Chapter 4 escape with slow movement difficulty

[「Francisco Frango」🐔]

I'm playing with "slow movement" ON so Garrett always walks as he were sneaking. The escape part is imposible for me for that reason

[Yij]

have you tried spamming the swoop key? might help you out, though he tends to run out of stamina pretty quick.

I put on slowed movement aswell but have yet to complete the game, hope it doesn't make it impossible :S

[Tiger]

If anyone else still plays this game, I found the trick here is to keep your W key pressed down the whole time, spam your spacebar to swoop, but do NOT hold the shift key to run. You run out of stamina at the very end and die of a heart attack looking at your hands for some strange reason.

[cyberwiz97]

Originally posted by Tiger:

If anyone else still plays this game, I found the trick here is to keep your W key pressed down the whole time, spam your spacebar to swoop, but do NOT hold the shift key to run. You run out of stamina at the very end and die of a heart attack looking at your hands for some strange reason.

Yes. Constantly hold the W key and mash the Space Bar but, to avoid running out of stamina, you have to stop swooping for a second or so at a point just before entering the steeple area where all the birds are flying around. Then, start swooping again until you get away. There's also a spot where you can stop swooping for a brief second just as you're going through the flock of birds. The timng is critical. Wait for an instant too long and you'll be killed.

[Vik]

That's a great example of how custom dificulty was added after this crappy level was designed and nothing was changed to make it more enjoyable.

[cyberwiz97]

Let's get back on topic here. The way I was able to do this was, at the very start of the chase, to escape the dogs, I held down the W key and the Shift key while swooping (Space Bar) but, only until I slid down through the skylight and landed on the table where all the guards were. After that, I let up off the Shift key but continued to hold the W key while swooping. I paused for a quick second after sliding down another slanted roof just before the steeple/gazebo, then continued to swoop, even though the pumping heart icon showed up.

[SlaveOfSelf(lucas)]

good to know, gona try that. had to redo whole level like 5 times now, playin with no checkpoints, am red with anger. why the ♥♥♥♥ do they shove some ♥♥♥♥ scripted action scenes into such immersive games? cheap and ♥♥♥♥

edit: managed to do it, then died in pipes action entering keep, had to start over and got caught by dogs again. i am fakyn boiling!!!

[cyberwiz97]

Thief has several places where precise timing and perfect execution is REQUIRED to get through an area. And, yes, it can be infuriating. That's my biggest complaint about this game. As you found in chapter 4, many places will end up being trial and error, repeatedly, until you get just the right timing and sequence of actions. Pain in the wazoo, imho. Especially, if you're doing chapter saves only.

[The Nothing Man]

please mods, DONT lock this thread, if so pin the answer
its still an annoying issue, and there are many bugs on this chase and after
this whole chapter is a mess still
and thanks to this thread.. I can confirm it
speed is slowed on purpose..
even if shift is pressed you will never run,
so yeah

also if you crouch near the first table, and draw a bow to aim at a glass, the dogs go right past you, freezing the game
you can still move around but, the chase wont continue

fun stuff testing this level I bet.
QTE needed on revamp

[Skorpion]

Originally posted by SlaveOfSelf(lucas):

good to know, gona try that. had to redo whole level like 5 times now, playin with no checkpoints, am red with anger. why the ♥♥♥♥ do they shove some ♥♥♥♥ scripted action scenes into such immersive games? cheap and ♥♥♥♥

edit: managed to do it, then died in pipes action entering keep, had to start over and got caught by dogs again. i am fakyn boiling!!!

Necroing the thread:

Yeah, I needed several tries to get through with slow motion, but no taffin' way will I try the no checkpoint challenge... I will need my nervous system in the rest of my life.

[The Nothing Man]

lol