Circle of Eight Modpack v5.6 Bug Report Thread

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.0 & Upwards Bug Report Thread

Good day)
I'm using not self-modded co8 5.5.0 on XP SP3, US Patch 2, front end 2.1, without any addons. I don't remember correctly if these bugs were in vanilla toee, but still all of them in 5.5.0.

1. Earth elemental unlimited summoning from Orb. Unlike any other)
2. Righteous might gives +4 str, +2 con, while manual describes +8 str, +4 con bonus.
3. Hedrack wield his warhammer (two-handed weapon) in single hand. Warhammer makes 1d10 dmg instead of ordinary 1d8.
4. Female bugbear trapped in wall near Feldrin's brigands room.
5. Character under enlarge person spell treat two-handed weapon as one-handed, so you actually can wear tower shield with it! When spell is expired you still can have two-handed weapon and shield, or even another two-handed weapon in off-hand.
6. When you have both Jaer the Weather from Nulb and Mad Sargen in your group and entering Nulb - one of them leaves, but his icon stays so you can't take another NPC on his place.


P.S.
I understand that you guys probably herd it many-times, but still thanks for the work you've done with toee)

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.0 & Upwards Bug Report Thread

1. Not self-modded, only CO8 5.6 installed
2. Win XP, SP 2, no A-V software
3. Dunno what region, I *got the game from a friend*.
4. Err.. 5.6?
5. Err.... 5.6?
6. Problems:

1) Certain spells are producing errors when selecting in the inventory spell menu. E.g. when levelling up and picking arcane spells, I get an error message instead of the spell name. So far the spell at the top of the list (first cantrip) and a 3rd level spell (one above Fireball) are producing this error. Error message is something like "Error: missing text in line 801 of mes/spell.mes"

2) Experienced Jerk-stop around Hommlet, when trying to approach the woodcutter from the South Hommlet starting area. I solved this by fast travelling to a different area (moathouse secret exit) and then travelling back to SH - the problem disappeared. So not a huge issue, just thought you might like to know.

3) The room with all the sturges in, in the moathouse area, is bugged. Some of the sturges delay combat endlessly without doing anything (it comes to their turn and they just do nothing forever). I tried sneaking a guy in and having him backstab them all but some of them had 0 hp and couldnt be killed, also somehow they ended up teleporting outside the room at some point.

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack Bug Report Thread

1. Not self-modded
2. 64bit Vista, SP1 AVG
3. US
4. -X 2.2
5. 5.6
6. 2 things:
On both my homegrown wizard and Pishella, in the 0-level spells one line is listed as "Error! Missing line 804 in mes/spell.mes"
On the Emridy Meadows map, near the Rainbow Rock, when fighting the undead there as soon as I make a ranged attack, combat freezes and the projectile/spell effect is frozen above the avatar.

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack Bug Report Thread

1. Not self-modded, only CO8 5.6 installed
2. Win XP, SP 2, no A-V software
3. Torrented version, unsure what region
4. Err.. 5.6?
5. Err.... 5.6?
6. Problems:

a) Spells which require targets to be selected E.g. slow, when you select targets then attempt to click on the "cast spell with these targets" green button, sometimes I get a glitch which means I can't click on the button easily. Seems like the button is a bit too close to party character portraits. Found a solution after dicking around for a few minutes: move the cursor right to the top of the green button, as far to the top as you can - the button should click normally then, or at least thats what I found. This bug seemed to occur more on my wizard, perhaps the ranged attack icon is has a bigger 'footprint' and so causes the glitch?

b) Protection from energy (fire) graphical effect got 'glued' to my character; resting, recasting effect then resting, reloading savegame - nothing cleared it. Had to reload a previous save and then resting removed it. Not sure what caused the effect to be glued. Not much of a bug report this one since its probably an engine glitch, just thought I'd put it in here so people can be aware that this spell sometimes glues itself to PCs.

c) Encountered a freeze in Hommlet where my characters go into combat stance but don't actually do anything, they are unresponsive. Solution: go to the world map and click a location, the characters move to it and should unfreeze.

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack Bug Report Thread

"B" appears to be the Spell Permanency bug. This is well known and there is a fix for it, using Jaroo.

