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I recently played Snowed Inn maybe a few weeks back and it was phenomenal. Oddly where everyone else had trouble finding parts of the snowman (hat, nose), those were the easiest for me to find, but everyone seemed to have found the eyes which I never did. Best part of this mod is the atmosphere and I definitely felt cold and wintery inside.

You better make another one! Lucy was ambitious but another one doesn't have to be so grand if you feel it was too much. Either way you should make more with your mapping talents.

Headshots are a staple of many games these days, aka Assassins Creed, Far Cry, etc. If you are precise enough to be able to shoot into a much smaller window that is the enemy's head area, then why not have it be a one-shot kill. It's a harder thing to do, and maybe that as a reward is acceptable. As others have said, this is not required, and Thief offshoots like TDM are shadow hiding and stealth-based first games. I always felt like weapons (other than blackjack and maybe water arrows) are usually not necessary to complete most missions, and sometimes they are necessary (ever try to get past some of those pesky spiders)? BTW Hazard Pay is a beautiful mission, and really vertical as well.

Helping with the beta for this mod, I can personally tell everyone that geegee worked damn pretty hard to get it in its final form. Our back and forths prove it. The original beta was a shell of the release version, and there should be no discouragement for a first mapper with vision and who tries hard. Does it have a lot of keys, sure, but that's the style that some creators take, while others leave generous amounts of loot around, others have tons of readable notes with puzzles in them, some do ghouls, some do pagans, some hammers, some mages, some mechanists, some keepers, etc. There's something for everybody. If you don't like the hunting for many keys type of mission, just play it anyway because new TDM missions only come around every few months. It's nice to just work with the free product we get and encourage the creator's work positively so you will get more free products in the future. Who's with me?

Yup I have a Samsung 27in TN panel LCD and don't have any issues with it doing TDM, any gaming or show watching. I dual pair my desktop with a second much newer 27in Dell LCD with IPS panel, but the Samsung has better contrasts/blacks and sharper, deep colors, more vivid, at least comparing images and desktop icons. We also have an AOC LCD (TN panel) in use for TDM and that's a good one also for gaming. I've seen OLEDs in the stores and they really do pop bigger colors, but the price points don't make it convincing enough to replace every LCD/LED in the house, yet. Maybe when 4K/8K becomes mainstream and ubiquitous.

Fun and atmospheric mission with some great views, loot in an old fashioned sleuthing style bank heist. This mission adds to a great year for new missions from talented first-time and classic creators.

We all won't agree on the best of the best missions, but you can't go wrong with any of them really. I seem to have a fondness for the Spoonman missions (Full Moon Fever, The Ravine) as they tend to veer off into elements of fantasy, magic and weirdness. I also like very unique missions like Swing, House of Theo, Illusionists Tower. If you like a nice long episodic saga with lots of Thief world similarities, try the William Steele series. And then there is Iris, which has lots of character depth and universally acclaimed praise.

I think the devs already have a mechanism to deter fast snatching of prized paintings. Some of the big mansions in mods (thinking Angel's Tear), have painting in secure rooms with alarms, heavy guards, AND in glass cases with locks. Having this fulfills exactly what is being proposed. Spend time unlocking the glass case with guards all around, then you have your painting. I feel like this is sufficient, realistic, and up to the mod creators as it ought to be.

Just curious was it K-Lite codec pack? I was looking for the same way to fill in thumbnails also and that did it perfectly for me.

MS Paint, with all it's ridicule, can do some neat (if mostly 1990s era cartoonish) stuff: https://www.businessinsider.com/ms-paint-artworks-2014-7 I'm kinda digging the Luke Skywalker one myself.

This thread is hilarious! Opting always for the default dumbed down apps that ship with Windows is going to hold anyone back due to old limitations, especially on Windows 7. Case in point is Windows Notepad, which has a series of issues that generate a lot of complaints from Notepad users, aka no regressive undos, no tabs, no spell checker, file size limit, etc. Notepad++ solves all of this. Just saying, there is no shame in being at the forefront of new technology, at least when it costs you absolutely nothing (except maybe more RAM to run it all)! BTW my image modifier/converter of choice is Faststone Image Viewer. Does it all, Free for Home Users.

The Gloomwood demo is actually quite fun and plays smooth. It's been in development forever so it better be good. Guns in Gloomwood are optional (just like Assassins Creed and Dishonored) as your main weapon is a cane (aka blackjack/sword type tool), and it is a very stealthy game. You don't have to pick up the gun when you come across it. I wouldn't discount Gloomwood until after trying the demo.

