Aprilsister

1st, congrats and thanks for 1.06. Does that mean that this (from "Upcoming Fan Missions" on the Wiki): is now a nearby possibility about to happen and launch live and in color?

Shadowhide, dude... This was an excellent mission. Very ambitious and it paid off well. Impressive. All that needs to be done are some (I'm sort of guessing here) scripting fixes. I was able to figure out what to do without any outside help despite some of the small and large lack of or missed narration in the way the mission flowed... Just needs to have a revised briefing -- only slightly to emphasize and clarify the 'Friendlies' situation. And use Sotha's read-at-your-own-pace briefing mechanic. Also needs to have the spirit script adjusted so that people must be in earshot of the spirit for it to trigger. I missed this, though I saw him, and was till able to figure out what to do, but it shouldn't have been triggered out of earshot anyway. And most importantly need to script it so that you cannot leave without the crown. This I missed and was screwed (I ended up climbing up to the fallen roof attic as did KOMAG, (and thoroughly searching many other places; btw something up in the attic and something in the lake would be nice) in search of the "something valuable". IMO, even if you just fix that last one it'll be one of the most impressive Thief 1st missions I can recall. And I've played them all! Very nice mission. Please take the advise given here (+mo' beta = mo' betta) and continue.

And SOME angry smileys!!! also I CAN USE SOME GODDAMNED EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! even though technically those are punctuationz!!! and dont tell me i cant

I'll give you one more reason to "lock my account" rather than just threaten to: Fuck off, greebo, because I'm not about to relent in the face of your threats to "lock my account". Howzat?

I'm not "so fucking angry". I'm just asking that Melan to go fuck himself. It's a normal response to the kind of cretinous, skulking shit he practices. Why are you so all over the place about the situation?

Two lies. Another lie. If I've been bothering you so, why haven't you ever said anything to me about it? Is it because you are a little simpering, back-channeling fool? Is it because you can't speak for yourself until you are sure you will be supported? ... Well, no. Not at the time I created the thread -- or I would have said so. But, now, yeah... whoever changed this thread's title, I would certainly like them to go fuck themselves too. Thanks for asking.

You sure seem to want to be involved in it though, Sotha, for someone who claims to be above it all. All you have to do is not participate. This gutless fucking idiot, Melan, brought me up in a public forum (one in which I do not care to interact, I just occasionally read to see if there is any TDM or T4 stuff that might be of interest). So I responded to his fucking idiocy... here... where we may be able to iron things out... publicly. If you don't want to (or if he doesn't want to) that's fine. But I'm just letting him know -- publicly -- that, in the meantime, I think he should go take a good, long and sharp fucking stick and apply it to himself. ... And, anyway, my name is Natalie, I'm April(s)ister

Fuck you too. I don't care your hypocrisy and inarticulate idiocy just keep PMing your don't in to keep random left out words And Capitalization try much Harder fool your i dont somehow Pm yourself. Okay?

First of all, like the thread title says: Fuck You, Melan. Secondly, I don't fit the description at all as I have made it quite clear that I have played and loved the original games. I just don't play your silly game of "thinking" that pandering to those that are stuck still playing those inferior games and encouraging them to stick with being stuck is anything other than transparent, patronizing bullshit. So, again, go and fuck yourself. And, while you're at it, try to learn to reason a little better, because, when you immediately follow "the one who best fits the description" with a half-assed explanation of why I do not fit the description at all, you prove to be an idiot.

Ahhhh, yes, there are some players who are not bothered to learn how to blackjack with any aim towards a skillful and ultimately more satisfying attempt. Often fixing problems that aren't there can really lead to real problems.

The thing about gaming it... is that, yes, you can do that kind of stuff. But the mission briefing explicitly instructs or suggests that you don't want to intimidate the book-dealer. So, story-wise, you do not have your sword, or any other weapons for that matter, out when you go to sit down to talk to him. And, like-story-wise, you don't start shooting out lights and picking locks... All of this "gaming" is, TBH, not good gaming. I've always been a big proponent of Sotha's gameplay focus* and, as mentioned, his admirable ambition to keep expanding upon this aspect (and others). But this kind of story-telling is very ambitious and may need to be a little less so. *I'm also a big fan of his visuals and think that it is a "myth" that he somehow doesn't achieve in that department... this mission looked great, very stylish overall, (excellent puddles! really! and that's just a for instance)

And take Apple with them awash in the gutter and down and away... thanks and please

Use these semi-established (trying to get the word out that these are a few of... the heads of the {inchoate, once and future, promised and forgotten} hydra) public trackers: http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce http://tracker.openbittorrent.kg:2710/announce You can also udp them (rather than http)...

