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1 hour ago, OneTwoThreeOClock said:
Oh, by the Master Builder, there are three ways to reach the area in question, but it was never my intention to provoke the players into such a solution for the puzzle:
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2 hours ago, OneTwoThreeOClock said:
Amazing set of missions !
I'm currently stuck on chapter IV, trying to use the ladder of the B storage bay. The button controlling the ladder is sending sparks (as the button for storage C), and I have tried ever lever/switch I could find to disable the short circuit, without success.
What am I missing ?
You cannot fix this one. You have...
Spoiler...to search for other ways to go on the highest levels of the shelves in the different rows.
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On 3/3/2026 at 7:32 PM, mute_machine said:
"It is preferable not to travel with a dead man."
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On 2/21/2026 at 9:15 PM, mute_machine said:
Today King Crimson ... over 30 years since I bought Red album ... Starless And Bible Black few days later
Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin & someone whose name I forgot, will be on tour this summer playing "beat".
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@revelator
From your posting history in this thread, I take it you still use hardware with Windows in all historic variations?
Apart from your beloved Solus
, which distros would you recommend for people only doing regular stuff (email, banking, photos) when using the PC? Which distros would you recommend for gaming/Dark Mod mapping?
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Thank you for putting this mission together in remembrance of Mircea. Very good looking, great mood and sooooo many secrets!
I am pretty sure Mircea would approve of it.
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On 3/1/2026 at 5:22 AM, revelator said:
Dusted off my old ps3 and just for the heck off it tried to see which games still would run on it. Quite a few it turned out
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Mass effect 3 runs quite well on it as well as a good deal of the assasin series. Must be the longest running playstation model by now
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My ps2 still works 2 but can literally only run up to games from the age of quake 3
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Theres even a port of horizon zero dawn in the works for the ps3 but tbh that might be streching it for that old bone. They will have to drop visuals to much that it will look acceptable on it.
Hm...both my PS2 and PS3 work without problems. I use them every few weeks or so...
Edit: There is a PS3 port of HZD? That's wild.
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On 2/24/2026 at 3:12 AM, Jnon said:
Thanks. I'll DM you the script, but leave this casting call open for now. Anybody reading this thread afterwards, feel free to give it a shot and I'll pick the best sounding one.
From personal experience (and I have a lot of experience on that topic), casting calls on the TDM forums do not have much effect. You could try VAC (if you are on Discord). I could also provide you the contact details of a very reliable guy who has been doing tons of voice work for TDM/Thief missions, if you want to.
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23 hours ago, Arden said:
I saw a floating blood spot stuck in my view after shooting a guard in the head. The guard was on the floor and face-up. I saw another spot after receiving damage from a hammer strike.
beta214-04@stgatilov
I cannot reproduce the above mentioned with a guard's head, but I think I can reproduce it with a rat:
https://streamable.com/uvg6f4
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Very recently, I saw an interesting 1 hour interview with Linus T.
He said that in his opinion the biggest disadvantage of Linux at present is that there is not "The" Linux distro. I agree. I find it really difficult to keep track of everything, and (as I've already written elsewhere) you can find conflicting opinions/statements about practically every distro online... not to mention the “flamewars” (which almost remind me of ridiculous conflicts like MS/Apple or PS/X-Box).
Anyways, from said video, I also understood a few other things:
1. LT is in good physical shape these days
2. He seemingly uses Fedora
3. He considers Debian complicated for DE installation.
4. He is not the rude guy some wish to make him (and when I think about it, I can understand better and better why he was a little rough around the edges here and there in the past). -
On 2/15/2026 at 10:54 PM, Eirinjas said:
Pretty good. I played on expert. I think there should be more regular arrowheads available.
Venturing into the basement, I dispatched the first spider with 4 arrows. The other two spiders came out and I gassed them with an arrow. There is an objective that requires killing them. The author's intent was that you kill them with the environmental traps. Whoops. Okay, well, you can't lift and carry the spiders to the traps. You can't beat them to death with a blackjack. You have no sword. I had exactly 2 arrows left - one for each to dispatch them. If you don't pick pocket or find the arrows, or if you waste an arrow somehow, and you gassed the spiders like I did, you might be boned on the objective.
Thank you for the feedback, there are two other ways to kill two of them:
SpoilerA fire arrow can be found on the attic.
A mine can be found on the second floor (the floor with the Builders).Apart from that, I agree with you, using the traps is not that easy, though I think using at least one of the two possibilities (trap door OR gas fire leakage) should be doable.
I think I will make these objectives optional in the next update because you really have a point.
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30 minutes ago, thebigh said:
Hi taffers,
Biker and I have been working on a little mission in honour of MirceaKitsune and we're looking for two voice actors for a couple of short conversations.
We are after a "Benny" watchman and a "cynic" thief character. Can anyone help out? Let me know and I'll forward you the script via PM. Thanks!
I will pm you two contacts I think should fit.
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On 2/14/2026 at 1:53 PM, revelator said:
Got linux on all my pc's now except for my retro box which runs xp win2k and 98 se.
For very old PC games you cannot run under Linux?
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Back then, they would have loved to crucify Talk Talk, but when Radiohead did something similar a few years later, it was suddenly great.
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Congratulations on the release!
Amazing, praiseworthy, enviable.
As one of the more culturally savvy among us, I would also like to point out the Twin Peaks vibes that are clearly evident in some places and themes. You can thank me later!
