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PC's might just come in handy for once!

Posted By: Joyeuse (208.129.184.78)
Date: 12/17/1999 at 11:06 p.m.

Was checkin' out Marathon's story page. Found this. Dunno if you all know about this already, but here it is. Little disjointed, sorry 'bout that.

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Seth Graham writes:

I don't know if the Story page ever really deals with Myth-related items, but it seems Bungie has issued us all a challenge to find an as-yet unfound

easter egg hidden in the game.

I quote, from the Myth Townhall news forum:

Subject: You think you know all the Myth II Easter Eggs? Posted By: Ryan Hylland

Think again. There is one Easter Egg that no one has ever found in our program. I don't want to give it away but here is a hint:

You'll need a hex editor installed to find the clue.

Have fun and good luck!

He has, also, emailed the people at www.myther.com with a similar message; go visit their site to see not only this, but some interesting screenshots one

"redX" has pulled from his hexing of Fear.

Along these lines, I refer to a few suspicious lines from the Myth II Handbook, authored by Deathwhore (Charles Holt). In the section devoted to

easter eggs in the Myth II game, we find this quote:

"The PC version of the editing tools contain as as of yet undiscovered easter egg. The programmer, Jonathon Haas, won't say what it is or how to

trigger it, but did let on to me that they both share a separate file which gives it away."

This, obviously, would exclude the Mac folks.. and I'm suspicious that this isn't what Mr. Hylland is referring to (just a hunch).

When I got the Handbook, I did some poking. The only file I could find that both Fear and Loathing used (found via brute force; trying to modify files

while either program was opened) was a file in the 'local' folder named 'myth2.' IMO, this is merely a lock file to prevent the opening of other Myth

programs.. though I'm not 100% certain. :)

This search ended up fruitless for me, so I gave up until this new challenge was issued.

The Handbook /also/ has a line that suggests Myth may have more than the two known secret levels in it. The quote is thus: "Bungie would prefer I not

say how many secret levels there actually are, but there are two that are widely known." (page 234)

Given that Myth II has 400-odd megs of data files, it's probably not hard to hide extra tags in there somewhere. If Holt's statement indicates there

certainly is another secret level, I believe this is what Mr. Hylland is referring to.

Why do I harass the Story page with this? :)

Well, the readers here have an amazing track record with sorting out puzzles that Bungie hands it's fans. I can think of no better group to tackle the

problem. ;)

I mean, when Bungie issues a challenge.. we gotta respond, right?

As Seth points out the Easter Egg is only in the PC version of Myth.

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Well, you PC usin' Myth freaks, get offa the crapper and take a look around!

-Joyeuse

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