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★ 9 / 10     A Shadow on the Water, May 26, 2024

★ 9 / 10     Rogues' Lair, March 20, 2024

★ 8 / 10     A Thief's Training, March 17, 2024

★ 8 / 10     Iris, Oct. 10, 2023

★ 8 / 10     Legacy of Knoss, Sept. 20, 2023

★ 7 / 10     The Scholar's Hand, Sept. 20, 2023

★ 8 / 10     Intertheft, Sept. 10, 2023

★ 8 / 10     Condemned Catalogue, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 7 / 10     Into The Maw Of Chaos, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 5 / 10     Strange Bedfellows, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 8 / 10     Escape!, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 9 / 10     Return To The Cathedral, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 6 / 10     Undercover (TG Version), Sept. 9, 2023

★ 10 / 10     Song Of The Caverns, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 9 / 10     The Lost City (TDP Version), Sept. 9, 2023

★ 8 / 10     The Lost City (TG Version), Sept. 9, 2023

★ 6 / 10     The Mage Towers, Sept. 9, 2023

★ 9 / 10     The Haunted Cathedral, Sept. 9, 2023


Posts    All (33)

message   Optional stuff was much harder to do than main objectives.
topic about   Winds of Misfortune (2024)   TG FM
taffer-kun    Nov. 29, 2024, 6:57 p.m.

For a vertical mission like this I didn't do much climbing, tbh. It's more like a long spiralling street, that goes higher and higher to the mansion, and it's quite linear. Whil...

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skacky    Nov. 29, 2024, 8:57 p.m.

Hey there. Throwing the letter in the fire should work, as it's one of the ways to destroy the invitation. It sometimes takes a second or two before it burns, though. It should work if you drop it in fireplaces or use a fire arrow.

message   Great city style mission with loads of verticality
topic about   Winds of Misfortune (2024)   TG FM
chakkman    Nov. 29, 2024, 6:31 p.m.

Well, you already know that it has a lot of verticality, when it's a skacky mission. 😉 Apart from that, there's really lots to like. The level design is great, and logically ...

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skacky    Nov. 29, 2024, 7:55 p.m.

Hey there, thanks for the review. I'm going to release an updated version of the mission very soon that contains dramatic performance gains thanks to a new, experimental lighting optimization process. It should be minimum +30 frames per second for pretty much everyone.

message   A proper Machiavellian plot, very Renaissance-ish
topic about   A Thief's Training (2024)   TG FM
nanao.    March 12, 2024, 7:45 p.m.

A good mission that feels like a leftover/spin-off from The Black Parade that did not fit narratively into the campaign by some of its authors in disguise (the overall level of ...

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skacky    March 12, 2024, 8:41 p.m.

If you're referring to the Keepers wearing black coats, these were literally Keeper meshes made for TBP.

message   Better Textures
topic about   Thief: The Black Parade (2023)   TG FM
Melkesideck    Aug. 30, 2021, 10:24 a.m.

I Noticed that the floors look good but wood worked supports walls etc not as good. (blurry) Can I use the Hi res texture pack with this FM?

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skacky    Aug. 30, 2021, 12:56 p.m.

We use a combination of stock textures and some custom ones that still mesh well together, so this may be why some textures may appear lower res.
The Black Parade isn't compatible with graphics mods. The campaign was not designed with any of them in mind. You can still use them if you want but you'd have to do it manually.

message   Only 1 Bone here
topic about   Bones: Episode 1: the Old Quarter (2012)   T2 FM
Lane Powell    Sept. 18, 2020, 4:05 a.m.

Episode 1 of Bones sends Garrett to pull off a heist in a dockyard, which just happens to be located in a snowed-in section of the Old Quarter that was recently cleared of undea...

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skacky    Sept. 18, 2020, 2:22 p.m.

It's a very interesting mission because it really, really looks like a lost mission from Calendra's Legacy, using mostly the same texture selection, similar sounds and built very similarly to both A Meeting With Basso and Midnight in Murkbell. I think it's a fantastic mission and it's crazy the author tried to make it under Olddark when you consider the sheer scope of it.

message   ...and a great middle, but no end. :(
topic about   Rodamill (2005)   T2 FM
Lane Powell    Sept. 15, 2020, 11:40 p.m.

"Rodamill" picks up (almost) right where "The Shipment" left off. Having shut yourself up in a box inside of a Mechanist warehouse, you eventually come to... in the ruins of Rod...

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skacky    Sept. 16, 2020, 3:16 a.m.

The fact that there is no followup to this insanely good mission is one of the biggest tragedies in FM history to be honest. I haven't played this mission in a while but I remember the mines in particular being spectacularly creepy.

message   August 2020 Update: No FMs this month
Konrad    Sept. 9, 2020, 6:28 p.m.

