Circle of Eight Modpack 5.8.x/5.8.xNC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

Hey guys, not sure if its a 5.8.0 only related issue but it does occur:

When fighting Smigmal on lvl 3 of the temple, she does summon two lvl10 assasins [100hp each I think] as soon as you sense she is a liar. When I kill them and her everything is fine, but when I charm both assasins with Darley and then kill Smigmal suddenly my framerate drop to like 1per second. When I press escape and the menu options appear my mouse cursor works at normal speed, but when I get back to the game everything is still unbearibly slow :/

Is there any way to fix this? Having those 2 powerful assasins charmed would be lovely.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Edit: By the way I have an idea I wanted to share: You know how people refuse to talk to you when you have Darley and/or Scorpp in your party etc? I think it would be a cool feature to have an option to still be able to talk with everyone when your scary companions of evil are invisible [wearing rings of invisibility]. Since the townsfolk can't see them, why would they be so hostile and unfriendly to not even say a word to our hero =]

 

Re: Waiting for the 5.8.0 Mod

Oz? I am not sure I get it.

 

Re: Waiting for the 5.8.0 Mod

Sadly we don't celebrate Co8 day (or St. Georges day either) here in England
Oh wait! I'm a scummy student with no work to do. Bring on 5.8 NC!!!

 

Well then, here are my notes so far:

1. Mona says she is in front of the brothel, she no longer is.
2. Moathouse ogre wont attack. Though this may be b/c my cleric turned the zombies and one ran into the ogre's room. I did not chase it, fight ended. Took the secret passage to the crypts. When I did fight the ogre about a game week later, he did not attack on sight.
3. No oozes. Did not drop during zombie fight. Might because of above?
4. If you let the gnolls go, and you come across the caravan they killed, the world map thinks you are at the temple

 

2. In my run through ogre attacked fine.

3. It appears to me that the slimes are triggered by being further away-if all your characters go to fight the zombies, the slimes will appear, but they won't show up as long as you have a character near their spawning point.

-EC

 

No I wasn't wearing cloaks. The ogre thing must be because the zombie ran into his room earlier. I wouldn't worry about it much.

 

I am having a problem with welkwood...

all I see is a blue circle, I want to try soloing a ranger, but all I see is the blue circle, combat still triggers, enemies still damage me, but I can't damage them

playing 5.8.xNC obviously

any ideas what is wrong?

 

Just did part of HB. Notice two things.

1) The archers dont back up if you are next to them. Allowing everyone a free attack of opportunity. While they are easier to kill this way, shouldn't they act more like other archers and back up? This is probably a strategy AI issue.

2) I killed everything in the cave (great fight by the way, love the difficulty). I loot, and then realize I never ID'd the extraplanar chest so I am forced to go back to town to sell before I can clean up the rest of HB. I leave the cave, kill the two goblins, then go to town, sell, and come back to HB. Immediately on re-entry and my party is attacked by an invisible, untargetabble goblin noglib (or something). I only know he is there because I can cursor over his icon on the top and it shows me his red circle. I cannot target him though, and my mage through a lightning bolt through his circle and he did not die (nor did I see a damage #). Right now I fear HB is broken for me because I cannot defeat him and explore more.

Note: When I say I shoot a lightning bolt through him, I dont see his red circle in the targeting of the bolt. I just know where his circle is when I cursor over his icon.

Note 2: If I go back to town before I enter the bosses cave, I am able to come back to HB with no problems. However this causes the cave blockage (I did rest though)

 

I did kill Noblig and another (not sure of the others name). This doesnt happen if you dont kill him (go to town before killing bosses). I did miss Lord Ruff and the gnoll leader on the way to the cave somehow, got him on the way back. Neither talked to me, were they supposed to?

I'll try to recap my trip.

Enter, Noblig talks to me. Kill the goblins and orcs. Go to slain orcs to loot, then head southish (miss guys to the top). Kill another group (I think another goblin talked to me). Head west, cross ravine and slay everything around ravine. Either Lord Ruff was not there, or somehow I stayed close enough to the edge of the ravine and moved south to kill the archers so I never encountered him. Moved west, killed the bear in the pit. Went northwest, talked to the orc with the warhammer. Cleared the cave entrance, cleared cave, looted, rested, came out, killed the 2 goblins. Thats when I have problems coming back to HB.

 

1. He ran off
2. Yes I killed him and the kobald leader.
3. Yes I am. He appears in the original spot where you enter the zone. Upon entering the zone, you enter combat. I noticed he succeeded to tumble past my fighter (via the tumble message, not actually seeing him) and charged my wiz. I think he was able to attack, though not 100% sure. I know I could not target him via area of effect spells.
4. Ruff and gnoll leader I met after the cave, so they did not matter to the problem I am having since once I left the cave, I worldmapped back to Hommlet, then came back to HB and had the problem. However, when I reloaded and decided to play through the rest of the map (after killing the bosses), I did not get dialogue with either of them. Ruff I approached from behind. Gnoll leader I saw in the distance, (I think it put me into combat) with the female bugbear. He did not talk to me, I think I did the laughter spell on him and the bugbear charged. Again, unless the problem is that I did not talk to Ruff or the leader before killing the bosses, then I dont think they are the problem.
5. It was Noblig and the kobald leader. Like I said, I did not talk to Ruff or the gnoll leader. I did talk to blue warhammer guy and he was in the cave.