FMs - Ghost/Perfect Thief Results (Part 9) [SPOILERS]

klatremus on 19/7/2020 at 23:35

klatremus on 19/7/2020 at 23:37

UNREPORTED FMs

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Thief 1

Cold Hands, Cold Heart
Condemned Catalogue
Coveted Formulae
Rage of a Man
Winds of Misfortune

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Thief 2

At Lapstone House
Cardinals' Sins
Eye of the Sea
Godforsaken Locale
Haunt
Lord Shabby
Matriarch (campaign)
Misguided Souls
Nest of Vipers
One Man's Trash
Raising Corpses
Rockpool
A Shadow On the Water
The Sword of the Stones
Towers of Twilight
Twilights Over Driftstone
A Visit to the Baron

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Thief 3

A
Abandoned Kingdom
All the World's a Stage
Avoiding Mistrust

B
Bad Feeling
The Blue Rose
The Bridge

C
Cabot
Creature Clash 3
Crystal Clear Conscience

D
Defender of the Crown

E
Escape From Castle Black
Evicted

F
Forgotten Stash

H
Happy Halloween!
Heart of the Deal
Hearts and Minds
The Hobbit
The Hotel

I
Impurities In the Mix

K
The Keeper
Knife to the Heart
Krellek's Labyrinth

L
Lord Julian's Labyrinth
Lord Raven's Mansion

M
The Medallion

N
Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Trickster

O
Oldstone Castle
On the Trail of a Fence

S
The Secret Room
Silence
Skullduggery
Special Vintage
Starting From Scratch

T
Thief's Rising
Thief's Rising 2
Two Steps

U
Unknown Temple

V
Valley
Veil of Deceit

W
The Walk
Wolfenstein

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The Dark Mod

A
The Adventures of Thomas: Lucy's Quest
All the Way Up
Away 0: Stolen Heart

B
The Bakery Job
La Banque Bienveillante
The Beleaguered Fence
Betrayal
The Black Mage
Blackgrove Manor
Braeden Church
Breaking Out the Fence
Briarwood Cathedral
Briarwood Manor
A Bridge Too Far
The Builder Roads
The Builder Blocks
Business as Usual
By Any Other Name
By the Cookbook

C
Caduceus of St. Alban
Cauldron of the Gods
Cleaning Up the Neighbourhood
Cleighmoor (WS3)
Closemouthed Shadows
Coercion
Cole Hurst 1: Eaton
Commerce Bank (WS5)
CoS0: To Catch a Thief
CoS1: Pearls and Swine
CoS2: A Precarious Position
CoS3: Sacricide
The Creeps
Crystal Grave

D
Dead Drunk
Deadeye
Deceptive Shadows
Down and Out On Newford Road
Down by the Riverside
Dragon's Claw

E
The Elixir
Erasing the Trail
Exhumed
Eye On the Prize

F
The Factory Heist
Flakebridge Monastery
Footloose Museum Theft

G
The Gatehouse
Gem of Souls
Genesis
Glenham's Tower
The Golden Skull
A Good Neighbor

H
The Hare In the Snare: Part 1
Hazard Pay
The Heart of Saint Mattis
Hidden Hands: Anomaly
Hidden Hands: Blood & Metal
Hidden Hands: Initiation
Hidden Hands: The Lost Citadel
Hidden Hands: Vitalic Fever
Home Again (WS2)
House In Blackbog Hollow
A House Call
A House In Locked Secrets
The House of deLisle
House of Theo

I
Illusionist's Tower
The Imperial Sword
In a Time of Need
In Danger of Judgment
In the Black
In the North (WS1)
In Remembrance of Him
Inn Business

K
King of Diamonds
Knighton Manor

L
Langhorne Lodge
The Last Offering
Let Sleeping Thieves Lie
Lich Queen's Demise
The Lieutenant 1: In Plain Sight
The Lieutenant 2: High Expectations
The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs
Lockdown
Lockner Manor
Lord Dufford's
Lord Edgar's Bathhouse
Lords & Legacy

M
Mad's Mountain
Mandrasola
Marsh of Rahena
A Matter of Hours
Mission of Mercy
Moongate Ruckus
Mother Rose
Moving Day 2: Look Who's Moving Now

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The Night of Loot: One Man's Treasure
The Night of Reluctant Benefaction
A Night to Remember
A Night In Altham
No Honour Among Thieves
A Noble Home
Not an Ordinary Guest
Now and Then

O
Old Habits 1
Old Habits 2
One Step Too Far

P
The Painter's Wife
Pandora's Box
The Parcel
Paying the Bills 0: Moving Day
Phrase Book
Pinnacle: A Test of Talents
Poets & Peasants
Protecting the Flock

Q
Quinn Co.

