I salute you for all the work you are doing, because If I new how to do it--I would. A few suggestions I have are: (1) Please include a notepad on where to place the files on the harddrive within the rar or zip file (forum post get lost quick); (2) Please, if u could, create a program to install the mod (because some of us are stupid and f things up--ha im not beating around the bush); (3) Keep up the fantastic work; (4) the Fogless map is awesome and works wonders. Also, at first I thought that only Atari was to blame for not releasing the patched up version. Dont you think that Troika is still responsible because, ToEE, is in fact their game? Regardless of that, I would pay money to get this game patched and have the left out material added back in (did you hear that Atari---MONEY). Ok, before you start flaming me, I have one more note to make. I told my brother that item descriptions for magical items was not in the game. He laughed and said, "See that is igenious, because you still have to buy the books to get the item descriptions". So I ask, did Troika not have time to add the descriptions, or did WotC purposely ask Troika not to include them to gain Dungeon Master Book sales. If in fact, we are the roleplayers, and the game is the DM, wouldnt only the DM know exactly what items did because he had the book? Interesting ideas. Thank you guys for all the work your doing. I love sneak attacking people with my Hobbit Rogue.
Also, does anyone know where I can see how much experience my character has and what he needs to gain a level?
1) I believe current consensus is we will be doing up a windows installer. This also allows us to make a clean uninstaller that will actually get rid of all the mod stuff without requiring a reinstall. 2) No, the state of the matter is it's mostly atari's fault. From what I hear even if troika doesn't get the patch contract there's likely to be _something_ from them on unofficial lines. 3) Initially they said the descriptions were left out because that's the way they played and it was a stylistic choice, however in the dev chat this past week it was stated that they just didn't have time before Atari wanted it out the door. I think Atari was just looking at the potential publicity of actually releasing a game a week AHEAD of schedule, what with most games slipping these days. 4) right click your character portrait at the bottom to bring up the inventory screen, the lower left of which is all numbers. Top of the list is Level and Experience, click Experience to open the help menu with XP tables.
I won't flame ya, but your post is a little off..... The atari forums are littered with posts about this subject. There have been Dev chats where this was covered... I'd lurk there learning a little more before you post something like this again.. It kinda gets on ppl's nerves to keep re-hashing the same things over and over and over and over and over and over.. well you get the idea.. To make a long story short. Atari owns the game, they are the publisher. Atari Pays Troika to develop the game. They agree on a budget, and a timeline. Estimates are off, and Atari asks for some unplanned things, and then subsequently stops paying for the development of the game, and asks Troika to send over everything they had.. Game is most likely sent through some sort of Atari Trauma Team... (TRoika had no idea there was going be a kazaa version) and then shipped. Troika has to feed their kids, (and unlike the game they can't just set kids.py = off), so they have to be working on something.. If Atari doesn't pay for a patch, sure troika might hobby project it for a while(not unlike what we are doing here for that matter, but they still need to put food on the table, and need to be getting paid for something. Alright, that wasnt so short, but I hope at least it sets you straight..
Excellent, thanks for the experience explanation. Isnt it sad that Atari couldnt have given them another month, imagine how good them game would be if Troika had the time to finish it the way they wanted. Think of all the money it would have made if it received 9/10 reviews in PC Gamer etc, instead of 7/10. Atari you greedy bastards, you could have made more and you expect people to buy NWN expansions--stupid. Atari could have become the "RPG Fanatics" company to buy games from, but instead a lot of us shelled out 50 bucks and may be burned by it.
I have already read all the posts, but since I couldnt post at the Atari forum, because im still waiting for my confirmation email, I posted here. Anyways, you guys seem less confrontational then the Atari forum people, who seem to be bashing away at everyone who posts. :0
Uh... Atari had no chance. This is really standard fare from them.. I could spend another 20 lines or so with just game titles where this type of thing happened.. Don't forget Atari==Infogrames. (ick)
Sadly, your point is correct. How I would have loved to see Blizzard backing this game instead of Atari.
That's largely because we all enjoy the game, are happy with it, and are working to make it better. The atari forum is a nice, publicized spot where random people who are dissatisfied can congregate and spit and hiss amongst themselves. That's why we moved I've always been a proponent that fansite forums have a higher class to them because they're about 5% harder to find than the official ones.
