Reply With QuoteWoot! Congrats on release! Love your missions and can’t wait to try this one
My latest mission, The Violent End of Duncan Malveine, is available now.
NOW UPDATED TO v1.1:
Download v1.1 - Google Drive
Download v1.1 - Southquarter Mirror Thanks Brethren!
Download v1.1 - Taffer's Paradise Thanks Lord Soth!
Other mirrors welcome!
v1.1 Changelist:
- Adjusted the timing on a scripted sequence that was finishing before some players could see it.
- Blocked a couple of doors that were allowing players to frob items behind them when they
shouldn't.
- Made a system to check off an objective more reliable as it was occasionally breaking for some
players.
- Added a failsafe switch to reset all portrait lights to off. If your "accuse someone of the
murder" objective seems to be broken, try pressing this button to reset everything.
- Included a couple of corrections to the French translation.
- Fixed a clue that was not working properly in one of the murder scenarios.
Hope you enjoy the mission and have lots of fun with it!
Notes:
- The idea of this mission is to get you to think like a detective. One of your main goals is to determine who committed the murder. You will not fail the mission for getting this wrong - your objective is simply to accuse one person. However, the ending will change depending on whether you got it right or not. There are clues spread throughout the mansion; it's worth interacting with everything, even things that look like useless objects - they might be a vital piece of the puzzle! You also have two Notes pages to help keep track of motives, alibis and other such useful information. Read everything carefully, keep notes and you might just solve the crime. Or feel free to ignore the whole thing, accuse whoever you like, and just enjoy robbing the place. It's up to you!
- This mission makes extensive use of RANDOM elements. Some parts of the mission are randomised upon starting the mission, including the identity of the murderer. If you replay, you might find a whole new set of clues waiting for you.
- All the exterior windows will change from lit to unlit if all the lights are off in the room inside.
- Guards will always try to turn lights back on. Sometimes the clunky AI gets confused and they fail, but mostly this works.
- Guards will swap weapons. If you are nearby, they'll come at you with a sword. If you run far enough away, they'll switch to a bow. It looks a little weird sometimes.
- This was originally going to be my entry for the Thief 2: The Metal Age 20th Anniversary Contest. It quickly got out of hand, and so has been released separately.
- There may still be some bugs with cameras getting stuck or turning back on after they've been turned off.
- I have attempted to stay within the spirit of the contest as much as possible. There are a smattering of custom objects, either for narrative purposes, or to lower the cell count of the mission by using less bsp. However, the vast majority of the mission has been deliberately made with no custom resources, and it is best experienced without any custom texture/object packs.
- Installs and runs through FMSel and Angelloader. Other loaders have not been tested and are used at your own risk. Do not use Darkloader, it is outdated and unsupported.
- Requires New Dark version 1.27b or higher.
- New mantle should be turned ON. It should be set by fm.cfg but if you get stuck somewhere, it's worth checking this setting in your cam_ext.cfg.
- Includes FRENCH and GERMAN translations.
Last edited by nicked; 16th Aug 2020 at 08:03. Reason: Added mirror
Woot! Congrats on release! Love your missions and can’t wait to try this one
Thanks nicked...I always look forward to playing your missions.
Very interesting concept and sounds like quite a lot of custom scripting, definitely gonna check this one out!
Congratulations on the release, gonna give it a go in a few days when I've got free time. Very excited
Congrats on finishing, been waiting patiently for this. Here's a mirror:
The Violent End of Duncan Malveine
Ah excellent news. Congrats on the FM nicked - the notes alone make me want to dive in and taff about!
Congratulation Nicked.
Is this a puzzle FM or is it more of a case of finding clues and putting 2+2 together, I'm still trying to recover from trefoilknot's mission so not sure if I could handle another puzzle heavy FM.
The latter, it's not puzzle-y per se - you can just treat it like a normal mansion mission if you want.
We're getting really spoiled in 2020
Not spoiled, but treated as good taffers should be treated!Originally Posted by Azaran
We're getting really spoiled in 2020
I'm still trying to recover from trefoilknot's mission so not sure if I could handle another puzzle heavy FM.
These violent ends have violent delights.
Is it ok to knock out guards without effecting the outcome of the murder investigation? ie. no chance Benny did it because Duncan hid the wine cellar key or is it best to ghost the mission?
PS. Thanks for the auto map, seriously helpful on big maps such as this.
Last edited by fortuni; 18th May 2020 at 14:54.
Yes, that's fine. It won't impact the investigation.
What's happening, I can't keep up with the new releases
Congrats on the release! will play it by midweek, just took a sneak peak and it looks very classy, and that's a good sign!
Just finished, very good mission
This sounds like a lot of fun was made with AI, as well as other stuff that will make the gameplay more interesting. Can't wait to play it.
Added: https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissio...uncan-malveine
The sword/bow is a fantastic mechanic and I'd love to see it in future missions. At least until guards learn how to climb ladders
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I am getting the disappearing doors again??
Oh wow can't wait! Thanks nicked!
Mission completed in a bit more than 5 hours. I got 4651 loot, 10 secrets and 2 bonus objectives (high loot and idol). I only missed Page #2, it's probably related to the last secret I missed. Mission was really fun, I liked gimmick with watchers. As for story - somehow the hidden story is much more interesting than story related to murder. I find it weird. It's also interesting that you prevented people to use skip mission cheat to check if they are correct with identification of murderer. I managed to choose correctly on my first try. This was easier than I thought.
I had huge problem with finding King of Diamonds. That much that I started to check every door in this mission. It took me 1 hour. And hint is logical, but I didn't think that card will be that much further away gravelled yard.
Mission looks really nice. A nitpick - building from execution screen. I would prefer them to be further away, because they look much worse than mansion.
Loving this mission so far, it's enormous found 4961 loot but I've still got 15 playing cards to find so hope the books give good hints as I'm about to go back round so please don't tell me the card hunt is more difficult than the chess piece hunt in The Scarlet Cascabel.
Only slightly annoying thing is the auto map has a habit of bringing up the wrong floor page if your in a room with a balcony or on a 2 level suite, as well as the roofs, not sure if that is a thief engine bug which can't be fixed or not.
Edit: Finished 4201/5011 but my loot used to be 4961 so I assume 1000g is deducted from your loot total when you frame one of the guests or servants so really there is 6011g to be found. I failed to identify the murder but so what it was a wonderful mansion mission. I would almost go as far as suggesting that you have come up with a yet another new 'Thief' format, along with 'Into the Odd' and 'Builders Paradise' that's now 3 missions this year that have almost totally re-invented thief either in looks, style or game play so a big congratulations and thank you.
@ pwl Photobucket is really annoying with those advert banners slashed across the screenshot, you might want to consider using Postimage.org from now on, it's free and easy to use.
Last edited by fortuni; 19th May 2020 at 08:13.
Nah, it's just lazy roombrushing.
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