T2 FM - Shining Standards Mar. 07/02

Nightwalker on 28/11/2009 at 16:24

The secret doors that those switches open are really easy to miss. They are pretty much exactly where I said they were in the post you quoted. Once you flip the switches, walk to the last door at the end of the hallway. That door opens out onto the round balcony. Just before you go through the door, there's a stone pillar. The secret door opens beside it. There's one at each end of the hallway, each one opened by one of the switches. Here's a (http://tinypic.com/m/6h3rzo/1) screenshot of one of them.

I don't have a loot list though so I'm afraid I can't really help with that. Sorry!

The Phantom on 25/7/2011 at 18:30

Never played Shining Standards before until now. I didn't dissapoint and turns about to be a well-made mission pack :) Not even expected it contained two missions.

Lord Vernstein's manor is very well constructed, with nice architecture, a realistic layout and a large number of secrets to uncover.
Trying to leave as many guards unharmed proved to be quite a challenge, due to their large numbers and the marble floors in the mansion. Luckily there is plenty of equipment to be found, of which scouting orb and moss/water arrows proved to be invaluable.
The things that annoyed are the time it takes to pick locks in general, and the high loot requirement on expert. Especially the latter, as the player is forced to find many (if not all) of the - sometimes hard to find - secrets. Not really easy, requires careful search, and caused me some frustration in the end (when I was only about 50 short of loot and couldn't find what I missed). Nevertheless, once I found a secret it was mostly "wow, that was intruiging", occasionally creepy and sometimes they reward made me giggle. What was to be found there or the type of secret don't make much sense in general, but what the heck. Nice sidetracks during my explorations :D
What surprised me further were some nice visual effects, like the fire in the secret lair in the chapel. Especially considering the mission was released over 8 years ago.
It was mission complete in 3 hours and 42 minutes with 2142 of 2252 loot and one secret short.

The Prometheus very much impressed me, which I won't spoil for those who - like me - haven't played ST yet. Didn't expect to end up in the sea on a ship during a blizzard :wot:. Great atmosphere. The prometheus size and attention to detail is remarkable, and makes me wish there were of these type of fan missions around. In terms of polishing it was a bit of a let down however, with not really much to do and secrets and loot that were either too easy or didn't worked properly. But the place is nice to scout and provided some good 20 minutes of running around. Is it me or did the pirates return on board by sloop while I was scouting the place? Har :ebil:

Beside the critic already mentioned, and the lack of a convicing story, I pretty much enjoyed ST. It offers two diverse and nicely-made missions, with a great feel (especially with the snow) and that provide plenty of secrets.

Well done, Spanker! It makes me wonder what you're doing these days.

Dainem on 7/10/2012 at 15:42

I can´t finish the second mission (on the boat). I jumped into the cargo room and went to the captian´s room. On my way to this room I saw a closed door. It was the same closed door I couldn´t open from the outside. But now two AIs are constantly running against the door but they do not open it. I managed to grab the key to the secure room from one of this AI right through this locked door and therefore could open the room with the main objective. But now I am stuck in the the cargo area. I can´t get through the hole I came from because it is too high and I also can´t leave through the closed door because I don´t find a key for this door and the AI on the other side will not open the door.

This looks like a bug. I am using 1.19.

hawk on 30/8/2014 at 16:52

where is there a fire arrow,i cant find one

hawk on 30/8/2014 at 17:51

Quote Posted by hawk

where is there a fire arrow,i cant find one

its ok did a restart and got one

fortuni on 28/6/2021 at 07:09

Updated dml's courtesy Glypher.

Unna's previous dml's missed out a number of issues so have been deleted, Glypher dml's be included in the next release of T2FMDML.

Mission 1: Fixes bonus objectives that do not work, final goal to exit via the back gate, end game stats on easy and normal for both the loot and the number of secrets available.

