Updated Mission: What Lies Below [NewDark, Full Colour!] - Oct 29, 2014 - by Yandros
Yandros on 29/10/2014 at 15:09
Halloween seemed like the right time to update my 2006 Water Contest mission
What Lies Below to take advantage of NewDark's capabilities, so here it is. It requires NewDark v1.22 or later, so be sure to update if you haven't already. This should be compatible with the Thief 2 EP, but it won't have much effect as most objects are custom. It has not been tested with any other enhancement/upgrade packs, so I would strongly advise you to disable them before playing to avoid issues. Again, most everything is custom in this mission so it really won't be of any benefit to enable them, and might cause issues.
Summary of changes:
* FULL COLOUR! No more mostly greyscale
* A few original bugs fixed
* Most textures and objects upgraded to newer, hi res versions
* Darkened ambient light and added fog
* Changed ambients
* Added Hammer voices from T1 and T3 for variety
* Modded and upgraded AI skins
* Reworked cutscene a little
:thumb: Thanks to NamelessVoice, PinkDot, Purgator, R Soul, and Vigil for resources used in the upgrade.
:thumb: Thanks to Pär Boström for his amazing ambient music, which was used to replace the T3 ambients from the original.
:thumb: Thanks to Tannar, Nightwalker and Random_Taffer for testing.
If you need help with the mission, (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109046) the original thread may be more help since it has more Q&A.
Mirrors:
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http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2014/WLB-ND_v1.zip)
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http://thiefmissions.com/m/WhatLiesBelow)
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http://download.darkfate.org/fan-missions/Thief2/1contests/Water_Contest/What_Lies_Below/WLB-ND_v1.zip)
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http://www.taffersparadise.net/thief2mission/WLB-ND_v1.zip)
AntiMatter_16 on 29/10/2014 at 15:14
Yay!
Wait...
404! =\
nickie on 29/10/2014 at 16:39
I've amended the download link.
Tannar on 29/10/2014 at 16:55
Congrats, Russ! :thumb:
Yandros on 29/10/2014 at 16:58
Thanks nickie, I also added the Thiefmissions link, which goes to the same place as before but now has the updated version.
I recommend you wait until it's good and dark, and turn off all the lights, and don't have your gamma set too high. :ebil:
Cardia on 29/10/2014 at 17:32
Thank you for this NewDark update Russ :thumb:
InfinituS on 29/10/2014 at 18:52
Congrats! :thumb:
DrK on 29/10/2014 at 19:37
Nice, one of the best missions I've played comes back updated. It's been years, gotta give it a try this weekend. Thanks Russ :p
Yandros on 29/10/2014 at 20:33
You're welcome. :D It's probably best if you haven't played it in years and don't remember a lot about it.
Edit
Also, I forgot one of the most striking changes - the mission is now full colour. Some of the AI's colours are a bit muted, but it's nothing like the 90% greyscale with splashes of colour like the original.