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...deep in the forest on Blackstone Island:
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For this forest area, I once again used dragofer's skybox from “Down by The Riverside.” I bordered many of the “outdoor spaces” with prefabs consisting of two-story cascades of vertical patches (rocks) with horizontal patches (forest floor) on top. This can be seen in the background of the second picture. Here and there, I positioned large boulders above the second level. I also had to place the latter at many room transitions to break up the view list. Here and there are large ruined facades, behind which you can at least make good use of the hide_distance function. I'm now back down to 2,500 DCs in the long, open passages.
I often wonder how the developers of Skyrim and similar games with these open worlds actually do it. It's all a mystery to me.
However, I think the worst part of this project is now behind me, as the rest of this mission will take place underground and the third mission will be my interpretation of Cragscleft from Dark Project, which, as we all know, begins in a lake (yes, there are even lakes on islands, I have looked it up) surrounded by high clifs and then immediately goes into the mountain...-
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On 1/18/2026 at 10:42 PM, datiswous said:
It might be interesting to try one of the alternative renderers:
https://playrune.com/guides/updated-renderers/#installing-renderers
I found on Linux (via Lutris) that OpenGL and Standard Direct3D are the best options. In Windows Maybe the Directx9, or 10 options are best.
So, you got it fully working now on Linux?
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1 hour ago, Bikerdude said:Just some feedback on those windows, IRL single glass panes of that size would collapse. You will way more support/s and much smaller panes.
...and so the world breathed a sigh of relief in 2017 when I decided to quit my job as an architect!
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17 hours ago, Frost_Salamander said:
Did this in fact actually work? From my experience using the .pk4 only works if you are developing the FM (i.e. the FM is in extracted format). If you then pack it all up into a .pk4 (with a nested .pk4 say with someone else's asset pack), then it doesn't work. I asked the dev team about this and I think stgatilov confirmed it's not supported.
That's what I do not understand as well. Please check:
- HHTA: it includes "elemental_blue.pk4" (that was before it got added to the core). If you fly into the corridor with the "blue elemental power supply chamber" there you should see the (stationary) blue elemental.
-Black Mage: Includes STRUNK's "SpicesSkins.pk4". In the kitchen in the basement, everything seems to look ok? (the spices can be seen on the wall on a shelf).
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1 hour ago, revelator said:
mom died 2 days ago so...
atleast it was peacefull as she went into a coma 2 days before and newer woke again.
So im not going to post a lot in the near future, still have to get my head on straight and we also need to manage burial arrangements emptying her flat and cancel all her subscriptions.
im atleast glad it went so fast as she was really sick and there was no hope anyway.
That's bad news. I am very sorry for your loss. I wish you and your family much strength during these difficult days.
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53 minutes ago, Jetrell said:
I hope you get Rune to work on your machine so you will be able to play the Thieves Guild mod. In truth I've been working on this project for over 15 years, which is crazy I know.
Thieves Guild is a single-player Rune mod, loosely inspired by Thief: The Dark Project. It's a campaign driven story of about 20 missions. We tried to combine the action game style of Rune with the stealth game-play of Thief.
Thanks for the shout-out - I appreciate it. I didn't post anything about the mod here because I wasn't sure if it was appropriate.
It makes me really sad to read that you thought it wasn't appropriate to post about your work here. If we cannot discuss this incredible achievement from the Thief-like universe we love so much on a TDM forum, then I wonder by the Builder what else we're supposed to talk about here.
15 years? You alone (I hope not)? Could you be so kind and elaborate a little on your project? Is the game to be played with a game pad or with keyboard/mouse ?
I really like the typical dark atmosphere, especially "The Dark Side Edition Trailer" provides for that.
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13 minutes ago, demagogue said:
They were clearly only interested in the business side and thought of fans as shallow entertainment consumers that they were trying to hype up, like we were the core of Thief 4's target audience. They had this really unreal positivity about this contest while being so clueless about what it was really about. Our communications with them were just bizarre and otherworldly.
I can vividly imagine this exchange of ideas.
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On 1/5/2026 at 4:46 PM, HMart said:
Anyone brave enough can try but TDM license forbids commercialization. Also the moment that happen, it would be sued by the current Thief IP holders and taken down very fast, why? Because this game is obviously very derivative of Thief.
IMO the only reason that has not happen already, is not the goodness of the Thief IP holders hearts, is the fact this game uses different names and lore from Thief, is totally free and very important the makers of it and the people working on it, are not getting money from any other source, like Patreon for example. So probably falls into some safe "fair use" territory.
Copyright infringement aside - I'm not so sure that the former and current owners of the IP are still interested in the original lore: Neither Thief 2014 nor the new VR game make relevant use of Hammerites/Mechanists/Keepers.
Probably there is nobody left working on the franchise who knows about the original story in the first place or they consider it inferior compared to their very creative new story approaches.This reminds me of another anectode: I can't remember who it was (I think it was Springs) who was even attending a meeting at Eidos Montreal at the time to discuss a collaboration between TDM/Eidos. As far as I remember, he mentioned here, at least two of his conversation partners didn't even know what “Thief” was. I rest my case.
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2 minutes ago, datiswous said:
Aperantly there's also an official Linux vesion:
The old Linux build seems outdated and it is recommended to run the Windows version with wine or whatever.
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I know what you mean, I am pretty positive this can be found in dragofer's "Down By The Riverside".