T2 FM: The Seven Shades of Mercury (Hammerite Imperium #1) - 20 May 2009

ffox on 22/5/2009 at 15:09

Dia: You get the extra objectives on Shadow difficulty. I recommend you try it. :)

Dia on 22/5/2009 at 15:38

Thanks ffox; I probably will!

ASHASSIN on 22/5/2009 at 15:38

:sweat:
after much taffin' around reinstalling everything, i can FINALLY play this! :D
realising that having every single fm installed, the resulting mess of folders didnt exactly do me any favours...:rolleyes::p

Thor on 22/5/2009 at 16:01

I guess i am the only one special enough who couldn't find the golden team's guard that stole white team's icon.

Also, I'm quite unsure if i will know how to render the black (or silver? I think they're in the same place) team guards unconscious. I found some promising scrolls in the grand library (very beautiful btw), so i would be ok with a hint, not necessarely a spoiler.

Glad you finally got it running, ASHASSIN. ;)

Nightwalker on 22/5/2009 at 16:10

I suspect you may have missed at least one hallway on the upper level of the academy.

White team icon Check the rooms on the upper floor of the academy VERY carefully. Don't forget that there are doors off of the snowy balcony that lead to hallways with rooms.

Silver team There's a special way to deal with them as their armour makes them impervious to most conventional weapons. Again, check the same rooms mentioned above and you should find them.

Thor on 22/5/2009 at 16:15

Quote Posted by Nightwalker

I'm pretty sure i did all of the academy. The balconies aswell... well, i guess i'll just get every little silver bastard on me and throw an ice bomb... that should prove effective... though blocking the way aswell. :D

Edit: found the actual way to pwn silver team... seems like it's going to be a bit of a pain...

The Mike on 22/5/2009 at 16:26

Quote Posted by Silver Sorrow

You thought this mission was hard?? :tsktsk: ;)

Anyway...

Anyone having crash problems should, in addition to moving the EP thing elsewhere (temporarily), find all custom content -- be it custom bowsites, differently-colored air bubbles, Japanese health shields, what have you -- and move that/those elsewhere as well before installing the FM. (Also, getting rid of any weird remnants leftover from other FMs might help.)

For me, the culprit in most crashes (when dealing with the more ambitious FMs) has to do with such things and not the EP...usually. But I remove that anyway, just in case.

Okay, enough of that. Stellar mission, people. Exquisite. Once I got past the confusion of the setup (I'm easily confounded...for example, ask me about math and revel in my dull, cowlike stare!), it turned out to be a lot of fun.

WRITE MORE FM REVIEWS. God, you're probably my favorite reviewer on all of the interwebs and I haven't seen anything from you in years (by the way, are your old Hangar 16 reviews archived anywhere?).

Also I just recently finished it and will be posting my review in the "General FM discussion" thread shortly. Needless to say I thought it was a big steaming bowl of awesome. Only why did I never get a hammer??! You let me play as a HAMMERite and don't give me a hammer to dole out some heathen justice with (all these unbelievers aren't going to beat themselves to death, now are they)?! OH how you tease me...

uncadonego on 22/5/2009 at 16:35

That was awesome...

epithumia on 22/5/2009 at 17:29

Quote Posted by Yandros

Oh by the way, I think no one mentioned it yet - there is a lootlist in the mission ZIP. Which means when you have it installed, it will be sitting there in your Thief folder. It's called 7SoM_Lootlist.html and will open in your web browser. Thanks to FreddyFox and Nightwalker for making it!

That's been there on the thiefmissions page since the beginning.

taffer19 on 22/5/2009 at 17:40

Thanks for the awesome mission! :cheeky:

I finished it on Legionnaire, but I actually managed to steal all icons and collected a little over 7000 loot!

I'll be sure to play the mission on Expert, or whatever the hardest mode is called. Good job! Personally I think it is worthy enough to be an actual level in the original Thief missions.