Thief fan missions and campaigns

[ERYFKRAD]

Icecream cones are a nice touch.

 

[Squadafroinx]

^ What do you mean? I'm playing the map on Thief 1 Gold and I didn't install any mod/texture pack, like ever, so I dunno, how is it supposed to look?

The orange bricks are supposed to be red, the yellow windows should have a orange-ish tint &c &c

You must have checked "Use T2 world textures" by error while installing TGfix; I wish I could tell you how to remove this but I don't remember (something something with RES folder I think )

 

[Arrowgrab]

Here's a question to Skacky (or anyone else), originally posted at TTLG but I don't expect a timely reply there:

Where the hell is the Easter Egg in Endless Rain? Like, exactly?

More detail:
The FM came out a bit over 3 years ago. I played it back then but couldn't find it. I'm replaying it now and I want to see it. Someone asked the same thing on TTLG back in 2015 but nobody gave the poor bastard a proper reply, so no help there. I know from that thread that you have to go to the boiler room at the power station (elevator up from the zombie), from the window there cross to an adjacent building along a short pipe, and it should be in that building. Also, a speed potion or some acrobatics are needed.

Well, that help is no good. I know the place, it's the one with two crates, a painting set against the wall (IIRC with some loot behind it), a trapdoor on the ceiling that's really just a texture, not an actual door, and another window through which you can get to the rooftop with IIRC a gas arrow. I've gone through the room with gamma set on max and couldn't find anything. After three years I'm decidedly getting a bit fucking tetchy, so somebody please with cherry on top give me a perfectly accurate, abundantly detailed and completely explicit answer.

 

[marbleman]

Jazz_ IIRC, just reinstalling TFix and uncheking T2-style textures, meshes, objects etc should do the trick. Alternatively, you can go into your MODS folder and delete those files manually.

Arrowgrab

Spoiler

It's in the chimney: http://www.imagebam.com/image/2bd835687800003

 

[Arrowgrab]

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Spoiler

It's in the chimney: http://www.imagebam.com/image/2bd835687800003

Ah, thank you very much, good sir!

 

[Jazz_]

There are misaligned textures all over the place in this FM I'm playing and they trigger my OCD a bit :D. Guess the FM.

 

[Melan]

A Shameful FM.

 

[Jazz_]

''The Seven Shades of Mercury''

 

[JarlFrank]

The Seven Shames of Mercury

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Oh come on, SSoM was a FM that took years just to get the first part (of several) out the door as people realized that the project was falling apart.

Still, someone should have spotted this. :/

 

[skacky]

Eh, that particular corner is in a toilet with nothing of importance in it. That's honestly extremely minor.

 

[JarlFrank]

So Yandros has just released the first mission of the campaign Lady Rowena had been working on before she left us, and it's absolutely amazing.

The architecture is great, the atmosphere is thick, and there's a lot to explore. The FM is based on a vanilla map, I think the city section from Tracing the Courier, but I wouldn't have noticed if not for that central market square because the architecture and texturing in the streets have been changed so much, you won't recognize it. The city's atmosphere reminds me of Venice, with building textures that look vaguely mediterranean and with lots of canals to cross or dive into.

It's definitely worth checking out. Haven't played through it fully yet, but I'm pretty sure it has the same high quality throughout. A great mission that shows again how great of a level designer Lady Rowena was. Go play it now.

 

[Jazz_]

''Somnium'' by Robert Rich plays in the streets, instant incline, good taste in ambient music. Anyway I just fooled around for 5 minutes and maybe I'm blind or something but where's the equipment? one of the objectives is don't go out without your equipment but I can't find it anywhere in my apartment.

 

[Yandros]

Check the coat hooks in the closet. Same place your gear was in the OM the mission is built from (Ambush from T2).

 

[Melan]

It is kinda hardish, actually - the place is between two rooms, and cloaked in darkness with a light that doesn't quite shine through the curtains.

Playing the mission really drives home how much we have lost with Lady Rowena. There are lots of talented taffers who do one or two things very well, but to balance graphics, story and gameplay while also having a distinct personal style that shines through even a repurposed OM... that takes someone with real skills.

 

[JarlFrank]

On this occasion I will mention, however, that the "Get your own equipment from your own apartment" objective, without it mentioning where exactly your equipment is, should go the way of the Dodo.

In Rowena's FM it didn't annoy me that much, just took me about a minute of searching everywhere, but if your apartment is larger, like in Christine's most recent mission, it can be really aggravating to have no idea where your equipment is hidden. You're Garrett. This is your apartment. Why don't you know where it is?!?! The objective should either say "Get your equipment from the secret room hidden by the coathanger switch" or the equipment should just be in plain sight.

 

[Yandros]

Generally agree Jarl, although in this case anyone familiar with the OM would know exactly where to go.

 

[Mechs Delight]

Home Sweet Home: Nice ambiance and soundtrack. Game play isn't quite up to her previous missions, but enjoyable.

A Short Night's Work: Don't bother. Nothing but an exercise in frustration.

 

[skacky]

I disagree. I had a lot of fun with A Short Night's Work and I find it to be a better mission than Nigel's Hidden Treasure. I just love how utterly nonsensical and weird the architecture and layout are, but it never feels jarring or stupid. Some areas, like the one with a thief down below and tons of fencing, are nothing short of genius and I wish I had the vision to make something like that (though the fake sky with the skyline doesn't work at all).
Of course the mission is not without faults: sloppy roombrushing, some bizarrely locked gates and doors for no real reason, areas that feel a bit unfinished, other areas you shouldn't be able to get to but you are (with no way of getting back), pretty damn linear overall — but the journey was really worth it. I really enjoyed the final manor area that kind of reminded me of the Mage Towers (but without the tedium). I also see bbb slowly improving his architecture overall, some areas in the manor in particular were pretty nice to look at.

 

[JarlFrank]

 

[Icewater]

Such a

from the early-to-mid 2000s.

 

[Yandros]

Even though there were only 31 releases last year, two of them included a total of 25 actual missions, so it was a better year than that graph shows. The great thing about 2018 is that if the T1 Contest delivers then we're looking at possibly as many as 20 T1G FMs alone, on top of a probably usual healthy crop of T2 missions.

 

[SlyFoxx]

That anything is still being rung out of the dark engine is a testimony to how much LGS and its devs got right. Never know...I might still finish my last mission....only 12+ years or so in the making.

 

[Jazz_]

I have completed ''Home Sweet Home'' by Lady Rowena and loved it, great atmosphere and there are many neat little touches. By the way where do you get the key to open that container

Spoiler

behind the ''waterfall''?

Lady Rowena was truly one of the best authors of the FM community, too bad this campaign won't be finished.

''Seven Shades of Mercury'' was meh, I stopped before finishing it, it started fine but I didn't like the locations, it's got a sort of unfinished vibe, the cathedral in particular was so empty and uninteresting inside.

Now I have started ''Disorientation'' by Melan and I'm also halfway thru ''The Seven Sisters'' by Lady Rowena, I'm also playing a FM where you start in a cave up in the mountains at sunset but I can't recall the name of the FM right now, looks very nice.

 

[JarlFrank]

That anything is still being rung out of the dark engine is a testimony to how much LGS and its devs got right. Never know...I might still finish my last mission....only 12+ years or so in the making.

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