I revamped all the stuff pretty much, and added some more drum sounds and a few sounds from my Kawai K5000W, but tried the retain some of the Thief feel. The tempo is faster, and it sounds like "Thief goes Prodigy" or "1000 and 1 ways to have fun with the seven WAV files". ;)

This version includes many small and large bug fixes, as well as a few enhancements, changes, and totally new aspects. Toni Hollming worked very hard to get everything "just so", and now it pretty much is. Also released is a new version of the GatB briefing, which is longer, and of higher quality than the previous.

This is also a good time to mention Toni's new website, Trimfect: The Thief Project. His site features a new tutorial on how to make a briefing Avi, plus a list of all Garrett comments.

The Campaign is set around 1 year BEFORE the main game, and details how Garrett accidentally released the trickster, and why the trickster has such a keen interest in Garrett in The Dark Project.

The campaign will have 6 beautifully designed levels that will tax your thievery and stealth skills to the limit.

The campaign will feature full AVI briefings for each mission, and a conclusion cutscene. The AVI's will also have new music for them, and some will have animation.

The full story will be released simultaneously with the campaign so you can read about as well as play Garrett's exploits.

Fire and Brimstone - A view of the Thief 2 demo of the Lost City enchanted by the new engine. This is what lava will look like in T2. BIG improvement.

Magic is Not Lost - This is a mage character from Thief 2. Note the higher polygon count, and improved particle effect!

Old Yet New - Anyone who's played The Lost City enough times will recognize this hall. The yellow glow of the torches adds so much to the atmosphere...

There is more there then just screenshots, there is some great info as well:

. . . One feature that was absent in the original game was a multiplayer mode. Despite the game's heavy tilt towards single-player situations, many fans bemoaned the lack, and Looking Glass listened. Thief 2 will feature a cooperative multiplayer mode that will allow players to tackle missions together. A special difficulty level will add multiplayer-specific mission objectives, puzzles, and traps that will require coordinated action to defeat. Two guards might be facing each other, for instance, with an alarm by either guard. Cooperating players would have to launch simultaneous attacks on both guards to successfully nullify them without allowing one of them to sound the alarm.

Specifics on the plot are not yet forthcoming, but rumor has it that the villain will be a powerful mage Like the original, Thief 2: The Metal Age will be a game best played at night. Alone. With the lights off...

Other enhancements to the game include new items for the player to use. While hesitant to add new weapons for fear of upsetting game balance (the core gameplay depends on Garrett being physically weaker and less well armed than his opponents), the development team does plan to create a few new thieving tools that will give the player more options in terms of "casing the joint." The specifics of these tools have yet to be determined, but the team suggested the possibility of a reconnaissance "camera" that would allow the player to scout ahead.

Looking Glass is also examining the balance between robbery missions and "monster" missions-the team maintains that positive feedback for missions that involve monster combat has been strong, but they do plan to strengthen the presence of straightforward thieving missions as well.

During your last job you and your so called partner dressed as merchants made way into the temple to liberate the rosary beads of St Wrichards. While escaping your clumsy partner stepped on an alarm plate. As punishment you are both condemned to die in the Bear Pits equipped with only your blackjack. Escape and loot. Make it to the tower gates to complete.

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me at all. With the release of DromED, I have finnaly been able to create the Theif Campaign I have always wanted to, but I need help. Though I have the basic story, I would like a writer to help pad it out, adding much more to it. I also need at least one other person to help create the actual missions, which there will be 6 of, and maybe someone to help create breifing AVI's. The campaign is called Theif: A Dark Night, and is set around the events of one night in the City. If you are interested, please email me so I can send you the design document with the basic story, ideas and rough maps for it.

I will also make an on the Editors Guild Projects area about it, and will have a website up soon with more info.

Also, could Kite(?), author of the Mouse and 40 mins pic, and Stonewall's, who wrote "The Barkeeper's Tale," please contact me?

Thanks

Tane "ZeR0" Piper
Email: descent@barrysworld.com Director: Descent World
http://descent.telefragged.com
ICQ: 25968771

I don't know; it just sort of happened. Late night, the family asleep, me trying to beat the thing on expert and explore every nook and cranny ...
To the tune of "Down in the Boondocks"

Chorus:
Down in the bonehoard
Down in the bonehoard
Feeling kinda down, stuck way underground in a big crypt
The halls are dank, the air ain't fresh
The whole place smells like rotting flesh
Lord have mercy on a thief caught down in the bonehoard

Well I loved a girl, I had big plans, but the Hammers held her bro'.
I broke him out and got him home (the guy they call Basso).
She wasn't glad to see him cause she'd already sold his stuff
She kicked me out so I gotta steal rent and there's one place I'll find enough...

