Thief's Rising - Gold Edition : TDS campaign, 26/4/2013

Adsk1 on 2/2/2016 at 08:01

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Overall,though, I really enjoyed the campaign Adsk1! I would say though some of the missions had me scouring them for extra loot and that the loot requirements were sometimes a touch on the high side (normal difficulty!).

At the time of designing my campaign, I had decided that I wanted the whole game to be a real challenge for experienced TDS players and so I upped the anti on the loot totals.

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Mission 4 really suffered with the seemingly unnecessary find all the newspapers objective.

The idea behind this was for the player to read them and get an idea of what's going on in the city as well as with your rival, not that you know that the newspapers are all referring to your rival at that point in the game.

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But the rest of it was solid Thief, my favourites by far being the excellent and suitably creepy mountain and forest missions.

The mountain mission was by far and away my most favourite mission, both in designing and playing. The forest mission was a break away from all those urban areas, which was a nice change. But building the map with all those trees, I still have nightmares about the tedium of placing so much foliage! :)

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I look forward to further missions by you.

I'm not saying there will or won't be any more campaigns from me. I'm not entirely sure if many people are still playing TDS and while I did have a crack at the Dark Mod Engine, I've got so much to learn, I can't bring myself to do that, not for now anyway.
I have started a project (or two) for TDS, but I do it in dribs and drabs, extremely sparingly. in fact I haven't touched it for over a year now, so who knows if it'll ever get finished.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.

llanita on 2/2/2016 at 16:17

Is this mission very hard or is it just me? I'm having to keep reloading because the tiniest sounds sets the guards on me. Mission 2.
Its getting very frustrating

fortuni on 2/2/2016 at 16:24

If you are struggling you can always turn your 'Difficulty Setting' down in your SU tweaks :ebil:

llanita on 2/2/2016 at 19:08

Mission 2. Where is the key to the cell so I can free the lizard man? I read the book where he talks about the levers, found that, found the secret room in attic where bottle was, but I am not finding the key to cell

Arch! Never mind... Found it as usual, right after posting...

fortuni on 2/2/2016 at 19:13

I'll PM you a link to the walkthrough for GE version...again that's not ready for release, still a bit of work to do on it, including lightening the screenshots, so you may have a bit of trouble seeing some of them.

Walkthrough for this mission can be found in the OP (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141416&p=2184053&viewfull=1#post2184053)

llanita on 5/2/2016 at 11:14

Thank you so much fortuni.

This is my first TDM mission and now I understand the lack of popularity for them. Mantling and blackjacking are horrific. The A1s look very alien-ish.
I don't believe I'll be playing any more TDM missions

Adsk1 on 5/2/2016 at 12:51

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This is my first TDM mission and now I understand the lack of popularity for them. Mantling and blackjacking are horrific. The A1s look very alien-ish.
I don't believe I'll be playing any more TDM missions

Erm, you do realise that this is actually a TDS (Thief: Deadly Shadows, aka. Thief 3) mission set?
TDM (The Dark Mod) is a brilliant fan made mod of the Doom III Engine, and thus, totally different.
Just so you know. :)

fortuni on 5/2/2016 at 16:01

Yes mantling in T3 is not that easy, but you soon get used to it, just like any other new game getting used to the controls is sometimes the biggest learning curve!

But there are some great missions in the T3 back catalogue, I would highly advise checking out any of Savar's missions, The Hotel and The Blue Rose are arguably his best and I would also recommend All the worlds a Stage, possibly my favourite T3 mission......before you put T3 to bed permanently :D

llanita on 5/2/2016 at 16:11

I meant T3. I'm playing it now so I know it's T3. Simple error.

Linda on 3/7/2019 at 01:41

:mad: I am in the forest, and I am stuck for a very stupid objective: "you gained 900 G, not bad considering it's a hostile territory, try to double that!", this has no sense... I'm a 1750, and I cannot end the mission because of those missing 50 G. (yeah, as if a thief would stuck there for hours searching for an arbitrary doubling the loot...) I have searched everywhere... any hint? Is there some loot you know it worths 50 G there? Where is located?

These kinds of objectives shold be left as facultative, otherwise they ruin all the game experience leaving nothing but frustration, even thought it's a great design just like in this case.