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On 10/28/2022 at 8:31 AM, Firewyrm said:

accepting his quest makes him "mark" you such that Goettsch and his creations will become hostile on sight

This is wrong. Goettsch will talk to you even if you're marked. If you have 12 leadership you can then convince him that you are no threat.

begintalknode 15;
    state = 11;
    personality = 0;
    nextstate = 10;
    condition = get_flag(73,16) == 0 && get_stat(20) >= 12;
    question = "I am marked with hatred of you, and I said I would kill you. But I will not. Speak with me, and my words and actions will convince you.";
    text1 = "It takes all of the sincerity you can muster, but you manage to convince Goettsch that you mean him no harm. _All right. I will give you a chance. But I do not trust you. Give me reason to fear, and I will slay you in an instant._";
    action = SET_SDF 73 16 1;

24 minutes ago, JackEKnoff said:

I know the golden crystal is best but I got the oozing blade really early and figured runed onyx would be useful. Does it even do anything?

 

Afaik it has a chance to put slow on the enemy (25% ?) but that might not even kick in until the next turn ? If you haven't seen much of an effect yet then yeah, looks like it's that useless.

1. Golden crystal gives 6 dice more damage & to hit in weapons. Nothing else comes close.

3. Should be puresteel something from the titan which means the game is effectively over. Realistically the oozing blade is the sword to go for the vast majority of the game.

Rot fangs are fixed drops and the first one is on spears, southern gates.

Morgan will turn friendly again once the shapers take over officially. 2nd journal half is in the crumbling lab. Iirc near the pool that spawns worms a few times in the NE:

The pylons are not difficult to kill if you have speed and a ranged attack. Or just speed and combatmode to get past them and reach the Arena. That will turn the mines green (except northern mines).

Aww. Well it was worth a try. And yeah, it's not your physical mouse.

Other things you can try with low probability of success:

http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/topic/17549-avernum-4-mouse-hitching-problem/?tab=comments#comment-232161

Try the demo right here from the site, also try the gog installer.

If your cpu has integrated graphics switch to that.

Aspect ratio settings from display driver and monitor.

13 hours ago, FrenchFries said:

Which settings are you referring to? I've already tried uninstall and re-install. It makes no difference. 

Not surprising. Uninstall does not get rid of the G4 folder in 'my documents' that contains the Geneforge4Settings.dat .Try deleting that ? The game will create a new one on the next start.

1 hour ago, wackypanda said:

This dialogue option (and others like it) will shift other characters' perception of you as a loyal or rebellious Shaper.

This one doesn't shift you at all. Whatever you tell Litalia outside the school has no bearing on reputation.

Yeah, Zak has no dialogue option to leave. He does have a new dialogue option once you have left tho.

And killing that wimp doesn't really make much of a difference. Now trashing the radiant college and leaving Barzahl alive, that gets you a nice change in the ending text

Mind that you can't withdraw from Zak as he is lacking that option. You can switch to other sects tho.So don't do him last if you want to go unaligned in the end.

G2 faction guide if you don't mind spoilers

https://app.box.com/s/e099rcyq0c

Do you want to stay unaligned ? Because that limits your current creation options a lot. To create Drayk more or less.

Phariton will teach it if you are unaligned, Elissia in the Upper Research Hall if you join Zak

All other higher creations either require you to join the takers or barzites or have canisters in areas you probably won't manage as of now.

Give it a try if you haven't already ? Just make a bunch of drayks with 2 int and nothing else. You should easily have the essence for that.

9 hours ago, Snowwhite said:

I have found the savegames in Steam.  The insert other media link below does not give me a clue as to how to upload a savegame.

Oh, I was thinking more about uploading it to some external site and then linking here, sorry for being unclear (smth like dropbox ? ).

9 hours ago, Snowwhite said:

The areas wherein I can't beat the big bads are Pit of Misfits;  Shaths Wastes;  Dead Pass;  Hermit Crossroads; Pit of the Bound (though I got all the way to the demon but can't land a hit at all); taker toll road off the road and Icy something or other. 

All those areas are hard.

Creations to-hit and damage comes from their strength stat, not from dexterity or int . Also +creation strength items don't work in the old games (pre G5 I think). If they can't hit something then they need more levels -> automatic more strength or upgrade their strength directly (but thats inefficient). War blessing is an additional 20% to hit and 4 damage dice. The best route though is to get better creations. Preferably ranged, most melee creations suck under the old action point system. Rots should be ok.

Upload a save if you can.  Stats are a bit meaningless if we don't know how much comes from items, canisters etc.

I don't see how you can not finish the game tho, most areas are non-critical (shats and pit of misfits def can be skipped) and you can get into the taker labs with minimal combat.

Nope. Be in combat mode, use a shielding pot (50% less damage taken) and whatever items you have that mitigate fire. Not sure how much armor helps.

Search for inc_flag(100,0

You will find instances like inc_flag(100,0,-2) which is a 2 point rep move towards the rebels. Modify one to whatever value you want.

Mines in G2 are finicky. Sometimes they explode before you even reach them and they can go off during your turn in combat mode. If you have to take the damage get Augmentation/Essence Armor (armor pots) as they add hitpoints (flat base value+1/lvl) and protection/steel skin. Also putting the difficulty to easy should cut the damage they do a bit.

Should be +6 damage levels.

8 hours ago, marnick said:

thanks

 

i really couldn't find it anywhere in the manuals or instructions

That*s because it isn't there

At least from G3 onwards it tells you the key on the load/save screen.

It's F9/F10.

Khur is the servile in Ilya Safehouse whose group was killed in Nort Ilya Woods (?) and yeah he gets killed by Moseh (not sure if he can actually survive that encounter).

Looking at the scripts, there is one encounter where shaper rep gets you out of a fight (Matala). Khur attacks you when you go too much towards the shapers. That seems to be it.  The drakons at quessa uss gates certainly don't attack on sight, neither do the ones in grayghost or Khima.

How much sense that makes is up to you, I don't think Jeff likes to restrict too much content. And G4 already has the shaper side potentially cutting you off and the unbound specs locking you into an ending and removing some stuff in Khima.

6 hours ago, alhoon said:

Khur? Khur can join fence sitters? I didn't have him with me and the Shapers were not trusting me either.

Low rebel rep means you have to fight through armies of Drakons that otherwise you can just walk by. 

 

Khur joins if your rep is 100 or lower. And where do you get this idea that you have to fight armies of drakons ??? Grayghost Gates/Khima Uss has nothing to do with rep, that's simply the result of giiving the shapers the specs.

2 hours ago, Triumph said:

From looking in other scripts, I *think* gf(100,0) might be reputation,

It is.

1 hour ago, Triumph said:

What I want to know is whether, after you fail the Shapers in Illya and Aziraph, you are locked out of the Shaper endgame. Will all the Shapers in Burwood and beyond automatically be hostile to you?

Yes, you can forget about heping the Infiltrators and Poryphra will be hostile. If you manage to not get the Restore Moseh quest then you can forget about Shaper Camp Gamma too.

How exactly is rebel rep being low a problem ?
From what I can see you would lose this if you go all out shaper

Apart from the mental focus charm that seems mostly trash. Low rebel rep doesn't stop you from going for the rebel ending so going full shaper or fence sitting both seem fine. Otoh going full rebel is going to lose you quite a bit more.

Yeah no. Restored Moseh and gave the notes to the shapers.