Grimoire Thread

[Jaesun]

That sort of reminds me of the bug in Ultima V (which still exists today). If you sleep in Lord British's room over night, if you don't have a magic lockpick (or a cannon) you will be trapped in his room forever (because his door can only be magically lockpicked or blown up with a cannon). Even if you blew up the door, it will MAGICALLY RE-APPPEAR AND BE LOCKED AGAIN in the morning. You can't do anything at all but re-start the game over from scratch.

That actually happened to me once, and I had to completely re-start the game from scratch.

Good times.

 

[Toxic Masculinity]

I tried to create a new party, and when I clicked the Library button, the screen goes black and immediately goes back to the main menu. Great. Thanks Cleveland Mark Blakemore.

 

[Ranselknulf]

Somebody has to have beaten Grimoire by now. It's approaching 600 hours.

 

[Ranselknulf]

That sort of reminds me of the bug in Ultima V (which still exists today). If you sleep in Lord British's room over night, if you don't have a magic lockpick (or a cannon) you will be trapped in his room forever (because his door can only be magically lockpicked or blown up with a cannon). Even if you blew up the door, it will MAGICALLY RE-APPPEAR AND BE LOCKED AGAIN in the morning. You can't do anything at all but re-start the game over from scratch.

That actually happened to me once, and I had to completely re-start the game from scratch.

Good times.

I had almost forgotten about this.

 

[Lazarus]

Sedition

8 minutes ago

It appears that all locked doors and chests have "Re-locked" themselves since this patch. I found a chest i had looted before the patch...picked the lock again, and looted it again, which i thought was nice....until i tried to leave the area, which i picked the lock of a door to get in...now the door is locked from the other side, and i cannot pick it from inside the house......the door is shut and will not open, and when i click "pick lock" it says there's nothing to pick...all my saves are from inside this house, now im screwed...please fix this.


-I was torn between sad and funny until I read this. Now I'm pretty certain its funny.

Gotta be a cheat that Cleve can put up to relocate your party anywhere in Hyperborea.

 

[Toxic Masculinity]

I tried to create a new party, and when I clicked the Library button, the screen goes black and immediately goes back to the main menu. Great. Thanks Cleveland Mark Blakemore.

I know that is stupid to quote myself, but deleting the RPG100.LIB file from the Grimoire's Steam folder, seems to fix this. The one that is copied to the AppData folder is the good one.

 

[Darkforge]

For fucks sake. So after lamenting yesterday about this save game crap, and vowing not to play until it's sorted. Of course I couldn't resist, rerolled my party (because library was deleted) and started a new game, where I was much happier with progress than my original party, only too find he's broken those saves now too, and my original ones I no longer care about are playable.

Nice one Cleve...

Ok now I have really learnt my lesson. I'm dropping this game for a while. I don't really have any confidence that this is not going to be an ongoing issue every patch, and at this stage it's clear the older versions have serious balance issues.

Obviously needed about another 10 years in the oven...

 

[mondblut]

you can resurrect mistral? Oo
that would be kind of unexpectedly epic.

You are supposed to be able to (and not him alone, many remains across the game), it was long lauded as a feature. I didn't, since I always sold the caduceus wands, and my only raise dead scroll was from the Shrine, bugged (0 charges, as seen when placed into scroll tube).

 

[DarKPenguiN]

For fucks sake. So after lamenting yesterday about this save game crap, and vowing not to play until it's sorted. Of course I couldn't resist, rerolled my party (because library was deleted) and started a new game, where I was much happier with progress than my original party, only too find he's broken those saves now too, and my original ones I no longer care about are playable.....

Nice one Cleve...

Ok now I have really learnt my lesson. I'm dropping this game for a while. I don't really have any confidence that this is not going to be an ongoing issue every patch, and at this stage it's clear the older versions have serious balance issues.

Obviously needed about another 10 years in the oven...

Hes probably stressing alot harder than we are.

I agree though, probably best to let a patch or two go by where the saves have no issues before jumping in again.

Games just so good its addicting and my dumb ass will probably start over tomorrow anyhow and lose that save as well in another few days- I'm trying to be strong here but my saving throws for 'common sense' often fail miserably. =P

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Now when I start the game Grimoire crashes instantly and says it has stopped working.

 

[Toxic Masculinity]

Quicksaving with F6 doesn't work anymore. And pressing F6 gives you a nice message about "Don't overwrite this file". Great.

 

[Toxic Masculinity]

Hahahaha, is worse than that. Saving on a previously saved game doesn't work.

 

[Winslow]

It actually saves to a file called 'NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE' which you can still rename to a 001.SVG or whatever and load up.

 

[PEACH]

Hahahaha, is worse than that. Saving on a previously saved game doesn't work.

That's strange. I just patched and loaded an older save I had no intent of using just to see if the patch worked. Saved over it afterwards to see if saving would break the save and I overwrote it with no issues.

 

[Toxic Masculinity]

Hahahaha, is worse than that. Saving on a previously saved game doesn't work.

That's strange. I just patched and loaded an older save I had no intent of using just to see if the patch worked. Saved over it afterwards to see if saving would break the save and I overwrote it with no issues.

When I try to quicksave or save on an existing file, a backup of the file named "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is created in the AppData directory, but nothing gets saved.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Ok, I easily fixed my problem with this:

go to appdata/local/GRIMOIRE
it wont create the GRIMOIRE folder on its own you have to make it

Now all my saves work again, everything is fine.

Kudos to Cleve for being so proactive toward fixing bugs and listening to suggestions.

I'm really starting to think this is the best RPG ever.

