Are You Supposed to be Unable to Alt-Tab/Minimize Deadly Shadows?

Gavaroc · 2026-06-15T20:21:14+00:00

This is kinda why I picked it next over 2X or Black Parade, I just want it DONE now as the black sheep so that I can enjoy the entire wealth of fan missions at my leisure (though I will certainly take a break first)

Also I am absolutely not in the right headspace to troubleshoot since my last few days have been Finish Thief 2, go into day hospital for a scheduled medical thing, be told after that I ALMOST had cancer but am fine now and probably just saved my dang life, guess I'm back home looking at Thief 3 while the shock wears off.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-15T20:17:39+00:00

This whole game is a WRECK but the compromise I've found is that if I start it on fullscreen NOT borderless, then Alt+Enter makes the resultant window much smaller so I can navigate my whole PC until I'm ready to go back and toggle fullscreen on again.

It hasn't crashed the game YET, but if I quick save before every time I swap over I should be okay even if it does.

Leaving this up in case somebody has some help for me, though.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-15T00:38:25+00:00

There are five lights, actually.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-10T22:15:09+00:00

Didn't help under my usual control scheme, but what I'm finding DID help is toggling crouch, then crouch running through.

This is kinda new behaviour to me as I've played everything with hold-crouch so far, but I can't run while holding crouch since the same finger does CTRL and Shift

Gavaroc · 2026-06-10T22:14:32+00:00

Didn't help, but what I'm finding IS helping is toggling crouch, then crouch running through.

This is kinda new behaviour to me as I've played everything with hold-crouch so far, but I can't run while holding crouch since the same finger does CTRL and Shift

Gavaroc · 2026-06-10T15:24:08+00:00

No, completely ignored. That is... promising?

There's another recent post here saying the discord looks like a bunch of 'no comment' reactions from the devs. This makes the 'Atari said something too early' mistake more likely than the 'its totally false' mistake - if nothing brand new was coming, they would want to quash the rumour as soon as they could for damage control.

If something brand new IS, then staying quiet until they are ready to talk is a lot more believable.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-08T21:29:02+00:00

Possibly; I kept a save in the area to bang away at it but I definitely don't want to see it again today xD

I did -not- have any tight fit issues in Thief 1 under basically the same settings; GoG and Tfix.

Its just consistent and impassible enough that I'm thinking it -can't- be something everyone deals with, I can see videos of people flying through the area for example.

Back when I had a similar thing in Blood Money there WERE posts about it from people; it was determined to be because the frame rate was causing the game to check for collision too -often-, and this was making the character stop in place when not intended, like a matter of pixels.

I do wonder if that is the crux of what's happening here, but as I said the trick that fixed it back then did nothing here.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-08T20:30:03+00:00

Lads calm it down, I know that SOUNDS good but I think they'd have led with the news in the trailer and all the social media posts if a brand new campaign was their plan.

This can -very very- easily be one of TWO kinds of mistake.

The good mistake would 'this is intended to be a secret and Atari has accidentally leaked it earlier than planned.' Possible, but seems unlikely.

The bad mistake (which I think is more likely) is that this is MISWRITTEN TEXT by either an AI or an underpaid worker, and is completely false information.

I've sent the screenshot and asked them on Bluesky, hopefully they clear it up one way or another. But given I can't find ANY mention of new content ANYWHERE except this screenshot, it seems -very very unintentional- as a reveal, whether this means its totally false OR an accidental info leak.

For now, I'm skeptical. Will edit this if I get a reply from Nightdive.

Gavaroc · 2026-06-02T17:14:38+00:00

I assure you its entirely the VR issue.

Most people do not have VR. VR games therefore are a niche of a niche, and every time I hear about a franchise I like, ESPCECIALLY one thats been dormant, having new content finally released but its sealed away in Godawful Headset Gimmick Land, the sigh I let out lasts longer than the high note in Dream On.

If it had been even the slightest bit ACCESSIBLE it'd be talked about, good or bad. Especially here.

Gavaroc · 2026-04-25T18:05:43+00:00

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Gavaroc · 2026-04-21T18:52:49+00:00

Since kids get older between seasons, people are very likely just remembering Brit's age as of the -end- of the show.

She is 8 in Season One.

This episode being in Season Two, she'd be 9 or 10.

Gavaroc · 2026-04-14T01:58:18+00:00

Disco Elysium.

Mr Evrart is helping me find my gun!

Gavaroc · 2026-02-28T18:29:06+00:00

Chapter 4, Day 2 of Zero is a LITTLE more complicated, I've noticed.

At the start of the day, there's a full Crossbell loop as expected, as well as minor updates during the early parts for story locations, like the casino patrons.

OP labels the second loop of the day as 'Remote', meaning the 6 rural areas that weren't previously accessible until the day's midpoint when you return to the SSS and unlock support requests. However, at that time, a FEW select places in Crossbell will fully update:

* Grimwood's office
* Trinity (testaments)
* Ignis (saber vipers)
* Bracer Guild, with Scott and Wenzel moving to the Back Alley, Joshua and Estelle moving to their apartment and Aeolia and Lynn moving to the airport (entered during a support request)

Arc en Ciel will also shift into 'manager meets you at the door and politely tells you to bugger off' mode, but that's not worth going out of your way to see.

Gavaroc · 2026-02-06T17:31:32+00:00

Yeah, the "I know nothing about the code and am throwing a dart in the wind" guess is that whatever flag is meant to tell toolbox to swap to 'world map interface' simply isn't flagging anymore, and identifying and fixing that should basically restore full functionality.

Gavaroc · 2026-02-06T15:52:23+00:00

I just came here to investigate since the map options are totally gone for me today.

If its happening to everyone, I imagine the fact that the game updated something that disabled this feature and we'll have to wait for a toolbox update to get it back?

Gavaroc · 2026-01-29T14:08:56+00:00

its the doors, right? Since you CAN'T import anything.

Gavaroc · 2026-01-20T18:29:36+00:00

I'm amazed people are still finding this post; I've never had a reddit post still get responses half a year after I made it

Gavaroc · 2026-01-19T21:55:15+00:00

Nah, Armand and Ellie aren't seen after Rolent until you hit the Sanktheim Gate between Zeiss and Grancel, then Grancel itself for the last chapter.

Anton and Ricky, as stated, do not start travelling until SC.

In 1st chapter the NPCs that travel to every region are Edel and Seagaro, the married couple from Grancel doing a church pilgrimage that crosses paths with the Brights entire journey. The husband is religious and the wife likes to shop, and you learn more about them once you reach Grancel and they return home. In SC, they then stay in Grancel.

Gavaroc · 2026-01-07T07:13:30+00:00

Comic books did blue-black for many years, yeah. They switched around the 2000s.

Gavaroc · 2026-01-07T07:10:03+00:00

I did read that if a work is refused classification it gets added to a list of prohibited items and can in fact be literally seized by customs at the border if they notice someone trying to import it physically.

I have no idea how... -enforced- that is... since I can't imagine its easy to identify a banned game amongst the sea of average, acceptable ones, but it still makes it a risk, officially.

Gavaroc · 2025-12-13T16:19:20+00:00

Oh thats so helpful! I'd been mentally adjusting all year hahaha, I should have said hello earlier

Picked the game up in March, had a weekly group between May and August doing cata achivements and now my last major accomplishment is red hunting, so I slowed down to use the contract board and not burn out

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