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A Thief II Fan Mission Update: Part II

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United Bank of Auldale (UBA) After giving the old mission a play through last week I made 50 items to look into and make desired changes. Some of them are high priority updates because they negatively affect game play and the rest are really just things that could be edited to improve overall game play and atmosphere. There are a lot of continuity issues and other random pointless things that could be deleted or changed to fit into the mission and Thief game world a bit better.  After getting into editing again I think that setting a Christmas eve release date achievable if I buckle down and get to work. The trouble is building myself up to dealing with the Dark Engine's DromEd editor again after all those years have passed. I should be working on a new mission but updating this one should help me to get my mission building skills built up again so I can create a new fan mission that's been on my mind. I don't know if I should continue with the new one because it'a alre...

A Thief II Fan Mission Update: Part I

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United Bank of Auldale (UBA) It's been 17 years since I released my second fan mission (FM) for the video game Thief II: The Metal Age. The FM was posted on thiefmissions.com (Cheap Thief Missions) first on Christmas Eve, then mirrored elsewhere, like The Keep of Metal and Gold (KOMAG). There were a lot of things I didn't like about the mission, but everything worked as it should have, with the exception of two items, so that's not bad. One item was a key that should have appeared on a guard's belt but was invisible in the game. That didn't stop anyone from completing the mission, though. The other issue is a set of doors on the third floor of the cafe that disappear when opened. I don't remember them doing that during the final game test, but strange things happen when you zip a file and upload it to a server. When I started building UBA, it wasn't supposed to be Christmas-themed but ended up that way. I don't even recall what I was thinking exactly whe...