- Title: A Thief's Holiday 2004
- Game(s): T2
- Author(s): Yandros
Basic Info[]
- File Name(s):
- AThiefsHoliday2004_v2_2a.zip
- Initial Release: 15 December, 2004
- Latest Release: 21 December, 2013
- Language(s): English, German
- Demo: no
- Campaign: no
- Incomplete Info: no
- Contest(s):
- Tag(s): Winter, Holiday, Seasonal, Normal, Hard, Expert, Small, Nighttime
Summary[]
A Thief's Holiday 2004 is a beautifully designed mission, immersed well in the trapping of Christmas. Garrett must put together a holiday party for his friends at Christmas. He has to find paintings, cookies, cake, light the fire, put a disk in the viktrola amongst other things. As the difficulty increases, tasks like finding the mulled wine and door keys are added, and the objects are hidden harder. At expert, all objectives are added, and almost ALL objects are hidden in very difficult, and very abstract locations.
Music credits[]
The Viktrola records are
- Let It Snow, by Bing Crosby
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Chirstmas, by Jim Brickman
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen by Steve Erquiaga
- The Christmas Song, by Liz Story
- O Holy Night, by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Ambient music outside is A Lovely Place to Be, by Patrick O'Hearn.
Notes[]
- In many locations, the poly count is very high, and will cause lag and disappearing objects.
- The sound is affected by certain room brushes, so the viktrola can become very quiet behind the wall it is nearby.
File Locations[]
Screen Shots[]
Walkthrough[]
The zip files comes with a hint list included in an html.
Loot List[]
FM:T2 A Thief's Holiday 2004 - Yandros/lootlist
Readme File[]
A Thief's Holiday 2004 by Yandros Date of release - December 15, 2004 Version - 2.2a (2003 edition is 1.x) Version History: v2.2a - Added German translation (no functional changes) v2.2 - Fixed mission end bug involving camvator outro and snowballs v2.1 - Added two missing files v2.0 - Original 2004 release Description: You’re throwing a big holiday party for a few close friends, and you have a LOT of things to do to get ready! Complete everything on your checklist before your guests arrive. Objectives: There are three main things to do: 1. Do some housecleaning. 2. Bring a festive mood into the house. 3. Prepare some refreshments. Under each main task, a list of subtasks will appear. There are more subtasks on each higher difficulty. Complete all subtasks to complete one of the three main tasks. Difficulties: Normal - Everything you need to accomplish your tasks is in plain view and/or in a logical location (i.e. where you'd expect it to be and/or near where it is used). Hard - Items needed to complete your tasks are more out of the way, but nothing is up in the rafters, and hence no rope arrow is available or necessary. Expert - The items you need are well hidden and in completely illogical locations. A rope arrow is available (if you can find it) for searching up in the rafters, although it is possible to get in the rafters without it. Hopefully this mode will be a challenge to those who enjoy one. Note: I recommend playing Normal first, to learn how to use the items needed to perform your tasks, before moving on to the two higher difficulties where just finding the items is more challenging. Cheats/Hints available: There is an HTML Cheat Sheet included with this mission. Look for ATH04_CheatSheet.html in your Thief 2 directory. This file should also be available at Thiefmissions as the “Hints” file. Victrola Note: In each difficulty, 3-5 victrola records are available. You can put them on the player and remove them at will, swapping them out as you wish to change the music. As long as one of them is playing, you have met the requirement for that objective. Music Credits: Victrola Records: Bing Crosby - Let It Snow! Jim Brickman - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Steve Erquiaga - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Liz Story - The Christmas Song TSO (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) - O Holy Night Ambient (outside): Patrick O’Hearn - A Lovely Place To Be From his CD So Flows The Current (2000) Known Problems: From a few vantage points, objects can vanish. There are a lot of objects in the mission for atmosphere, although most are non-interactive (not frobbable). This is an engine limitation and I did the best I could to minimize it by adding the extra walls in the living room, which was originally one large room. Big Thanks to: Beta testers: Dafydd, FreddyFox, Nightwalker, Peter Smith, Ponterbee Additional Thanks to: Jason (epithumia) for hosting Sluggs for being himself Credits: Textures: Dave Gurrea, Rob Hicks, Targa, Polygon, Lord Alan Objects: Ernie, Nameless Voice, Schwaa, Von Eins, Targa, Sluggs, GORT, Yandros Main Menu image: http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/env_images/snowflake.jpg This mission is dedicated to Sluggs. Cheers, mate! Loading Information: Runs from Dark Loader. Leave the file ZIPPED - DO NOT UNZIP this file, but put the ZIP file into whatever folder/directory you want to on your hard drive, then in Darkloader setup, point to this folder/directory, and the mission should show up in the Darkloader main screen. Copyright Information This mission is ©2004 by Russ Robbins. This level was not made by and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios (R.I.P.) or Eidos Interactive.