Yea so I don't want to like keep making threads about the same concept but I feel like this development was significant enough to justify it. Consider this to be a little addendum to my "Exploring the end of Oblivion's playable area" group of threads. If you don't know what those are, I'll post some screenshots. I wasn't planning on making another, but...
Long story short, I had this ordeal with a corrupted clone I made of my Oblivion character, and I couldn't permanently kill him because he respawns, so I did that glitch where if you delete the Wizard's Tower DLC while you're in it, you get teleported to a Bethesda test cell. The plan was to kill him there and leave the test cell, then re-install the DLC so he can never escape.
Well I killed him there, but before I fast travelled out of the test cell I decided to explore the terrain a bit. It's an outdoor area set in Bruma-like environment with some houses around it, but past that it's a flat, brown plain. At least, that's what it's like at first.
Continuing further out yielded a bunch of utterly featureless terrain. Like, smooth hills and mountains. I kept running for a few minutes. Notably on my map it didn't look like I was moving at all, or at least I was barely moving...
And then I came upon a cabin. Like, a small cabin, in between these featureless mountains. Just lying there, in this random Bethesda test cell.
What the fuck is going on? Why did Bethesda / Todd put all this shit in the game? Whose cabin is it supposed to be? I want to keep looking around, but adding this to the water squares and random mountains I found in the last endeavor, I'm really starting to question Bethesda's sanity.
Bethesda used a proceduraly generated system to make the world. It probably just glitched since your so far outside the play area and made this random shit.
Alexander Garcia
>Bethesda used a proceduraly generated system to make the world
I dont think speed tree counts m8
Henry Hall
I get that for the mountains and shit, but how would that make a cabin?
Jeremiah Cox
I missed you my Nickies man.
Have a bump.
Michael Kelly
Other pic from the test cell, does the sky continue underground in this game or something?
Hudson Morgan
Ay, I missed the last stream. How far did you make it outside of OB's map? Also, have you considered asking somebody on OB's dev team about all this shit?
Anthony Foster
Well the only way to find out is by going inside right Nickies?
But I mean if your in the test cell still I would be careful with that clone.
Zachary James
I made it to basically the end. I managed to measure the sides in terms of seconds ran at max speed. Once I passed a certain point my body mass-scattered and the game crashes.
Camden Butler
Damn, you officially archived CHIM.
Nicholas Cooper
The door's locked. I guess I should say blocked, because there's no option at all to open it.
This is what 1st person looked like near the end, with those dangly bits teleporting around the screen with jerks.
Parker Hall
It's common as fuck for random areas/objects/assets to end up outside the map and never get tidied up.
How new are you to games?
Dylan Young
That's not outside the map. That's outside the map in a test cell...
Grayson White
I bumped the original Nickies thread, when it was on page 9 with 0 replies I feel awful
>Aren't skyboxes shaped like semi-spheres? Depends on the game.
Some are literal boxes.
Joshua Brooks
pretty much, yeah. just like shit i'd have no chance of seeing on my own.
>entire wikia cool, thanks
Adam Miller
So, any of you got some links for Rule 34 fingerplay bowser twins ?
Austin Lee
Well whaddya know, Twitch deleted the previous broadcasts. That's what I get for not subscribing or whatever. Only one recent stream still exists on my twitch channel, JinjaBaker45.
There's a bunch of highlights from the amazing stream saved as memes or screenshots but they're very scattered.
Jacob Lewis
>Well whaddya know, Twitch deleted the previous broadcasts. That's what I get for not subscribing or whatever. well fuck. there goes my comfy shit to fall asleep to plans.
ill check out the highlights tho, thanks.
Liam Morris
Sorry about that, the closest thing to it would be an archive of the concurrent thread, here:
Since it's really not difficult to do on PC, I could boot up the game and stream a quick run to the end again if you people want to see it.
Luke Richardson
Inside that cabin lies the end the world on all levels both virtual and physical.
Liam Clark
Wait a sec, can't I boot up the PC version and explore the test cell faster that way anyway?
Xavier Brown
Throwback
Julian Foster
>I dont think speed tree counts m8
It wasn't just SpeedTree, although they left unchecked several areas because they ran out of time and thus had trees floating in the middle of the sky. The dungeons and a fair portion of the wilderness were procedural generated - something they stopped doing, or at least claimed to stop doing, in Skyrim.
Nathaniel Flores
this is todd's palace
Thomas Perry
Looking through a list of Oblivion test cells, there's a few called Toddland. Did he seriously name shit after himself?
Brayden Foster
TURN BACK THIS INSTANT
Alexander Carter
If Todd was a Persona 5 villain, what would his Palace be?
