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Deadeye (2021) TDM FM

Assassination Small/Short Thieves/Thieves Guild

This neighborhood isn't exactly the most trouble-free place, but recently it has gotten much worse than before. Some time ago, a group of thugs and troublemakers moved into the district and sta... Czytaj dalej

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UWAGI: Deadeye is a small/tiny assassination mission recommended for TDM newcomers and veterans alike.

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Deadeye design notes:

These are no objective truths, but rather my personal thoughts and preferences which came up during mapping. Yours may be different, and that's great, isn't it?

General:
*Small mission: easy to map and test. Relatively low level of commitment. Bite size to play, almost bite size to map. I usually like smaller missions more. Small missions are great, because player focus and energy lasts for the duration of the whole mission. It is easier to successfully make a good small mission than a good large mission.

*Focused: map one location well and stay focused. No wandering around a big city, trying to find where you are supposed to go. You start right where you were supposed to go. There is only the right place to go to. Okay, the main location can be full of nooks and crannies, but if you find yourself mapping some other area than the main location, ask yourself, why on earth?

*Outdoor areas are usually more work per "unit of gameplay fun" than interiors. Interiors are fast to map and more fun in gameplay. I grabbed the outside area from a never released WIP and made the interior from scratch. Strangely, outdoor areas often end up as unused WIP material. Indoors turn quickly into released Fan Missions. Just something mapper might be good to be aware of.

Lights: adjust a light radius in a corridor so that it barely touches the walls but sinks well into floor. Repeat to all rooms with all lights. Following this rule generally makes pretty lighting.

AI relighting: normal people like to stay in light. AI staying in an area should want to relight some light so that they do not stay in the dark. A location should thus have a main big light and a small secondary light. AI looks natural if they disregard the large light going off, but keep relighting the smaller light. Also, in this mission all the AI has the core TDM chance to relight, but the one roaming AI has higher chance to relight. It looks nice and natural when an AI stays in a dark area and another passes through and relights for the other.
Relighting can be a pain for the player who just spent scarce water arrows. Thus, pinchable candles were used. Cheap to douse. Cheap to relight. The big main light can be costly to douse and then stays off giving the player a nice advantage. Secondary lights are to make AI look believable.

*AI location distribution: one or two high security zones, located in choke points that make sense. Place Quiet Areas between them. This is to give the mission nice pacing. Also, the AI functions better if they have enough lebensraum/breathing room. Ai logjams look bad...

*AI patrols: Each AI has their own predictable patrol of few nodes. This makes it easy to check that the pathing works. There is just one AI who patrols through the entire map and meets almost all other AI. This is to make most of the AI familiar and easy to predict for the player, but the one roaming AI has the possibility to surprise the player.

*The plot twist of Deadeye is that there is no plot twist. Sometimes it is okay that everything is what it seems. This is just to remind mappers that you do not need to figure out complex soap opera plot to make a fun mission.

*EFX reverb settings. Please always use them. This mission uses just a few presets and it really makes the world pull the player in.

Moveables: I don't use moveables. Just a few left lying around can really mess up the AI pathing or even block doors. More trouble than worth.

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This neighborhood isn't exactly the most trouble-free place, but recently it has gotten much worse than before.

Some time ago, a group of thugs and troublemakers moved into the district and started causing havoc: beatings, robberies, extortions...

The local merchants see the thugs as a threat to their businesses and would like to have the nuisance exterminated. The city watch is too busy or too corrupt to help them and what do I care?

I told them I can lend my helping hand, for a hefty sum of gold.

The gang is a loose group of cutthroats and criminal scum, but my main target is Deadeye, their leader.

A cruel and vicious man, he is the brains of the entire operation, and certainly the type of person the city would be much better without.

If I get rid of Deadeye, the rest of the morons should just disperse, and the merchants gold would buy me a lavish life-style for a while.

So, this is the plan: sneak in, avoid the other gangmembers entirely, identify and pop off Deadeye and then get the hell out.

Alternatively, if I dare, I could kidnap him for ransom.

The gang must have some ill-gotten gains lying around, so I should scoop those for myself while I'm at it.

I heard Deadeye is aptly named: he is the only one in the gang with a bad eye and wears an eyepatch. Easy clue for identifying him.

My lavish life-style is only one heartbeat away...

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v1.0

DL TDM

Gra: The Dark Mod
Wydano: 31 grudnia 2021
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I like this mission alot, however it doesnt show off the full potential of the TDM engine.

Lady_Glinnevier

10 stycznia 2022 17:10

This mission has everything a short bit sized mission needs.
I just wish that visually it would keep up with the engine more.
Too many flat textures, clunky geometry and not enough contrast and variety.

However, still a great mission, good for a newcomer!

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Challenging bite-sized adventure

Mike 5 stycznia 2022 09:03

"Deadeye" is not story-heavy. All you should know is that there is small gang of street thugs and their leader is the one you should either kill or take for ransom. The mission is essentially small (you can complete it in 12-25 min.) but twisted corridor with occasional branches, and obstacles - both passive (like doors or candles) and active (...