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Hidden Hands: Vitalic Fever Filename : hhvf.pk4 Date of release: 20/07/2019 Latest Version: 5 (21/04/2025) Version 5 - changes: - fixed defective ambient light - added subtitles (thanks to @datiswous) - added compressed briefing video (thanks to @datiswous - fixed/replace (defective) textures - added a few new models and items - added new title & loading screen - ...made a few tasks a little easier - dmap with 2.13 Hidden Hands Series: I. Initation - II. Vitalic Fever Jack Farmer: mapping & drafts Amadeus: alpha testing, geometry fixes, performance checks, drafts for gameplay and objectives, revision of all readables, dialogues & narrator texts Grayman: AI fixes, gameplay fixes, trap fixes Duzenko: alpha testing, performance checks and improvement tips Beta Testers: - Joebarnin - Cambridge Spy - Boiler's Hiss (aka "The architect's darling") - Jedi_Wannabe (aka "The man of many voices") - Amadeus (aka "The Writer") Voice actors: Malasdair Narrator Jedi_Wannabe All four guards chatting about the guests, chickens, inventions and unusual job interviews New Horizon The educated Builder Goldchocobo The naive Builder Special thanks to: - Springheel, Sotha, and Fidcal for the tutorials. - VanishedOne, Stumpy, Destined, Grayman, Joebarnin and ERH+ for patiently answering my questions solving all the in-game problems. - PsymH (aka "Stringer Bell") for connecting me with the right guys on TTLG for additional voice acting. - Goldwell for teaching me how to integrate a custom video in a fms and helping me with troubleshooting during the integration of one of the Builder's voices. - all voice actors & beta testers for their great support. - all others not mentioned here who answered my questions in the Newbie thread or via PM. Contributors from the Inventor's Guild: - Destined wrote a new definition for the "spidsey-babsies", enabling those beasts to move through tunnels. - Grayman wrote a script enabling Halfrid to hold the quill only when it is needed. He also fixed several other AI problems with respect to path finding, damages and interaction with light switches. Pilfered items: - Portal sky with hills and trees originally developed and arranged by Sotha for "Thomas Porter: The Transaction". - Frobbox booster re-created from a map originally developed by Grayman All new ambient music and sound effects written, performed and mixed by Jack Farmer. Briefing video by SirSmokeAlot Pictures Version 5 - changes: - fixed defective ambient light - added subtitles (thanks to @datiswous) - added compressed briefing video (thanks to @datiswous - fixed/replace (defective) textures - added a few new models and items - added new title & loading screen - ...made a few tasks a little easier - dmap with 2.13

Announcing the release of “A House of Locked Secrets” for The Dark Mod! Download Download the latest version of the Dark Mod here: http://www.thedarkmod.com/download-the-mod/ Download the mission here: Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/download/4awe6e756m12p71/ahouseoflockedsecrets.pk4 Southquarter: http://www.southquarter.com/tdm/fms/ahouseoflockedsecrets.pk4Taaki: http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/fms/ahouseoflockedsecrets.pk4Fidcal.com: http://www.fidcal.com/darkuser/missions/ahouseoflockedsecrets.pk4 The mission should also shortly be up on the in-game downloader. General Notes -A House of Locked Secrets is a campaign, with two levels. -The mission is also a sequel to the Dark Mod FM “Requiem”. While you don’t need to have played Requiem to enjoy this mission, it is recommended, as it will help you better understand the lore of this corner of the TDM universe. -There is a companion novella to this series, Shadowcursed, available at Amazon.com or Smashwords.com. If you beat this FM, you can get a coupon code for 50% off the price! -The map you get of the manor is an automap which tells you which room you are currently in. Use it, along with the compass to help find your way. -Most inventory items in the game can be dropped, so no need to carry them around after they are no longer of any use. -If you use noclip or other console commands while playing, there is a good chance that you will break the intended flow of gameplay. Credits Mapping and Readables: Gelo R. Fleisher Voice Acting: Amber Collins, Bikerdude, Commander, Goldwell, Mortem Desino Additional scripting: Obsttorte, SteveL Additional textures and assets: Bikerdude, Crowind, Fidcal, Flanders, Goldwell, Grayman, Kyyrma, Melan, Nielsen, Sotha, Springheel Additional map optimization: Bikerdude Custom Soundtrack: Sarah Eide - www.saraheide.com Additional Music: cmusounddesign, Gigagooga, Lee Rosevere, Leonardo Badinella, Marianne Lihannah, NewEonOrchestra, Sarah Eide, Tabias Scot, Zoro. Additional Sounds: club20sound, ERH, geoneo0, Grayman, kevinkace, nothayama, qubodup, SoundsExciting, speedygonzo, swiftoid, viznoman. Testers: Airship Ballet, AluminumHaste, Baal, Bikerdude, Deadlove, demagogue, Diego, Dunedain19, gnartsch, Goldwell, Lowenz, Lux, nbohr1more, Oldjim, PranQster, SteveL, Xarg A note from the author After a lot of work ‘A House of Locked Secrets’ is finally ready for everyone to play. More than anything else, this FM was a team project. If the official TDM campaign never gets released, you might consider this to be the unofficial one, as almost everybody on the core TDM team lent a hand toward its completion. Of the many contributors, I especially want to thank SteveL whose custom code turned what was just an idea in my head into the FM you now get to play. I also want to thank Bikerdude, who performed a lot of optimization work on the map, and Goldwell whose voice brought to life many of the mission’s characters. If you like the music in the FM, check out the work of Sarah Eide (www.saraheide.com) who composed most of the custom soundtrack. Also, Marianne Lihannah makes a return from Requiem with a few songs, so check out her work too (www.funeralsinger.net). They'd both love to hear from you, so if you liked their music, let them know! On a personal note, I hope that this FM will give you a few hours of enjoyment, and if it does, feel free to drop me a line either in this forum thread, my work blog, or via email. In the future, other writing and game projects seem set to take up a lot of my time, so I give permission for anyone (preferably the TDM team) to update both Requiem and A House of Locked Secrets to fix any bugs or compatibility issues. I just ask that fixes be limited to correcting for glitches or for issues that come up due to future TDM releases. I do give permission for people to make visual & gameplay changes too but ask that you release these changes in a separate version than my release, and I ask that you make no changes to the story, readables, and plot. With that all out of the way, I want to thank you again for downloading and playing ‘A House of Locked Secrets’; I hope you enjoy it. God bless, Gelo “Moonbo” Fleisher