Code:

DML1
//T2 FM: Shining Standards (Lord Vernstien's Manor) by Aaron Pettett (Spanker) / Fixes: miss20.mis.dml

//goals
+ObjProp 1960 "DiffTurnOn"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1, 2
}
+ObjProp 1960 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapSetQVar
}
+ObjProp 1960 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =1:goal_final_4
}
+ObjProp 1961 "DiffTurnOn"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1, 2
}
+ObjProp 1961 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapSetQVar
}
+ObjProp 1961 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =0:goal_state_8
}
+ObjProp 1962 "DiffTurnOn"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1, 2
}
+ObjProp 1962 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapSetQVar
}
+ObjProp 1962 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =0:goal_visible_10
}
-Receptron 804 "CrateStim"
+Link 804 2109 "ControlDevice"
{
}
+Link 804 1737 "Route"
{
}
+ObjProp 804 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrigRoomObject
}
-StimSource 2109 "CrateStim"
+ObjProp 2109 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapSetQVar
}
+ObjProp 2109 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =1:goal_state_7
}
-Link 805 2110 "ControlDevice"
+Link 805 535 "ControlDevice"
{
}
+Link 535 2110 "ControlDevice"
{
}
+ObjProp 535 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapRelay
}

//secrets
+Receptron 430 "FireStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
+ObjProp 430 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 0
"alt quest var values" 1, 2
"Properties" DarkStat
}
+Receptron 792 "FireStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
+Receptron 792 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
+ObjProp 1109 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
"alt quest var values" 2
"Properties" DarkStat
}
+ObjProp 1132 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 2
"alt quest var values" 0, 1
"Properties" FrobInfo
}
+ObjProp 1132 "FrobInfo"
{
}
+ObjProp 1177 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 0
"alt quest var values" 1, 2
"Properties" DarkStat
}
+ObjProp 1261 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 1682 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
"alt quest var values" 2
"Properties" DarkStat
}
+ObjProp 1823 "DiffRemoveProp"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
"alt quest var values" 2
"Properties" DarkStat
}

//loot
+ObjProp 441 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0
}
+ObjProp 442 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0
}
+ObjProp 1093 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1094 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1096 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1098 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1099 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1104 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
+ObjProp 1131 "DiffDestroy"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1
}
-ObjProp 1402 "PhysType"
ObjProp 1402 "Position"
{
"Location" -93.48, -237.87, -19.6
}

//doors
+Receptron 152 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
ObjProp 473 "RotDoor"
{
"Open Angle" 272
}
+Receptron 562 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
+Receptron 563 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
+Receptron 582 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}

//fireplaces
ObjProp 616 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 2.00
"Max time" 2.50
}
ObjProp 618 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 1.50
"Max time" 1.50
}
ObjProp 668 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 2.00
"Max time" 2.50
}
ObjProp 670 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 1.50
"Max time" 1.50
}
ObjProp 778 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 2.00
"Max time" 2.50
}
ObjProp 780 "PGLaunchInfo"
{
"Min time" 1.50
"Max time" 1.50
}

//AIs
+ObjProp 1448 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Below Average
}
ObjProp 1449 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Well Below Average
}
+ObjProp 1452 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Well Below Average
}
+ObjProp 1454 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Below Average
}
+ObjProp 1588 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Below Average
}

Mission 2: Fixes final goal that was reversible, couple of items of loot that were not available, end game stats now show as what you find in mission 2 rather than the total sum of the campaign.

Code:

DML1
//T2 FM: Shining Standards (The Prometheus) by Aaron Pettett (Spanker) / Fixes: miss21.mis.dml

#script "miss10"
#script "nvscript"

//loot stats, goals
+ObjProp 90 "DiffTurnOn"
{
"quest var values" 0, 1, 2
}
+ObjProp 90 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrapSetQVar
}
+ObjProp 90 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =0:DrSCmLoot
}
ObjProp 569 "Scripts"
{
"Script 1" FixLootGoal
}
+ObjProp 569 "TrapQVar"
{
"" 7
}
+ObjProp 91 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" TrigQVar
}
+ObjProp 91 "TrapQVar"
{
"" =1:goal_state_0
}
+Link 91 573 "ControlDevice"
{
}
-Link 573 574 "ControlDevice"
+ObjProp 573 "DesignNote"
{
"" NVLinkBuilderLinkType="ControlDevice"; NVLinkBuilderLinkSource="[Me]"; NVLinkBuilderLinkDest=574
}
+ObjProp 573 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" NVLinkBuilder
}
+ObjProp 574 "TrapFlags"
{
"" NoOff
}

//secrets
-ObjProp 182 "Scripts"
-ObjProp 496 "Scripts"
+ObjProp 470 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}

//AIs
+ObjProp 10 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Well Below Average
}
-MetaProp 403 -1688
+MetaProp 403 -1688
+ObjProp 403 "AI_Hearing"
{
"" Well Below Average
}

A.Stahl on 6/7/2021 at 09:49

Text walkthrough:
(https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151316)

stevedonkey on 10/11/2024 at 13:48

in case anyone else is wondering where the fire arrows are, they are in the kitchen in the fireplace