/vr/ - Retro Games

there just isnt enough information to know for sure. apparently the knife has its own slot was because you were planned to be able to have melee options for the standard arm window. but according to gemini this was aborted by our build, leaving an awkward extra window for the knife in the menu screen you cant interact with. this feature, especially the pipe was eventually used in outbreak which probably means the different knives in that game also would have happened here. i wonder why it was decisively removed so early. personally i believe claires zappy gun was also planned for this slot as a police issued stun gun which again was reused in outbreak and remake with its special use in the latter being the proof.
gemini also stated that there was enough code evidence that they were in fact going to use the limping system in addition to the visual injury one which is odd as it is never shown in any build and this one is pretty early.
theres a lot of room for theory based on reused assets in future games. like i said about the stun gun i also think the fire extinguisher used in the beginning of the game to get ada out had optional uses all the way at the end when the lab goes on fire. i say this because of veronica. also the item has a use counter here. it may even act as another standard arm. to slow zombies down? but use it all and you screw yourself out of extra goodies in the lab?
this shit is so fun to think of. i wish i knew how to hack.