atolonen on 9/12/2008 at 22:56
Quote Posted by Thor02
I'm a foolish Thief in the way, that i nearly never use equipment, that can run out (except for water arrows maybe or when i totally know mission is about to end) in thaught of: "What if later comes a place where i
really need it?" and so on...
I'm too economical sometimes, eh.
I do that all the time too, and when the mission ends I have a weird combination of a sense of accomplishment for making it through without having to use much, and regret for not using all those wonderful toys.
SneakyJack on 11/12/2008 at 03:57
Am I the only one that has never used flares? Is there a purpose for them that I have been missing all these years?
If something is so dark that I cant see - I just temporarily turn the gamma up a bit and then back down again when its not too dark.
Other than lighting the immediate area - are they used for anything else? :laff:
pavlovscat on 11/12/2008 at 05:45
In the multi-player game, you can burn the other players with them. It is also possible to throw them at your cohorts for "death by flare"! :ebil:
SneakyJack on 11/12/2008 at 19:12
Well, I am a stupid thief indeed - I didn't know you could do any of those things with flares.. however obvious it may seem! Thanks for the answers :D
Keeper Jonas on 14/12/2008 at 06:52
Of the many stupidities associated with me playing Thief, the following slow on the uptakes stand out.
-The whole thing about A.I.'s being able to hear you even if they couldn't see you really caused me trouble for a while on my first run of TDP. I don't think I had any sense of which surfaces were which until The Sword.
-I ignored scouting orbs the whole way through TMA the first time. They freaked me out and I was overly dismissive of their possible practical value. I didn't like not being able to move while using them.
-Figuring out how to destroy the puppets during Robbing the Cradle took a great many tries and horrifying failures.
This is embarrassing. :nono:
Herr_Garrett on 18/12/2008 at 18:54
I never ever use Scouting Orbs, except for checking - and hoping against hope - to see a quiver, or maybe a scabbard on Garrett's model :cheeky:
When I first played Down into the Bonehoard, I was smart enough to figure out that stepping onto traps is a real no-no, but I remember once I so concentrated on getting around a trap (looking downward, of course) that I never even noticed the zombie that stood up and killed me :D
Golden times, golden times...
SneakyJack on 2/1/2009 at 18:14
I also have only used the scouting orb a handful of times total in the many years I've been playing Thief.
A few more things I discovered via the Thief Wiki that I had no idea about:
- More Ways you can disable a combat bot (including the large cannon bots and spider bots):
1 Gas arrow to the boiler.
9 blackjack strikes
It can be blinded with flashbombs!
- A frogbeast egg can damage most apparitions that are immune to normal attacks!
- Leading a spiderbot to water will cause it to extinguish its own boiler.
- You can backstab a fire elemental.
Vahkrin on 3/1/2009 at 06:33
After reading the first post, I now know I have been a stupid thief! :p I had no idea you could knock out creatures other than humans. I was playing Down in the Bonehoard just the other day, slaughtering all the Burricks with my sword, running/sneaking past them, when I could have dealt with them almost as easily as any guard!
Silly me.
I'm also another that tends to conserve equipment a bit too much. I'll run around in a previous mission and get almost every single piece of loot, and buy up all this stuff, then at the end of the mission I usually have tons of stuff left! No wonder Garrett always has trouble paying his rent, he never recycles equipment.
JonesCrusher on 7/1/2009 at 17:04
I read in a previous post..........about thief 2
I barely listen to the first briefing of this first mission, I begin then, a guy talks to me and walks away.
I search here and there, then I peep someone by a window ... (I hope you already figured out what absurdity I did at this point cos it's so funny)
Hey, boy, gonna taste my blackjack.
I open the door, silently, I approach, carefully, my gem is pitch-black, alright, *knock* the guy falls ... hehe I think, suits you !
And ... *bam* mission failed : I just knocked Basso !!!
I laughed out loud when I realized ...
:(
I too did something similar at the start of that mission....and was also premature.......if only I had listened to the dialogue!.....Darn it!
Somehow he gave me a lovely little whistle,which ended up spinning in my inventory:D ...how kind....so I blew it!...lol
The guy ran off and I thought...WTF?...whered he go?...so I legged it after him and we were all set upon!....LOLOL:cool:
Needless to say I listened after that...and try to calm my itchy BJ hand and hair-trigger eagerness..Heehee
Another stoopid thing I did in an FM....I went into the occassional toilet/WC...and couldnt understand why there were scrolls left lying around,with nothing written on them.....LOLOL....and it suddenly dawned on me!...well what else would you use?