(And that's)

Down in the bonehoard
Down in the bonehoard
Ambulatin' dead, walls with talking heads, and burricks
The Mystic gems await my theft,
But 'ware the burricks' eructative death,
Lord have mercy on a thief caught down in the bonehoard

So I took the map that Felix made and I thought I'd try my luck
Jumped off the rope so full of hope, but now I think I'm stuck
There's purple fireballs ahead of me and zombies block my retreat
I'm saying my prayers but I doubt they'll be heard fifty metres below the street

Down in the bonehoard
Down in the bonehoard
Looking for the horn, by now it's early morn, but not here
The zombies love to tear you limb from limb
So I thank the lord that the suckers can't swim
Lord have mercy on a thief caught down in the bonehoard ...

To make interresting reactions from the guards and make level where sneaking is more helpfull than trying to simple knockout everybody.

The best part about TL is that you can keep all your missions neatly tucked away in their zip files. No cluttering up your Thief folder! No overwriting files! No messy mission uninstalls! Sounds great eh?

TL is still in beta, so it may not work for everyone. If you have trouble, problems, suggestions, etc, please contact the author, Andrew Bednarz, and send him your questions, comments, thanks, death threats, etc.

TL does not work with all missions, however. It only works with mission that have the directory structure properly set up in the zip file, as described in the Mission Submission Instructions. Henceforth, all fan-made missions will be either labeled Thief Loader Ready, or Non Thief Loader Ready. The latter type of missions will, of course, be considered "buggy or incomplete".

1.) Download the patch, the dromed, the briefing of the GatB, the GatB. Save them somewhere in a safe folder on your harddisk.

2.) Go into yo ur Thief-folder, and rescue old savegames into the same safe folder on your harddisk. If you have already downloaded the items named in top 1, skip this point of the Howto. The safe folder should *not* be in your Thief-folder. If you have any screenshots in your Thief-folder, save them, too.

3.) Click in the Windoze-exploder on your CD, find the setup, and install the game in your former Thief-folder. It will overwrite the entire folder. Make a full installation of the game, if you have enough free space.

4.) Now you have a new and cool Thief folder. Admire it shortly, and go to the next tops.

5.) Patch the game with the patch, as usual. (patching allows you to sneak perfectly silent, if you are crouching and speed toggled and walking and moving slowly)

6.) Unzip the dromed into your new Thief-folder. Let it overwrite what it wants to overwrite (this prevents the bug that you can't use anything or grab the people)

7.) Unzip the b15.zip into your ..\thief\movie folder.

8.) Unzip the gatb.zip into your ..\thief folder. Let it overwrite whatever it wants to.

9.) Start Thief. Click on 'New Game', Click on 'GatB'. Admire it.

[This is] an Assassins/Bafford style mission. Creep to the top of a noble's town house and assassinate her. Has books, extra objectives for harder difficulty levels and so on.

"Remember when Garrett stole that scepter from fat Lord Bafford? Well I have a place for it in my circle, and I need you to go get it for me."
-Master Nightfall

The idea was to make a more flexible map than the normal Thief levels. Whole level is a single building that you can get in various ways. Its up to you to decide how and from where you go in.

Lord Bafford, the wealthiest man around, has supposedly gone broke on gambling, I know that this is false. Cutty's given me the real story. Bafford is hiding all of his loot at his country home. this place is rarely visited by outsiders, but it is heavily guarded. The stash of over 2000 loot is somewhere in an underground room. Since no one has been inside, my map is simply an outside sketch. Bafford has one thing I like him for. He hates the Hammers, and has managed to amass quite a collection of Hammer artifacts. Of particular interest is the Scroll of The Builder. That may come in handy when dealing with the Hammers in the Future. It's up to me to make the rumors about Bafford true......

The Thief Editors' Guild is coming along nicely, though unfortunately I cannot put as much time into it as I would like to be able to. I have a few questions to ask about it, and I do hope to get more then one or two responses.

Should I do away with the news on the TEG page, and keep all Thief news on this page? Is TEG hard to find? Are there any complaints about the site as it stands? What as of yet un-open parts of the page would you like to see done first? Would you object to TEG replacing the "Story" section in the Circle, which I never managed to finish.