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In Descent II´s 1st Secret Level \"Segment City\" I just found a double Exit-Cube:

The level has 4 exit-cubes that return you to the normal level you came from:
- behind the first door from starting point
- at the very far end of the level
- at the top of the reactor room
- and in the room opposite of the reactor room

The last one is a cube in the ceiling of the room. And above it there is yet another exit-cube.
(you can see it when using the Full-Map-Cheat)

Since the cube in question lies beyond the exit-cube one could never ever enter it

I opened the level in \"Descent Level Editor XP\" but - to be honest - I couldn´t find what the surplus cube does.
For reference: it is Cube No. 20 (beyond Cube No. 21)

Does anyone know what this cube is / does / means?
Is there a way to reach it? (Guided Missiles don´t seem to work)
Is this a super-ultra-secret?
Or just an artefact from an earlier design-stage?

Thanks in advance!

I remember something like that in a Vertigo secret level as well. Just a level design artefact I'd say.

yeah. You need the cube behind the door (or in this case a portal even though it's a door in the editor) to be able to place a door. You can't really put a door on a wall and it goes nowhere.

Sometime the automap will render that cube and sometimes it won't. I'm unsure of the reason why.

level designer error, that's all.

Something Brizzna's Ice Palace I think. Vertigo secret level 2 or 3.

I left an artefact in one of my levels in TEW as well, just for the hell of it. It's supposed to look like a secret area you can't access until you check it out in a mission editor for the sign I popped in there. Hehe.

Thanks a lot!

Nice to know that one has´nt missed a secret

@DarkHorse, DarkFlameWolf & Sirius (etc.):

Even as I wanted to \"just\" test the current D2X-XL \"a bit\", I now find myself playing TEW.

Thank you very, very much indeed!
It´s hard to express what your work means to me.

Descent rules. D2X-XL rules. And you rule, too.

That had to be said

Thanks. It was fun to make something that pushed Descent 2 about as far as it could go, too. (Short of D2X-XL features, which nobody has taken advantage of the full potential of yet, although Pumo's current project comes about as close as anything.)