Thief Gold Campaign - The Black Parade. Has anyone played it yet, taffer-bros? >It is finally here!

Thief Gold Campaign - The Black Parade
Has anyone played it yet, taffer-bros?
>It is finally here! After 7-ish years of development, The Black Parade is finally released. So, what awaits you in this campaign?

>- 10 huge, open-ended and meticulously crafted missions with varied themes packed with content.
>- A brand new protagonist thrown into a dark, intricately woven story of crime and conspiracies.
>- 4 new tools happily supplied by the undermarket, at a price.
>- Many tweaks to the AI to make the game a bit more challenging but still fair.
>- A brand new "banter" system where AIs greet each other during their rounds and nightly life.
>- 28 voiced characters totaling roughly 1,800 new lines of dialogue.
>- 30 minutes of gorgeous hand-drawn briefings and cutscenes.
>- Brand new AI motions making the denizens of The City look more alive.
>- Full English subtitles.

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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've never played thief but I love a good campaign for ancient software so have a bump anon
    Just promise to return the favor next time you see a thread about Perfect Dark native PC port or something

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't play fan missions, I would rather replay the actual game again.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      There are FMs that achieve the same impact, if not better. Regarding this one - it's been developed by an already known group of creators, some of them have successful releases on steam.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Particularly, OP has most enjoyed DirkBogan's fan missions. Usually they feature crazy mapping with a lot of verticality and a neat, but not overly insisting story.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Posting the cover art because it's kino, can't wait to play it when I'm free.

        >it's been developed by an already known group of creators, some of them have successful releases on steam.
        Huh, any links? Genuinely curious.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Skacky is the dev of WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            he left wrath not that far into development lmfao

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >fingerless gloves

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Archers never really wore full finger gloves. They used thumb rings grips gloves with three fingers etc etc etc it gives you better grip. Also why are you posting some cringe D&D shit ITS NOT CANON AND ITS NOT EVEN REAL STFU IT NEVER HAPPENED

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            are you okay?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      what a moronic mindset. what prevents you playing both except your idiot sperg bias?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're missing out, man. I would say the Thief community has created not only great thief missions, but if you're into first-person 3D climbing and exploration, some of the best big, open, interconnected levels in all of vidya history. Sometimes you get burned when an FM gets highly praised and you think it sucks or has bad writing and voice acting or whatever, but the peaks are super high.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >You're missing out, man
        What are the best mods/maps I should play?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Heist Society is a good one to start with because it's a straightforward rob-the-big-mansion mission. It's an old one but it still looks good. It's kinda hard to recommend FMs because there are a bunch of different styles and everyone has a type they hate, like some people hate city missions, some people think that's the best shit ever. Me, I like tomb crawls that are like oldschool Dungeon & Dragons shit.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      translation: I am a fricking ignorant moron. The fandom has created so much ludo. BUT BUT LE THEIF 1&2 ARE PERFECT. Frick no dude the games were rushed and it shows for a lot of maps.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      i love the game as well, but if there's something that machine for pigs taught me, is never trust 3rd party writers

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      FMs are a tradition. There are FMs you can play that are older than Thief II.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      moronic take

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      your loss gaymuncher

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >brainlet logic

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      faaag

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      based, look at all those drones and shills seething at this post

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >doesn't realize that the best doom, quake, half life maps are user maps.
      Everyone, feel pity for this loser fool.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't even hate FM's, but this is how I am too. I tried some but couldn't get into them.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Just give this mod a chance

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ok.

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    why you go there

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good stuff OP

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    holy shit no fricking way. thanks for tipping me off, anon. I didn't have any hope it was going to come out this year and haven't been checking the TTLG forums. I am 100% positive I am going to love it. I'm going to take a couple days off work and give myself a long weekend for this one, that's how hyped I am. Also playing it in the dark during the cold months, bundled up inside with headphones, it's going to be peak atmosphere and immersion, I'm practically drooling over here. Fanboy status engaged, I'll admit it.

