Weird Bugs

[Geneforgeisformeyukkyu]

After playing for a while, at one location, attempting to open doors lead to my opening of my inventory. This issue was fixed with the backtoavadon cheat.

 

However, another problem was that the junk bag was full of "unused" dagger. I could not use the junk bag at all, except to withdraw the unused daggers or permanently decide to place my items into the bag.

 

Edit:

New bug - I cannot drop any items onto the ground anymore and get the message "can't drop anymore items here ( store some items in a different area.)"

 

Now that I open chests or coffins, I see no items even if I hadn't explored it beforehand. This now applies to every chest I open ;-;. Either it is me or every time I save, a little bit of the data becomes corrupted.

 

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The above occurred in the Dhorla Woods in the Crypt

 

Reinstalling does not help. Oh well, just started a new game, wasn't that far anyways.

[AaronC]

I've had a couple. One that doesn't go away is sometimes I get stuck with the message "Use Ability before you do that" but no ability is queued. Ususally going into combat then out gets rid of it, but sometimes it even happens during combat.

 

Also, twice got stuck in a loop of combat ending and beginning. Vanvelle? (the hunter who takes you on a spider killing tour in beraza woods I think) got stuck on the last thicket to clear and just kept going in and out of combat, had to enter a building and come back to reset her.

[Randomizer]

Ability bugs occur when you try to use an ability when the game isn't ready to take the command. Something is still being done like a spell effect graphic.

[Øther]

I once saw an enemy do that. They used an ability, and then I guess REALLY wanted to use a second one.

[Dikiyoba]

I've discovered that selling items in your junk bag sometimes deletes most of the worthless items in it and sometimes doesn't.

 

There could be more to it than that, but Dikiyoba hasn't experimented enough to figure out what.

[Randomizer]

I've seen it too, but though that it was just worthless items remained.

[yarrmateys]

yeah, i had the junk bag problem too. most of the stuff is sold, but some persistently stayed, like the bricks you get from the brick spawner item. i had to throw them out one by one and litter the floor with them.

 

also another, though very minor graphical one i noticed was that if you hold shift to see the names while your characters are off screen, the "roster" image will turn all green, or sometimes purple for no reason.

[Tcheedchee]

Another one:

Not sure, if it's a bug. It comes with one of the scarabs. The scarab offers the ability "group mental cure", but the ability doesn't show up in the ability pane. I've checked all the health ability icons as well. There is one that offers cure of 1 curse effect, but none that cures mental effects.

Bug or misinterpretation?

[A less presumptuous name.]

Originally Posted By: yarrmateys

yeah, i had the junk bag problem too. most of the stuff is sold, but some persistently stayed, like the bricks you get from the brick spawner item. i had to throw them out one by one and litter the floor with them.

+1. I've found that, in general, items with no sell value aren't sold through the junk bag, with a few possible exceptions.

Originally Posted By: yarrmateys

[A]lso another, though very minor graphical one i noticed was that if you hold shift to see the names while your characters are off screen, the "roster" image will turn all green, or sometimes purple for no reason.

I too have this coloring issue. Are you by any chance using an older Apple computer. Jeff has mentioned that this is linked to PPC machines.

Originally Posted By: Tcheedchee

Another one:
Not sure, if it's a bug. It comes with one of the scarabs. The scarab offers the ability "group mental cure", but the ability doesn't show up in the ability pane. I've checked all the health ability icons as well. There is one that offers cure of 1 curse effect, but none that cures mental effects.
Bug or misinterpretation?

All new abilities gained by scarabs should show up on the bottom row of the abilities panel. I never had any issues with that. Are you looking in the abilities panel and not the training screen?

[A less presumptuous name.]

Sorry for the double post, I didn't see this and I'm too lazy to put a quote into an edit.

 

Originally Posted By: Geneforgeisformeyukkyu

Edit:

New bug - I cannot drop any items onto the ground anymore and get the message "can't drop anymore items here ( store some items in a different area.)"

