Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas (when you eventually get round to celebrating it) and a self-indulgent, extravagant New Years Eve. 2008 will be our lucky year MikeMouse.









Sorry guys I had to go out for a while. Here's a quick (yeah right) explanation about the screenshots... these were captured over a 4 hour gaming session. I played using the Invisible Man skin (changed @ Phone Booth near Salieri's Restaurant). I called Golem (Phone Booth near Salieri Car Dealer). The 2 Detective Body Guards showed up for the war. I lured Golem to Salieri's Garage along with the Detective Lassiter gang. More souls to take... MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (Thunder and lightning)

I sat back and watched the AI fight it out several times. After one group (good guys or bad guys) had won I restarted the savegame. Each time the outcome was different (even though I did exactly the same thing). Sometimes Golem got killed, other times Golem did most of the killing. But whenever the Lassiter gang got out of their car all Hell broke loose!

After 5 or 6 staged gun battles I killed Golem (Lupara to the chest) but not before he killed the China Town Detective Body Guard. Ralph and the West Marshall bridge Detective Body Guard killed 2 Detective Lassiter gang members (car jacked then executed them) then I burned the other 2 gang members alive with the Doghead Super Weapon.

I also fought the Lassiter gang a few times (hey I needed the practice). I actually captured over 2000 screenshots all up, but these were the ones I thought told the story the best.

So anyway I hopped in the Black Metal 4WD and had some fun with the Gun Turret. Trashed the Lassiter pretty bad, you'll see in the later screenshots with the 3 Body Guards. The gang members stole several cars during the chaos to give chase.

After I finished them off (with the Gun Turret) I decided to leave the Lassiter in bad shape. I could have easily used the Jumping Car function to repair it but the damage was amusing plus it still drove perfectly (d@mn those bullet-proof cars are really bullet-proof!)

I hired the Woman in the Red Dress Body Guard (East Marshall bridge) and the Gangster Body Guard (Guiliano bridge) then drove around in the trashed Lassiter startin' trouble with every cop car I saw. (I HATE cops!!!)

Switched ON VIP effects (at the Micro-Cars) cause I like pyrotechnics. The BIG explosions are from Terrorist's blowing up. 'He' showed up 4 or 5 times, each time I made the Body Guards "wait here" until I went and killed the Terrorist, hey 15 grand is 15 grand man!

Oh BTW, that screenshot on the 2nd set of pics (the one that just shows you a gap between two buildings) was taken not far from the Face Cave. To be precise it's along that road which leads from Salieri's Warehouse to the Stadium (Football Oval). If you notice on the radar there is a car in front of me. I was facing the car (you can see the opening between the buildings) but the car wasn't visible, at least not from the road side. Perhaps if you drive in (through that hole in the fence near the Stadium) you might find a car in there? But I doubt it. Maybe it's the extra Buick Body Guards hiding spot? Hehe.

You can have a lot of fun in the Central Island Tunnel. The dead Terrorist is a result of the Terranova bridge Car Dealer, he shot him so many times he eventually killed him. BTW I know the Terrorist is wearing his classic garb (white suit) but my $12,000,000 savegame has the Terrorist starting like that. If you travel over the city limits (Countryside Night etc.) the Terrorist will change his (or her) appearance. The scariest is when he becomes a "she". You're used to seeing 'men in suits' running toward you with dynamite, I guarantee you the woman is ambiguous. She blends in amongst the other female civilians better and she tends to surprise you. That's not bullsh1t, I'm being serious. Some Terrorists come out of nowhere and if you've been playing for a long time (and haven't saved your game) when it happens to you, you'll be spewing!

Hired the Super Body Guard "Priest" from the Church in DownTown. Caused anarchy for a few hours by initiating 6 or 7 "All Cops Alerted" police road blocks and ramming through them with the twisted Lassiter. Ramming through all of them, each and every single police road block, only to do it again and again...

I had a basic route which I followed: from Morello Car Dealer to Car Dealer at the Fire Service Pumping Station to Lucas Bertone. Driving from one end of the map to the other is helpful in that the "heat" will often cool down, you also set off another new Terrorist, and the game engine will clean up heavily littered areas (lots of exploded cars etc.) which reduces lagging. Hey lets face it when you have 35-50 exploded cars blocking a road it's difficult to make u-turns!

I played for a little over 4 hours, maybe 4 hours and 15 minutes but my hands were hurting (from all the bloody screenshots!) so I decided to go out kamikaze style. The Lassiter landed on its side when I smashed into a police road block on the Terranova bridge (hospital end - BTW I used Sarah several times too, she's a great Body Guard) and rather than get out of the car, switch on Super Speed and leave my crew behind, I used the Jumping Car function to ram a cop car off the bridge and into the water, regrettably while the Lassiter was indeed "repaired" we ended up in the drink. But you'll notice... that I landed softly onto the dockyard and slid the car safely into the water. Sure I lost health (and seemingly died) but that's because the Mafia game engine has a foregone conclusion, water = funeral. The truth is I had scuba gear with me. Me and my crew swam to the safely of the secret Casino at the bottom of the harbour... where we gambled happily ever after.

The End

The Alive Mod is the BEST Mafia mod.

And to my detractors (you know who you are) it's just like Morello says: "You're too small for me!"