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I thought you were tricking me but no

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    now I just wait until nightfall

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    WAIT, IT'S OUT
    WHERE
    WHO
    WHAT

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152429&

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >912M
        That's bigger than the game itself

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >INSIDE AT LAST

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man, I'll try to play through every mission very diligently, good shit

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    bump, keep the thread alive for at least one day homosexuals

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      there's another thread but the whiny homosexuals are in that one

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmao
      Post more Thief memes

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmao
      Post more Thief memes

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good shit.

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >got this email yesterday it was the only birthday congratulations I got
    >this today
    I'm gonna try it, it's been so long since I've actually replayed Thief.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Happy late birthday Anon

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Happy belated birthday gay I hope you have a good year

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Someone give me the QRD on this. I just clicked in here because I liked the le medieval spooky image. Is this like a Morrowind + Dishonored game?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a mod for Thief The Dark Project, anon.

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's weird to think that LGS was so reticent to release the modding tools

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's weird that despite how many years the Thief community has been at it, the AI is not well-documented. There used to be a page showing the AI vision cones and how it works but I can't find it now. Modders seem to understand it but the knowledge seems more arcane than it is in other communities, probably because Thief isn't open-source, but still.

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Thanks for the heads up, OP.

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    niiiiiice

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the time has come and so have I

  20. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    OH FRICK IT'S OUT

  21. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >a new protagonist
    Dropped.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      amateurs doing Garrett impressions is much worse

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Has no one really used voice ai to make Garrett lines for a fan mission yet?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          hes fricking flawless actually.

          Is AI not up to the task? Might not be perfect but it's a godsend for modding games with voice acting.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Holy frick that's incredible. The VA for black parade is quite good, no complaints. But this is revolutionary tech for one-off FMs with Garrett.

            refer to [...]
            ya gay

            Hi Stephen

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah garrets voice is amazing for AI, same with Dianne from hitman.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                God I didn't read the title properly and when I realized what the mission was I started laughing really hard. That's black

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                holy shit my sides

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            damn that's impressive, and it's only going to get better

  22. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's a tempting proposal.

  23. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Narrating:.. thankfully the guards aren't too bright
    >Benny voice: Huh?!

  24. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I still have too many other FMs to go through and my backlog and a bunch of other shit and there's no time.
    Where can I buy time?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Before every mission

  25. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >They didn't crowdfund to hire Stephen Russell as Garrett and/or Benny again

    Don't care.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is AI not up to the task? Might not be perfect but it's a godsend for modding games with voice acting.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >AIslop
        Eat shit, homosexual.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          refer to

          hes fricking flawless actually.
          [...]

          ya gay

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      No one actually feels this way.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I do. A big part of why I like Thief are the memorable performances by the voice actors. It's not the sole reason I like it, but having none of that now feels like a big step down.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I guess I meant "no one who would be interested in FMs anyway" feels this way. But I suppose that means you simply aren't at all.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      They got Dan Thron for something.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I dont think they legally can?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know whether there is any legal element, but people have asked Stephen Russell about recording lines for FMs before and he politely declined.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think it was their design, to create something that can stand on its own

        >lockpick 1 & 2
        R5 and L5
        >Lean forward
        Click right thumbstick
        >Lean left & right
        L4 and R4
        >creep, walk, sprint
        All handled by enabling joystick mode
        >Crouch
        Click left thumbstick
        >Item selection
        Dpad left and right and left trackpad as an item wheel while holding down R1 for mode shift
        >Select weapons
        Left trackpad as a weapon wheel
        >Put away item
        Press B
        >Drop item
        Hold B
        >Use & aim
        R2
        >Hide weapon
        X
        >Jump
        A
        >Map
        Y
        >Objectives
        Select

        That's just the layout I cooked up myself, might be open for some fine tuning. Steam input is some cool shit

