One can circumvent this by adding only textual information. Some ideas:

1) item named "Allergon" that does nothing but which description states it's side-effects; could be located in the Fen's room

2) Info stand near the medical room that lists all medications available onboard and their notable side-effects (maybe hacking it would give the player a medical hypo, so there's a use other than revealing the plot)

Yes, I understand the engine limitations thing. Is it possible to add the removed content as a separate log?

The other log cut for length is Clifton Marsh's; here, he straight confesses to murdering Fen, organizing a new hive, and hypnotizing the captain. Everything about it is either unimportant or deductible from other sources, so I don't particularly miss these parts.

On the other hand, there are some remarks suggesting the development of paranoia.

> Another message from the ex, screaming about alimony. If I thought it was going to the children, I'd pay it, but that bitch spends most of it on herself. Captain had a talk with me about the crate mix up.He said he was sure it was the Jupiter Skies crew but I know he really thinks I screwed up. He's really got it in for me.

I think the point of the entire crates 4372460/4372803 story was to drop that line: "but I know he is out to get me".

I took a look at the mod files out of curiosity. I compared the original text files by The Pixie to the ones edited by voodoo47. There was an interesting part cut off, a fragment of Medical Log by Barton Seagrave:

> One of the passengers, a Fen Drayton, came in complaining about nausea. MediScan indicates an allergic reaction to something, probably that StayFresh they put in the air, and I prescribed AllerGon... Hmm, I should've warned her it would make her drowsy. Oh, well, not like she'll be using heavy machinery for a few days anyway, then she'll be off the ship, and can stop using it.

> Karl came in today. He'd dropped a plasma wrench on his foot. It was not as bad as it might be, and the MediBed sorted him out, but the paperwork for an industrial accident...

So, piecing it all together... Jupiter Skies employed hybrids (humans augmented with annelids). The worms were sent with The Minstrel, and Fen Drayton (who is a psionic or something) was tasked with keeping them suppressed psionically. Unfortunately, she had an allergy and was prescribed a drug that caused sleepiness (she wasn't aware of this; she was supposed to stay awake for the entire trip). The worms managed to befriend Clifton Marsh and conveyed to him their fear of Fen Drayton (naturally, they considered her to be an enemy). Eventually, Clifton Marsh helps annelids to escape and/or kills Fen. Then he convinces the captain to keep an annelid nest "for study". Afterward, everything goes to hell.

I feel like this is a neat "For Want of a Nail" scenario. I feel sorry that the last clue (side effects of Allergon) was cut off; is it possible to include this? For example, by splitting the medical log into two shorter logs or creating an information table that lists side-effects of various medications?

Finished it. Thank you. Right quest sequence was the key

Also new card is not appear in keycard list
Save drive.google.com/file/d/1XqLR062r_ZHzzC_o90axH1-mvEuzVql6/view

I need help here. I can't pick up reactor core access card. It picks as crew card instead. All addons is off.
Game config and ingame screenshots is here: imgur.com/a/vt3YICD
Please help me. I spend last night running circles on map while found this bug...

Hey! I was wondering how long this mission is, multiple decks and all that?

the mission is not meant to be MP ready, and I think I'll keep it that way - off the bat, there are at least three instances of scripted stuff that will blow up sky-high with more than one player present in the level.

time to finally pack the full 1.03 up - no more beta patches;

-restored the partially set up laser rifle into full working order
-moved the turret on the bridge out of reach so melee creatures won't be getting stuck right under it after it's hacked
-a teleport fx is spawned when the girl gets teleported to the cryotube
-the wonky breakable vent fans should hopefully work better now

and off it goes into the first post. pretty sure there are things that could be tweaked left, but it's not like there aren't enough numbers left after 03.


//notes to self - needs one more Gallium, and the starting gear laspistol is set to destroy on hard difficulty, making things really tough (no ranged weapons for a real while), maybe remove that. the medical log should mention that the girl is afraid of heights, to explain why she won't use the grav shafts. perhaps hide a pistol in one of the empty passenger cabins. 1426 jammed into the wall a bit too much. the last rumbler gets removed by a trigger if the player takes to long to kill it, looks just bad. wines a description maybe.

