V-Man339
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Watching Let's Players, I do see that a lot of them don't immerse themselves in the game as much as they could, partially because they keep up a monologue to keep viewers interested.
I'll see players try to hide in dumb places, whereas if they were paying attention at all, they would know that they could climb on top of the book case and be completely safe, etc.
Let's players are some of the worst to look at unless they're doing commentary in post; they either play the game blind or have to create overreaction-filled suspense based on poor play.
At no point will you find anything truly educational or impressive in a lets play unless they label it a walkthrough or a guide outside of the ocassional fluke
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So from my entire The Dark Mod experience I noticed that I roleplay the main character (be it Garrett or someone else in the FM) harder than I realized.
What do I mean by that? Doing things that are "pointless" in terms of the game mechanics or AI mechanics. For example closing all shelfs, chests, doors after being finished exploring/stealing to leave them the way they been before I arrived. As far as I know guards can't tell whenever the shelf or chest was closed before and they do not become suspicious of that, but I close them anyway. Doors on other hands, from my experience I noticed that they do realize the fact that the door was closed, and they do become suspicious and proceed to investigate then close them, but they will not be alterted thus they do not affect the player progress in any way. Anyway I do close all of the doors, unless they were already open; it's pointless from success point of view, but I do it anyway for immersion.
Same goes for movement. I know that TDM can still be a little exploited in terms of footstep sounds, and AI cone of view, so I try to be as stealthy as possible where I will not make more noise than it would seem reasonable; or hide in places which in my honest opinion wouldn't be good hiding spots in reality. I'm pointing that out only because I saw countless walkthroughs and lets plays of FMs where people/players doesn't really immerse themselves into the envoirment or simply mission itself (which I'm not saying is wrong, but it's different from what I'm used to do) and because of it it's obvious that I am on completly different level than most.
I'm just curious if anyone has the same mindset as I do when playing FMs or if I potentially might be mentally damaged at this point from playing TDM for so long, lol.
Cheers.
That's just perfectionism and ghosting, for the most part.
People can attest to that in terms of just my video output.
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I can safely say this is the easiest of Spoonman's missions.
I legitimately laughed as I realized what was happening.
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Routing this mission in all seriousness gave me a headache.
Great work on the nonsense, Spoonman, if you were seeking to make me constantly feel like I was on my back foot you succeeded.
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Mods please delete this post.
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If we ever have any kind of stamina, inventory or limitation on space it should be on items & ammunition, not loot.
Loot, as a collectable, shouldn't have a limitation for space.
Items, as something that the player inherently expects to be expendable (or perhaps even something to ignore altogether) having an inherent con to equipping means there would be extra tactical logistics and player choice to make.
Loot? Adding weight to loot means the game either becomes tedious or the player becomes uninterested in completing the game as recommended.
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Taco Bell Tasty Temple Challenge
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At the request of Dragofer I did a perfectionist run of the mission.
I love it, right down to and especially the fact that you can prevent the outbreak by intercepting the rat.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/391720/Layers_of_Fear/
Layers of Fear is free for a limited time.
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Possibly reptilian in nature?
Think T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
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I like this idea too.
Because when running TDM inside a virtual machine, mouse does not work properly
Those "turn left/right" keys are what I use to navigate through levels.
UPDATE: If there are no objections, I'll create a feature request?...
Keyboard only setups need this.
Do it.
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I know this may seem antiquated but the bindings for look up and down are very useful in conjunction with look left and right (which we already have) and while routing on a laptop I had to find out the hard way we didn't have those.
We might want to have those, guys, otherwise just having look left and right in the options menu is kind of silly. Up and down look keys are incredibly useful for keyboard only setups.
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I loved it, and will be doing a perfect run video/walkthrough of it later.
Could I get a list of items to pick up and readable objects for later?
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It relates entirely to distance and proximity to AI standing next to the torch.
It should go without saying that if the torch is being held by someone I'll aim above the torch, though.
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These are cosmetic, so as long as they are the only bugs they shouldn't unduly effect your play through.
One of them is an inability to frob loot.
Also I just generally speaking don't wish to present TDM in a worse light than necessary.
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Those anomalies aren't 2.06 specific as I have seen them in 2.05, this is caused by too many brushes intersecting - changing to FS should fix the issue/s.