        Damn, that is impressive. Comfy gaming to ya

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Thanks, yeah it's pretty cool. It might not be the most powerful handheld PC out there, but features like that put it above and beyond the competition for me.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The MC isn't Garrett you moron
      Literally the first line in the synopsis

  26. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    no fricking way, thought this day would never come.
    I'm afraid to even start it up, the expectations are too large at this point

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      me too anon, me too. like I need the perfect evening to play it

  27. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    whoa a horse

  28. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wanna get into these games, is the steam edition good? Anything I should

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Anything I should know?*

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The +^%#^ is a b***h to get through

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Steam version is just like release physical copy iirc. All you need is TFix for both games and you are ready to go.
      There are some extra steps on pcgamingwiki that I would recommend doing like EAX support and higher refresh rates if you have such monitor.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks anon

  29. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does thief work on the deck?

  30. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Link OP...

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152429
      https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/26275/thief-the-black-parade

      Does thief work on the deck?

      It does on Linux, but I'd imagine it's not gonna be a pleasant experience with a controller

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Wrong. Played a fair number of fan missions on the Deck and it plays fine. There's numerous good community layouts that take like 5 minutes of getting used to before you're able to settle in for some comfy taffing.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Hmm. I don't own sdeck though. How you have enough keys? These ones I use constantly.
          lockipick 1
          lockpick 2
          Lean forward
          Lean left
          Lean right
          Creep aka lower speed
          Sprint
          Crouch
          Item selection left
          Item selection right
          x8 (or is it 9?) Select weapon & arrows
          Drop item
          Use & aim
          Hide weapon
          Jump
          Hide item
          Map
          Objective list (probably accessible through esc key?)

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >lockpick 1 & 2
            R5 and L5
            >Lean forward
            Click right thumbstick
            >Lean left & right
            L4 and R4
            >creep, walk, sprint
            All handled by enabling joystick mode
            >Crouch
            Click left thumbstick
            >Item selection
            Dpad left and right and left trackpad as an item wheel while holding down R1 for mode shift
            >Select weapons
            Left trackpad as a weapon wheel
            >Put away item
            Press B
            >Drop item
            Hold B
            >Use & aim
            R2
            >Hide weapon
            X
            >Jump
            A
            >Map
            Y
            >Objectives
            Select

            That's just the layout I cooked up myself, might be open for some fine tuning. Steam input is some cool shit

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            He prolly just has equipment on fake scroll wheel input + few in your list are redundant like player movement / speed when you have analog input on deck + weapons can be bound by function -> analog stick axis to make a fake weapon wheel (you just rotate the stick to get 1-9 key values).
            This leaves you with 11 other keys to bound, meaning any standard controller when deck has paddles on its back.

  31. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    You can push tapestries aside like curtains now when you get close to them

  32. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it's actually fricking out
    THIEF BROS WE ARE SO FRICKING BACK

  33. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    not seeing a switch for this painting panel in cattermole manor

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Screen?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think this panel must open on this painting, the map says there is a lucrative score in this manor.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Don't think that's a panel. Protip: if you swing a weapon at something and it doesn't interrupt the animation and play a sound, you know it's plain geometry and not something movable.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            I see, I thought I could see an edge to it but I guess not. Looks like I'm seeing things. Doesn't interrupt and make a sound either.

  34. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holy frick that's impressive.

  35. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've never touched a thief fan mission. What do)

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's settled then

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Install thief gold gog, install tfix latest version, put .7z FM file into your FM folder. Run the thief.exe, now it should ask you what fan mission you wanna play, select 'the black parade', click start and you're set

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Install TFix Lite because even the most vanilla TFix install changes some shit that according to some Thief 1 mappers fricks with the vision of their FMs. Skacky is one of those and he would crucify you if he saw you playing his shit with TFix.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think TBP is configured to override most of Tfix's unwanted changes, but nonetheless it is probably best to at least disable all the optional components upon installation for good measure.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's the thing. Even if you leave everything disabled TFix still messes with things to add stuff that weren't in the original games. Thief 1 purists will tell you you don't need anything other than NewDark and Tfix Lite is the moron proof way of going about that.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I know all about it, but a look in the mission archive shows they included duplicates of all the stock game assets which should override other mod assets. There might be edge cases, but that should avoid the worst issues.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          What does it frick specifically? I only notice the enhancement pack and a view model change.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nevermind, I found how fricked it is. Yeah it's pretty fricked all right. Get tfix lite

