My apologies if this is already dealt with somewhere. I did run a search and browse for a good little while, but found nothing on this specific issue. After killing the Balor, and watching him explode into nothingness, I see the Gem land on the ground where he stood. However, I cannot pick it up! And I cannot exit through the gate behind him either. Obviousy, this is rather frustrating since the Balor fight is a real pita. I have tried to retrieve it with every character in the party. This is the ony "looting" problem I have seen since installing all the mods. Any help, or pointing me to an existing thread would be much appreciated. For info's sake: Recently upgraded from 98SE to XP. Using Liv's mod. All patches and mods were installed in corect order. As I said, everything else is working perfectly-- no crashes, no other loot bugs, nothing else worth mentionng bug-wise (just the scather issue). Any help is greatly appreciated as I was just getting to the point where I could fully enjoy the extra levels the mod allows. EDIT: Okay, remembered there is one other strange bug going on.. my two melees (Dwarf fighter and Barbarian) got Silenced at some point about mid-way through the Temple. They have remained silenced for weeks and weeks worth of game time. The counter is stuck at 90/100 and nothing gets rid of it-- not dispells, Break Enchantments, nor time itself seems able to remove their Silence. But I can live with two melees that can't talk. I just want to be able to progress past the Balor part! EDIT EDIT: I see Co8 5 is out now. Can I just patch this over my existing install, or do I need to uninstall, install, atari patch, Co8 patch, then Liv patch again?
the liv patch is included in Co8 5. so whatever you do you don't nedd to install it over the top of the most resent mods. if you can exit the fire node you could just use the console to give yourself the fire elemental gem - the only time I had that problem I couldn't use the door exiting the fire node either. thats about as much help as I can be
That is much appreciated. Could you help me out with the console command? I've not used the console in ToEE yet-- never had a need before. I'm not even sure how to bring it down. I don't use the front-end loader either. I'm assuming it isn't necessary to access the console. You said you had this problem as well. I'm wondering if you just telepoerted out (or used an alternate node entrance from Fire) and then did console, or did you just console right there at Balor's spot and then use the proper node exit behind Balor's spot. Guess I'm wondering if the game only cares about the gem as opposed to which exit you use.... Lastly (and thanks for this tip too), you said I should not install over the recent mods. Which makes me think you are recommending: Uninstall ToEE, Re-install ToEE, Atari patch 1 & 2, then Co8 5 patch (which will include Co8, Liv, Shining Ted, etc.). Is this correct? I guess I am assuming Co8 has new content as well as fixes, but perhaps that is incorrect. At this point, I'm starting to think the loader might be a good thing... Thanks again for the help. Did I read new stuff about travelling to Verbonc and a Dragon?! Jeesh, can't stop playing this game for a month and modders are adding more cool stuff! Sounds interesting enough for me to browse the forums to find out how to access them. I'm guessing they are in Co8 5 though. EDIT: I found the console thread. I should be able to handle that part now.
to open and close the console use shift and the key below esc (usually ~) type give 12021 to get the gem also there is new content as well as bug fixes, and the rest of your post seems right
Thanks Cujo. Hope your mod is in there as well. I'm looking at the item list now. As I read the item list, I feel temptation setting in...
To get rid of the silence Jaroo should probably be able to remove it for you. I managed to get my wiz stuck permanently invisible and he was able to remove it. Just had the invisible character talk to him once and then another member of party talk to him about healing and he offers to remove it for free.
You can also try resting after killing the Balor. That usually fixes the not being able to exit the Fire Node or pick up the Elemental Gem problem.
A very wierd bug this is. I ran through the fight again intending to use the console afterwards. However, when the Balor died, I got a Crash to Desktop. This was new for me... I ran through the fight again, wondering if it would crash again or if I would get to try the console-- when he died, I was able to loot the gem. Very strange. Thanks all for the assistance. At least I'll know what to do if I encounter it after installing the new Co8 patch.
When it happened to me.I teleported back to nulb, slept the night.When i went back the next day i was able to retrive the gem and exit the node
