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Thief fan missions and campaigns
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Riskbreaker
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This is absolutely devastating to hear! 
She was insanely talented, Seven Sisters is among my absolute favorite FMs, especially the first two mission. May you rest in peace, great Lady.
She was insanely talented, Seven Sisters is among my absolute favorite FMs, especially the first two mission. May you rest in peace, great Lady.
It's so strange that an author We've never had any connections, other than playing a FM made by her, is actually a real person whom dedicated free time of her life to create amazing levels for thief, and are subject to fate.
We relate with these "aliases" as if they belong to an atemporal character that will live on, like garrett himself, and it's somewhat unbelievable they can die. The nickname is famous, but there's an annonimous human being behind it and we are mostly unaware of that, and then, we receive the shocking news.
Well, one thing for sure is seven sisters, the tower, rowena's curse are immortal now, and I hope it still serves as inspiration for all fm authors out there.
We relate with these "aliases" as if they belong to an atemporal character that will live on, like garrett himself, and it's somewhat unbelievable they can die. The nickname is famous, but there's an annonimous human being behind it and we are mostly unaware of that, and then, we receive the shocking news.
Well, one thing for sure is seven sisters, the tower, rowena's curse are immortal now, and I hope it still serves as inspiration for all fm authors out there.
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This is precisely what I was thinking, hence my sparse response to the news.
EDIT: Typo.
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Yandros
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A huge loss to the community, and one of the best to be certain.
And it keeps happening!I am currently betatesting a mission and I am suddenly tempted to change my vote for best new author. Whoa. Didn't see this one coming.
A new author has just come and, without even making a peep about it before, reinvented The Metal Age for TDM, with dem production values. Rusty urban hellscapes meet posh Victorian mansions!
Arrowgrab
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And it keeps happening!I am currently betatesting a mission and I am suddenly tempted to change my vote for best new author. Whoa. Didn't see this one coming.
A new author has just come and, without even making a peep about it before, reinvented The Metal Age for TDM, with dem production values. Rusty urban hellscapes meet posh Victorian mansions!
What FM is this miraculous sorcery you speak of? Is it still in testing, or has it been released?
Still in testing, but probably very close to release - all I could find was minor bugs.
And that's the other mystery. All of my missions are bug-ridden messes when they go into beta, yet here we have these absolute newbies, and they deliver nigh-flawless work from the start.
And that's the other mystery. All of my missions are bug-ridden messes when they go into beta, yet here we have these absolute newbies, and they deliver nigh-flawless work from the start.
Garrettt
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That mission is called Volta and the Stone and you can download it here. It's a fantastic mission that feels like a AAA game (gave me a very Dishonored feel on the streets and a Thief vibe inside), I talked with the guy who made it Kingsal and he seems like a very nice person who has worked with some very big games in the industry (the sort that usually get shat on around these parts though).
Here are some screenshots of his work:
Here are some screenshots of his work:
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Dev_Anj
Learned
Wow, how did I not know about this? It looks pretty but time will tell if it plays well(I do have good hopes though because of Melan's recommendation). The experience with AAA games also explains a lot about the production values.
Garrettt
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Latro
Arcane
maybe they're repentant industry vets returning for a last dance
Finished it. Very high production values and incredibly thick atmosphere. It indeed felt like a Dishonored mission but the manor itself reminded me of Running Interference, except more outlandish and unwelcoming with a crazy layout that made me check the map more often than I'm willing to admit. The maps themselves are a work of art, by the way. The sound design in particular is nothing short of stellar.
It's a bit of a shame that the level itself is a bit visually plain with some rather crude texturing, but the color treatment and the really eerie atmosphere made me forget this rather quickly.
It's a bit of a shame that the level itself is a bit visually plain with some rather crude texturing, but the color treatment and the really eerie atmosphere made me forget this rather quickly.
So I decided to play Night Watch since it's a campaign and I had muddy memories of it. I remember that it was rather confusing and I never made it past mission 1. Well, now I remember.
Out of all the missions I've played, these are by far the worst and I'm not exaggerating. You're required to find secrets to progress, guards are insanely alert, the missions have you do completely illogical stuff to progress; things that are impossible to do 99.99% of the time but are mandatory to progress here (such as going through solid objects, at least twice in the second mission), there are lots of items hidden in incredibly devious places (that aren't even counted as secrets, so you can take a guess at how well hidden the secrets are!)... oh and the bugs, the bugs! I don't know if NewDark screwed me over, but I had to force-end the first mission because Gwendoline would not follow me at all, and I got to a point in mission 2 where I couldn't progress anymore because the mission broke. My nerves snapped and I stopped here. I'm usually not this critical and there's some serious work in the missions, but I really found the design to be inexcusably awful. Did people have any fun playing this?
