestingly, Victoria Station. This one would suggest that Angel Studios originally intended to extend the playable area south of the Thames river.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 1:29 pm
by sajmon14
I guess they have cut the Victoria station because they would need to make it accessible like the underground stations so people wouldnt complain :P Anyway great find :D

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 1:53 pm
by COOLGUY200
Great find. :D

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 8:22 pm
by Franch88
Very good work with discovering this and recreating the mission, but I see that your Revisited mod helped in making it. :wink: Interesting theory about the two missing monuments said.
But, where is written or said the mission name "The Knowledge"?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 11:53 pm
by FXANBSS
Interesting find. :)

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 12:07 am
by Diatosta
But, where is written or said the mission name "The Knowledge"?
I would guess here :P
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 3:15 am
by Fuyunyan
In another mission i found a london cab just sitting on the road. No, it was not a traffic car.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 6:04 am
by dummiesboy
I see that your Revisited mod helped in making it. :wink:
Not really. It's entirely possible to bust through the north gates and go around that way. I ran the race a few times that way to make sure there's enough time. I just saw an opportunity to put my otherwise useless shortcut to use. :)

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 8:12 pm
by Franch88
Yeah, right, I couldn't remind of its existence. :P
In fact, your Buckingham Palace gives a little cut help. :wink:

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 8:27 pm
by dummiesboy
Yeah, right, I couldn't remind of its existence. :P
In fact, your Buckingham Palace gives a little cut help. :wink:
I built it more for the novelty of going inside the building than anything... didn't realize you had such an opinion on it.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 10:42 pm
by Franch88
I know that you made it for that reason, also because the building has an empty space inside IRL. Anyway, in the case of that lesson mission, that edit to the building gives a cut help to save at least 1 second. Your video shows it clearly.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 3:36 pm
by TONY9
Are you planning to put this up for download anytime soon?

Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 5:14 pm
by COOLGUY200
In another mission i found a london cab just sitting on the road. No, it was not a traffic car.
That one was discovered a long time ago but it's nice to see that you found it out yourself. :wink:

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:59 am
by twcfan
link?

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 4:44 pm
by KingAndy
Afaik Dummiesboy didn't released this... yet. ;) I think it's actually a fun little thing worth to be released as a mod.