The Pursuance Of An Inscrutable Reciprocity Post-Contest Version (Sept. 14, 2022) - by GORT
Sagittal on 23/9/2022 at 18:12
The key opened the locked front doors of the Power Plant for me playing GORTTUFF but I see they are already unlocked on Normal and Daring difficulty so the key may be of no value on these levels? Did you try the doors?
downwinder on 23/9/2022 at 18:33
ok i got if figured out lol,i though the tarnished red key was for some super secret,its just one way in power plant
ty sagittal
i am guessing this series was a prequel to rotb series?
fortuni on 24/9/2022 at 15:08
Finished and I have to say my favourite of the 3 missions was the last one, but then again I'm a bit of a traditionalist and enjoy city missions the most, without any obtuse puzzle which I'm afraid I consider mission 1 has too many.
My main gripe (probably too strong a word in this case) is the fact that you need to carry over items found in previous missions to complete puzzles/objective/loot in the next mission, and although there was nothing game breaking if you fail to carry these items over, many players do not wish to refer to the forum or a walkthrough before they first play a mission and with all the carry over items in this campaign being relatively well hidden it's likely this will annoy players over the years.
That said it's a great campaign overall and apart from my earlier post about the Red Ruby sequence in mission 1 still being rather buggy I found the rest of the campaign extremely well made, with excellent loot placement, and mostly reasonably logical puzzles (apart from the clock puzzle in mission 2 which is still too obtuse).
A couple of questions about mission 3
Without having read this forum I would not have known about the 4 statues, they are not visible until you have completed your main objective and would no doubt have completely missed the last of the loot unless had known about the statues in advance, only saying this not because I think that was bad design, it's perfectly fair, but is there any readable or other hint in the mission that informs players of a Mage bonus area or was the clue simply the fact that you carried over the Mages gems from the previous mission?
I couldn't find a way into the secret garden apart from using a speed potion (and a slow fall potion can help) when running and jumping off a nearby building, does anyone know another way in?
Also the only way I could get out of the secret garden was to climb a tree and jump to one of the roof tops after having swallowed another speed potion, thankfully I had found both speed potions, if I hadn't I would have been stuck in the garden.
Finally is there anyway to get into the 2 locked bedrooms upstairs in the 'Garrett goes to bed' end mission? No keys available and Garrett seems to have lost his lockpicks. :(
downwinder on 24/9/2022 at 18:37
fortuni,go back to mission 1 and only get the loot then exit mission and then try the last mission you will then have lock picks to go up stairs and go in both rooms,but when you do all the extras and complete all missions then do mission 4 then no lock picks,i feel the fast way to win mission should have had locked doors in mission 2 and in mission 4 you get access to loot more as you put in more work to get there
red ruby is simple click 1 then wait a 5 seconds then do next/etc. waiting that bit of time means all make a sounds,go to fast and skip a sound=i also got confused with that,best tip for mages is this first complete all objectives then there will be 4 mages wondering around the guild mansion,find one run into him and listen to his clue,complete his clue then go back to him to get a mage crystal,then repeat for all mages,i have no idea i had to even talk to them then do task and have to go back to them,once you know that its easy,one in hedge maze,one in basement pipes,one by dance room and one by the exit the two braziers
never even knew there was a secret garden :P
my biggest gripe is all that work with mage gems and we only get a nugget,i was expecting a grail type item
i loved the fact to carry over items
over all i still hold gort in my top 3 fan mission authors
fortuni on 24/9/2022 at 19:05
So you have your lock picks in the ‘Garrett go to bed' mission if you fail to get the red ruby in mission 1, but they disappear from your inventory if you go to that end mission after you have completed the whole campaign correctly.
Mmmm that's not good.
Yes I got the red ruby in the first mission, but that scripting is still buggy, can easily break.
Apart from the gold nugget, 3 other loot crates teleport into the mission once you activate the 4 statues and not sure but maybe the secret flower girl does as well, but maybe she gets activated when you find the Eye of Disillusion.
Edit: Secret flower girl gets teleported into mission when you find the Eye of Disillusion.
downwinder on 24/9/2022 at 19:19
did not know about 3 loot crates after eye,but the girl i found
also the water part was in rotb but no access to sewers this time
i think this series was a prequal to rotb 1 and 2 as the ending scene shows images from those mission series
do you agree on ^???
ohh one last thing i forgot to mention to gort i hate the slippery roofs :(
hey fortuni did you figure out a way to get to keeper in mission 3?
fortuni on 24/9/2022 at 19:30
Quote Posted by downwinder
hey fortuni did you figure out a way to get to keeper in mission 3?
Which Keeper? I think there were at least 2 or even 3, one of whom is impossible to get to unless you cheat (which of course I did), slaughtered him with a
water arrow, what a wimp.
downwinder on 24/9/2022 at 20:11
well i did see one keeper type guy leaning over the wharehouse=a clue that something is there,other guy was behind some gate with no way to get to him as far as i saw due to slippery roofs
also if possible can you put a screen shot of the secret garden i am curious about it,anything there clues??
GORT on 25/9/2022 at 00:32
I now have the updated version ready.
This version has the following fixes:
1.) The issue when Mathew gets killed by the player.
2.) Inventory carrying over from mission 3 to the next.
3.) The French translation has been updated.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujcahublgpwecjh/TPOAIR_Post_Contest_v.1.10.7z?dl=1)
The link will also be in the first post.
EDIT: There was an error in the latest link, but now it's fixed.
fortuni on 25/9/2022 at 06:09
Quote Posted by downwinder
can you put a screen shot of
the secret garden i am curious about it,anything there clues??(
https://i.postimg.cc/G3YTrff3/Untitled-2.png) Screenshot :cheeky:
@ GORT
Thanks for the fixes :thumb: