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Catacombs of Knoss Remastered (2021) TG FM

Knoss

Cathedral City Relic/Artifact/Talisman Tombs/Catacombs/Crypts Undead

A soft knocking woke me from an uneasy sleep. Opening my apartment door with the caution that only a flashbomb up my sleeve and a sharpened sword can bring, I was just in time to see the edge of a ... Read more

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info NOTES:     * Notes and Known Bugs *

- My entry for the Thief: The Dark Project 20th Anniversary Contest.
- This is a two mission pack. Equipment will carry over from one mission to the next.
- This mission is designed to evoke the style and atmosphere of Thief 1, and therefore uses entirely stock resources, and is best experienced without any custom texture packs or enhancement packs installed. The only custom content is the maps and Thief 2's stars from the Contest Resource Pack.
- Installs and runs through FMSel. Other loaders have not been tested and are used at your own risk.
- Requires New Dark version 1.27 or higher.
- Requires new mantle to be turned ON. You will almost certainly get stuck otherwise.

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* Rerelease Changes *

General:

- New readables translated into French, German and Russian.
- All readables translated into Spanish.

Mission 1:

- Increased ambient light levels.
- Expanded and restructured a number of building interiors.
- Added additional detail to many areas.
- Changed layout to aid platforming in a few areas.
- Added some additional readables.
- Lightmapped water added.
- More loot added in a few places.
- Fixed a couple of doors that liked flying away.
- Loot goals updated and values fixed in French text.
- Tweaked ambient sounds to be slightly less jarring throughout the church.
- Various minor tweaks and fixes.

Mission 2:

- Increased ambient light levels.
- Added workarounds for various un-ghostable sections. Both missions should now be ghostable (albeit with a lot of effort). Supreme Ghost, probably not.
- Made an important key more visible.
- Added reset buttons and improved audio messaging of Mathematician's Tomb puzzle.
- Prevented a few blind frob exploits.
- Added a bit more signposting in the burrick caves.
- Replaced some boundstriggers with more reliable roombrush triggers.
- Prevented AI entering the Tower of Knoss and potentially breaking progression.
- Fixed lava that didn't hurt the player.
- Various minor tweaks and fixes.

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nicked (Nick Dablin)   Missions
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Briefing

A soft knocking woke me from an uneasy sleep. Opening my apartment door with the caution that only a flashbomb up my sleeve and a sharpened sword can bring, I was just in time to see the edge of a darker shadow receding from view. On the doormat was a letter, and a hefty sack of coins. It seems the Keepers aren't above a little bribery when they need my skills. They're concerned about some old necromancer called Knoss whose return was foretold in one of their damn prophecies. They want me to break into his tomb and steal his Grimoire, the source of his power, before he returns to full strength. It might just be the Keepers overreacting as usual, but since my... encounter with Constantine, I'm a little less willing to immediately dismiss such stories as superstitious claptrap. Besides, the sack of gold was reassuringly heavy, and the note mentioned another one just like it upon completion...


Campaign details

1. Catacombs of Knoss Part 1

Avg. rating:   9.09 / 10
by 11 players
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2. Catacombs of Knoss Part 2

Avg. rating:   8.70 / 10
by 10 players
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message   One word: epic.
taffer-kun    Dec. 11, 2024, 9:17 p.m.

As far as mini-campaigns go. The first mission is a quarter with a pagoda. With plenty of verticality. The second mission is a huge crypt. Also with plenty of verticality (and undead).

The city part looks smaller than it actually is. There are many places to visit, including the pagoda tower. I don't think I saw one in Thief FMs before. As fo...

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message   Same issues like Legacy of Knoss...
chakkman    July 27, 2024, 2:39 p.m.

Starts off great, well balanced, good difficulty, good enemy frequency... and then in the second part of the second mission, it kind of inherits the issues that Legacy of Knoss also has (yes, I know, Legacy of Knoss came after this): WAY too many enemies (especially the Ziggurat of the Elders and the Halls of Eternal Tranqulity were completely n...

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message   Question on playing the game
Newthief    May 23, 2024, 3 p.m.

Hi so I'm new and just got into fan missions so I was downloading the ones that looked cool and interesting. I saw this one and installed it. The problem is that I can't play part 1. When I launch the fanmission it goes to the menu, then I went to new game and it gives the difficulty options and a choice of either A keepers training, or Catacomb...

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message   Two Great Missions
AnAmericanGentleman    Feb. 8, 2024, 3:21 a.m.

Two new favorites. Both missions offer something completely different and succeed at both. Very challenging and very fun.

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message   Loving it so far
N0th1ng_BuRg3R    Oct. 15, 2023, 2:11 p.m.

Got everything I love about the Thief series in massive helpings. Immersion, great level design and scale, lovely artwork....Do yourself a favor and download it now!

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message   Very Well done, immersive , enjoyable and challenging
hinotoumei    Sept. 30, 2021, 6:53 a.m.

Just completed a first playthrough on expert in about 9 hours for both missions. Mission 1 was very interesting, but the meat here appears to be in mission 2. It is on par, if not better than most of the missions found in the main game. Very well done.

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message   Very Immersive and Enjoyable.
hinotoumei    Sept. 21, 2021, 9:33 a.m.

Just beat part 1 on expert. Feels like it as a main campaign mission. Only complaint that I have is that it was quite difficult trying to find the lady that overlooked the market place.

The level is bigger than it appears. There is over 4000 loot in the level on expert , with many areas tht are hidden from view and require tricky platforming...

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message   Wow
fatty    June 17, 2021, 4:21 a.m.

I had to make an account just to review this mission, what a pleasure it was. Creative, haunting, do yourself a favor and play these 2 missions

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message   Catacombs of Knoss
Lord Taffer    May 27, 2021, 6:10 p.m.

Catacombs of Knoss was as amazing as ever now that I played it second time! I have to say that I can't remember all the details since it has been a couple of years since my first playthrough and that's why it's hard to say what's new and what isn't. I believe Part 1 had some new areas/buildings to explore. They fitted in very well and made it mo...

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