rostok on 15/1/2022 at 18:15
I so love so much city missions with high buildings, winding alleys and bizarre interiors. Magnificent stuff.
Took me extra time to actually find the City Hall. I somehow missed the gate leading there.
Also I loved the brick wallpaper on a brick wall and still life painting with a model. Thanks!
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nightchild on 18/1/2022 at 15:31
I happened to play this mission after I played your second one and I have to say that I love it!! It is the dream mission for anyone who likes diverse architecture and many routes and places to explore! I like missions that you just forget about the objectives and indulge yourself with going anywhere it takes you each time to explore. As I am currently playing it, another mission came to mind, the "Accent to Dim valley" (which I also loved).... and lo, I see now that that one was yours too! Of course, the same lovely strange mind created both! Please, keep them coming! My only fear is that I might miss some part of that huge complex labyrinth of opportunities! Someone called it boring?? I understand of course that different people have different perception about what defines "interesting" to them.
For me is just the perfect playground for a taffer.
I also want to say that the acknowledgement section was one of the most thorough I have read and shows your respect for all the people that either personaly helped you or have contributed one way or another to enrich FMs with their individual work. Kudos!
Samantha1 on 6/2/2022 at 16:03
Hello. I´m currently replaying this wonderful mission with a lootlist so I can make sure that I checked out all the places.
So I´m almost done with it, but there are still two places I have no idea where I can find them or how to reach them:
-Kranz´s hideout
-Thieves den (I was in the games room right where the mission begins, but I can´t find a way there into any other rooms of the thieves den. According to the lootlist there are more rooms with loot.
Could someone tell me where to find them? :)
Edit: All right! 5 minutes after posting I found the thieves den :cheeky: There´s a hidden switch in the china shop that connects to the thieves den. So I only need to know how I can reach Kranz´s hideout :)
tone_lord on 6/1/2023 at 04:29
"Tangled" is a perfect description of the area, and I loved it!
I missed about 2000 in loot, but there were a couple (or more) of areas I could see I needed to get into (beckoning windows, you know) that I simply could not find the path to.
Might require a revisit.
klatremus on 7/2/2023 at 04:39
Now this was special, DirkBogan! A near perfect mission that I cannot believe I didn't play sooner. The spiraling streets to a rooftop level was just ingenious. So many hidden buildings everywhere. I almost couldn't put it away until I finished, to my wife's utter frustration, lol. So now I'm in trouble, so thanks for that DB. :p What do the GR and SS buildings stand for? I suspect I didn't access everything of the latter, as it looks quite big on the map, but didn't seem that big inside.
Ended my first playthrough with 9100 loot out of 10K+. :eek: Gotta go back and check again. There were no areas I didn't find access to, so it might just be random items here and there. But those frobbable windows were devious, so I might have missed a few. I did find the room accessible from the outside at the city hall, with all the masks. Found the plaque and about 4 guards or so on the out-of-bounds rooftops. Wish there were secret counts. In my list I found 6 levers that I would count as secrets. Found a cool ceiling cache in the bar at city hall also, I liked that one.
This mission fits in with the Whistling of the Gears, Into the Odd, Alcazar style with the Rocksbourg-esque narrow spaces and an unorthodox almost eerie layout. I really like the sound design also, but I had to turn down the recommended ambient level to my normal ones. I will definitely try your other creation too. In fact, I can't wait!
Edit: No wait, there is an area I couldn't enter. In the industrial area there was a street level window with a red hammer symbol inside. Can you get in there??
DirkBogan on 10/2/2023 at 08:26
Thank you all for the kind words. I'm not especially pleased with the sloppy technique on show in this map, but that's the curse of the author and I'm thrilled that it's still making people happy.
@klatremus:
* from memory, GR is Green and SS is Sandstone. Fortuni asked about this a while ago for his walkthrough, and gave more appropriate labels (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AsAlOkFLftj3RJd_JVVTcn4VTSp031FX/view?usp=sharing)
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* I didn't do secret counts for two reasons. 1) I think the boundary between a secret and just exploring is very blurry, especially in a map like this, and 2) I didn't know how to do them
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* The Hammer building in question can't be entered. I just envisioned it as a sign of urban decay and how quickly the infrastructure fell apart without maintenance.
Thanks again to everyone for playing the map. Though I haven't released anything solo for years now, I've contributed at least half-a-dozen maps worth of time and effort to
The Black Parade in the meantime. I hope everyone will enjoy it when it finally releases.
klatremus on 23/2/2023 at 04:56
Finished ghosting this one. It was easier than first anticipated. Let's play will be up when I get around to recording it, hopefully in not too long. I have only one question. Testing out the new object/loot finder tool that has emerged, I found a couple of new weapons and readables I hadn't noticed before. But I also found a mysterious item that I cannot seem to get to. As seen in the first screenshot below, it seems to be underneath the stairs going down to the caretaker's basement in the Affordable Housing building. When I go down the the bottom floor, however, as seen in the second screenshot, it is now in the ceiling. Is there a hidden lever to open that mechanical wall?
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DirkBogan on 23/2/2023 at 05:09
Uh, I just checked and apparently there's a random WaterCrystal in solid world there. I have no idea how or when it was placed there and it doesn't seem to do anything. It's a mistake.
klatremus on 24/2/2023 at 01:43
Yeah I figured something like that might be going on. No worries. Thanks for checking.
uncadonego on 15/4/2023 at 19:57
Is it possible I missed an entire segment of the map? I finished, but there is still about 3200 or so loot to be found.