Unofficial Arcanum Patch (Original Thread)

[Drog Black Tooth]

Breaking news! Ship's wheel has feelings!

It always had. It's in fact a standard NPC with paralyzed and invulnerable flags added IIRC. It also has a text floater flag, which conceals its NPC info to a player, but sometimes during the dialogue you can still see it. I remember this issue being mentioned in the official chat with Troika.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Nothing too high-tech about stilettos. Manufacturing one doesn't require a large pool of scientific knowledge of metal properties; an experienced blacksmith who knows his trade can easily create one.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Unlike a katana, a stiletto is silent.

And ?
A stiletto was designed for assassin...
A katana was designed for samurai...

It has a silent flag, the weapon can be heard only within 2 tiles. Thus you can stab people inside their houses and guards outside won't notice anything. It justifies the tech complexity in my opinion.

 

[Shambelle]

It has a silent flag, the weapon can be heard only within 2 tiles. Thus you can stab people inside their houses and guards outside won't notice anything. It justifies the tech complexity in my opinion.

A simple dagger, a bone dagger or a fine steel dagger have also a silent flag in the game...
But these weapon are neutral and not technological...

In fact, daggers are all silent by default with only a few exception:
- the Mechanical Dagger (Mechanic is noisy)
-the Throwing Dagger (and this one is not a real dagger, only a throwing weapon)

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

It has a silent flag, the weapon can be heard only within 2 tiles. Thus you can stab people inside their houses and guards outside won't notice anything. It justifies the tech complexity in my opinion.

A simple dagger, a bone dagger or a fine steel dagger have also a silent flag in the game...
But these weapon are neutral and not technological...

Hmm, yes, most of daggers seem to have it. OK, you persuaded me.

 

[Earth Nuggets]

I just installed Arcanum a week or two ago for my next annual play-through of the game, randomly visited Terra Arcanum and was stunned and excited to see somebody was still updating the thing, even seven years after official release. I'm glad someone still finds enough value in this game to put so much effort into polishing it up. I commend thee, Drog.

Anyway, I'll post any bugs I find going through the game. I hope to finish pretty much every quest, so I'm bound to run into some issues.

 

[Mareus]

Thank God someone is making a patch to fix the damn thing. It's one of the best games I have ever played, despite the bugs! :respect:

You, my little Japanise friend, are my number one favorite Codexian.

 

[Xor]

Here's some other issues I thought of:

-I've had wisps (I think that's what they're called) in Ashbury attack me for no reason. I've had one guard attack me after doing the machined plate quest (because I killed the mechanical spider?).

-When Raven hits someone else in the party by accident they sometimes decide to attack her, turning her hostile.

-Fighting the master of melee, who's name escapes me at the moment, turns all the guards in Cumbria hostile. This was probably intentional, but it doesn't make much sense since it's supposed to be a duel.

 

[Shambelle]

-When Raven hits someone else in the party by accident they sometimes decide to attack her, turning her hostile.

It's not a bug, it's a feature...

 

[barzam]

Great works on these fixes! I'm very happy to read your friendly updates and that nice attitude of yours is really great!

In my opinion Drog deserves a new custom tag, or what do you think?

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Thanks for the support! I'm glad people like what I'm doing.

I'd like to ask about this again, though, in case it went unnoticed:

What about the lost music track for Vendigroth? Do you want it back? You may find it in [your arcanum folder]\modules\Arcanum\sound\music\Vendegoth.mp3. Personally, I think that the eerie ambient music suits the Vendigroth dungeon better than a dramatic violin.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this matter.

Tarant_Sewers.mp3 was also unused and I restored it to the sealed part of the sewers in version 080415. Today, I fixed the new sewers music as well, there was a broken sector that was interrupting the music. It's also interesting to mention, that as both maps use music slot #28 (which contained generic Arcanum music as a placeholder), it seems that they just forgot to add Tarant_Sewers.mp3 to the track list.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

I like the unused Vendigroth track better as well.

 

[Ander Vinz]

I vote for restoring that track.
What about adding In Memoriam as well? Say, attach it to Caladon's and Rosenboro's graveyards or St. Mannox's cave. As a small easter egg.

 

[Earth Nuggets]

I vote for using Vendegoth as well.

 

[ninja_felix]

Here's the save showing a crash to desktop bug in the boil.
Click on the not naked dead fellow.


cheers[/url]

 

[arathusumus]

is there any way to fix multiplayer I cant play with my friend over the internet

 

[ninja_felix]

When people ask you a question for 20 or 500 gold they can pay you the wrong amount. The lady in the Dernholm pub just stiffed me for 480 gold. Sometime if you get the question wrong they only take 20 though,

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Here's the save showing a crash to desktop bug in the boil.
Click on the not naked dead fellow.

This is not a correct save, you have to supply all 4 files (bmp, tfaf, fgai, gsi) with the same slot number.

 

[ninja_felix]

sorry about that

Here it is.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

sorry about that

Here it is.

I was able to reproduce that. The guy had a broken inventory. There was a link in his inventory to his mace, but his mace was lying at his feet. So in order for the game not to crash you have to wait until he picks it up. I fixed the mace's position, now it's always in his inventory, as it must be. Thanks for reporting!

 

[Ander Vinz]

-Chukka is an ogre. I thought he should be half-bred.
-If you kill Bates and sell his journal to Aplleby his story doesn't get into newspapers.
-Bates does not always take his ring back.
-Large Oiled Thieves Leather has the icon of the small one.
-Worn Ladies Boots have DR+2 while Ladies Fancy Boots have DR+1 and both are usable by men.
-One of the guards in Ashbury's prison is not talkable (the one near halfling).
I was told that both prisoners should have been expert teachers. Is this correct?

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Thanks for another bug report, I'll check those things.

About Chukka. He was always meant to be a real ogre. His description and his dialogue state this. Real ogres are rarely used as bodyguards (there are few others in Tarant though), but Bates saved Chukka's life a long time ago, so Chukka is very loyal to him. And besides, there are less than 10 ogres in all of Arcanum, no need to cut out another one.

EDIT: I was able to restore all 6 extra endings. It seems, the developers somehow forgot to add global flag checks for them in the ending script. Anyway, the endings are the Death Champion, the Righteous Hero, the Just God, the Dark God, the Quiet God and the Undecided God. All have speech clips and three of them even use unique slides. This, of course, will be included in the next version of the patch. Look forward to it!

 

[Ander Vinz]

This, of course, will be included in the next version of the patch. Look forward to it!

We all do. But can I get one of them without beginning a new game?

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

This, of course, will be included in the next version of the patch. Look forward to it!

I do. But can I get one of them without beginning a new game?

Yes, only the ending script was changed. But it's still advised to start a new game for another reasons, e.g. a sector in the unsealed part of the Tarant Sewers was changed, thus if you've already explored the sewers on your current save the game might crash upon entering the place. Some uniques items won't be fixed if you've already found them as well.

BTW, the Worn Ladies Boots actually have their own art, not the same as the Ladies Fancy Boots!

 

[BillyOgawa]

Goodness, it's like Christmas everyday with this thread. Great work, man.