Hello, my name is Wolfmond, I am 41 years old and I come from Northern Germany. I am your new member. In my youth I played Thief: The Dark Project with great enthusiasm. Recently I discovered and started playing The Dark Mod and I am very happy that there is still an active community around this beautiful game. I am especially interested in level design and creating my own campaigns. In my spare time I like to walk around, record sounds (field recording), make dark ambient and experimental music, and code. My dark ambient music is available for free at https://wolfmond.bandcamp.com I'm currently working through the Youtube Tutorial from @Springheel and I'm really enjoying learning level design. I look forward to getting in touch with you and contributing my skills to the community. Best regards, Wolfmond ___________________________________ Hallo Ich heiße Wolfmond, bin 41 Jahre alt und komme aus Norddeutschland. Ich bin euer Neuzugang. In meiner Jugend habe ich mit großer Begeisterung Thief: The Dark Project gespielt. Vor kurzem habe ich The Dark Mod entdeckt und begonnen zu spielen und bin beigestert, dass es immer noch eine aktive Community um dieses schöne Spiel gibt. Mich interessiert vor allem das Leveldesign und die Erstellung eigener Kampagnen. In meiner Freizeit gehe ich gerne durch die Gegend, nehme Geräusche auf (Field Recording), mache Dark Ambient und und Experimentelle Musik, und programmiere gerne. Meine Dark Ambient Musik gibt es kostenlos auf https://wolfmond.bandcamp.com Aktuell arbeite ich das Tutorial von @Springheel durch und habe große Freude daran, Leveldesign zu lernen. Ich freue mich darauf, mit euch in Kontakt zu sein und meine Fähigkeiten in die Community mit einfließen zu lassen. Viele Grüße, Wolfmond

In v5.0 of the Modpack I simply added names to some actors: Rat, Elemental, Spider, Steam Bot and Fish. For objects you still need the Object Names Mod.

While working on the Fragile Bottles mod (idea / release) I examined the Flinder feature and my conclusion was that it never was fully realized and it is not ready for general / complex use. Here is the relevant topic: For the breakable bottles I couldn't figure out safe offsets and I found flinders would often clip with one another or spawn where they shouldn't and I opted for a scripted solution to have full control. I originally intended bottles to break into two pieces but sizes and heights of bottles vary and I ended up using only one piece but that piece along with a particle and the sound sell the effect nicely, imho. For flinders to work I guess the first step is to work with the original model and split it into pieces while retaining the origin. I think this is the most important aspect to avoid issues. If you then add some dust particles you can probably hide the swap a little and do away with less pieces. Since you can hardly control where the pieces will end and to prevent the player from getting stuck, flinders will have to be frobable or perhaps non-solid and fade out shortly after spawning. "In Remembrance of Him" by @RPGista can perhaps be a source of inspiration. Go to coordinates 12305 -5900 -185 for a less elaborated but still effective alternative to what you are trying to achieve.

Looks like there was entity handle corruption. Can you try to replicate with the latest 2.14 dev build?

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Ah, OK. I only can say that I don't note any issue in both Metro in the default settings. Maybe it was also meanwhile patched. The only game where I noted fp dropdowns in higher settings was Sicaria, the free stealth game. Currently I play also Call of Juarez - Gunslinger, which also appears sometimes in the Giveaways, normally for few money (€2-3) in Steam, A very nice FPS well optimized with very good graphics. Somewhat hardcore gameplay. Old but gold

Soon™ Don't worry, I'm still working on the mod. The GitHub page has been updated with version 2.13 of TDM and I also finished an animation for lockpicking, which will be the last thing I implement before publishing the next mod update. Just doing some final testing to make sure there aren’t any major issues. Here's a video of the new animation in the meantime. Let me know what you think!

Subtitle files. Not sure if I tested them. I might update them later and re-upload. hhvf_subs.pk4

The Dark Mod version 1.02 is available for download! It's a medium-sized update (about 500 MB), adding textures, models, new AI and patches a few gameplay issues. The full changelog can be found on our wiki: http://modetwo.net/d...new_in_TDM_1.02 Ultra-short summary: - Fixed crashes when loading savegames - New textures (doors, skies, windows, facades) - Several new models, including a cart, tree, windmill, toolbox, playing cards, etc. - New Steambot AI - More AI animations - A new vocal set for more variety among AI To get the update, just run your tdm_update.exe file. Or see our website for more info: www.thedarkmod.com Note: While missions are fully compatible with this release, you can NOT load any previously saved games after updating to 1.02. If you're in the middle of playing a mission, you might want to finish it before updating.