I find it hard to believe that the person who did this also made the excellent Heart of Lone Salvation for TDM, which is an amazing mansion sneaker with none of that bullshit.
Out of all the missions I've played, these are by far the worst and I'm not exaggerating. You're required to find secrets to progress, guards are insanely alert, the missions have you do completely illogical stuff to progress; things that are impossible to do 99.99% of the time but are mandatory to progress here (such as going through solid objects, at least twice in the second mission), there are lots of items hidden in incredibly devious places (that aren't even counted as secrets, so you can take a guess at how well hidden the secrets are!)... oh and the bugs, the bugs! I don't know if NewDark screwed me over, but I had to force-end the first mission because Gwendoline would not follow me at all, and I got to a point in mission 2 where I couldn't progress anymore because the mission broke. My nerves snapped and I stopped here. I'm usually not this critical and there's some serious work in the missions, but I really found the design to be inexcusably awful. Did people have any fun playing this?
I find it hard to believe that the person who did this also made the excellent Heart of Lone Salvation for TDM, which is an amazing mansion sneaker with none of that bullshit.
There are hints of some kind, but they are so obscure I got nowhere with them. I finished the missions with the help of a printed walkthrough, but it was very hard and trial-and-error even that way. Fidcal's later missions (including Heart, his masterpiece, and the yet unreleased Manor Royale) got much better, though. He has an eye for making non-standard puzzles that rely on understanding and exploiting game physics, which is possessed by relatively few people. Some of it shows in The Night Watch, but I agree it is too hardcore for its own good and often arbitrary. Didn't encounter the bugs, however.
So, Christine resurfaced and released an old unreleased mission of hers that was originally supposed to be part of a campaign she worked on together with someone else, but which was never finished.
(That girl sure has a history of starting team projects and then ending up completing them all by herself)
Since I really love Christine's missions, I'm looking forward to playing the thing.
But something even cooler surfaced on the Editor's Guild. Some guy with an old account who never released a mission just posted screenshots of unfinished stuff he attempted over the years, and he's offering the unfinished missions up for grabs.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146683
And yeah, the architecture really looks pretty damn good.
Check it out:
Really makes you wonder what treasures lie on the hard drives of people who played around with Dromed a lot without ever finishing a full releaseable mission.
(That girl sure has a history of starting team projects and then ending up completing them all by herself)
Since I really love Christine's missions, I'm looking forward to playing the thing.
But something even cooler surfaced on the Editor's Guild. Some guy with an old account who never released a mission just posted screenshots of unfinished stuff he attempted over the years, and he's offering the unfinished missions up for grabs.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146683
And yeah, the architecture really looks pretty damn good.
Check it out:
Really makes you wonder what treasures lie on the hard drives of people who played around with Dromed a lot without ever finishing a full releaseable mission.
I have also wondered a lot about this. There must be a lot of stuff out there, even if most of it is probably not very good. :D
Which reminds me, I am actually not the first in my family to get the Dromed bug - that honour goes to my brother, who built Everyone's First Haunt-Filled Cathedral Level for Thief 1 around 2001 or 2002, which he never, ever released. It was perhaps a generous 2/10, the sort of junk you'd only find on Komag's DVDs, but it means I will always play second fiddle to him.
As a real engineer, he is also way more qualified to build levels than I am.
Which reminds me, I am actually not the first in my family to get the Dromed bug - that honour goes to my brother, who built Everyone's First Haunt-Filled Cathedral Level for Thief 1 around 2001 or 2002, which he never, ever released. It was perhaps a generous 2/10, the sort of junk you'd only find on Komag's DVDs, but it means I will always play second fiddle to him.
As a real engineer, he is also way more qualified to build levels than I am.
Yandros
Savant
For those of you who don't frequent TTLG, Tannar and I released Waterfront Racket earlier today. http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146706
It's a very nontraditional mission (actually 3 missions), but if you're a fan of film noir and especially the hardboiled detectives of Chandler and Hammett, you should really dig it.
It's a very nontraditional mission (actually 3 missions), but if you're a fan of film noir and especially the hardboiled detectives of Chandler and Hammett, you should really dig it.
Yandros
Savant
I'm actually quite surprised that downwinder liked it. Maybe it was all the barking dogs. 
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I'll give this a go...but 516 MB? That's the second-biggest monkey FM I've ever seen.
Yandros
Savant
Three missions of 100% custom content with shitloads of objects, 5 movies and tons of custom ambients and over 80 lines of dialogue? I was glad it wasn't bigger than that.
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