City of Exploration: Faultline Shanty Town

[Logan Darklighter]

I've seen this area before. I guess it's easy to miss because there's normally no reason to go in that direction. I don't think there are even
any mission doors there.

As to the hole in the world.

Actually, the one that I knew of was at in the south area of Faultline beyond the dam. In fact, if you exited the "control room" area of the dam,
immediately turned right and walked along the wall of the dam (facing north) there was a tree close to the wall with a low spot in the ground nearby. That low
spot used to hide a hole in the geometry that was easy to fall through. It's since been filled in during Beta before the new Faultline went to the live
servers. But I took Lora'Lai through that hole and flew around for a bit under the world.

IIRC the dam itself extended a ways down, so you had to fly under it and then up again to see the rest of the zone from the underside. Here was the first
screenshot I took.

What you're looking at here, off in the distance, is the building on the shore of the new flooded lake that has the scaffolding next to it. If you've
run the Faultline Arc a few times, you should recognize it as the area where you and Doc Delilah (if you can get her up there past her fear of elevators)
defeat Captain Castillo. Bet you didn't know the ENTIRE building is actually rendered below the surface of the lake and ground, eh?



Wondering what the HELL the follow screen is? You're looking up from underneath the ground (which is not rendered from this POV) at the tunnel system under
the west part of Faultline. Those red "pathways"? You're looking at the ceilings of the tunnels that run to the old abandoned supergroup bases
that Arachnos is plundering to find the Psychochronometron.



Again - this requires some explanation. You're looking up at the junction between the War Wall and the Dam. Off to the right side of the picture are the
fake buildings that make up the "Cityscape" that you can see dimly through the Warwall if you bother to try and look through it.



These buildings look solid like normal. But there's nothing "there". No collision detection. You fly through them (or the ground, out here!) and
it's all just a phantom.





The following is a couple of screens showing the tunnel between Faultline and Skyway.





Edge of the world... Pretty bizarre, eh? From this direction, many of the "ghost buildings" aren't fully rendered.



You want to see bizarre though? Look at this! That last screen shows one of the hottubs in the Apartment complex from beneath!



Kheldian Tentacles waiting for an unsuspecting bather?



Believe it or not, this is the Hospital! Although the layout of the floors is consistant with what you experience in-game (patient floors are above the
lobby), the placement of all of this well below the actual building leads to the odd circumstance that the lobby is actually the farthest of the floors from
the street!







Although for some reason the hospital's interior is not visible from the outside/underside except for the reclamators and doors, it was possible to push
Lora'Lai just a little bit through the wall to take this rare shot from behind the nurses station.



The Donut shop from probably the most unique angle you'll ever see.



This shot... it's just hilarious to me in a way I just can't describe. ^_^



A view of the parking garage beneath the Trainer and fountains.



Apparently some of the old weird grandeur of the old Faultline Zone still exists below the waterline.



More of the tunnel system from earlier, this time looking up at the ceilings of the "ruined bases" that actually exist at least in part outside
the warwalls of the zone.



Striking out for the edge of the unknown, I decided to see if there was any "edge" to the overall map. I set a waypoint on the map behind me and
just put flight on auto.



After about half and hour, I the waypoint showed Lora about 40 miles from Faultline with no end in sight. I decided to use my Pocket D transporter to get out
rather than fly back the whole way. But before I did, I caught another bizarre image. Looking down... at the moon.



This hole in the world no longer exists. But I was glad to catch a look "behind the curtain" as it were while I had the opportunity.