Mystery Foes - The First Death to Spies 3 Fan Mission

[Liz Shaw]

Version 1.4 has been released, and the OP has been updated. This version contains some slightly modified versions of the vanilla SWDs for A Mole Among Us and Omerta, to adapt to changes made to the Actors.shadvs file for the Enhancement Addon v0.05. So if you have Addon v0.05 installed first, DO NOT overwrite the following files:

Levels\Hotel\Hotel.SWD
Levels\Level02\Level02.SWD

[Liz Shaw]

Version 1.5 has been released, and the OP has been updated. This will be the last update to Version 1, and I've already started work on Version 2. However, it will be a while before Version 2 will be done, as I have other projects to work on (MoTmod Addon v14.0 and Project Grossman).

Speaking of Project Grossman, here's two screenshots from it. It's the titular Dr. Grossman's office, which is 100% complete. I'm currently working on the main building.

[Liz Shaw]

Version 2.0 is finally out, and the OP has been updated.

[Liz Shaw]

The OP has been updated with a Saboteur playthrough of v2.0.

[Liz Shaw]

Version 2.1 is up, and the OP has been updated. I'm sorry it's taken so long to release it, but there's an excellent reason for this - I would have released it a couple months prior, but when I was playtesting the mission on Saboteur, I discovered mysterious error messages popping up in the console after a while. It also caused the game to freeze every time I try to quit, causing me to Ctrl+Alt+Delete the application. Further investigating both in the console and the dts3.log file, the error messages are triggered after loading up the mission's LUA file - quickloading the mission a few times triggers the bug. Because I added new accident scenarios in v2.1, it has now occurred to me that I've exceeded the limits of my ambitions. So I had no choice but to cut some stuff - fortunately, all I had to cut was the accident scenarios outside the base rather than inside, and no errors popped up after that.

So, moral of the story - don't let your mission's LUA go over 222kb.

The next version is going to be v2.5, and I'm going to expand the map boundaries a little bit and further flesh out the empty space. Now that I've discovered that LUAs have a filesize limitation, I may have some problems when creating v3.0, in which I plan to add more mission objectives. But that's way into the future.

I should now focus on getting Would You Kindly and that other Fan Mission I recently started based on the cut Kovalev sections of Check and Mate finished before I focus on Mystery Foes again.

[Liz Shaw]

v2.5 is up, and the OP is updated. It's been ready for a while, but I wanted to wait until v0.10 of the Enhancement Addon was ready so I could release both simultaneously, as v2.5 uses some stuff from Addon v0.10, notably cream_soda's Shaders and Shadows fix. Because of this, there are more files listed in the OP that must NOT be overwritten if the Addon was installed first, and vice versa. You also have to delete your shader cache if you haven't already done so with Addon v0.10, as according to cream_soda his fixes won't work if you don't.

[Liz Shaw]

In a few days, I'll release v1.11 of the Enhancement Addon. However, if you use the Italian translation, having Mystery Foes installed before installing v1.11 will cause problems (the title of the Fan Mission will be missing in the main menu), as I discovered a typo in one of the main menu options which I have fixed in v1.11, and I have no plans on releasing any future version of Mystery Foes in the near future because it will require modifying the level's Terrain file via 3ds Max 2009, and I have a couple Fan Missions I want to get done first before that can happen.

But it's something you can fix yourself with the ShadScript tool. First, go to this file:

UI\IT_strings.shadvs

Then search for the entry "OP31". Change the text string in that entry from "CONTNUA PARTITA" to "CONTINUA PARTITA".

Or alternatively, if you use the Addon v1.11 version of the file, just right click on "root" at the start of the file, select Create, then Key. String is the default Key type, so all you have to do is type "MYST". Then double-click MYST, which should be at the very bottom of the list, and type "Nemici Misteriosi".

I hope this helps until I attempt at improving Mystery Foes again. Until then, please put up with the inconvenience once Addon v1.11 is released.

[Liz Shaw]

v2.6 is finally up, and the OP has been updated. It has also been updated with an extra paragraph in the Known Issues section.