Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5557418-20131202044007/@comment-3547390-20131223042046

Exactly, sometimes it is actually harder to knock out every person. Some get in your way, but others do not. Remember the front gate guards of Baffords? Now imagine your goal was to knock them out as well. The only thing wimpy might be the speed potion. Going fast in a game requiring being slow and being stealthy? Only time I use it is when I purposely planned out to run somewhere and want to get a large number of guards after me (I did not do this at all in my playthrough and only use it for goofing around when I don't have time for strategy).

Recently I busted into Baffords to get a slice of bread. Apparently the guards didn't want me to leave, but I did deliver it to some family. For the effort, I should have grabbed a piece of cheese for myself.

There is actually an interesting glitch with the blackjack that I try not to use if I can help it. I think I only took advantage in the fan missions that were incomplete and broken. Similarily I try to prevent NPC jumping and guard drowning.

Also about the blackjack, if you don't use it you are doing one of the steps of the official ghosting rules (made to make Thief a much more challenging experience). Now just play on expert, place keys and other objects besides loot back when you are done, don't cause any property damage, and close all doors behind you (the last of which I have a tendency to do anyway). I cannot do ghosting as I love bonking guards too much, steal food, and slash every banner I see. Plus I am not so skilled to have never had a guard start searching for me, that usually happens at some point in the level.

Lately I tried to see what the hype about the HD Thief patch was about (almost every video on youtube now seems to be with it, though that is a lot to do with the fact that many have trouble installing the original game). I didn't try all the models, but the ones I did try looked horrible and out of place. Textures were too fuzzy and the lock on footlockers just bothered me entirely. The only thing "improved" was the detail on paintings and the roundness of certain objects (which also looked inappropriate with texture choices). If you want a better Thief try the Dark Mod, but the original game seems to look best when you have the vanilla game (I also tried a sound enhancement, which basically just made things sound muffled to me). So congrats to us for not going NewDark and instead playing vanilla. Most people dislike the graphics, even back when it was originally released. I cannot tell the difference between Unreal and Thief in a graphical comparison, maybe I am wearing the wrong shades.

The blooper reel is awesome as well, though I do advise you beat the game before trying that (or in fact before doing fan missions, I could have seen some big spoilers if I didn't do it in the order I did it in).

So that means starting Wednesday you will have time for plenty of taffing!