Circle of Eight Patch 3.0.4

http://home.rochester.rr.com/hold4nomad/ToEE_Fan_Fixes_V3-0-4.zip

Known Bugs:
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o Dimension Door does not allow transport of other characters
o Temporary/Semi-permanent stat bonuses do not add to spells/day
(this is actually a real pain, because as far as I can tell, there's no
damned good way to figure out when to remove spells that are no longer known)
(okay, this is possible, now I just have to figure out how to hijack things
so that everytime any of your stats changes, all your spells are recalculated.)

Features to Ignore:
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o Quarterstaff can not be used as a double weapon
o Monks can not use unarmed strikes in replacement of their on-hand attacks
o Flurry of Blows won't work if you're using non-monk weapons
o Wizards should be able to non-spontaneously memorize spells using undischarged
spell slots (+ 15 minute wait.)
o It'd be nice if the memorization list had those nifty meta-magic colored ball thingies

Core Changes, Modifications, and Fixes:
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o duggelz's level uncapper installed in this version.
o Npc's level up as PC's installed in this version.

Feats/Skills
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o Halflings should now get the +4 Hide modifier due to small size
o Skill Focus(Perform), Skill Focus(Survival), Skill Focus(Tumble),
Skill Focus(Use Device) should work and give +3 modifiers to the appropriate skill
o You should no longer be able to take Power Attack at creation if you have a
Strength of 12 (or any other strength dependent skill.)
o You should no longer be able to take Quick Draw at creation if you do not
have a BAB of +1.
o Greater Flurry (well, the improved version of Flurry of Blows at level 11)
should now work.
o Ki Strike should now add the adamantium damage type at level 16.
o Open hand damage for large sized monks should be correctly calculated.
o Unarmed Damage for non-monk enlarged medium sized creatures should now be 1d4.
(May have been 1d3 before. Not sure.)
o Monk and Barbarian Fast Movement bonuses split. Monk Fast Movement bonus is treated
as an enhancement bonus (as per PHB 3.5), and thus does not stack with Haste or
Expeditious Retreat. Barbarian Fast Movement is treated as an unnamed bonus, and thus
stacks with Expeditious Retreat. Haste does not work correctly with it yet.
o Diamond Body added. (Copy of Venom Immunity)
o Diamond Soul added. (Modded version of Spell Resistance)
o Abundant Step feat name added. (Doesn't do anything)
o Quivering Palm feat name added. (Doesn't do anything)
o Empty Body feat name added. (Doesn't do anything)
o Perfect Self feat name added. (Doesn't do anything)
o Base intelligence now used for calculating skill points.
o Odd bug with regards to raising intelligence on level up - would occassionally
not give you an extra skill point even if you should've gotten one - but required
that you had previously selected another stat as your attribute to be raised,
and then selected intelligence. Should be fixed.
o Half point skill ranks should now display correctly in the level up dialog.
o Class skills of cleric domains are now properly treated as actual class skills when
leveling up cleric.
o Class skills of cleric domains are now always correctly treated as class skills
for the purposes of calculating the maximum rank possible, even when not leveling
up cleric.
o Can now increase the rank of non-class skills of the class being leveled up to
the maximum rank possible if the skill is a class skills of another of your classes.
o Barbarians now retain their +10 movement while wearing medium armor.
o Barbarians no longer maintain their +10 movement while heavily encumbered.
o Monk special abilities (Flurry of Blows, Monk AC Bonuses, and Fast Movement) no longer
apply while monks are medium or heavily encumbered.
o Monk/Barbarians (all two of them) will still get their +10 movement even while wearing
armor. I think. I didn't actually have a Monk/Barbarian to test this out with.
o Stunning Fist now has (monk_level) + (non_monk_levels / 4) charges per, well...
rest period, probably. Used to be (level) number of charges.
o Selecting an attribute to improve during level up will now clear your feat selection
choices. This was done as the simplest way to avoid invalid feat selections. (I.e.,
raise your strength to 13, pick power attack, and then raise some other attribute.)
o Can no longer raise skills if you have negative skill points. (Okay, it didn't happen
that often, and it wouldn't actually let you finish leveling up if you did have
negative skill points, but it was still a bug.)
o Flurry of Blows no longer works with a non-monk weapon wielded in the off hand
- on further consideration, I'm removing this - according to the 3.5 FAQ, it should
work. Heck, Flurry of Blows should work even if the primary weapon is a non-monk
weapon
o Power Attack will only apply the attack penalties if you are wielding a non-light
weapon, or your primary attack is unarmed. Theoretically, if monks are ever capable
of doing unarmed strikes even while armed, Power Attack should more or less always be
on, but they're not, so it's not. Now to fix damage.
o Power Attack should apply a x1 damage bonus to unarmed attacks and one-handed weapons
when either an off-hand weapon is used or a shield is used. Light weapons get no
damage bonus, and any other case gets a x2 damage bonus.
o Weapon Focus, Weapon Finesse, and other skills that rely upon a weapon proficiency
will now recognize new weapon proficiencies you pick up when you multi-class into
another class.
o Rapid Reload and any other feats (are there any?) that rely upon having a crossbow
proficiency are now selectable when you multi-class into any other class than a druid.
Druid/fighters rejoice!

