5.0.x Cumulative Mods & Fixes (CMF) Bug Reports and Discussion Thread

As we had discussed elsewhere earlier, we may be able to arrange for this sort of thing if Hickory Branch gets revamped theme-wise for a formal TotSC expansion. Great big bunches of humanoids coming at you from all sides.

HB always was battle-oriented, so we could adapt it that way without changing krunch's original intent too much.

 

That's weird, I thought I had replied to this a week ago. :dizzy:

Anyway, the theoretical 'new' HB battles really wouldn't have to be zeroed out like that (don't know if that's even possible either), because they'd be set up expansion style after the normal game in 'Tales of the Wild Coast.' Given that, I think you'd want leveling to progress normally.

 

Well, I just tested this with 5.0.5 (build 06.08.08) which has the latest version of the .dll that recently had its feats bit overhauled. I had no trouble with a first level fighter gaining EWP Butterfly Sword then going straight to Weapon Focus (Butterfly Sword) for the bonus feat. Thats with a fighter with 7 strength (inelligble for Bastard Sword) - I rolled another fighter with 16 strength and got both feats for Bastard Sword easily.

Dunno what the problem is in your game :shrug: Can someone check this for 5.0.6?

 

Was it ever in the brackets? I tested this again and found that if you choose a short weapon name (such as 'Kukri') it will fit in the box and is therefore displayed, but if you choose a long weapon name (such as 'bastard sword' or 'gnome hook hammer') it won't fit and so isn't displayed. I checked the files and all the weapons are set up the same so the game must instincively dislpay or not depending on whether it fits. This is a good thing. If it didn't fit, and it still displayed, it would look horrible and people would complain about that instead (see pic below where the display for EWP (Kukri) is already starting to leave the box and looks a bit amateurish).

As for 'bastard sword' not being lit up, I can't explain that - I find it is lit up even without the proficiency being taken, so you can Weapon-Focus it as a martial (2-handed) weapon. Ditto Dwarven War Axe. Maybe thats a bug too, I don't know.

To 'fix' these I would suggest using a much larger resolution and change your gamma settings. I will address your other issues in the other thread when I have a chance to test them.

 

I haven't seen those effects Ben34 but I am pretty sure they are temporary; a beta side-effect if you will. They'll be cleaned up later, if they are what I think they are.

Well I'll give it another look with 5.0.6 and leveling up during game play rather than later. The 'feat descriptions for wizards' idea sounds both sensible and straight-forward to do.

There is no walkthrough yet as no-one has written one. Krunch did one for DH (have to search for that, or maybe it comes bundled, I forget) and there is always Elves in the Temple.

<searches> hey where the heck is 'Elves in the Temple'??? :scratchhe

 

I think he's talking about Clamert and Terjon's Liv-implemented spell casting and animations/sounds for when you first enter the church, as with many other NPCs and locations. If that's so, they are not going to change.

Likewise, the former church music. It can now be heard in the lower levels of the temple, the result of a mod to deploy the existing music resources more intelligently and comprehensively.

No, that's a long-known bug. We're not sure why it happens, which makes it difficult to fix. It can actually occur at a variety of different places in Nulb, not just when talking to Sammy.

We separated Sammy's quest into ways because the original implementation was foolish. You were railroaded into going along with his con without the option to expose him, which many players found dissatisfying. Also, you don't get a red botched quest status for nothing. You have to actually botch the quest for it to become botched. I may have another look at this sometime down the line, but I'm actually quite happy with it the way it is right now.

You could always try reading the readme, which is quite exstensive. And yes it is placed somewhere - the same forum where you got the modpack, in fact, which makes it puzzling that you somehow missed it. Plus, it magically appears during installation. Did you deliberately skip it at that point? If so, don't complain to us that you don't know what's going on.

 

No, I'm not joking in the slightest about reading the readme. We put it there for a reason: so people would read it. I'm sure that many people don't, but they're normally not in the same boat as you - complaining about not having enough information about the mod while having been given that information at the outset.

I haven't the slightest idea about what you're on about regarding Sammy now btw, so unless you can clarify that a bit better I'm afraid your questions will have to go unanswered.

Also, there is no original, unfinished version of the Amii quest. That is a Co8 mod. And no, I don't think the outcome is too cruel. On the contrary I think it contributes to immersion quite effectively by conveying a rather real-world sensibility to the game in the form of consequences for your actions or inaction.

 

To get the Guardian Demon's Orb gems from any old summoned demon was pretty clearly a bug. Don't worry, we fixed it.

Ahh. My mistake. Sorry Ben34, you have to walk a bit further to find the music now.

Come to think of it, its a pretty simple change if you want it back (1 line in 1 doc I suspect) - gimme some time to get to a PC with ToEE installed and I'll PM you the details. I must say though, of all those sort of changes to the music in the game that Gaear made to improve it, I am pretty sure this is the first and only complaint - there's no doubt it was a great improvement.