Thor on 16/8/2013 at 18:26

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Ok, this mission is amazing. 48 hours for something like that puts me in awe.

I have 3 things to note:
A question: Where is the optional objective evidence needed so I could warn the keepers?
A problem: I cannot get out of the Strags world, I come up halfway, with scary noises happening, but I cannot go through that cylinder-like area I am facing, nor does anything else happen, except the noises that go in a loop an some strange blue drops that fall down occasionally.
And a salutation: I LOVED the music played when going through the portal into the Strags world taken from that cutscene in Thief 1! :D That was so fitting and worked great with the atmosphere in my opinion.

But overall amazing amount of content here, especially storywise. Cool faction, honestly. I guess the author cheesed the graphics with just a few textures, but with the newdark effects it worked out great!

Thor on 16/8/2013 at 19:39

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Found the book thx.

But still can't get out in any way or manner of acting. This sucks. :( Hope somebody at least puts up a Let's Play of this mission.

FireMage on 16/8/2013 at 21:37

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That happened to me too, but when I reload before crossing this portal, I have been teleported correctly...
I hope that the author will fix that glitch after the contest...

Dafydd on 17/8/2013 at 05:27

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The first time I started playing, I got into the first building; I looked in the two rooms with the chests to open containing some arrows (various) and purple carrots; I went forward into the room with the people -- without a crash.

Then I was detected and attacked; so I reloaded back into the room with the chests (the one without the readable). But as soon as I looked in the direction of the people further up the corridor, the game crashed to black.

I tried quitting, rebooting, then starting up again, but the same thing happened: I was unable to look that direction in the main entry corridor without crashing.

First: How do I tell which version of New Dark, 19 or 21, I have? Second, assuming I'm running on 21, then is there some way (other than running out and buying a new computer) to get past that spot? Or will the crashes keep coming thick and fast?

Thanks,

Dafydd

Edit: I went back to before I entered the first set of chest rooms. I was able to open the chests, look up the corridor, and move to where the people were without crashing. But after nosing around a bit, I was spotted in the large, illuminated room with gold candles on the tables; whoever saw me shot an energy bolt at me from behind (I didn't see who did it, but I think I heard a female voice). And at that instant, before the shot even landed, the game crashed again. (Note that I was not looking in the direction of the shooter but at a candleholder, so it doesn't seem to be a visibility problem this time.)

Yeesh.

Dafydd-2

Dafydd on 17/8/2013 at 09:04

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Huh.

I extracted the 2.1 version of new_dark.zip and contrib.zip into my Thief2 folder. I think it replaced the earlier version -- thief2.exe has a creation date of 3/24/2013 -- but when I right click, check properties, and go to version, it still says version 1.9.0.0. What am I doing wrong?

Is it 2.1 or 1.9? Why didn't extracting from the zip file change it, since the date now matches the date in the new_dark.zip file?

Befuddled,

Dafydd