baeuchlein on 17/11/2009 at 14:16

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Yes, the South gate key opens the way to the mountain pass. The south gate is close to ex-Hammer Vorentius' house (the one where an electrified gate stopped you from entering at first), closer to the back door than to the front porch. Of course, your compass should point you into the right direction as well...;) Once you're through the South gate, just follow the path. There's only one.



It's one of these gates. Another one re-opens in the small street leading to Old Town, just opposite the place where the wooden barrier is at the beginning. This second gate apparently was open before; somewhere we could read that the Keepers had closed it before by using the glyphs, which can still be seen there.



You would think otherwise if you had been beaten to death by them several times...:ebil:



And there's the Mechanist one-woman-fighting force we play in "4th planet"... and there was a mission where one played a guard... and I think one played a female thief in "Curse of the Carnival" as well. Oh, and don't forget the burricks' stable boy in another mission. Then there was "GuardHouse 2" (I think), where we play a male thief, but it's not Garrett.





As Stingm mentioned here, you have to open the gate behind the red barrier as well. The switch for that is located in the power plant in Old Town. You need the key for the power plant as well, but I don't remember whether it was the "Access key" or another one. Maybe the key was in the hand of the dead person found just after going through the gate opened with the three relics, or maybe it was found near a dead person in the prison located near Vorentius' house, in the station which is locked at first.

Once you have pulled the lever, the West gate should open. All you have to do then is to walk through it... after avoiding to be killed on the way from the lever to the gate.



Yes, that window is a bit hard to reach, unfortunately.



If you can pick up the books in question, then yes, these runes mean something. Other books are just decorations and the symbols on them are just eye-candy as well.



Walk through the tripwire outside to find out.:ebil:

Well, since the children have vanished as well, I guess they tried to battle the enemies with those weapons, but failed. Whereever the bodies ended up, the weapons might be found as well.





The large download of more than 100 MB is the patched version of "Eclipsed", while the short one (about 5 MB, if I remember that correctly) is "just the patch". To use the latter, one has to either include its (un-packed) files into the mission's zip file or unpack the mission (e.g., by pressing the "Install" button in Darkloader), then unpack the patch (with Winzip, for example) and play the mission.



No, no pressure. I think a Christmas release would be in order, right?:ebil:



That's what I call an unhappy ending.:cheeky:




Maybe, but I tried that as well... At some point in time an iron gate closes the exit near the West gate, forcing Garrett to look for another exit.

Well, I was not too disappointed with all this. It made enough sense for me.

Garrett went to this town to loot it, and in doing so heard of some valuable relics which were connected to catastrophic events happening in Port Aerinth. However, unless I'm mistaken there was no readable anywhere suggesting that just touching or selling the relics would unleash evil powers, at least not if the relics were obtained and sold one after another to different buyers. Thus Garrett could have assumed that if he just sold the relics one after another, nothing bad might happen. And he could have thought as well that if the relics were more dangerous than that, he could just leave them under the mountain. He didn't know he would be trapped down there and forced to use the relics again and unleash hellish creatures onto the world once more. Besides, since one iron gate near the entrance to Port Aerinth closed behind him, there was only one way to go next. A little explanation on why that gate closed would have shed some light on that.

On the other hand, when I had just entered the tunnels below the port area, the lights went out and a door opened, presumably because some evil force is already trying to push Garrett into the direction which will ultimately lead him to set the creatures free, whether he wants it or not. If one pays attention to the little hole in the wall in one of these corridors, there's the first creature already, so evil isn't that far from this place. It just does not show its ugly face towards the intruder already, since he hasn't taken the bait yet. So maybe evil just decided to close the iron gate as well once Garrett was inside town. "C'mon in", said the spider to the fly, "we're going to have dinner"...:ebil:

And once Garrett is trapped below the mountain, he doesn't have much choice anymore. Before that, however, there are bad rumours and omens everywhere, but no evil monsters anywhere in plain sight. So Garrett could still abandon part of all these things as campfire tales. Only when it's too late he realizes that it's far, far worse.



These guys are hard to kill. The only reasonable way to do so is to backstab them. Otherwise, they can be killed in melee combat without getting too much damage, but it is very difficult. But I think that's how it's meant to be. These aren't just average wild wolves from the woods nearby.

About the dead Keepers...


Sometimes that didn't work for me. In some cases when moving around the fist Keeper, there was an explosion damaging Garrett and apparently removing the "red dot wall" there, but after that I could resume the correct pathway, grab the relic, and get out alive. I have no idea why this happened sometimes, and sometimes it didn't.



That thing was a cannon?:eek: I thought it was a malfunctioning electric generator. Well, I wasn't able to hit anything with the explosions anyway.



That did the trick.

I played the first version of the mission with a computer running at 1.7 GHz, and movement became very jerky especially in the area below the mountain. It was almost impossible to fight against the enemies there. The situation was even worse at 1.2 GHz. The FPS fixed version, however, is playable even on an older PC running at 900 MHz. There are some spots where it's still a bit slow, but these are only a few places in town, one of them close to a place where you could mantle up in the first version and get a distorted view as a result. And anyway, one can still play the game even in those spots.

Too bad you had to abandon that visual effect for this, but having a second version for all who don't have top-notch machines is better than having nothing to offer to them at all. I appreciate your effort (and the decision to sacrifice that effect).:thumb:

And while I had some difficulties with the first version of the mission, the FPS fixed one was exactly what I like: Exploration of abandoned territories which turn out to be less empty than one thought at first... Thank you for this mission, HipBreaker, and for an interesting story behind it as well, which one discovers bit for bit while the story proceeds.:thumb:

Now, about that sequel... you really need to change your mind about that, you know. :cheeky:

Dawggon on 18/11/2009 at 04:32

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The generator looking thingy next to the window to the clockmaker's was very useful when the black looking creature that lopes around gets near a pile of something.. Hit the red buttons when the creature is near that pile. Takes 2 or 3 arrows to finish it off. :ebil:

ToadTadWater on 18/11/2009 at 09:52

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Good looking, tough, nice new spirits/AI, nice puzzle, fine fun and very enjoyable!!!

Thanks Again!!

baeuchlein on 20/11/2009 at 00:26

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I have not played on expert level, but when playing the other two levels, I found something important in one of the two cells below the station near Vorentius' house. Although I don't think this station has much to do with electrics, it's the only one containing a skeleton near a damaged wire, I think.

If, however, you're really looking for the power plant, you have to enter Old Town. And there is a dead Keeper there as well, and I believe he has some key as well. From what I remember from the story of "Eclipsed", this Keeper could ver well be the one carrying the safe key.

Sticky Fingers on 20/11/2009 at 01:22

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Verak - moss arrows & time your moves from shadow to shadow (there's some out there).