Merry Christmas!!!!! I'm sorry my freind this year I've forgot to congratulate you with Merry Christmas as it used to be many times before, please forgive me!!! You know Russian Christmas is two weeks later than yours and I always forgot about that, empty-headed me

Your screenshots are perfect!!! Very impressive and I guess gameplay was quite stressfull Especially I like the last one with three dark bodies in the tunnel... This one has impressed me the most... I don't know why, It just did

The story is excelent! You know the Alive mod is called alive because it's unpredictable Once I told you that every time you try restart the game It will make a new way of evolution, it's almost impossible that you see the same situation as before - game situations will be always different... sometimes the mod can surprise even me

Your money total is pretty impressive! Congratulations! Though our member Ma Baker has over 33 millions in the total
http://www.webgamer.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14739#14739

No worries Mike, we both have other priorities right now. We're friends for life mate so no amount of time will interfere with that.

Thanks for the compliments, but the real compliment is how well the Alive mod still plays after all this time.

Hey when are you going to change the Flying car from the Mutagen 4WD to a Flying Lassiter? This way we can have 3 Body Guards in the car shooting at the enemy while we're flying around...

Also the "frequency" of the Terrorist should increase. Furthermore it would be very interesting if there were several Terrorist's running around, say 3 of them.

I'm only teasing.

33 million tell Ma Baker to use this money making skill to acquire... REAL MONEY!!! and then share a little with us.

Some extras...





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Continuing with a couple from the previous set of pics. The "real" FlameSpear.

A few strange things happened during this game. I left the (female & gangster) Body Guards on the Downtown end of the East Marshall bridge, then I jumped in the Detective Lassiter and raced to the Central island end of the bridge and hit the Jump Car key to ram into an oncoming cop car. The smash bounced me into the railing, over it, off the bridge (over the clipping) and I landed safely down near Lucas Bertone Car Dealer (it was a BIG smash). I had plenty of health as you can see, plus the car was fine, but all of a sudden an arrest sequence played out. The cop was arresting "nobody", that is Tommy wasn't there but he was being arrested. You can see the gangster Body Guard steps away from the cop while the Woman in Red runs over and shoots the cop dead... but "after" the arrest was finalised and the "Retry" option appeared. I don't know why this happened? And why the arrest happened there? That's not the spot where I hit the railing and flew over the bridge, it was closer to Lucas Bertone. The Tommy gun wasn't mine either. I am playing Mafia v1.0 (so I can use the BM4WD's gun turret) so perhaps this was a bug in v1.0 that's since been fixed in subsequent patches? Either way it was strange and unexpected!

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Terrorist killed by the Priest. A stick situation with the Silver Fletcher gang, and I managed to get onto the roof of the Car Park (A Great Deal - The Parking Lot mission) with the Jump Car function. The car disappeared, then so did the Body Guards (one by one) but we didn't die, I used the jumping car again to get off the roof, landed safely and played on.

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Lassiter got wrapped around a pole and I needed a car to push it back onto its wheels so I carjacked a Fire truck. Well there was an incident with the Fireman. He tried to use Tommy's head as a baseball, but he stepped into the Devil's Triangle (my 3 Body Guards) who filled him full of lead. BTW I don't need to tell you VIP's were switched on, I like the exaggerated flashes.

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I planted a Super Bomb behind the Silver Fletcher (gang) but I parked the BM4WD a little too close because when I detonated it, both vehicles felt the blast's shockwave. Odd thing is I think one of the female gang members hit me with a lucky shot (from way up there!) because as I got into the BM, I got killed...

That last one was from a different game, VIP's saw through the ground and you could see the Super Speed's blaze underneath. Nothing special but unique in any case.

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When you shoot with the BM4WD's gun turret you must judge the distance perfectly for best results (of course you all know this). You can see how a grenade bounces if you shoot at a gutter from an angle, sparks will fly off the gutter and this gives you an idea of how far you should be from your... "victim".

You can drive the BM up to most cars, touch their bumper bars and shoot and the cars will go flying. But this is not the case with the Silver Fletcher. If you're too close to it (touching bumper bars) often (not always but a lot of the time) the grenade will shoot "under" the car. The best way to hit the Fletcher is from a distance, either a short distance in which case the grenade will "knock" the Fletcher but it will explode further away in the background. Or the ideal method is when you shoot from a great distance and the grenade explodes precisely on the target. E.g. this police road block which was timed flawlessly.

I've done this a million times before and I usually get spectacular outcomes, but this shot was absolutely perfect! In the last screenshot (of the sequence) note the cop car up in the sky with the cop still shooting.

Next I shot the Detective Lassiter gang around until it landed over the fence (under the West Marshall bridge, where the Body Guard is).

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I placed a Doghead on my side of the fence and the 2 gang members that got out of their car got flamed.

Just some random stuff. Golem made a BIG mistake here. I had 4 Body Guards + Salieri to protect me, it was a bloodbath! I killed the BG's because I didn't like the way they were looking at me...

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The other weird thing, and Mike I've mentioned this has happened to me many times now, was the screen went dark (exactly as it does when you shoot the secret spot on the West Marshall bridge to give you the hidden Bolt Thrower). This happened "after" a large number of cops were killed. I'd smashed through 20+ police road blocks, the Body Guards had killed a lot of cops along the way and then I ended up at the road block near the Theatre. I stopped with my door up against a cop car (so the cops couldn't carjack and arrest me) and then I just watched as the Body Guards eventually killed them all one at a time. Actually the screenshots don't do the massacre justice because there were several more cops who lost their lives. Midway through the slaughter, the screen went dark and "something happened". What happens? I have no idea?





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Gang fight!