Kelandon

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Solberg, can you stop resurrecting dead topics? You've done it once before. Do it again and there will be consequences.

You know, that question has been done before, but we have not actually discussed it in recent enough memory for it to be annoying. We've made references to our own opinions (I think the Blades community overall leans towards liking E2/A2's story the most, with individual variations), but we haven't really discussed why.

 

Certainly the overarching plotline of E3/A3 is a bit stupid: the vahnatai? Monsters plagues? Because of vengeance? Still? Jeez. Perhaps if E3/A3 spent more time developing the vahnatai's attachments to their crystal souls — show us why they care so much — then it would perhaps be more reasonable. But as it is, it seems forced. The vahnatai seem crazy. Their fight seems largely groundless (less so if you've played E2/A2 lately, but still), and the monster plagues seem cliched.

 

That said, the execution of the plotline is pretty good. Each dungeon was really, really fun. I just think the greater narrative could've used some work.

 

Meanwhile, E2/A2's narrative is generally fairly reasonable, in that each of the three quests pretty much logically follows, and we're not asked to swallow too much when the vahnatai make their initial mistake and then afterwards side with the exiles. E2/A2 structurally seemed like too much of a copy of E1/A1, but it did well as far as greater narrative.

Er, if you had read the topic, you would've noticed that we have said that it is not possible to select the slot into which the monsters go.

It's behind a secret passage in the northeast corner of the lower level. If you've been using the maps, I'm not sure why you can't find it, as it is plainly shown here .

As you have undoubtedly noted with your precise wit, neither Exile 3 nor Avernum 3 actually came with a scenario editor. The game with a scenario editor was separate. No one actually knows yet if there will be some sort of Blades of Geneforge, but it seems rather likely.

Er, the best thing I can think of is to use the menu at the top of that save pop-up to go to the Recent Folders and from there select the folder in which you want to save. Then it's only one click.

The last creation of Easss. Presumably we will find out in GF3.

Almost certainly not. Jeff is generally more interested in making new games than maintaining old ones.

 

Besides, I think A1 and A2 run better in Classic than A3 does in OS X. When he made A3 OS X native, it ran at about a third its previous speed on my machine.

And I gave you one .

Yes.

Judging by the FAQ, the only one in GF2 is in the Mountain Base. I doubt there are any others.

One of Create Ornk, I believe, and three of Create Drakon.

I believe this site will be able to tell you everything you wish to know about spells. The shop list includes lists of mage spells shops and priest spells shops.

That's a Blades of Exile scenario. You want a Blades of Avernum scenario. Download from here .

In your Blades of Avernum folder, there's a folder called Blades of Avernum Scenarios. Inside should be Valley of the Dying Things and the other three pre-packaged scenarios. Put the scenario folders in there. Then load up a party and start a scenario from the main menu.

Wow. Did I actually say "infinitely worse"? I meant "noticeably lamer."

 

Chalk that one to having just woken up.

GF2 cleaned up some of the engine and gameplay problems in GF1, and the quests were more fun and developed, but the plot was infinitely worse. I was extremely curious about the mystery of Trajkov during the entire course of GF1, although I admit meeting him was something of an anti-climax.

 

I guess I liked GF2 better.

Generally, head southeast to the South Workshop and then north and east through the Front Gate and into Trajkov's headquarters.

 

There's a canister of Create Drayk in the Patrolled Dell a few spots east of you. Er, and another one in the Sealed Lab, which is on your way to Trajkov.

To get into Inner Gazak-Uss, you need three broken crystal pieces which are in Benerii-Uss Holding (NW), Benerii-Uss Shaping (SW), and the Geneforge (E), according to the FAQ at the top of this board. As I recall, none of them are too hard to find.

 

You cannot use the Geneforge yourself.

Alcritas said that it's a good idea to play them in order.

From what I understand, the closest scenarios you'll find to E3 in BoE are At the Gallows, Spears, and Adventurer's Club 3. Those are huge, sprawling epics with lots of towns, outdoors, fighting, dungeons, etc.

I suppose it goes without saying that this makes no sense. I feel like saying it anyway: this makes no sense.

I think you were trying to say: "Please reply to this if you think that I should delete this topic. If I get 5 replies of that nature, then I will delete it." Unfortunately, your request was worded poorly, you abused caps lock, and you used "than" instead of "then," one of my personal grammar pet peeves. Also, sadly, you are not capable of deleting this topic; only a moderator can do that, and they almost never do.

By the way, triple-posting will earn you no friends around here. Edit your previous post if you have something to add soon after posting. Oh, and one more thing:

You're responding to posts in a particular thread. Therefore, your response would be on-topic in that thread. Get a clue.

You need a dialogue script. There are a variety of ways to deal with this. Reading the docs can be useful, particularly Chapter 2.14 - Creating Dialogue. The basics: every town has a dialogue script. The script's name will be the same as the town script's name with "dlg" stuck on the end: the dialogue script for Fort Talrus in VoDT is "t0Fort Talrusdlg.txt," because Fort Talrus's script is "t0Fort Talrus.txt." The docs will tell you what calls are available in a dialogue script.

 

Arenax made a dialogue editor, too, available here . I've never used it or heard from anyone who's used it, so I can't vouch for it, but it exists.

Oh, as another point: I don't think very many of our suggestions that we will make from now until the release of GF3 are going to be implemented. Jeff seemed to indicate that the GF3 engine was pretty much done, and all he's doing now is writing in more areas and dialogue and such.

 

So posting any improvements for GF3 that are more than "I'd like to fight against a creature that has a script that does [x]" is probably useless. But it is fun to dream, still.