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            It makes a number of changes to the design of the original missions (minor, mostly intended to prevent going out of bounds but sometimes affect gameplay). The optional thief 2 textures are desaturated in order to work with T2's colored lights, which means they look like shit under T1's colorless lights and they aren't any higher quality. The enhancement pack fricks with object dimensions and causes things like utensils and plates clipping into tables. It disables the ability to mantle on objects, which is how it was in olddark, but it can ruin newer fms that were designed with that functionality in mind.
            There's probably more, but part of the problem is that few of these changes are documented.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Is there any way to unfrick my thief install after tfix aka install tfixlite or newdark and remove full tfix?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Best to do a fresh install tbh. If you do Tfix Lite, make sure you update the paths in install.cfg or the game won't start. Plain newdark is a bit tricky because there are some settings in cam_ext.cfg that need to be changed to prevent stuttering but I don't recall them atm.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Heard gog ships with newdark or tfix lit. Is that enough or do I need to update it?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Gog uses tfix lite with newdark 1.26 which is compatible.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks bro

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                For reference, though, here are instructions for how to install the latest version of plain newdark and configure it to play fan missions (with optional dromed setup for anyone so interested). Assumes a Steam copy of the game, but should work with other sources.
                https://pastebin.com/G0x16QX5

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >>>/vr/
      There is fricking so many to pick from I would not rec playing this first. Play something older work your way up the ludo scale.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      What are the best Thief and Thief 2 fan missions?

      here's a good video for people who are completely new to Thief FMs

      ?si=aYdNlN4VS9oxtNR3

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks. I'll go with what this one says, check out the top rated ones, and download the one in the OP as well.

  36. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Mission count: 10
    >Size: 1.58GB
    Holy frick, when was the last time with something this big? Death's cold embrace in 2017?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      DCE is gr8 (thanks for the reminder to replay when it snows) but since it reused maps so heavily, T2x is a closer comparison.

  37. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I actually downloaded it and set up tgold and angelloader and everything and fired it up.
    Boy oh boy the character models look like ass. Why can't something be done about them after all these years. It is immersion breaking. I started playing thief missions again but only TDM missions.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      So glad I'm completely unfazed by early 3D graphics

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like it, besides adding high poly models to an old game like this is just gonna look jarring

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The authors are moronic and forced the low detail ones meant for people running the game in software mode. If you boot up the original game you will have better looking models from 1998 that don't have triangle feet and roblox hands.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The author of the mod, the french gay is also an antifa. Ugliness is part of their stuff.

  38. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's dark outside, i'm buzzed, gonna shelve the latest nicked mission about a library to start this. it's been a long time coming but here it is: probable disappointment. we'll see, jaded middle age is a b***h you homosexual ass zoomers.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a jaded frick myself and FMs like this are what keep my spirits up. I was bitter as hell a few years ago, but the TDP 20th anniversary contest dropped and I had a blissful weekend of mainlining the good stuff. Makes me feel like vidya is still good and there is fun stuff to play.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah i've had fun lately catching up. dark mod still has no truly great missions, iris doesn't qualify. this one has a horse, that's novel. no other game is as comfortable to boot up and play, that's for sure.
        >Makes me feel like vidya is still good and there is fun stuff to play.
        when the best shit to come out, year after year, is thief fan missions then you know video games aren't good at all.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >dark mod still has no truly great missions
          Melan and Spoonman disagree.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Lady Leicester was fricking mind blowing

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Haven't played that one. I think the last really good TDM mission i played was Perilous Refuge.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Lady Leicester was fricking mind blowing

            Haven't played that one. I think the last really good TDM mission i played was Perilous Refuge.

            idk about you guys, but after taking a break from TDM, it seems like a recent update turned up the default sensitivity on guard hearing

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              It was always fricked. But it's a non issue since you can adjust both guards hearing and vision sensitivity. Sight I can tolerate but their hearing is way too good even on challenging.

