The Phantom on 16/9/2005 at 20:53

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08/07/2006: Added Mission A Keeper's Betrayal

Fellow Taffers,
We have a lot of threads where members ask others to name fanmissions that are worth playing. I thought lets make a thread where everyone can post the titles of the Thief 2 missions that he/she really finds worth recommending. I hope everyone will respond on this thread seriously, so we can all get a clear view of the missions another member is recommending. Lets create one big database of worth playing fanmissions for Thief 2 The Metal Age.

To make clear what fanmission you find better then the other, you have to rate each mission with a cipher from 7 to 10. But no matter what the score, every mission title you post is worth playing according to you :) :
Rating works like this:

7 - 7.5 = Good (Bronze Award)
8 - 8.5 = Excellent (Silver Award)
9 - 10 = Outstanding (Gold Award)

Explanation: Give every mission you play a cipher from 1 to 10. When you award it a 7 or higher it’s a recommendation and you can add it to the list. Missions received a 6 - 6.5 rating are worth a try, but just not really worth recommending.

The number of missions you want to recommend doesnt matter. You can start with one and add more mission titles (and their ratings) any time you want by editing your existing post.

Responding to this thread without posting a list of missions is of course allowed, as long as it doesn’t turn into a discussion about ratings (see Rule 4 below).

You can use this thread to find which missions the community is recommending, comparing the ciphers you gave with other members etc.
It’s your choice to decide which fan mission you want to play. You can watch the ciphers that a member gave to a mission, the gold-silver and bronze ratings, or you can read the comments a mission received. Maybe you even want to calculate the average rating for a mission.

The Rules:

1 Put the mission in alphabetic order (else finding a specific mission is more difficult)
2 When posting missions place 'The' and 'A' in some titles behind the mission instead of before (also to simply the search for a specific mission).
Example:
'The Seventh Crystal' becomes 'Seventh Crystal, The'.
3 It could happen you listed so many missions that it no longer fits into one post. You can post a new reply and continue posting recommended missions. To prevent confusion you can give your second post ‘Part 2’ or ‘2’ as title or something like it. Also, dont forget to refer to your other next post by a notification below your first post.
Example:
Continued on page 3
4 Please add no missions that you played years ago. Ratings change over the years because the overall quality is improving and there are just much more missions to compare these days (a mission that received an 8 in, say, 2002, may be longer be worthy of that cipher in 2006).
5 Please no reactions like ‘that mission is worth at least a 10!’ or ‘you give that mission only a 7?’ etc. It’s a personal score that you can agree or disagree with. Someone who downloads and plays a listed fanmission can decide for himself which member gives the most credible rating.

The Choices:

1 You may add a comment to the mission(s) you posted. This way someone can better decide a given score is credible and if he/she finds the mission worth playing. Like rating, the comment you give to a mission is your personal opinion.
2 Below your posted missions you may add a small update list with the dates and the names of the missions you added/modified
You're allowed to enter a maximum of 3 dates. When you add a new date, you remove the oldest one.
Example:
Updates: Recently Added/Changed
09/16/05: Added The Seventh Crystal, Omnious Bequest
08/27/05: Added The Inverted Manse, Rowena's Curse
08/11/05: Changed rating of The Seventh Crystal
3 Below your posted missions list you may add the missions you're planning to add to your list shortly.
Example:
Coming Soon: The Seventh Crystal, Calendra's Legacy
4 You may give awards to your favorite missions in various categories like Best City, Best Estate, Best Story, Most Scarry, Best Campaign, Best Graphics, Best Warehouse etc. Giving multiple awards for a mission is possible.
Example:
AWARD Best City FM

Post Examples :
Calendra's Legacy - 10 (G)
Calendra's Legacy : 10 (G)
Calendra's Legacy, 10 (Gold)
Or something similar

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Here is a list with some of my recommended missions:

All Torc - 8 (Silver)
Comment: Very nice campaign including a city, estate and an unique train mission. Good story and two beautiful in-game movies. Get's better with every progress.

Chain of Events - 7.5 (Bronze)

Chronicle of the Metal Age: Chapter 1 - 7 (Bronze)
Comment: Caught between two enemies you must find your way into a hammerite complex. Various area's to explore like a mountain pass, mine, small village and a church. Good story and a clever briefing movie. Second part in the making.

Curse, The - 8 (Silver)

Deep Trouble - 7 (Bronze)

Deep Trouble 2: City under the Sea - 9 (Gold)
Comment: Chaos in enormous mechanist facility on the oceanfloor where AI has taken over control. Tension ensures. The best advanced technology fanmission available with good use of SS2 models.
AWARD Best Advanced Technology FM

Den, The - 9 (Gold)
Comment: The final part of the L'Arsene series is also the best one. Beautiful created fortress with a dark history. Has a stunning atmosphere and amazing attention to detail. The end of a beautiful story about the toughest thief Garrett has ever faced.

