Getting outside the map on Tram

RedDragon

<div class="IPBDescription">Be on the look out for this</div>One of the Nexzil guys managed to find a glitched spawn spot for Aliens on Tram.

It didn't really occur to me to screenshot it right away, so I'm having some trouble finding it again, but I believe it's located between the Shipping and Repair Room hives, though it might have been in Observation.

An egg somehow managed to spawn on top of some pipes which resulted in a player (me) becoming stuck outside the map.

I believe the egg was unusual, as in not any of the normal hive spawn locations. But I know very little about commanding so I don't know if the Alien commander can intentionally drop eggs in places, or if it was just dumb luck from using one of those egg spawning structures.

I'm going to go try to replicate the effect (and learn a bit more about how alien commanding works) today, but I thought I'd put this up here in case I fail.

At best guess, the place to start looking is the southern half of Tram, starting with the bottom end of Repair room, through Logistics and Shipping, and the northern portion of Observation.

If I had to narrow down a suspect, I'd probably say the grating on the ceiling next to the resource node in Repair room, as I've managed to spawn whips up there as an Alien Commander before.

I'll update this if I find out more.

Squirreli_

<!--quoteo(post=1977025:date=Sep 13 2012, 05:15 PM:name=RedDragon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RedDragon @ Sep 13 2012, 05:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1977025"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I believe the egg was unusual, as in not any of the normal hive spawn locations. But I know very little about commanding so I don't know if the Alien commander can intentionally drop eggs in places, or if it was just dumb luck from using one of those egg spawning structures.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Khamm can place eggs near shifts at a cost of 1 tres. I think there are many places where comm/khamm can accidentally place structures on pipes and other parts of roof. This could be one of those cases.

RedDragon

Seems very likely. I also just wanted to add, and I don't know HOW this happened, but while I was flying around outside the map as a Lerk, I stumbled upon a marine ARC that had somehow driven itself through the floor just behind the Tech Point in server room.

It was angled such that it looked like it had driven down the small ramp behind the Tech Point (east end of the room if looking at the map) and simply continued down at that angle through the floor for about a yard. I could land on it, but I could not land on whatever invisible surface it was resting on.

There were about four ARCs positioned behind the Tech Point, directly above the glitched one, so I can only imagine that this one had somehow been pushed through the floor by the others.

Edit: One other thing I found, was that while I could not hit marines through the walls with spikes, even if shooting at their feet, they could most certainly hit me if I was resting on the wall. As well, if I found mines, I could detonate them with spikes by shooting at the surface they were attached to. Just adding observations and information, not suggesting any of this is a glitch or some such.