Fan Mission: Patently Dangerous (2009/10/31)

[thebigh]

Another classic old mission that I finally got around to playing. What impressed me about it was the way it gradually got darker as it went on. Starts off as a simple "rob all the buildings in the neighbourhood" job and ends up with everyone turning out to be a murderous asshole. The finale was SUPER creepy.

 

Just a few little bugs I found while playing:

* There is a headless dead guy in a green smock on top of Harlan's house.

* The globe in Damuddy's house drops through the floor if I frob it.

[Zerg Rush]

On 3/17/2021 at 7:05 PM, thebigh said:

Another classic old mission that I finally got around to playing. What impressed me about it was the way it gradually got darker as it went on. Starts off as a simple "rob all the buildings in the neighbourhood" job and ends up with everyone turning out to be a murderous asshole. The finale was SUPER creepy.

 

Just a few little bugs I found while playing:

* There is a headless dead guy in a green smock on top of Harlan's house.

* The globe in Damuddy's house drops through the floor if I frob it.

Yes, the headless guy floating over the top of the house, but seems for me more like a scary gag as a glitch.

I just finished it right now with all the loot and quite a few guys with headaches tomorrow. Nice little mission.

[demagogue]

The green smocked one is the female pagan. She was one of the bodies in the warehouse and one of those rough draft characters that I don't think made it into the release version. Evidently one of the last few updates (or possibly nbohr's EAX fix, which seems odd, but it's in the cards) changed or deleted some property that made her fall through the floor onto that roof and lose her head, which, if you know how AI models work is the kind of thing you might expect. There's already a good number of comments on it and anyone can see it's pretty immersion breaking. So I suppose it calls for an updated version to fix it.

[Zerg Rush]

6 hours ago, demagogue said:

The green smocked one is the female pagan. She was one of the bodies in the warehouse and one of those rough draft characters that I don't think made it into the release version. Evidently one of the last few updates (or possibly nbohr's EAX fix, which seems odd, but it's in the cards) changed or deleted some property that made her fall through the floor onto that roof and lose her head, which, if you know how AI models work is the kind of thing you might expect. There's already a good number of comments on it and anyone can see it's pretty immersion breaking. So I suppose it calls for an updated version to fix it.

Well, it isn't so important, you can interpret it as a metaforic prelude to the warehouse scenery. It don't rest quality to the mission which I like.

I know commercial games with worse glitches than this.

Edited June 2, 2021 by Zerg Rush

[demagogue]

Some people have been asking about my FM, so I wanted them to have access to a version without the glitch mentioned above (i.e., the pagan woman model that clipped so it looks like she's laying in the sky above Harlan's house). This and it's time that that glitch was fixed anyway.

So I made a really quick fix. Basically I opened the .map file and just deleted the pagan woman reference directly. I renamed the file to end with "np" (for "no pagan"). Is it possible for someone to replace the previous version with this one on the download mirrors so it's available in the in-game downloader, etc.? Cheers. (I tested it to confirm the fix.) And this post can also be a general announcement that the glitch was fixed.

Here's the link to the new file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-tgN1gyUoYd8qACZ61bd7qHcZAxpAwCN/view?usp=sharing

[nbohr1more]

Thank you!

The mission database has been updated with this fix.