Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.x/5.9.xNC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

Yes, I did. It does work because I've also used it many times dealing with bodacks in the fire node.

 

Thanks for the information. You are right - Lareth never initiates dialogue with your party when your party enters his room. Sorry, my bad.

I read somewhere in this forum that a Lawful Evil party alignment will not trigger the moathouse ambush.

My party entered Hickory Branch when they were all level 4 both on my first and second runthrough. The reasons why it is so much easier on my second runthrough are:
a. I know exactly where everything is on the map and what I am about to fight;
b. I've mastered combat tactics for the game now;
c. My party is using reach weapons this time around (none of my characters were using reach weapons on my first runthrough);
d. My party picked better feats this time around (especially Cleave!).

 

Blind-Fight does not seem to be working correctly, as I am not seeing my re-rolls against concealment 'ala invisibility, obscuring mist etc. Is this a known bug?

Also, when using the 'full attack option' so that I can spread my attacks around multiple targets, I notice sometimes I lose attacks, especially if I try to inject things such as 'smite evil' or 'improved trip' into the attack routine, though it occurs with just normal attacks as well, this happens with both melee attacks and ranged attacks.

There seems to be a bug where if things die while under the influence of Holy Word effects, I see my screen still full of their attempted saving throws even after they are dead, and the combat is over.

I am aware that I usually only post things that don't seem to be working, but I wanted to say that I really appreciate the hard work you all do, it provides me with hours of fun, and every new patch release is just like Christmas, and a wonderful excuse for a new game!

 

Just wanted to point out in regards to item 'c' that reach weapons in the game are something of an exploit as they are not penalized against adjacent targets. Not to say that this is not fun at times, but its worth mentioning that if your looking for a more 'authentic' experience, reach weapons should be skipped.

 

Death Ward doesn't protect against Weird and Phantasmal Killer.
It does protect against Finger of Death.

It seems the former two use the script obj.critter_kill(), whereas the latter uses obj.critter_kill_by_effect().

On the one hand, this appears to be bugged.
On the other hand, I think critter_kill_by_effect() fails to execute sometimes. Tarah seems to be using this, and it doesn't always work.

Edit:
Actually, it seems critter_kill() fails to work on my party as well. Very strange. Might be related to spell permanency problems I'm having.

Also, re. Lareth, I submitted a while ago an improved prebuff script for him that had him cast Magic Circle Against Good when you opened the door. What happened with that?
Here's the thread:
http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8117

 

I'm fed up with SecuROM preventing me from running my legitimate game CD that I bought when this game was released.

Could someone please send me a Private Message with a link to a no-cd crack that I can download?

Does the no-cd crack work without any problems with the Circle of Eight Modpack?

Wouldn't the cracked version of the TOEE.EXE file undo the changes made by the Circle of Eight Modpack?

The error message below prevented me from running the game. I am not using any virtual drive emulation software. SecuROM has prevented me from running the game on a few previous occasions as well (without reporting any error - it just refused to load the game CD). The only way that I was able to get the game to run whenever that started happening was to freaking reboot my computer! My CD drive brand/model is a Pioneer BDC-S02BK. My OS is Windows XP SP3.

 

@Gazra, sent you the link you asked about. It does work with the Co8 mod pack and I have had no changes with it installed.

Hope this allows you to have fun with the game and not have these Snafus.

 

www.moddb.com are still on break over there because 5.9.2 is not up yet. I'm going to try that with my next job. If they ask me to do something, I'm just going to blow it off until the next day.

 

They just updated the pictures and description on moddb. The files are not up yet but it looks like it is about to happen.

 

I will hope so. as it will give me something to look forward to when I get off in 5 hours.

 

Thanks Gaear for the update on what will be coming out in the new mod pack. I appreciate all the hard work you and the others have done to tweak this version for us.

Now lets get 6.0 out and running!

.... just joking.

 

The following quote is from the Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.2 NC - Release Notes.txt file:

If you buy the Spyglass from Rannos Davl or Gremag (in their trading post in Hommlet), then you have twice the chance of spotting a random encounter.

I've got great news for those who don't already know! Atari and Cryptic Studios are making a computer game called Neverwinter RPG which is planned for release in Q4 2011. The game is set in Neverwinter City. The game's story is by the guy who created the character Drizzt Do'Urdin.

 

I'm back.
Playing 5.91. Wow! Awesome!! The game keeps getting better!!! Keep up the good work!!!! All that...
I've seen most of the issues I've had with 5.91 mentioned here, except one:
I was given the option of mentioning to Lerrick both the being followed thing and the guy in the room thing before they actually happened. In fact, I've never seen a guy in my room.
But I'm guessing it's too late to fix them for 5.92, if that is actually broken.