Dinksmallwood on 28/2/2006 at 16:02

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Hello Shockers and Shocklings,

here's a new fanmission from Christine:

(http://thiefmissions.com/info.cgi?m=ShockingRuins)


Attention:

This mission breaks ranks a little bit...
It's a conversion of 'Bloody Ruins' from Thief 2. Before you download it please read the following:


* if you already know 'Bloody Ruins' then this is a must-play for you :thumb: (and leave the loot alone, you can't pick it up anyway)

* if you expect a mission like 'Ponterbee' with a lot of technic futuristic stuff, leave this mission alone. There are no upgrade terminals and such stuff in this mission. And this is only a mission, not a campaign - so it's much smaller :nono:

* but if you are liberal-minded and always hungry to play an eye-teasing fun mission - why are you still reading this? Head to thiefmission.com... :cheeky:


Many thanks to all our great voice-actors and to Nightwalker for her help with the english translation...

CommanderA on 28/2/2006 at 16:40

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WOW! now thats a different experience for SS2!!! Great job Christine:eek: :thumb:
Im gonna play that for a few hours now

Cortex on 28/2/2006 at 20:29

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Just completed it, very cool mission :)

[SPOILER]I really should take note of clues when listening to logs, I almost gave up looking for that last bracelet in the library ;) [/SPOILER]

Dr Sneak on 1/3/2006 at 01:10

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I had fun [SPOILER]shooting Saurians with the machine gun![/SPOILER]:ebil:

TheNightTerror on 1/3/2006 at 12:59

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I just finished playing this mission. :thumb: I finally beat Bloody Ruins for T2 not too long ago, so it was still fairly fresh in my mind. Maybe it's just because I really loved the plotline in the Lady Lotti series, but I was sad to see there was no way of reading the old books. Don't suppose there's a chance that a future update could include a software that, when found, enables the soldier to frob the books and hear them read aloud? ;) I'd say make them frobbable with a conversation, but I doubt ShockEd has them.

But the log by Marwin . . . oh god, did that ever make my day. :joke: I just about keeled over laughing, and I think the popcorn I was munching on when I was listening to it is still lodged in my lungs. I'm flying, woo hoo! :joke: And going into this mission I was afflicted with the 'my FM is 2 crash fixes from being in beta' blues. Didn't think I could be cheered up much, but the rat on a wrench recipe did me in early on. :thumb: Hell, I loved all the logs, but those two stood out as my favorites.

Everything seems good and solid. The only thing that seemed a little off was the wooden textures seemed to sound like carpet textures, but I only noticed that in the beginning of the mission, and promptly forgot about it.

It was a good time running around blasting the baddies to bits, shotgun to the fire elementals and assault rifle to the saurians was quite effective. It was pretty funny, I was blasting the saurians with the AR on single fire mode, screaming various obscenities at them, when I ran out of ammo. Very true to what I would do in real life, I threw down the assault rifle in anger, before I realized I really did have more ammo. :laff: I promptly dove into a tunnel for safety. I had to break down and use the rapier to get back to it and get back to murdering.

I had a total blast, nice way to spend a badly needed night away from DromEd. :)

How was this mission ported into SS2? Was the brushwork done from scratch, or is it possible to open a T2 mission in ShockEd? I seem to remember trying this before, but every attempt ended in failure.