Common rule of thumb is that if your the creator of a thread, put any files you want people to download in the first post of the thread and update that first post when newer versions become available. Common sense.

It's not a question of smartness. Anyway for the record that file has 136 downloads.

nope, that's the orig release (with a hotfix that would make it not crash after a few minutes), it even uses the old ss2mod extension. rename to zip and extract, load with FMsel.

Oh nice!  Yeah I changed it to .zip instead of ss2mod and your exactly right, I'll be checking it out here sooner or later.

it's good to have a backup, and chances of someone being so creative are pretty low.

Some people are unaware of our first-post-update-policy and expect to find newer files in later posts...

well, let's say he did in some areas. other ones, not so much. you can check out the original release if you want (to see the difference).

Oh nice.  I'll have to try this out, maybe tomorrow or this weekend, I am curious to see the original unedited version of the work.  Thanks for the link.

Edit: looks like the link might be just a patch and not the original .mis/ect.. files, no worries though, thank you anyways, but it would be interesting to have known the full intent of the FM.

I'm guessing that the attachment here is not useful anymore. Then it should be removed to avoid people thinking this was still a necessary patch and dropping it on top of the current mission.

Oh I see, interesting, I wonder what the original creator had in mind?  Either way, he/they did a great job putting this together.

Sure thing, here are the screenshots, these levers (which look like they are intended to be some sort of valve shutoff switch maybe?) are movable when you press the interact/use key on them.  Below are the screenshots of two (but there are I think two more or so switches also elsewhere in the FM):


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Oh I see, interesting, yeah, that might be it.  Because there were other custom items that were not able to be picked up.  But nonetheless it added an interesting touch.  I also noticed there were alot more switches on pipes that seemed to be unused, again I think my second playthrough might reveal more if there is more too be revealed.

So, I finished the mission, and everything worked fine after I updated the patch to 1.03beata9 as well as downloaded Olfred’s fixed objects package.  And I must say this FM is nothing short of impressive!

Below is my  breakdown of what I thought of the FM in its entirety:

Pros/positive comments:
The FM looked like it was (and only the ones who made it truly know…) done by professionals for sure. The way the underbelly of the ship was created and the way some of the custom objects were created and used were quite impressive, the spider in the tube foreshadowing near future events was creepy!

Awesome story line told through the audio logs and wall information consoles. 

Although linear, there is a lot of open-ended areas to explore (I still need to playthrough it a second time).

The ending felt sastifying and the rescue part and the way it was implemented was unexpected and impressive! 

The way the monsters traversed the ship felt real (especially the hybrids going in and out of the Engine areas).

The augmented reality portion was really cool!   



Cons/minor ‘questions’ (very few I must say):

What where the tesla bit grip, different looking auto tool, and plasma wrenches for? (I am presuming they were for fixing the nacelles if you let them go past 60 MPa but not sure)

Some areas were slightly too tight to squeeze in at times but were otherwise accessible.

Final synopsis:
I liked the FM a lot and I will most likely play it again in the near future once I get around to it and get the urge to go again at it.  Overall I give this FM a 9.5/10 great job!   Attached are some pictures I took; one is the creepy spider I mentioned and the other is of the teddy bear because, well, teddy bear .






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In my recent playthrough I did a similar tactic. Just kept hanging around nearby the doors, killing hybrids who spawned in other nearby areas. Eventually 1 came through (after 2 minutes) and I rushed through.

By the way, I discovered that if you kill a hybrid  near one of those locked doors, its corpse will keep unlocking the door. "Beepboop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . beepboop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . beepboop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . beepboop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .".

It would be good to remove whatever door-unlocking magic is on them when they die.

lol Zylon, beepboop...........beepboop.............beepboop 

it's done via stims I believe, it should be doable by a bit of nvscripting, I think.

the hybrid spawning is semi random, so sometimes, you need to wait a couple of minutes until they open the secdoor - but they will eventually, I made sure. there is also an alternate way of getting into the secure area, it involves a bit of climbing and jumping, if you are a more acrobatic type. that means anyone will find a way in as long as he looks around hard enough (and the non-sec area is not that large).

that could work.

yeah, but I sort of like the effect of  the steam partially covering the player's face while he takes his first breath (oxygen meter filling). we'll see.