★ 8 / 10 Coveted Formulae, May 12, 2024
★ 9 / 10 A Thief's Training, March 13, 2024
★ 5 / 10 Rigging the Votes, Feb. 1, 2024
★ 7 / 10 The Stone of Alarus, Feb. 1, 2024
★ 6 / 10 Cell 6, Jan. 28, 2024
★ 8 / 10 Home Sweet Home, Jan. 13, 2024
★ 6 / 10 The Ties That Bind, Jan. 4, 2024
★ 6 / 10 Zealot's Hollow, Jan. 4, 2024
★ 7 / 10 Fierce Competition, Jan. 4, 2024
★ 3 / 10 The Varyx Obelisk, Dec. 31, 2023
★ 7 / 10 Seeds of Doubt, Dec. 31, 2023
★ 9 / 10 Precarious Business, Dec. 28, 2023
★ 7 / 10 The TDS City Project, Dec. 22, 2023
★ 7 / 10 A Long Way Down, Dec. 20, 2023
★ 5 / 10 Latin Domus (Roman Domus), Dec. 20, 2023
★ 7 / 10 The Library of Babel, Dec. 9, 2023
★ 9 / 10 Vanishing Point, Dec. 9, 2023
★ 8 / 10 Falling, In Love, Dec. 9, 2023
I'm really glad you've opened our eyes, this mission is indeed a completely different subgenre that has absolutely never been done before. No matter how hard I try, I just... really can't think of any other mission that is set in a city section with optional hidden areas, occasional supernatural elements, lots of loot we can collect, and a vertically rich, non-linear, open design that supports the player's urge to explore all this.
Hm anyway, I wonder how we should call this brand new subg...
@Thirteen1355: There is a pretty much hidden, optional area with a lot of loot. You'll find at least 1k worth of loot there if not more.
SPOILER: you can enter it by shooting a rope arrow through a hole, and then finding a very long ladder. It's a spooky area, and unless I missed some readable(s) mentioning it, it doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the mission, so it's pretty easy to accidentally skip.
I don't know about the 4-5 hours playtime, but I've played the mission on Normal and yeah, it took me ~2 hours (though technically I could finish it sooner, I just tried to explore optional areas), so with the additional objectives I can imagine that estimation is correct. The mission perhaps relies on the player collecting the scattered loot a bit too much.
I'm not sure what kind of correlation could be between the release of TDP and the increasing amounf of ratings Into The Odd has, but I've seen it being mentioned quite often whenever a new player dropped into the community and asked about cool fan missions they can play. Also, Into The Odd has an easily to remember title and screenshots featuring daylight sections - which the majority of fan missions don't have.
Just my guesses.
Either way, it's a cool milestone!
Thanks for the tip, but I've been aware of that (so much so, I even rated the missions before posting the review).
While I didn't expect the categories to get rearranged in this way, I thought it would be cool if readers could easily see what I thought about the individual missions rating wise.
Not sure if you plan to polish the custom categories in the future, but I think the feature has a fun potential. It's a little bit shame editing them is a bit chaotic and unreliable.
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of The Stone of Alarus, submitted by Matt, Feb. 1, 2024
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Precarious Business, submitted by Matt, Dec. 28, 2023
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Falling, In Love, submitted by Matt, Dec. 9, 2023
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of A Journey Into the Underdark, submitted by Matt, June 6, 2022
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Precious, submitted by Matt, June 3, 2022
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Elemental Excursion, submitted by Matt, June 3, 2022
We accepted the suggestion to change the notes of Cabot, submitted by Matt, Jan. 11, 2022
We accepted the suggestion to change the description of Cabot, submitted by Matt, Jan. 11, 2022
We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Cabot, submitted by Matt, Jan. 11, 2022