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Fan Mission: One Step Too Far, by Dragofer (2014/08/04)


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Congratulations on the release! This was a very fun mission to beta test :)

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There's a bug on the downloader: it reports the mission name as onesteptofar, but the mission seems to know itself as onesteptoofar. I found this because I downloaded the mission from the link, but the in-game downloader offered me a download which turns out to have identical content (md5 61cc501191cd412f0150daa0ff271144) but a different file name.

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Blast, something's wrong. The game has crashed twice on me in this mission, unfortunately the log doesn't look terribly helpful:

 

 

--------- Map Initialization ---------

Map: locknermanor

idRenderWorldLocal::InitFromMap: retaining existing map

------- Game Map Init SaveGame -------

map bounds are (4520.0, 3728.0, 1208.0)

max clip sector is (141.2, 233.0, 151.0)

10 KB passage memory used to build PVS

5 msec to calculate PVS

86 areas

198 portals

8 areas visible on average

1 KB PVS data

Keeping maps/locknermanor.aas48

Keeping maps/locknermanor.aas96

Keeping maps/locknermanor.aas32

Keeping maps/locknermanor.aas100

Keeping maps/locknermanor.aas_rat

[Load AAS]

loading maps/locknermanor.aas_elemental

No running thread for RestoreScriptObject(), creating new one.

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-----------------------------------

254 msec to load locknermanor

interactionTable generated of size: 134217728 bytes

Bloom Kernel size is set to: Small

Using TDM's enhanced interaction

Forcing an update on cooked math data.

Cooking math data please wait...

Cooking complete.

Restarting ambient sound snd_mansion'(mansion_tense02_z) with volume 0

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 31 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 60 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 41 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 736 frames overflowed and dropped

Saved QuickSave1

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 68 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 76 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 54 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 60 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 36 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 59 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 50 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 729 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 27 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 48 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 59 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 52 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 780 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 79 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 23 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 44 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 744 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 778 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 732 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 703 frames overflowed and dropped

WARNING:Cannot find sound snd_lockpick_lock_picked on door WineCellarDoor

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 62 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 28 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 90 frames overflowed and dropped

idAudioHardwareALSA::Write: 26 frames overflowed and dropped

signal caught: Segmentation fault

si_code 1

Trying to exit gracefully..

--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------

ModelGenerator memory: 1 LOD entries with 1 users using 758 bytes.

WARNING:idClipModel::FreeTraceModel: tried to free uncached trace model (index=0)

--------- Game Map Shutdown done -----

Shutting down sound hardware

----------- Alsa Shutdown ------------

close pcm

dlclose

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idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

I18NLocal: Shutdown.

------------ Game Shutdown -----------

ModelGenerator memory: No LOD entries.

Shutdown event system

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shutdown terminal support

About to exit with code 0

 

 

That's only the tail of the log, if it happens again and the entire log would help I can provide it next time.

 

Edit: Oops, wrong mission, this is Lockner Manor breaking here. Sorry.

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Am not much a seafarer myself. But

the ship part was superbly made, immersive and convincing.

Made it at hardest with all objectives checked. I liked the cramped belly of the ship. Found loads of hidden and well placed loot (and still missed 516). Readables told a rich story of the ship and its voyages from construction to the bitter end.

 

The beach part was somewhat dull (except the very detailed cabin interior) and misleading. The book told me to hide while exploring the cabin. Tried at least four places to literally wait for another scripting event. Tried killing all the bandits. Tried going back to my ship or their boats. And then tried to climb that mountains looking like a generic level boundary. Then walked a bit. Walked another bit. End.

Most disappointing end ever. There is a followup mission in the pipeline to complete the story i guess...

 

Whole mission would be near perfect if it would end when returning to the bunk. There was the natural split point - like the end of a chapter. And nothing wrong with reworking that beach part into a followup mission. Make it a series and continue the story mission by mission until it includes a real end - whether it is being eaten by the giant worm, seizing/sneaking aboard another ship sailing home, really becoming a pirate, or something completely different!

 

 

Random stuff follows.

 

Is there a key to this unpickable chest?:

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Could not frob that loot:

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Fraten

I cannot open a drawer on his desk

 

 

 

That drawer (bottom left) should be lockpickable, with what's inside you can progress further.

 

 

Am not much of a seafarer myself, but

Thanks for all those comments, and

what do you know, it did once end at the bunk, although with that cutscene and some various walking scenes to finish it off. Then it got extended by that new section

 

 

quicksave or noclip are your friend

Forgive me for asking, but where do you need that? Virtually everything in the hold was swapped out with nodrawsolid and then tweaked until I could run everywhere without finding unpassable minislopes or places to get stuck. All I can see still is headwobbling when you move between objects of different heights.

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I read the book inside the hidden room in the Captain's cabin. Now what should I do?

 

 

When you've picked up the book and done whatever objectives you still need to do on the ship you can head to your matrass (had a lantern on it) to progress.

 

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Thanks for the help! Stupid me, I didn't even try to lockpick that.

 

So, the mission is now finished. Or is it?

 

The first part on the ship is wonderful, and the second part, too, I guess, if it had more readables. Most of the time I had no idea what I was doing. Why exactly did the ship crash? What's the ghost's intention? I am alone on the beach, so should I go get help? Suddenly evil men appear (why are they evil? Okay, they try to kill me, so better take them out, but why?) What's the history of the men there? Why is there a body lying upstairs? What is this strange light on the mountain? Am I supposed to have a look on that or should I go back to the ship? Let's go up and see what these lights are..., ooh, a tunnel, what horrors and/or treasures are in there? Meep! Game end. Wha...?

 

All the climbing builds up tension and then suddenly - nothing. Don't get me wrong: Wonderful mission, interesting story, I will definitely replay the mission, but God help you if you don't come up with a sequel any time soon! Just so I know where that damn tunnel leads to.

 

And I had to noclip once while climbing the mountain and twice in the ship (behind my own crate).

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Hi Guys:

How do I find the destination of the ship? Except that I was able to complete all the other "ship"-board objectives.

BTW, I cannot "pick" the haunted tome. Is there any special key I need to press?

Thanks,

-Garette

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