Just posting to say there is already a fully functional Thief in another engine (Unreal) game available.

Not the same thing at all. Thievery is a multiplayer Thief experience. It’s also a lot different than traditional Thief in terms of gameplay.

KG

Thievery. Multiplayer coop thieving. need I say more?

http://www.thieveryut.com/

KG

tl;dr

Start
Run
D:\setup -lgntforce

When the program is running, ctrl-alt-del, go to process, set processor affinity to a single processor.

BAM.

There are a lot of codec issues with the videos, but you can just bypass it all by downloading Media Player Classic and running them straight from the CD.

AND YES THIEF IS STILL THE BEST GAME EVER.

Things in the write up make it seem to be what it isn’t.

First it’s a toolset. Possible release of more missions but a campaign is not currently planned. That might come after release but more likely team members will still be tweaking it, adding content, ect…
I myself am starting a level of my own now and have to say that the editor is way better than Dromed (I have quite a few large missions under my belt for T2). It’s easier to work with, I can work at full screen (1920×1400) instead of Dromed’s max of 1024×768.
New creatures and animations can easily be done in several 3d programs. New creature types in T2 was almost impossible and animations were very painful with the only user released anim program.
Polycount in Doom3 makes Dromed look silly.
Sure the T2 community is still going and some great stuff is coming out of it but that doesn’t mean some of us don’t want more.

The read-me does state that lockpicking does indeed work, but still needs some final tweaking. This is mainly due to how the sounds are played. This is an Alpha map that was created before lockpicks were fully functional, in fact several things in this map are already outdated. This map really shows the progress that has been made months ago and alot of things have changed since then.

Keys work just fine on the chest and so far Kieron Gillen is the only person I have heard of who couldn’t open the chest with a key. The frob button is not used to open the chest, a use button is used. I’m not positive but it may change to the frob button by release.

We do have at least one team member using Vista. If there are problems running Vista it is because support for Vista was added about 2 weeks prior to release of this demo. I’m sure it will be finely tuned and tested before final release.

I agree that Doom3 was a fairly ugly game. I played through once and the first thing that caught my eye was a 6 sided pop can right off the bat. Doom3 can handle more polys than that easily.
Also that was Doom3, Darkmod has different art and a completely different setting. Remeber that System Shock was built in the same engine as Thief but they looked nothing alike.
I wouldn’t keep Doom3 installed for Doom3. But for editting Darkmod and playing FM’s, why not. If you like a game or the Fan Missions why would you choose to uninstal because it runs on another games engine?

And the wall mantling thing is a height thing. If you mean the outside wall in the screenshot it is because the corner is short enough for the player to jump and grab on. Further down the street it is too high. I actually think Fidcal did a good job designing it that way. In fact there are several spots in the mission that you can mantle if you look hard enough. I dare to say that ALL of the comments from the Taffing community at large were in awe of the mantling abilities (mind you I’m not a programer and had nothing to do with that aspect of the game). I myself have found the mantling awesome and have been able to do things that never could have been done in the Thief series, while being fully realistic and plausible at the same time.

Can’t wait for this to get a little more polished!