No FM was released in August 2020. But it doesn't mean no FMs are currently work in progress! To name one, a content-rich update was published in The Black Parade topic two days...

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skacky    Sept. 11, 2020, 12:25 a.m.

Thanks for the shout out, and thanks to everyone contributing!

message   Highly impressive but definitely rough around the edges
topic about   The Painter's Wife (2020)   TDM FM
skacky    July 27, 2020, 1:55 p.m.

If you're looking for a really really large city exploration mission with many areas to explore and things to do then The Painter's Wife is exactly what you want to play, and it is in my opinion one of the very best at what it does. What we have here is an entire quarter more or less neatly divided into two halves, the north and south districts,...

message   Decent museum heist
topic about   Show Off (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 11, 2020, 2:45 p.m.

Show Off is a definite step up from the author's previous mission from the Thief 1 contest, but it still isn't quite there yet. The main attraction of the mission is a vast muse...

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skacky    July 11, 2020, 4:51 p.m.

I think the mission would've worked much better had the city bits been removed altogether except the immediate surroundings of the museum. A sewer access could've been neato also. The gold standard of museum missions (Heart of Bohn) does that pretty much to perfection.

message   Decent museum heist
topic about   Show Off (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 11, 2020, 2:45 p.m.

Show Off is a definite step up from the author's previous mission from the Thief 1 contest, but it still isn't quite there yet. The main attraction of the mission is a vast museum in the middle of town where you must steal a few trinkets while avoiding triggering the security systems.

The player starts in the city and it is quite clearly the ...

message   Rooftop extravaganza
topic about   Feast of Pilgrims (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 7:59 p.m.

DISCLAIMER: one of the authors is working on The Black Parade and is one of my close friends. I tried to review the mission with an objective mind.

Feast of Pilgrims is one of the best Life of the Party-like rooftop missions (where you can't get off the streets). In that sense it pulls off several thieves' highway trails quite masterfully, wi...

message   Criminally and incomprehensibly underrated
topic about   My Favorite Year (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 5:01 p.m.

I was very impressed by My Favorite Year, doubly so when I read it was made in under three weeks. I've seen many people say it's a run of the mill mission but I disagree, in my opinion My Favorite Year is one of the best missions in the contest and where a mission like Fierce Competition is fairly mundane, My Favorite Year shines.

The premise...

message   Lord Taffer enters the fray!
topic about   Time For Change (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 4:59 p.m.

There isn't much to talk about Time for Change considering it is a newbie mission, but it's not too terrible and I would love to see more missions from this author. Kudos for participating with their first ever mission.

The main issues with the mission are that it's insanely linear and lighting is very so-so. There is no real atmosphere to s...

message   A world of rust and ruin
topic about   The Builder's Paradise (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 4:56 p.m.

DISCLAIMER: All four authors on this mission are working on The Black Parade and are close friends of mine. I tried to review the mission with an objective mind.

The Builder's Paradise is one of the most impressive missions I've ever played, in addition to being one of the best Mechanist missions ever. It's interesting how Thief 2 doesn't hav...

message   Good slice of Thief 2
topic about   Fierce Competition (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 4:53 p.m.

Fierce Competition is a very small mission that shouldn't take you very long to complete. Garrett is hired by a third party to disrupt one of his rivals' affairs, and also rob him otherwise that wouldn't be fun. There isn't much to talk about Fierce Competition: the mission is divided into two parts, the streets and the mansion, and the story is...

message   The crown jewel of the TMA 20 AC
topic about   Into The Odd (2020)   T2 FM
skacky    July 10, 2020, 4:51 p.m.

DISCLAIMER: Both authors are working on The Black Parade and are close friends of mine. I tried to review this mission with an objective mind.

Into the Odd is the least Thief 2 out of all the missions for the contest, in fact it feels more like something out of Purah or Sperry's minds, and while it feels very removed from Thief 2's aesthetic ...

message   Cute little Hammerite mission with a mystery
topic about   Deadly Cure (2019)   T2 FM
skacky    Nov. 5, 2019, 3:04 a.m.

Korthak's first mission Deadly Cure is a really good first effort that hits all the right notes. While it uses Thief 2, the mission is clearly taking after Thief 1 style-wise. Garrett got himself thrown in jail by the Hammerites and must find a way to escape and take revenge on them. As you can imagine, the mission is a bit more involved than th...

message   Great classic throwback
topic about   The Unsung Villain (2008)   T2 FM
skacky    Nov. 5, 2019, 1:26 a.m.

If it weren't for Melan's Unbidden Guest I think The Unsung Villain would've won the Classic Thief Experience contest back in 2008. This little gem of a mission is basically Assassins and it's just as fun as the original mission. After an assassination attempt, you follow your would-be murderer back to whoever hired him and from there you have t...