Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.0 General Commentary and Discussion Thread

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  1. GuardianAngel82

    GuardianAngel82 Senior Member

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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    There's one kobold at HB, at the north of the chasm(?), that if you loot him, you got problems.

    After I looted him, I ctd'd everytime I return to HB. The only fix was to return to a previous save, before the looting. I had to abandon that game. This sounds like your problem. :shrug:
     
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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    Sorry I understand the reload thing,but mine was all saves even previous game with no HG contact was bugged in stackable items. I have now reinstalled the game afresh and saved my save games though to check,and they work fine now,even the old game saves. So the 'Stackable Bug' can corrupt the data files for 'Stackable items' it seems,and reinstal fixes it appears??? I could not reload any of my saves as all bugged..lol. You are lucky to reload and be OK?

    God knows but I think Melaney cursed me for picking up Rhiana and Serena that time,and yeah those twin Sisters with the Sheep,oh and the Whip lady and Sheep Combo,oh and that chick Fruella with Whip and Corset combo..hmm where was I?

    Seriously though I have not lost my Month long games..very stressful. So solution to bug..if you get as with mine..

    1. Save your Save games
    2. Unistall TOEE
    3. Delete Atari Folder and TOEE data left.
    4. Reinstall TOEE,patch
    5. Install TOEE FX
    6. Copy Save Games into Modules Folder
     
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  3. GuardianAngel82

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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    Never had the stackable item thing affect previously good saves. I'll keep that solution in mind. Thanks. ;)

    I wander if the stackable item crash at the beginning of the game is related. Or if the KotB crash can be treated that way.
     
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  4. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    @kylan271,

    As near as I can tell, you got bug #0039 just as it was reported (and has since been confirmed) in the post you quoted, assuming that by 'WB' and 'HG' you mean Hickory Branch.

    This is the first I've heard of the stackable items bug (which this is a variant of) causing CTDs across maps beyond the one where the bug originated.
     
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    I recently purchased a newer version of TOEE (that is newer than the 2003 version I originally had). Anyway, it comes patched with Atari patches 1,2,3 and I was wondering if I should reinstall patch 2 over 3 prior to installing the 5.5.0 modpack. Can anyone out there provide any insight as to my course of action? Thanks. MB
     
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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    I've got another couple!

    Ranger's manyshot feat doesn't work. I unchecked the box for rapid shot, but many shot never actually works.

    Another more important one is regarding the Orb of Golden Death. After I tell Burne about it, he just tells me he is working on it, and even after loading it with the 4 elemental gems he's still "researching it". I do not know why.

    In addition, Prince Thrommel, despite leaving the temple safe and sound with my party's aid, never shows up with my Scather and money and prizes; and in the end-game narrative, they mention that he "was locked in the temple and became a Vampire". Yet I had freed him a month before I went to work on Zuggtomoy

    I was going to talk about Jayfiee, Ariel in verbonoc, stuck-in-walls in crypt of Hickory Branch, and combat reflexes but I see they've already been mentioned.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
     
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  7. Basil the Timid

    Basil the Timid Dont Mention the War

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    That is correct from what I have read here before. Install patch 2 over the pre-existing patch 3.
     
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    Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Report Thread

    I have another one. Still spell doesn't work properly. When in the spell memorizing menu, it registers as "quicken" spell, but it doesn't work as either quicken spell or still spell. It simply works as a spell taking up a slot one lvl higher without any benefits.
     
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    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    FYI, a slew of recent posts in the General Modification 5.5.0 BETA bug thread have been moved here and won't be formally addressed. When I say "From this point forward, any reports that are not submitted according to the bug reporting guidelines in post #1 will be rejected on those grounds alone," I mean just that.

    The first post in the GM bug thread has a clear list of what you need to state in a bug report. There are no shortcuts, no skipping points 3 - 5, etc., etc. If anyone needs a reminder, this is not ego talking; following those guidelines is the only way we can maintain an effective, intelligent bug list where we know precisely what's going on in a controlled environment and don't waste time chasing phony bugs, so that the bugs that are legit actually get fixed.
     
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    Basil,

    Thanks. That's what I'll do.

    mb
     
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    "- Fixed that the portrait UI at character creation only displayed a part of the potraits listed in portraits.mes."

    Seems to be a lie, at least for me. I can only see 49 portraits, and a lot of the vanilla ones are gone.

    I installed in accordance to the instructions, is there some kind of error log or something I can post?

    EDIT: It was a problem with the .exe I was using, its solved now

    Also is there a way to just restore vanilla portraits altogether? I would appreciate the game's original art direction over the current portrait pack. I'm a semi-purist :D
     
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    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    As of right now there is no portrait pack that 'restores' the original PC portraits while maintaining all the other changes for NPCs etc. that have been implemented over the years. Not sure why you'd want to do that anyway - all the original portraits but one are still there (the drow, since there is no drow PC class). So your choices are:

    - all the original portraits (vanilla)

    or

    - all the original portraits minus one plus 48 additional ones that you don't have to choose if you don't want to (co8 modpack)

    The point of this maneuver was simply to offer more portraits. We now have 84 available, while vanilla had comparatively few at 37 (with a lot of classes/races/sexes not well represented). We couldn't offer more Chris Glenn portraits, obviously (because there aren't any and he's not on our 'payroll'). The portrait artists we did have available to us (who did them for KotB initially, btw) are professionals. Not sure what more we can provide here, really. It seems to me the best of both worlds - all the originals if you want them and more pro grade options if you feel shorted.
     
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    Well actually I was referring to a portrait pack that restores the changes to the original NPC portraits.

    I'm not questioning the quality of the work or anything. In fact I rather appreciate it, and I'm sure for a lot of people out there it makes the game more enjoyable.

    I'm just asking if there's an option to have the original art for those of us who want it.

    I like consistency :S
     
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  14. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    I'm not sure that we really changed many NPC portraits beyond Half Knight touching up Meleny's and Zert's and adding individual portraits for the Nulb whores. We've also added new portraits for some of our new monsters. Which portraits are you speaking of specifically? Maybe I've forgotten something.
     
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  15. GuardianAngel82

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    I want the drow back. There's one in the new portraits.
     
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