"C" appears to be the dreaded "Jerk-Stop" phenomenon or the beginnings of it. This sis another well reported issue but no solutions yet...

Can't comment on "A", ATM.

Do a thread search for more info and good luck!

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack Bug Report Thread

1) unmodified Co8 Modpack 5.6.0 BETA
2) Windows XP Home, SP2, F-Secure Anti-Virus 8.10
3) US version
4) TFE-X ver.2.2
5) barebones Co8 Modpack 5.6.0 BETA (not sure how this is different from (1)...?)
6) I have a party of 6 PCs, all level 2, and no NPCs, and I decided to just check out Emridy Meadows and see if I could finish Terjon's fed-ex quest early. I stumble on to the hill giant, and engage in combat. If I get initiative before the giant, I can fight as per usual, and everything seems normal. When it's the hill giant's turn, he charges at my party, but when he reaches the party member he's charging at, he stops and his sprite stays frozen in his running animation. The Action Bar then becomes completely greyed out, and I'm stuck, with no recourse except reloading.
*Sometimes*, it seems that I can get him to "snap out of it" by moving the screen around, or opening some other in-game interface window and then closing it... but it's highly inconsistent, so it's more likely that he randomly "snaps out of it", rather than me having any influence on his status.
... That said, even if he does snap out of it, he'll only engage in (it seems) at most 2 or 3 actions before suffering another freeze, with the Action Bar greying itself out again (and combat never progressing).

I noticed in the first post that submitted save files are encouraged. Is it possible for me to attach it to my post? If so, which file(s) in the Save folder should I attach?

I also noticed that this seems a bit similar to the bug reports in posts #135 and 137, but since the way it occurred was rather different (in Emridy Meadows, as opposed to Hommlet; and no problems with projectiles), I thought it may be worth mentioning as a separate bug report.
However, if this is just another case of the "jerk stop" bug that post #138 mentions, then I'm sorry for the redundancy.

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack Bug Report Thread

sweet, that was fast!

1) unmodified Co8 Modpack 5.6.0 BETA
2) Windows XP Home, SP2, F-Secure Anti-Virus 8.10
3) US version
4) TFE-X ver.2.2
5) barebones Co8 Modpack 5.6.0 BETA (not sure how this is different from (1)...?)
6) I can confirm post #133's stirge bug, as i just encountered the same thing. there are 8 stirges in the room in the moathouse (next to the room with the python/viper): 4 of them seem completely normal, and can be defeated; the other 4 can be attacked, and will even take damage, but their HP seems to be immediately regenerated or something. like, your hit will register and do damage, but then if you check their "damage taken" stat, it'll say 0. (this is even to the point where they will instantly resurrect if killed in one hit.)
the sprite animation for these messed-up stirges is also different, it's their "at ease"/not-in-combat one. when stirges are in combat, their sprites flap like mad, but these 4 just flap their wings lazily about, so you should be able to visually spot them, too.

MOREOVER, i'm experiencing the same bug as i reported above, with these stirges -- greyed out Action Bar when it's the stirge's turn.
however, upon further experimentation, based on what someone else said in the thread, i've actually found that i can somewhat consistently break out of the opponent's turn by doing the following:
(a) mashing on the M key
(b) bringing up another in-game interface (like the logbook)

i.e. if i only mash on M, then nothing happens; and if i only mash on L (i.e. bring up the logbook, close it, repeat...), nothing happens as well. But if i do both, alternating or whatever, for between 6-10 seconds, i can get the opponent to snap out ... and lose their turn. (What a terrible exploit...)

Hope this helps!

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.6.0 General Commentary and Discussion Thread

Hi Folks
Here's one for you. I (finally) installed 5.6 last night and created a party, and started playing. Went to the tower, talked to Burne and got his request to find the agent. Went to the construction site and started talking to everyone. I spoke with Jayfie BEFORE I spoke to the Labor Foreman. One of my options was something along the lines of "Are you Jayfie ? I was told to find him" . I selected the "Good Day" option and went and talked to the Labor Foreman, who then told me to go talk to Jayfie. When I went back to talk to Jayfie, the only dialogue option I got was "Good Day".
TRC

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