Are there giant spiders?

[Angst]

The Dark mod sounds very good and as a stealth fan I wanted to download it. But then I read that there are giant spiders in the mod. Really, I have HUGE fear of spiders. Are there really giant spiders in the game?

[Springheel]

Yes, just like the original games. Though not many missions use them.

[Sotha]

Don't let the spiders keep from playing TDM, though. They aren't the scariest spiders seen in games. Slow and mostly harmless. Plus, they look pretty much the same as in original thief games, too. So if your arachnophobia allowed you to play original thief games, it should not prevent you from playing TDM.

[nbohr1more]

Here is a list of missions that I don't recall seeing spiders:

 

A Score to Settle

Awaiting the Storm

Business as Usual *

Closemouthed Shadows

Fiasco at Fauchard Street

Heart of Lone Salvation

House of Theo *

In Remembrance of Him

Knighton Manor

Let Sleeping Thieves Lie

Living Expenses *

Lockdown

Mad's Mountain

Pandora's Box

Patently Dangerous

Old Habits and the rebuild

Siege Shop (for now)

Sneak and Destroy *

Sons of Baltona 1

Special Delivery

Swing *

The Builder's Blocks

The Builder Roads *

The Builders Influence

The Crown of Penitence

The Outpost *

The Parcel *

The Phrase Book

Thief's Den

Thieves *

Too Late *

 

 

The ones with stars I am practically positive. Though, to be honest, I have a fuzzy recollection of where spiders are used. I avoid them if possible.

 

FM authors feel free to correct me

Edited June 29, 2013 by nbohr1more

[SeriousToni]

lol Is this a troll post maybe?

[jysk]

Yeah, play Rightful Property, there are absolutly no spiders in there, I promise!

 

<just joking, there is a spider in there >

Edited June 28, 2013 by jysk

[Obsttorte]

Old Habits and the rebuild also don't have any spiders in them.

[chakkman]

I somehow got used to the spiders in the Thief games. Didn't like them first, but now they're alright. Although i wonder why they are the only animals present in the series, and why they vary in size too.

[PPoe]

Not only.. Burics are also unforgetable..

[Springheel]

Don't forget the exploding frogs.

[chakkman]

Not only.. Burics are also unforgetable..

Right.

[simplen00b]

Pretty sure Heart of Lone Salvation has a spider. A pretty major one that isn't easy to take down, IIRC.

 

Angst: I'm with you in feeling freaked out by big spiders - any big creepy-crawly in fact; heck, the rust mites in T3 creeped me out - but, fear factor aside, in TDM they are usually pretty easy to either get round or kill if you have a few broadhead arrows (I don't usually have the courage to go at them with a sword). And as commented already, most missions don't use them.

 

Joooiiiin uusssssss...

[chakkman]

heck, the rust mites in T3 creeped me out

I found those quite sweet actually. Up to the point where i felt bad when i had to erase them for the hammerites.

[PranQster]

Siege Shop has none and Samhain Night has 5 spiders, I believe. That *could* change, since both missions are undergoing some big changes for TDM 2.0.

[nbohr1more]

I think the spiders enhance the creepy mood of haunts, crypts, cellars, caves, etc. They also add so additional

challenge and are good fodder for arrows because they don't count in no-kill objectives. I'm sorry to say but any mission I listed about that has a cellar, crypt, cave, etc would probably be better with a few spiders (big or otherwise) and I would encourage authors to add them.

 

Of course, it still would be cool if we had spider or zombie free missions for players who are bothered by them.

 

Whether any authors would want to edit their missions to make spider-free versions is another topic

altogether.

 

Though it would be easy enough to remove them in Dark Radiant yourself.

Edited June 29, 2013 by nbohr1more

[Lux]

I wish we had tiny spiders too, that crawled around on their webs and you could squash them but you don't because they're just eeking out their existence like you.

Edited June 29, 2013 by Lux

[Obsttorte]

There are quite small spiders, like used in Bikerdudes *Haunted Cathredal* Mission (don't recall it's name now). You can quite easely make them walk on a web. Shadowhide did this in Deceptive Shadows.

[STiFU]

I am afraid of spiders, too. When there are tarantulas or other big disgusting spiders on TV, I always have to look away or I will have bad dreams in my next night's sleep. I actually once almost dislocated a leg, because I was shocked out of sleep and moved in a very unfortunate way. I also frequently block orbweaver's avatar for that reason! ^^ However, I don't have any problems with virtual spiders in games. In fact, they even enhance the game for me most of the times, because it just puts me a little more on the edge.

[SeriousToni]

What the ...

[chakkman]

They also add so additional challenge and are good fodder for arrows because they don't count in no-kill objectives.

I think they did count as no-kill objective in the mission "The Alchemist".

I was quite surprised too when i killed the big spider in the cellar, and it was game over...

 

Edited June 29, 2013 by chk772

[Lux]

There are quite small spiders, like used in Bikerdudes *Haunted Cathredal* Mission (don't recall it's name now). You can quite easely make them walk on a web. Shadowhide did this in Deceptive Shadows.

 

Dragon's Claw? Hmm, don't recall seeing any, I'll have to have another glance. I haven't gotten to Deceptive Shadows yet.

[Sotha]

What the ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia

[Obsttorte]

Dragon's Claw? Hmm, don't recall seeing any, I'll have to have another glance. I haven't gotten to Deceptive Shadows yet.

I thin it's ST. Albans Cathredal. Not sure, though.

[chakkman]

I thin it's ST. Albans Cathredal. Not sure, though.

I think there weren't any. Only some skeletons in the basement.

 

There definitely were some in the "Heart of Lone Salvation" mission though.

[SeriousToni]

Thank you Sotha, I know what a Phobia is and I even fear spiders too! But in real life - never in a video game