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Hello taffers, The campaign "Hidden Hands: Blood & Metal" consisting of five missions is now basically ready for beta testing (the briefing videos are missing and there are still some "real" speakers missing, at the moment there are tentative robot voices in these places, hope to replace them in the next two or three weeks). Unfortunately, the project has become somewhat more extensive than originally planned. It took me about two hours to test each mission. So you should allow at least12 hours for all five missions on the first run. Beta testing shall start at the beginning/middle of next week. The difficulty level is somewhere between "The Anomaly" and "The Lost Citadel". Some things are easier, others are not, but proper exploration and usage of the available resources/objects should always pave the way to success. Sign in here, if you are taff enough! Jack Testing thread:

New western stealth FPS inspired by Thief, Stalker and Hunt: Showdown with Stephen Russell as the voice actor. Haven't tried it myself yet but reviews on Steam are very positive.

I realized when I played it that The Abomination, a giant gray monster composed of the fused forms of multiple zombies that attacks with tentacles and travels by digging tunnels underground, is obviously a ripoff of Subterranean Boss Infected Dolagius from Silent Fear, one of the first custom level mods for Left 4 Dead and the first one to have a custom boss I'm pretty sure of.

don't know how it works in the dark mod so I came up with my own. you need a set of blood textures, say 12 tga files, from full color blood to no blood, just start with a blood splat and change the alpha value till the blood splat is no longer visible. then you need a patch with a gui texture on it, turn this into a func_static. give it a name like bloodsplatspot add a gui pointing at a gui using code below add a response type water effect run script details run the script blood_clearup blood script void blood_clearup() { sys.trigger($bloodsplatspot); } gui code. windowDef Desktop { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 onTrigger { set "Fadeblood::noTime" "0"; resetTime "Fadeblood" 0; } windowDef BloodSplatMain //full color no alpha image { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat1.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 1 } windowDef Fadeblood { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 noTime 1 onTime 0 { set "BloodSplatMain::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat1::visible" "1"; } onTime 200 { set "BloodSplat1::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat2::visible" "1"; } onTime 400 { set "BloodSplat2::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat3::visible" "1"; } onTime 600 { set "BloodSplat3::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat4::visible" "1"; } onTime 800 { set "BloodSplat4::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat5::visible" "1"; } onTime 1000 { set "BloodSplat5::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat6::visible" "1"; } onTime 1200 { set "BloodSplat6::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat7::visible" "1"; } onTime 1400 { set "BloodSplat7::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat8::visible" "1"; } onTime 1600 { set "BloodSplat8::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat9::visible" "1"; } onTime 1800 { set "BloodSplat9::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat10::visible" "1"; } onTime 2000 { set "BloodSplat10::visible" "0"; set "BloodSplat11::visible" "1"; } onTime 2200 { set "BloodSplat11::visible" "0"; } } windowDef BloodSplat1 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat1.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat2 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat2.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat3 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat3.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat4 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat4.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat5 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat5.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat6 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat6.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat7 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat7.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat8 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat8.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat9 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat9.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat10 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat10.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } windowDef BloodSplat11 { rect 0, 0, 640, 480 background "guis/assets/blood/bloodsplat11.tga" matcolor 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1 visible 0 } } there's probably other ways to trigger it without using a script. Don't know how to get blood on ground though unless you place it yourself, or use something along the lines of the way the moss arrow works with scattering moss bits around.

Just a little comment thread for people to speculate about Back 4 Blood, the spiritual successor of Left 4 Dead series by Valve, made by Turtle Rock Studios, original developers of Left 4 Dead.

Not so long ago I found what could make a pretty good profile picture and decided to try it out on these new forums. But I couldn't find a button anywhere that would let me change it. I asked on Discord and it seems Spooks also couldn't find anything anywhere. So I logged into an old alternative account and, lo and behold, that account has a button. This is on the first screen I get when I: 1) click on my account name in the top-right of the browser -> 2) click on 'profile'. Compared to my actual account: Are you also missing this button on your account? It'd be very much appreciated if that functionality could be restored to any of the affected accounts.

Hi, I need to know what the code is to use Spoiler Tags. I am using my tablet and I don't have the options to use anything, like spoiler tags, quote tags, text changes etc. Thanks

My parents aren't too crazy about blood in games, but I love this game! Is there any way to turn it off? Also, I've heard some of the insults the guards say when you are searched for, and they are pretty harsh! I mean, it's all right for a city watchman to say "Where are you, you little thief!?" but some of the gang-type guards curse at you and say some pretty nasty things! I understand that it is harder to take care of corpses when there is a bloodstain on the ground, so there would have to be some way to keep that gameplay element there, such as a red "X" that is left on the ground that can be washed away with water arrows just the same. Yes, the game is focused on stealth gameplay, but even if there is blood IN the game, I won't be able to play it. Besides, the insults that are said are way too harsh for there to be even a chance of me being able to play this game! Most of you may not really care, but I am really into this game and I am going through Springheel's New Mapper's Workshop to hopefully create my own mission for fun. It is a pretty big dream, but I might be able to do it someday.

After watching and really enjoying the Turbo Killer in the random video of the day thread - - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/13971-random-video-of-the-day/?p=401023 I went a looking for more info about it and found a kickerstarter for it, the creators of 'Turbo Killer' and going to make a full movie version in the same artisitc style and bloody cool 80's music by Carpenter Brut... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2050134024/blood-machines-turbo-killer-2

Hi guys, through the "cheats" topic I got the idea, that it would be quite useful, if there were tags for missions (the post was about removing the killing restriction in some missions to suit the prefered play style). I don't know how easy or difficult this is, but with them, it would be quite convenient to pick missions with playstyles, environment, etc one does want to use. This could also be expanded to other mission properties. I remember a discussion about climbable drains, handles on doors, that cannot be picked and other things the map author chooses for himself. That way these things would be clearer and as I said before, it is easier to choose missions with playstyles that suit oneself. What do think?