I played the newer beta up to the point of the Belcher and the pub has normal looking people in it now instead of warped mannequins. But boy, my FPS was straggling this time. I don't know why but in the Yard it was in the low teens and some places it was below 10 FPS. I fired up the recent Noble Affairs just for measure and FPS was upwards of 175-200 most of the time. I did modify the advanced video switches recommended in the first post but nothing helped. I hope it's just me and no one else has his issue. Willing to try the next release if that ever comes.

I saw this too on all my plays in the Belcher but didn't report it in beta. I just figured that's how they were supposed to be. I had never seen anything like these figures but I assumed it was part of a horror vibe, which I definitely got!

Sir Taffsalot made a mission called VFAT1: The Angels Tear. Maybe that's the one you're thinking of. So now I need to back and play Hidden Hands with this post in mind. Perhaps a subtle attempt at getting others to play it to validate what you stated. Maybe, maybe not. The Thief franchise and world is mildly absurd in its own right, aka gunpowder kegs and explosive mines but no guns, living dead guards, wizards and mages, guards that can't climb ladders and mantle up, etc. It's all pure fun and fantasy and escape, and each person has their own vision of the absurdity. If only I knew how to "thief" code you'd see some of my craziest wackiest ideas come alive in mods!

I definitely missed your mod-making talents, Airship Ballet, having played yours numerous times in the past, and welcome back. I'd be happy to help on new beta missions.

Ceramic Soul is definitely worth a play. It's got a "Among The Sleep" vibe to it, no shadow hiding, but creepy and atmospheric for sure as something is coming after you the entire time you play.

I think Superman's sink is made of crystal glass, and Batman, well, don't think he cares much about his sink as he basically has a live-in Butler and lives over a cave connected to sewers/subway systems and shares this cave with bats. That's gotta be dirty. And that leads to my point. No matter what a sink is made of, it's best to keep it clean and shiny, if not for you, then for your partner/mate/SO, etc. Real class is being clean.

You hadn't said what your video card brand is, but I would try some optimization features in the video card software, and do be sure you've got the correct card selected there and the hardware looks proper. I've even seen it where someone had a powerful NVidia 1060 installed but the HDMI cable was still plugged into the onboard video. In that case it was pretty obvious when a 3D accelerated game was really choking.

I enjoyed this mission. Zombies are not usually a favorite because they move slower than chasing guards and don't say funny guard things. Still these zombies kept me on my toes, and they were exceptionally gifted in the hearing department. They found me from half a large room away while crouching and moving forward slowly. Luckily there are lots of hiding vertical hiding places and the means to scramble away easily. Some of the jumps were hard to gauge (like the hanging pallet with the human guy sitting among the boxes) and I found myself falling to my death attempting to make jumps without a rope arrow. All in all, the strength in this mission is the Indiana Jones vs Tomb Raider level design and visual features.

And for a few years now Ryzen has newer gen CPUs that hit 5GHz with Clocktuner software. However grossly unnecessary and irrelevant it would be just for TDM performance.

Didn't "The Painters Wife" have a miniaturization section where you enter a snowglobe or something and you are transported inside of it and had to traverse out the top. It was only a few minutes long but it was amazing. Also I know it's not TDM, but one T2 Mod I remember playing recently is "Garrett and the Beanstalk" in which you were small and the homes and furniture were gigantic. A Mod like this, if ported to TDM, would be phenomenal due to the much better fluidity, textures and lighting TDM offers.

Always helpful info. ty

I got around to playing this since I upgraded to v2.10 last week. I enjoyed it very much. It does have throwback vibes to other games, aka the bird-masked boat runner guy looks very Dishonored-ish. Also the loot animation grab reminds me of how Thief 4 did it, although I noticed that only arrows, keys and scrolls were animated, but edible food didn't animate. Just curious why that is? Either way it's no biggie at all and really enjoyed traversing all the areas of the game, horizontal and vertical. Seems like a great entry to showcase v2.10.

Microsoft has it's own recovery tool, which used to be ERD Commander back in the day, but now purchased and rebranded and called DaRT. I think it is available for MS Licensing or Technet subscribers. Another one that I found helpful because it can read and reset passwords from AD (server) structures is Lazesoft Recovery Suite.