Spells
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o Haste now provides an enhancement bonus of min(30, target's base speed) to movement.
This means that it will not stack with Monk's Fast Movement, but will stack with
Barbarian's Fast Movement. Furthermore, it will no longer cap movement at 2 x base
speed. Note, that it's the Barbarian's base speed unmodified by Fast Movement that's
used. Hasted Dwarven Barbarians move at 50.
o You can now use a higher level spell slot to memorize a spell. Go 20+ magic missiles!
o The left side of the spell book should now go up to spell level nine. Not that there
are any level nine spells for you to know. Heck, I don't think there's even a
chain lightning scroll.
o Level 5 metamagic feats will no longer be added to the end of the list (down by
level 9 spells.)
o Deleteing meta-magiced spells should no longer be as screwy. (The old code only
overwrote it with the last spell on the spellbook list - this should actually delete
it.)
o Meta-magic effects can now raise a spell to level 9
o Strength domain added to St. Cuthbert, as per manual
o Resurrection xp penalties should now work up to level 20.
o added the meta-magic color balls to spells on the memorization list

Dialog
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o Rik - The conversation still jumps to 110 when you've acccepted
the Carpenter's Dilemma quest, but now you can ask Rik about the
barn, and only then does he mention Filliken's problem (120). If
you haven't heard about the barn yet, Rik won't mention it either
(240).
o Burne's puzzles (dialogue add in)

Items
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o corrected number of charges for Wand of Fear
o added OIF NO NPC PICKUP to Bracers +5 and misc wands
o restored original tutorial weapons and deleted Spugnoir's extr feats
o Masterwork Maul weapon type (changed from greatclub to warhammer)



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Please Note:
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o Have heard Reports that looting works correctly in Windowed Mode, and there is less "lag".
Looting did correctly work for me, in window mode, but LAG was not reduced signifigantly.
You can enable Windowed Mode by adding the "-window" to your shortcut to the game.

Right click on the shortcut and choose properties, then go to the 'Target' section of it
and add -window after the quotation marks.
Example:
"C : \ Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\ToEE.exe" -window


Most of these fixes are due to moebius2778, Many thanks!




nw

 

Zhuuge sent me this.. but it's got alot in it... I want to know if anyone recognizes these, and can tell me what they fix..

Though, Ultimately, need to hear from Z.

 

Well not much really, it has:
1)Rik Linkin dialogue fix (which you have already noted)
2)corrected number of charges for Wand of Fear
3)added OIF NO NPC PICKUP to Bracers +5 and misc wands
4)restored original tutorial weapons and deleted Spugnoir's extr feats (caused by mod pack)
5)adjust Serena's looting to none
6)Masterwork Maul weapon type (changed from greatclub to warhammer)

7)Burne's puzzles (dialogue mod) also included (as optional install)

You can include Sir_Toejam's levelup fix by getting it here:
http://www.co8.org/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=5907
and put it together with the rest of the files.

 

I don't have a conditional installer.. If you know of one, send me a link, I can start converting the install scripts..

Is there a reason why your DLG change should be optional? I don't really see a DLG change as being that controversal. (then again I don't know exactly what you've changed..)


I've added everything into a RCS repository.. This means from here on in, it'll be much easier to track changes from version to version.. As well as back track to a previous version when needed.


We should have a beta copy of 3.0.4 in a few hours.

 

re:

I've updated temple.dll again - added the meta-magic color balls to spells on the memorization list. I'm honestly not sure if this is useful - when I was testing meta-magic I found I couldn't remember which memorized spells had which meta-magic feats attached. Others may not have had that problem. I don't know. The wizard I use when playing the game has been concentrating on item creation feats.

 

Where is the updated Temple.dll?

Have you updated the Temple.dll in the temple.zip here?

jadri . com/temple.zip

 

BETA!

http://home.rochester.rr.com/hold4nomad/ToEE_Fan_Fixes_V3-0-4.zip

 

I guess it isn't a big problem and it does solve the issue of not having Fireball scrolls in the game to destroy the Golden Orb of Death, so I suppose in a way it does fix something and can be qualified as such. Also so far I've received a few positive remarks on it and no negative ones so far so I suppose putting it as core wouldn't do much harm. People can always ignore the quest if they don't want to do it with no ill effects. The rest of the original dialogue is unmodified.

Great to see the beta finally out! Thanks to all who have put in work on the latest version, especially to moebius and Nomad.

 

re: temple.dll changes

Yes, I keep updating the zip files at http://www.jadri.com/temple.zip. Horrible source control, I'm mostly maintaining that via the text files and various DLL backups on my own computer.

 

Here is the correct startEquipment.mes file

 

Checked through the new start_equipment.mes.
Looks Ok now.

 

I've corrected the problem in the build as well.

 

Hi there
I don't know if you can help me here but I have a little problem with ToEE. I finished installing the 3.0.4 patch and started playing when a buch of Salamanders attacked my party. My sorcerer tried to cast "Magic Missile" and the floting text said 1/511. I also tried to use her "wand of Magic Missiles" and it said the same thing. Not being one to give up so easily, I proceded to click away but stopped around 30 clicks. Somehow 30 "Magic Missiles" felt like an overkill. The thing is that, it seems, you either cast the 511 MM or none at all. Can you help me? Magic Missiles is sort of a favored spell for my sorcerer.
Tony
PS I did still the official patch too.

 

When I used to look after the NWN Henchman Battle AI and Management mod, Pausanias showed me how to use a great conditional installer:

Check out Inno Setup.

When installing, the user is prompted with various check boxes for optional install content.

Don't know if you already sourced a conditional installer, but have a look. I remember it was a little complicated getting the first list going for which files you wanted to put into which directory for each "option", but once you had that list going it was very easy to maintain.

Hope that helps,

-Auldar

 

Can you send me examples of this?

I.e. I checked the website, and it says
"Can Inno Setup do a conditional installation - for example, proceed only if a certain registry key or file exists?

Inno Setup 4 adds support for this through the new Pascal Scripting feature.

Note: with earlier Inno Setup versions it was already possible to install different files depending on the Windows version.
"

IF it's easy, and for some odd reason we WANT to maintain multiple copies of some of these files, than sure a conditional installer is okay.. Right now.. I'd rather concentrate on game fixes, rather than writing pascal code for the installer...