The first mission release for the 2.10 Beta "Connections Contest"!
Down and Out on Newford Road is the 2nd mission by author "thebigh"
Hello sneaksie taffers!
I'm very pleased to release a new map, named Down and Out on Newford Road. Our kleptomaniac protagonist has found himself without his gear after a job gone wrong and is now stuck in a strange part of town with few friends to call on.
It's a smallish-to-medium city exploration map with several intricate parts to deal with. In keeping with the "connections" theme there are usually multiple ways in and out of the various City sections.
This is a Christmas Connections contest entry. For my connections to previous missions I have chosen two of the oldest missions in the archive:
The silly Builders from the Outpost north of Bridgeport are making another attempt to manufacture a golden holy symbol. Has the Bishop learned his lesson from last time?
...because the one man still willing to talk to you wants you to steal it before he'll help you out. This contact is none other than Hamill, the fence from the first FM of them all.
Thieves with a talent for exploration and an eye for hidden secrets might come across a sneaksie reference to my first mission The Factory Heist. Here and there are also bits of foreshadowing for my upcoming mission, tentatively called A House Call. And of course I had to work in a tribute to the greatly missed Grayman, also findable by players with a passion for discovering secret areas.
This mission would be much uglier, buggier, disorganised, and z-fightier without my kind beta testers: ate0ate, datiswous, JackFarmer, and Kingsal. There were also useful comments from Dragofer, wesps5, and madtaffer. I am very grateful to them for their hard work and attention to detail.
NOTE:
This Mission Requires TDM 2.10 or newer!!!
Update: Audio bug is fixed in the newest build
Thanks for uploading!