Ok, I have the same issue as Toxic Faggotry above. So close to playing this amazing masterpiece again.

 

[DarKPenguiN]

Powertorment has been conspicuously absent lately.

Are the big name publishers trying to stop the incline through sabotage and subterfuge?

Coincidence or conspiracy? You decide.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

For fucks sake. So after lamenting yesterday about this save game crap, and vowing not to play until it's sorted. Of course I couldn't resist, rerolled my party (because library was deleted) and started a new game, where I was much happier with progress than my original party, only too find he's broken those saves now too, and my original ones I no longer care about are playable.....

Nice one Cleve...

Ok now I have really learnt my lesson. I'm dropping this game for a while. I don't really have any confidence that this is not going to be an ongoing issue every patch, and at this stage it's clear the older versions have serious balance issues.

Obviously needed about another 10 years in the oven...

Hes probably stressing alot harder than we are.

I agree though, probably best to let a patch or two go by where the saves have no issues before jumping in again.

Games just so good its addicting and my dumb ass will probably start over tomorrow anyhow and lose that save as well in another few days- I'm trying to be strong here but my saving throws for 'common sense' often fail miserably. =P

Probably a good thing. Can check out the various starting areas.

 

[Roguey]

All right I completed the first dungeon of the superdemo with the quickstart party (minus one, plus Rosy).

It was all right I suppose, but what you're supposed to do is far too vague for me. Like I did the sun moon star dial thing backwards and forwards, but nothing happened. I ended up killing that mummy almost purely with Lil Rosy. I'm still unclear just how exactly you're supposed to open locks (for me it was a reload-fest guessing game until I got the right ones, I suppose higher lockpicking skill would make it less of a guessing game but it would be nice if there was at least one chest of my level to demonstrate that).

Additionally, that you can't load a save without exiting to the main menu is infuriating, as is the inability to close one of the in-game menus with anything other than the mouse (short of pressing tab a bunch of times until it highlights the exit button). The amount of things you can carry is incredibly strict given the massive amount of items there are to pick up (and leaving multiple objects on the ground will result in a total pain if there's something you want to trade). Jasede is right about how this UI is a mess even by early 90s standards.

Basically I warmed up to it and then I cooled off. Perhaps one day someone will release a modern blobber with role playing (M&MX and Bard's Tale 4 certainly aren't it), but until that day ever happens, Cleve has this market cornered. Guess he's the new Vogel (though to Vogel's credit, I don't believe he's ever had a post-release fiasco as huge as Grimoire's).

 

[jfunk]

Like I did the sun moon star dial thing backwards and forwards, but nothing happened.

The dials open a secret door right next to the guardian which contains a powerful potion you can use against him (you'd likely not have been able to beat him without it if you didn't have Rosey). But in general, if that's too obscure for you you're not likely to enjoy most of this game. There's going to be a lot more like that. Most old school dungeon crawls have levers and buttons that cause things to happen elsewhere in the dungeon, you're not going to get instant feedback.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Like I did the sun moon star dial thing backwards and forwards, but nothing happened.

The dials open a secret door right next to the guardian which contains a powerful potion you can use against him (you'd likely not have been able to beat him without it if you didn't have Rosey). But in general, if that's too obscure for you you're not likely to enjoy most of this game. There's going to be a lot more like that. Most old school dungeon crawls have levers and buttons that cause things to happen elsewhere in the dungeon, you're not going to get instant feedback.

Spoiler

Is there a sound that plays? I have set Sun, Moon, Stars left to right and right to left but didn't hear a sound

 

[Roguey]

Like I did the sun moon star dial thing backwards and forwards, but nothing happened.

The dials open a secret door right next to the guardian which contains a powerful potion you can use against him (you'd likely not have been able to beat him without it if you didn't have Rosey). But in general, if that's too obscure for you you're not likely to enjoy most of this game. There's going to be a lot more like that. Most old school dungeon crawls have levers and buttons that cause things to happen elsewhere in the dungeon, you're not going to get instant feedback.

The funny thing here is that I used the "cast find object scroll, print screen, reload save to keep find object scroll" trick on all the maps and saw the location of that potion, but it never clicked that that is what it was.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Like I did the sun moon star dial thing backwards and forwards, but nothing happened.

The dials open a secret door right next to the guardian which contains a powerful potion you can use against him (you'd likely not have been able to beat him without it if you didn't have Rosey). But in general, if that's too obscure for you you're not likely to enjoy most of this game. There's going to be a lot more like that. Most old school dungeon crawls have levers and buttons that cause things to happen elsewhere in the dungeon, you're not going to get instant feedback.

Spoiler

Is there a sound that plays? I have set Sun, Moon, Stars left to right and right to left but didn't hear a sound

Nope.

Edit: I created the User folder and now the game runs again, but the Library from the main menu is broken. If I click it, screen goes black for a moment then I get the main menu again. Thoughts?

 

[Dominae]

Hahahaha, is worse than that. Saving on a previously saved game doesn't work.

That's strange. I just patched and loaded an older save I had no intent of using just to see if the patch worked. Saved over it afterwards to see if saving would break the save and I overwrote it with no issues.

When I try to quicksave or save on an existing file, a backup of the file named "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is created in the AppData directory, but nothing gets saved.

Same issue here. I can only save over a brand new save slot with nothing in it. Any attempt to save elsewhere fails to overwrite.

Edit: On the plus side, it keeps you from Save Scumming .. since you have at most 11 saves before you have to quit out, delete all the extra saves, and start up the game again?

 

[Viata]

What was the thing Cleve changed from .5 to .7 btw? .5 is working pretty well, although it crashes during fights against ?WORMS? from Dune.