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Into The Odd (2020) T2 FM

Thief II: The Metal Age 20th Anniversary Contest

Autumn City Daylight Escape Factory/Facility Hardest Horror Phobic (Spiders/Heights) Ruins Sewer Surreal/Bizarre Thieves/Thieves Guild Undead

"And gorg'd we on their meatsie bits, sated we our hunger. And swallow'd we on their hot bloods, slaked we our thyrst. And ravish'd we their buxom women, pleased we our needes. With their pains ... Read more

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info NOTES:     - Use Newmantle!
- This FM was made with T2 and TG content only. Please don't play it with HD mods as it'll only make the FM look like a garbled mess between low-poly and HD assets.
- You don't have a blackjack at the beginning, but you're not forced to ghost it. Nothing keeps you from returning and bashing everyone's head to your heart's content.
- You can't return to some places but worry not, there's neither loot nor equipment to be found inside those places.
- The map evolves with your progression. Some places without patrols may become patrolled later. Better loot everything while you can as the guards won't wait for you.
- Don't interrupt the first conversation, it triggers a new objective. You'll still get the objective if you do interrupt it, but it'll look weird.
- If you can't find your lockpick, re-read your objectives and re-read your map. You'll find them in time when you get a certain object. You didn't miss them earlier.
- If the map is too tiny, you have a big one included in the archive.

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Briefing

"And gorg'd we on their meatsie bits, sated we our hunger.
And swallow'd we on their hot bloods, slaked we our thyrst.
And ravish'd we their buxom women, pleased we our needes.
With their pains and lamentations, their begging, satisif'd we our vengeance.
- Fragments of an unattributed pagan epic,
Engraved on a Menhir.

"If you fight someone fair and square, you're doing it wrong".
Sometimes I wish I could slap myself for forgetting that I'm not the only one playing by that rule.
It was already too late when I noticed the creeps following me, and the sun was still too high in the skies
to simply vanish into the shadows. I managed to knock one of them out cold and found a very detailed map
of their ambush before running to find a place to hide. I can hear them killing everyone they see outside
just to make sure I'm not hiding in a crowd. These brutes really don't leave it to chance.
But my reputation for being more slippery than a toad isn't just for show."

star 9.23

I've played this FM:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Thief II: The Metal Age 20th Anniversary Contest

Contest Score

star   3rd

Score: 24.992 / 30


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message   Finished it with broken objectives haha!
brilliantgem1997    Nov. 25, 2022, 1:51 a.m.

I didn't install it properly with AngelLoader and the objectives weren't showing,
but for some reason I didn't find anything amiss?
I just found that because it made itself seem mysterious, I just went with playing it.
Very great atmosphere, like you were put into a really weird place.
Second playthrough in Expert after properly installing i...

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message   Is this FM is too overrated?
69Taffer69    July 19, 2022, 11:30 p.m.

I don't understand at all why is this FM has so high rating, at the begging we start our jorney in the toilet, thats says a lot about our future gameplay.
First hours is completly chaotic and you can't figure out what's going on. I thought maybe I missed something , but everything that happend made no sense at all. In the middle of the miss...

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message   Deft environmental storytelling
hargraf    April 4, 2022, 10:42 p.m.

A good Thief mission is like a conversation between the player and the developers. Into the Odd is the best kind of conversation, playful and engaging, and as aware of you as you are of it.

It knows you're going to catch sight of a window in the corner of your eye, a sliver of room through it (vivid tapestry, ornate relief, half of a bookshe...

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message   Magnificent & lives up to its title
Brodo Swaggins    Feb. 11, 2022, 4:49 p.m.

A tremendously weird and challenging mission that almost feels like a fever dream inside the Thief universe, with its own ornate writing style and hallucinogenic geometry. It reminded me of Jedi Knight and other 90's FPS trailblazers, with those massive industrial landscapes full of inexplicable balconies surrounded by bottomless pits. Striking ...

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message   The crown jewel of the TMA 20 AC
skacky    July 10, 2020, 4:51 p.m.

DISCLAIMER: Both authors are working on The Black Parade and are close friends of mine. I tried to review this mission with an objective mind.

Into the Odd is the least Thief 2 out of all the missions for the contest, in fact it feels more like something out of Purah or Sperry's minds, and while it feels very removed from Thief 2's aesthetic ...

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message   Incomparable Quality and Originality
DirkBogan    June 29, 2020, 2:35 a.m.

So much could be said about this FM.

The most concise praise I can give: it makes the vast majority of other FMs look like soulless pablum by comparison.

Much of the gameplay feels fresh and novel, despite never deviating from established Thief rules. It is always fair. There are no abstruse puzzles or micro-switches barring progression. S...

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message   Transcending Excellence
Melan    June 28, 2020, 10:38 p.m.

There are missions which are competent, there are missions which are excellent, and there are missions which are visionary. The second groups win contests; the third expand on our ideas of what Thief can and should be. This mission, clearly in the third category, is like a blow to the skull. It is, honestly, not well placed in the contest theme,...

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message   Very unusual - in an awesome way
UdoKrawallo    May 27, 2020, 9:02 p.m.

To say it first: You will probably hate the start of the mission. Until you figured out what to do it´s frustrating and you might die a lot because you start completely defenseless. But I assure you, it´s worth the trouble. Because after that this mission unfolds to a horror experience with gloomy underground sections and some mysterious mansion...

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message   Unexpected
Mike    May 10, 2020, 11:48 p.m.

If I should choose one-word expressions to describe this mission, then "Unexpected", "Unlike", "Odd" would be the first among them. The mission lives up to its name. I cannot even simply define it as "city" or "mansion" or "sewer" mission - because "Into the Odd" mixes them and constantly changes the conditions and places where player finds its...

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message   Wspaniała, z niesamowitą atmosferą
Hadrian    April 27, 2020, 11:24 a.m.

Misja ciągnie gracza liniową i starannie obmyśloną trasą, ale nie znaczy to, że jest nudno. Wręcz przeciwnie - twórcy w bardzo przemyślany sposób połączyli ze sobą różne lokacje, tworząc przekonującą iluzję tego, że nasz złodziej trafia do kolejnych lokacji zupełnie przypadkowo, a naszym celem jest znalezienie odpowiedniej i bezpiecznej drogi pr...

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message   Utterly Deranged
Lane Powell    April 16, 2020, 11:14 p.m.

"Into the Odd" is a devious and at times challenging mission that continually subverts expectations and throws multiple narrative and gameplay-related curveballs at the player.

The opening section is perhaps the most challenging: the player, unarmed and caught in broad daylight, must escape a group of thugs out for Garrett's blood. This is a ...

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