SeriousToni

It often happens to me when I'm trying to blackjack someone from behind, they only get hurt but not unconscious - didn't I aim for the head in the right way??

That's all I wanted to know - thanks!

Didn't want to cause anger, it's okay..

Just a general question about Voices in TDM: Would it be possible to extract the voice sounds from Thief 1 and 2 (they were in .wav format as far as I can remember) and overwrite the actual TDM-setting? Or are there too many differences so that there are not enough sounds which are fitting to the TDM voices? Just a question because I know it's not possible because of copyright-bla

Okay that's cool - thanks a lot you two! All I need is a good singer, because I can't myself. I only got the song and the text done. It's a quite nice song about a girl who kept me in suspense all the time and I was never sure if I should expose her my feelings, so I wrote this text and later there came the melodie with guitar, then the drum computer and now it's nearly a full song (if I could sing ) So if you are interested to listen, I attached a little part of the song for you so that the file is not too big: www.ich-guck-mal.de/garbage/sarah3aPART.mp3

As this one of my favourite english forums, I wanted to ask if there's some interest on correcting my lyrics for my first song (as you know my english is not the best) So here it is - let's see what's okay and whats wrong: I'm lying in my bed, but I don't sleep. I think about the thing, which makes me weep. No matter where I run or I may hide, it stays right here with me - right by my side. The night is passing by as I lie here. I'm missing more and more what I revere. Can't fall asleep, can't dream of better days. Cause deep inside of me you set a blaze. Oh, I feel it glow. And it hurts, cause it burns. Oh, I don't know if you will dowse the flame or if it's just a game (to you). The sun is rising high up from the ground. There're many friendly people all around. But no one really knows what's killing me. A poor one longing for you I'm gonna be. No one here can look into my world. No one here can see that I am hurt. And only you could get me outta here. Cause you're my last resource, we both cohere. Oh, don't you go. Just stay here. I'm all in fear. That you might stay away of me. If I want too much of you. But yes I do...

Makes a good impression to me since I played it for 30 minutes or so, but the loading bug really is a pain to me since I get caught by the guards really often. I now have to restart the mission for the fourth time because I can't load my old games

Don't you filch my ideas buddy, or I'll rope-arrow-you 'til death!!

Is it also possible to let an AI patroll, lay down to bed, let sleep a time, and let get back to the patroll route again?

Oh really? Never recognized that ingame - very nice, you guys are faster than one can suggest Thanks for that feature, I'll have a closer look on this now

Hey there! I just wanted to make a suggestion about a Question-Answer-Speech System like in Half-Life. How it works: If 2 NPCs are in the same room or encountering each other, one of them is asking a random yes/no question to the other, and he is answering a yes-like, a no-like or a i-dont-know-like answer. This happens at random time events as long as they're together in a room. Would add much more atmosphere and personality to the game I believe. Could that be possible?

Nach der langen Diskussion hier würde ich einmal vorschlagen, über eine etwas freiere Übersetzung nachzudenken. Beispielsweise (für die 3 Stufen) Novize - Hohepriester - Erbauer Erbauer-Novize - Erbauer-(Hohe)Priester - (der allmächtige) Erbauer Sollte ich das gänzlich falsch verstanden haben, und der Lord Builder wäre mit dem Master Builder gleichzusetzen, so würde ich hier keine differenzierte Übersetzung anbringen, sondern die selbe für beide Varianten (wahrscheinlich "Erbauer" und für dessen Jünger "Baumeister" / "Konstrukteur" / "Gestalter" / "Former" / "(Be)gründer" / "Fanatiker" / "Gläubiger" / "Anhänger" / "Jünger"). Ich weiß nicht, was ihr davon haltet, aber bei einer Übersetzung sollte eher Wert auf Sinn und Inhalt im Zusammenhang mit dem Story-Hintergrund gelegt werden, als auf direkte (und korrekte) Übersetzung, sonst klingt das schnell "blöd"

You guys are faster than the lightning!

As there was a big community around Thief Fan Missions (if you look at the keep of metal and gold e.g.) I am also very interested, if we've got some old school Thief mappers here.

Hey there! I know it is a matter of taste but I experienced the arrow grab sounds like grabbing for a bunch of crayons. I got a bow myself and arrows too of course, and the actual sound ingame doesn't sound like the typicall arrow timber in real life. Did you never consider to change the arrow grab sound into something more realistic for the upcoming version?

"Schaffer" hört sich für mich eher nach "schaffen gehen" und damit nach Dialekt an. Wie wäre es denn mit "Erschaffer" ?!

oh I must say he's got maaaany bottles ^^

I wonder what that glass stuff is, the guards throw at me continuosly when I hide in the elevator.

In Thief and Thief 2 (and fan missions of course) there were fire arrows in the chimney, water arrows in the pools, moss arrows in the green house, gas arrows in the sewers. I don't believe that they magically appeared there, but they were pit there by the people for a certain use (e.g. let the fire in the chimney burn longer). I allways liked this idea of magic elementar arrows. Was another nice part of this fantasy world.

Hm, would be cool to make the builder guard's hammers unblockable. I remember Cragskleft was pretty neat in that way

That was my first thought as well when I was in the combat area. I thought "Whoa, this isn't going to be easy!". But you know what? It's just the way as it should be! If you remember Thief 1 and 2, there you could easily kill your opponents with your sword just if you were a bit fast in running and bashing. It was not really a problem to face the enemy who did spot you. Now, in The Dark Mod, I really don't know if I will win the battle with this guy who's running towards me. There's a fair chance, but I am provoked to better not risk it. And that's a big plus for the stealth way and exactly my taste. And I am sure, if you do a little training, you can even kill one of the builder men, if you really want that. I never played a game where the fight system was that linked with mouse movement and mouse clicks in that way and I was really surprised because I like it very much.

Thank you very much, Dave

Wow, I must say the DarkRadiant is very comfortable and customizable - great! But: Is there a way to search the whole entity tree in the "Create entity"-window for a specific entry?

They were set that high to force the player to choose from the list of items (he could never buy everything) and to make him trying to collect as much loot as possible in each mission so that he can buy more of the available items in the next mission. This doesn't make sense in a realistic seen way. But it does in gameplay.

I made a shortcut without using the aero design (compatibility mode) and this does work for me. Vista is deactivating the aero-design too, if you change to 16 bit color mode. So you're right - aero was the thing that brought everything outa control. I am happy that it works for me now