Illusions of the Dead has finally been released! Illusions of the Dead (IOTD) is an Amnesia: The Dark Descent custom story that has been released August 21st 2017. Story: You play as Marcus Grant who has a daughter named Emily but she has a disease called Sclerosis. There is no cure available but deep in the dungeons of the castle of Barnard, scientists were working on the cure but they got overrun by the undead a few days after the first test of the medicine. Marcus takes the risk and travels to the castle of Barnard in search of the medicine to safe his daughter Emily. But little does he know why the whole castle got evacuated 2 years ago... IOTD uses mostly the old Amnesia elements but used in a different and unique way. Some new entities and/or items were added to tweak the experience a little bit. Amnesia: AMFP entities and static objects are being used! If you have any suggestions or questions, please be sure to leave a comment! Please let me know what you think!

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Finally, my new Amnesia custom story called Illusions of the Dead has been released! Download is available now!

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Hello everyone,

Finally, my new Amnesia custom story called Illusions of the Dead (IotD) has been released! I've been working on this custom story for 1.5 years.

Download Link: Moddb.com

Story: You play as Marcus Grant who has a daughter named Emily but she has a disease called Sclerosis. There is no cure available but deep in the dungeons of the castle of Barnard, scientists were working on the cure but they got overrun by the undead a few days after the first test of the medicine. Marcus takes the risk and travels to the castle of Barnard in search of the medicine to safe his daughter Emily. But little does he know why the whole castle got evacuated 2 years ago...

What has Illusions of the Dead to offer?
* A full length story
* 3-5 hours of gameplay
* Great atmosphere
* AMFP Assets
* Custom created entities
* Over 15 medium/large sized map
* Has a super_secret folder

If you ever get stuck in the custom story, be sure to check the full walkthrouh video out:

Download Illusions of the Dead now on ModDB!


Have fun playing the custom story!

TimProzz

NOTE: How to fix game crash when starting up the custom story:
Go to "Documents/Amnesia/Main/main_settings.cfg" and open it in notepad or any text editor and make sure ForceCacheLoadingAndSkipSaving is set to TRUE

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SweetRamona
SweetRamona - - 5,114 comments

Looks pretty good.

I hope it isn't full of obnoxious jumpsacres.

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TimProzz Author
TimProzz - - 92 comments

Nope there are NO cheap "monster in closet" or "pop-up" jumpscares :)

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SweetRamona
SweetRamona - - 5,114 comments

Excellent! :D

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and theres no way to extract the rar file thing

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TimProzz Author
TimProzz - - 92 comments

Just google for the free extracting software called "WinRar". After installing you can right click the .rar file and you can click extract. It will then extract the .rar file to a folder which you have to copy over to your custom_stories folder. Then go into game and it should be in the custom story list :)

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MithosMoon
MithosMoon - - 36 comments

I really love Illusions of the Dead and steaming it live on my channel. But I have a problem: After finding all 3 Drill-Parts I want to combine them in the Machine Room to use the hand drill on the Barrel. But it doesn't work, I can't combine the 3 parts in the Inventory. I tried reload save point, previous save point ... nothing helped. So I wanna ask:
Can somebody post the class code for a complete Hand Drill so I can place it in the Inventory section of my save file? I will change paths to my home folder/ installation. I think this should work, right? I want to continue the stream thursday evening (tomorrow)so fast help would be very kind :)
LPMM - letsplaymithosmoon

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MithosMoon
MithosMoon - - 36 comments

Well I solved the problem myself by finding the code for the complete Hand Drill somewhere in a forum. I am so happy, that I can go on with the live stream of this great custom story tomorrow :)

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TimProzz Author
TimProzz - - 92 comments

Hey LPMM, first of all I'm glad that you're liking the custom story so far. Second of all I'm a bit worried. I don't know where you got the code for the complete hand drill from. You said something about a forum. If it's the code for the hand drill in the main Amnesia game, the code will probably not work.

Also, combining the drill isn't the only thing you can combine in the mod. Later in the mod you'll have to combine items into atleast 3 items. So if combining the drill didn't work, combining the other 2 items later in the mod will probably not work either.

I tried a couple of things to fix it but I couldn't reproduce the bug myself. My guess is that it's probably because of an older Amnesia version or due to bad optimized custom stories you've installed with the same variables as in Illusions of the Dead.

Somebody else also got this bug. What he did to fix it was completely reinstall Amnesia and update it to the latest version (1.3 is latest but 1.2 works aswell)

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MithosMoon
MithosMoon - - 36 comments

Hey TimProzz, I am very happy you reply, because after making our way forward (The Hand drill worked!) we ended up with a new problem: The Hammer/Chipper combining, just as you said, the bug remains with the other combine Items.

I am a very active german amnesia custom story and fcm lets player and live streamer and I use the Steam version with justine on my technically uptodate ubuntu 16.04 system. I think the steam version should be up to date, because updates always been installed via Steam. I never had a problem with combining Items in the inventory in all the other custom stories and FCMs I recorded and streamed yet. This is the first time I have this problem, with your very good and atmospheric piece of work. Even though me and the audience got kind of frustrated for running into the same problem again, everybody said that your game is very high worth giving it a go by fixing the problem somehow and going on with enjoying Illusion of the dead.

This is the code for the combined hand drill in the inventory that worked on the barrel to fill the Jar:

<class type="cLuxInventory_Item_SaveData" name="">
<var type="4" name="msName" val="handdrill" ></var>
<var type="2" name="mlType" val="0" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msSubType" val="hand_drill" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msVal" val="" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msExtraVal" val="" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msImageFile" val="graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/graphics/item/hand_drill.tga" ></var>
<var type="3" name="mfAmount" val="0.000000" ></var>
<var type="2" name="mlCount" val="1" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msGameNameEntry" val="ItemName_hand_drill" ></var>
<var type="4" name="msGameDescEntry" val="ItemDesc_hand_drill" ></var>
</class>

I hope you can help me with this infos

Lots of Greetings
LPMM - letsplaymithosmoon

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