Fan Mission: Seeking Lady Leicester, by Grayman (3/21/2023)

[Amadeus]

 

Surrounded by greedy noblemen and treacherous siblings, Lady Kamila Leicester gets more than she bargains for after acquiring an ancient tome and performing the dark rituals within.

Bikerdude, Wellingtoncrab, Dragofer, and I proudly present Grayman’s FM “Seeking Lady Leicester.”
 
Notes

- TDM 2.11 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission. You can get the latest TDM version via the installer or here.
- Seeking Lady Leicester was originally a work-in-progress given to the Dark Mod community per Grayman’s wishes after his passing and was initially adopted by Bikerdude before Dragofer, Amadeus, and Wellingtoncrab joined to complete the FM.

-This FM does NOT support any unofficial gameplay patch or mod. The use of such a patch and/or mod could break things in this FM. You've been warned.
- "Story" subtitles are available for this FM. Simply go to Settings --> Audio and select "Story" or "On"  for the subtitles setting.
- This FM may be more hardware intensive than normal. LOD settings can be set below "Normal" to improve performance on low-end machines by disabling certain features.
- This FM implements the func_peek mechanic, allowing players to peek through any door that has a keyhole on it by leaning forward. PLEASE NOTE: This function has been known to cause crashes for a small number of players in the past, likely due to using the 32-bit version of TDM. At no point in this mission is it required to use the func_peek mechanic; it is purely optional, so feel free not to use it.

Download Version 1.1

This FM is available for download via the in-game mission downloader, or here via Google Drive.
 
Promotional Screenshots 

ThiefGuild Thread
 
Credits

A big thanks goes out to Noelker and Goldchocobo for their wonderful voice work with the briefing and conversations, JackFarmer and itsPapiD for their fantastic briefing video, and nbohr1more for his story contributions and writing one particular gameplay feature that I won’t spoil here but you can read about in the readme.txt.
An even bigger thank you goes out to our beta testers: nbhor1more, Daft Mugi, Silverwolf, Havoc, Datiswous, Cambridge Spy, Aluminumhaste, Thebigh, Ate0ate, Acolyte6, Kalavi, JoeBarnin. Thank you all very much for your fantastic feedback and tireless efforts as this FM evolved throughout the course of development!

Asset Credits

- Arx EOS’s Fish
- Epifire’s models
- Kingsal's Assets and Textures
- WellingtonCrab’s assets and textures
- Obsttorte's frob loot script

- ZergRush's custom Grayman painting

===================Rest In Peace Grayman. You are missed=======================

 

[nbohr1more]

The mission is now added to the FM database and should be available in the in-game downloader.

Congratulations on the release!!!

[kin]

At last! Thank you!

[thebigh]

Congratulations on the release!

[Heuli]

Thank you to everyone who took part in the mission
and that despite the crisis
I think Grayman would have been happy

 

[chakkman]

Grats to the release. I know what I'll be doing this evening.

[datiswous]

Hi Congratiolations on the release.

6 hours ago, Amadeus said:

- "Story" subtitles are available for this FM. Simply go to Settings --> Audio and select "Story"  for the subtitles setting.

Can you change this line in:

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- "Story" subtitles are available for this FM. Simply go to Settings --> Audio and select "Story" or "On"  for the subtitles setting.

The "On" setting shows the story subtitles together with the AI-barks. You make it sound like you specifically need the story setting to get the story subtitles.

 

6 hours ago, Amadeus said:

- TDM 2.11 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission.

What are the 2.11 specific features?

Edited March 22, 2023 by datiswous

[Xolvix]

Awesome mission! Been playing it for an hour or so and it's the type of mission I like, full of areas to explore but not so much it becomes overwhelming, a manor to investigate, and a mystery. 

1 hour ago, datiswous said:

What are the 2.11 specific features?

I don't know if there's any technical features being used, but based on what I've played so far there's a bunch of assets I've never seen before that look like they're some of the ones listed here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=What's_new_in_TDM_2.11#Assets

 

 

[datiswous]

Ah right, that's probably it.

