Fan Mission: Commerce Bank (by grayman) (2019/4/10)

[grayman]

Announcing the release of the fifth William Steele mission!



Summary

Steele visits Commerce Bank, looking for incriminating evidence stored away by Captain Marston of the City Watch.

 

The William Steele Missions

Commerce Bank is the fifth of several Steele missions. Altogether they'll tell a story of corruption, greed, and revenge. At some point, I might package them as a campaign, in addition to the single missions. (We’ll see about that.)

 

If you haven’t played WS1: In the North, WS2: Home Again, WS3: Cleighmoor or WS4: The Warrens, I suggest you complete those before playing WS5: Commerce Bank.

Download

The mission is available via the in-game downloader.

 

You can also get it here. Place ws5_commerce.pk4 in your fms folder. TDM will recognize it as a new mission.

 

Build Time

Nearly 3 years.

 

I18n

 

Commerce Bank is currently not set up for translation.

 

EFX

 

This mission takes advantage of EFX, so make sure you turn that on.

Thanks

Thanks to the TDM team for creating a terrific platform for storytelling and stealth gaming.

 

Thanks to my beta testers: Aluminum Haste, Boiler's_hiss, and nbohr1more.

 

And thanks to YOU, for playing!

 

Known Issues

If you experience low frame rates, please consult the Performance Tweaks page on the Wiki.

Important

This mission requires TDM 2.07 or later.

The William Steele story relies a lot on readables. Please try to read every readable you find.

Most importantly, Enjoy!

Screenshots

 

 

WS6: Baleford Museum

 

Baleford Museum will hopefully be released in late 2019.

[Shadow]

Yay! Gonna dive into this immediately!! Thanks grayman!

[Bienie]

Whoa, this one caught me off guard! Congrats on release! I'll definitely give it a go soon!

[zergrush]

Fantastic!

[Amadeus]

Congrats!!! Can't wait to play!

[lowenz]

Downloading

[Goldwell]

Congrats on the release!

[kingsal]

Hey Congrats! Looking forward to it.

[AluminumHaste]

Congrats on the release!

Great little mission, sorry my beta testing wasn't very extensive, finding time is harder than I thought.

[grayman]

Great little mission, sorry my beta testing wasn't very extensive, finding time is harder than I thought.

 

We're all in the same boat. Your comments were much appreciated!!

[zergrush]

@Grayman, I've only lightly played the mission so far, and I gotta say: what a magnificently built level! The atmosphere, structure, and design all seem top notch, and I can't wait to have a bit more extra time to tackle this one.

 

So far, my only fair bit of criticism goes towards the intro and the loading screen, something that also affects previous WS missions: I'm a fairly fast reader and having to wait for the paragraph texts to slowly appear can be frustrating to say the least. I also think the display image for the intro should start zooming out at a decreased size, so it doesn't appear so pixelated at the beginning. Personally I think WS begs for a more traditional Thief-like voiced over slideshow, like on the two default TDM missions, but I understand it might not be your cup of tea. Finally, because I absolutely love the style of the loading screens for WS, I wonder if you could render them at a higher resolution, so they look prettier and less pixelated as well.

[chakkman]

Whoa, this one caught me off guard!

 

Me too. And i love bank missions. Grats to the release, and thanks for the mission.

 

Also looking forward to the museum mission. I loved the museum mission in Thief 3.

Edited April 11, 2019 by chakkman

[nbohr1more]

The mission is now available on the missions page and in-game downloader.

 

It seems that the preview image doesn't work. I think you need at least two images.

 

I'll try to fix that later today if I get a chance.

 

Fixed

[Tafferboy]

Well thats my evening wiped out.... Another awesome Grayman mission to play.

[lowenz]

Congrats on the release!

Great little mission, sorry my beta testing wasn't very extensive, finding time is harder than I thought.

Little? It doesn't seem little to me

 

One question: why hitting a patrolling guy (the one with the sword) he literally flies?

[grayman]

Ha! No clue. These are normal AI.

 

Got a video?

[lowenz]

Will do.

 

For now another little bug: crash @ending the mission (reloading the final autosave too).

[grayman]

Ill take the save game. 2.07 or 2.07 hotfix?

[Kerry000]

Thank you for the FM, Grayman. I love these kinds of straightforward missions (sneak in, steal all the stuff, sneak back out).

 

I easily found all of the loot except for...

 

 

 

The basket outside Ales' office window.

 

 

 

Looking forward to WS part 6!

 

Thanks again

[grayman]

Yeah, I debated whether to provide a clue to those, but in the end opted not to.

 

Glad you enjoyed it.

[lowenz]

Ill take the save game. 2.07 or 2.07 hotfix?

2.07

[JackFarmer]

Oh, oh, another new mission!

 

And three years work. Very impressive.

 

The Federal Republic of Germany once had to save the "Commerzbank" with taxpayers money. Now it is payback time. Thank you for enabling that!

[chakkman]

The Federal Republic of Germany once had to save the "Commerzbank" with taxpayers money. Now it is payback time. Thank you for enabling that!

 

[Kas]

Can't wait to play this !!!! Thank you Grayman, I love your work please don't stop

[grayman]

Heh! 3 more being worked on simultaneously