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The Rio Dead End

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:03 am
by SO Remixer
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I've noticed that there's a lot of speculation about the dead end road in Rio, and how part of it is blocked off, thus rendering it inaccessible, or is it? I glitched my way through the road block to find out what lies beyond, and here's how:

There's a glitch/bug in the game that allows you to edit your car when it is in the air/mid jump. Once you exit the vehicle, it keeps moving through the air, and while its doing this, it can go through barriers/walls:
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Now to get through the barrier, it took me a very long time. It was hard finding a way to get airborne, and you have to be going at the right speed and hit the barrier at the right angle in order to have a chance of exploiting this bug. Pretty much in short: it takes a ton of luck. But if you keep at it, eventually you'll succeed:
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So this is how my car looked right before I entered it and glitched through the gate

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See you on the other side...

Success! Now to see what lies beyond...
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In short, all there was was an unfinished road. Kinda disappointing but not like I expected much to begin with.

The only other thing I have to note is that people started spawning there:
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Re: The Rio Dead End

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:34 am
by Vortex
Nice discover !
At least, you tried to know what is behind this dead end :D

But why do you have Playstation controls on your screen ?

Re: The Rio Dead End

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:55 am
by SO Remixer
Vortex wrote:Nice discover !
At least, you tried to know what is behind this dead end :D

But why do you have Playstation controls on your screen ?
I was using ePSXe on an Android phone

Re: The Rio Dead End

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:26 am
by Krishty
Great job & awesome creative solution!

I just checked the extracted level files:
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Which is a lot more boring, but same result :)

Re: The Rio Dead End

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:29 am
by cleone
The point of that area was just for the last mission, nothing more. Still neat glitch. Rio had a lot of bugs and a lot of ways to get to spots you weren't supposed to... Then again Chicago had raining cars...

Re: The Rio Dead End

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:37 am
by VAIMAHDO
cleone wrote:The point of that area was just for the last mission, nothing more. Still neat glitch. Rio had a lot of bugs and a lot of ways to get to spots you weren't supposed to... Then again Chicago had raining cars...
And it never gets old. (Y)
Awesome discovery by the way, I usually don't go near that area, I usually visit the lake/canyon area.