you want activity?
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in this post I'll show some nice pics that were exported from the files
I pretty much did it already a while ago but the moment I pressed "create post" the whole PC bluescreened :V
so no more cool theory talk, just images and quick comments.
for most of the files I filled up the backround with black so that the brightfags could see them.
PART 1: ICONSthere's a lot of icon files, here are the ones you cannot see in-game
Possible Garage icons:
meanings? what I think:
select car, paint details(graffiti on car), menu_accept, I don't know, map, unlocks, license plate, repair, events, change car, paint car, tickets(speeding, pinkslips) buy a car, upgrade car.
there's also this thing:
there was probably a menu for every icon and this type of image was on that page at the top or sth, supposedly an upgrade menu.
There are 3 icons that look like this:
since we know that the game had a customization thingy then this suggest that there was some sort of stuff sharing system.
Quite similar to what we have in NFS2015, someone uploads a wrap, you download it and then you can apply it to your own car.
(for some fucked up reason tho, NFS2015 downloads the wrap from the server every time you launch the game. fags just couldn't keep the 1MB file locally)
so it was probably like this:
RED: download failed
BLUE: download in progress
GREEN: download complete
PART 1.5: PHONE ICONS
PART 2: MAP
map was bigger as we all have seen from the E3 footage.
however the E3 map isn't present in the final version
the current map:
The current minimap(edited the transparent area out):
there are some weird map related images in the files, loading screens when exiting a garage from certain areas?
(black area was transparent)
they are quite small tho.
for some reason they are not all in the same size, some of them are just small pieces
for some reason there's a pic like this:
2 random spike-like buildings?
many buildings missing?
smells like beta airport to me.
bigger version fitted together from other files:
I also found some images like this:
tbh I don't actually know what they are, they look like pieces of a map but the quality is shit.
the first image looks like the road scheme of Hughes park tower.
not sure about the second one.
third one looks like a small peninsula(closed island in Callahan?)
there's these 2, the lock isn't black as it is in the final and the white arrow is the same as the player icon on the minimap, except it's flipped, it's
bigger and it's white.
Blacklist racers are on black with white shadow and players colored arrows.
unused map icon for the most wanted racer?
we know that you had to find him in order to challenge him.
2 images of the map.
however those jackspots are not in their correct locations,example:
in-game now
in the files
PART 3: CARS
PART 4: MISC.
in here are the images that I didn't put anywhere else because they don't fit there as much as the others do.
3 of the player icons from the E3 demo are in the game,
Craig, Matt and Hamish.
not quite sure what this is, maybe a beta autolog introduction logo?
image of the menu, probably related to the jackspot images above.
this guy called Gergory,
a character from the early version of the game?
this picture is mostly seen near Fairhaven West. Callahan.
probably another character from the HAWAII era.
His picture however is literally everywhere.
the original Most Wanted #1 racer?
This one is a bit different, it is made in a single tone.
some facts do refer it being a character, see the horn on the top right?
and the word "Survive"
he was probably the Pursuit master. AND a most wanted racer.
you've probably already seen this one but I'll just post it here since it goes under the same category.
Not sure how many blacklist racers were originally planned since this picture shows 11 with 1 nameless.
you'll also notice that there is "Money" and "Cash" and that's pretty much the same thing in terms of currency, therefore they had to
mean something more than just random graffiti
this is from the departures screen in Ariport, notice how only rockport is mentioned from the Blackbox Era games.
It's also pretty ironic that the flight to Mount Shasta is delayed, a man died up there back in 2012.
Same goes for Chicago, they had a Teachers protest that year. They were also picked up as the place with most murders committed in 2012.
Licence plate custom covers, regular and the Criterion exclusive one.
an icon that shows a speed camera.
Speedtrap gamemode with your speed coming up in the top middle like in Carbon/MW?
black area was originally transparent
It seems that this was used for something too...
it uses the icon of "Carjacker" but it's too big for that.
It's also a colored version of the possible garage menu icon, however it's bigger than the one that I suggested was used for some type of repair/upgrade menu
HAWAII era default profile image might have been just like the default racer icon in HP2010
at some point however it might have looked like this:
not quite sure what they were meant for, some type of gamemode icons?
I guess I'm done for now.
next up: Moar Pics.
One day I'll also show some audio files, however they are more difficult to show since I'd have to listen to all of them.
QuickBMS does an excellent job at extracting them with extra bullshit data, literally have to delete ~100 bytes by hand each time it extracts one.
SWC0 extraction is at ~12% right now, I'll post the ones I've completed when I feel like it