  39. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >not owning an orphanage filled with your personal army of little thieves

  40. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    What are the best Thief and Thief 2 fan missions?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      go to thiefguild.com/fanmissions and sort by best

  41. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Black Parade
    WHEN I WAS

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      A YOUNG WARTHOOOOG

  42. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm playing the first mission right now, it's been really nice so far, a lot of details and good atmosphere

  43. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    bump

  44. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the second mission looks nuts, GOTY confirmed

  45. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
  46. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe 2023 wasn't so bad for games after all.

  47. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
  50. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Faces of meth: before and after

  51. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      ah damn

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why are you posting a version that only ants can see anon? And for that matter why the frick didn't you fix the white bits around the edges? Here's a better version, have some goddamn standards next time

  52. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really need to play more FMs.

  53. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    TDM issue is its hard to know whats great, whats good, and whats utter shit.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Regarding Fan Mission quality? Thiefguild.com has a rating system, which at the very least can help you filter the poorly made ones

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        issue is I find people more forgiving with it, where thief 1 and 2 FM are taken more seriously due to how long its been a thing.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I also think that it is probably much harder to design a tdm mission, since it requires making the mission look good, which IMO is a way more demanding task, than it would thief1+2. The engine is made to work with high res textures and more difficult geometry and anything less would make it look like a Minecraft with shaders.

          I'm looking at the site now. What the hell is controversy rating?

          Probably fan missions with the most... Nvm, scratch that. It is explained on their site
          >controversy is calculated using standard deviation method. *more controversial* means more versatile/extreme ratings, while *less controversial* means more similar ratings

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            is calculated using standard deviation method. *more controversial* means more versatile/extreme ratings, while *less controversial* means more similar ratings
            Oh, that's tame.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Kek some of these controversial rated fms

              Everyone agrees thieves guild is the worst of the worst. Its boring, its tedious, its ugly, and dogshit.

              Idk, still less boring than mages towers for me

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Good god I can smell the 2004 on that FM

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                You were close, the site says 2002

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah I was aiming for late 2001-2004 era, maybe 2006 at the very latest.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                are those missiles from the rickenbacker in system shock 2? wtf am i looking at

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                You were close, the site says 2002

                FM name?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Osama Bites the Dust
                https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/1948/osama-bites-the-dust (NO download link)
                https://thiefmissions.com/info.cgi?m=binladenhuntV2 (with DL)

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm looking at the site now. What the hell is controversy rating?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          not sure, nta, but maybe its either edgy or pure shit? I dont think TDM censors creators. Or it could be buggy as frick.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lady Leister, painters wife and Iris are mega kino.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Penny Dreadful 2 is peak thiefkino and the best revenge mission since Assassins.

  54. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holy shit, I had completely missed it. Thanks for the heads-up.

  55. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wish I could enjoy this game

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      why cant you? Yeah Thief gold has some shit missions and weird design philosophy, but Thief 2 is pure kino. Even 3 isnt that bad, just a b***h to get working right. It also had the perfect send off if anyone attempted to make Thief 4, thank god that never happend.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I find Thief 1 increasingly better than Thief 2, it's literally just the added levels in Gold that suck fumes. The undead levels are still stealth levels - they're just a different type of stealth requiring a different approach

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I cant really disagree, ive come to love thief 1 more and more, but 2 is just fricking amazing for pure Thiefing. 1 did mix it up more, and Constantine mansion is one of the best levels in the series, its better than the party one in 2.

          Trail of Blood is the most kino level ever made though.

