Fan Mission : Hazard Pay by Kingsal 01/27/22

[kingsal]

HAZARD PAY 1.5
[ TDM 2.10  REQUIRED] 

 

AUTHOR'S NOTE
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Hello! Its been a while since I’ve released something so I figured I'd join the 
Connections Competition and make a stand-alone adventure to try out the new 2.10 features. 
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DESCRIPTION
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This is a medium size mission with an emphasis on adventure and stealth combat.

!!! WARNING !!!
I recommend NORMAL if you're looking to cruise and HARD / EXPERT if you're looking to sweat a little.
EXPERT uses a prototype save room mechanic and is very tough.
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PLAY IT

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Requires TDM 2.10
DOWNLOAD HAZARD 1.5
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PLAYTHROUGH 
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Courtesy of Filizitas

Part 1 Part2 Part3
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CREDITS:
VOCALS courtesy of the very talented : Goldwell, Mortem Desino,  and  Yandros.
TESTING by the diligent and awesome : Amadeus, Epifire, Goldwell, Mike_A, and Moonbo
ADDITIONAL SCRIPTING provided by the very talented Dragofer 
ADDITIONAL AUDIO by the masterful Goldwell
PLAYTHROUGH by Filizitas
 

 

[Goldwell]

Congrats on the release! This mission is so much fun!

[thebigh]

Congratulations on the release! Downloading now.

 

edit: oh, hang on. The pk4 link seems not to be correct

Edited January 28, 2022 by thebigh

[kingsal]

Fixed! ha.. of course I foul that up

[nbohr1more]

Congrats on this beautiful release!!!

This mission is up at Moddb:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/addons/hazard-pay-210-beta-required

updated to v 1.2

[JackFarmer]

Thank you and congratulations on the release!

I have infiltrated the first part of that railway thingy (maybe 15 minutes in) and will proceed this nite.

I am a fan of that menacing vibe, plus you've packed some great ideas in again - the saving system on the harder difficulty levels reminds me of games like RE IV and it adds more tension to the game.

Great work and  I am curious what else will happen in this mission!

[Amadeus]

Congratulations!!! Players are going to love this

[RedNoodles]

10/10 mission.

[STRUNK]

I really loved it!

[kingsal]

Thanks for playing guys!

IMPORTANT: I noticed an issue with playing this on 2.10 beta 5. 
Im taking the PK4 down right now and uploading a fix! Apologies!

[STRUNK]

9 hours ago, kingsal said:

I noticed an issue

Spoiler

I only missed a model. A black cube was connected to the gramaphone player.
And I had 2 rats sticking in the wall, but that has been normal rat behaviour as long as I can remember : D

 

 

[kingsal]

7 minutes ago, STRUNK said:

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I only missed a model. A black cube was connected to the gramaphone player.
And I had 2 rats sticking in the wall, but that has been normal rat behaviour as long as I can remember : D

 

 

Hey Strunk, do you have a screenshot of where you saw this?

[kingsal]

Okay, I've hotfixed the issue. If you've already started a game and are still early on I would recommend redownloading and restarting  Its a finnicky bug that might not happen to everyone but if it does it sucks.

Thanks for your patience everyone, gonna be a little rocky with the BETA!

[STRUNK]

9 hours ago, kingsal said:

Hey Strunk, do you have a screenshot of where you saw this?

Here you go:
 

Spoiler

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by STRUNK

[kingsal]

@STRUNKCan you put the rats in a spoiler ? I should have clarified, I was talking about the black cubes.

[JackFarmer]

48 minutes ago, kingsal said:

Okay, I've hotfixed the issue. If you've already started a game and are still early on I would recommend redownloading and restarting  Its a finnicky bug that might not happen to everyone but if it does it sucks.

Thanks for your patience everyone, gonna be a little rocky with the BETA!

I  made it into

Spoiler

the save area with the guy that wants you to bring him loot.

Shall I download the update and start again?

[kingsal]

4 minutes ago, JackFarmer said:

Shall I download the update and start again?

If its not a huge burden I would recommend it. Apologies! 
 

Spoiler

Essentially, the security cameras are misbehaving. If you continue further into the level they will alarm when they see zombies and that sends everything into a pretty big mess.

 

[JackFarmer]

Okay, I will download and restart.

So many awesome scenes...here one of my favorites:

Spoiler

Murnau is alive!  

Fantastic work.

[kingsal]

6 minutes ago, JackFarmer said:

Fantastic work.

Thanks! If your PC can run it I would recommend trying the shadow maps rendering, you'll see all the new volumetric fog stuff!

[STRUNK]

Spoiler

For me the security camara's worked as they should. I got the update from the installer plus I compiled the source code a few days ago.
Btw, I could headshot (with broadheads) the "undead"(didn't try the ones in the silo) but I guess that's delibarate (in easy mode).

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by STRUNK

[STRUNK]

@JackFarmer
 

Spoiler

Are you missing a rope there in your screenshot?

 

[JackFarmer]

15 minutes ago, STRUNK said:

@JackFarmer
 

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Are you missing a rope there in your screenshot?

 

Yes, you are right. Should there be a rope?

[JackFarmer]

29 minutes ago, kingsal said:

Thanks! If your PC can run it I would recommend trying the shadow maps rendering, you'll see all the new volumetric fog stuff!

Will do, forgot to switch it on (I thought I already had switched it on).

Regarding the bug you mentioned, you are right:

Spoiler

In my run  with the previous version I had almost all zombies (those outside the building and those inside the caves) standing in front of the respective cameras. Inside the building there had been at least 10 - 15 (!) of them circling around one camera. I thought this was a special challenge for the player to find some sort of explosive to blow them all away!

This, of course, broke all patrols. The AI behaviour in version 2 is correct; the zombies patrol along the designated path nodes.

I am now inside the pyramides (or whatever that is) and saved for the very first time inside the storage room.

I hope I can find all the loot I found in my previous run until this particular point in the mission.

This mission reminds me on two games:

Spoiler

1. The Dark Project mission "Horn of Quintus"

2. Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation

 

This mission also includes very cool models. I probably will get back to you someday and will ask whether I can use some of them in one of my next mission!

[nbohr1more]

The hotfix is up at moddb

I am gonna add the voting poll to this thread.

[Zerg Rush]

A somewhat atypical little mission, but entertaining with some interesting and new models. But the end is perhaps unresolved, when entering the road to Northdale at a point on the tracks the screen went dark, but I could continue walking with the black screen and it took a long time until the mission finally finished.
Other than this I have enjoyed it.