DRACULA CAMPAIGN

THE DARKTHRONE v1.3 for Windows XP

Created by Szabo Csaba @ SENSUT
feat. Wesley Hollfelder @ METAL DAWN


Note for Windows9x/Me/2000 users: if the mission won't start, please use the Win9xMe or Win2000 patch included in the package!

Contact Info : csabisensut@yahoo.com
Homepage : www.garrett.cjb.hu
Date of Release : 12. February, 2007.


Playing Information:

Game : Thief 2 (v.1.18)
Mission Title : DRACULA CAMPAIGN – Part 4: The Darkthrone
File Name : dracula_4v1.3_incl_allpatches.zip
File info : miss23 ; dracula4.gam
Difficulty Settings : AI variations only
Equipment Store : no
Map : Find it!
Auto Map : no
New Graphics : yes
New Sounds : yes
FOG : no
Multi-Language Support : No, english only.
Briefing : no
Requirements : - Thief II - The Metal Age PATCHED to 1.18 (otherwise some objectives will not work!)
- DARKLOADER 4.3 or GARRETTLOADER 1.4 with custom scripts.
- A system minimum of around 1GHz with 64 Mb video, and 256 RAM.

This mission uses custom scripts! If you see this message at the beginning, please install these files (included in the mission package) then try again.

Scripts: Telliamed (tnhScript 1.5.2, version check, Public scripts)
Gaylesaver (script 1.2.0)

Construction :

Base : Transylvania, Walachia, Moldova
Editor : Dromed Deluxe 1.0 (DeDx)
Build Time : 4 months
Tested on : The original Thief II - The Metal Age patched to vers. 1.18 + DarkLoader 4.3 / GarrettLoader 1.4


Special thanks (the inner-circle):

To Nightwalker for the text editions of the Part 4: The Darkthrone!

To Metal Dawn for the greatest mesh skins specially made for the Dracula campaign, text editions (part 1-3), and beta testings!

To Slipknot, Hotlyx, Jiri Misenka, Turi Robert, T.Nagy Levente and Vagovits Balazs aka Sir Balu, for help and beta testings.

To Rob Hicks and the authors for Dromed Deluxe, the greatest game editor of all times.

To Komag and Spike14 for tutorials, and to everyone who wrote the good tutorials I learned from.

To K?SZEG GYÖRGY FOR HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION SUPPORT (www.kgysoft.try.hu).

Very special thanks to:

TELLIAMED, GAYLESAVER,TARGA, SLUGGS, YANDROS, R SOUL, NAMELESS VOICE, JASON OTTO, BALATRO, GORT, TDBONKO, ESHAKTAAR, ALUN BESTOR, CHRISTINE, DARK ARROW, YAMETHA, SYI, DrK, PDACKEL, SHADOWSPAWN, Nielsen74, DLW6, NAKS, RAETSEL, THE WATCHER, ASGAROTH and PURAH, and to everyone who created the rest of the great textures, objects and other resources what I used.

Additional textures from Quake 3 Arena by id Software, jHeretic, jDoom, jHexen (part 3-4), and also thank you for KMAN, NECRO, PIZ and ANTHRAXSCARE (DOOMSDAY) for these textures.

Sky textures (modified by me) from: http://skymatter.thegamecreators.com/?f=sample

Dedicated to all taffers on TTLG and other forums, who are playing this campaign.


Media credits (the outer-circle):

WOJCIECH KILAR (Bram Stokers's Dracula movie) main and background themes;
MARCIN "CEDYN" CZARTYNSKI (Painkiller game) background themes (part 3);
ANTÓN GARCÍA ABRIL (Tombs Of The Blind Dead ’71 movie) background themes (part 4);
POPOL VUH (Nosferatu'79 movie) background themes (part 3);
DISBELIEF (band) background music (part 4)
THEATRES DES VAMPIRES (band) background music and lyrics sequences (part 3);
ANCIENT (band) background music (part 2);
SATYRICON (band) main 2 theme;
DIMMU BORGIR (band) background music (part 1);
BATHORY (band - RIP) background music (part 1);
SAMAEL (band) lyrics sequences (part 2);
CREMATORY (band) lyrics sequences (part 2).
And Wynona Ryder (BS's Dracula) , Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu '79) on paint images.

Story resources:

Bram Stoker's DRACULA movie by Francis Ford Coppola - 1992;
NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYRE movie by Werner Herzog - 1979;
DARK PRINCE - THE TRUE STORY OF DRACULA movie by Joe Chappelle - 2000;
DRACULA book by Bram Stoker;
My and the Romanian people's history.


Copyright Information:

This project is © by Sensut.

Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package
is kept intact. You may not include this level to any map pack without my
permission. No one may edit and re-distribute this mission without my express
permission.

This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos
Interactive.