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| colspan="2" | Note the door leading off the center of the foyer: there was a corridor running through the middle of the building. The catwalk in the foyer has an interesting texture to the sides of its railings that isn't seen in other pre-beta shots of the level.

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| colspan="2" | The stairs lead up to the offices. More lightmapping here, adding volume to the barely-textured level.

| colspan="2" | The offices seem to be in the back of the building, on both floors, with doors and "windows" onto the "alarm console gallery". First 4 pics: lower floor, the empty dark wall on the first is where the stairs are. Last 2 pics: upper floor.

| colspan="2" | The interior is only done in one half of the lab. There are also pillars and foyer doors missing, and extra ledges along the sides of the area where you fight Barabas.

| colspan="2" | There were stools for the scientists... apart from that, this wing is pretty much final.

| colspan="2" | The ramps had really nice railings (I wish they'd kept them), overall the room was much lighter (there's a light wall on the far side). Same "V" structures at the ceiling as above: they're gone now. The layout of the rooms on either side is different, too.

| colspan="2" | The model didn't change at all, but now it's placed at the center (floor 2/3) of a really tall, open room. As for the terminals, there are primitive ones with similar looks around Damocles and elsewhere. Note the [[Marathon]] logo on Damocles' chassis (an [[Easter eggs|Easter egg]]).

| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:TCTF20.jpg|320px]]

| colspan="2" | These shots are probably from the time when [[Oni/Early Story|this was an electric plant]]. Note that the giant tube that serves as the end of the level (seen in the first pic) has a floor to walk on, in place of the electrified beam suspended in the middle, which Konoko runs down while being pursued by the TCTF. The pipe is also connected directly to the building, rather than being at the top of an elevator shaft. In the current version of the level, the mid-air beam is also the shaft for the giant fan; adding the fan was probably a hasty improvisation to make the level seem more like an ACC and less like an electric plant... but the fan shaft is still electrified!

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| align="center" | [[Image:1999 Trailer ID fight.jpg]]

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| align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:RegionalState14.jpg|320px]]

| align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:RegionalState22.jpg]]

| align="center" | [[Image:Konoko runs from Iron Demon.jpg]]

| colspan="3" | By the time Bungie took the outside shot with the Iron Demon, they'd barred in the foyer. Also, notice the missing wall of glass in the last set of pics. This section is now occupied by a wall with a normal-sized door set in the middle of it. The original wide-open entrance is an odd design choice. Could it have been a pet door for the Iron Demon? Most likely the ID was only shown in this level because it was their "testbed" level, since it was really meant for BGI HQ, but perhaps an initial skirmish was once planned here. Finally, note the multiplayer HUD in the top-right of many of these pictures; the screenshot taker was in MP mode at the time.

| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Turbitt - Science Prison 5.jpg|320px]]

| colspan="2" | There used to be some very interesting lit walkways leading in and out of the security tower. They were replaced on all three sides by corridors with laser obstacles. The last picture shows an interesting area that was apparently removed, which is roughly in the same position as the acid vat complex in the final model.

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| colspan="3" | The basic layout of the room is the same, but it was much more crowded with "computers" and the existing catwalks were aligned differently.

| colspan="3" | In the last picture (early development?) there are no computers at all, the bottom floor is missing, and the set of catwalks/stairs is minimal.

Speaking of names and numbers, this information for a level is stored in a resource called [[ONLD]] in the global level file level0_Final so that the Load Game screen can display all the levels. Somewhat surprisingly, the ONLDs for some missing levels are present even in retail versions of Oni.

|[[#Airport Part Deux|The Airport Part Deux]]

|[[#Obsolete, etc.|Obsolete]]

|[[#Arena of Pain|The Arena of Pain]]

===Airport Part Deux===

The presence of the '''Airport_II''' IGMD folder in some versions of Oni explains why retail Oni contains an '''Airport''' and '''Airport_III''' folder but no "Airport_II". The scripts in this folder are very short, so little about the level can be inferred from them. However, a mention of the animation "KONOKOlev5_outro_run" corroborates the ONLD evidence that the missing level 5 in the sequence of levelx_Final files was an intermediate airport space between two other airport levels, which are in level4_Final and level6_Final. The quote above by Chris Butcher tells us that it was an underground portion of the airport which was removed.

This level, which would have been level7_Final, represents the gap between the end of the airport levels and the first TCTF HQ level. Since Bungie West removed its name, we can only speculate that this level is the one which [[#Cut levels|Hardy told us]] was renamed and moved – thus it is still present in the game. Intriguingly, names of various animations indicate that Syndicate Mountain Compound, which is now level19, was once numbered level7. What that says for the original flow of the story is difficult to say, but it allows us to fairly confidently say that the level which is now labeled "Obsolete" was the Mountain Compound.

Below are the only four screenshots we have for the level. Similarities to the architecture in TCTF HQ have been noted, with this explanation:

===Arena of Pain===

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| colspan="2" | This was an arena with an industrial center area and much cleaner/brighter outlying areas connected by walkways, seen at various stages of development or in various flavors. This level also featured heavily in mid-development video footage (see {{SectionLink||Video footage}}).

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| colspan="3" align="center" | [[Image:MP arena 1-6.jpg|320px]]

| colspan="3" | In this area, the wall seen on the left appears to say "[DA]VES [AR]ENA of PAiN", which if true would refer to Dave Dunn the level modeler.

| colspan="2" | Alex Okita remembered this as "Just a bunch of tubes"; "It was pretty big, lots of falling and dying, from what I remember". The cross-beams are also reminiscent of Construction Pit.

| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Pit3.jpg|320px]]

| colspan="2" | The first three pictures show some basic elements of the level's architecture (most notably, very steep stairs). The third picture shows [[Konoko]] knocking down an early [[Tanker]], with what looks like a collision glitch. The fourth picture is a rare glimpse at the [[Iron Demon]].

|[[Image:1999 Trailer - MP arena 2-25.jpg]]

|[[Image:1999 Trailer - MP arena 2-26.jpg]]

|A region of The Pit, identifiable by the shared wall texture. Lumber is stacked in the background (this is a construction zone, after all). This is possibly our only screenshot showing an over-the-shoulder weapon animation variant which we no longer have. The yellow blob in the distant top-left corner is probably a relic flame particle that's still in the game, but drawn incorrectly due to a graphics bug.

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| colspan="2" | This now-extinct pistol was seen all over the place back when Bungie was taking pre-beta screenshots. This was the [[:Image:Gun smg 06.jpg|Shibume SH-40]], a fully-automatic pistol that fired 10 rounds/sec.

 

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