What Are Code Missions?

[Dubickimus]

What are code missions.
:-[

[mpete]

Do you have the demo? It is in the full game in the main menu.

But you type in a code and it makes a random map.

[Grauniad]

Code Missions are maps generated by a part of the full game. You either start with a "seed" of characters you type in or that the game randomly generates. From this seed it then proceeds to generate a pseudo-random map of varing difficulty. There are approximately 4 billion random maps that can be generated this way - some are no-contest maps and others are too hard to beat. Most fall somewhere in between.

Attached a screen image of the code mission start page.

[Measure]

There's a limit of 4 billion? If I had enough time to get through ten a day it would only take me a million years to get through them.

[Jay the Juggernaut]

I think it's WAY more than a couple billion. ;)

[Kithros]

I think it's WAY more than a couple billion. ;)

There aren't necessarily no repeats of the same code map with different names - however, it would be extremely unlikely to find them (and even less so to notice that you did)

[thepenguin]

it is possible that by running virgil's seeding algorithim in reverse, we could create two codes with identical maps

[Dubickimus]

oh i just realized i havnt downloaded the latest patch
silly me

[Echo51]

TP: You can't really reverse it, since you can't reverse a MD5 string either. But when you find 2 strings where the first 8 chars converted from HEX to DEC is the same, the map should also be the same ;)

Dubick: yeah, it's in the patch, so if you didn't have it you won't see them :D

[thepenguin]

TP: You can't really reverse it, since you can't reverse a MD5 string either. But when you find 2 strings where the first 8 chars converted from HEX to DEC is the same, the map should also be the same ;)

ever hear of MD5 Collisions?