 

Now that I open chests or coffins, I see no items even if I hadn't explored it beforehand. This now applies to every chest I open ;-;. Either it is me or every time I save, a little bit of the data becomes corrupted.

 

I know similar issues have been encountered in earlier games. There seems to some limit on the number of items that can exist in a given zone. If you drop too many daggers and other useless things in an area, it will mess up the game and cause other items in the zone to poof.

[capnkaroo]

BUG: After a battle ends (by pressing F), the camera can no longer be centered over the first character by hitting 1.

[yarrmateys]

Quote:

I too have this coloring issue. Are you by any chance using an older Apple computer. Jeff has mentioned that this is linked to PPC machines.

nope. a 32 bit windows xp.

[Tcheedchee]

Originally Posted By: Master1

All new abilities gained by scarabs should show up on the bottom row of the abilities panel. I never had any issues with that. Are you looking in the abilities panel and not the training screen?

Well, yeah, I did look at the abilities panel.
I talk about THE ONE and only ability panel, which you get, when you type 'a' (for abilities ) during combat. Or which you use to reset your quick spell bars.
Why shouldn't there be a bug, which you havn't encountered?

Anyway, any advice how to get the scarab to function?

[Soul of Wit]

The abilities gained from a scarab are in the bottom row of the abilities panel and sometimes appear as grayed-out icons for me. They do show text when I hover over them (and function as expected.)

 

The only problem that I can think of is not installing them in the Scarab section of the inventory. They have no effect in regular inventory.

[Tcheedchee]

Well, I also did install the scarab in the scarab slot.

But yes, there is one grayed-out icon in the scarab section of the ability panel. And that describes at least the ability I've been missing, although not in the right amount.

The scarab I'm talking about is the Opaline Scarab

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Ability Group Mental Cure, 2 mental effects

In the grayed out Scarab-abilities-icon (u) I find only

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cure of ONE mental effect

but it's close. I'd accept it as the icon for the opaline scarab, if I could only use it...

Still: IF my character can equip the Opaline Scarab, and it doesn't show any red warning about missing abilities or class restrictions, why can't my char use it?

I did some testing, because I started to think, that the malfunction might have to do with the specialisations tree, but I wasn't successful in proving that. I switched the scrab to all other chars, but it doesn't change much. They can't use it either. It doesn't seem that there exists a classrestriction.

[A less presumptuous name.]

Originally Posted By: Tcheedchee

Originally Posted By: Master1

All new abilities gained by scarabs should show up on the bottom row of the abilities panel. I never had any issues with that. Are you looking in the abilities panel and not the training screen?

Well, yeah, I did look at the abilities panel.
I talk about THE ONE and only ability panel, which you get, when you type 'a' (for abilities ) during combat. Or which you use to reset your quick spell bars.
Why shouldn't there be a bug, which you havn't encountered?

Um... sorry? I was trying to be helpful; there is no reason to get snippy.

[Soul of Wit]

Originally Posted By: Tcheedchee

Well, I also did install the scarab in the scarab slot.
But yes, there is one grayed-out icon in the scarab section of the ability panel. And that describes at least the ability I've been missing, although not in the right amount.
The scarab I'm talking about is the Opaline Scarab

Click to reveal..

Ability Group Mental Cure, 2 mental effects

In the grayed out Scarab-abilities-icon (u) I find only

Click to reveal..

cure of ONE mental effect

but it's close. I'd accept it as the icon for the opaline scarab, if I could only use it...
Still: IF my character can equip the Opaline Scarab, and it doesn't show any red warning about missing abilities or class restrictions, why can't my char use it?
I did some testing, because I started to think, that the malfunction might have to do with the specialisations tree, but I wasn't successful in proving that. I switched the scrab to all other chars, but it doesn't change much. They can't use it either. It doesn't seem that there exists a classrestriction.

