chis on 26/2/2007 at 22:46
Quote Posted by cardia1
Scan X is my favourite artist, if you want i can send you the ambient sound "cardia"(windstil), you only have to paste the sound file in the snd folder that it´s in the fm file, inside the snd folder put inside the sfx folder, and then you have the music of scan X as ambient sound
this mission was created dedicated to this fm, however Sluggs who was the fm betatester didn´t liked the music , so i had to change it to philiph Glass, anyway, i´ll send you the Scan X music "cardia" via "yousentit"
Well, I did just try to purchase a copy of (
http://www.discogs.com/release/480) Random Access but Amazon don't have it. Got Lost, Earthquake and Chroma coming though. :) "How To Make The Unpredictable Necessary" was excellent.
This is all fun chat, Cardia, but I still can't get the mission itself to work. Thief hangs at a black screen just after the loading screen. :(
Gripper on 26/2/2007 at 23:02
Room 4... [SPOILER]I flipped the switch and the chest moves back... but nothing is there????[/SPOILER] What do I do now??? I'm kinda stuck....
Cardia on 26/2/2007 at 23:44
Quote Posted by Gripper
Room 4... [SPOILER]I flipped the switch and the chest moves back... but nothing is there????[/SPOILER] What do I do now??? I'm kinda stuck....
there is:[SPOILER]a hole behind the armorie, dificult to see, but it´s there, and there is located another key[/SPOILER]
Cardia on 26/2/2007 at 23:50
Quote Posted by chis
Well, I did just try to purchase a copy of (
http://www.discogs.com/release/480) Random Access but Amazon don't have it. Got Lost, Earthquake and Chroma coming though. :) "How To Make The Unpredictable Necessary" was excellent.
This is all fun chat, Cardia, but I still can't get the mission itself to work. Thief hangs at a black screen just after the loading screen. :(
i´ve got everything from Scan X.except. "liquid Metal" "after effect", and the other "earthquake versions" i can get you "satorie e.p." ,"Intrinsic mind" "magnet" "wasteland" "random acess(without "liquid metal")", i wonder if you could get me the other versions of earthquake?
"how to make the unpredictable necessary?" is the only original cd i´ve got here(Great album), i wish i could have all originals.
try to reinstall the fm, or download again the fm.
Cardia on 26/2/2007 at 23:52
Quote Posted by Lightningline
Nooo...I already got Isildo. I mean a guard in black I can see out on the slanted roof. I can see him from the courtyard. And from some spots up top. Dont know how he got there. I tried to make a screenshot but they were to dark and I forgot what I used before to brighten one up.
well you´ve got the loot objective complete, it´s 3000 loot , you´ve killed Isildo and sword, then you´ve finished the fm, so you can leave that taffer alone:) , i wonder how that thief got up there in the roof:D
Cardia on 26/2/2007 at 23:55
Quote Posted by Sluggs
Actually, I liked the music, but after a while I just wanted to be able to turn it off. It was also beginning to give me a headache! That kind of music is fine and dandy, but you don't want it playing through the whole mission. The new music is much better, and doesn't get annoying after a while. :D
It really needed other beta testers to give their opinion. As I was the only tester, I had to give you the best advice possible. The mission was more or less in MY hands! :eek:
You´re opinion was imporant, i also agree that philip glass fited better in my fm, you´re a good Beta tester, hope you can test my next fm, and my family was of your opinion too:thumb: .
chis on 27/2/2007 at 00:17
Okay, I downloaded it from a different mirror. Slightly larger filesize.
This time, when I load the mission, the loading screen disappears, but its background ambient sound continues to play. If I ALT+TAB back out to Windows, there is a message box titled "Error", containing the following message:
"ERROR: Direct3D device driver does not accurately report texture memory usage. Contact your 3D accelerator vendor for updated drivers."
This is the only mission it does this on, I've just finished playing through two other new fan missions without any errors!
Edit: I've tried activating Safe_Texture_Manager in USER.CFG, and that has fixed it. Odd that I haven't needed it for any other mission!
chis on 27/2/2007 at 00:45
Don't mind me... :P
Nightwalker on 27/2/2007 at 00:48
chis A switch beside door frame moves the armoire.
Dafydd on 27/2/2007 at 07:16
And how many blasted hit points does he have? Do broadheads even affect him?
Here is what I've done:
I killed all the other thieves with the sword. They're out of the way, and I have enough loot to finish. I just need to kill Isildo.
[SPOILER]I opened his door; then I went down and shot him with a couple of fire arrows at point blank range (the first destroyed his helmet). I tossed down a flashbomb; and while he was staggering, I ran upstairs. I ran across the wall walkways to the opposite corner, raced down, and closed his door, trapping him outside (somebody said to do that).
All right, so like Timothy Leary, he's outside, looking in. Or trying to get in; he keeps walking into the closed door. I went back down.
From behind, I shot him with another fire arrow, then I ran and hid. When he gave up searching and went back to his futile attempt to get back into his room, I shot him with my fourth and last fire arrow. (Both these last two were head shots, if that makes any difference.)[/SPOILER]
Then, when he was calm again, I took to plinking him with broadheads. Each time, I shoot him once or twice, then I scuttle off in darkness to evade his search. I have thus, at this point, shot him with four fire arrows, two mines (my last two), and 12 broadheads.
And yet he lives. He doesn't seem to be much affected. Every broadhead draws blood, but I have no idea if he's close to death -- or if I've reduced his hitpoints from 1,225,000 to 1,224,618.
Whenever I try to rush him with the sword, I can batter him from behind 15 or 20 times, but then he always manages to get me within his reach... and I die in two or three sword strokes. (I'm terrible at Thief melee skills.)
What in heavens name do I need to do to kill him? And how come others can breeze in, whack him a few times with the sword, and he goes "ouch, I'm dead!"
Edit: I was finally able to kill him:
[spoiler]After all of the above, I snuck up right behind him and gave him an overhead backstab with Justicer; and that killed him.
I thought maybe his head was always vulnerable... so I went back to an earlier save, before shooting the arrows, and tried the same trick: I hit him square, but he didn't die. So I can only suppose he just has some ungodly amount of hitpoints.[/spoiler]
Yeesh. Anyway, he's dead, mission's over. It was interesting and certainly well designed -- but I really prefer the thiefly Thief missions!
Dafydd
