Thief™ II: The Metal Age

Thief™ II: The Metal Age

BadMojo 4 Jun, 2020 @ 7:07pm
Cant complete first mission bug
Hey Taffers,

Having a little trouble with the first mission not completing, Im using the latest TFix (1.27c). Ive completed thief 2 on expert before so I know I havent missed anything. On the first mission where you need 600 gold and at least 200 gems, even though Ive picked up all the loot in the level, gems are stuck on 175.. so theres that... but also, I tried to end the mission by doing the last part, where you use the bird whistle and have basso do his thing.. they will both make their way back to the start as expected, and Ill get the objective complete notification... but after that, nothing... no fail.. no mission complete.. no nothing... whats weird is I can get that objective complete notification multiple times as I run over the trigger... I realise at this point I obviously have to do the mission all over again.. *sigh*...

Im just wondering whats causing this bug and how I can prevent it?

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ps47.3dfx 5 Jun, 2020 @ 1:32am 
share a save (or saves).
BadMojo 5 Jun, 2020 @ 1:57am 
Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:
share a save (or saves).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsdw7xyj1yji7kx/SAVES.zip?dl=0

The quicksave is where Im at.. Ive had the game glitch out twice, the first time basso and the girl didnt move out of the room, and the second time the above happened.
ps47.3dfx 5 Jun, 2020 @ 9:01am 
you have missed some loot, once I've grabbed that, and used the bird call on Basso, he freed Jenivere, and the mission ended properly once they got out.

so no bug as far as I can tell, just go grab the loot in the upper bedrooms and you'll be good.
Last edited by ps47.3dfx; 5 Jun, 2020 @ 9:03am
BadMojo 5 Jun, 2020 @ 11:31am 
Thats really weird, I remember picking that up.. Ive come to the conclusion my game is haunted, as after I had picked up the missing loot, and called Basso, expecting him to make his own way to his betrothed and back again whilst I guard the exit... he never came back.. and as it appeared he never unlocked the door to Jenivere's room either.. So after playing a round of "Wheres Basso the Boxman?", searching not only his usual route, but the rest of the mansion aswell *face palm*, I thought I would just make a save next to the door, upload it and see what happens on your end... but I decided to load the save, when low and behold the door swings open and both Basso and Jenivere make their way out... it turns out Basso decided to have some hanky panky while I was waiting patiently for him the sneaky taffer...

well anyway, thanks for the help, if I run into any more problems and it becomes an issue, Ill make a post on the t2fix ttlg thread.. Ive not had this issue with any of the previous versions as far as I can tell.. this is my first time using 1.27c, and its on a fresh install of thief

Edit: Also, to clarify something... isnt the game usually supposed to fail if you call basso out before completing the rest of the mission? even if I had missed the loot, the game should still have ended with a fail
Last edited by BadMojo; 5 Jun, 2020 @ 11:37am
ps47.3dfx 5 Jun, 2020 @ 2:09pm 
I think they'll just wait outside patiently until you are done with all the looting.
ameyu 28 Aug, 2023 @ 8:50am 
You're right that this is a bug. It just happened to me too. Collected all loot, yet it doesn't trigger the mission as complete.

I imagine the cause is same old story; that those who make game "fixes"/"patches" actually create other bugs when they're mending original bugs. Very annoying, as I have spent a lot of time completing everything in the level carefully!
ps47.3dfx 29 Aug, 2023 @ 1:52am 
feel free to share a save if you want to be proven wrong.
BadMojo 29 Aug, 2023 @ 4:35am 
Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:
I think they'll just wait outside patiently until you are done with all the looting.

Mission fails if you don't collect all loot and allow basso to collect the girl.. Once they make it back to the gate, the mission ends with a fail weather you finished looting or not.

Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:
feel free to share a save if you want to be proven wrong.

Your not proving anything if the fix in the first place is to restart the game and/or load a save... What are you gonna come back with, "works fine for me".. Right.. It's definately a bug of sorts.
ps47.3dfx 29 Aug, 2023 @ 5:27am 
if it is, then it's probably possible to fix it. to actually find it, a save would be needed. not just "this game sucks the patches are worth nothing waaah".

and yes, if something works for 99.99% of users, then it can be considered working. from my experience, if something does not work in a weird way, 99.99% of times the user is doing something odd, like messing around with vsync and physics timings, running the game from an unsupported location or similar.

that, of course, does not mean you cannot be the one person on the planet that did not do anything unusual and his game still glitched out somehow. but the chances are low.
Last edited by ps47.3dfx; 29 Aug, 2023 @ 5:34am
Bankai9212 29 Aug, 2023 @ 8:19am 
Maybe a guard saw Basso, pretty sure that’d cause a failure the objective screen would tell you when you failed.
BadMojo 29 Aug, 2023 @ 4:08pm 
Originally posted by ps47.3dfx:
if it is, then it's probably possible to fix it. to actually find it, a save would be needed. not just "this game sucks the patches are worth nothing waaah".

and yes, if something works for 99.99% of users, then it can be considered working. from my experience, if something does not work in a weird way, 99.99% of times the user is doing something odd, like messing around with vsync and physics timings, running the game from an unsupported location or similar.

that, of course, does not mean you cannot be the one person on the planet that did not do anything unusual and his game still glitched out somehow. but the chances are low.

Nobodys saying the game sucks, this must just be that 0.01% chance the game bugged out.. You can debate all you like that the game has never failed to work for you and that there can't be an issue here, but that doesn't mean bugs can't occur on the odd chance, beit from different system specs or some windows update or perhaps rng of sorts.. Who knows.. The fact of the matter is, is that it has happened.

Also as i stated before, reloading the game fixed the issue for me.. The issue being a missing basso.. As if he fell through the floor or something, or just disappeared.. And the issue of the game not registering them entering the exit level trigger (which should happen regardless of completing the loot run, mission should end with either a win or fail once they make it back to the entrance)
ps47.3dfx 29 Aug, 2023 @ 4:27pm 
fair enough, I suppose.
ps47.3dfx 30 Apr, 2024 @ 4:11am 
check some youtube lets play perhaps, just to see whether you maybe missed something obvious.
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