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Acquiring New Ventures   (2025) T2 FM

Bar/Inn/Tavern/Hotel City Houses/Cottages/Apartments Mansion/Estate Museum Non-Garrett Player Novelty/Experimental Sewer Undead

A few weeks have passed since my encounter with that mage. This hideout has served me well. The City might be heavily patrolled, but having the gate to the docks right by has left me free to roa... Read more

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info NOTES:     * FM updated to v1.2 *

You play as Lowell, a lowlife currently in hiding from forces mightier than himself.

This Fan Mission contains certain gameplay changes and additions that are perhaps better discovered through gameplay, but just in case, they're detailed at the bottom of the ReadMe file. Regardless, we recommend playing through the mission before reading it.

Difficulty differences are explained first in the Gameplay Changes section.

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marsupial   Missions
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Dale_
Special Thanks - New Assets

Mat99
Special Thanks - Technical Consultant

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Trevor the Taffer (twhalen2600)
Voice Actor for Lowell



Briefing

A few weeks have passed since my encounter with that mage.

This hideout has served me well. The City might be heavily patrolled, but having the gate to the docks right by has left me free to roam the port. The wealthier spice merchants have some agreement with the Watch: they don’t look and their pockets get a little heavier. And with people coming and going all the time, no one would pay any attention to another street urchin like me anyway.

But I’m tired of begging and eating fish scraps.

There’s talk about a warehouse very close by that recently received a shipment from far away. Everyone talks about it in whispers. And I have a very keen ear when I want to. Tonight, I’ll take a stroll inside the City... and see if the rumors are true.

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message   An impressive debut mission
Plibb    Sept. 24, 2025, 12:28 a.m.

I'm finding it hard to judge this mission, there's some excellent gameplay additions and it's probably the FM with the most amount of true immersive sim elements in regards to the new mechanics, like being able to shoot out electrical lighting, needing to combine arrows with crystals, being able to throw bottles for multiple purposes, etc. But I...

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message   An Instant Classic
GoldenTaffer    Sept. 7, 2025, 10:50 a.m.

Acquiring New Ventures is sick as hell from front to back.

ANV is a wonderful mix of modern linear/cinematic level design and more classic, open-ended Thief LD. It continually fluctuates between guided design and nonlinearity in a way I found consistently engaging and deftly handled, which is partly due to the fact that every single beat of ...

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message   Good mission in the firs half, frustating towards the end in the sewers part
Master of Dromed    Aug. 30, 2025, 7:06 p.m.

I played this mission today and it started very promising with top quality graphics and gameplay elements. I liked the small quarter of the city around the warehouse. That was fun to explore. All was ok until i reached the sewers in the second part of the mission (after we met the pagan woman) after this i was expected to quickly find my way ou...

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message   Incredible customization and great debut, some rough bits
NanakiAzakee    Aug. 29, 2025, 9:54 a.m.

I love the customization that this mission has brought to the table, I think the crystal elements idea is a very neat one and it also makes a lot more sense than just magically getting a prepared arrow and all. I love the burning mechanic too!
This had me really interested in the beginning as you explore a small city area, lost me in the sewers...

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message   Good adventure
vektorwz    Aug. 27, 2025, 2:43 a.m.

I really liked this mission, it feels more like an adventure than an actual mission itself. It starts like any other FM and takes a twist gameplay-wise. Maybe you won't find a lot of approaches on how to complete the mission as it is, in my opinion, very straightfoward, like a hallway. However, it's a very good hallway so don't take that as a fl...

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message   Impressive for a first time out, I just wish...
Arktander    Aug. 25, 2025, 8:23 a.m.

..FM authors would quit substituting their own characters, which I just can't end up liking or caring about, for Garrett. With a very few exceptions, it's annoying and disappointing.

Anyway, the mission is buggy at the moment, but aside from the throwaway Garrett-wannabe protagonist, worth playing, and promises better things to come.

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message   Arthouse cinema that doesn't know what it wants to be
nanao.    Aug. 21, 2025, 3:05 p.m.

A fantastic first mission. First, let me say that I know who the author is, so with that cleared off the table on to the mission itself.

The opening area sets the bar high in all of details, overall level of visual and sound ambience and in how well-ripened the whole locale feels, easily equalling some of the best "visually modern" city miss...

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