Spikes in odd place.

Yes, I've known about this for quite a while, I'm pretty sure it's old.

 

Whether the find is old or not, the question is: Why are the spikes there?

If I were to take a guess, I'd say it would be to prevent any collision glitches from landing in that small section. Try going there in debug mode and going under the spikes, or even move the spikes yourself. See what happens when you land there.

 

Yeah, the bouncing thing is a collision glitch. OOZ has a lot of them, actually. They just aren't very obvious.

It's possible you can fix this bug, but it would be pretty pointless. When you change the level design, try not to make any setups like that. That is, considering you mind having bugs like this in your levels. Otherwise, do as you see fit.

 

Maybe Sonic Team place that there for nobody jump there and see the bug? (The Worst Theory Ever?)

 

This isn't the only level with spikes in an unusual place. It could have been just another mistake.

 

They might have had a diffrent layout at an ealier time and when they redid it the spikes were possibly never moved.

 

If you go down there, you can get caught there, and causes you to go really really fast, it's like a cheat of sorts.

 

It may just be there just because they had no other place to put it, although that's rather unlikely.

 

That makes no sense. They didn't need to put it in at all.

 

A lot of things Sega did don't make sense. Remember the spikes inside that one tile in CPZ? Completely pointless, but there anyway.

 

They put them there so you wouldn't see that wierd bug, obviously...

 

Level Designers often find bugs in the programming that isn't obvious to the programmers. Perhaps these Odd Spikes were originally flags, setup by the level designers, to point the programmers to strange bugs in the gameplay. Then, the bugs could either be tweaked, or if the programmers can't fix the bug, they could leave in the spike to stop those events from happening..

Or.. They're just weird spikes.

 

XD

Yeah, well, that little "code" is fun to play around with. Try it sometime. Go up there, without debug and get stuck in there. Get out, and you'll be super fast. It's quite enjoyable.

 

It's not pointless. I one time glitched through the tiles. Without that, I would have been stuck there until "Time Over".

 

On top of the odd CPZ spike and OOZ spike placement, there is also a spike that's placed oddly in Metropilos(sp?) Zone, I think it was act three, near a a semi in wall gear tile.

 

They put the spikes there to cover up the level design flaw that should have been fixed to begin with, IMO.

 

My theory is that it's a bug with the object. That, uh, springy object that launches you up. Yeah. Whatever that's called. It's buggy. The spring zone doesn't properly terminate on that particular instance.