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It is, there's a decent amount of missions that aren't terrible. There's some differences in terms of more guard variety in TDM and the fact that the two engines are different, but overall it tries to stay faithful to the first few games.

>>15486618

It's at least worth trying out the tutorial and recommended missions. It's a very impressive piece of work for what started out as a mod for DOOM 3

>>15486618

>Is TDM worth playing?

It's less a question of worth playing and more a question of how much do you want to risk a bug that might permanently lock you out of your OS? Don't get any enhanced textures just bugfixes, the new textures clashes together.

>>15487155

OP is talking about the mod for doom 3, not the HD packs for the first thief games. Unless you mean TDM has a bug like that.

>>15487155

The default textures already looked pretty fucking bad.

>>15487345

I never heard of that. Personally I couldn't play the Dark Mod too much for 2 reasons: It has jarring textures coupled with bump maps (which I always thought looked awful), and It feels clunky as fuck. I don't really play any newer games for the same reasons so you might have a higher tolerance to this shit than I do.

>>15487723

I don't play it because it doesn't have a gamma+ and gamma- keybind option. That shit is essential in T1/2 for me.

I applaud their efforts and it can be really good, but there's telepathic guards so it's can be very frustrating to play. If you're in full light the enemies can see you even if you're standing straight behind them. Sneaking still works mostly, but apparently you reflect light very loudly.

I would recommend you try it, but last I tried it it was also quite unstable.

Only map I can remember the name of (which also happens to be good) in addition to the one level that comes with the game (Chapel of St Lucia or something) is Knighton Manor.

>>15487872

Why don't you just hack it in since you're cheating anyways?

>>15487155

>bug that might permanently lock you out of your OS

What? Unless you downloaded some type of ransomware along the way or are just legitimately retarded I really doubt what you are claiming.

>>15487940

>Cheating

As opposed to opening the menu every time and changing the gamma option from there? The keybinds were put in T1 and T2 by Looking Glass not by mistake.

>>15487196

>>15487345

No Thief gold has a bug like that, it's rare but it's not fun. It's not like Wizardry 8 though where the game itself can replace your OS on boot up.

>>15488158

The infamous bug nobody has heard of.

>>15488145

There are no flares in T1 and in TDM what light sources you are given is up to the FM creator. The options were coded in deliberately, Looking Glass did not deliberately add in gamma keybinds by mistake. In fanmissions in general light levels are not always applied correctly or consistently. Maybe on your trashy LCD screen where you can see everything in wonderful shades of grey it isn't a problem, but for non retarded people on CRT's and OLED's it's nice not to blind yourself via eyestrain by using the gamma shortcuts that Looking Glass very deliberately thought were necessary.

I need you to run this over your smooth, smooth brain several times.

>Looking glass deliberately added keyboard shortcuts for gamma, something which no other game does.

>Looking glass deliberately added keyboard shortcuts for gamma, something which no other game does.

>Looking glass deliberately added keyboard shortcuts for gamma, something which no other game does.

I await your bitter and pedantic reply with no interest.

>>15488170

I never said it was infamous, I quite clearly remember compatibility bugs and one of them would lock your PC and if you got a power outtage you'd be kinda screwed. Since those types of bugs happen to me a lot because I live in a stormy area with shitty powerlines that's the kind of thing I have to look out for.

No matter how you spin it changing gamma always amounts to cheating

>>15490161

playing the game on anything but a CRT is pretty much cheating.

>>15490225

Why buy a shitty LCD? That's as bad as buying a CRT tbh.

>>15490236

because a good LCD costs 40,000 dollars, anything else isn't good

>>15490241

A high quality LCD is about 1500 dollars.

>>15490274

>You could pick up a CRT for free and test it out yourself

Why would I? I've owned CRTs in the past, from the bad old days before LCDs were around (and before they became good). I use a PG279Q now so no real reason to downgrade back to CRT.

>until I played on a CRT

This means you're an underaged faggot. If you weren't, a CRT would have been the first thing you played on.

>>15490286

>This means you're an underaged faggot. If you weren't, a CRT would have been the first thing you played on.

you aren't very smart based on this alone

>>15490342

>Plus that annoying whine if your ears are sensitive to higher pitches when the CRT is on.

that's only 15khz ones which aren't PC crts. if they're making other noises it's vibration

>>15490274

OLED displays will never become mainstream because they have shit durability. Except on smartphones because people replace them every couple of years anyway.

Yes. I am a TDM eggspert and here are my recommended missions.

Crucible of Omens: Behind Closed Doors

William Steele series

Penny Dreadful series

Thomas Porter series

Ulysses series

The Accountant series

Volta 1 and 2

Briarwood Manor

Down by the Riverside

Shadows of Northdale haven't actually played this one yet, but the author of it is just too good, vid related is the intro that he made

>>15490346

I grew up with TV CRTs so that's my only experience, those old TVs make a whine which is very distinct. Another thing is that they all have a natural bloom like effect on every border with color and black, especially pronounced when it's dark and the TV is the only light source.

>>15490375

always had bad ears and never heard 15khz whine in my life, let alone now that I'm older.