Nitpicks from 2022 Playthough

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:07 am

Since Exult 1.8 is out, and I have a bit more free time, I'm playing through Serpent Isle + Silver Seed again using my latest alpha of my mod.

Items in containers still seem to move around a bit. For example, if I take an item out of a container, the remaining ones sometimes shift.

The crystal ball vision of Cantra vs. Batlin shows her using a purple spell and then nothing, while Batlin's does not run out. I think this is due to her NPC there being given a bunch of spells but no container like a bag to hold them.

Nitpicks:
Why is the door after the wolf in the Knight's Test made of wood, when all of the others are metal?
Shouldn't magic boots also provide poison protection?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:12 am

Shamino's interjection post-poisoning should go away once Harnna tells you to get Varo leaves. It's kind of annoying after a few times.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:30 am

Why does Kylista notice your tattoo but completely fails to notice if you or anyone in your party is wearing her ceremonial armor?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:07 am

The "ridiculous fur cap" is still described as such even after Cellia tells you it is likely Frigidazzi's.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:10 am

With a female Avatar, the Fawn bar keeper has the same response to showing either stockings to him. He assumes they are the Avatar's. (I'm testing adding this subplot of who Shmed slept with.)

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:17 am

Delin mentions not having a supply wagon delivery in a score of days, but there are no wagons visible in SI.

You cannot ask Delin about his missing money, even after the bar keeper sends you to him.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:30 am

Olon tells you that the isle of glowing cats is Delphynia's favorite tale, but I don't think you can ask her about it.

When leaving the Fawn inn after waking up there post-capture, the bar keeper asks if you are checking out when you leave. But since he won't talk to you otherwise, you don't get a place to sleep again until the trial is over.

The bug with fish swimming up onto the tiles in Fawn is back. I think it had been fixed by doing a frame check before?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:40 am

Joth mentions Olon's ship was swapped with a grain wagon. In keeping with the story that his mind is out at sea, he doesn't notice or care about the blasphemy trial and will talk to you normally.

Talking to Joth doesn't seem to set the MET flag on him.

At the Fawn Trial, the party's weapons in hand should be put away before entering the courtroom.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:56 am

And I'm stuck there, I think because of the stackUnderflowFawnTrial 0x939 usecode. I'm test playing my mod, and something I've done causes the Fawn Trial to hang forever on bringing in the defendant .

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:15 am

Great to see you back nitpicking

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:11 am

Delphynia's usecode does not mention any isle of cats.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:20 am

It's been some time since I've played the game in DOSbox, but I seem to remember that NPCs on PACE will bump into each other and then turn the other way. Edit: Checked in DOSbox, I'm wrong.

New Exult bug, seems I cannot attack a door to break it down. Double-clicking while in Combat mode just treats the door like a regular non-combat double-click.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:26 am

The Monitor Banquet also needs to have the weapons put away. And maybe have the party set to wander instead of stand at attention like automatons.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:27 am

I was able to get to do the crystal ball vision at Harnna's before she makes her dramatic entry into the Banquet. Possibly another bug on my end.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:38 am

Spektor telling you the filari are from Fawn does not update the item list.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:04 am

Devra waitresses but never places anything. Maybe the tables are wrong for the waitressing? Shapes 890 and 633. Or plates must be pre-placed?

Flindo sits in a room with no table, gets no service.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:17 am

Changelog indicates the plates should be getting placed, but I don't see where the specific INTs for the table shapes are set. Placing plates via ES allows Devra to feed her guests.

2003-11-01 <jeff [at] mini.nerble.net>

* schedule.cc (Waiter_schedule): Create plates if needed.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:21 am

The southwest red chair in Sleeping Bull is too far from the table for the NPC seated to be fed. It needs to be over to the east slightly.

The north one at the same table also needs to be moved east to center it.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:57 am

Selina's stats hide her mage skills, low Intelligence, no magic nor mana.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:04 am

At the Mint Ambush, the note from Batlin on one of the attackers directs the attackers to ignore the companions and aim for the Avatar alone. It's not clear if they actually do this.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:09 am

Why are the pikemen at Sleeping Bull tower so undisciplined? They just wander around like there are no Goblins in the world.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:35 am

In both BG and SI, gems are half a stone each. That seems excessive when a gold bar is a full stone, but a spindle of thread is double that. Some of these items might need some reweighing.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:42 am

Looks like the Waiter schedule is also broken in Moonshade. Petra does not place plates as expected.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:52 am

For the "fish-net stockings", Bucia notes she used to order them for Selenia, and to talk to Julia. Julia refers to her as Celennia.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:04 pm

Whatever usecode error I made also makes the Phoenix cutscene fail after the sliding door sinks down. No flames come out.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:22 pm

Impressively, I've managed to break the turn-on of small lights.

