sNeaksieGarrett on 31/12/2007 at 05:54
Interesting. I remember this happening to me in thief TDP, but I don't think I've experienced it in Thief Gold. TDP had this as a bug, not related to hardware or anything. Just a glitch in the Dark Engine I believe.
Winter Cat on 31/12/2007 at 22:34
It occurs in TG too. TDP and TG have actually exactly the same engine.
sNeaksieGarrett on 1/1/2008 at 00:41
Really? Somehow I had the impression it wasn't in TG... But I guess that is only cuz I've never had it happen to me yet, on TG.
Quote:
TDP and TG have actually exactly the same engine.
Well yeah, but it was IMPROVED, right? or was Thief 2 the actual improvement?
Winter Cat on 1/1/2008 at 11:20
TDP and TG use the same engine with the same bugs. Thief 2 Demo engine was improved with colored light support, but almost everything other was left just as it was before, rope bug is still there, but some others are fixed. So T2 Demo engine is like Thief 1 with colored light + few bugfixes. Thief 2 is much more unlike to T1 or T2 Demo concerning engine, rope bug fixed but many others appeared.
redleaf on 3/1/2008 at 02:29
Well, I ONLY play T2 missions, and it happens almost every time! I don't see how that bug could have been fixed. :nono:
Goldmoon Dawn on 3/1/2008 at 04:17
This is so cute to me. This has happened to practically everyone at one time or another in the history of Thief. The Dark Engine "bugs". Everyone has their own particular learning curve too. :) Some people go flying off the rope and laugh it off. Then they approach the rope in different ways methodically until they "get it". Personally, this bug is one of my favorites. Right up there SHAS.
sNeaksieGarrett on 3/1/2008 at 17:10
I found a new bug recently that I never realized before because I never got a chance to make it happen. In dromediting, if you turn on ai_aware_of_player, it makes them unaware of you - So, in doing that, I was testing the mission (bafford's) and if you run up to the guard on the right at the front gate...
You bounce off him.:o :laff: run up, bounce back, whee!:cheeky:
I had another thing happen to me one time (not rope related) in which I had leaned around a corner in RTHC (Thief TDP) and looked aroud the corner and found myself go flying off the second floor:o Hard to explain, I'd have to show a screenshot of which room i'm referring to, but its inside the cathedral. I have had rope bug problems before, but IIRC I had more problems in Thief TDP than I have in Thief Gold.
I've been remembering wrong, I still have problems with the rope in thief gold, but i think it was worse in thief 1 maybe.
[edit] Hey, I found the image I need! (filefront screenie, second one from left):
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http://software.filefront.com/Thief/;555;/software_information.html)
On the second floor, near that hammerite door (when it is opened) - I think that is where I looked around the corner, and then flew off.
Yandros on 3/1/2008 at 20:49
Quote Posted by redleaf
Well, I ONLY play T2 missions, and it happens almost every time! I don't see how that bug could have been fixed. :nono:
Yep, I had the rope bug kill me on Night One of
The Seven Sisters just the other day. :cheeky:
That's a T2 FM for those who don't know. And one of the best evah...
CheeseshireCat on 7/1/2008 at 10:52
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
I had another thing happen to me one time (not rope related) in which I had leaned around a corner in RTHC (Thief TDP) and looked aroud the corner and found myself go flying off the second floor:o Hard to explain, I'd have to show a screenshot of which room i'm referring to, but its inside the cathedral. I have had rope bug problems before, but IIRC I had more problems in Thief TDP than I have in Thief Gold.
I get bounced different distances after leaning around a corner about one in fifty times on average. Sometimes, it is just short enough distance for me to barely notice -- or to just move me from shadow to the red lights; other times, it has been a couple yards back -- a few times, even through the (closed and locked) door on the other side of the corridor.
As for rope bug... Had it VERY seldom, except one case. In "Keeper of Prophecies" series, when getting back down from climbing pole, I decorated all of the tower by ropes several times, and *EVERY* time I was trying to jump on one, no matter, hanging from the wall of from beam (=LOTS of empty space around), I was thrown away so hard, I was likely dead from hitting the wall before I dropped down to the floor :)
(Frobber, you're one sick puppy... WTF did you put an *arrow* up there?)
redleaf on 8/1/2008 at 01:27
Fun? NOT! :mad: Just trying to climb a rope in a new fm - if I even TOUCH it, I hear Garrett's dying scream. Reload. Same thing. Reload. Same thing. * Sigh*
Climbing is one of my fave pastimes in Thief. I'm wondering if it could be related to the specific cd I have of T2? I found a place selling it for $9.95. Think I'll buy it and try a re-install. I mean, why should I have this problem all the time, and most others rarely or not-at-all? Seems weird. :weird:
