1 Million Units Contest - A Midsummer Night's Heist (Jan 1, 2021)

skacky on 1/1/2021 at 13:27

This thread is for any discussion or questions related to the mission A Midsummer Night's Heist by Rotten Burrick of a Master.
You can download the mission (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1invzwEUo-S2jilizL7Xx8LJNhdWEVHia/view?usp=sharing) HERE or (http://www.taffersparadise.co.uk/thief2mission/1MIL_AMNH1.0.7z) HERE.
The contest thread is (https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151009) HERE.

You can download a French translation (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rsQG7H2rUQLSwWYd8OW0IXPmhToqV_cP/view?usp=sharing) HERE.

Please give clues instead of outright solutions when helping others and use the spoiler tag when you do this.

Remember that this mission is for THIEF 2!

A.Stahl on 1/1/2021 at 13:39

The author made an exemplary piece of work: he avoided all the bad things and didn't forget to add some good things :)

Really:

1) Voice in the intro is very easy to hear. Obviously, it would be better with subtitles but who cares about those who are not native English speakers? Surely not those who know English well.

2) Very neat map. Useless, though: the room layout is logical and very easy to navigate.

3) Ghosting is optional. Nice move. Keep it this way!

4) Exploring is interesting. There are some things in unexpected locations.

5) Traditional coins ARE in the fountain. Nice.

The mission isn't small. It took me exactly 1 hour to finish it with 3131 loot and 3/6 secrets. But I'm not the fastest taffer in the City.

And the most interesting thing: I don't remember anything bad about this mission. No glitches, no typos. Extremely polished mission.

john9818a on 1/1/2021 at 14:14

A.Stahl please use spoiler tags on items that are specific about the mission. :)

Edit: This is a very good mission. I love the architecture, and it was relatively easy to finish. I ended up with 3435 loot and 4 secrets.

The only issue I had is that I got stuck between a tree and the wall in the back yard.

irg on 2/1/2021 at 01:03

love the look of this mission, a well-crafted love letter to Heart of Bohn. recognized it the moment i entered the sewers. now to wait and see if that author name is just a cheeky reference or a paper thin alias.

downwinder on 2/1/2021 at 02:40

mission complete,i like it :)

Galaer on 2/1/2021 at 10:16

Finished this mission in almost 1 hour and collected 3190 loot and only 2 secrets. That's a good mission with good map. I used that a lot. Voice from movie is really good, too bad it isn't used during the mission.. Finding lost key didn't feel too good - I just blindly frobbed random place without thinking and suddenly I noticed that I picked up key. Weird, because after reading notes, I didn't notice any hint about it's hiding spot. Also I was surprised seeing polish names in readables. That was fun mission.

pwl on 2/1/2021 at 14:42

This is a visually stunning mission and very well laid out, many ways to get where you need to go!
A very good entry.
pwl

zappenduster on 2/1/2021 at 18:27

Finished this heist with 2761/3480. A good architecure, I only couldn't find the key(s) for the gate locks in the basement. :D

Experienced some bad lags in some rooms. :erg:

Galaer on 2/1/2021 at 18:53

I just noticed an odd thing in this mission. It has fm.cfg that forces fog to turn on. Except this mission doesn't have any fog. So fog setting in fm.cfg is completely useless.

Master of Dromed on 2/1/2021 at 23:03

Finished this mission on Normal mode in 1 hr 5 mins 59 sec, found 2326 loot out of 3480, secrets found 0 out of 6. The architecture looked too good to be true, like it was made with some modern engine. Great looking mission. But finishing it was too easy, like a walk in the park. Knocked out some guards in the way, stole the gem, returned to the sewers and that was all. Overall a solid mission, 8/10 score from me.