baeuchlein on 4/12/2019 at 13:00
This message (from Rozi, if we mean the same message) seems to "behave" somewhat odd. In my notes about the Bathory campaign, I wrote that it sometimes vanishes some time after finding it. But apparently, it neither vanishes every time I played the mission, nor does it seem to vanish after an identifiable action, such as reading it. However, I may also have mixed part of this up with what happens in former versions of this mission, for some of my notes date back to the time when the first three Bathory missions were available as single missions. Several parts of the missions were very different than in the version most players are downloading and playing today.
I guess it's just that strange things happen once you get involved with vampires, undead and other creatures of the night.;)
Relayer2112 on 4/12/2019 at 18:04
Thanks...I was glad that I was able to make it close to the end of the mission before I had to give up on it entirely and move to the next.
It's one hell of a great campaign so far.
Just finished after 11 hours in the campaign. What a masterpiece !!!
Samantha1 on 15/8/2020 at 14:39
I´ve spent the past week on this campaign and just finished it. For me it is the 2. best campaign after death´s cold embrace. I usually don´t like protagonists other than garrett, but elizabeth and her maid were so likeable.
It gave me kinda a sad feeling playing as them, knowing that they are going to die. Though somehow they didn´t really die after all. Before playing the epilogue I was always in the believe that as Gallert I´ll have to fight elizabeths haunts when I return in the epilogue and I´m glad it didn´t turn out that way :D
The only thing that confused me abit was the optional dracula objective in fallen. I understand now that it was kinda an easter egg connected to your other campaign sensut, but not knowing this it was a kinda weird objective, since it has nothing to do with the bathory campaign. It even made me think that elizabeth became evil or sth.
But other than that, awesome fanmissions! :)
Jonfeldt on 30/10/2020 at 16:55
Hi, I just started to play Bathory Campaign and right on the start it says "Carpathian Tales volume 2". So is there volume 1? Is there something I should have played first? Also when I start playing I have a journal in which it says that I'm returning for another Carpathian adventure. It also mentions Dracula and I know there is another campaign called Dracula Reloaded so is are these two connected storywise?
Samantha1 on 30/10/2020 at 19:01
They aren´t really connected, but they do play in the same "universe" as to say. Dracula reloaded comes first and when you play the bathory campaign you will see that at some point dracula is mentioned aswell (there´s even an optional objective with him). So I can recommend to you to play dracula first, but you dont necessarily have to to understand the story cause they are completely different :)
Jonfeldt on 31/10/2020 at 12:53
Okay, thank you :) I started to play Dracula Reloaded now and I see that is says Carpathian Tales volume 1, all makes sense now haha
Samantha1 on 31/10/2020 at 13:21
Haha yeah. Enjoy! Both of the campaigns are two of my all time favourite fanmissions! :D
downwinder on 11/3/2021 at 21:56
replayed this amazing set of missions,so much fun
one of the best storys as far as in charecters you play in missions
i am guessing gellert is a relative of garrett,
and the gellert/maid and bathory all playable
only thing i wish was better was the very last mission,i would have rather seen gellery get married and have garretts great grand father?
what bathory and the maid were doing after the pact was complete
and did bathory know dracula? or just happen to have a crypt close to his,ofcourse in the thief universe
Toulomne on 5/4/2021 at 09:39
Wow, what a fantastic campaign...just finished my first ever playthrough of this after having played Dracula Reloaded last month, I am going to have a Sensut withdrawal now for real : (
I think overall this campaign is even more polished and sprinkled with lovely little details than Dracula Reloaded, though the first two missions of Dracula Reloaded, entering Dracula's castle had for me such an incredible level of suspense and horror not knowing what to expect (probably based on being familiar with the book Dracula and some movies too : ) that those two really stand out from the whole series in that respect. Something I loved in this whole series was the amazing and detailed & believable castle and fortress architecture, I really don't think there are any other FMs out there that even come close to this, I would say this campaign is the standard to compare any castle-themed levels with; they were just so much fun to explore, infiltrate, and sneak around in. The storytelling in this campaign was out of this world, I loved the multiple characters' points of view and all three of them were interesting; wrapping the whole Bathory story between the Prologue \ Epilogue connected to the protagonist of Dracula Reloaded was a touch of brilliance that just really added that extra bit...
I tried as much as possible to complete the missions without dying on my first playthrough but (mostly) did not succeed, however a lot of my attempts were close :D it was also pretty easy to miss some detail in the vast missions and end up running around for hours so a couple of times I had to resort to the forums for help; fortunately all of my points of confusion had been asked before and I managed to find answers. Let's see how I did...
Prologue: died once, slipping off the roof jumping to the inn balcony, no forum help needed
Chapter I: Blood & Ice - first time completed without deaths, no forum help needed (2h 4m)
Chapter II: All Souls Day - died to a guard once, maybe I had another death, don't remember completely; could not find the frobbable mat on the hut floor so had to look it up on forum (2h 51m)
Chapter III: Menial Servitude - died once, really unnecessary death failing to grab a ladder...none besides that; I got stuck not noticing the key under the mat where you had to steal the gold (2h 25m)
Chapter IV: Pagan Fear - died once...I wasn't sure if it was safe to land on the metal grate thing entering the lava place, seemed flimsy, so i tried jumping directly to the rock island from the rope arrow, didn't make it lol; had to resort to the forums to figure out where all the gold chests were since i missed those, but found all the other stuff ok. Another stupid unnecessary death when I managed to beat the undead lady first time safely : ) (2h 32m)
Chapter V: Fallen - no deaths, but did have to resort to forum to find the gold, somehow I completely overlooked going into the hut with the doll (1h 43m)
Epilogue: no deaths, more gold I couldn't find...apparently the lesson from this campaign is I tend to miss stuff I can frob on the floors haha, that was several of the things I missed...
All in all I think I did pretty well, mostly 1 death or no deaths each mission and had to maybe look up one thing on the forum :D
Glad I finally came across these classic campaigns...thanks a lot Sensut!
Favorite moment from entire playthrough: in Pagan Fear, when I was in Luca's hut area, I knocked out the random guy who was near her and then was getting ready to knock her out, thinking she was some innocent defenseless female NPC character...somehow she sensed me when I was right behind her, turned around, and all of a sudden I saw her disfigured \ demonic face or whatever and she started casting her spells....I RAN hahaha, it was brilliant; it was an utter pain to get her safely afterwards since she was alerted and her froggies were near : )
That whole pagan sanctuary overall was one of my favorite parts of the series and probably makes that my favorite of all the missions