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Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:27 am
by GuJiaXian
Cool, thanks. The Pentagram team might want to fix/update the link on their download page, as it's currently broken. Also, is there anywhere I can get a general consensus on the overall stability and "playability" of the program?
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:57 am
by Malignant Manor
I tried a year or so ago and it was stable as in not crashing or locking up but quite often the Avatar stopped being able to move in game requiring you to reload the save game. There were serious game breaking bugs like taking a ton of tries just to get through the beheading. I'm not sure if it's much better now. Just try it and you should know pretty fast if some of these issues were fixed.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:52 am
by alagner
I played it quite recently [ca. month ago] and was able to complete the game rather painlessly, except maybe for seldom, mentioned above "locking" of Avatar in the ground [but seldom enough to call it minor bug if you save often] and broken cutscenes - eg. during the fight between Devon and Mordea I saw only water below the docks and words the characters were saying. Same with Zaelan shield before Khumas-Gor, where I couldn't see statues speak, only their statements and cave's roof were visible.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:53 am
by Watt
Pentagram changelog link fixed - sorry about that - forgot the link existed.
I'm considering writing news post soon about changes to the build process for Mac (which is what I've been mucking about with recently).
Not sure about other site updates yet.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:52 am
by wjp
Please file bug reports on Pentagram's bug tracker if you run into any bugs. Even though we're hopelessly slow with website updates, we are still fixing bugs fairly quickly after they are reported.
Regarding getting stuck: did you accidentally hit 's'? That freezes/unfreezes the avatar.
Regarding roofs getting in the way of cutscenes: I may have broken that two months ago when fixing a similar issue in the cutscene that happens when Mordea catches you stealing things. I've filed this as bug #2104283 at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=471706
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:28 am
by Malignant Manor
Regarding getting stuck: did you accidentally hit 's'? That freezes/unfreezes the avatar.
I think it would be better to change the default "freeze Avatar" key to something harder to hit by mistake (like requiring an additional key). That could have been my problem a long time ago. A feedback message would be nice if it doesn't exist like "Activating Avatar freeze cheat".
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:35 pm
by wjp
Yes, that's not a bad idea. I've moved it to F10.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:17 pm
by Malignant Manor
It wasn't the stasis mode causing the problem. The Avatar failing to move is still present (just downloaded the game). Pressing that key will not unfreeze him when this bug triggers. It seems like a pathfinding error with the Avatar based on the output. I can trigger it by just running around. I posted output on bug tracker.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:02 pm
by Malignant Manor
Saving the game and reloading seems to be a workaround to the bug.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:20 pm
by alagner
Not necessarily, tried that earlier and it didn't work for me at all, but I can check it again when I have time [ =I'm done with U5Lazarus and finish my holiday job, so in a couple of days I suppose ]
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:35 am
by wjp
If saving and reloading doesn't 'unstick' you, could you please send me a savegame in which you're stuck?
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 5:54 am
by Phebe
Super Mario stuff...I did it before getting the patch add ons! I made it anyway.
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 6:24 am
by Knight Captain
I miss Minho and his Oink! thread bumps.
I never liked U8 because it didn't have a party system and the font used was just sad. Are there any things you all liked about it?
Re: OT: Ultima 8 causes much sorrow
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:15 am
by Dominus
Please... necroposting in threads that have not been posted to in 9 years is bad. Necroposting in that old *OT* threads is worse...
*Thread closed*