I did notice the discrepancy between the text on the scarab and the text in the ability screen. I've never actually tested to see which applies in actual use.

As far as I have noticed, all scarabs work as soon as installed and have no restrictions of any kind. Some group abilities require you to be near the "healee". I'm not sure if that is the issue you're having?

[Randomizer]

Healing area effect scarabs have a range. I'm not sure what it is but I've had a few times where a character was out of range.

[Micawber]

Except that apparently the scarab icon is always grayed out for Tcheedchee.

 

Which does sound like a bug, except that no one else is able to reproduce it.

 

In my game I had the opaline scarab in one of my slots and was able to use it several times without any problems. (Pesky monsters... always charming my fighters... grrr)

[Soul of Wit]

Originally Posted By: Micawber

Except that apparently the scarab icon is always grayed out for Tcheedchee.

Which does sound like a bug, except that no one else is able to reproduce it.

In my game I had the opaline scarab in one of my slots and was able to use it several times without any problems. (Pesky monsters... always charming my fighters... grrr)

It's grayed out for me, too. It also works.

[Tcheedchee]

Originally Posted By: Randomizer

Healing area effect scarabs have a range. I'm not sure what it is but I've had a few times where a character was out of range.

I have my doubts about that, because on misjudgement of ranges other effects are simply just wasted. For example the war chant. Chars out of range just don't get it.

@Soul of Wit:
Thanks for checking.
Do you mean it's grayed out for you too, but the curing does work despite of that?

(I'd really like to have that mental cure-spell.)

[Soul of Wit]

Originally Posted By: Tcheedchee

@Soul of Wit:
Thanks for checking.
Do you mean it's grayed out for you too, but the curing does work despite of that?

(I'd really like to have that mental cure-spell.)

Yes, the spell does work. I know that it has removed at least one effect.

[Marak]

The weird bug I keep encountering is having a pet out, going up a flight of stairs, and immediately going into combat mode because of some nearby enemy.

 

In this case, my Pet is still stuck on the previous floor. When its turn comes up, I can't move it (no matter where I click I get the 'Character cannot reach that space' error) and it can't attack (I get the 'Character cannot target opponent it can't see' error).

 

I actually ended up having to use consumables that I wouldn't normally have to expend because I was "missing" my Meat Shield and was unable to summon a new one ('you cannot summon a new Pet with one already active' error) for several rounds.

[madrigan]

Originally Posted By: Soul of Wit

It's grayed out for me, too. It also works.

This happens for me also.

[Skwish-E]

I never tried to use the greyed out ability from a scarab. Now I must quit work early to go home and try... l8r!

[Tcheedchee]

Yeah, it really works, – even though the icon is grayed out…

[Jerakeen]

I think Jeff didn't have icon graphics ready for all of the abilities, so some of the scarab abilities just use that generic sword icon. It always looks grayed out, but it doesn't appear at all if you don't have the ability.

[Geneforgeisformeyukkyu]

After a certain amount of saves in only one slot, the game data tends to become corrupt.

 

It seems that in the WW when fighting the boss and his shaman, I found that I couldn't read the info on my items, and that the monsters did not attack me until I initiated combat mode first.

 

At least I get to explore a lot of places and loot the items

[Superba]

Just a small thing: Shaman Unni and Lady Anja wants the same thing, I gave the item to Unni before asking Anja, but I got the quest from Anja anyway when I talked to her, and the quest is still there. Is it possible to fix this?

[Randomizer]

You can talk to both and whichever one doesn't get the totem yells at you before removing the quest from the list as completed.

[Superba]

Yeah, I know this :-) The rage of Anja is fun.

I made the quest(s) with different parties and in different dialogue ways, but still the quest sticks when Anja gives it after it's completed with Unni. It's not important, just a suggestion, but maybe the dialogue could be setted to avoid reporting the "double quest" when one of the two is completed.