T3 FM: The Oldstone Castle released Mar. 30, 2007

Cardia on 30/3/2007 at 15:23

Quote Posted by Krenim

I mean: where did you find the key to open that chest? :p

i only found 2 keys, on above the top of the bed and the other in a bookshelf

Krenim on 30/3/2007 at 15:42

Oh, I was sure I have already checked there, thanks.

Cardia on 30/3/2007 at 15:50

Quote Posted by Krenim

Oh, I was sure I have already checked there, thanks.

note that the keys can be use in more that 1 chest

SirFreddieM on 30/3/2007 at 19:32

Downloading now but boy does it take a long time, only 75,5 kb/sec takes it time.

I've been playing The Varyx Obelisk today and wow is this mission a treat. :thumb:

I'll play this new mission tomorrow. :cool:

Garrettwannabe on 30/3/2007 at 19:45

As with some of the other Russian missions - no clue (or I'm being real dense here - which could be a real possibility) on what the author's intent is for the player to do. I'll just wait (lazily) until my fellow thiefites figure it out and then go back in.

Looks good though & congrats on designing a very interesting Thief 3 mission...:thumb:

Ringer on 31/3/2007 at 01:04

I found a few bugs....Firstly in the church room I discovered if you press the buttons a few times they stop working, I got stuck in there with the teleport book not working and all the switches not working either...

In the drunken pub room, I have no idea whatsoever, the scroll is quite unhelpful and have tried many different things but all to no avail, the idea of only one chance to get it right is rather unhelpful, I believe that once the fire lights on the cushion that is it game over?????

Ringer on 31/3/2007 at 07:56

Got it finished, quite a challenge...Nice map and well done...

Code for drunken pub is [SPOILER]98521[/SPOILER]

Tiens on 31/3/2007 at 10:05

Sorry for my diappearence - me Internet account was on zero.

[SPOILER]About Drunken Pub:

The number code is one of five main artefacts of Thief3 - the HEART (one of zombies stops his drunk speech and talkes about it tree times) = 85192 in ABC counting.[/SPOILER]

Judith on 31/3/2007 at 10:33

First of all, congratulations on your first T3 fm! :thumb:

Now a bunch of my general impressions about the gameplay:

1. Putting repetitive Garrett lines everytime you frob something is... repetitive and annoying. I'd try something else instead - sounds are good, you can also add some inscriptions, as a reminder for the player.

2. Level transitions - I'm not sure whether this was necessary, those places aren't that big, and changing levels under T3 is a bit annoying, why not to put simple teleports plus nice fade in/out script?

3. Lightning (The Library) - it looks really great and this light transition was an excelent idea! But: there are too many lights in there which "efficiently" kills the performance. I don't know what your graphic card is, but on my GF 7900 GT (default developers drivers) the framerate is quite poor in some spots:

(http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=t3main2007033110421667px5.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7595/t3main2007033110421667px5.th.jpg

It's probably because of too many lights per scene - 4 to 6 is a reasonable limit.

Apart from above, I'm enjoying this one, it reminds me of America McGee's Alice a bit ;)

clearing on 31/3/2007 at 10:44

Tiens, используй spoilers в подсказках.