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Fan Mission: Volta and the Stone by Kingsal (05/26/2016) V1.3

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Hello Everyone! I've been a fan of the TDM community for some time now. Over the last year or so, I've been chipping away at an FM of my own and it's finally ready for release. Volta 1 : The

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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

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I'm making progress on the follow up mission which I hope to have done late spring / early summer. This will come with a new campaign friendly "redux" version of Volta and the Stone. I plan to do som

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@stgatilovĀ Im not sure what happened but I did upload the old .map file by mistake. I dmapped in 2.08 and uploaded to the mirrors. Thanks for noticing this!

@lowenzĀ Should be all good now! Im verifying the mirror are working, so just to be safe delete your old volta 1 folder and re download here

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Volta Missions:Ā Ā Volta and the Stone, Volta II: Cauldron of the Gods
Standalones:Ā Snowed Inn,Ā Hazard PayĀ Ā Moongate Ruckus

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Great mission! It took me almost 3 hours to finish. Wandered around trying to find all the lootĀ etc, but was still 400 shy and found only 1 secret. All the small details worked very well and the story was easy to follow.

What I especially liked compared to other missions was that the layout was realistic and with my very poor orienteering skills I never got lost and could actually plan my navigation around the map.

Regarding the end part of map.

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As some already mentioned, I was also a bit disappointed that in the very end there was no big fight against some monster, but one could just walk out of the tower.

One loot that can't be picked up:

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The bag in the mailbox. I was even able to get it out of the maibox with some item on my hand, but still when it was on the floor couldn't pick it up.

I already started the next Volta and I'm hoping it proves to be on the same level!

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I have been bothered by the overly clear water effect in many TDM missions including this one.

I have attached two modified material files:

tdm_water.mtr

tdm_sfx.mtr

A water with a blend filter stage and the particle vfx material set to "sort last" so that lamp glares will render over the top of it.

Add these to a materials sub-folder in your volta fm folder to try them out. :)

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http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod

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(Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...)

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@nbohr1moreĀ Hey thanks! I wasn't planning on updating this mission, but Ill definitely include this in the next ones and whenever I swing back around on this!

Volta Missions:Ā Ā Volta and the Stone, Volta II: Cauldron of the Gods
Standalones:Ā Snowed Inn,Ā Hazard PayĀ Ā Moongate Ruckus

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The secret key was stolen from the engineer who makes the rounds checking the three hidden switches. The key is a bypass that lets you open the two portcullises guarding the switches to the main portcullis that opens the tower. So if you want to rush the main objective, enter the mansion through the spa room windows (rope arrow required) and find the pagan's hiding spot, and then head to one of the control rooms in the center-north, use the key, pop the tower open and Bob's your uncle.

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I'm re-playing this mission, and have trouble finding the

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family ring in the bath house again (already couldn't find it the first time I played the mission). Any pointers?

Edit: Ok, got it. At 24:32 here:

Well, that's really hard to see, and the guy in the video had his issues finding it as well.

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On 7/4/2023 at 3:48 AM, chakkman said:

I'm re-playing this mission, and have trouble finding the

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family ring in the bath house again (already couldn't find it the first time I played the mission). Any pointers?

Edit: Ok, got it. At 24:32 here:

Well, that's really hard to see, and the guy in the video had his issues finding it as well.

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Yeah thats terribly hard to see :(Ā I wanted it to be hidden but that's just too well hidden.Ā 

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Volta Missions:Ā Ā Volta and the Stone, Volta II: Cauldron of the Gods
Standalones:Ā Snowed Inn,Ā Hazard PayĀ Ā Moongate Ruckus

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