R
Rake-off
The Rats Triumphant
The Ravine
Reap as You Sow
A Reputation to Uphold
Requiem
The Rift
Rightful Property

S
Sam Wilson 1: Eastbound
Samhain Night
A Score to Settle
Scroll of Remembrance
Shadows of Northdale ACT 1
Shadows of Northdale ACT 2
Siege Shop
Sir Taffsalot's Sword
Sir Talbot's Collateral
The Smiling Cutpurse
Sneak and Destroy
Sneak & Soufflé
Snowed Inn
Solar Eclipse
Somewhere Above the City
The Sons of Baltona Part 1
A Special Delivery
The Spider and the Finch
Spring Cleaning
St. Alban's Cathedral

T
The Terrible Old Man
Thief's Remorse
The Thieves
The Threepenny Revue
Too Late
The Transaction

V
Vengeance for a Thief
Vengeance for a Thief 2
Vengeance for a Thief 3
Volta and the Stone
Volta 3: Gemcutter

W
The Warrens (WS4)
Window of Opportunity
Winter's Harvest
A Winter's Tale
The Wizard's Treasure
Who Watches the Watcher?

Y
You Only Fly Thrice

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:44

THE ASSASSINATION

Short, not very well polished mission. Many times there is no sound of footsteps, there is no sound of picklocking. You can hear through walls and enemies too. And mission doesn't end, so after returning to starting point I need to use skip mission cheat.

I needed to be careful with fire elemental. It's sensitive and don't like when somebody goes to close behind him. Killing priest was also easy, because no sound working in this room. So nobody could hear that even if I heard their voices through wall. I doused 3 torches in the inner courtyard. To escape I jumped from roof near SW Tower to roof of west house and mantled on it.

STATS:

Time: 0:13:10; Loot: 1015/1015
Pockets Picked: 2/2; Locks Picked: 4
Back Stabs: 1; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 30; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 1

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: SUCCESS

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:46

GOLD IN FORT KNOCKS

Mission is about careful usage of water arrows and moss arrows. I also find gas arrows, so I can use them to put down torches. Moss arrows will be useful at the very end of the mission. Objective items sometimes are right in front of your eyes, but it's just hard to spot them. There are still some bugs: falling into water doesn't make sound, 1 piece of loot is worth 0 and mission doesn't end (I read in the forum that for some people it ends and for some it doesn't).

Grab your equipment and use water arrow to douse torch on the left. This will allow you to grab other 3 water arrows. Douse another torch to safely sneak into Library. There are lockpicks. First go to front entrance to Fortress and douse 2 torches. Grab 2 gas arrows on the side and fall into water (no sound) to grab 11 water arrows. Return to starting point and go to 2 guards behind gate. You need to douse 1 torch, but be careful, guards are sensitive. This will allow you to barely sneak to grab 6 coin stacks.

Go to Mage Office (guard has key). Inside is lever behind banner. This will open you passage to Cemetery. Douse 2 torches on the side, in chest is key to Tower #2, there is also Golden Skull to grab. To get to hole you need to strafe jump over it and enter from that side. From cemetery enter Fortress grounds. Take all water and moss arrows and douse every torch here. Look out for frog, it can 2nd alert.

Next part is about climbing 4 towers to top and getting key to next tower. Tower #2 has Dagger on display. Avoiding Hammerites is easy, they always turn in the same direction. Also under some chests or purple box is enough shadow to be safe from them. Tower #3 has chest with 2 rope arrows. Interesting thing is these 2 rope arrows can be taken through chest, which isn't normally possible. So I don't need to picklock it. In Tower #1 I douse 2 torches to get to top of the tower and to the elevator. Also in chest are 4 gas arrows. In the end use elevator to ride down.

