Release Notes for Thief™ 2: The Metal Age

Internal Update (12 July 2018)

• [WIN] added French version of the game
• [WIN] updated to NewDark 1.26

Patch 1.25 ND (03 April 2017)

• fixed position on a few really badly placed objects
• it's now not possible to bug out impassable (decorative) doors in the Training and Assassins missions
• alarmlights in Cragscleft, Assassins and Undercover now work properly (red light when triggered)
• Constantine was not using all of his attacks in the last level because of incorrect link settings, this is now fixed

Patch 1.24 ND (04 April 2016)

• This is a hotfix for v1.23 that fixes a couple of things.

• In particular the broken "sun_runtime_obj_shadows" has been fixed. In DromEd the crashes related to DXT

• textures have also been fixed (if "dxt_to_rgb32" was enabled as a workaround for those crashes then it can be removed again).

General:

• fixed broken "sun_runtime_obj_shadows" (worked in DromEd but not the game exe)
• fixed path priority order bug with subtitle files (was accidentally reversed)
• reduced risk of the door drifting bug that can happen in some occasional FMs (door-based objects that should rotate but instead of rotating just float away into infinity)
• added "no_unload_fmsel" option to cam_mod.ini (can be useful if experiencing crash with FMSel, especially on Win10)

DromEd:

• fixed DXT related crash (when running editor in HW mode)
• fixed crash accidentally re-introduced in the previous version when loading (old) missions with bad door objects (objects internally flagged as doors despite not being doors)
• fixed ambient sounds disappearing after playing in-game movie
• fixed link data for certain link types (AIWatchObj) getting reset when reordering them (in link list dialog)
• fixed original glitch in vhot evaluation that could under some circumstances affect "show_vhots", coronas and particle attachment links using vhots
• fixed DML syntax error bug when working with links that have no data set
• fixed missing field indexing in DML export (for properties that contain multiple fields with the same name)
• fixed a bug that could occur under certain circumstances with StimSource and Receptron commands in DMLs
• fixed a few crashes that could happen in rare situations
• fixed buggy transform for vhot and subobj detail attachment links when parent object is scaled
• added mono warning for ObjTxtReplace properties with textures that couldn't be found/loaded
• added "spew_stimulations" command to toggle mono output for stim events

Patch 1.23 ND (17 December 2015)

• updated NewDark to version 1.23.