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  1. Finished it just now, in about 2.5 hours. Glad I decided to spend the night playing TDM, had a lot of fun!

     

     

    I thought I'd got all the church book pages, so I went looking for the skull in the catacombs (I dislike undead, so I wanted to be in there as little as possible). Couldn't find it. However, I couldn't find it (I thought the elaborate crypts were the places where you'd hide important stuff and one got Father Grimmore's stuff). I concluded that I might have missed a readable, but rather than going hunting which would have been a PITA and not fun at all (not to mention that I wasn't even sure whether I'd missed anything), I decided to just extract the readables from the .pk4 file to see whether I missed one. Turns out I did, but it told me enough to go skull hunting, with success. I'm glad I did that, because otherwise it'd have spoiled the great feeling I had during the rest of the mission.

     

     

     

    I didn't bother to check every nook and cranny of the mansion for loot: just did what a real thief would've done: complete the main objectives, get enough loot to make it a good haul, and call it a day. Didn't bother checking a lot of the rooms I felt didn't need checking. I did go out of my way for the Blue Room, though, since I figured there might be some highly valuable items in there.

     

    Overall very fun. Blackjacked 3 people in total, which is very low for my playing.

     

    Great job, looking forward to WS2 and WS3!

  2. Yeah, different manufacturer media.

    I cannot install a different OS because I can't boot from CD. Maybe USB will work, but the problem is at the BIOS level.

     

    So I asked someone else, and he said it was maybe the drive letter that mucked things up. I then changed the drive letter of the new partition, but that didn't work. However, I found out about Acer's standard built-in recovery methods. Alt+F10 on boot will give you a screen. However, it complains about the D: drive not being there or something, so there certainly is an issue. Right now I'm trying to restore the partitioning as it was before I changed it and see if it helps.

  3. Actually, deleting upper/lower filters is what I did last time.

     

    The problem is, I can't even boot from CD, because the drive immediately spits out the disc, even right after turning the computer on.

     

    It does have a drive letter, and Windows says the drive is functioning properly.

  4. So I'm working on an Acer Aspire 1690 laptop, running Windows XP. I'm trying to get Win7 on it.

     

    Before repartitioning the HDD, the dvd drive (Matshita UJ-345D) worked fine (after I got it working by disabling a bunch of services). However, after resizing the OS partition and re-allocating the gained space to a new partition, the dvd drive has stopped working: it takes in a DVD/CD, then tries to read it (making this "nuh-uh" noise, quite funny) and immediately spits it out. This happens even right after turning on the computer (so while it's still booting).

     

    I already tried:

    * Updating drivers

    * Removing and reinstalling the device

    * Using different cds/dvds

    * Cleaning the drive with a cloth and a credit card

    * Taking the laptop apart, giving the drive an extra good clean and putting it back together.

     

    Another thing of note: at first the drive wouldn't work either, but that was fixed by deleting upper/lower filters in the registry. After that it worked fine. However, now it doesn't after repartitioning the HDD.

     

    As far as I know, I can't boot from USB on this laptop, so installing Win7 that way is not going to work, probably.

  5. About the topic, the only moment I find the game boring is when you are missing some loot and you have no idea where to seek. I was playing Crystal Grave and I for about 20 minutes I lurked around looking for the missing 200 gold loot... However I guess there is no solution.

    I agree. Being colourblind also doesn't help, so I just use tdm_show_loot if I think it's starting to get boring.

  6. Don't mind him, he's convinced he's got some kind of noose around the TDM team's necks when for all intents and purposes, it's really tangled around his feet, and he keeps tugging on it, unable to understand why he keeps falling over. Nice to see that he came back, and 3 months later he's still mad.

    These kinds of statements have no place in any discussion. You're just insulting IHR, not contributing anything of value, except maybe a cheap laugh for the audience. If you don't want to debate with him, then shut up and move on. Being a dickweed helps nobody.

  7. Well, you can like what ever you want...yet objectively, both classic THIEF and TDM have higher-fidelity stealth feedback systems than Splinter Cell, Dishonored, and the impending NuThief.

    Feedback != system.

  8. Well, the thing with running and creeping is that you can also do it sideways. Best way might just be to set up something like autohotkey.

     

    I think it's curious how long the loading times of the maps initially are. No idea what causes it. Maybe the entire mission needs to be unpacked? It's just once, though. So if I'm playing, I just make sure to play for a long while.

     

    No idea about alt-tabbing.

  9. Well, the problem is not so much the idea of controlling doorlocks from a distance. There are secure protocols for that, as well as various Smartcard technologies to keep the keys secure.

    The problem is that the companies utilizing these things often don't use the right technology or simply implement it badly, allowing for easy entrance.

    Another thing that contributes is that a lot of the systems they use are proprietary, and as such they haven't been looked at by outside eyes. There's a saying in cryptography: "Anyone can make a cipher they can't break. The hard thing is making a cipher that others can't break", and the same goes for implementing a security protocol. This means that proprietary implementations will be more likely to have security issues.

     

    A way to fix any issues in old cars would be to ask a garage to cut the power cord to the receiving antenna. It's probably an easy fix (provided you can locate the antenna) and easily reparable should you want to. However, you'd need to make sure the locks still work when you do that.

  10. Actually, is this like a circle in the center of the screen, or red glow on the edges? Because right now, if you get hit, there already is red glow on the edges, only it's all-around rather than just in the direction of the attack. I think the latter option would be okay to have. Don't think it's necessary, but, hey, if it's there...

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