In Dining Room you need to douse all torches and fireplace. Here is Medal and Letter Opener. On fireplace is flute worth 0. Hammerites near door have 2 keys for Vault. You can slowly enter inside. Vault has some traps on inner side of tables and behind pedestals. There are lamps instead of torches and lots of loud floor. Also there are 2 Barracks keys on table. Time to use moss arrows on outer sides of tables. Start from left side, then jump on middle pedestals and go to right side near door. There is some shadow near door.

In Barracks you need to douse all torches. I'm using 4 gas arrows and 1 water arrow for that. Both Hammerites have 2 Engineering keys. In Engineering Room the first I do is KO Hammerite (ghost bust #1). I'm doing that, because soon I will be forced to destroy 3 planks (ghost bust #2) behind crates and there is no shadow here. Also there is Book of Secrets on table. In cave gas fire, so Malaki (thief) will be gassed too. Pass spider slowly from right wall. Move Malaki to the ladder while going along left wall and kill him there. Then use ladder to go to the city. Mission doesn't end, so I'm forced to use skip mission cheat.

STATS:

Time: 0:46:36; Loot: 8567/8767
Pockets Picked: 12/17; Locks Picked: 20
Back Stabs: 1; Knock Outs: 1
Damage Dealt: 31; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 1

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:47

F

Short, impossible to ghost mission. First use ladder. On metal bridge go right, mantle on metal beam. From there jump+mantle on metal ledge on the left below. Slowly go forward, wait for fire shadow to pass below. Drop to gate and open it. Next guard is impossible to nudge, but you can quickly run to shadow on the right.

And that's where ghost run ends. You can't sneak along right wall without being spotted by guard (ghost bust #1). I climb on barrel and on wall. Then I drop for Scepter, which launch alarm in the whole city (ghost bust #2). I am forced to run away from every enemy and newly spawned haunts back to starting point.

STATS:

Time: 0:08:01; Loot: 0/0
Locks Picked: 0
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:48

THE PHOENIX HATH RISEN

This mission is based on Strange Bedfellows. On Expert I'm forced to collect all loot. Also there is a bug. Sometimes after reloading game you can trigger new objective of following ghost. If it happens, just reload game. Otherwise later cutscene will not trigger and you will be unable to continue.

CATHEDRAL

AI of the Hammerites is weird. Sometimes when they will 1st alert, their patrol route slightly change, they will start turning and may spot you. It's visible on Cemetery. I decided to first activate 5 switches, so I will have easy access to Vault at the end of the mission. For that I needed to activate only conversation at Cemetery and Museum.

I started from Museum, because it's hard to ghost. I used 4 moss arrows to moss my way behind Hammerite. Unfortunately he spotted me when I was exiting back to balcony. So I nudged him slightly and could escape, but I didn't use switch. And after using switch he spotted me when I was leaving. So then I went behind him, pressed switch and waited 10 seconds, then left with only 1st alert. Then I went for switch in Garden, 2 switches in Basement and in the end went for switch in Cemetery, because this place is well guarded.

Then I decided to loot Crypt. I had only problem with vase in front of stationary Hammerite. I nudged him right, so he will not see me, but when I went for vase, he suddenly decided to run and stopped past vase without any alert. That was very weird.

Golden hammer at the entrance is the hardest loot to get. When Hammerites notice that it vanished, they become more sensitive. Sometimes they can immediately 2nd alert. So I went back to starting point and roped up to the bridge in front of Cathedral. Then I nudged stationary Hammerite right into hole below bridge. Then I went all the way to room with golden hammer, went behind stationary Hammerite and used 3 moss arrows on floor. I nudged him all the way to his companion at the bottom of bridge. I needed to backtrack into shadow whenever patroller was coming to Barracks. I took golden hammer, patroller 1st alerted and became more sensitive, but that's all.

