New Patch!

Sol Invictus · Oct 8, 2004

The Circle of Eight has just released a new Fan Fixes patch, bringing it up to 3.0.4. You can grab it directly from here.

Here's the readme included with the patch.

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
Click to expand...

Thanks to Nomad Wanderer for making this possible.

Siglorel · Oct 8, 2004

Starting new parties with a figther

Does the released version of the patch contain the problem that the Beta release had?

There was a previously reported problem with new parties which contained a fighter - due to a fighter's starting equipment containing an non-existant item. Can you confirm that the released patch doesn't have this problem?

Thanks

zhuge · Oct 8, 2004

Just downloaded it and found the installer to be last modified on 3rd October. Expected it to still contain the bugged start_equipment.mes, checked and indeed it is still the old bugged start_equipment.mes.

Please download the new start_equipment.mes posted by Nomad_Wanderer in the General Modification forum and replace the old start_equipment.mes:
http://www.co8.org/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=6056

Tried to warn Exitium of it and to hold off the upload to the main site but I think my message came a bit too late.

Siglorel · Oct 8, 2004

Known bug list

Can we get it added to the known bugs in the top message?

darkentrees · Oct 10, 2004

yeah I get a CDT too when starting a new game with patch 3.04... went back to 3.03 and can start up just fine. I'll try replacing the startup file as you all have suggested here - thanks!

darkentrees · Oct 10, 2004

Replaced the startup file and now everything is working fine - thanks guys! BTW, I'm running under XPsp2 with DX 9.0c just fine. The only things I have left is the crash on exit, and needing to use the 'C' key to loot.

majkeli · Oct 16, 2004

Patch without installer?

I'm running TOEE on Linux with Cedega but the installer errors out. Is there any way to get the patch in a zip without the installer?

Thanks!

Martinius · Oct 26, 2004

I think it would be better to add the over-ride equipment mes file in the installer for the final release.

Otherwise, this patch adds much more fun - I found some new spells compared to my previous play, I like the way the level cap is removed, while not unbalancing the game, and I like the new Burne "intellectual" quest.

Overall, for me the key issue was that where magic-users could utilize their additional xp points after achieving 10th level solely for enchanted items making, which made some sense, the poor non-magic classes simply could do nothing with their points - neither contribute them to the item making, nor become stronger. Now, we have the choice of how to develop the different classes after 10th level, with spellcasters being able to gain slots for metamagic-enhanced spells or make items, and being able to diversify a character's development - let's be serious, would you ever play a Bard/Rogue or Fighter/Paladin or the Monk/Other class combinations if the level cap was still 10?

So, excellent patch, much needed and much appreciated!

Draiden · Oct 27, 2004

Confused

Is the new 3.0.4 patch supposed to replace the Circle of Eight Mod Pack 2.0.0?? I installed the 2nd official patch, and now I've got both the CoE Mod Pack ver. 2.0.0 & the new Fan-Fixes 3.0.4 patch sitting in my ToEE, neither of them yet installed. What should I do?

Siglorel · Oct 27, 2004

Patches

Use the 3.0.4 patch....

Draiden · Oct 27, 2004

Oh

Okay, I get it: the newest Fan Fix is part of the same line of patches that the old 2.0 Mod Pack was part of; they just have different names, but they're in the same series. Just that I thought, from having gone to the downloads part of the main page, that the Mod Pack offered one thing (fogless towns, etc) & the Fan Fix offered more numerical fixes/rules/feats changes, etc. Perhaps it was because the mod pack was still up in the downloads section, althought it's now outdated, but the Fan Fix could only be retrieved from the latest headline, and that the readme files don't suggest that the two are related to one another. I get it now though; thanks.

Sol Invictus · Oct 27, 2004

Yeah, I um... I should probably get rid of the old version in the Mod area. I've been way busy lately.

Sol Invictus · Dec 7, 2004

bump bump bump

zhuge · Jan 10, 2005

I've noticed that the start_equipment.mes from
http://www.co8.org/files/patch/ToEE_Fan_Fixes_V3-0-4.zip
has not been corrected yet.

As previous attachments may not work due to the recent forum down time, I am reuploading a copy of the old start_equipment.mes from v3.0.3. If your medium sized fighter and druid have items 11008 and 4236 in start_equipment.mes, then it is bugged and should be replaced using the start_equipment.mes posted as an attachment here.

Nomad has made the correction on his site but Exitium hasn't updated the files on the main site, so please use this address for download.
http://home.rochester.rr.com/hold4nomad/ToEE_Fan_Fixes_V3-0-4.zip
The files from this site have start_equipment.mes already corrected.

Nc · Jan 14, 2005

o restored original tutorial weapons and deleted Spugnoir's extr feats

Well, if the two extra feat is Create XXXX(I reallly don't remember which two...), then I should say that it's a bit discouraging. The only NPC I take with me is him and that's all because he has these two extra feats. Or I would rather create a wizard rather than him. I've downloaded a beta version but I'm not sure whether I should download this one...only for this reason. Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but I think the patch should do something to make these NPCs much more stronger so that the players may hire then, not decease their ability so poor already........

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