Deep Rock Galactic’s Most Hidden Area… 

Ah that's super interesting! It's nice to hear the explanation from a real developer who knows what they're talking about.

I think cutscenes interruptions are one of the best parts of multiplayer games, and I'm kinda sad that there's no barrel shenanigans. But why would there be a forge on a mission?

​@@TlalocTemporalIt's single level with all these things so its either everything or nothing. Probably when you forge on Space Rig, there is the winning screen hall somewhere as well

​@@TlalocTemporal My guess is to keep it in memory to speed up load times.

Ah that makes perfect sense! It's all coming together for me now.

Bruh what is my Spy Professor doing in Deep Rock man

Dwarf Psychology when lmao

I think it’s mainly the character select screen for players joining an active mission

Yeah that makes sense. Note that when you complete a mission, the end scene (with victory poses and mission stats) plays immediately after. THEN the client does the loading transitioning back to the Space Rig. That means the victory pose/mission stats scene, and the performance pass point scene with your dwarf standing on the left, is actually part of the mission level (in one of the hidden separated "movie set" areas that this video talks about).. they're not on the Space Rig level, nor are they on a different intermediary level that would waste time with another loading transition.

Ohhhhhh you're totally right, that must be it! And that explains why both areas load in.

Makes sense! I suppose the developers just made all 3 of those areas into a single "level" that they could load in for every cutscene, which probably simplifies the whole process rather than loading one level in for one thing and another for another. Interestingly, I've been trying pausing the game with Universal Unreal Unlocker (UUU) during different parts the end screen process, and the camera does just move around the area. It actually moves over to the forge at one point if you use UUU to hide the HUD, and then weirdly there's a version of you that's way way off in the distance standing on nothing. I'm going to have to keep messing around with this even more.

​@@MusNothus-- I hope you stumble upon whatever bug makes every UI background the Forge. It's very annoying.

It doesn't exactly blow my mind per se, but it always does interest me a bunch to know if and where certain things are located out of bounds in a game, and why exactly they are there in the first place. Learning that these are actual areas you can explore, and the fact they are there during missions, it is very interesting!

Ah you're probably right!

It's so cool that you can actually go to it! Very surreal walking around up there.

Now you should go there during a deep dive Ron. 😅

ah that makes sense, yeah

sand

that would be very cool

nitra

i would guess it's easier to make a doppelganger do the missing ending animations for some reason and maybe keeping the real thing nearby makes sure everything like the cosmetics load properly.

@-VictorGames It seems like this should exist in somewhere around the space rig, but I looked around and couldn't find it anywhere. I even went outside the skybox with the free cam and couldn't see it. But it still seems like it should exist somewhere in that area, because otherwise yeah the forge being part of this makes no sense. So if anyone finds it, let me know! Maybe it really is still hidden somewhere. Actually, I'll have to check if it's loaded inside the upper part of the space rig, because that part has no collision and could hide it...

@-VictorGames Update: I tried looking for this area around the space rig again and then I realized that the reason I can't find it is that I can't toggle on let there be light in the space rig, because that mod only becomes usable in the caves. BUT, as I was looking for this area, I found something else weird. There is something called the "icon generator" which is a dwarf mannequin that is used to display the cosmetics in the season terminal when you hover over them. This dummy object appears super high up above the main space rig and is super tiny, and when you hover over items in the season terminal, it'll actually change what that mannequin is wearing. Presumably this exists for the same reason as the liminal space rig.

@@MusNothus Neat find!

I would figure these do have to exist somewhere outside the space rig, because of how they seamlessly load in and out when using the terminals in the space rig. Also, the pedestal is likely used for when you pause in-game and see your dwarf, and during the end screen where it shows Season XP

Yeah it's interesting that in that video by Seels, the area is much closer to the map than it is now, so I guess the developers must've moved it

Goosack

Mushroom

My best guess is that they just wanted to have all these things load in en bloc rather than loading one in for one thing and another in for another thing

My best guess is that they just wanted to have all these things load in en bloc rather than loading one in for one thing and another in for another thing

Ohhhh no I didn't think of that but now I definitely will try it!

oh yeah that 3 year old video, actually thanks couldnt find it

@@D3lpDelight Yeah it's interesting this has been around/known for awhile, but it seems like the location is farther away from the map now

@@MusNothus probably the result of actuall map being much bigger, vertically at least

rock and stone!

One RU-vid layout change away from not working anymore

that isn't it. its a reference to the song "Killing in the Name Of"

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If you're referring to that area then yeah I totally agree. It's the kind of place that almost looks right, but not quite because there's stuff missing.