Passage to the Undergrounds is located in Church. There isn't too much shadow and there is no way to ghost 2 Hammerites, so I gassed them (ghost bust #1). I opened passage and moved bodies there. Then I went to portcullis to activate fighting scene. This will teleport also lever controlling portcullis. Enter and ghost will show up. Also you finally get objective of following ghost. But you don't need to follow him. You need to get letter. At this point you should have 2000 loot from both street and Cathedral.

UNDERGROUNDS

Here my target is to steal 4 elemental keys from mages. Also I doused 4 torches in cell and 3 torches in the passage to bridge. There are neutral Hammerites and red spider. I also too 2 water arrows from water. I roped down to cell to get nugget. Then I climbed up and entered lower levels. Here the only tricky part is sitting mage, he's very sensitive and you must douse torch to ghost him. Also there is nugget behind banner. I went to lowest floor for more loot and Sword of Hope, then I returned to 4 mages who had elemental keys.

I need to kill these 4 mages. 1 slash from Sword of Hope is enough. For each death you will get 1 water arrow. Also each death alerts everyone (ghost bust #2-5) and in the end bunch of fire elementals spawn and fly to the center of bridge. So my strategy is to sneak to west side of bridge and from there kill 3 mages. Fire elemental should kill 1 frog and wound Hammerite patrolling this area. For fire mage you will need to go to the center of bridge. After killing him rope up to higher level and kill earth mage.

Afterwards it's time to grab talismans. Sneak for Earth Talisman, so frog will not spot you. Then quickly run past fire chamber and sneaked from other side. I backtracked to the top and waited for elementals to calm down. One of them returned to fire chamber, rest stayed on the center of bridge. I dropped on bridge from west side and run behind corner to get Water Talisman, then crouch walked to air chamber. I used 3 talismans to get Air Talisman and went down to haunt area. I doused 3 torches, grabbed loot from chest and freed prisoners (lever vanished afterwards).

Time to get out. I used 2 crate stack and put on railing, but it wasn't high enough. Luckily thanks to stack it was possible for me to jump to north part of bridge. I just needed to moss floor. Then I jumped+mantled to east side of bridge and went right. I didn't spot Hammerite's body or himself anywhere. I went back to priest's body and buried him with no problems, then used passage to Crypt, went to Prison and to Vault. I roped up, used lever and put Air Talisman on pedestal and got out to not get locked (nearby level vanish).

Then I decided to go up via stairs near Garden, but I noticed wounded Hammerite returning via Crypt to Undergrounds. It forced me to hide. Also he probably alerted everyone in Cathedral, so it's a good thing I disabled alarm (lever is at the top of stairs in Cathedral). I went to Garden, mantled on tree and went over wall. Exit is open, but I don't have enough loot just yet. By the way, after Undergrounds you should have 3650 loot.

REST OF LOOT

Time to return to the city. In 2nd house lives Baron. When you enter his house, he will run to guard post. Also after meeting with patrollers, he will send them to check his house. But for some reason, they will not spot you if you are standing on fireplace. Get key from box and keys from desk and also use lever. Baron's escape is scripted, so I don't count it as a ghost bust. The rest of loot is in Bank. There is no protection, so it's easy to get.

STATS:

Time: 1:47:15; Loot: 8065/8065
Pockets Picked: 4/5; Locks Picked: 14
Back Stabs: 1; Knock Outs: 0 (2 - gassed)
Damage Dealt: 16; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 4

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:49

PROJEKT HAMMER

Short mansion mission. When getting out of Kitchen you need to worry to not get spotted by front entrance guard. To enter Lord Gregor's Bedroom I douse torch in corridor, I also douse fireplace and moss corridor. I also douse torch in servant's room on 3rd floor, so I can picklock chest in his room. To get a key from Chapel I'm fully opening side door. For some reason priest doesn't see me and I can't highlight key if door isn't fully open. I ignored turning off lights in Machine Room, because it barely makes any difference and forces pointless backtracking.

