Ted's mod is HERE

Its a fair call Old Book, I have no time for 'crossovers' either (unless I made them myself ). Its why I don't expect or even want my mod in Co8 4.0.0 (though all the other stuff, SaM and Playful NPC's and the tiny fixes and such can all go in, as they are simple improvements of the current content). But as I was saying to ummm I think it was Cerulean the other day, when I first started creating this mod, folks like Zhuge and Liv were still regular contributors here and I only ever envisaged my mod as being some fun on the side.

 

New patch is done, just doing a beginning-to-end test, will be up in an hour or so.

Now, re the 'NPC dies and I hear SPugnoir issue' (just noticed it was mentioned twice here, not once... missed that second one, sorry Old Book). Its been reported elsewhere too, and I have got to the bottom of it. This is caused by the game using Spugnoir's script as a 'default' death script (san_dying to be exact). So it not only fires the script in Spugnoir's file, but for some berserk reason it uses Spuggie's associated vocal file. O well: mixed blesssing that, it DOES explain why some of my other voice tests didn't vocalise but did show the floating text (I can fix that now ) but my dreams of running all the voices from one script file are shattered, I am going to have to introduce them for each character individually. Thats a lot of work. :yawn:

Anyways, it will be fixed in Playful NPCs version 2, which should be out in a week or so and should include the 'entering combat' voice and the whole 'I need healing / I'm getting out of here' response (and an 'I'm getting out of here' action too!)

 

You need a new proto for that, right ted? changing san_dying numbers et al... don't worry about posting the changes, beyond compare does all my file merges for me.

 

Ok new patch is here!

http://files.co8.org/mods/Teds_patch_104.zip

Now whats it do... Firstly, it adds a new shopkeeper to Nulb, Ah Fong, the most disgraceful piece of stereotyping since the Trade Federation! He will sell you the new weapons done by Heavy Dan and others (not the good ordnance though like the Smyth and Westrealm gear, that has to be consoled in at the appropriate moment til I can come up with some decent encounters for them). Hmmm... just realised, I forgot the armour! Bugger... o well, there's something for tomorrow. But for now, you can get the non-magical tattoo from Yvy, magical one from Mother Screng, new clothes from Jinnerth and now new weapons from Ah Fong. He lives in the east-most house in Nulb, off the walkway that runs past Otis' place and directly south of the pub.

Also, I have completed the long-promised beefing of the finale of my mod. It is not perfect, but it is a lot better, pretty much as close as I can get to what I have in mind (for the moment). I am pretty happy with it! One thing though... if you complete the finale there will come a point when the game appears to pause - you still have control, sounds and animations continue, but nothing happens for about 5 seconds. Thats just the game dealing with a change of situation, just relax, enjoy the music, read the floating text, count slowly to 5 and it'll all be right.

Also: use of game-breaking super-weapons such as the Sword of Cahoem in that final encounter will almost certainly cause a CTD. But it is not as hard as it first appears - look for one participant to bug out long before it is finished.

I have also done a couple other little tinkers. I have removed the death-rattle from Spugnoir so it doesn't show up when other people die, that'll hopefully all be taken care of in a week or so and i will have some more voices incorporated. I have also incorporated Liv's juggernaut fix, and the couple of dlg fixes above.

Note the internal docs refer to the patch as 1.1, but that can wait til I put the armour in the shop. For the moment its 1.0.4.

Addendum: Thanks Allyx, I have been making a list as it is so you can check.

Also, the pricing of the weapons is a bit erratic, I left alone whatever price was put in the protos.tab by the creator for the normal weapons, but some of the masterwork ones were identical so I buffed them by 200gp (thats about 300 at the counter, the difference between normal and masterwork for the stuff in Brother Smyth's shop).

 

Old Book: Not atm, but he has over 400hp, and you only have to knock off a pittance of those to take him out of the fight.

Meh, its a workaround. I can't bear to leave him out

 

Thanks, I'd seen that file on the server and wondered what it was... I'll take a look at it and throw it in.

 

You forgot the guisarme.

 

Don't forget all the bill versions, we need hooks for when we introduce mounted characters