Played Thief for years before discovering... - by Cigam
Cigam on 27/3/2017 at 15:19
Only recently discovered a useful tip for Expert: using frogbeast eggs against guards is allowed. This does not count as your kill and won't fail the mission.
Useful for some awkward Mechanists on the rooftops in LotP.
marbleman on 27/3/2017 at 20:50
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Useful for some awkward Mechanists on the rooftops in LotP.
If you don't raise the alarm in Angelwatch, there won't be any awkward mechanists on the rooftops :D
Cigam on 27/3/2017 at 21:28
Then that is another thing I did not know - you can open the safe without triggering the alarm?
Let me guess, it involves some exploit rather than being an official possibility? :)
marbleman on 27/3/2017 at 21:29
No, there is a switch to deactivate the alarm :D It's on the same floor, hidden in one small room.
john9818a on 28/3/2017 at 04:34
Quote Posted by Cigam
DarkMax, could be.
In Thieves Guild a searching enemy may say something like "You better hope I find you before the guards do". What guards? Aren't they the guards? Or are these guards not actually in the mission (like the non-existent dogs, who you are also threatened with).
That's actually one of the thieves lines.
Btw you can grab the plans scroll in Karras' safe without opening it. Stand at the left side and move your focus around until the safe isn't highlighted but the scroll is. You'll know if the scroll is highlighted if the safe should be highlighted but isn't.
Weasel on 28/3/2017 at 18:46
Does everyone know that you can shoot arrows (including rope arrows) into grass and dirt? I designed a contest mission that took advantage of this fact and some people thought I had added in the capability. :p I just assumed it was common knowledge!
gamophyte on 28/3/2017 at 20:02
Quote Posted by Weasel
Does everyone know that you can shoot arrows (including rope arrows) into grass and dirt? I designed a contest mission that took advantage of this fact and some people thought I had added in the capability. :p I just assumed it was common knowledge!
I would often take advantage of this in cave systems.
Daraan on 29/3/2017 at 14:23
This reverts way back but:
...that there are fan missions.
Cigam on 31/3/2017 at 13:03
"That's actually one of the thieves lines."
Yes but who are the guards they are referring to? I may be unobservant but they all look like thieves to me. Apart from that one City Watch officer outside, but he attacks the thieves so is not on their side.
Will have a look for that switch in Life Of The Party, thanks.
Was going to bring back the "Thief Irritants" thread to note those mechanical spiders in Soulforge. It seems like on Expert everywhere I turn there is one there, and so I have to run away and find a different route. I thought they were especially irritating because there is no easy way to deal with them, but I discovered today that shooting them in the back with water disables them just like with the other robots.
Think that didn't occur to me because they do not have the obvious glowing heat vents that the others do.
Still annoying though. At least with the big robots you can encourage them to blow themselves up. The spiders, once they hae made you, well your only option is to run away. Or waste a fire arrow or a frogbeast which more often than not they nail before it gets to them.
john9818a on 31/3/2017 at 17:07
Quote Posted by Weasel
Does everyone know that you can shoot arrows (including rope arrows) into grass and dirt? I designed a contest mission that took advantage of this fact and some people thought I had added in the capability. :p I just assumed it was common knowledge!
Yes. You can accumulate extra broadheads by picking up arrows shot by archers into the grass.