[Wellingtoncrab]

@datiswousIn addition to the content (we tried to use as many of the new assets as we could at least once) there is at least one 2.11 specific script event called in some of the objective scripting. Haven’t tried loading it in 2.10 but I am not sure it even would as a result.

Edited March 22, 2023 by Wellingtoncrab
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[nbohr1more]

We gotta do something about the in-game authors display in the mission selector, it is cutting off WellingtonCrab's name.

Any objections to changing the entry to Grayman, Fractured Glass Team ? (etc)

[Amadeus]

32 minutes ago, nbohr1more said:

We gotta do something about the in-game authors display in the mission selector, it is cutting off WellingtonCrab's name.

Any objections to changing the entry to Grayman, Fractured Glass Team ? (etc)

Yeah, it seems that as missions get bigger and more complex, you need more authors to hop on and help. But I'm personally okay with whatever works best; let's see if dragofer and welli have an opinion. 

[Wellingtoncrab]

Eh, I am not really one to complain about such things. I don't think there is much ambiguity that I contributed to the mission. At a certain point the mission downloader is not realistically going to be able to credit everyone in large project.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Wellingtoncrab

[RedNoodles]

congratulations on the release! just played it for a bit, it's huge.

Edited March 22, 2023 by RedNoodles

[datiswous]

2 hours ago, nbohr1more said:

We gotta do something about the in-game authors display

Introduce short names?

Biker, Welli, Drago and..

[kingsal]

Congrats guys! I'm excited to check this one out. 

[Kopfrkingl]

Congrats on the release. The names listed in the credits alone give away this will be a treat.

[Xolvix]

I have a visual glitch in the mission, don't know if it's an issue with my install or not but

Spoiler

in the greenhouse area, there's this:

Seems like the objects are supposed to be sitting on something (and still are, they don't ever fall), but all I get is the black cube on the ground instead. Am I missing an asset somewhere? I'm running 2.11 and everything else works just fine including other new assets, it's literally the only problem I've had so far and it's fairly minor, but still.

 

 

Edited March 22, 2023 by Xolvix

[Amadeus]

 

18 minutes ago, Xolvix said:

I have a visual glitch in the mission, don't know if it's an issue with my install or not but

 

yeah, you're not the only one that has experienced this issue. It's a strange problem, because most of our beta testers didn't have this issue, but a few did. We quadruple-checked the file paths and everything. Something funky is definitely going on, sorry about this. Lucky the issue only seems to be present to very few players and only in this particular area (he says, hoping not to jinx it)

EDIT: Fixed now, uploading the version 1.0001 hotfix :D

Edited March 22, 2023 by Amadeus

[Tarhiel]

Oh wow, new release!

Gonna play it as soon as I will finish Mysteries of the Sith

[Amadeus]

6 minutes ago, Tarhiel said:

Gonna play it as soon as I will finish Mysteries of the Sith

Now that's a game I have not heard in a long, long time.

[Xolvix]

9 hours ago, Amadeus said:

EDIT: Fixed now, uploading the version 1.0001 hotfix

Cool, thanks for that. Curious what the fix was but I can confirm it's now looks correct... IF I restart the mission. Loading my savegame made prior to the update shows the bugged-out cabinet after the update, but starting the updated mission from scratch fixes it. Something about how the engine works I guess. No matter, just found it interesting.

Edited March 23, 2023 by Xolvix

[Heuli]

I finished the mission just great
great atmosphere.
one question i can go fishing there are delicious fish in the water

[vorob]

Thanks for release! Will definetly play it on my current machine. 

Yesterday i was testing my retro hardware and was surprised by 5 fps outdoor

It's a laptop from 2009 with C2d CPU clocked at 3000mhz and Geforce 260m (close to 250 desktop). 

 

p.s. zero gpu load is a bug. In reality it's working hard!

Edited March 23, 2023 by vorob

[datiswous]

10 minutes ago, vorob said:

Yesterday i was testing my retro hardware and was surpsided by 5 fps outdoor

Nice to see that you're happy with that...

Did you know you could save screenshots inside TDM? Press (default) F12 key. Screenshots can be found in the screenshots folder in the root directory of TDM.

Edited March 23, 2023 by datiswous