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Arcanum Arcanum Unofficial patch 2.0 released! (UPDATE)
You know, I'd love someone to try a graphics overhaul, like add stuff to the models, etc.
PorkyThePaladin
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I would love to see the Hard Mode change to revolvers. Would make them less of a pillow and more of a gunfighter weapon.
PorkyThePaladin
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Darth Canoli
Arcane
He said 1 month 2 weeks ago on a Terra Arcanum news.
PorkyThePaladin
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Get better Drog!
Citizen
Guest
Did he surgically elongate his penis to finally post the autofellatio vid he promised to cleve?
Acrux
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I noticed yesterday that the information on the UAP page about Hard Mode is gone, and it was there just a few days ago. You can see the search results show news about it on June 15th:
But the current page shows June 11th, with the 2.0.2 patch - all hard mode stuff is gone:
Drog had been pretty active on Discord until last week. One of the mods made him made with some banter (really stupid, low level stuff about him being a “coomer”) and he hasn’t been back on for a week (and by the way, it's much less active without him there). I wish Drog had a thicker skin, but he had immediately before that told him he wasn’t in the mood because of his health issues.
Anyway, I suppose all of this could be down to his health (feel better soon, Drog!), but I really hope we didn’t lose hard mode coming out for another 5 years because someone made a stupid joke.
Edit: Oh, and links to the Discord/Hard Mode channel are gone from the UAP page.
But the current page shows June 11th, with the 2.0.2 patch - all hard mode stuff is gone:
Drog had been pretty active on Discord until last week. One of the mods made him made with some banter (really stupid, low level stuff about him being a “coomer”) and he hasn’t been back on for a week (and by the way, it's much less active without him there). I wish Drog had a thicker skin, but he had immediately before that told him he wasn’t in the mood because of his health issues.
Anyway, I suppose all of this could be down to his health (feel better soon, Drog!), but I really hope we didn’t lose hard mode coming out for another 5 years because someone made a stupid joke.
Edit: Oh, and links to the Discord/Hard Mode channel are gone from the UAP page.
Joseph Stalin
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Why was Drog banned? He's one of the few actually productive members of the Codex.
vortex
Fabulous Optimist
Has Drog recovered?
Goral can you transmit to him the following message pls?
Latest Drog's patch 2.0.2. If you press right + up on keyboard at the same time, it will result in this:
It doesn't always happen immediately, but trying for a minute is guaranteed to yield the result. I get this a thousand times per play session.
Latest Drog's patch 2.0.2. If you press right + up on keyboard at the same time, it will result in this:
It doesn't always happen immediately, but trying for a minute is guaranteed to yield the result. I get this a thousand times per play session.
I wish he'd left some kind of dead man's switch, to release the sources if something happens to him. Maybe suggest it to him, if he ever comes back alive.
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Does this only happen with the latest 2.02 patch? If so, could anyone upload the previous versions, say 2.0., on google drive or something?
I don't think I've seen it for download anywhere since grog always replaces the old versions with the latest ones.
I don't think I've seen it for download anywhere since grog always replaces the old versions with the latest ones.
jungl
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Too bad larian making baldurs gate 3 instead of a arcanum sequel. With their new engine and how they design their games would be a lot more interesting to see them do a arcanum sequel then baldurs gate.
Baldurs gate 3 also looks absolutely nothing like its predecessors.
Baldurs gate 3 also looks absolutely nothing like its predecessors.
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Thanks, bro!
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Ok thanks to the generous help of Don Peste and some French Fallout forum I could test 2.0.1. and 1.5.1 of the UAP patch.
In case anyone cares:
The bug described by Bester is not new to 2.0.2., it already occurs in 2.0.1. at least. It occurs when you select the hardware renderer in the config of the high res patch. With the software renderer, the problem doesn't seem to occur.
In 1.5.1 the problem doesnt occur at all, no matter which setting is selected. But hardware mode is slow and unresponsive for me.
Also, in the 2.x versions of the UAP, something was changed in the high res patch that completely fucks up the videos in the game for me, while they run perfectly fine in 1.5.1. The new ddraw.dll?
EDIT: Can confirm, replacing the ddraw.dll in 2.0.2 with the old version from 1.5.1. solved the fucked up videos for me, and also the bug described by bester doesn't occur anymore even in hardware mode.
However, hardware mode is slow and unresponsive (especially scrolling during combat), just as it was in 1.5.1.
So I use software mode by default anyway.
I think the problem is that with 2.x, Drog included the latest experimental test release of DDrawCompat with the UAP/high res patch, while 1.5.1. used the previous stable version DDrawCompat v0.2.1. So just download it and put in in your highres -> files folder if the latest version gives you trouble.
So there you have it.
In case anyone cares:
The bug described by Bester is not new to 2.0.2., it already occurs in 2.0.1. at least. It occurs when you select the hardware renderer in the config of the high res patch. With the software renderer, the problem doesn't seem to occur.
In 1.5.1 the problem doesnt occur at all, no matter which setting is selected. But hardware mode is slow and unresponsive for me.
Also, in the 2.x versions of the UAP, something was changed in the high res patch that completely fucks up the videos in the game for me, while they run perfectly fine in 1.5.1. The new ddraw.dll?
EDIT: Can confirm, replacing the ddraw.dll in 2.0.2 with the old version from 1.5.1. solved the fucked up videos for me, and also the bug described by bester doesn't occur anymore even in hardware mode.
However, hardware mode is slow and unresponsive (especially scrolling during combat), just as it was in 1.5.1.
So I use software mode by default anyway.
I think the problem is that with 2.x, Drog included the latest experimental test release of DDrawCompat with the UAP/high res patch, while 1.5.1. used the previous stable version DDrawCompat v0.2.1. So just download it and put in in your highres -> files folder if the latest version gives you trouble.
So there you have it.
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deuxhero
Arcane
What does the patch notes mean "all three" versions of Virgil? There's the normal and the "zen". What's the third?
pidstuff
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The edgy version of Virgil.
Yes. Your powers are weak old man.
Black
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I like the new races and that enemies more often use spells/abilities, I actually got stunned several times.
Sadly the companion AI is still very selective about which spells to use- they summon and shapeshift but I never once saw Geoffrey cast Fireflash.
Oh yeah, and the integrated Educator thing doesn't seem to work, or works very selectively. I'm master in melee and dodge and only Virigil has both masteries, even tho I have Magnus, Torian and Loghaire who all meet the requirements but none of them has either dodge or melee even on Apprentice.
Sadly the companion AI is still very selective about which spells to use- they summon and shapeshift but I never once saw Geoffrey cast Fireflash.
Oh yeah, and the integrated Educator thing doesn't seem to work, or works very selectively. I'm master in melee and dodge and only Virigil has both masteries, even tho I have Magnus, Torian and Loghaire who all meet the requirements but none of them has either dodge or melee even on Apprentice.
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