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I'm afraid I do not know. I didn't use them till play #2 wherein I slaughtered everyone I could as I went... cheats help then.

I thought I'd attempt to be helpful and post these here since some folks may not think to look for them in the A4 forums. (Original post by Synergy.) Hold Shift and press D to get the prompt, then type in the following: ouchouchouch – Heals and cures your group. imdrained - Recharge your spell energy. leetbuffz – Gives each of your characters multiple blessings. owmybrains – Cures any character that is frozen or suffering from a mental effect. backtostart – Returns you to Blackchasm Outpost. Very useful if you get stuck. pleaselikeme - Makes all of the areas in the game forget your crimes. If you were hated there, you won’t be anymore. Note that certain crimes (stealing artifacts, killing major characters) won’t be forgotten. iwanttobestronger - Gives you some experience. giveasnack - Gives your main character some cake. showmeall - Make all characters (even ones you can’t see) appear on your automap. dontshowmeall - Stop making all characters appear on your automap. editor - The new one of course. Edit stats without those pesky skill points. On a related note, has anyone considered editing a script to create a cheat like the one Hawk King did for A4? To give items, weapons, potions, etc? I'd attempt it, but there's the whole "I'm to lazy to figure out how" thing to overcome.

Is it possible to change the saved game location in A5, or to otherwise mimic the effect? I used to save my BoA save files to my idisk, allowing me to access them from both my laptop & desktop. But with A5 (maybe 4, didn't try when I played through it) they default to docs and can't be accessed elsewhere. I tried an alias to the folder, but no go. Any other ideas/workarounds?

Clarification: gated room, as in a portcullis not a door. So not unlock-able. I definitely killed everything, not sure what I could have missed. Again, I found a lever for each gate but the 3rd one won't budge... Oh well, its a long walk back anyway.

Yeah, the lag on the blessing is a bit irritating. My suggestion is to enter fight mode as far from each one as possible (which is pretty much how the fight system works now anyway ) stay put and hit em with a few missles or a spell while they come to you. That usually breaks their protection by the time they are within melee range. As for the quest, just fight your way through the spiral to the lower level and kill the shade thing in the center. If you talked to the mayors wife (does an undead spouse count you as widowed?) you can complete her quest while your down there.

I don't think the golem generators are the point of the panels. Did any of the vahnati from outside survive the bridge demon? If not, then the I don't think the panels serve a purpose... There are 3 control panels and a machine you can break (guarded by giants). I was able to turn off all the panels (at least thats what the messages said) then break the machine. I'm not sure if the order has anything to do with it.. I might have just gotten lucky. Either way, the golems kept coming but i was able to talk to my frozen vahnati allys and "free" them... not that they did much other than run defense on the golems.

Khoths ruins have 3 gated rooms w/ spellbooks in them, only 2 of which could I get open by using levers. The 3rd lever has a message about a complex lock or some such I cannot work. Am I missing a clue, or simply not attainable?

Thats odd... I'm not sure what might have happened. I have seen people tell stories about bizarre things happening to later quests if you head into the scree caves before you are supposed to, but not that. Unless someone else has a suggestion, you might have to cheat your way out. Type shift-d then enter "backtostart", and hit enter. This will return you to Ft Monastary. I have never used this myself, so be forwarned. Previous Avernum games have had bizzare results when cheating your way out of areas. Good luck!

People hate you as in they won't talk to you, or they are attacking you? If they just have very unresponsive responses (if that makes any sense) then your fine, thats part of the plot. If they are attacking you... don't know what you did then. As for entry into Formello, you must get orders from the commander of Ft Draco before they will let you in.

I believe you must speak w/ the commander of Ft Remote. He will give you another small (but challenging) quest to complete before he will lower the barrier.

Ah, found him! Somehow I managed to never even go up those stairs... Much appreciated!

Message board quest to deliver a message to Tavernise in Dharmon. Can't seem to find her... Anyone know off the top of your heads?

I believe that the assassins you release from the crystal box drop a fine waveblade... which worked out well for me since I got the quest for one right before taking said box upstairs...

My 2 cents: I think the PC graphics look pretty good, its the lacking variety compared to the previous Avernum games I dislike. The enemy graphics from Geneforge don't bother me as I have played Geneforge for exactly 14 minutes (just didn't dig it). My biggest graphic complaint... the item graphics changing! Sure, I got over it by the end of the demo portion, but I get confused when suddenly healing potions look like energy potions and all the graymold I'm seeng is actually some other herb. And yes, I am too lazy to open the game up and actually check which ingredient is using the old graymold icon. Finally, I appreciate Jeff posting in this way.

Gotcha... I am in possession of surplus eyestalks then. Wonderful.