I've noticed that the SLEEP function of NPCs does not perfectly work. All of the sleeping people in the Moonshade Blue Boar Inn are asleep entire inside the made beds. When Julia is awoken by your nighttime visit to her bedroom, her standing shape is on the outside of the tower, to the left.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:02 pm

Where do I report bugs now? The bug thread does not list it.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:14 pm

Speaking of the WAITER function, I think the EAT is also a bit broken, the NPCs won't place food in front of themselves if there is no plate. I added plates to the Rangers dining room for this.

Exult bug: In the cheat menu -> npcs -> business activity, the 3rd line from the top doesn't clear the text so you get letters overlaid on letters.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:30 pm

With Boydon in the party, the seating at the Moonshade trial is overpacked.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:33 pm

Frigidazzi's conversation tree is somewhat limited. You cannot ask about the fur hat nor the fishnet stockings, nor find out what exactly caused the breakdown of her relationship with Celennia / Selenia / Selena related to Batlin.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:35 pm

There's a few missed capitalizations of "she" in the Moonshade trial. Both Bucia and Flindo.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:26 pm

Skeletal dragons have a blue ball of magic that is just crying out for a new spell shape to attack with.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:28 pm

I found a place where I can recreate the shifting items in a chest. The chest after that skeletal dragon in Freedom has a skull-shaped skull and a bag in it. If they are the only two items moving one shifts the other.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:37 pm

It is possible to use a fresh diaper on the dead baby in the Mountains of Freedom to make a dirty diaper.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:42 pm

The ice troll chamber in Freedom does not have the eggs for the Avatar's temperature.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:47 pm

Locked chest shape 522, frame 2, quality 129, does not work with lockpicks, but instead of giving the message like that of a non-lockpickable door, just eats lock picks endlessly. This is in the Freedom puzzle area, the key needed is on the nightmare woman.

Edit: Seems to be normal behavior.

Post by **Dominus** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:01 pm

Bugs go into the issue tracker at github https://github.com/exult/exult/issues

BUT YOU NEED TO STOP FINDING MORE!!!

Seriously for usecode bugs we could use another tracker

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:35 pm

Couldst thou add that to thy bug post?

What is the point of the key on the last Freedom automaton guard? Doesn't seem to have a matching door or chest.

Post by **Dominus** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:29 pm

you can try if you find a chest or door with that quality... (in ES select a shape and hit locate and enter quality) (edited the bug post)

Gotcha! · Post by **Gotcha!** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:08 pm

Knight Captain wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:37 pm
It is possible to use a fresh diaper on the dead baby in the Mountains of Freedom to make a dirty diaper.

Hey, that's my dirty diaper machine. Don't fix that.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:23 am

Why does Create Food do that for each party member who eats (not automatons), but Create Ammo only makes arrows at the Avatar's feet?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:23 am

Shouldn't double-clicking an open gump cause it to flash?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:41 am

Found a game-hanging bug, killed off some of the dark monks to the northwest of the Knight's Test. One of the dark female monks fell over in the death motion but stalled and didn't hit the ground. Her death flag is not set, and I can open gumps, but otherwise the game is stalled.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:45 am

Saving and reloading apparently fixed it. The dark female monk was still alive, so it was not her death that was the problem. Perhaps on the male monks?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:55 am

Simon's tale about escorting his new bride out of town alone and her being killed by goblins makes it sound like an ambush. How vile. I wonder if he ate her?

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:01 am

When encountering goblins with multiple spears, they do not throw them from a distance like they should. They should keep the last weapon however.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:55 am

With a Level 6 Avatar, I'm able to cast Seventh Circle spells in SI.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:02 am

Ensorcio mentions Silverpate tried to trick Erstam, and so Erstam put him in a pit with daemons. But you cannot ask Erstam about this nor his apprentice Vasculio.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:10 am

Argus' conversation tree has at least one grammatical error "It like" and completely ignores all the changes, like Hawk having sailed, or Kane and Ale gone, etc.

Knight Captain · Post by **Knight Captain** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 2:55 pm

Garth is stuck in WAIT post-trial.