Fletcher's Final Mistake - 7 (Bronze)

Forbidden Rites - 8 (Silver)
Comment: Investigating strange events into a impressively detailed Hammerite Fortress. Wonderfully written puzzles, powerful magic spells, and good variation of enemies.

Forgotten Forest Part 1 - 7.5 (Bronze)
Comment: Good mission that is the start of a new campaign set deep into a forest. A nicely constructed cottage house and an atmospheric tomb to explore. Plenty of extra objectives, a frigtening new skeleton model and good use of coloured ligntning.

Forgotten Forest II - 8 (Silver)
Comment: Uncover the secrets of an ancient order in a large underground complex. The many varied objectives, thrilling atmosphere, excellent story, guarantee you an immersed and challenging experience. A worthy continuation of the Forgotten Forest series.

Ghost House / The Haunted Hospital - 7.5 (Bronze)

Greyfeather Gems Part 1: The Shipment - 8.5 (Silver)

Greyfeather Gems Part 2: Rodamill - 9 (Gold)
Comment: Worthy second part of the GFG series. A beautifully detailed and atmospheric mining town with lots of secrets, events and sidequests to keep you immersed. Third, and final, part in the making.
AWARD Best Deserted City FM

Happy New Year, Mister Lambert - 8 (Silver)

Horns of Canzo Pt.1: A Long Way Up - 8 (Silver)
Comment: Beautiful mountain/wilderness mission that brings you a lot to explore. The many new textures, objects, sounds and enemies create a unique and refreshing environment. The only mission with an in-game shop to buy your own equipment.

Insurrection - 8 (Silver)

Into the Maelstrom - 8.5 (Silver)
Comment: Winner of Komag's fifth contest with good reason. Small but original pirate mission that excels in atmosphere and good use of space.

Just Take A Look - 7.5 (Bronze)
Comment: Small mansion mission with good indoor architecture. Good story taking place right after thief 2's Angelwatch mission that tells you more about 'The Servant Project'. Plenty of secrets to find, mechanists and beautiful music by Vivaldi.

Keeper's Betrayal, A - 7 (Bronze)
Comment: City mission with a good story involving the Keepers. Many locations, including a hidden Keeper Compound. Sequel in the making.

Lady Lisa's Harbor - 7.5 (Bronze)

Lady Lotti Saga 1: Coterie of Smokers - 8 (Silver)

L'Arsene - 8 (Silver)

Lord Alan's Basement - 7 (Bronze)
Comment: Enjoyable maze mission where careful studying brings progress. With beautiful music, interesting places to explore, lots of hidden loot and two well known artifacts to steal.

Ominous Bequest - 9.5 (Gold)
Comment: Extensive mansion mission with a great story. Fully accessible from roof to underground. Beautiful architecture, lots of new created items and objects. Requires a lot of thinking and patience to solve its riddles and complete the many objectives.
AWARD Best Tombs/Crypt

Profane Ascension - 8.5 (Silver)
Comment: Succesful remake of Deadly Darkness for Thief Gold. Large Academy to explore containing a great story and various surprising moments that make you jump out of your chair.

Relic - Left for Dead - 9.5 (Gold)
Comment: Beautiful created swamp mission with one of the most original concepts ever seen. A huge non linear FM that takes you hours to uncover all it's secrets. Impressive intro, brilliant story, and a wonderful atmosphere. Be sure to put fog ON for the best experience.
AWARD Best Swamp FM

Rowena's Curse - 9.5 (Gold)
Comment: Country mansion haunted by a curse. Excellent level design, lots of secrets to be found and challenging objectives to complete. A wonderful story-driven experience with many mysteries to solve. A mission with one of the toughest enemy Garrett ever faced.

Royal Garmyth, The - 7 (Bronze)
Comment: Warehouse district in the style of Shipping and Recieving. Plenty of hidden loot and equipment, acessibility from sewer to rooftops, good story and an excellent atmopshere.

Saints and Thieves - 8.5 (Silver)
Comment: One of the best warehouse fanmissions available. Interesting story, good use of textures and some new ideas that have never been seen in a fm before.

Skeletons in the Closet - 7 (Bronze)

So Long Hammers - 8 (Silver)

Thieves Highway - 8.5 (Silver)
Comment: The best rooftop fanmission since Life of the Party. One of the rare missions that gives you the opportunity to make your own equipment. Multiple routes to take, beautiful constructed city, new voices in conversations and excellent gameplay.
AWARD Best Rooftop FM

Time that has Passed, The - 8 (Silver)

TTGM: Errand Boy - 7.5 (Bronze)
Comment: New version of the author's original Thief mission Garrett's Revenge. Enjoyable city mission with narrow streets, shops and buildings that are all fully acessible. Lots of objectives, interesting story and readables, and enough keys and loot to be found.