          Spent like 4 fricking hours in that amazing mission.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Trail of Blood is the most kino level ever made though.
            For me it's my 2nd playthrough when I really decided to explore every area in that level thoroughly when this happened:
            >What was that noise?
            >Wait, what the frick? Did that tree just move?
            >.......
            >Must've been my imagination anywOHFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICK im dead

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              its a huge curveball for 2 since 2 lowers the supernatual/monster stuff A LOT from 1, but its so gorgeous, it felt less stealthy and more of a exploration+pacing refresher.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's amazing that they made a whole enemy to be used only in one part of the game, that most people would miss entirely. I assume it was just a reskin of the SS2 rumbler but still.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                the best part is, its only near the finale, well, at the finale.

                I also think that it is probably much harder to design a tdm mission, since it requires making the mission look good, which IMO is a way more demanding task, than it would thief1+2. The engine is made to work with high res textures and more difficult geometry and anything less would make it look like a Minecraft with shaders.
                [...]
                Probably fan missions with the most... Nvm, scratch that. It is explained on their site
                >controversy is calculated using standard deviation method. *more controversial* means more versatile/extreme ratings, while *less controversial* means more similar ratings

                I agree, that was the issue with HL1/Goldsrc maps/mods vs HL2/Source maps/mods, way more work to make the latter look good.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah same, first time through I didn't even know Treebeasts existed.
              >Trail of Blood is the most kino level ever made though.
              I get goosebumps everytime this exchange plays out.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I didn't know about these things for the longest time and nearly had a conniption when I found out during my last replay

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Trail of Blood is the most kino level ever made though.
                For me it's my 2nd playthrough when I really decided to explore every area in that level thoroughly when this happened:
                >What was that noise?
                >Wait, what the frick? Did that tree just move?
                >.......
                >Must've been my imagination anywOHFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICKFRICK im dead

                People missed them the first time through? I immediately saw them when I got near the end.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                There's literally no obstacles or (seemingly) enemies in that last bit, you can literally bunnyhop your way right to the end of the mission in that last section.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who runs through missions their first time without slowly exploring and looking around? I ran to an exit if I was being chased at the very end.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                It really is only in the last section of that particular level. Like you can almost see the corpse from the moment you enter that area. It's very easy to stumble right into the mission end without meaning to there

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Dude came right at me while I was there and I sprinted for the exit NOPEing the frick out.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Uh, I should replay 2 one of these days.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not him but I've been going in the reverse direction, and honestly have warmed up more and more over time the Gold missions specifically. One thing I think some of The Dark Project's levels fall into is an overuse of symmetry. Like compare the layout of Cragscleft to the Bank. At least that's how my preference has drifted over the years. Doesn't stop The Sword and RttHC from being some of the GOATest levels in games.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >warming up to mages towers
            its bugged out 4 times for me.

            Isn't 2 the same thing but with better enemy models, animations and AI?

            AI I think so, models/animation? Frick no. It just has more thief design vs thief 1 being a thief stealth game and a weird monster dungeon crawler(with stealth)

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              up to mages towers
              >its bugged out 4 times for me.
              Well that sucks. Are you running the current version of TFix? That's honestly never happened with any Thief OM before for me.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                always, whats happened is each time, 1 tower I cant ever get the key or rune or whatever, bricking the map.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >models/animation? Frick no.
              I'm like 99% sure the models are better in Thief 2.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                maybe new ones but not the other ones.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            To be honest I'm literally mostly referring to Thieves Guild which (for me at least) does literally everything wrong that classic Thief levels can do wrong. Plus, I dunno, Mage Towers is kinda boring (and it suffers from that symmetry problem you're talking about too.) Song of the Caverns is great though, no arguments about that here

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Everyone agrees thieves guild is the worst of the worst. Its boring, its tedious, its ugly, and dogshit.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I've perhaps gone insane, but I've learned to kind of like Thieves Guild at least in terms of challenge (aside from like 1 guard in front of Rueban's house that I SWEAR TO GOD is placed in an uneven direction just to see you more easily). There still isn't any good writing, the color/aesthetics are trash, and the environments are just drab and empty, but it's not the worst experience in TG for me. That's Escape!

