Co8 New Content: War of the Golden Skull

What level was your party? Are you implying the evil path is easier than the good path?

 

I was playing 7.0.0 NC because I originally downloaded it a few days after you released it, but I just don't have that much time to play. New release, new game, and I don't want to start all over.

I was a well-rounded 13th level party of 7, including the NPCs Fruella and Wonnilon. The evil path is much easier to complete than the good path. No doubt. I initially tried WOTGS at 11th level, but I had two CTDs during the Wakefield battle. One battle I was definitely going to lose; the other was a toss up. I decided to get another level or two before hitting WOTGS again, so I cleaned out the Nodes.

I'll finish my current game after I encounter the Gremlich, and then I'm on to 7.4.1. Maybe I'll finish it by the spring. TOEE is a really great game. I'm so glad Co8 has improved it so much over the years.

 

Hi everyone,

I actually have the same problem with the quest of the War of the Golden Skull not completing. I killed everything in the map, but Town Defense and Northwest were still not defeated. I brought a NW guy back to life, killed him, and then that was completed, but for the Town Defense, Game.global_vars[511] gave 31. I brought 10 people back to life, killed them, and still nothing happened though Game.global_vars[511] increased.

I played with the codes game.global_vars[511] = 1, and Adventurer stated that all the attacks are defeated, but then nothing else happens. All the monsters around the Town Defense are dead.

Any ideas on what I should do next?

 

Not yet. Will doing to require that I replay the war before it happened?

 

Everything worked perfectly with the patch. I was able to complete the quest without relying on the console commands, and the fights seem more interesting now. Thanks for your help!

 

You mean lagstop? Yes, for me it happens whenever I move to a building that was on fire. I was able to beat it regardless as lag stop at most just paused the game for a few seconds and then moved on.

 

Just wanted to post a quick note.

Battled through WoTGS with 7.4.1 and it went flawlessly, no Jerky Stop, no Lag and I didn't have to rez anyone to close the quest.

Good Job Gaear!

 

I am trying to play through WotGS and am having a lot of problems. It is not that the fights are too hard, it is that the game keeps crashing and that saves are corrupted.

My party was mostly level 16-17 to start, but have risen to all level 20 now. My fighting style is to keep things at a distance. In this case because of the mobs, I am using long range spells such as horrid wilting and fireball. My fighters and rogues finish off the approaching enemy with their bows and crossbows.

I've managed to finish just about all of the battles -- but the man tells me that I have not finished the attack on the cleric temple. BUT -- getting here was very painful. I would do a battle, make a new save, restore from that save and move on. After a few such save and restores, I'd either get a crash or a message that the save file was corrupted. THEN, if I tried to restore a previous save, I got told that was also corrupted -- even though I had previously loaded from it.

Several times I had even worse hangs. I'd get told that save was corrupted, and then try to exit the game -- only to have it hang the computer completely. CAD did nothing, Alt-Tab did nothing. The only thing I could do was to push the cold stop button -- then reboot the computer.

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice as to what might have gone wrong for me to be having such a hard time?

I have not bothered looting the multitudes of bodies laying around -- is that a problem?

I have experienced what I've seen described as jerk stop -- but it usually went away after a brief pause.

I am using 7.4.1 NC version.

Update: I have now managed to finish without further crashes, and seem to have a reliable save file. Moving on to do the dwarf's quest.

 

I have done crafting. My original party of five all have +3, icy burst, flaming burst, keen weapons (renamed to a shorter name).

Not sure if the chest was full or not during the problems, but near the end I did fill it up. When I got out of the house where you finish the quest, most of the items had disappeared -- as well as all of the bodies and loot that had not been picked up. (no surprise to me on the later).

I've only added PCs to escort them out of places. None were added to be fighting members of the party.

I did give my self one item via console -- a special robe to help him spot items better. I knew that it would not be available any other way, since the guy who might have sold it to me had been killed in the ToEE.

Jerkstop == freezes in play, lasting 5-10 seconds up to a minute or so.

I am satisfied that I have finished the quest, but if you would like I still have an intermediate save I could up load for you to look at.