Two Fathers - 7.5 ((Bronze)

Unfinished Business - 8 (Silver)

Willow Island - 7 (Bronze)
Comment: Quest that leads over an island inhabitat by Hammers, Pagans and Mechanists. The four different acts this mission is build of, give it an unique feel. Also a fun ride with a mine cart.

Coming Soon: Fortress by the Sea, TTGM: Shore Leave, Under Templehill, Heist Society and Old Comrades Old Debts.

Updates: Recently Added/Changed

08/07/2006: Added Mission A Keeper's Betrayal including comment
15/05/2006: Added Mission So Long Hammers
12/05/2006: Added Mission Two Fathers

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Apologies for any spelling mistakes. Hopefully the instruction is clear.

I will post more missions in the future. Meanwhile let us know what YOUR recommended missions are. Inform the community and give us your personal opinion :D.

Ottoj55 on 16/9/2005 at 22:34

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seems this thread was ready made for me. @dwl6, the voting mech at the circle doesn't display the raw data, and someone, around the time that children of the future was released went on a rampage voting 1s for everything artifically lowering the scores, while making their mission look better, we don't know who did this, but we have a suspect in mind. this allows us to see peoples raw scores and favorites in a much more meaningful way. its also interesting how mission authors and non authors view missions. some of my favorites are so because of design reasons that a player who doesn't dromed wouldn't see. as per the request at the top of the thread, in an effort to keep discussion in this thread to a minimum please feel free to PM me with any questions about my mission ratings, or other missions i might recommend. HMMM, seems several people have posted replies without lists of favorites, come on people, this thread isn't for discussing the voting at thief-thecircle, or a shameless plug for a mission and some discussion about it, this is a place to list your favorites so people don't have to plow through dozens of threads and hundreds of posts. If you've commented in this thread, please take the time to edit your post with a few favorites.

Art of Thievery, 9 (gold)
Comment: One the best mansion break-ins ever concieved, designed to reward the player for ghosting a mission, you frequently are dodging patrols requiring nerves of steel.
Burricks Head Inn, 7 (bronze)
Calendra's Legacy, 8 (silver)
Comment: A three mission pack that plays like a good novel. A huge story with many plot twists and challenges, contains some very advanced design elements as well.
Cathedral of the Damned beta, 8 (silver)
Cistern, The, 7 (bronze)
Deceptive Perception, 10 (gold)
Comment: The scariest fan mission i've ever played.
Dyer's Eve, 7 (bronze)
Embracing the Enemy, 9 (gold)
Comment: A simple job isn't so simple it turns out, a great castle to explore and a constantly evolving plot, plus a mouse that loves cheese.
Equilibrium, 10 (gold)
comments: Keepers out to get you, and they have all the skills you do, stealth, silence and the home field advantage.
Gathering at the Inn, 10 (gold)
Comment: The best fan mission I've ever played. Technical advances abound, fantastic design, voice acting and story, give me Mission X soon.
Hedgerows and Hammerites, 9 (gold)
Hidden Agenda, 9 (gold)
High Towne Museum, 9 (gold)
Comment: Small and beautiful museum level with a great little security system to avoid.
Inverted Manse, 8 (silver)
Comment: Three missions in one and a great story.
Jailbreak, 7 (bronze)
Lord Alan's Fortress, 8 (silver)
Raid On Wash Out Central, 7 (bronze)
Comment: Just felt soaked to the bone in this place, raining, canels and aquiducts everywhere, a complex story set in a street mission.
Ritual, The, 7 (bronze)
Saturio Returns Home, 10 (gold)
Search fro Crom's Blade, 8 (silver)
Comment: Wintery fun in a archeological site with the mechanists, hints of Basil Poledouris' score from Conan the Barbarian complete the mood.
Smugglers Request, 9 (gold)
Comment: A massive mission with a great villian and constantly unfolding story.
Snatch and Grab, 8 (silver)
Stronghold, 8 (silver)
Seventh Crystal, The, 10 (gold)
Comment: Absolutely perfect mansion, fantastic story, and a lot of gameplay options. Wonderful cliffhanger ending, that unfortunately looks unlikely to be completed.
Thief Noir, 10 (gold)
Comments: Perfect black and white conversion mission.
Warehouse 51 c1, 7 (bronze)
comments: well designed mod, like the concept and wish it were used in something larger.
Willow Island, 8 (silver)

Updates: Recently Added/Changed
09/19/05: Formatted my post to match example
09/18/05: Added comment about problems with voting at thief-thecircle.com and misuse of this thread.

joanieS on 17/9/2005 at 19:55

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Great idea! Thanks!

Mosley on 18/9/2005 at 18:23

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I've also played Frobable Cause Mxleader and give it a seven (Bronze). It's good but a bit short and also difficult because of the tiny switches. Please go on making FM if you have time and thank you for Frobable Cause :thumb:

TTK12G3 on 20/9/2005 at 02:08

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Yes, but it is very unreliable. I believe there was an explanation of the "idiot effect" on the system posted about a month ago.