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

Will do, thanks Geaer.

Only thing I had that looked like the Ogre cave exterior was was the standard adult white dragon encounter. That exterior did appear on my World Map list right underneath Passage to Verbbonc just after the dragon encounter. Appeared as an additional Verbbonc Cave something or other. No Orc Cave appeared on the actual map. Never noticed that extra Verbbonc Cave world map list destination before if it's a normal occurence.

Went back and talked to guards at Verb arrival point after leaving for Nulb and coming back. Normal May I Help You interaction on dialong screen, nothing unusual and no automatically initiated dialog. I've been wandering around the Faerun calling "here lichy lichy" using old saves, no joy.

Save upload forthcoming, probably late tonight. Dueling pistols are notoriously inaccurate, so my laptop survied. So far.

Rolling up an neutral evil party as we speak to put myself back on semi-familiar turf if first playthrough is lost.

edit: -and absolutely no clashes with Hextorites other than Monster Mash. They all disappeared after they were ratted out. Apologies, I do tend to run on once I get started.

 

mediafire upload link

This save had the old man dead on the floor when saved. Duplicated last night several times before wall-o-text post.

Now, I cannot recreate when reloading file or using previous saves. Can get WotGS to be active in the logbook and get Robin RE if I wander around long enough. I think the RH encounter has already occured in this one. Araikas will not talk or respond in any way. Other chracters still respond to dialog about upcoming Hextor invasion. I have a Monster Mash aquired but not completed save, I think I'll go back and try that to see if I can get the Gremlich to activate.

 

Hmmmm, I've killed Zuggy and now none of the transitions, (doors/stairs) seem to work.

So I teleported back to Hommlette and can't enter any buildings there either, any ideas.

 

EDIT: game.global_flags[984] = 0
Worked perfectly for instigating Gremlich encounter in my bugged condition. Arrival guards in Verb initiated dialog (advice I immediately followed). Got vid from Mona and everything. Wheeeee!

Down loaded fix previously mentioned in Spoiler thread in which chano mentioned the exact same problem I had with the 'old man'. Link and file labeled as Co8 v7 patch, 13 kb .rar file. Downloaded to separate directory, and ran. Everything in it was 7-zip and 7-related (already installed on my machine). Could not find any files that looked like they belonged in a ToEE directory. ???

Link to referenced post in "Spoiler Request" thread -->> http://www.co8.org/forum/showpost.php?p=111285&postcount=14

EDIT 2: Dowloaded and installed Attatched File fix in post linked above into root Temple of Elemental Evil directory. Caused inability to load game from ToEE Front End-X. Gave not responding error after a few seconds of flashy black screen with Windows 7 giving only an option to close the program. Didn't make it to 7.0 load screen. Downloaded attatched file fix 3 times, just creates same size file with a (1) or (2) attached to filename in downloads. Looks, smells and tastes like the 7-Zip program v9.22 already included on this computer as part its orignally installed programs. The download included a handy dandy uninstall file for 7-Zip and executing this file the removed this unpacked .rar download from ToEE root dir. Once removed, ToEE v7.0NC works properly again, except for unexplainably hostile old man.

 

So, I can just go from a load before I killed Zuggy you think, when doors were still working?

Gonna try it and report back.

On another note, I've been using DivShare for a number of years and it's free and no hassles for the downloading person.

Click on the yellow word to check it out.

 

Just finished the Revenge fight, and my Pally is happy to report the Target of Revenge rep was replaced by Purveyor of Swift Justice. :clap:

 

Opening instead of downloading just installs another copy of v9.22beta 7-zip wherever specified.

Downloaded WinRAR as suggested above.

Wait, I've seen this movie before when using Vista, so-->>:
Long story short. Un-rared file using WinRAR in my user download directory with no issues, lots of files that seem to pertain to old man issue. Manually merged with data and modules directories in ToEE root. Appears successful. Will report if the 'old man' doesn't behave like Zuggy's old woman (my expectations).

Once again, thanks for the point in the right direction.

 

Great stuff Gaear, fix worked perfectly, no issues whatsoever. Completed WotGS defense quest. Moving on in search of an old PnP book I still have in my attic (Dieties and Demigods).

 

As it turns out when you summon Mordenkainen's Sword you can actually take the sword from Sword-Wielding Entety.
So. 4d6 +<insane enchantment> Two-Hander which you can upgrade further? It needs to be fixed.
Til then... YES PLEASE!

 

OK, loaded a save from before the transitions stopped working and everything was going fine until the inevitable happened, as I was forewarned, my game is acting really wonky, (that's the technical term for it I believe) sooooo ... I get to start over again.

I think I'm going to re-activate the module again just for GP.

Woohoooh! Gonna try out a different team concept this time.

EDIT: On a side note, please please oh please don't tell me King Battlehammer's first name is Bruenor ... a dwarf king with a duel-weilding dark elf ... Oh the horror! Have my most favorite heroes turned evil?

Just in case someone doesn't know who Bruenor Battlehammer is. Just click on the yellow name.