T2 FM: The Seven Shades of Mercury (Hammerite Imperium #1) - 20 May 2009 - by Yandros
Stath MIA on 23/5/2009 at 17:11
@trudnicki- once you've entered via the main door from the academy turn right and head through that door. If you still can't find it then it's in a room at the end of a heavily patrolled hallway on the left just past the the raised platform.
uncadonego on 23/5/2009 at 18:11
Third time I played it and it's still awesome.
Black and silver are quite challenging and keep the game from becoming too easy. Red are twitchy and help that way too, but they are a little easier. I have to stop playing it for a while, though I could keep playing it.
It was really freaking me out though at times. A lot of the time the voices yelling at me were mine, and I thought: "why am I chasing myself and slashing at myself? WHY?! What is my problem?!!"
Seriously though, every aspect of this mission is an absolutely beautiful work of art. I can plainly see why it would take so many people so many years to get this released.
I sent a PM to Alexius commenting on the mission's beauty. Some of you go ahead and do the same. Alexius would probably enjoy that.
Thanks to everyone who worked on getting this released.
Yandros on 23/5/2009 at 18:57
Quote Posted by trudnicki
Link to the patch to this fm that fix the bug ??
Coming soon, we ask your patience please. Along with fixing the secret door bug, we introduced another minor change to improve gameplay significantly in one area, but it's taken us a couple of tries to get that right. I think we have it now, so hopefully we can release the update very soon.
Glad you enjoyed it, Don! I agree, Alexius and other members of the team would love to get PMs from everyone.
SneakyJack on 23/5/2009 at 19:21
This mission looked fantastic after hearing all the hype, but due to not being a skilled ghoster I've managed to get my backside kicked and 'killed' about 12 times and haven't gotten further than the boards/electric trap at the beginning. Its no fun for me to spend the first half of a mission ghosting with no defenses should I be found.
Unless there is a blackjack made available at the beginning on the easiest difficulty I probably won't give this one another shot - but I do respect what was accomplished here! :D The difficulty is a bit too much for me however.
Thor on 23/5/2009 at 19:45
Quote Posted by SneakyJack
Unless there is a blackjack made available at the beginning on the easiest difficulty I probably won't give this one another shot - but I do respect what was accomplished here! :D The difficulty is a bit too much for me however.
What-what-Whaaaatt?!
It can't be that hard ya know... actually you don't even need to sneak past them - just use the noisemaker arrow and the will be at the designated place for like-forever. Once past that, you can just ignore the blue hammerites, since they are rather weak and move on. Once u get the rope arrows, you get your beloved blackjack (if you take the correct path after walking through the compact tunnel with 1 blue guard). Anyway the switches and wire seeing are the hardest things in the beginning really, so a give-up would be such a waste...
You'll realize it to be quite a stupid reason once you start the actual mission. :p
vexd on 23/5/2009 at 19:50
SneakyJack: You should give her another go. I nearly quit too but if you stick with it it's worth it. You are noticing the switch in the corner of the room where the little skirmish occurs that turns the electric field off , as well as the switch that turns off the light making it easier to sneak through? Also there is a bit of equipment to be found early on: Water arrows in the little canal where you begin and moss arrows grow from the ceiling of the corridor that leads into the little room where the fight occurs. You'll find a load of equipment not long after all this. Difficulty tends to drop off once you have your blackjack :ebil:
Yandros on 23/5/2009 at 19:51
That's really sad, Jack. I hope you stick with it and get past that part, because there's so much more of the mission to see.
This is making me want to try my hand at Fraps and make a video walkthrough of the first 10 minutes to help people. It really is pretty easy when you know what to do.
SneakyJack on 23/5/2009 at 20:02
I'll give it another shot - but super high difficulty level missions like Mission X and this one.. I'm not really the target audience. Sure I post reviews and such but its all from the perspective of an average casual player, which I very much am and have admitted many times. :laff:
I'll keep trying and see if I can get to the gear. After that I'm sure I'll be fine.
Edit: I guess I wasnt looking for switches hard enough. Found both switches, then promptly got killed by a gas trap that activated on its own, apparently. Reloaded, got past that and got ambushed by two blue team members while walking into the next room and then while running away from them got killed again by said gas trap. :laff:
Digital Nightfall on 23/5/2009 at 20:43
Congratualations on release, guys. You must be very pleased. :)
242 on 23/5/2009 at 20:57
My traditional question - does a transcript of the movies exist?
