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Thanks for this mission! The increased AI sensitivity on Expert took some getting used to, but helped with the immersion. The good architecture and story sells it further. All around great mission, and looking forward to Part 2!

Hello ladies & gentlemen, HHTA is ready for beta. The mission length is ca. 2,5 hours. This time, no cryptic clues and no complex puzzles. For the highly sensitive beta testers, this mission includes So, if you have problems with then you probably should not sign up for beta testing. It would be great to have several non-native English speakers (I am neither, as most of you know) as the mission includes lots of spoken comments - none of them essential to finish the game, but practically all of them shall add to the atmosphere...and this mission is more about atmosphere rather than gameplay. Thus we would like to make sure that everybody understands the lines and can enjoy them. Jack

@OrbWeaver @datiswousThe bell is from this ambient track ,fyi : mansion_tense02.ogg

I dont't have a master plan for that either, but if you try to do it like joebarnin did with the screenshots (and maybe enhance the visibility and name exact locations if not clear to identify), that would be great. Look out for: floating objects frobable items that cannot be frobbed or are difficult to frob texture glitches defective switches defectives doors weird AI behaviour (running against walls or other items, walking in circles, unable to operate doors, walking to close to walls and other things) ambient sound/fx: too loud? voices: clear and understandable? Play style: a. First run: It is a stealth, so try to sneak past all enemies and let me know if there are spots where you did not manage this or where you consider it extremely unfair. Check if the use of resources helps to ghost the mission or not and report if it does not. b. Second run (if you have time for that): try to break the mission, play like a berserker, do things you should not do in a stealth game (or I did not foresee players could do), see how AI and environments react if you try crazy things, destabilize as much of the environment as possible and report if the results make the game unplayable. hm...ja, something like that. I confused Zerg Rush with another long time forum member that has a similar name and thus did expect he knows what to do...don't get me wrong, I am happy that he likes my mission...but this is not really helpful for beta testing.

Just use The Pirate Bay. Through VPN if must. Lest the party van comes around.

I have visportals around the manor although I don't know how optimally placed they are. The starting dock when facing the manor is the most demanding in the whole mission as there are quite of lot of draw calls and the only closed portals for the exterior are at the rear of the estate. Since the manor is visible from the dock and the front walls have a couple of see through gates, occluding the manor without obvious visual pop in might get tricky. Unfortunately the mission was designed more for aesthetic with performance being an afterthought. If anyone knows if there are better ways to visportal/optimize the exterior I'm happy to try and create better performance.

I didn't know about that spawnarg. Since that issue is happening to multiple people I've fixed it. Can a few people please test this release to make sure I haven't introduced any bugs and maybe give feedback on the NPCs I have introduced. I want to make sure this release is good to go before replacing the original. 1.01 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wZc_nqHoX7kQvzfg08EpoRy2hyuH7mw3/view?usp=sharing Changes: * Fixed Chapel office key getting kicked around and lost. * Made a couple of changes to starting inventory. * Accounted for a 'sequence break' pointed out by tapewolf. * Added a couple more NPCs.

Yes, iI think imgbox, Imgur are the best for photo hosting, and Krakenfile the best alternative for GDrive and GoFile the best alternative to DropBox. I also avoid as much as possible, services from Google,(Amazon, Fakebook). There a very good or better alternatives, at least good front-ends, which offers the service without BigBrother.

Well, I can honestly say I've climbed the Mount Everest of fan mission database writing... or updating. Or if not the Mount Everest, then at least the Mont Blanc. Which is my long-winded way of saying... I have updated The Dark Mod FM databases both on our wiki and on the Thief Wiki. With the possible exception of the not yet re-released Winter Harvest, every single TDM mission ever made can now be found and read about on both wikis. Every single one of them has its own dedicated article. Behold ! And here, of course. I will still be updating a few minor formatting details and the like, but the hard work is finally done. (Granted, I will be adding new missions to the databases as they come out, this year and in the years to come.) On a sidenote, are there any screenshots anywhere of the current, latest version of the Training Mission, the A New Job mission and The Tears of Saint Lucia mission ? We're still lacking those in the official databases and I'd love to upload at least a few of them to both of the wikis.