Fan Mission: A Good Neighbor (2020/03/08)

[Amadeus]

 

 

 

The nights are getting colder and you need to pay your rent on time before you get tossed out into the winter air. Luckily, your neighbor told you about a mysterious merchant from faraway shores who has come to the small hamlet of Wilford's Hollow, and he's staying at the inn next door.  What's more, he's brought something with him...

Gameplay Notes:

1) This is a fairly small map, but I did intend for this map to be a bit harder than normal Dark Mod missions, even on the lowest difficulty setting. But there will certainly be plenty of rewards for the careful thief...

2) This map implements the func_peek mechanic by allowing players to peek through any door that has a keyhole by leaning forward. PLEASE NOTE: This function has been known to cause crashes for players using the 32-bit version of the Dark Mod 2.07 (should be fine for those running the 64-bit version). While this function has worked painlessly for some, please be aware that crashing may occur. At no point in this mission is it required to use the func_peek mechanic, it is purely optional, so feel free to not use it.

 Download:

This FM is available via the in-game downloader

FM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghZ2tTf7IoRQiyWtz96pUNajPNPZb6UI/view?usp=sharing

Promotional Screenshots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bwuy0QPhaGpV32CgEdXhBIA5KgvcRueN?usp=sharing

 

Credits:

A HUGE thanks goes out to JackFarmer, Dragofer, and Bikerdude for scripting, EFX, custom ambient tracks, assets, answering a billion of my questions and doing so, so, so much more to make this mission something special. Thank you!

Another GIANT thank you to my beta testers: Jedi_Wannabe, Bienie, Filizitas, joebarnin, bikerdude, Cambridge Spy, STRUNK, Lonewanderer, Rezar. Thank you all very much for your wonderful work and eye for detail!

And another thank you goes out to Goldwell, Kingsal, and Grayman for scripting help and patient guidance.

Assets are from:
Springheel's Superb Modules
Refl3ks' Rad Artwork
Kingsal's Killer Assets
Dragofer's Delightful Assets
Epifire's Expert Models
dmw's Dazzling Textures
Spooks' Spectacular Painting for the Loading Screen
R Soul's Fantabulous Assets
JackFarmer's Miraculous Machines and Sounds
Bikerdude's Bountiful Assets
Hugo Lobo's Luxurious Textures

***PLAYER BEWARE*** SPOILERS lie in the depths below. I strongly suggest playing it first so you don't spoil the fun for yourself  ***

Version 2 Changelog:
- Fixed several broken visportals
- Fixed reflections in flooded basement, improved performance
- New particles, models, and textures
- Fixed broken AI pathing
- Fixed fireplace glitch in the Inn
- Fixed several texture issues
- Added new secret objective
- Lighting and fog changes
- Implemented fade lights
- Implemented Kingsal's inventory icons
- Replaced slow match with flint
- Increased bow draw speed using modified settings from Kingsal

Edited August 24, 2020 by Amadeus

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Congratulations on your first release!

[Bienie]

Yay! Had a blast beta testing this, I'm sure players will enjoy this one a lot as well!

[joebarnin]

Congratulations Amadeus! 

[nbohr1more]

Added to the mission downloader.

[Goldwell]

Congratulations on your first FM Amadeus!

 

I just finished playing it, took me just over an hour and damn was it a lot of good classic thieving fun! For a first release you have hit it out of the park, i'm very impressed!

 

The layout and flow of your mission was really well done, you had a good variety of intriguing locations and some very thoughtful puzzles and layouts. Your use of mixing standard assets and combining them into something new stood out to me too, felt very refreshing. The mission ran really well and you could feel it was well optimized, in terms of details and readables you did an excellent job. I found myself immersed in your world and was having so much fun going from location to location just exploring and reading. The mission was also a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be and

Spoiler

going down into that creepy place under the shop... holy crap! I had goosebumps, very creepy! Well done!

 

All over all this was an excellent mission, and for a first time mission incredibly impressive, thank you!

 

Also do you plan on making a sequel or another mission? because I would love to see more missions from you!

[acolyte6]

First of all I would like to thank you for the release of this FM on my 3 year wedding anniversary  

I love all Swedish names of killed guards (& Stefan) in the game too, since I'm still in Sweden  

I got one problem though. I hit a snag down in the water room where the guard*  patrols in the waterworks. When I go to arm myself with a broad Arrow to shoot him in the face the game justs crashes back to the desktop. Reloaded the whole game 8 times . Glitch? I'm gonna try ghosting down there for now, but I just wanted to let you know.

*

Spoiler

That same guard can't be killed with the sword on the upper floor. It goes right through him. I had to run and back to my courtyard with the statue and climb up on it to get away. He through a rock, missed & said "nice trick", & walked away…  Is that supposed to happen?

So it took me 4hrs to complete it was awesome! Got only 2.2 k in loot. The only dude left alive is the guy with the pirate sword, oh and the guard in the water room.

I wanna go back

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and find whatever is behind the bookcase in the storage room

in the Shop.