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                the lost city is the worst imo

                shit is just too samey, and a slog

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >if anyone attempted to make Thief 4, thank god that never happend.
        What do you mean? The Dark Mod's great and even Dishonored's a pretty good spiritual successor

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thief 1 > Thief 2

        hell

        Shadows of the Metal Age > Thief 2

        I won't elab further

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Shadows of the Metal Age > Thief 2
          nah

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          T2X is awful and ugly.

  56. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    posting in an epic thread

  57. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are these campaigns usually made for Thief Gold rather than Thief 2? Are the modding tools just not as good in 2?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      more fun physics for me personally. They are virtually the same though, hell, System Shock 2 has the same stealth mechanics as both but it has no light gem so its hidden.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Isn't 2 the same thing but with better enemy models, animations and AI?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most missions are for Thief 2 because it traditionally had better tools, but nowadays they're about the same and if you want to
      use Thief 1 assets, making the mission for Thief 1 saves the trouble of having to port everything over.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is it possible to recreate the bunnyhop in Thief 2's dromed?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          With newdark installed, you can add "jump_speed_boost 1.4" to cam.cfg or cam_ext.cfg (i either will work). That restores the bunnyhop.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            lol holy frick thanks man
            Idk if I just missed it in some install tutorial somewhere.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        most (not all) high quality missions use a very high quantitiy of custom made assets

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      as other anons have said, actually most FMs are for Thief 2, but T1 has been getting a lot of love in recent years. T1 has different ambients and textures, and it also has no colored lighting (unlike T2) which gives it a starker colder look IMO.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Most complicated and robust missions with custom scripts, models and so on were done for Thief 2. People go for Thief 1 if they want to capture that gritty medieval steampunk aesthetic that was unique to that game, something Thief 2 has unfortunately lost, mostly.

        So you run FMs for each game through the game's launcher. What about the dark mod? Is that just it's own exe that you use to launch mods made in it?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >So you run FMs for each game through the game's launcher.
          That's right.
          >What about the dark mod? Is that just it's own exe that you use to launch mods made in it?
          First of all, The Dark Mod is a free standalone Thief game recreated on a doom 3 engine (which was updated frickton). It has it's own mission downloader & selector which can be accessed through the main menu.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >First of all, The Dark Mod is a free standalone Thief game recreated on a doom 3 engine
            So yes to my question?

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, pretty much. Think of it as of GMod but with a built-in mission downloader

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most complicated and robust missions with custom scripts, models and so on were done for Thief 2. People go for Thief 1 if they want to capture that gritty medieval steampunk aesthetic that was unique to that game, something Thief 2 has unfortunately lost, mostly.

  58. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sick. I'll try it out later, thanks for the heads up.

  59. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    this sounds pretty great, and it also reminded me that I never played the original thief, which I think I'll do so now, thanks OP!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Patch it with either TFix Lite or NewDark. Don't use full TFix it fricks up and changes a buncha stuff, mostly for the worst. And even if you say 'no' to all optional changes in the installer it will still change a bunch of stuff regardless. NewDark is the way to go and TFix Lite is basically the moron-proof way of getting it working.

      Have fun

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        find the modern control scheme on steam guides, they make all the difference

        thanks for the advice frens

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      find the modern control scheme on steam guides, they make all the difference

  60. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
  63. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    So what's the best way to install this.
    There are so many fan mission loaders and everything, and I don't want to mess this up.
    Any pointers?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      open cam_mod.ini
      remove ; from ;fm
      thief.exe
      simple as

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Get the gog version 1.26nd
      >Inside the thief gold folder you have a file named cam_mod.ini, remove ";" symbol before "fm" in line 10
      >Now it will launch a fan mission selector every time you run thief.exe
      >run it, there will be a popup to set up a folder for archived (as in file format, like .7z, .zip) fan missions, set it up
      >put the desired fan mission into the folder
      >close the game
      >relaunch thief.exe
      >it werks

  64. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fricking awesome, it's going to be a comfy holidays.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      artful

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
  65. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This actually looks really good with my Reshade for Thief 1.

