Lilith

1 hour ago, Lowly Exile said:

Yep, that was it.

 

There's a white outline around the horse now, but I'm choosing to ignore that.

Some of the pixels probably aren't perfectly white. The game treats white, and only white, as a transparent colour for creature and item graphics.

Did you make sure to save it as an 8-bit (256-colour) bitmap? I don't think the Exile games are designed to deal with different colour depths.

If you kill both Alwan and Miranda in Northforge Warrens, you actually get to skip the final battle in Northforge entirely, although if you're capable of doing that the final battle wouldn't have been a problem for you anyway.

I didn't get that impression. What makes you think so?

Generally, if people think that anyone in G4 is the G3 protagonist, they think it's Shaper Monarch.

The next most difficult optional fight in the game is probably Matala, although you can reach that a bit before the endgame.

Another challenge you could try to take on if you're on the Rebel path is clearing out Alwan's assault group when you first encounter them in Northforge Warrens, instead of scouting the area and retreating as the game tells you to do.

It might do the check after you leave the crafting dialogue. That seems plausible.

The option is in the "Add a Game" button in the bottom left corner of the Steam application.

I want to say it's +4 levels of damage, but I might be pulling that out of nowhere.

It could be a DNS issue. If you know how to do so, try changing your settings to use Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and see if that helps.

Have you emailed Spiderweb about it? They can help you better than we can.

20 hours ago, Minion said:

 

Can you perform the equivalent of a right-click on the iPad? My experience of Mac computers is limited to growing up in a Mac household in the 90s, and I haven't touched one since, so my knowledge is severely limited and out of date.

Yup. A common standard for mobile interfaces is that you tap for a left-click and hold for a right-click.

There are various implications throughout the series that demons come from another dimension reachable through summoning magic or portals (although actually going through a portal to their realm would be a pretty bad idea). It'd be reasonable to speculate that many if not most of the demons in Avernum were probably summoned by the sliths under Sss-Thsss and his predecessors.

I believe there was an unofficial third-party script edit designed to make items on the ground more visible by changing their appearance. Might that be what you're thinking of?

For what it's worth, the strategy-guide-writing side of the forums has always had a high opinion of it, although the advice is usually to put it on a spellcaster since fighters don't have to go out of their way to meet the skill requirements for disciplines even without the blade.

Is there a transcript or written summary somewhere?

In that case, the best thing you can do is send a bug report to support@spiderwebsoftware.com and see if SW can help you.

3 hours ago, jlsgaladriel said:

Random unfortunate trainer trait: Black in Calloc won't train you if you've got anama rings.  I'm sure real anama wouldn't care, but I guess those thieves' guild rings are pretty good copies.  

(Have my fingers swelled?  Why can't I just slip 'em off and put 'em in my pocket?  Am I eating too much salt?)

 

I think if you join the Anama it's specified that their rings are deliberately made non-removable so that members have to make a commitment to living as Anama. I guess the fake rings need to have some of the same enchantments in order to fool magical means of detection.

Yeah, the standard way for recent Spiderweb games to handle targets that are absolutely not supposed to die is that their health gets locked at 1 and won't go any lower than that, no matter how much damage you do.

Email your bug report to support@spiderwebsoftware.com if you want to make sure that the developer sees it. You might be asked for further information to narrow down the source of the bug, since I don't think this is an issue that's been reported before.

6 hours ago, Aleister said:

 

Sounds pretty cool, thanks for this. One thing I'd especially love to see is better consistency across games. eg. that Krykk fellow you have to kill in GF3, how come he's alive in GF4?

You don't have to kill him in G3, depending on what route you're playing on. It's true that the events leading up to a game don't line up perfectly with any one particular route from the previous game, though.

Also I know this one is very debated but personally I wouldn't mind a "canon" answer to who the GF5 protagonist is. Same char as in gf3 imo from text with litalia in gf5: "for all you know, you may have held a great grudge against her once". Just my thoughts

It's not going to happen; Jeff's said he leaves that kind of thing up to the player on purpose.

They're just there to blow you up. But you have to admit, they're pretty good at doing that.

If Humble gave you a Steam key, the Steam version should auto-update. If you got a direct download link, you'll have to redownload it the same way you originally did.

15 hours ago, The Voices of My Education said:

Pyramids: Can you be more specific

i dunno, let's say ziggurats i guess

Roller skates

The Hubble Space Telescope

Elephants

Robert Falcon Scott (as in "of the Antarctic")

Pyramids

i have no recollection of making that post so i cannot explain my reasoning at the time

revised opinion 13 years later: i don't really care if it's cheating or not, and also random item shops with almost no limits on what items they can sell were not exactly the best-thought-out concept in the first place