Updated FM: Mission X version 1.13 - Walkthrough, Lootlist, Lexicon, Trivia, Album - by Digital Nightfall
The Elusive One on 19/10/2008 at 18:24
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Did you download the complete patched package or did you download the patch zip and create a new archive? If you combined the archives, there may have been a mistake made somewhere. It's also possible that you loaded a saved game from your previous playthrough before the patch without knowing it.
If you're fed up with the mission, feel free to drop it. 8 years of toil and perseverance against nearly impossible odds for a team of a dozen people shouldn't be any reason for you to spend a few hours in mild frustration. ;)
I downloaded the complete patched package and deleted all my old saves and the old mission package and started over from scratch, so not really any room for mistakes there.
Anyway sorry for the negative remark. In no way did i intend to belittle your efforts, i was just frustrated at that moment. You all created a technical masterpiece, but something tells me that maybe your ambitions were too high if the mission is as fragile as it seems.
Anyways i restarted from the hard save that worked and this time i got through the entire mission without further problems and managed to finish it with the best ending, so maybe i'm just unlucky and stumbled onto something that has a 1/1.000.000 chance of happening after the patch, hmm, maybe i should play the lottery :)
So i enjoyed the mission despite the setbacks and wish to thank the entire team for their dedication and hard work.
baeuchlein on 19/10/2008 at 20:05
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Okay, so ... has anyone tried to find the quotes scroll? I didn't make it easy., but there is a clue in the patch text. :)
Well, I tried to enter a certain number (prefixed with zero), then hacked my way through nine guards, one exec and two other civilians towards the switch room. I threw all switches and looked around, including fireplaces. Nothing. I switched off the cameras and still did not find anything. Somehow, that hint was not enough, I think.:confused:
I think it's easier to find the scroll in the appropriate folder in the zip file.
shadowseeker777 on 20/10/2008 at 06:19
this is what the hint says:
Finding it involves combining camera room with switch room, and from it there is no return. When does paper burn?
So I'm wondering what does it mean by "combining" and what's up with that thing about paper burning?
You mean 451 farenheit? How does that help me? Do I put those 3 digits into something - like the camera room? Hard to figure it out if you can't understand the hint to begin with. You weren't kidding about making it not easy.
baeuchlein on 20/10/2008 at 13:08
Quote Posted by shadowseeker777
this is what the hint says:
Finding it involves combining camera room with switch room, and from it there is no return. When does paper burn?So I'm wondering what does it mean by "combining" and what's up with that thing about paper burning?
You mean 451 farenheit? Do I put those 3 digits into something - like the camera room?I was thinking along the same lines. I have already
tried to enter 0451 in the camera room but noticed nothing unusual afterwards, not even when entering the correct camera code after all that fuss. But I may have forgotten to use 451 on the little safe in the booth near the casino hall.
To enter the code in the camera room, one apparently has to choose the "disable the cameras" task. Choosing the elevator task means that you cannot enter anything in the camera room once Steel has finished doing so. However, I have not arrived there before Steel finished his task - maybe this is the way to do it?
Not choosing any task at all gives me very little time to enter the camera room, since I get no key to enter the basement, meaning I have to acquire a bow as well as a rope arrow and then gain entrance to the ventilation system - and all that before one of the two tasks has been chosen for Dante.
Or is the correct number the same temperature in degrees Celsius? I did not look up that number yet.I noticed something else about the camera room: One can open the door from the inside with a lever near the door, but not from the outside. And if one chooses
the camera task, one does not get the basment key, so maybe closing the camera room door helps somehow? There would be no return from the basement, then, since none of the doors can be picked or hacked with the dagger, and escape through the vents is not an option anymore, either. Or maybe one has to be so quick that one cannot acquire bow and rope arrow, so one is forced to enter the vents and drop down into the camera room without any rope, meaning he/she cannot return thorugh the vents (and possibly not by means of the basement key, either)?And concerning "combining" - well, I've tried to
enter 0451 in the camera room and then flipping all the switches in the switch room, thus combining both tasks, but that did not produce anything useful either.Unfortunately, my time is limited, so I'm rather inclined to giving up.
