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Waterfront Racket (2016) T2 FM

City Dock/Harbour/Port/Ship Fog Forced Ghosting Houses/Cottages/Apartments Miscellaneous Buildings Mystery/Detective Non-Garrett Player Novelty/Experimental Rain Sci-Fi/Future/Modern/Other Worlds/Space Small/Short Warehouse

A classic noir detective story set in a 1940s style world

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info NOTES:     Important Notes - Please Read!
Gameplay Information
· This project is far removed from a traditional Thief mission; in fact, we took pains to remove as many things as possible which might remind you of the Thief universe. This includes gameplay, which is also unconventional - you will mostly be exploring, hunting for clues and unraveling the story. Your only tools are lockpicks and your eyes and ears; there are no weapons, potions or other tools of any kind. As such, the campaign plays more as an interactive movie than a typical mission, although there are several instances where you must be stealthy as part of the story, to avoid being caught somewhere Sam shouldn't be.
· The general visual style is the traditional noir black and white, although color is used to represent key characters and locations.
· Besides the movies, there are numerous in-game cutscenes which convey the story. It is best not to save and load during these scenes to avoid issues. These cutscenes are presented in a mixture of first person and third person perspective. If you are in first person and a character appears to be waiting for you to do something, then take heed. Also, note that if you're talking to a character and decide to wander away during the conversation, chances are good that you will fail an objective.
· After these cutscenes, you might find yourself moving uncontrollably in the direction you were moving when the scene started (most often forwards). This can be stopped by just pressing the same movement keys again.
· Don't be in a hurry to carry out your objectives; take your time to explore, soaking in the atmosphere and appreciating the details. There are many small things which change from night to night, if you are observant; immerse yourself in the world.
Technical Information
· This campaign requires NewDark v1.24 or higher. All necessary custom scripts are included.
· Disable any upgrades or enhancement packs, including the EP/EP2. Everything in this campaign is custom so they shouldn't affect anything anyway, but they were not heavily tested, so unexpected problems could occur.
· One tester had a myriad of seemingly random sound issues until discovering that Audio Channels under Audio Options had been reduced to 4; increasing it to at least 12 resolved the problems.
· IMPORTANT: If the first briefing movie doesn't play, quit immediately and resolve that issue or it will be difficult to follow or enjoy the story, which relies heavily on movies to convey both story and atmosphere. There are briefing movies before nights 1 and 3, and also there is a final cutscene movie after the third mission ends, so be sure to click Continue from the final debriefing screen.
· You should confirm the following in your cam_ext.cfg file:
o crop_movies is disabled (there is a semicolon in front of it)
o no_unload_ffmpeg is enabled (there is NO semicolon in front of it)
· At least two testers had movies play correctly when Thief 2 was launched, but stop playing during the course of playing through the campaign. A clue this is happening for you might be that the Success or Failure movies don't play at mission end. If this happens, we highly recommend you save, restart Thief 2, and then load the save and continue. This usually restored movies for the affected testers.
· One tester deduced that having Windows Media Player or a browser open (Chrome in the known case) often prevented movies from playing, so you might try closing all media players and browser windows as well.

Authors

Yandros (Russ Robbins)   Missions
Author, story, architecture and scripting

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Tannar   Missions
Author, story, objects, AI, texts

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Gumdrop (Tim Murray)   Missions
The original warehouse interior and some ambients

Yandros (Russ Robbins)   Missions
Sam Marlowe, Miles Sternwood, the coroner, and various cops and workers voice actor

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SlyFoxx   Missions
Nick Shelby voice actor

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Leigh Catlin   Missions
Vivian Sternwood voice actor

Random_Taffer (Rob Strain)   Missions
Various cops and workers voice actor



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A classic noir detective story set in a 1940s style world


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1. Night 1: Marlowe Takes the Case

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3. Night 3: Dead End Angel

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message   Shallow in gameplay but exceptionally unique
ScipiO219    July 8, 2023, 7:49 a.m.

There isn't much sneaking, or story for that matter, but I find it hard to give this small campaign a bad or average rating.

The sense of time is absolutely great, and FMs that take place in modern or near modern timelines are very few and far between. Consider this more an adventure FM than a stealth one and you'll have a good time exploring...

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message   Impressive for the Attempt but Unexpectedly Short
MarcusFlintlock    Aug. 29, 2021, 9:13 p.m.

I guess I can't really fault this mission for how I feel about it. The readme says as much that it's more of an interactive novel than a Thief experience, so when I say that the gameplay is generally pretty lackluster—and that's not even because there's nothing to steal—it shouldn't really be a surprise. Most of it is keyhunting and isn't too di...

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