Doomsday Engine

In Doom.exe, running over a mobj defined as a pickup that uses an unknown/undefined sprite tells the game to exit with a "P_SpecialThing: Unknown gettable thing" message.

This seems like an Idiosyncrasy on ID's part, that remains in Doomsday.

Why not, in Dday, instead of exiting the game when coming across such a pickup, simply treat it as a blank pickup? i.e the mobj is picked up, but simply does nothing and displays no hud message?

Because the original game exited, there are no compatibility issues to consider.

Labels: Gameplay