Nens on 25/6/2008 at 15:04

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Here's walkthrough for Thief 2: The Metal Age. Mostly ghosting the missions.

Videos are 848x480 resolution, widescreen, giving it nice movie like look, but they are not compressed with xvid, but x264, and ac3 for sound, in a .mkv container. Size of files are bigger than what xvids would be, but quality is way better, almost looks like uncompressed videos. I recommend using (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/) smplayer (would be my choice), (http://kmplayer.kde.org/) kmplayer, or (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) vlc player to watch videos. All freeware, and all coming with some codecs needed for watching, or so I think.

Videos are up at Vuze, which is some combination of bittorrent, and video storage. I mean, I can upload videos there, and no longer seed for you guys to get them, though, I will, for speeds would be better.

Here they are, mission by mission.

(http://www.vuze.com/details/7GMV4WFVA5IAPIEVYTOAIWTRWNP4YXVN.html) Running Interference
(http://www.vuze.com/details/PHR3PXT34KBBECPSBBK4FKO4LT7NTGBT.html) Shipping ... and Receiving
(http://www.vuze.com/details/FPQO6DQA6BVDNJCM2MDWIOV34LJUZTFF.html) Framed
(http://www.vuze.com/details/FLLX6TDPCGYO3ZIBB53B6OPEHYNQFKIU.html) Ambush
(http://www.vuze.com/details/EVTIEYP4VBRGMPAQE5LNVK6DR56YR45D.html) Eavesdropping
(http://www.vuze.com/details/2ZVDHAV76NYI2KVDWZ7I7PBUAWHHWRIR.html) First City Band and Trust
(http://www.vuze.com/details/ZDDPKR7ZM4GQXLHXI74UVECSN5YDC44W.html) Blackmail
(http://www.vuze.com/details/4WUYLRG4LPFEVQNCK5FLPVH3RYY22EEP.html) Trace the Courier
(http://www.vuze.com/details/XP23GEPTM5GX2COBTTZDLUMLHVUV2DQH.html) Trail of Blood
(http://www.vuze.com/details/FH7MF2D4UWY7EGYE67FVPUQW6FK6CWLD.html) Life of the Party
(http://www.vuze.com/details/BLJZ343LTJ5FHEYDSK2AWW374CMSMS52.html) Precious Cargo
(http://www.vuze.com/details/C2GJL42ZFCUOKRCVWFNETDG5FFT6S5VA.html) Kidnap
(http://www.vuze.com/details/W5OG7SOEOQCUVVCYW2V73FHT2HOHDFUI.html) Casing the Joint
(http://www.vuze.com/details/CLTF7XSRNVWUQNRFR6KU4EIC5WMTN3WC.html) Masks
(http://www.vuze.com/details/VVMKPC7WKK4K2YGEJXSW5L4MBZHPW4IG.html) Sabotage at Soulforge

If there are any problems, please let me know. And hope you like videos!

Also during next couple of days, will upload Thief Gold videos on Google Video, where they can stay online for quite a long time. Too bad they do not support .mkv files yet.

Dominus on 25/6/2008 at 17:56

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I can't download the "Masks" mission, says ETA 17min
why? :confused:

Thanks for these, great! :D

Dominus on 25/6/2008 at 18:14

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ah, tnx Nens, the other missions work fine
I will wait for Masks

good job :)

Nens on 25/6/2008 at 22:44

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I haven't really payed attention if fogging was on or off...t'was off as it seems. And for the better, looks horrific here. Radeon x1650 pro card.

With fogging:

http://i28.tinypic.com/21m6eew.jpg

Without:

http://i28.tinypic.com/rk3jpz.jpg

But will for sure check DDfix, thought as I don't have nvidia card, that it's of no use. Thought wrong, right? ;)

And it seems I'll have to upload Masks again, really no idea what's the problem.

EDIT: DDFix seems pretty good, but not for fog, same thing as before, but...that actually seems to be just Life of the Party mission problem, as I've just tried Precious Cargo, and there fog really looks nice. But in Party...weird, abrupt "stoppage" of fog, then just in some places,...don't like it a bit. I love no changing of resolution when reading scripts, or going to objectives (map, anything really), then no more need to ctrl-alt-del and setting affinity to one core,...and the graphics seem better? Or I imagined that?

Nens on 26/6/2008 at 10:52

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Thank you, sir! Looks great now. :)

Masks are uploading at the moment, prolly will be available tomorrow.

EDIT: Think Masks are finally available.

(http://www.vuze.com/details/CLTF7XSRNVWUQNRFR6KU4EIC5WMTN3WC.html)