Display MoreMAPS! Is there a more thrilling concept in the universe than fantasy maps? There is not, which is why our ongoing atlas of the Tri-System has produced never before seen complete maps of the seven planets that receive PAD transit maps in the game (Karatikus doesn't have anywhere to visit). During normal play, the 'special' locations connected to the plot and unique missions don't appear… so there was a little work involved in getting the complete versions!
And did you know that each of these transit systems uses a different kind of vehicle (with a respective 3D cutscene for each)? Here's the cheat sheet:
Anhur = bus
Bex = blimp
Crius = train
Hades = elevator
Hephaestus = subway
Hermes = yellow taxi
Janus IV = town carWhile plotting these out we made an interesting little discovery (beyond that nothing is very close to anything else in the Tri-System): an unused thumbnail representing a location on Hermes! Here's what it looks like:
We've looked at scripts and storyboards but we haven't been able to figure out what this might have been for. There's just no location on Hermes that's unaccounted for! It seems to be the same set as Shernikov on Crius… but cropped and edited differently.
We get a good look at this set during the special transition scene used for the times Lev must visit Shernikov:
Incidentally, all of the thumbnails arranged together really give you a cool look at the variety of 3D sets created for Privateer 2. There's a lot of different colors of light in The Darkening!