Herr_Garrett on 9/11/2008 at 14:20
I have a problem... The mask doesn't work for me, but in a specific way. When you hear "Rubber, are you there?" game stucks - strangely, though, you can do anything you please, you just don't get new instructions or options or anything. I've reinstalled it, but it still occurs.
jiansonz on 10/11/2008 at 23:06
Quote Posted by Herr_Garrett
I have a problem... The mask doesn't work for me, but in a specific way. When you hear "Rubber, are you there?" game stucks - strangely, though, you can do anything you please, you just don't get new instructions or options or anything. I've reinstalled it, but it still occurs.
You don´t get the message from Sheam that something has happened to Rubber? For how long have you waited?
Florian on 18/11/2008 at 12:06
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
I was thinking along the same lines. I have already
tried to enter 0451 in the camera room but noticed nothing unusual afterwards, not even when entering the correct camera code after all that fuss. But I may have forgotten to use 451 on the little safe in the booth near the casino hall.
To enter the code in the camera room, one apparently has to choose the "disable the cameras" task. Choosing the elevator task means that you cannot enter anything in the camera room once Steel has finished doing so. However, I have not arrived there before Steel finished his task - maybe this is the way to do it?
Not choosing any task at all gives me very little time to enter the camera room, since I get no key to enter the basement, meaning I have to acquire a bow as well as a rope arrow and then gain entrance to the ventilation system - and all that before one of the two tasks has been chosen for Dante.
Or is the correct number the same temperature in degrees Celsius? I did not look up that number yet.I noticed something else about the camera room: One can open the door from the inside with a lever near the door, but not from the outside. And if one chooses
the camera task, one does not get the basment key, so maybe closing the camera room door helps somehow? There would be no return from the basement, then, since none of the doors can be picked or hacked with the dagger, and escape through the vents is not an option anymore, either. Or maybe one has to be so quick that one cannot acquire bow and rope arrow, so one is forced to enter the vents and drop down into the camera room without any rope, meaning he/she cannot return thorugh the vents (and possibly not by means of the basement key, either)?And concerning "combining" - well, I've tried to
enter 0451 in the camera room and then flipping all the switches in the switch room, thus combining both tasks, but that did not produce anything useful either.Unfortunately, my time is limited, so I'm rather inclined to giving up.
Anyone found the quote scroll in the meantime? I really would know how to find it, have tried a lot of things, but didn´t get it...Maybe another hint in the right direction? Pleeeease! :)
Lady Taffer on 22/11/2008 at 10:31
The patch doesn't work for me at all! I tried the whole downloading it into a folder combining and re-zipping it, but that didn't work. When I started the game I just got the regular Thief:TMA subscreen and when I tried to play it it shut down.
What do I do? :(
Florian on 22/11/2008 at 11:28
Quote Posted by Florian
Anyone found the quote scroll in the meantime? I really would know how to find it, have tried a lot of things, but didn´t get it...Maybe another hint in the right direction? Pleeeease! :)
No one wants to answer? That´s what I did until now:
I set the code in the camera room to 0451 (Fahrenheit / paper burn) and tested several switch-combinations and fuse-burnouts (left box because this would be a point of no return when using the mask afterwards), all before Steel manages to do his task. But I can´t see any reaction (opening doors, teleporting, etc.) somewhere. So I am going to ask more precise, as it seems for me the most hardest Easter egg yet in any FM. Please give me just a few hints if I am going in the correct direction/if I assume correct:
I assume...
1) ...that the easter egg is in a closed room/space, which will open when I entered a correct combination (of buttons/switches) and where I haven´t been before. E.g. it could be in the elevator shaft or the vault?
2) ...that it doesn´t matter which task I do first (camera or power) as it is possible, to do both in any order
3) ...that it is obvious where the quote scroll will appear
4) ...that my mentioned tries finding the combination are going in the correct direction
5) ...that it mustn´t be done before or while Antonette etc. are sent to the 4th floor?
6) ...that I won´t end in the Psychiatrics when I don´t find the solution soon
SinisterShadow on 22/11/2008 at 12:44
Quote Posted by Lady Taffer
The patch doesn't work for me at all! I tried the whole downloading it into a folder combining and re-zipping it, but that didn't work. When I started the game I just got the regular Thief:TMA subscreen and when I tried to play it it shut down.
What do I do? :(
Have you tried to download the already patched version of the mission?
