The 5.0.0 beta 1 Thread

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Isn't mithril plate one of the items offered by the secret merchant you can do business with if you complete the Lil' Amii quest and followup with her father?

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Doubtful. I added it as part of my protos.tab updates. Unless I missed something and there are now two mithral plate entries in the protos.tab.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

@shiningted: Here's more detailed information [in case something is important].

Maybe you can read the following and read something I overlooked and did not mention before that would have been helpful? Probably not, but here it is just in case.

My party accepts the quest from Burne. The party goes to the new castle construction site during daylight hours. Jayfie and the day labor camp workers are not there. The party goes to the tent city, talks with the gal [little miss tatoos] and gets the subtle dialogue. Next, the party goes to rest for whatever amount of time. I selected resting between 8 hours and 3 days with testing several times. Then, the party goes to the work site during daylight hours. Whereupon, the day labor workers have spawned and are at the site. However, Jayfie is still not spawned. After the other workers are present [but not Jayfie], if I click the pass time button and select any amount of time while the party is at the work site standing a little bit away from where Jayfie should spawn, the game experiences a CTD.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Oddly enough, I no longer have them. DH is working fine now. Unfortunately, I have no idea what made the bugs go away. The only thing I did different was look in to see if Clarisse was there (she was). After that my repeatable DH bugs went away. Of course now I have bugs in that NPCs aren't automatically leveling (fixed by installing Drifters patch to .dll, I thought I'd be hardcore when I installed 5.0.0.0, but really, who doesn't want their NPCs humble and player levelable). Also, Elmo now has an invisible torso. Don't know yet if repeatable. This is why I think the problem is my system, I have ALWAYS had a history of weird things happening with this game. Probably the coolest was when the engine treated all hits as criticals, that one never repeated.

Oh thank goodness. Those dire bats were mean. I took a fully equipped 2nd level party against the revised bat encounter, and walked away with 2 party members dead, 1 charmed bandit dead, and everyone else looking like shredded confetti (highest hp was 3), with all spells/scrolls depleted. If they had made it into the mod intact, I was going to leave that room alone until about 4th level.

It strikes me that one of the problems you modders have is the widely varying levels of ability a similar level party can have with this engine. For example, add Elmo into the mix, have a wizard who has scribed 57 magic missile/charm person/sleep scrolls, a player who gets the Radiant Longsword before going anywhere else, and optimized stat characters (as opposed to standard point buy) and the bats would not have been nearly that hard. Another example would be undead suffering from the uber-destroyer Cleric of Pelor. I may start a thread in the TOEE section seeing what "house rules" if any, others use to handicap themselves. I have a bunch.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Has anyone run into issues creating Wondrous Items or Crafting Arms... It lists code in the box so you can not see... Also When Viewing the list to create the Basswood box it does the same ... or did I miss an update file.

Is there a list yet of the necessary update files..:drunk:

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Yeah. I've made several trips back to Ah Fong and his inventory hasn't changed for me.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Moved as requested Gaear. Allyx actually asked me to do this a few days ago when he started the new thread, but I didn't want to do it until somebody asked publicly.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

I frequently have that problem with all merchants. They have a tendency to repeat whatever their last line of dialogue was when the barter screen opens.

Bug, sort of: I've had two random encounters consisting of hobgoblins and goblins, different amounts of each and the goblins and hobgoblins end up fighting each other, so there's some kind of faction issue.

Well, the DR and SR are only there if you make them Fiendish, Ted, but no, they're certainly not pushovers. Hence my whining earlier.

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

The Cumulative Fixes have been updated. It now includes:

-Allyx's Verbobonc Fix part 4, except for his proto.tab.

-Shiningted's Bat Fix

-What is hopefully the last fix for the Extraplanar Chest. It should now correctly recall the contents of the chest across multiple saved games.

@Allyx: I didn't include the proto.tab because the only change I could find was the removal of the InvenSource number for Otis' Anvil. Did you mean to do that?

 

Re: Co8 5.0.0 beta 1 thread

Quote:
I've noticed that if you talk to Rannos and Gremag with NPCs in your party, when their "Hey, I'm bartering with someone else!" line comes up, they say it twice. Once when you're actually talking to them, and once when the barter screen comes up. Can't remember if this used to happen with other merchants.

I frequently have that problem with all merchants. They have a tendency to repeat whatever their last line of dialogue was when the barter screen opens.

Bug, sort of: I've had two random encounters consisting of hobgoblins and goblins, different amounts of each and the goblins and hobgoblins end up fighting each other, so there's some kind of faction issue.

Quote:
4hd?? 17 Str / 22 Dex / 17 Con? DR & SR? For BATS????

Well, the DR and SR are only there if you make them Fiendish, Ted, but no, they're certainly not pushovers. Hence my whining earlier.

tough fight for sure but not undoable i beat it with smart tactical play ie use doorways etc shielding spells, summon creatures.


i kinda like how not every fight is a push over for any party, making more fights like this forces ppl to use tactics!!! and that in the end is far more satisfying for me than just bum rush and hack.