Circle of Eight Modpack 5.6.0 General Commentary and Discussion Thread

Hmm, I thought the Moathouse Respawn was supposed to have been taken out of 5.6.0?

 

Hi

It was "supposed" to have been removed, but I assume that you discovered that the witch and her crew are indeed in the basement. I should point out that if you follow the witch's map to where the Drow were in Co8 5.5, there is nothing there. I should also point out that this has been mentioned in the bug thread.
The Royal Canadian

 

Well, this is good and bad news. The good news is that it's not just me or my machine. The bad news is that quitting and restarting did not fix it, so after I get home from work, I'll be reforming the same party and giving it another shot.

You know what, I thought it was just a passing problem and I saved it while it was being unfriendly and jackstopping. I wonder if that's why it won't fix itself after quitting the game?

 

Jerkstop isn't slow at all. It's regular movement that terminates abruptly, before it's finished. Nec's problem sounds a little like the fire node stuff.

 

It is quite a lot like the fire node stuff. Maybe that was jerkstopping but we just never had a word for it before! If it is 2 separate problems, they still both suck.

 

It's a different phenomena. Jerkstop is where speed is normal, but movement commands are abruptly terminated, incomplete.

 

I had the same thing happen to me as it did to Necroticpus, except in Smigmal's hideout, after the fight with assassins. Reloading an earlier save fixed it.

Also, I noticed a problem with miscast for sorcerers and bards: instead of losing one spell from a miscast, they lose two. I think it's a pretty old issue, I wonder if anything was done to resolve it?

 

I think someone mentioned it before, but Brother Smith fails to refresh to his masterwork inventory after the Giant Head quest (which is strange since it worked fine in older releases).

 

Yes, it happened to me, with 5.6.1.

 

Hi Folks
Got a couple of new "bugs" for Gaear and Ted to ponder over. I thought I might have had a bad install, so I did a fresh install on a Vista (SP1) laptop, followed be Patch 1 and Patch 2 (I didn't need to install .NET as it was factory installed already). I then installed Co8 5.6. Here are the bugs I discovered today:
1.) My bard was finally able to pick the lock on the chest that Brother Smyth asks you to open. The weird thing is: It's EMPTY !! There's nothing inside. I didn't get the usual dialogue that you get when you manage to pick the lock on the chest. Brother Smyth just stood there and didn't say a word.
2.) I keep seeing a "MES missing line 108" error message in my wizards 3rd Level Spell List.
3.) I tried playing the game in "Windowed" mode for a while, but didn't like it and went back to full screen mode. Ever since, whenever I try to scroll the cursor near the top of the screen the game thinks I am selecting Elmo for some stupid reason.
The Royal Canadian

 

I am very sad. The gnarley forest drow encounter is gone with the .50 smith and wesson reward, the orc cave I cannot get anymore from the town elder/mayor, hickory branch is gone, rannos and gremag were nerfed hugely and I killed them in 2 rounds, even with playing the 25 point buy and no stat higher than 14. I just smoked Falrinth and Smigmal and will now attempt a run to get the holy ranseur and see if Verbobonc is still there. Maybe Hedrack's fight was beefed up hugely. Not just the Hedrack fight, the whole basement floor and the nodes!