I Believe that

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emerald

would bump up the coin score

Great Mission,  Really enjoyed it      

Edited March 9, 2020 by acolyte6

[acolyte6]

9 hours ago, Bienie said:

Yay! Had a blast beta testing this, I'm sure players will enjoy this one a lot as well!

Now I understand where the Swedish names came from  

[Amadeus]

Thank you very much for the kind words, guys!!! I'm glad you enjoyed it! To answer you're question @Goldwell I definitely plan on making more missions following this same story/world, but for now I'm gonna take a small break and... I don't know, go outside or something, haha.

And @acolyte6, I wanted to the north to to have strong German/Swedish setting, a nice change from the grimy hive of scum and villainy that is Bridgeport. There are a few more references about that you'll be able to find. And...

 

good like finding out what is behind that bookcase. I don't want to spoil the fun just yet

Also, I'll take a look at that guard down there.... that is pretty strange

Edited March 9, 2020 by Amadeus

[STRUNK]

Very nice mission .. evereything looks just right and has it's own unique "atmosphere", I really like that the most, and the gamplay also very good and adds to that atmosphere and vica versa ofcourse.

I have to go back to find 3 more secrets now : )

 

 

[Amadeus]

Thank you very much STRUNK, I certainly tried to get it just right. Good luck on finding the rest

[STRUNK]

@Amadeus

 

Spoiler

Got 2728 worth of loot and 2 secrets  but I can't find any more. Got subtile hints maybe? : )

 

[Amadeus]

Not bad on the loot count, STRUNK! But I won't be dishing out any juicy tidbits just yet. I want to give players at least solid week to unravel the mysteries/puzzles for themselves before I start giving out hints  You'll just have to wipe the dust off your spyglass and look closely

[STRUNK]

@Amadeus Ok then! : D *dusts off spyglass

[CrustyCircuits]

Absolutely loving the map! So much I had to make an account just to say so!

Had a question though.

Spoiler

Found the builders note about Ajits' bracelet. Shattering knife and all that. OK, no problem, I'll pickpocket it off him. So i did. Figured that now that his magic macguffin is now in my possession he's no longer immortal and no longer can cast his fireballs. NOPE! picking the bracelet off him does nothing.

He still glows green light while searching. Still can't hurt him. And he still throw his fireballs. All the while his do-dad is in my inventory

Is this a bug? Or is he supposed to always be in "god" mode?

Let me know if that is what I'm supposed to expect.

P.S. OK people. Keep looking long and hard in the shopkeeper store. Finding whats behind the bookcase freaked me the "beep" out!

     Found only 2 out of 5 secrets so far.... Loving it! 

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by CrustyCircuits
Trying to add spoiler tags, so as to not ruin anything for others.

[Filizitas]

Spoiler

Put magic bracelet into holy water at hammerite place. Then black jack magic dude!

 

[acolyte6]

42 minutes ago, CrustyCircuits said:

Absolutely loving the map! So much I had to make an account just to say so!

Had a question though. Found the builders note about Ajits' bracelet. Shattering knife and all that. OK, no problem, I'll pickpocket it off him. So i did. Figured that now that his magic macguffin is now in my possession he's no longer immortal and no longer can cast his fireballs. NOPE! picking the bracelet off him does nothing.

He still glows green light while searching. Still can't hurt him. And he still throw his fireballs. All the while his do-dad is in my inventory.

Is this a bug? Or is he supposed to always be in "god" mode?

Let me know if that is what I'm supposed to expect.

P.S. OK people. Keep looking long and hard in the shopkeeper store. Finding whats behind the bookcase freaked me the "eff" out!

     Found only 2 out of 5 secrets so far.... Loving it! 

With the bracelet, go to

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room #3

 you'll figure it out.

[acolyte6]

24 minutes ago, Filizitas said:

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Put magic bracelet into holy water at hammerite place. Then black jack magic dude!

 

or

Spoiler

kill him

 

[Amadeus]

Hey @CrustyCircuits Welcome to the forums! I'm really glad you like the mission, thank you for playing  Since other players have answered, I'll just say that it is definitely not a bug! Also, so other players don't accidentally get spoiled would you mind editing your post so that it uses spoiler tags. Thanks, hope you enjoy the rest of it!

Edited March 10, 2020 by Amadeus

[gokudo]

Have just started playing but am extremely impressed so far. Some of the effects I've never seen before in TDM missions and they are a definite step up from the norm. If we continue to keep releasing missions of this caliber, 2020 is shaping up nicely!

[Amadeus]

Thank you for the kind words @gokudo! Hope you have as much fun playing it as I did making it

[kin]

Amazing mission!

Spoiler

Need some help on how  to find the key for the small safe upstairs and the code for the big one down stairs

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by kin
rephrase question

[Filizitas]

Spoiler

Key in the garden ventshaft.

 

[Piotr D.]

Hi
I need some help.

 

Spoiler

I can't figure out what to do in waterworks. I started as it was written in the book, turned main power and door control levers, opened hatch 3, got inside... From there I managed to get to the inns basement where the safe is, but I still don't know how to turn power on to open safe.

 

[Amadeus]

Hey Piotr! 

I'm not gonna give too much away, but the light above the vault should be green, if so, there is yet another step you need to take as per Boris' journal, check there)