Circle of Eight Modpack v7 / v7 NC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

Just for thoroughness, these are indeed homebrew items I added. The Crossbow of Accuracy was meant to be something like +4 to hit but not to damage, but looking at the proto in KotB I haven't set that part up. The bludgeoning crossbow was meant to do bludgeoning damage (fire blunted arrows, ammo being 5090 and based on the light hammer) but I didn't go through with it, either because it didn't work, or because I just thought better of it (its the sort of thing that should require an EWP). Get rid of them by all means.

 

7.9 Known Issues

There are a few issues with 7.9 that I was aware of prior to release (no showstoppers) or that were found out shortly after release that you should know about:

1. On certain Linux systems (e.g. OpenSUSE, certain types of setup of Arch, etc.), ToEE Front-End X v4.0 will fail to start the game - the front-end window will close but the game will never start. If you are experiencing this issue, please update ToEE Front-End X to the latest stable build (v4.1 or newer) from here.

The following issues currently have no solutions but we are actively working on resolving them:

1. In the character creation interface, you will see the new UI with blue 3D buttons etc. for stats. You will also see black text overlaid on top of these buttons as you create your character, which looks really bad. This was normal behavior in the vanilla UI, where there were just blank spaces where the buttons are. The reason this is popping up now is that I discovered very late in the dev cycle for 7.9 that for some reason the game doesn't like to have that text redacted, which is what I did initially to allow the new UI to display cleanly. We'll figure out a solution, so just please bear with it for now.
   
   
2. LN and CN alignments are not constrained within the bounding boxes in the first character creation screen.
   
   
3. Descriptive text overflows the bounding boxes on the party pool screen.
   
   
4. The wondrous item crafting interface still prints lines of text overtop each other for items with long names.

We are still looking for solutions to these things, which aren't as easily solved as you may think. If you want to report them, okay, but we already know about them.

 

Re: 7.9 Known Issues

I'm not really following you ... can you post a screen? The inventory screen is not any larger than it ever was.

Any appearance of change in difficulty for the normal game is purely incidental, as nothing has been altered (aside from the fact that you will level more slowly due to the expansions being gone). The only change you should see directly is with Hickory Branch, as it was overhauled to be much more difficult and suitable for higher levels. The only areas that have had the XP/CR modifications applied so far are HB and WotGS, and even when they get applied universally, they won't affect lower level stuff. It only kicks in if you're party level average is higher than level 10, and then only as appropriate.

 

Re: 7.9 Known Issues

Those are core mechanics that we couldn't change without complex .dll hackery. So no, nothing was changed. Do you have the feat that allows that?

@Legless, what resolution are you running the game at, and are you using windowed mode? What resolution/mode were you using previously when (presumably) this wasn't happening?