Mystery cruise ship in the south of NFSW! *in progress*

Nah, turnpike turns back left and goes to the south later on(not road but these small valley in which is it hidden). 

@racerdudex Cruise Ships and Planes still randomly spawn in the void just like in Carbon(except one lane which goes over Rockport always to the east of it and back RPX)

The driveable part of the turnpike extends south past the end of the viewable large map, but obviously it doesn't crash the game. If you get past the barriers (regular out of bounds methods can be used instead of wall hack), the textures for the turnpike turn south west and just stop, with just a generic view of texture hills on both sides. There's nothing there.

The cruise ships take a straight line path north west / south east that ends past the viewable map and you can only follow them so far, as trying to follow them north west crash the game by going too far west.

The "city in work" was originally tri-cities from Undercover. The problem is that the currrent World map is at the limits of the current coordinate system, so the south end of the turnpike was just going to be a teleport spot into the tri-cities area as a separate map, with a teleport spot to get back to Rockport / Palmont. Undercover's map is large and somewhat sparse. Palm Harbor is the most dense with buildings, followed by Port Crescent. Sunset Hills isn't as dense with buildings, and the Gold Coast area (not counted as a city which is why the name "tri cities") is mostly roads in the mountains with very few buildings.

None of the additions ever happened. In fact the art team was pulled off NFS World before they could finish the connector road area linking Kempton, Palmont, and Rockport. Also there's no underwater tunnel there, it's all above the water level. The only underwater tunnel is in Point Camden, the east / west tunnel on the north side of the small bay that includes the board walk / fun zone. The tunnel includes the Camden Pursuit event icon. If EA hadn't spent so much time blocking off the bus terminal (it took several modifications to prevent players from getting to the second level) and trying to close up the exit to free roam spots or exit to out of bounds spots (some of these were never fixed and still work), that last connector road area might have been completed.

If I guess it right they're trying to add canyons there. Because once I past the barrier, the scenery on my side are small hills and trees. Adding the Canyons might be a good idea but they don't know how to add it.

It will next bullshit map. Canyons should be in same areas (except Eternity Pass cuz East Canyon does not exist east of Palmont)as in Carbon. However small southern area still exist good just for Knifes Edge, Cooper Ridge and maybe Devil's Creek Pass)

The idea of including Undercover's map via a teleport spot at the south end of the turn pike was mentioned by EA developers, probably Eduardo, at World Garage forum. This is also where it was mentioned that the map size had reached it limits since it was based on the coordinate system of Carbon, which is why EA couldn't expand the existing map. The empty space north of Fortuna was going to be used for connected canyons, originally 7 of the 10, then 4, then abandoned. The canyons would have added another connection between Fortuna and Silverton.

long straight tunnel - If you go out of bounds and check out that road, it can be seen from above. There are two higher two lane side roads above it. Back in 2010, EA developers, again probably Eduardo, mentioned adding a drag race track in the airport area. My guess is the original plan was to use an airport runway as a drag track, similar to the airport runway used in Underground 2. However, that area got enhanced, and the once drivable section was removed. Here's a video of the older drivable section:

That road is not underwater. Based on old videos that I saw a few years ago, if you go out of bounds and drop over the north east corner of the gas station in north east Gray Point, the car willl drop down to a few feet above water level. If instead, you go to the north west corner of the map and drop over the garage without getting stuck in the garage and return, the car's tire's will be right at water level, maybe a few inches below (it's been a few years, and I don't know what players do now to go out of bounds). From this perspective, you can drive under almost everything on the map, and see what's above and below water. If I recall correctly, only the east west tunnel north of the board walk in Gray Point is below water.

I searched through some old pictures (early 2011), and found this one in the unfinished connector road area. This seems to be the lowest road in that area. Not sure if there were plans to have trains running on the tracks. There are trains running on a high pair of tracks near Kempton in the connector road area. Since the map, including the out of bounds areas, hasn't changed since November, 2010, the old players lost interest in this stuff and also the game, since most of them have left.

As mentioned in my previous post, Eduardo mentioned having a drag strip in the airport area, and this road could have been used for that purpose, but instead, the team choose to use existing road segments as was done in Most Wanted. The other strange thing is that this is supposed to be the airport area, but there are no runways.

The road in the picture is facing north and connects to two roads, one to the north and one to the south. To the left (west) is Kempton and to the left and forward (north west) is Palmont. To the right (east) is downtown Rockport. The water is part of a bay, not a river. There are two draw bridges in that area. For a while, the draw bridges had a proper road texture on them, but the textures were removed and all that remains is an open frame.

Players lost interest because nothing has changed since November 2010 (other than holiday stuff in Dec 2010 / Jan 2011). This area was supposed to be added to the map, along with canyons, but EA removed the art team to work on The Run, and they never came back. The area never got done, and after a year or so with no changes, the early players lost interest.




 

Ok I'll be able to play NFSW today after school. Maybe I'll also add that old picture of unfinished road in NFSW. Hopefully I'll record this with my voice.