nicademus on 31/3/2006 at 21:39
Hi,
I am at the end of the masks level and need to get to the streets. I have checked out the keepers chapel walkthru and so far so good. However, this time I am a bit stumped.
"Head over to the other study and enter the secret room (which you opened by flipping that switch on the desk). Inside, grab the purse, then go upstairs, taking the purse in the chest and the necklace from the bed. Now head back downstairs. Sneak across to the big glass windows, break one with your blackjack, gulp the slow fall potion (you did get the slow fall potion didn't you?) and jump to the streets. You're done!"
That's what it says in the walkthru and I have got as far as smashing the window and jumping to a ledge. I have taken the slowfall potion but the streets are across a courtyard about 50ft away! I have even tried smashing the other window along firing a rope arrow into the frame above and jumping from the rope to the stone beam to the side. If I could get to the beam I could jump to the streets from there. Am I missing something? Cracking game! Want to get to the next level.
Feedback will be appreciated.
theBlackman on 31/3/2006 at 21:53
Wrong window.
Try this: Go to the lobby at the main door. Fire a noise arrow into the double doors to the ballroom.
When the guard at the door goes to investigate, go out the front door.
Don't read walkthroughs. They only confuse you. :)
And you could try a SAVE and then just jump from the ledge. If you get OUTSIDE the building into the courtyard you are home free.
nicademus on 31/3/2006 at 22:05
I have actually made it to this courtyard and even gone to the lower floors elsewhere and made it outside but the level never seems to end.
nicademus on 31/3/2006 at 22:20
Weird! I tried jumping to the courtyard and the level never ended. However I jumped, went to the main doors of the building, picked the lock, entered and disturbed the gaurds! Then I turned back round and legged it back into the courtyard and the objective was complete. End of the level. Weird eh? I have the latest patch so I don't know what happened there.
SD on 31/3/2006 at 23:14
It's a known bug in the game. You have to exit through the doors, a lot of the time it won't recognise if you smash the window and slowfall from the upper floors (as most people do). So you need to open the front door, enter the mansion, and exit it again, and hope the level ends before the guards get you ;).
For me, it just added to the general rushed feeling of Thief 2, and I was already pissed off enough at that stage from having to play through virtually the exact same level that I'd just finished.
theBlackman on 1/4/2006 at 00:27
Funny, I've been lucky I guess. I have never had that problem at any level of difficulty.
Glad you made it through though.
nicademus on 3/4/2006 at 18:28
I am a happy bunny now, can't wait to sail through thief 2 and start playing thief 3! Then i guess I'll play some fan missions. hope there is a thief 4 in the making.
