Thief fan missions and campaigns

[Mechs Delight]

Hah, I was just messing around. I do enjoy reading your reviews most of the time, pretty interesting reads and agreeable opinions.

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Though your write up on Cascabel V1 was pretty horrendous

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I felt the same way

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until I ran into the countless glitches and handful of dead ends in mission 2.

 

[cretin]

is T2fix's graphical enhancements worth installing or no?

 

[Curratum]

I can't play without the sky replacements at this point. The water is pretty decent too.

 

[ironmask]

I don't like how nu-thief has more fan art than original thief and that bothers me.

 

[ironmask]

 

[Curratum]

That's hysterical! :D

 

[Curratum]

Just properly played and finished Thief 2 - Hidden Agenda by Mark Smith (AsyluM).
Highly recommended.

It was a lovely, lovely Mechanist compound with just the right amount of brush detail and some great objectives. Somewhat alarmingly, I googled for a preview of the mission and I realized I missed a good chunk of it, never seeing the areas past 2:45 in the FM preview clip.

 

[Curratum]

I once again started my favorite eye-candy mission that also has actual gameplay in it. The level is hard as balls due to the layout with many doors and rooms and a lot of relatively elaborate and long patrol routes.

There's a masterful use of lightly colored lighting, a number of great custom ambients and just a lovely lovely interior to play around in, including a massive and mildly confusing sewer / underground tunnel system, as well as a bunch of great outdoor areas.

In case you haven't played it, I recommend grabbing both that one and its prequel.

 

[Mikeal]

Oi lads I tried to play in Builder's Paradise but my Dark Loader doesn't see mission zip file. Any tips?

 

[Curratum]

I have a bunch of FMs that FMSel (newdark's built-in FM launcher) won't find. No idea wtf.

 

[Mechs Delight]

Okay, it's been mentioned time and time again on various Thief threads and boards that DarkLoader is outdated.

 

[Icewater]

I have a bunch of FMs that FMSel (newdark's built-in FM launcher) won't find. No idea wtf.

Which? Name a few if there's a ton.

 

[nicked]

It blows my mind how many people still think it's a good idea to use Darkloader.

 

[JarlFrank]

Use AngelLoader. It can even import your Darkloader data so you won't lose any of your comments and finished-checkmarks.

 

[Yandros]

The reason a few of the missions in the contest aren't seen by Darkloader is because they were released in .7z format, which the ancient and decrepit Darkloader does not recognize. Any of the modern loaders - FMSel, AngelLoader or NewDarkLoader - will recognize and install them just fine.

Along these lines, some of us are planning to start promoting a forced obsolescence of Darkloader by urging authors to release all future missions as .7z files.

 

[ironmask]

Is garrettloader any good? I only use FMsel.

 

[Mikeal]

To be honest only Builder's Paradise doesn't work rest of missions load perfectly.

It blows my mind how many people still think it's a good idea to use Darkloader.

Nostalgia.

 

[Psych0sis]

FMSel LITERALLY comes with Newdark, just use it.

 

[Curratum]

Also, FMSel is the only sane way to play FMs on your Steam install and be able to take screenshots and track played time, as it's the same .exe.

 

[octavius]

Finished The Ritual, an old T2 mission from 2000.

Quite good, but frustrating at times, especially when it reminds you of why escort missions is cancer.

Nice tomb robbing and puzzles, and it was fun to watch some big fights between bad guys and city guards or between bad guys and hammerites. Make sure you leave the door to the chapel open on your way down to the catacombs. It makes the return more fun.

 

[octavius]

Completed Embrace the Enemy, another old T2 mission.

Very good heist mission, with many scripted sequences and good use of the Z axis.
I liked the use of moonlight to make sneaking outdoors harder.
Quite unlinear for a supposedly linear mission. IOW you can break it if you try.
Variably quality of the voice acting.
AI was a bit wonky; guards would suddenly be in alert mode when reloading.

 

[SlyFoxx]

Just spreading the word, I'm doing let's play of the contest missions. I just started yesterday and with c19 keeping the world closed I imagine I'll get through the lot in short order.

My youtube channel...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSKbs12yLPxq6g3l7ZJQoQ

 

[octavius]

Completed Raid on Washout Central.
Playing chronologically (and just about to enter the 21st century) I see new things in just about every new Thief mission I play. This is the second mission with fog (Equilibrium being the first, but I didn't finish that since extreme sneaking is not my thing) and the first one with rain.

Also, a nice heist mission, robbing the post office.

 

[Psych0sis]

Has anyone given the two new missions from Master of Dromed a shot? Based on the replies in the thread and looking at some of the screenshots they seem... well, shit.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I gave the first one a look. The architecture and design sure is basic, and about 20 years out of date. The typos aren't helping either.

The objectives-list is long though, so I'm gonna hold off until I've spent more time with it.