TDM Speed Runs

[Airship Ballet]

(I'm startin' these over because the compression on the previous ones was annoying me)

 

Well, after a couple of months of fun I've played through every fan mission in the in-game downloader to date. I've been dead-set on playing through again with some different styles for a while, and one such style is speed-running with 100% loot (the other is 0 stealth score, coming soon). I'm gonna post my runs in here as they happen, and if somebody wants to try and beat my time they can feel free to post their own video or a screenshot of the mission stats screen.

If you have a run of any kind of your own, let me know and I'll add it below.

SPEED RUNS

Edited May 19, 2016 by Airship Ballet

[Moonbo]

Pretty neat, you should consider submitting these to the Speed demo archives.

[Airship Ballet]

I may well do, once I've played any particular one long enough that it becomes muscle memory. That way there'll be no human error like messing up that little coin box. I swear the most strenuous thing to do quickly is getting loot out of containers that open and close. Oh, and picking locks. It takes so much restraint to wait and not jump at the first dip in volume of the pins clicking.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Airship Ballet

[MasterHelpo]

I may well do, once I've played any particular one long enough that it becomes muscle memory. That way there'll be no human error like messing up that little coin box. I swear the most strenuous thing to do quickly is getting loot out of containers that open and close. Oh, and picking locks. It takes so much restraint to wait and not jump at the first dip in volume of the pins clicking.

 

I completely agree with this.

[Airship Ballet]

Just done Alberic's Curse in 6m40s, added the link to the OP.

Edited June 23, 2014 by Airship Ballet

[MasterHelpo]

Hoho! Looks like I have a reason to replay one of my favorite missions to date, great time though.

[Digi]

Having just watched you do your blind run of my FM with all loot and a better stealth score than I usually manage (among ~8-10 attempted ghost runs), you seem like an excellent candidate to tackle these sorts of challenges. I'll enjoy watching them!

Edited June 23, 2014 by Digi

[Airship Ballet]

Having just watched you do your blind run of my FM with all loot and a better stealth score than I usually manage (among ~8-10 attempted ghost runs), you seem like an excellent candidate to tackle these sorts of challenges. I'll enjoy watching them!

D'aww shucks, thanks

Hoho! Looks like I have a reason to replay one of my favorite missions to date

[Digi]

Yeah, I consider myself a good Thief player, and there have been times when I've seen others complain about the challenge of certain Thief games or levels being too hard and I didn't know what the big deal was. I also tend to silently critique playthrough videos if I think I could do better. But, like, even knowing that it takes some repetition, I just watched your Alberic's run and I doubt I could replicate it. I also kinda smiled in shame as you got a couple pieces of loot in my FM with no trouble (on the table with the elite circling it). I've done it a few times, but usually muck it up. And it was your first run.

 

Anyway, don't let me inflate your ego any more. Keep 'em coming!

Edited June 24, 2014 by Digi

[RJFerret]

I also kinda smiled in shame as you got a couple pieces of loot in my FM with no trouble (on the table with the elite circling it). I've done it a few times, but usually muck it up.

 

 

I judged the timing/light too risky, so just let the guy be distracted in the other room, shut the door and collected in piece.

 

[Digi]

 

I judged the timing/light too risky, so just let the guy be distracted in the other room, shut the door and collected in piece.

 

 

Ha, awesome! Yeah, that's the trickiest portion. It's not a necessity to get that loot, even on Difficult, but the completionists can have some fun with it.

[Airship Ballet]

Updated the OP with The Beleaguered Fence

[RJFerret]

Updated the OP with The Beleaguered Fence

 

One of my favs, yet there were a couple things I hadn't seen in it before, props to you!

[Sotha]

Updated the OP with The Beleaguered Fence

 

*Blink* *Blink*

 

Not very stealthy.......... But fast!

[SteveL]

Wow! You shoot a mighty precise water arrow One of my faves too, so satisfying when I finally managed to complete it (I'm less effective than you with a water arrow or a blackjack, to put it mildly).

[Airship Ballet]

Not very stealthy.......... But fast!

Whether or not I'm stealthy depends on the map. If it's nice and open like yours, and there are places where I can lose the horde of angry bucket-heads after me, be it a drop or a lockable door, I'll happily alert everybody to get a good time. If, like Alberic's Curse, it's all tiny corridors just wide enough for the AI to path through, getting seen before it's time to leave is essentially a game over.

Wow! You shoot a mighty precise water arrow One of my faves too, so satisfying when I finally managed to complete it (I'm less effective than you with a water arrow or a blackjack, to put it mildly).

Well to be fair, most of them were point blank. I agree, too: I've been fairly lucky in doing them alphabetically because Alberic's Curse and this are in my top ten for sure. My favorite's Crystal Grave for a multitude of reasons, but I've never seen it too highly ranked in others' lists.

Edited June 25, 2014 by Airship Ballet

[Obsttorte]

Would love to see a speed run of my mission builder roads. The only let's play I've seen was from a guy (from the forum, forgot his name), that was overhelmingly shy in proceeding. Besides the fact that the mission is a bit buggy, I think it can be handled in 15 minutes.

 

Oh, and Too Late by Nielson is perfect for a speed run.

[Airship Ballet]

Would love to see a speed run of my mission builder roads. The only let's play I've seen was from a guy (from the forum, forgot his name), that was overhelmingly shy in proceeding.

 

Here's my blind run bearing in mind I'd only just started TDM. The speed run will be fairly soon, given that I'm going alphabetically. I enjoyed Builder Roads, the way you kept it open but still fairly easy to find your way through. Bit of a key hunt though, booo =P

[Araneidae]

I don't get the Beleguered Fence run -- you didn't go "downstairs" underground, so how does that count as a complete run?

Edited June 25, 2014 by Araneidae

[Airship Ballet]

I don't get the Beleguered Fence run -- you didn't go "downstairs" underground, so how does that count as a complete run?

 

That would be a 100% run, which is a speed-running term for doing/collecting everything. This is an Any% run, meaning you do whatever you can to beat it as fast as you can, regardless of completion.

[MasterHelpo]

 

As you've already seen, I beat you by just about 14 seconds. I'm absolutely certain it can't be done on Thief difficulty in under 6 minutes. Edit: without causing a ruckus, that is...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjJwaD_Nsk

Edited June 27, 2014 by MasterHelpo

[Airship Ballet]

I'm absolutely certain it can't be done on Thief difficulty in under 6 minutes without causing a ruckus

 

 

Updated the OP with a new Alberic's Curse run.

Edited June 28, 2014 by Airship Ballet

[MasterHelpo]

Looks like it's time to cause a ruckus...

[Airship Ballet]

I'm going to start putting all of my super special mission runs in here, just so they're all in one place. Updated the OP with a 0 stealth score run of Alberic's.

[Obsttorte]

Spiderman...Spiderman

 

But seriously, how often did you play the mission before it worked out like that?

 

It's definetely entertaining to see.

 

Please try this with one of my missions, everybody's complaining they are difficult. I wanna see you beat them in less than  10 minutes