The Black Arrow

I forgot about that feature, oops

You certainly could have just PM'd me, but you rang so here I am. Great news: I'm not dead! I fixed my SSD issue several months ago, had to replace it entirely, but otherwise no issues since then.

Hooray!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMKlEwrIs8

Cool eh!?

Hopefully still 2.13

Nevermind, it was way too easier than I thought. However, I'm missing the second "Stone", as in secret, how do I get that?

Mission thread:
 

Thanks, this mission is driving me crazy with its weird implications.

Happy birthday

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if any of you want to play a great fan mission in my honour...

Tempting...

Happy birthday!

Thanks everyone, had a great roasted beef dinner with cheesecake for my birthday party

great discussion. Wow, the whole time I have been playing TDM I just assumed they were immune to sword attacks - I never even tried

@The Black Arrow Same with Penny Dreadful 1. 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed those missions, but, you're right that they just don't give you enough means to deal with the enemies. I simply ended up "ghosting" these missions, which obviously is the intended way to play them - strictly one way, no other way.

That said, both are really cool missions.

@grodenglaiveHaha! Really? Well, now you know it and your mileage will change, for better or worse

I've realized it so myself because I wanted to "kill" a zombie and see how it goes, basically they're just health sponges, of course, but they have nothing else special, so whenever I play a fan mission with zombies I make plans to kill some or even most.

@chakkmanThe Holy Builder's Balls of Brass, good ol' Penny Dreadful, made by Melan, one of the best missions by one of the best authors, I should replay that series some day.

So it's like going back.. But still, could be interesting.

Would be interesting to make an immersive sim kind of level with Doom 3 assets using the TDM engine.

I didn't think about that, but...That's actually a great idea, datiswous!

Hopefully someone reads this status and gets inspired to make a "Doom 3 for TDM" fan mission, heh.

I would think of it as either during the invasion or after the invasion, just a few hours in, where you play as one of those scientists or office workers, you got no weapons and you'll have to avoid the possessed Humans (zombies) and Security Guards, maybe even some Demons. You'd mostly go through offices, warehouses and some industrial complexes.

I can easily see the Security Guards being implemented as redone Haunts that use Security Batons instead of rusty swords.

I think it's actually something that regularly comes up. I've seen a similar topic at least once before.

People tend to be LOUD when they're unhappy. When they're happy you don't see anything except for the sales numbers.

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People tend to be LOUD when they're unhappy. When they're happy you don't see anything except for the sales numbers.

Interestingly, the Bethesda games sell well, and still earn a lot of shit storm.

But then, that isn't exactly rare these days either, with all the envy.

I also have a lot to criticize with them, but, I wouldn't smash them for it. They're just AAA games for nowadays audience. That audience likes repetitive and boring graphics demos.

Isn't just number of sails? I mean if 10 milion peeps buy the game and 1000 people complain, this looks like a lot, but not in comparison.

If 30 people on the forum don't agree something will not get implemented.

They have different art style, and typically they're using all 3 major texture slots (diffuse, normal specular, while most TDM assets use only diffuse and normal), and textures were fairly hi-res (1k-2k) in comparison to stock assets.

Oh I see, I've always wondered if TDM would ever have a plan to redo or improve the current assets, though to be honest it has some "charm" to it by now...But damn, it's been more than 20 years now.

Long time ago, I presented a POC of reworking the loot items first, but it was rejected by TDM team on grounds that "it would make original assets look bad". A total conversion project would be way too much work to do IMO, even for several people.

Easy. Thief > anything else.

Yes, nothing like some good ol' amazing legendary game during the night, or even the whole day with all curtains down

What Thief like games you have played? Any you can recommend?

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"Mystery Song" thing

???

Apparently, some songs are unknown so they're part of the "Mystery Song" trend, the reason why is because there's very little to no info about them, some like Johan Lindell have been found out, but others like this are still unknown:

It's a form of profanity in the Thief universe isn't it? Or it is in the older games anyway, Thief 4 decided to use modern profanity instead even though they had an in-universe alternative. Taffers.

Must be one of them grubbers again.

I asked Chatgpt:

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As an AI language model, I don't have access to current statistics or any recent updates about the forum. However, there could be a variety of reasons why it might seem quiet on the forums:

1. The Dark Mod community may have migrated to other online platforms or social media channels.

2. The latest release or update of the game, which may have reduced the number of forum users' needs for support.

3. Forum members might have moved on from the game or are taking a break for an extended period.

4. Other members might be inactive and haven't logged in for some time.

5. There may be a lack of new discussions or news updates happening within the community, which could discourage users from participating.

These are some potential reasons why it might seem quiet on the forums, but the official Dark Mod website or social media accounts could provide more context.

I think point 2 is interesting..

Me too, I noticed that I'm playing Thief and TDM mostly on autumn and winter time. Less in summer and spring. The rain is always a bonus for most games, haha. Not to mention distant rolling thunder!

Yep a well done MOD is extremely immersive, especially if mimicking your real life environment.

Actually I didn't give any info, this problem happens in Vulkan games only and any that uses it, for example, GZDoom.

I don't think it's related to shaders, it's more like, the "frame pacing" or something is very uneven, at 72 FPS on a 75hz monitor, there's no tearing yet there's like a very slight stutter that makes it feel like playing at 50 FPS, on OpenGL though, it's completely fine.

It does persist even when restarting the game.

Did you try messing with vid_refreshrate, vid_maxfps, and vid_vsync settings? Perhaps the application is not properly recognizing your display refresh rate (etc)?

Yes, I did mess around with that, there seems to be no vid_refreshrate though, I think GZDoom uses your desktop to set that in the latest versions.

All you did was come back to TDM level-making and make a great even if short mission, I decided to consider it an early birthday gift for me just because

Happy Birthday!

Happy BDAY

Btw: How 'bout spending a weekend or an afternoon getting into the basics of Dark Radiant. Not with the purpose in mind of creating a mission, but just for getting into the basics. The best outcome is that you taste blood and continue realizing your ideas, the worst is that you wasted some time.

I am unsure about that...

Ladies & Gentlemen, I have made the library!

I hope some of you will be interested, right now it's a "Mission Series" with just two missions, hopefully enough for one or two, or many, to give it a thought and maybe make it an actual mission or so.

Maybe I did the majority of tweaks if you start counting them, but in reality some of the hardest improvements were done by @cabalistic. In fact, he started the whole motion of loading times optimization by his own initiative, and I merely joined it.

And these changes were heavily discussed with the whole team, of course. So if you want to thank for these changes, you need to thank the whole team

Glad you are enjoying it! Make sure to try at least one of the Connections Contest entries

I've been around here for many years and never experienced so much politeness in an online forum.

Thank you. Hopefully we can keep that high standard going.

"Hopefully we can keep that high standard going." well the thing is, if it falls, we will too then.

Too bay I don't live in Steinfurt (Germany) because then I could get a license plate saying "STFU" for my car! :-D

It's an unspeakable corruption of STFU: STIFF-U.

Yep, I agree with jaxa

The media section on the main website is woefully out of date.

We'll have to update and expand the Media section, I suppose.

There are already several new pictures there, and I removed some of the oldest and least evocative ones. I still plan on adding some video links.