Circle of Eight Modpack v7 / v7 NC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

I'd just like to point out that it's definitely the lack of return SKIP_DEFAULT that caused the problem with that node. I determined this through a painstaking process of elimination

 

I found this while sifting through the Game Guide sticky thread:

Don't forget to change this so that the player will always be able to do Burne's puzzles.

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Regarding the opponents that the player faces in the 'Demons & Demigods' quest, [my remaining text in this post will be in grey because it contains spoilers - highlight the text in this post to read it]

I think facing 4 avatars of Iuz or 4 avatars of St. Cuthbert or 4 Balors is boring. Variety is the spice of life. Facing 4 of the same thing makes the combat much less interesting than if each opponent that the player faced was a different monster with different strengths and weaknesses. Players who play the game with a neutral alignment have a MUCH easier combat in this quest - the Balor is nowhere near as powerful as Iuz or St. Cuthbert. I would argue that Zuggtmoy is more powerful than the Balor (from personal experience). I suggest mixing these combats up by only having 1 avatar of Iuz, 1 avatar of St. Cuthbert, 1 Balor, and then adding some different monsters (bearing in mind that the neutral vs. Balor combat would require significantly more monsters to fight to make up for the Balor being much weaker than Iuz or St. Cuthbert.

How the freaking heck do I make text the same "colour" as the background?

 

So, is there an estimate of approximately when v7.1 will be out? I'm looking forward to replaying with the bugfixes.

 

This is a test of the Spoiler hiding system ....

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If this were a real spoiler you would be alerted to where to go and what not to read.

It works! Although I still haven't seen that spoiler button.

 

town elder - east of BS

 

How do you make your spellcaster better at using touch attacks or ranged touch attacks in general? They miss a lot. I think I remember there are feats to take to help with it, but I can't remember.

 

I believe you'd have to take point blank shot and precise shot - else take the -4 into melee penalty

 

Amazing!

I have a blank space where those two buttons should be, but if I act like they are there and click on the spot I get the desired effect.

 

Same invisible (and functional) buttons here - but then I use Opera

The buttons don't seem to appear under Internet Explorer 9 either

 

I'm using the latest version of Firefox.

 

Thanks for this console tip, it worked and I had a rollicking good time completing the WotGS! Numerous jerkstop instances meant I repeated a number of battles which was still fun as they played out differently each time. I would recommend all to save in between all battles in the WotGS as I found jerkstop events to be a frequent nuisance, but eventually I got through to the final battle without one occuring. After the WotGS this ceased happening.

Bravo Gaear and the Co8 team, this is an amazing mod! Althought the runup to the last battle was predictable (in part due to my reading this forum yeah), I found the battle against the

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four Iuz avatars

to be anything but boring! I recall someone wrote in this forum recently to ask if they were challenging at all The answer is yes. It is by far the hardest fight in the game (unless St. Cuthbert is harder). It was the first battle I had to adopt radically different

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spells

and

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tactics

to my preferred battle plan, I don't know how many times I ran the battle before I was able to kill more than one. Without gaining initiative things tend to get ugly fast. The first time I tried to fascinate one with my bard it worked, but I would learn how rare that was - that's no spoiler btw if anyone wants to try to fascinate

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Iuz

then good luck! In the end what worked, worked and what didn't was pretty bloody obvious. I will probably come back to the battle to see if any other strategies might work, this one has probably occured to others already but that was damn hard! What are

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Iuz's

stats in 7.0 out of interest? I'm guessing they are closer to this http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-legacy-discussion/211805-iuz-stats.html than to this http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=430213. Eight Balors wouldn't be half that hard I bet Or would they?

Thanks to Sirchet for the anti-spoiler advice!

 

Could someone explain what all of the options do in the tactical area of the combat radial menu?

Also, color spray is a godsend in early game fights. Knocking multiple baddies unconscious for your meelee units to hack up is extremely useful when you're outnumbered and outclassed as it is.