Hidden Hands: The Lost Citadel (23/07/2020)

[datiswous]

16 hours ago, datiswous said:

I'm stuck.I cannot get past this gate:

Not stuck anymore.

[datiswous]

Ok finished this mission. A really beautiful mission! I'm just not really a big fan of undead and I think at least the citadel is too large. Too much backtracking when you forget something. Also most of the rooms are very large, but I guess it fits the type of building. For the rest I enjoyed this fm a lot.

I finished all the objectives (on easy)

Edited April 30, 2025 by datiswous

[datiswous]

@JackFarmer

Here some more screenshots of things I encountered that could be improved:

Spoiler

 

See this post for the previous ones.

I also noticed a lot of console errors including a bunch about incorrect efx range.

Edited April 30, 2025 by datiswous

[Wilhelm]

The level design had been good until that golden door. Why are there four zombies in front of a door that has no shading and requires 8 successful lockpicks to open (an first and extreme)? Why are the zombies obsessed over the lock on the door? and why isn't there an alternate route to get in for those who'd prefer to ghost (even if it is harder that just hacking). 

[datiswous]

1 hour ago, Wilhelm said:

The level design had been good until that golden door. Why are there four zombies in front of a door that has no shading and requires 8 successful lockpicks to open (an first and extreme)? Why are the zombies obsessed over the lock on the door? and why isn't there an alternate route to get in for those who'd prefer to ghost (even if it is harder that just hacking). 

Did you (not) find help from the enemy of my enemy is my friend ?

Spoiler

You can release fire elementals to kill the zombies.

 

[DeathRabbit679]

Just finished this one, woo boy what an incredible mission. Nice work @JackFarmer !! I really liked the underwater submarine area, that was a pretty cool touch, and the saint puzzle was pretty great, nice scratcher without resorting to moon logic.

I did run into some stability issues in the citadel, whenever I killed an undead or a skeleboi, it ran a high risk of crashing the game (TDM 2.13). I think it was sound related, I noticed the sound would go wonky right before the crash so I disabled the OpenAL EFX and that made it like, 25% as likely to crash, otherwise it would have been a forced ghost, haha. Here's a save where you can really quickly go kill an undead and make it happen, unless I suppose it's specific to my rig, lmk if you want any further info

[Xolvix]

Oh man I've just started continuing this mission after a leave of absence. I got distracted by shiny AAA titles for some reason and have now gone back to classic TDM, something I was intended to do anyway.

Unfortunately this distractionary phase seems to have lasted for... a while, since the last played date for the mission was apparently February 2023. It also appears I'm out of date as there are a ton of new missions I've been ignoring. It's almost embarrassing, but now I'm ready for it and I'm reminded just how epic in scale this mission actually is.

[JackFarmer]

4 hours ago, Xolvix said:

Oh man I've just started continuing this mission after a leave of absence. I got distracted by shiny AAA titles for some reason and have now gone back to classic TDM, something I was intended to do anyway.

Unfortunately this distractionary phase seems to have lasted for... a while, since the last played date for the mission was apparently February 2023. It also appears I'm out of date as there are a ton of new missions I've been ignoring. It's almost embarrassing, but now I'm ready for it and I'm reminded just how epic in scale this mission actually is.

That really cheered me up, thank you!

[Azaran]

Spoiler

On the second floor of the citadel, there's double doors with a clock above them that can't be frobbed, how do I get in there?

 

I also found a "mysterious key" but unsure where to use it

[JackFarmer]

9 hours ago, Azaran said:

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On the second floor of the citadel, there's double doors with a clock above them that can't be frobbed, how do I get in there?

 

I also found a "mysterious key" but unsure where to use it

Spoiler

You have to solve the puzzle with the large rotatable towers in the basement to gain access for said double door.