Fan Mission: Cole Hurst 1: Eaton by bwyan (2021/12/02)

[roygato]

Pretty impressive, for a first mission nonetheless. I only wished there was even more to it, the mansion was just ripe for plenty of secrets and such. The city blocks also seemed like a lot of effort for not a lot of gameplay payoff, but the world-building is definitely better off for it. I did enjoy the developments that do occur. The little details were also fun, such as the various conversations, NPC encounters, and the custom voice acting. Very stable too, didn't see any technical issues.

I'm not a fan of forced no-knockout, but I'm glad almost all the lights were candles to offset it. Not to mention all the light-switches. And as mentioned, the mansion is massive, so avoiding people wasn't particularly difficult. Or who am I kidding, there was a good old AI brawl before I was finished, thanks to there being like a hundred of them.

Good stuff, hopefully we'll see more by you in the future.

Edited December 20, 2021 by roygato

[Esat320]

On 12/8/2021 at 4:20 AM, datiswous said:

I was flying a bit through the outside area (using noclip) and noticed there's a lot of detail outside of what is possible for the player to see. I wonder if that has an impact on performance. Maybe not because of visportals?

Hi, I can't decipher the display case not, so I can't find where the instrument is Can you help?

 

FOUND IT :))))

Edited December 30, 2021 by Esat320
found it

[Cambridge Spy]

Surprise last minute New Year's gift:

 

 

[bwyan]

52 minutes ago, Cambridge Spy said:

Surprise last minute New Year's gift:

Thank you very much for making the video. Impressive that you took the time to make subtitles also

[SeriousToni]

On 12/3/2021 at 11:00 AM, JackFarmer said:

@SeriousToni: Please take a look at this, this is awesome!

Hey thanks for the hint@JackFarmerlwill be trying this mission for sure!

[thebigh]

Really impressive mission! I loved the twist at then end, and I look forward to seeing how the mystery is resolved.

[datiswous]

On 12/31/2021 at 2:11 PM, bwyan said:

Impressive that you took the time to make subtitles also

Are these only in the video or also included in-game as subtitles? TDM 2.10 has a new subtitle system.

[bwyan]

8 minutes ago, datiswous said:

Are these only in the video or also included in-game as subtitles? TDM 2.10 has a new subtitle system.

Unfortunately not at the moment. I might look into this for a future version of the mission.

[datiswous]

Maybe @Cambridge Spy can give you all the subtitles he made for his video so that at least you don't have to write all that yourself again.

[grodenglaive]

Nice mansion heist, my favourite mission type and I liked the twist at the end

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(why would I need holy water? - oh shit)

 The manor rooms were quite large, but the guards always managed to get under my feet anyway, so it was well balanced. It took careful stealth and good timing to complete all objectives (played on hard).

[kin]

Loved this mission, congratulations. I specialy liked the way the story unravels like the original thief games 1&2.

 

[bwyan]

@thebigh @grodenglaive @kin Thank you all for your nice words. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I will hopefully be able to follow it up some time this year. No promises though

[MrMunkeepants]

I also had trouble with a certain hidden switch - I got confused by 

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the use of "office" for a room with no label, when there is a room called "study."

Once I realized I was in the wrong place I didn't have much trouble, but there were a lot of possibilities to look at within that wrong place that might have been correct!

[Thiefette]

Finished this up today and enjoyed the many areas to search. 

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Enjoyed the many readables and had no trouble with the two new objections near the end (well end for me - saved Braxton's room for later. ) I missed the switch on my first go through the office but the letter helped. Loved the twist at the end (except the spiders) but figured it out pretty quick so headed down. (Did that door just appear in the sewer? Don't remember seeing it when I came through earlier lol) 

As I was heading back to my apartment I had to ask myself "What happened to all the people in Gatwick?" Noticed the gate was ajar coming out of the sewer, the hanged man was gone. Even the poor fellow sleeping it off was gone. Was expecting everyone to have been turned into zombies so checked the other neighbourhood, nope they were still as they were. Decided that was a good time to take my butt home. 

Thanks for all your hard work and look forward to the continuation.

[Gerberox]

Good job, thanks. I liked the no knockout requirement, but honestly it didn't add to the difficulty. The spacious areas and the arrangement of light sources made it easy to avoid everybody. If you plan to change anything, you could increase the brightness of the lamps, and you might add a few more.

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Maybe I missed something, but the lute thief part didn't make any sense storywise. The location was cool anyway.

 

Edited March 21, 2022 by Gerberox

[Xolvix]

Finally got around to this mission, I have a soft spot for good old classic mansion missions so this was a worthy experience. My only real complaint about the mission was how

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finding Zelmer murdered seems like it should have been a major event. But the player character Cole doesn't acknowledge it like he does with other things that happen in the mission (at least he didn't in my playthrough).

From reading other posts I gather this will be a plot point for the next mission in the series, but if Cole, upon finding the scene with the maid and Braxton, maybe muttered a quick comment about how he won't have time to investigate the murder and should just focus on the task, would make the player also perhaps realize that they're not going to get any answers regarding the mystery solved in this mission. I think I was expecting more from the mystery and maybe could get more clues, but it just sorta happens and that's that.

Anyway, still a great mission. I had to play on the medium difficulty due to wanting to KO guards, but that's fine since once you've played a mission you're better able to tackle ghosting in a future replay as you will still remember the layout.

Edited October 17, 2022 by Xolvix

[bobber1]

Having great fun playing this mission.  Having a mansion to roam through is my favorite type too,  very Thief-like.  I did not play on hard as I don't like limits on knock outs however.  Big chuckle when I ko'd a guard at the buffet table and he had a carrot still in his hand when I dragged him out.  Thanks for making this FM!