Bikerdude, here are 3 different main-menu-background-music pk4s Silence! Mystery (Name That Tune) LEKyril

Well... I already went to Yantar (one of the things I wasn't "supposed" to do out of order... it seems). But having accpeted that and gotten back on the straight-and-narrow, I've just been to pay old Barov a visit. And Am now inside Lab X-19 and past the pass-coded door a little ways... been taking a few days off and playing "RTTCv2" and "The Transaction".

I didn't chose to [...] that's just the way it worked out from my playthrough. Anyway, I think it's a valid criticism that you should consider.

Sotha, did you read my comments?

With a spoiler tag, kitty. Spoiler tags are inflagrante muy! But seriously

You know it's amazing that this has just gotten to me now too... quite a testament to the excellence of the track actually! Anyway, the cvar that is supposed to work is: tdm_music_volume = "<a number between -40 and 1>" but it doesn't work as far as shutting of the sound only adjusting it... so you never get silence. And, btw, it just correlates to the Ambient slider in the Options, which also fails to work as far as silencing goes. So, I have figured out how to do some things. You can create a directory structure in your darkmod folder like this ".....darkmod\sound\meta\menu", right?Then you take whatever track you want to hear and convert it to a 16bit 44.1khz PCM ogg and call it "amb_nocturne_menu.ogg"Voila! And violas to if you want.... Or... Here I made you a pk4 that will work. You needn't do anything but put this in your "darkmod" folder (deleting the "(Silence).txt" bit and leaviing the "pk4" of course) ... Or... this one is more fun it's got music, just different than what we've been hearing for all this time... (this one you delete "(RO).txt") See if you recognize it Nah... too big for the forum... sorry... if you want it I'll put it elsewhere. Let me know.

Wow. As anticipated whole new layers of gameplay powered by the ?what-can-I-do-with-this-engine? engineering that you build upon... Aside from that everything pretty much worked out okay. Very nicely done. Looking forward to more episodes! I know you said you'd lay off for a while but don't leave us hanging for too long; you know this setup deserves to be set forth. Thanks!

Well, I have kind of worked a semi-fix for what I wanted as far as a way to alternate between hold-crouch and bounce-crouch... along with some other things that help in getting nice screen shots and quick FPS counts: binds! (keybinds) Binds work with apparently any console command thus: Those particular keys I've chosen "g, h, f, c, w, s" (gem hide frames clear downupdownup stick) work for my mnemonically minded mentality, but of course can be adjusted to adhere to any alien adaptation accordingly. ... Still hoping that the read-ables get a true manipul-ability; and even that the pockets/backpack inventory system is also implemented.

Hark! I'm almost thinking I'm overly hyped (my own fault*) on this and will be expecting too much; it's just that so far every SFM has been great, and each one has had at least some fantastic innovation, and *these innovations are semi-telegraphed (or outright spoken of) by the discussion that goes on in Sotha's FM thread, and Sotha's FM thread has had a lot of various Q&A as prelude to this mission...

Having now twice launched 1.04 to download a new mission (RTTCv2 and The Transaction) and being met with an incomplete list, I realize that the system of getting the new ones propagated is (understandably) not ironed out... but it brings me to a request: can we have the list that is displayed also show the date of release? And make the list sortable on that if the heading of that column is clicked? Also, As a request to FMAs: can you try to make the version number of your missions show up in the list? I think it only requires that you specify it in the "Title" line of the "darkmod.txt" that goes along with your mission. Thanks ... Oh, and I know there are those that say dates should go MM-DD-YYYY ('Yanks' and the like ) and there are those that say it should be DD-MM-YYYY ('Brits' and the like). But the truth is it needs to go YYYY-MM-DD. From now until evermore. Most significant to least significant. EOS. Thanks again.

Still at it (STALKER-SOC). Still finding it frustrating and brilliant and maddening and compelling and a mess and beautiful and dammit and fuckyeah.

Sotha, just read about ocn's vid-preview-promo-intro-somethingorother... And I'm trying a bit to stay out of these developing threads for the most part nowadays... but I wouldn't mind getting a new percentages breakdown from you on the mission in question. Hopefully you'll say 100%, 100%, 100%, 98%, 100%, because the Contest is supposed to be underway (4 days so) now and, though you never seem to need the whole of the alloted time, it would be nice for you to have some time to do your Seasons Contest entry... and maybe even do as you've always said you wanted to do: the 2 entries thing this time? But, seriously, do you have an estimate on the "completeness" of this latest mission?