- FoV-Bug: After shooting the cyclops with the ballista in l01_a, the player's FoV gets locked to 80, which persists for quite a part of the game.
- Corpse Limit: The maximum amount of concurrent corpses varies between 2 to 4 in all levels, limiting immersion and tactical approaches.

As of 2025 the following suboptimal workarounds exist.

FoV-Bug:
This Guide addresses the FoV problem and suggests choosing skills of the bow tree to overwrite the locked FoV via zooming.
This Guide suggests using the console variables bound to movement keys instead.

Corpse-Limit:
This Guide offers entire asset replacements and suggests using a Hex Editor on the .VPK files as an alternative.
This Mod[www.nexusmods.com] on Nexusmods offers asset replacements aswell.

FoV-Bug:
The bug locking the player's FoV after shooting the cyclops is not actually related to the ballista but is an oversight in the cutscene's zoom handling. The cutscene performs two Zoom functionality calls. One to move the camera to the cyclops initially, then a second one to focus on the cyclops covering its eye and collapsing. The oversight lies in the lack of UnZoom calls for both zooms.
This logic is part of the compiled l01_a.bsp file.

Why the workarounds are suboptimal:
- Skilling into bows early can be a waste of skillpoints for people who want to play their optimal or favorite build.
- Binding the console variables to movement keys can have annoying side-effects and requires sv_cheats 1 to be set in this scenario.

Corpse-Limit:
The maximum corpse amount per level is controlled via the "MaxRagdollCount" argument of the "game_ragdoll_manager" entity, that is baked into the compiled .bsp files.

Why the workarounds are suboptimal:
- Offering the entire .VPKs as a download is not only legally questionable but also overkill and a very error-prone way of tackling the issue.
- The variable's value is a String and given it only uses 1 Byte, that number can only be set to "9" at maximum in a simple Hex-Editor change.

Both issues lie within the respective .bsp files, but editing those is not a good idea and a limited option. The Source engine Dark Messiah is based on does offer a solution for this issue however. Namely the so called .lmp or "Lump" files, which are descriptive text files that allow the game to "patch" a map's logic without recompiling it.
This is what we can use to tackle both problems.

The downside of those files is their lack of interoperability with each other. Only one (the last) Lump file will be read and used for the map. Therefore this fix will be incompatible with other mods that modify these files, if said mods are not covered here. The fixes have to be incorporated in such projects.

This guide offers mods (edited .lmp files) to fix the FoV-Bug and to increase every map's Corpse-Limit to 10. These fixes are compatible with everything that does not come with .lmp files for the default maps.
Note that these changes only take effect when the map is started, thus they will not work on previous savegames until a new map is loaded.

Due to the technical limitations of those Lump files, I have created 4 versions of these fixes. The "Unlimited Edition" mod is quite popular, but not everyone might want to use it. Therefore the following variants exist:

FoV-Bug Fix only. (No corpse limit increase).[drive.google.com]
1) Vanilla (Uses the original game's l01_a_l_0.lmp file with the bug fix applied).
2) Unlimited Edition (Uses the mod's l01_a_l_0.lmp file with the bug fix applied).

FoV-Bug Fix & Increased Corpse-Limit (Both tweaks).[drive.google.com]
3) Vanilla (Uses all of the original game's .lmp files with the bug fix applied to l01_a and corpse limit increased for all maps).
4) Unlimited Edition (Uses all of the mod's .lmp files with the bug fix applied to l01_a and corpse limit increased for all maps).

Choose only one!

There are two common ways of making mods work on Dark Messiah.
One is editing the gameinfo.txt file. Instructions can be found in This Guide or the Unlimited Edition Guide.

The other, recommended method is using the new Mod Launcher, which can be found in This Guide.

Installation Instructions:
- Mod Launcher: Extract the desired top folder from the .rar file into ..\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\_mods
Make sure the fix is loaded after the Unlimited Edition if that version is chosen.

- No Mod Launcher: Extract the desired mod's ../content/maps folder from the .rar file into ..\steamapps\common\Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single Player\custom
The files will have to be replaced if they already exist.

Miscellaneous other bonus files are listed below.

Higher Corpse Limit Addon - Restore Original Holy Weapon Placement[drive.google.com] This file can be installed on top of the Higher Corpse Limit mod for the Unlimited Edition to undo its swap of the Holy Sword and Holy Staff placements.