skacky on 30/11/2023 at 17:00
THE BLACK PARADE, AN UNOFFICIAL EXPANSION FOR THIEF GOLDby Feuillade Industries
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It is finally here! After 7-ish years of development,
The Black Parade is finally released. So, what awaits you in this campaign?
- 10 huge, open-ended and meticulously crafted missions with varied themes packed with content.
- A brand new protagonist thrown into a dark, intricately woven story of crime and conspiracies.
- 4 new tools happily supplied by the undermarket, at a price.
- Many tweaks to the AI to make the game a bit more challenging but still fair.
- A brand new "banter" system where AIs greet each other during their rounds and nightly life.
- 28 voiced characters totaling roughly 1,800 new lines of dialogue.
- 30 minutes of gorgeous hand-drawn briefings and cutscenes.
- Brand new AI motions making the denizens of The City look more alive.
- Full English subtitles.
In
The Black Parade you play the character of Hume, a hardened criminal who was sent into exile as a punishment for his crimes. The year is 833, you are now back in The City, a sprawling metropolis of soot-caked brick, greasy fumes and noisy machinery, with many a sinister conspiracy whispered behind closed doors. Lost and without a penny to your name, you are back to your life of thievery and must find your old associate Dahlquist. Shadows and silence are your allies. Light is your enemy. Stealth and cunning are your tools. And the riches of others are yours for the taking.
The Black Parade aims at being a love letter to Thief: The Dark Project, and we hope we succeeded! It is recommended to have played through Thief: The Dark Project and/or Thief 2: The Metal Age at least once beforehand, since these missions are overall tougher than the base game.
The Black Parade also comes with a few tweaks to the classic Thief gameplay formula:
- Hume is not a Keeper and thus never received Garrett's training: AIs will now notice you if they bump into you or vice versa, sometimes even in a perfect shadow. Be careful!
- Hume can move banners aside instead of having to slash them.
- Hume has additional footstep sounds for chains and pipes; these are metal sounds that aren't as noisy as regular metal (about as noisy as stone/wood).
- Water arrows can now be used to expand moss patches.
- Servants will re-light extinguished torches on higher difficulty levels.
- Servants may clean moss on the floor if they notice it on higher difficulty levels.
- Zombies now smash wooden doors open instead of simply opening them.
- Electric lanterns carried by guards can be turned off.
- A few guards in the campaign are outfitted with heavy armor and helms so they cannot be knocked out using the Blackjack.
- Hume can pick up small creature corpses such as spiders or sweels.
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QCC0dZ_ri86HquNnE_gCnayCD4ZIViFm/view?usp=drive_link) DOWNLOAD (912 MB)
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G__-vvT2fQyejQ9GWKZUsWw4qdCudna6/view?usp=sharing) MIRROR 1(https://www.taffersparadise.co.uk/thief1mission/TheBlackParade_1.0.7z) MIRROR 2(https://nickdablin.wordpress.com/how-to-play-thief-fan-missions/) Here is a very handy guide by nicked on how to set up Thief Gold for Fan Missions.!!!IMPORTANT NOTES!!!The Black Parade requires NewDark 1.26 or above! Make sure you use the latest version of TFix/TFix Lite before playing!The Black Parade should be launched with FMSel, NewDarkLoader or AngelLoader. It is not recommended to launch this campaign with DarkLoader or GarrettLoader. Note that mods such as Thief Gold HD Mod, NecroAge or Enhancement Pack are not compatible with this campaign.
Remember that this is a campaign for THIEF GOLD, not Thief 2!Known issues:
- Due to the complexity of the missions, there can be cases where some NPCs might get stuck walking against walls. There is unfortunately not much that can be done about this.
Inline Image:
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BrokenArts on 30/11/2023 at 17:02
GO GO GO!!! Have fun taffers!!! *This is gonna be fun.* :cool:
mtk on 30/11/2023 at 17:06
This is HUGE! Big congrats on the release!!
Adeveth on 30/11/2023 at 17:07
It's beautiful
Plibb on 30/11/2023 at 17:07
Congrats on the release! Thank you for your hard work
SilentDragon on 30/11/2023 at 17:08
EXCELLENT!
Am beyond excited!
DarkMax on 30/11/2023 at 17:08
Congrats to the team and everyone involved. You're ALL in for a treat and possibly the best and biggest project released so far :D
Brodo Swaggins on 30/11/2023 at 17:10
Yahooooo! Congratulations to the whole team! Cannot wait to dig into this.
(Also, for those following along - or just wondering - the retrospective piece I'm working on for the 25th anniversary will heavily feature TBP, which is why I couldn't share news about it until after it launched. Will post it here after it's published, likely next week.)
(Also also, I'm hoping to have a broader retrospective piece at another publication run a bit later, which will feature more of the great reflections and insights from the community y'all have shared with me. Thanks again to everyone who responded!)
Basso The Boxman on 30/11/2023 at 17:11
AMAZING! Hilarious that it was released one day before that troll kept insisting it would be released! [emoji1787] CONGRATS!!