: Yes, good point. The trough is a unique feature and makes a fantastic battle
: zone, but in standard play you'd probably only ever go in there to kill
: the two passage Elites for a few seconds of fun. And perhaps most players
: don't even bother with that , since there's no actual need to trigger
: them.

Yeah. My recollection is at least I'd pop into the central mesa with the banshees on top in TB, but it's always a weird spot considering you're probably just blasting through with your vehicles at that point. And then the trench is off to the side of the clear point forward, so unless you're lost it doesn't really draw you that way. There's a surprising number of kind of dead zones in the area (as a kid I always wanted to get up to where the wraiths are before heading inside with the tank.) I wonder if it relates to how they were reworking the mission through development and its connection to Two Betrayals (one of the YouTubers datamining the game found there was originally going to be aerial options throughout and some exploration of the pulse generator rooms.)