Dartmoor Garden Show

Ohhh, thank you!

Finding those NPCs with small routes makes my contracts a lot more fun :slight_smile: [points to Queen’s Gambit and possible bonus mission taking place in DGS]

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Is there a disguise that allows you to turn the voltage up on Sato’s microphone legally? The Bodyguard disguise allows access to the stage and I can swap the microphone to the Branson MD-2 without being spotted in that disguise, but I always get busted when trying to actually increase the voltage.

Mansion Staff

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Anybody noticed that smuggle points hasn’t been changed for Garden Show?
And how am I supposed to retrieve an item from the bathroom or the library or other in-house stashes?
Developers’ oversight…

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Honestly, the client’s whole plan is pretty stupid.

“Oh no! Three of the four competitors and two judges were killed. Who could possibly be behind this?”

There’s no way the winner is getting away with something so obvious. Not only is the guy/gal spending the rest of his/her life in prison, he/she will also be retrospectively disqualified.

The only way to get away with something like this is if you actually only want to kill one guy but murder the others to cover your tracks and making it look like the surviving one did this.

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Would have been a cool objective. Kill two with the same weapon and place the weapon in some container that belongs to the third. Though that would make it impossible to use certain methods like accidents, poisons and explosives.

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I even tried to make a custom contract for ‘Danger! Danger!’ to make it easier, and was pissed to discover you can only unlock challenges in the escalation itself. Kind of a bizarre design choice if you ask me. Now other people are going to play it and get mad that it doesn’t work (and I can’t do anything about it because, for some reason, there’s STILL no option to delete your contracts!).

I just “did” a " using fiber wire only" run. But I just couldn’t get Sato and Manon without using any distraction. Evelyn is easy, you trigger the converstation, either reset Cornelia by running into her before she enters the garden or wait till she finishes her route there and you can get her pretty easily from there. Gulshan on the other hand, is easy to get the kill opportunity, but harder to calculate the time. For Ken, you can kill him while he is in his garden, by continuously distracting npc’s with the garden tap. And for Manon, I just couldn’t found a single frame where I could’ve killed her, by not throwing any kind of distraction.

I’ll upload videos of each of the contestants, and the judges, exept for Sato and Manon, because I haven’t found a route for them yet.

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When will we get another major Event? (Like Egg Hunt, Garden Show)
  • Halloween
  • Christmas
  • Never

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There can’t be just these three options, making it sound like we will not get another event next year. But I will put my money on them bringing back the Hawke’s Bay escalation from H2 for Halloween.

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With Danger! Danger! I kind of understand as the challenge wants you to kill the contestants and one of the judges, depending on who is picked. Of course, the challenge only states that you kill 5 targets by electrocution, not the 5 targets, which made me want to make the contract because I thought it could be any 5 targets. Now, with Cocoh No!, it makes no sense. You just have to kill him by having the coconuts fall on him, so why not make a contract where he is the sole target? Anyway, I got all the challenges done and am back to 100%.

Dartmoor at night or Chongqing could work for Halloween.

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They’ll bring Mille Reverie for Halloween, Holiday Hoarders for Christmas, and Egg hunt for Easter. I’m hoping for Lunar New Year festival in Chongqing next year tho

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I got the run recorded, but it still uploading to the Live Storage

Played this new escalation the two last days. I really enjoy this escalation. The randomness is an interesting feature, providing replayability to this escalation. On the other side, the deterministic mode is also a good thing, allowing you to choose your targets among them.

This one, along with previous paid escalations confirm the good way that IOI has taken to design escalation. The escalations of H1 were mostly progressive difficulty with increasing number of targets and restrictions. Some changes were made in H2 with testing new restrictions (no stairs in Quimby, no kill but KO only in Simons, a kind of story split in three parts in Bartholomew…).

It definitely showed that Mills Reverie was a very good test for future escalations in H3, with a new atmosphere (altered map, changing objectives between levels…). Last escalations from H3 were very good.

Would appreciate a new tab in “secondary mission” folder: “seasonal content” with Dartmoor garden, Easter Egg hunt, Mills Reverie, HH and HSF for Christmas.

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I got it recorded in 2 half. The first is Ken alone, with a faliure in the beginning, and the other one is the second and third level of the escalation. Just one question. How can I upload a video?

Just do a copy/ paste of the link.

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Lovely. Thank you, Casual!

You can turn on the Water Hose on the Left Side of the Mansion’s Accessible Room. For some reason a Guy sitting on the Stairs near Manon will react to it and once he’s dealt with, Manon will react to it. Don’t ask me why.

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Yeah, but I tried it without knocking out anyone