    Check it out--it's the only Reshade in existence for this game as far as I know.

    https://www.nexusmods.com/thiefthedarkproject/mods/2

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        maybe I don't know what a "reshade" is, but shouldn't you be showing it off with original textures?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          replied to the wrong post, I meant the nexusmods screenshots

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          This is without the HD Mod, the mod itself has its own textures, and is in fact incompatible with HD Mod.

          I am uploading an update for it tomorrow to work better with this game.

  66. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    are there any annoying undead missions

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's there to be annoyed by?
      Join us. Join us now.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        How old is this image? I feel like this kind of art went out of style in 2005.

  67. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't played an FM in years. Gonna have to do that.

  68. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holy frick I thought this would never come out, finally Ganker coming through with actually relevant vidya news.

  69. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    thief skelly missions are actually far more scary than most horror games I can think of - classic or modern. probably because garret sucks at defending himself so it's like a survival horror to begin with. the mantis beasts are creepy, the zombies are well done, the wraiths fricking chain rattling is loud as hell, and I think the sword is probably the coolest level because of that one secret into the trickster's realm

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      A lot of it comes down to the excellent sound design I think. Hammer haunts are some of the spookiest sounding enemies in any game.

  70. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's with the frick ugly low detail character models? Why are they forced when these maps would bring any toaster to its knees? And the constant conversations are annoying.

  71. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holy frick the second mission is kino already

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit

  72. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    didn't think it would ever actually come out since that french dude went to work for arkane

  73. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Has anyone finished the second mission? Where can I find the golden clock?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It makes a ticking sound that can be heard from adjacent rooms.
      Directly: It's in the narrow, tall landing at the top of the stairs in the foyer, next to the room with books and a fireplace

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Found it, thanks! What did you think of the first two missions?

  74. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    i really need to beat gold still. i saved at the start of song of the caverns.

    jesus christ SHODAN made the level

  75. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    what possesses a man to work seven years for free on a mod that will ultimately be played by 10 neckbeards and forgotten a week later?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's fun.

  76. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope this thread hits the bump limit, not just because of the Black Parade release, but because it's the 25th anniversary of Thief The Dark Project

  77. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Asian girls!

  78. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does Dark Mod use Thief 1 as a base and operate from there? Can search for fan mods in-game?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Dark Mod and Thief have nothing in common, they're not the same game at all. TDM does allow you to search for missions in-game, but Thief doesn't.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        dark mod is thief gameplay recreated in the doom 3 engine. completely independant. dark mod has an in-game mission browser/downloader but no rating system. go to thiefguild.com/fanmissions to sort by rating.

        Thanks, yo's.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      dark mod is thief gameplay recreated in the doom 3 engine. completely independant. dark mod has an in-game mission browser/downloader but no rating system. go to thiefguild.com/fanmissions to sort by rating.

  79. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh Thief bros I never thought we'd be back

  80. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >my thread gets 10 replies being mean
    >this one gets 300

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You killed it.

  81. 7 months ago
    Anonymous
  82. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is a good guide for how to run FMs for the uninitiated.
    https://nickdablin.wordpress.com/how-to-play-thief-fan-missions/

  83. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    AAAAAAH
    WINTERTIME IS HERE AND WITH THIS COMING OUT?
    CHRISTMAS ARRIVED TOO EARLY

  84. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    these levels rule so far, I'm loving it

  85. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone know how to force the game's native joystick support when using steam input? The only workaround I can find has you launch with steam input disabled and toggle it on through the overlay ingame.

  86. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >look at map for the second mission
    yeah, looks like a pretty basic manor mission, wonder what the interior is li-

  87. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    holy shit time to finally reinstall thief

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