Azaran on 13/3/2011 at 11:51
I just started playing TDM a couple of days ago (Tears of Saint Lucia, and Flakebridge Monastery to start off with) and had to share my impressions.
To put it simply...wow, I'm almost speechless :D. This is one of the most amazing games I've ever played. I felt like the first time I played Thief 1.
I can honestly say TDM beats Thief 3 in almost every aspect. The graphics are unbelievable, just mind blowing, and far superior to TDS (and Doom 3 itself) in my opinion - practically every frame begs for a screenshot. The movement, weapons, equipment, HUD are all in keeping with the T1 and 2 models (just the way I like it). The npc's behaviour and movement is more realistic than T3 (I love how the Builders throw rocks at you if you're out of reach :cheeky:).
I have practically nothing negative to say about TDM. The only thing I have to get used to is that npc's have way more reach than the other games (I got killed a bunch of times by zombies because of this, thinking I was out of reach) - I'm practically on the other side of the room and the zombie can still smack me :mad:.
TDM is what I wish T3 had been...
Great job, you guys rock :thumb:
Shadowhide on 13/3/2011 at 12:41
good morning ! darkmod was released back in 2009 but you played it only now
Springheel on 13/3/2011 at 13:11
Hi Azaran. Thanks for the kind words. There are 39 missions released at present, so you've got lots more fun ahead of you. :)
ZylonBane on 13/3/2011 at 15:12
Quote Posted by Shadowhide
good morning ! darkmod was released back in 2009 but you played it only now
Your name is Shadowhide! You press keys to spell words that say obvious things!
KuBiLaY17 on 13/3/2011 at 21:24
Dark Mod is one of its kind, it gave back the thief feeling. We certainly missed that with Thief: Deadly Shadows, and we have the risk of loosing again with thief4. GLad we have the Dark Mod, cant wait to play the missions in 2011.
Azaran on 13/3/2011 at 23:24
Quote Posted by Shadowhide
good morning ! darkmod was released back in 2009 but you played it only now
I had a Pentium 3 until last year...
Azaran on 14/3/2011 at 10:31
That's one of the ones that's not working for me. I played a few but some won't run, but will just crash with a "
malloc failure for 4194312" message :(
"Return to the City" and "Alchemist" won't run either
New Horizon on 14/3/2011 at 12:11
Quote Posted by Azaran
That's one of the ones that's not working for me. I played a few but some won't run, but will just crash with a "
malloc failure for 4194312" message :(
"Return to the City" and "Alchemist" won't run either
Azaran, do you have the texture compression settings disabled in the advanced video settings menu?
If they are disabled, 'enable' them. The loading time will be a bit longer, but your ingame performance will be better and you shouldn't get the malloc errors.
I had added those settings to the menu in 1.04, hoping they would help reduce loading times...but they have created malloc errors for many users. Not good.
We're going to look into other options for reducing the loading times.
As a general request. We ask everyone to re-enable the texture compression settings in the advanced video menu. We'll address the loading times in a future update, but for now to avoid running into these errors, please enable those the texture and normal map compression in the menu.
Thanks.
lost_soul on 14/3/2011 at 13:41
Also, St. Alban's Cathedral was just re-released with bug-fixes for 1.04 and other new additions. Some of the criticisms were addressed too, like too few AI in the first version.
I play with all texture compression off and have never gotten a malloc error, but I have an 8 gig machine with a 1 gig vdeo card. :) I'm aware of the limitations of a 32-bit process though (which Doom 3 is)
