T2 FM: The Seven Shades of Mercury (Hammerite Imperium #1) - 20 May 2009 - by Yandros
nickie on 26/5/2009 at 20:16
I forgot - that silver team member patrolling the ramps who kept getting stuck in midair (I didn't mention it - I was just glad) who eventually fell to the bottom, I tried to attract the attention of the Black team and they didn't want to know!! Now I know why. And I still didn't get the alliances even after all those texts!
Yandros on 26/5/2009 at 20:37
I'm surprised about that (Blue and Gold). Anyway, if you read the readme briefing (or watch the movie), it says that the Band of Four was originally Blue/Gold/Purple/White. The Bo4 was broken by Gold, when they ambushed White, but that's not to say they necessarily turned on Blue. The readme suggests they broke the Bo4 to try and join the other three (Red/Silver/Black) since they are clearly the stronger teams, but were scoffed at. So it's possible that after the ambush, Gold decided to cut their losses and remain allied with Blue and Purple rather than try to go it alone.
Tannar on 26/5/2009 at 20:57
Sure, I'll buy that. ;)
Unkillable Cat on 26/5/2009 at 22:16
I can confirm that Silver team members will beat the crap out of any Reds they come across.
If you think that is strange, remember that there's a readable somewhere in the Cathredal that says that the "alliance" is strained at best. As long as Silver team stays in their area and Red stays in theirs, everyone is happy.
Stath MIA on 26/5/2009 at 23:40
Quote Posted by Yandros
With regards to the team interactions, remember that Red, Silver and Black are supposedly in an alliance. However, to be honest, I'm not sure that was specifically implemented, meaning I don't know if those teams will be friendly towards each other or not. I seem to recall luring some silvers up into the cathedral at some point during testing, and they pummeled the reds horribly because the reds refused to attack them. That's caused by the fact that the silver AI have dynamic light, which actually makes them invisible to other AI, oddly enough.
Well, I can confirm that most teams will attack each other. I have personally witnessed (and often instigated) the following conflicts: Blue and Gold, Red and Gold, Red and Purple, Red and Silver, Silver and Black. From what I've seen the Reds clean house except against Silver (the Red door guard actually managed to walk away from wiping out all the Golds in the academy).
Alexius on 26/5/2009 at 23:40
indeed. there's a readable in the library that explains that- they're novices in magic and sometimes while trying to summon a hammer they completely vanish from the level
:p
Philflound on 27/5/2009 at 02:24
It seems that the people who created this mission are ignoring my plea.
Phil
BrokenArts on 27/5/2009 at 02:46
Send a PM to Yandros. Hopefully he can help you. :)
Yandros on 27/5/2009 at 03:20
Quote Posted by Philflound
I'm actually upset that I cannot play this game. I can watch the movie and can choose the difficulty settings. I always choose the hardest level. When I go to load the game, it never finishes, just crashes to desktop. This is the 2nd mission that this has happened to me, and I'm discouraged that I cannot play these awesome new missions. I was reading this forum and saw people mentioning renaming the old EP.crf file to something else. I did that and the mission version was unzipped into my Thief2 folder. This did not solve the problem. Does anyone have suggestions of things I can do, like modify files or something? Thanks, I'm desperate!
Phil
PS: I installed the patch too, and no help.
I'm really not sure what to suggest, so let's start by gathering some data.
* What are your system specs?
* Does it crash during the loading screen, or does it crash after the loading screen goes away and before you see the first in-game screen?
* What other mission(s) has this happened with before?
* What are the timestamps of these files in your Thief folder after the mission is installed through Darkloader? miss19.mis, HammerA.gam, dark.cfg, EP.crf
* What .osm files are present in your Thief folder after installing it through Darkloader? What are their timestamps?