Ah, all right.
Will this mission be as is, or will there be updates/fixes incoming?
If there are no plans to update I'll be covering the mission in it's current state.
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Lots of bug reports incoming.
As of updating to 2.06 I'm having an issue with this staircase.
I've turned soft shadows and multi-core enhancement off, neither seems to fix the problem.
South east corner of the map.
.South entrance staircase.
Tomb
I can't seem to frob this loot whatsoever, which confused me up until I realized there is a literal wall placed over it preventing me from even physically nudging it.
As for the mission I fucking loved it.
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The new version is coming along steadily but slowly as real life obligations are soaking up a lot of my time. Its turned into quite a project. Its the same mission, but with revised architecture, all new vocals, and quite a few new areas to explore.
The next mission is still the primary focus. Here are a few in progress shots of volta v2:I'll be putting off a video of the mission if this is still incoming.
Care for balance critique?
Assuming you don't change any lighting or sound conditions too much the mission is damned near perfect.
Only thing I would change is that you give the player the ability to almost reasonably finish the mission with all loot through found water, rope and moss arrows, but you give the player one or two two many rope arrows and one too few water.
This is working under the assumption that the one water arrow and three rope I found are the only available aside from the one moss I found.
Absolutely in love with the mission, did an absolute 0 stealth score full loot run for future routing before I noticed you would be uploading an updated version and I can't say I regret it in the least.
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Small robots that move across the floor to emulate laser tripwires?
Possible use of gold or bright string to showcase more visibly?
(Possible lore reason: only that material is tensile yet stretchable enough to provide for good cord?)
Note for future mappers and the idea room: imagine this, but slower and more steampunk.
High potential to enforce moss arrow usage through this.
Very high possibility to add depth by making it something you can disable but don't necessarily have to.
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I have an incredibly strange, easy to reproduce and specific bug in Volta and the Stone.
Not where I can record it, but can later.
When you are in the tower, next to the fire arrows mantle onto the plate holding them.
You'll see a bright white shadow rendering in the window opposite the door, mimicking the player's movements.
Edit: It just occurred to me that I haven't updated in a while, let me verify this is still relevant.
Edit edit: It is not still relevant.
As of updating this is no longer an issue.
Feel free to delete this post.
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The video perfectly demonstrates the absurdity of the concept of boss monsters or bullet sponges. The player repeatedly sinks his combat knife's blade into the neck of the boss. The boss monster does not get weaker, change behaviour, show any sign of reaction to what is expected to be an instantly lethal wound.
It's like an unintended scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
Surely you could make TDM AI almost invincible and modify alertness handling so it calms back to "business as usual" level after a ridiculously small amount of time. But the real question is: Why?
Oh yeah, it sucks, but I'm curious because if we pulled it off it could easily lead into more adaptive forms of boss AI.
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I'm really tempted to code some sort of rudimentary prone in and create a Snake Eater style nature-heavy jungle themed map with heavy use of foliage cover but I'd only really attempt that after making a more traditional styled map.
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I've stumbled upon this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNbJb1NEGUk
And think it apples to the TDM world but it would require an organized (short) synopsis of different missions and glossary of names, too. I'm not sure if there is a list of mission types (horror, mansion, etc.) but it could describe this aspect as well.
A good place to start would be a bigger and more detailed map of universe than this, especially as we have moors now.
and if you think it should be as vague as it is - it still can if a scale of new places will be marked as a "point" with a number, the distance between Bridgeport and Braeden could be crammed with dozens of new locations.
I think it just will be more impactful for imagination, and there is still a place for a new solitary location that no one have stumbled yet (just think Morrowind map - as tangible as it is, and you can travel tenth time between two cities and discover a new tomb). You could even make a really blurred map of a whole world with dot-like links to images or texts, just like google maps. Or make a few world maps contradicting each other, and make a dispute about accuracy of places and events an ingame subject of controversy.
This video works just as well.
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I'm actually very curious if you could code something like this into the Dark Mod.
Chronicles of Skulduggery: Pearls and Swine
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I can't seem to get the mission to display in my mission list after deleting it manually to install from the download list.
I think I'm missing something obvious.