Thief: The Black Parade - A full sized unofficial expansion

[nbohr1more]

THE BLACK PARADE, AN UNOFFICIAL EXPANSION FOR THIEF GOLD
by Feuillade Industries

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It is finally here! After 7-ish years of development, The Black Parade is finally released. So, what awaits you in this campaign?

- 10 huge, open-ended and meticulously crafted missions with varied themes packed with content.
- A brand new protagonist thrown into a dark, intricately woven story of crime and conspiracies.
- 4 new tools happily supplied by the undermarket, at a price.
- Many tweaks to the AI to make the game a bit more challenging but still fair.
- A brand new "banter" system where AIs greet each other during their rounds and nightly life.
- 28 voiced characters totaling roughly 1,800 new lines of dialogue.
- 30 minutes of gorgeous hand-drawn briefings and cutscenes.
- Brand new AI motions making the denizens of The City look more alive.
- Full English subtitles.

In The Black Parade you play the character of Hume, a hardened criminal who was sent into exile as a punishment for his crimes. The year is 833, you are now back in The City, a sprawling metropolis of soot-caked brick, greasy fumes and noisy machinery, with many a sinister conspiracy whispered behind closed doors. Lost and without a penny to your name, you are back to your life of thievery and must find your old associate Dahlquist. Shadows and silence are your allies. Light is your enemy. Stealth and cunning are your tools. And the riches of others are yours for the taking.

The Black Parade aims at being a love letter to Thief: The Dark Project, and we hope we succeeded! It is recommended to have played through Thief: The Dark Project and/or Thief 2: The Metal Age at least once beforehand, since these missions are overall tougher than the base game.

The Black Parade also comes with a few tweaks to the classic Thief gameplay formula:

- Hume is not a Keeper and thus never received Garrett’s training: AIs will now notice you if they bump into you or vice versa, sometimes even in a perfect shadow. Be careful!
- Hume can move banners aside instead of having to slash them.
- Hume has additional footstep sounds for chains and pipes; these are metal sounds that aren’t as noisy as regular metal (about as noisy as stone/wood).
- Water arrows can now be used to expand moss patches.
- Servants will re-light extinguished torches on higher difficulty levels.
- Servants may clean moss on the floor if they notice it on higher difficulty levels.
- Zombies now smash wooden doors open instead of simply opening them.
- Electric lanterns carried by guards can be turned off.
- A few guards in the campaign are outfitted with heavy armor and helms so they cannot be knocked out using the Blackjack.
- Hume can pick up small creature corpses such as spiders or sweels.

Mirrors:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QCC0dZ ... drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G__-vv ... sp=sharing
https://www.taffersparadise.co.uk/thief ... ade_1.0.7z

Here is a very handy guide by nicked on how to set up Thief Gold for Fan Missions.

https://nickdablin.wordpress.com/how-to ... -missions/

!!!IMPORTANT NOTES!!!
The Black Parade requires NewDark 1.26 or above! Make sure you use the latest version of TFix/TFix Lite before playing!
The Black Parade should be launched with FMSel, NewDarkLoader or AngelLoader. It is not recommended to launch this campaign with DarkLoader or GarrettLoader. Note that mods such as Thief Gold HD Mod, NecroAge or Enhancement Pack are not compatible with this campaign. Remember that this is a campaign for THIEF GOLD, not Thief 2!

Known issues:
- Due to the complexity of the missions, there can be cases where some NPCs might get stuck walking against walls. There is unfortunately not much that can be done about this.

Please visit Moddb and vote for this project in the Mod of the Year contest:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-the-black-parade


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Happy 25th anniversary to Thief: The Dark Project, and have fun taffers!

[Whiskey 7]

OP

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[nbohr1more]

For some reason the youtube feature in this forum isn't working. Changed it to a link:

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[Mat Linnett]

For some reason the youtube feature in this forum isn't working. Changed it to a link:

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You just need the ID, not the whole URL:

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Re: the mod, it's getting a good reception from people, so I might have to give this a shot.

PS: I take it you're over on TTLG? If so, who are you?

[nbohr1more]

For some reason the youtube feature in this forum isn't working. Changed it to a link:

https://youtu.be/z0gGqkbZQc0?si=k0MZuNmKmHrwQQ88

You just need the ID, not the whole URL:

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Re: the mod, it's getting a good reception from people, so I might have to give this a shot.

PS: I take it you're over on TTLG? If so, who are you?

I am one of the developers and the main promoter of "The Dark Mod":

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod

( A standalone game that uses the Doom 3 engine to create a Thief 1 \ 2 style experience. )

The Dark Mod team have been long-time friends of the developers of "The Black Parade" and some of our mission authors
even contributed artwork and other assets to the project.

[nbohr1more]

Woo!

We have made it to the Top 100!

Please vote again in the final "champions round" so we have a chance to win the overall contest:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-the-black-parade

[nbohr1more]

Not sure how many Q3W folks voted but "The Black Parade" won Moddb's "Mod of the Year" contest:

https://www.moddb.com/groups/2023-mod-o ... -year-2023

Thank you!

[Don Carlos]

Congrats buddy