Lucas Cruz
Ok, fuck it, I'm gonna stream this shit in like 45 minutes. There's so much hidden shit in this game, I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.
Luis Foster
A unholy cathedral that has every bug from every game he worked on as shadows
Andrew Watson
>You were the guy who said "spooky....."? Yes I feel guilty of this autism
Leo Adams
>Shadow Todd turns into Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas
Thomas Sanders
Look on the bright side, there was that one McDonalds pasta on the OG thread that was funny.
Adam Garcia
Post more screenshots
Henry Green
NOT SO FAST
TWO-PREORDERS PER CUSTOMER, TODD? I DON'T THINK SO
Jaxon Watson
Sorry for a lack of updates, try to keep the thread alive until I can start streaming in like 15 min.
>people told nickies it would never end he would be running forever
Apologize
Eli Hill
Ok, gonna start streaming now. Let me just get set up. Twitch name is JinjaBaker45, I'll start with running to the end of the map quickly again as a warm up.
Dylan Baker
Fucking hell, give me like a minute to sort out my shitty stream software. I blame Todd desu.
Justin Murphy
None of the dungeons were procedurally generated they hired 1 guy to make them all. It's why they're shit
Evan Gutierrez
hurry up you fat fuck
Sebastian Clark
RIP Nickies
Jace Price
Stream's up you plebs
Ryan Collins
IT'S UP
https www.twitch tv jinjabaker45
https www.twitch tv jinjabaker45
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Easton Clark
Is this what Chim is like?
Liam Lopez
get in
Blake Bailey
What the fuck just happened?
Logan Rivera
Nickies commanded me to bump the thread
Nolan Nelson
...
Aaron Lewis
>-Love, Todd
Colton Lee
>Love, Todd
Wyatt Wilson
AUTISM
Justin Myers
Do you archive these I need a screenshot of Anor Londo imperial edition
Joshua Young
What am I looking at?
Michael Sullivan
>that zombie in the room upstairs by itself in the middle of nowhere in todd's testchamber
Alexander Kelly
Whats with this meme? Did colbert sperg out on tv?
Colton Sullivan
>a single room floating in a black, infinite void
Samuel Baker
wtf this room
Landon Gomez
>trying to create a creepy pasta this hard
Brandon Jackson
holy fucking shit THIS IS WHAT TODD WAS HIDING THAT DEMONIC FUCK
Jayden Price
>comfy oblivion OST playing all distorted >the fucking void room PANIC
Owen Foster
jesus christ
Logan Harris
god damn these threads are proof this place is infested with 13yo
Andrew Kelly
What's wrong with this thread?
Bentley Gray
This.
Jayden Thomas
What 13 y/o remembers oblivion? lmfao
Ethan Edwards
Unless there's something I'm missing, hasn't Nickies just created all this shit himself to ruse people into thinking this is in the game?
Xavier James
He's just exploring test areas. I mean, everything he's shown has a fairly practical and understandable purpose for a game designer testing out things. It's just fun realizing that it's also kinda creepy outside of that context.
Ryan Bell
>test character named kill me what did they mean with that?
Asher Williams
...
Landon Robinson
Nickies, my man! I missed you! rule 34 fingerplay bowser twins
Kevin Diaz
>WHOA DEV TEST AREAS MY GAME IS HAUNTED GUYS >WOW RUNNING OUT OF THE MAP IS SOOO TRIPPY XD these threads are cringy as fuck.
Julian Nguyen
That fucking room with corrupted clones though. The pic above doesn't do it justice.
Ryder Morales
Here's another view. It was funner watching it live, my guess is it's testing swimming animations for each race
Elijah Perez
>npc called test guy >is a girl
Jack Johnson
Just because your old, boring and jaded doesnt mean everyone here is. Sit in the corner and shut up old man
Alexander Torres
You can't deny that test areas are interesting to see, at least.
Anthony Watson
The way he just suddenly appeared in a completely pitch black void, and the prompt said "Corrupted clone" as if there was just one in front of him. And then he used the light spell which revealed dozens of demonic slaves. Shit was terrifying
Caleb Baker
Care to explain this, Todd?
Colton Hughes
yeah every time his show is on
Bentley Torres
Wtf!?
Josiah Diaz
STOP.
SEARCHING.
NOW.
Easton Nelson
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING TODD?
WHAT'S DOWN THERE?
Nolan Cooper
The game doesn't procedurally generate map in real time. It has a static map that was partially procedurally generated during development.
Isaac Morris
>this thread
Jackson Rogers
ANSWER ME TODD
IS THERE SOMETHING, DEEP DOWN THERE, YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW TO US?
