I've got most of a theory.... People love that location to screw with, particularly, Gortash. It's out of the way, with no observers, easy to fast travel to, allowing you to quickly kidnap pretty much anyone for all sorts of strange exploits including just chucking Gortash over the edge to his death without needing to fight him and with no guards to back him up. Given that, it's easy to imagine that people felt like screwing around with Orin and pulling the same maneuver to her - if for no other reason to see if you can kill her before the duel comes up. From there, it's easy to imagine that people want to experiment with more ways to screw with Orin such as using mage hand to punch her or some other weird stuff. Which leaves a weird question: why would people put a dead party member into her inventory? And I don't know. I have part of a theory and that is that it's somehow related to the Shadowbox exploit which speed runners live and breathe. Shadowboxing is where they immediately kill Shadowheart, put her in the box, and then chuck the box across the map. Why Shadowheart? Because she's the first companion you can recruit. And since a party member is over on that side of the map, the entire party somehow ends up on that side of the map. So maybe that somehow plays into this?
I wonder if they anticipated players finding a way to get there
ahh i saw this in a world record run and it bugged me that i couldn't figure out what they did to get here! Thanks
I found a different dev room for act 2. I assume there's one for each separate loading zone?
WTF, how are people even thinking of these things! WPGG
I've got most of a theory....
People love that location to screw with, particularly, Gortash. It's out of the way, with no observers, easy to fast travel to, allowing you to quickly kidnap pretty much anyone for all sorts of strange exploits including just chucking Gortash over the edge to his death without needing to fight him and with no guards to back him up. Given that, it's easy to imagine that people felt like screwing around with Orin and pulling the same maneuver to her - if for no other reason to see if you can kill her before the duel comes up. From there, it's easy to imagine that people want to experiment with more ways to screw with Orin such as using mage hand to punch her or some other weird stuff.
Which leaves a weird question: why would people put a dead party member into her inventory? And I don't know. I have part of a theory and that is that it's somehow related to the Shadowbox exploit which speed runners live and breathe. Shadowboxing is where they immediately kill Shadowheart, put her in the box, and then chuck the box across the map. Why Shadowheart? Because she's the first companion you can recruit. And since a party member is over on that side of the map, the entire party somehow ends up on that side of the map. So maybe that somehow plays into this?
Still?! So cool