T2 FM: The Drymian Codex (10 Mar, 2013)

[Ravenus1]

I wont be able to post results until Friday night; due to work schedule. I will post them though. Thanks for the help.

I cant believe I need to wait until Friday to play DCE.

[Ravenus1]

Hey Guys,


I been pasting this from notepad, word etc. Even if I use code tags around this thing it looks like heck. The whole document is aligned perfectly to the left but after I submit it looks terrible.


Interesting enough I deleted all the language folders in D:\TDPMA\Thief2\FMs\Codex_v1\intrface other than English and the menu was fine. But the objectives were not view able.

So then I removed the Italian directory and everything looks perfect. What the heck?


I am still happy to post this or email the directory structure.

[Gloria Creep]

I forgot how to enter the hanted crypt. I've got all other objectives.

Please can someone give me a direct spoiler. I'm walking in circles for more than 2 hours now.

[Yandros]

The door to the haunted crypt is down a ladder in the sewers, near the room with the broken bridge. The key to the door is in the room where the two sewer workers talked about it, on the desk.

[Gloria Creep]

Thanks Yandros, I already had that key.

[Aemanyl]

Just escaped from the monastery with the Drymian Codex in my hands. I kept all spider eggs until the very end, so it was hilarious to see how all those pagans fight with the spiders in the courtyard. I want to thank Yandros & the team for making this mission. Excellent design, very interesting storyline and outstanding atmosphere.

[GUFF]

I think the newest version of NewDark (1.26) may break some parts of the mission. On Expert I was unable to pickup the Trials of St. Dismas inside the little girl's secret room in the crypt and yes this was after reading the readables that trigger the objective. The ghost in the haunted crypt also seemed to display abnormal behavior, whereas before it was perfectly predictable on a route it seemed to be very random. This isn't the only NewDark mission I've seen some issues with in the latest NewDark. Zealot's Hollow had some minor issues with some NPC (the mage with his barrier in the room with one of the zombie corpses) stuck halfway into the floor. Seems to be mostly the earlier NewDark era missions are affected in some way.

[fortuni]

NewDark appears to be a curse as well as a blessing with some bugs.

I've been instrumental in 'fixing' nearly 100 missions with dml's over the last couple of years and have found that newer versions of Newdark can both cause new issues as well as magically fix old issues on their own.

A classic example is The Thieves Quarters, where with older versions of Newdark the game CTD when you tried to pick up the holy hammer, for which there was no fix, but from Newdark 1.23 onwards this issue disappeared all by itself.

Recently I discovered in Horns of Canzo: Part 1 that I could collect the tiara from the cemetery but Athalle reported that she couldn't. Unna looked into this and pointed out that I should not have been able to collect the tiara as it has no frob info.

So it maybe that some bugs may show up depending on the set up of your computer, as well as how clean your Thief install is.

In theory the dml's that Unna makes should fix those bugs that have been reported, but there is no guarantee that they will work on everybody's computer or with every version of NewDark.

If you post the object no's of the items affected in The Drymain Codex Unna can take a look and hopefully produce a dml to rectify these bugs.

[Unna Oertdottir]

@Guff: Delete NVS.osm in the FM directory. Install new NVScripts
http://www.mediafire.com/file/429s0f..._Bundle1.1.zip
put NVScript.osm in the FM folder and rename it to NVS.osm.

or use this dml fix

DML1//Drymian Codex//NVScript fix//miss20.mis.dml
#script nvscript

[GUFF]

It required a mission restart but worked. Old save started with the script bundled with the mission archive itself wouldn't work. The mission did work 100% with previous versions of NewDark last time I'd played it in 2014, though, so kind of weird stuff.

[bbb]

This is one of the best missions I have played. Fantastic gameplay, interesting objectives, wonderful architecture. I love crypts and exploring and this mission has lots of both. Really great ending also.

Thanks to the authors for a terrific few hours.

bbb

[Ravenus1]

This has always been one of my favorites and easily in the top of all time.

[Yandros]

Thanks to both of you. This was a lot of fun to make, and the collaboration with R_T and Tannar was the best part.

[Tannar]

What he said! : )

[baeuchlein]

There are some Polish font files in this FM's archive, making some Polish characters (letters) available in "Thief". These font files could also be of use for some recently translated Polish missions, making it possible to include the original Polish book texts in a multi-language archive. Does anyone know where these font files came from, whether they may be taken and used for other missions, and who should be credited for them in such a case?

[Yandros]

I'm fairly sure they were provided by the gent who did our Polish translation. I don't remember his name off hand but he should be listed in the ReadMe.

[baeuchlein]

That's trudnicki then, mentioned in the trailer movie thread as well. I'll follow that lead, then. Thank you!

[moatazemam]

Just finished. This ranks among the best Thief games I have ever played, if not the best. I particularly liked the battle scene at the end. And the music!! Will play again to get all loot and some secrets I missed. Well done authors!

[Yandros]

Thank you for the kind words!

[downwinder]

just got done with replaying it i think my 4th time and still an amazing mission,i had to kill ever spider in mission as they are evil and dont deserve to be left alive

amazing job with that mission,i even saved the pagan spy ,should have been a bonus objective for that

[gamophyte]

i had to kill ever spider in mission as they are evil and dont deserve to be left alive

LOL! Jesus man what did they do to you

Instead of spider hider there needs to be spider doubler. Or friendly cute spider converter.

[Dogar]

Finished this for the first time a few days ago. One of the most enjoyable fan missions I've ever played. I especially liked how elaborate the guard patrols were. It made you unsure as to where you'd see them pop up, which even made explored areas feel fraught with dangers. The only disappointing thing was how abruptly the story ended. Love to see more missions from the authors.

[Random_Taffer]

Finished this for the first time a few days ago. One of the most enjoyable fan missions I've ever played. I especially liked how elaborate the guard patrols were. It made you unsure as to where you'd see them pop up, which even made explored areas feel fraught with dangers. The only disappointing thing was how abruptly the story ended. Love to see more missions from the authors.

Thanks Dogar. The biggest collaboration that's been released by us was Death's Cold Embrace. We also did a smaller collaboration for a contest called Cell 6. Yandros and Tannar did Waterfront Racket which I was not involved with other than some voicework. And of course, we're currently hard at work on the next campaign.

[Marmbo]

3 hours 33 minutes to get Loot: 7664/9359 Secrets 6/8 Pockets Picked 10/10 Dewdrop!

So many guards all over, got sidetracked and ended up searching around an area that I probably didn't need to so much, but missed things elsewhere. I don't know if there is a Key for the healing hammer but I ended up just busting the door down. Nice atmosphere and music selection.

[nightshifter]

man oh man, what a ride this was

It was just when browsing Fen Phoenix vids, that I realized I never played this mission

what a great mission, good story, looking marvelous, humor (the horn of quintus), scary the haunted crypt with the "thing"
THE SWORD( thanks Fen Phoenix). I had to go down that haunted crypt again cause I threw that skull away...

Yandros, Random Taffer and Tanner: thank you for this masterpiece and for getting my wife annoyed because I spend the last days at my laptop playing this mission( the stats say 3hours, 1 minute and 34 seconds.. yeah yeah, make that times 20)