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Is there a way to do this and I'm just stupid or is it impossible?

 

Edit: unrelated, but worth mention is that a flashbomb will add a suspicion to your score per NPC able to hear the trigger effect where a noise-maker arrow will add none.

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Oh just hold it down.

Noted, it has been straight up ages since I've had to actually toss something.

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There is already a tip about flashbombs in the random tips. And there is a "hold use to throw further" section in the Training Mission. Granted it's not used very often, though I frequently throw my equipment away to distract guards if I'm trapped in a corner with a guard about to stumble on me.

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There is already a tip about flashbombs in the random tips. And there is a "hold use to throw further" section in the Training Mission.

Good that there is a random tip about this, but as it is random I have never seen it yet ;). I just looked and there is a lot of free space in the "Actions" controls submenu below the key bindingy. Maybe all related tips and tricks could be permanentely posted there? I think there are other infos that would fit, like "using" taken lighted candles will extinguish them and similar. Also as for the training mission, I once again recommend to rename it and the main campaign missions so they stick out better once people have downloaded other missions, in which case they disappear easily into the list...

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Yes, it's the same with ANY carried object, the longer you hold the use key, the more force applied to throwing it.

Takes a bit of practice with flashbombs, but you can straight up WHIP them across a level.

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Also as for the training mission, I once again recommend to rename it and the main campaign missions so they stick out better once people have downloaded other missions, in which case they disappear easily into the list...

 

 

You can stop recommending it. We're not going to be renaming them. When someone downloads the mod for the first time, those are the only missions in the list. It's a hassle for very little gain.

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It's a hassle for very little gain.

Really? As far as I understand it's only about updating some text files on the server side and inside the pk4s. Also how about all the other mission name issues, like campaigns being listed correctly on the server side, but ending up completely random again locally? Or missions being listed alphabetically with "A" and "The" in front on the server side, but with "A" and "The" on the back locally? Is fixing those too much hazzle as well or will the Steam version have some completely different way to download missions so any improvements there now will just be wasted time in the long run anyway?

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@Wesps, its been called the training mission since the beginning.

I never wanted to change the name itself, just append a number in front to make sure it appears at the top of the mission list like this:

 

0. Mission: Training Mission

1. MIssion: A New Job

2. Mission: Tears of St. Lucia

 

I know it's just a dirty trick, but it would work and it would help showing TDM off as an actual game instead of a random collection of missions, like some people claim. Right now once you download all missions any structure already existing on the server side is destroyed and TDM does indeed turn into a wild random collection...

 

But maybe nothing of this matters once the Steam version is out, or will downloading missions still work the same way? Or are you discussing this at the moment?

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So you mean to enumerate every campaign or logical sequel that is connected in any way story wise? That might work I suppose. It does not help to check outside the game to the forums or the wiki to verify if a mission has a sequel, or maybe in the event that the player started an FM from halfway through somehow.

But, in each case it will have to be consulted with every FM author.

In regards to the training missions, it sounds good.

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So you mean to enumerate every campaign or logical sequel that is connected in any way story wise?

Only the official ones, so they stay at the top of the list. Most of the other campaigns already have their own numbers, see here: http://www.thedarkmod.com/missions/

The other connected problem I mention here again and again without much recognition is that the name list from that page which is the same as on the download server, will be completely destroyed once you download the missions because most numbers will be gone and "A" and "The" are used differently. Basically all order gets lost...

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The "a" and "the" issue is definitely worth fixing.

 

By the way the discussion went this almost sounds like sarcasm! Hope I'm wrong.

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Sorry. Just voiced aloud some thoughts. The idea with numbering the Training missions in their chronological order just made sense. It will also draw more attention for players who download right away more FM's right from the beginning.

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Only the official ones, so they stay at the top of the list. Most of the other campaigns already have their own numbers, see here: http://www.thedarkmod.com/missions/

 

 

Far as I'm aware only the training missions are official. Everything else are fan missions. Hence the name FM. So this concerns only the training missions (and any future sequel they might get).

"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

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The idea with numbering the Training missions in their chronological order just made sense.

Maybe numbers in front is not the best solution and something else could be tried? Like using special characters to make sure the official missions are always listed first e.g. *Mission 1: New in Town*, *Mission 2: Tears of St. Lucia*, *Training Mission* and *Sound Alert & Blackjack Trainer*. That would differentiate the official missions from the other missions more obviously, provided the TDM team keeps an eye on that nobody else does something similar ;)! This would also automatically work for the web page mission list, on which "New in town" has no entry yet, BTW...

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It doesn't need an entry on the webpage, since it is automatically downloaded as part of the mod update.

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