Owl2 on 9/12/2021 at 13:33

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Ai ai ai ai what the hell did i just play. I didnt expect much by the title but it got a whole lot worse o.o

vincentlancon on 10/12/2021 at 07:32

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Sweet

fortuni on 20/12/2021 at 20:43

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Managed to finish this mission and wow was that a tough little cookie, not only do you have to ghost it but you also have to deal with a crypt from hell.

I know not many people are huge fans of T3 missions, clunky controls etc, but for those of you who do I highly recommend this one, it’s a challenge, it’s cute, it’s classic T3, it’s got a clever little plot and I spent half my time giggling. Can’t really ask more from a mission.

Thank you papakario787 :thumb:

<Username> on 23/11/2023 at 20:41

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Where is the bag of gold teeth (special loot item)? fortuni's walkthrough says it is in the east corner of the south attic. I assume this is the ritual room? I could not find it in any of the corners of that room on Expert difficulty. I restarted the mission on Easy difficulty, got back to the room, but the bag was not there either.

<Username> on 24/11/2023 at 20:30

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The Hobbit is not very good, but the author's ambition is admirable. papakarlo787's map is crammed with technical details: a secret door activated by a hidden button, an exploration puzzle in which you have to collect items for a ritual, a tunnel you have to blast open with explosives, a trap that turns on the lights, a horde of undead storming the level as battle music from the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy plays in the background. If the execution had been a little better, I would have really enjoyed the mission.

Stats:
* Expert difficulty
* 83 minutes
* 9685 of 9610 loot (100%)
* 5 hints needed
For the first time in T3 fan missions:
* A crossover story with a different fantastic universe.
* Narrated briefing and debriefing.
Elements I liked:
* The amount of technical details in the map: quite a lot of variety for a small mission.
* New objectives are added as the player makes progress, making the playthrough feel dynamic.
* No other T3 fan mission before had a narrated briefing or debriefing. Some have intro videos with voice over, but none before The Hobbit had a narrated text before and after the mission.
* The outside area you start in looks pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised.
* The multi-layered layout of Bilbo Baggin's house in which you can see from the top floor down to the level you entered at is interesting.
* I had not expected a big battle between "Hobbits" and the Undead at the end, accompanied by epic Lord of the Rings movie music.
* A few Garrett quips from the Deadly Shadows campaign are reused at fitting locations.
Could be improved:
* The mission shows up as "Hobbit_(1)" in FMSel.
* There are numerous grammatical and spelling errors in the mission's English language texts.
* The voice acting in the intro and extro is not very good.
* If you switch to the map, it shows the layout of the Blue Heron Inn.
* The mission doesn't do a very good job of telling the player what to do next.
* Framerate issues despite the small size of the map.
* A potted plant on the top floor occasionally flashes. This threw me off because I thought it was part of a puzzle. According to fortuni's walkthrough it is just a property of the object carried over from the Deadly Shadows campaign, where that object could be interacted with.
* In the second room of Bilbo Baggin's house, Howard Shore's theme from the movie trilogy stops and the game switches to normal Thief music. I would have loved to keep listening to movie music. It was a nice change after playing so many T3 fan missions that always reuse the same tunes from Deadly Shadows.
* The player can't possibly anticipate the trap in the tombs. This is a guaranteed reload.
Bugs:
* After I click "Continue" on the end stats screen, the game switches to a loading screen and then crashes. The crash is reproducible.
Hints needed:[spoiler]
* Missed the note under the sun lounger on the middle floor.
* Missed the key on the belt of the Pagan on the top floor.
* Found the button that opens the tomb, but did not find the tomb in time. How was I supposed to know there is a secret door somewhere else in the mission that is on a timer?
* Found only found 84% of the loot. Used the fortuni's walkthrough to get to 100%.
* Did not find the bag of gold teeth (special loot item). Used snobel's T3 LootHunter to find a key the in a dark spot next to a body on ground floor. That key opens two chests in the south attic. In one of them is the bag of gold teeth.[/spoiler]