smithpd on 27/1/2019 at 19:54

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Thanks, Mike. That did it. I enjoyed the secret area and the scroll. That hint was easy enough if you know what you are looking for, but somehow I missed it. Evidently most players got it the first time, so I blame myself.

baeuchlein on 28/1/2019 at 00:27

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Okay, the bad things first.:ebil:

I managed to repeatedly freeze the game at one point. I was playing v1.1 on easiest difficulty level. During the spooky scene in room 13, I blackjacked the invisible being in the bedroom. When I took the orange key from the table in the next room, I could hear "Come back!", but then the game froze.

When I used the sword instead of the blackjack, or when I just fled the room, there was no freeze at this point. Tried these variants at least twice to make sure it was not a random coincidence.

By the way, I noticed I could hit something invisible with my blackjack in Room 7, somewhere between a corner of the bed and a wall corner, near the ceiling.:weird: Sounded as if I hit something made of cloth. I noticed no other effect of that, though.

Apart from my "spooky problem", though... great visuals in both missions, and a nice story being told.:thumb: Like others, I would have preferred a map, at least for the hotel, but managed without it anyway.

However, in mission 2, fun went down considerably from the point when I met Elizabeth in the circular blue room. Almost everything that could possibly go wrong after that did go wrong somehow. The "magic ladder" leading down in the "pool" was only visible from a certain angle for me, and it was almost impossible to catch the "magic ladder" when jumping towards it or letting Garrett fall into its direction. I also did not get that Elizabeth meant "my bones are in the room direcly below this one", but thought she meant "my bones are somewhere on the floors below us", and searched almost the whole winter wing two times until a post here told me where I really had to go. I admit, though, that a peek at my newly appeared objectives would have told me what I overlooked. But hey, a real man doesn't have to read objectives, right?:cheeky:

And when I searched the winter wing then, I thought I was stuck, for when I went up some crates, opened a hatch there and plummeted down the chimney, there seemed no way to get up to Elizabeth, or out of the wing ino the main hotel anymore... until I accidentally hit the double doors I went through earlier in the hospital part of the wing with my sword. The doors sprung open again, although they had not been frobbable anymore after the encounter with the "black wall" in the corridor behind the doors. Maybe these doors should be made frobbable again after the "black wall incident" in a new version of the campaign?

Still in the winter wing, there were several holes in ceilings and/or floors which were so small that I frequently had severe problems getting through and not falling to death. Several times, climbing on ropes would suddenly throw Garrett up or down one or two meters, sometimes even skyrocket him to his spectacular death. Maybe these holes should be made larger, I'm not sure.

Then, I did not see Elizabeth's reward for all my trouble the first time I made it through. The torc had appeared about a meter above Garrett's head, and did not fall down. Another post here told me where to look for it, and then I finally saw it. Maybe it should appear at the bottom of the fountain instead of hovering above it?

When the stones fell down while fleeing the winter wing, Garrett could get hurt a lot or even instantly die when he ran and touched the stones already lying on the floor. It did not happen when Garrett sneaked and hit the stones. I think the stones should stop being so lethal when they have finally come to rest on the floor.

Last complaint: In mission 1, it should be more clear where you have to go at the end.

Do not misunderstand me - there were enough "good" things in the campaign that made up for these problems, but maybe they should still be addressed once a new version of the mission comes out. Sometimes, these small things can build up a lot of frustration.:sweat:

Anyway... thank you for this mission, it's one of the best of the ones from the contest I've played so far!:D

pukey brunster on 28/1/2019 at 03:46

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Thanks @baeuchlein and caqo! Thanks also for the detailed feedback, baeuchlein.. some of this we are working on, but you discovered a bug we hadn't seen before (the room 13 knockout glitch). We are relieved you caught that one before our final release! :eek:

smithpd on 28/1/2019 at 17:01

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Look for a hole in the floor that wasn't there before the quake and rope down.

Vera on 28/1/2019 at 22:53

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I am in the winter wing. I threw four things into the fountain (top level) and they disappeared in water. Nothing happens. No Elizabeth at all. When I enter one of the rooms in hospital, the moving dark wall appears and it kills me.. I have no idea what to do.