STATS:

Time: 0:25:47; Loot: 2534/2609
Pockets Picked: 2/3; Locks Picked: 11
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: POSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:51

PROJECT HAMMER - SECRET CONNECTIONS

Remake of Projekt Hammer. Most of the places, patrol routes and loot is the same, but some places are changed or totally new. There is slightly less loot too. And there is more shadow. But my strategy is pretty much the same. I visited new location - Dungeons. It requires using Pickaxe to destroy floor. I'm using it like key item, so I don't call it a bust. But I ignore secret objective there, because as a result it spawns illuminating haunt who is impossible to avoid, because he also has a good tracking ability. So I avoid spider cave and sewers where rope arrows are located.

This time outside patroller has lantern. It has much bigger range than in other FMs, which makes me wonder why FM creators give player a lantern with so short range. If it's possible to increase it's range, then increase it. Anyway, front entrance guard is the same sensitive. Kitchen servant and priest from Chapel are now patrolling between 2 points, make break in them and walk back. This time I don't need to douse torch in servant's room on 3rd floor, because chest is open. Chapel's safe is on wooden beams and you can climb them from nearby closet. I end in Garden while standing behind archer. I also got 1 secret objective from secret attic.

STATS:

Time: 0:38:40; Loot: 2304/2506
Pockets Picked: 2/3; Locks Picked: 15
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: POSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:52

IN & OUT

Thief 1 Anniversary Contest mission. There is a lot of enemies to avoid, but in Hammerite Cathedral the only tricky place is Priest's Bedroom. Priest is walking fast, so you don't have too much time to loot this room. In Sewers I disabled electricity, which allowed me to enter Thieves Hideout via spider cave. Cave is small and contains 4 small spiders and green spider. Some of them are walking in random way. I went through small dark way and registered few 1st alerts, then jumped to next shadow and to exit.

Thieves Hideout is easy. Then are Catacombs. Here are zombies surrounded by flies, which can hurt you, so don't walk too close to these zombies. On highest floor there is room near haunt with zombie walking on wooden ledge. I doused 2 torches to grab 2 goblets from up there, because I need to worry about walking zombies and zombies patrolling below. Middle floor is the most confusing and contains some traps. And also here are fast ghosts. Lowest floor is the hardest to ghost, because many zombies using stairs and entrance to it. To get vase protected by haunt I mossed the floor.

Ruins are tricky, because burricks are very fast. Especially main entrance stationary burrick. He can turn few times at once, so getting diamond behind him is a bit harder. Other beasts are also faster, so I doused 3 braziers in this area. Maw has fast bugbeast and naked ratmen. Here I found Hammer of St Martello.

Time to get out. There are 2 ways: open portal by using 2 red stones (one of them in bugbeasts area is tricky, but possible) or backtrack. If I open portal I will appear in Hammerite Cathedral during monsters invasion. If I backtrack instead, monsters invasion will not happen. So I decided to backtrack. There were few annoying areas.

Getting to middle floor of Catacombs was very annoying, because zombies going down, start dancing and have hard time to go down on lower floor. So I needed to wait 10 min for good occasion of going up behind zombie and jump from balcony on bridge. Spider cave was also tricky. This time I ignored dark cave and did 2 jumps to cross to the other side faster. Escape from Cathedral was also tricky. I roped up and mantled on wooden beam above window, quietly jumped on middle beam. I couldn't run on beam, so I mantled on slippery roof. It allowed me to run and jump towards statue. I barely managed to save myself by mantling on pedestal under statue. Then I went to exit.

STATS:

Time: 1:16:24; Loot: 2572/2992
Pockets Picked: 3/5; Locks Picked: 3
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: POSSIBLE

Galaer on 25/7/2020 at 19:53

STUPID GRIMROCK QUOTE

This mission looks like very old Thief 1 FM. It's very short too and sadly impossible to ghost. After collecting bottle, tofu men spawn and spot us (ghost bust #1). This also spawns lots of haunts outside. Impossible to ghost, so I shoot couple of arrows into lampposts and walls to lure them out of starting point (ghost bust #2). Alerted servant will get killed by them. Then I just strafe run through door at the starting point and run along wall to avoid being hit by haunts (ghost bust #3).

STATS:

Time: 0:04:12; Loot: 170/170
Pockets Picked: 0/0; Locks Picked: 1
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 0/0

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE