Editable Followers

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

This feature was often requested, and as I was tinkering with the UI lately I decided to make it happen. This small hack lets you edit your followers' stats in-game, i.e. it makes the NPC character editor menu active. This lets you remove or change their autolevel scheme and distribute their character points as you see fit.

You can download the hack here. Run FollowerEditor.exe, then launch the game. Press Alt+Z to unlock followers' stats, press Alt+X to go back to normal.

I've found one issue with this, but it isn't significant. When buying skills and technological disciplines for your followers, the screen doesn't update correctly (i.e. you hear the sound, but don't see anything changing). Just click on another menu and then back, then you will see your new skills and disciplines.

Philes · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject:

Another great addon man!

Are all of these cool little patches combined into one master file somewhere, or are they seperate? I haven't checked your main UAP file recently, so this could just be a lazy question.

Would the AI governing followers with newly-found magickal abilities still be pretty crappy? I'd assume so, and I doubt that Virgil would be able to make use of, say, disintegrate, if I decided to go that route.

I would imagine this would be very, very handy for technological-orientated followers (Magnus is suddenly worth something for crafting)!
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Vorak · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

Fantastic! I've wanted this for a long time.
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papa_dog_1999 · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:46 am Post subject:

I was going to have steak for dinner, but I'll sacrifice the cow to you instead.

Great work, Drog!
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howareyou32 · Apprentice Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 11

thanks Drog.

this add on just make me exciting about our beloved Arcanum.

esfumato · Untrained Joined: 04 Jul 2009 Posts: 1

I have registered in this forum only to thank you for this hack. It was a long search through internet to find it.

I will add some words to make this site appear in the results of google.

arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura
disable auto-leveling schemes
turn off auto-leveling schemes
modification

reverendjerry · Untrained Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

This link appears to be dead. Is it available somewhere else?

TheDavisChanger · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

Its creator has abandoned this community and deleted some of his contributions. Check back soon and another senior member may be able to recover it.
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reverendjerry · Untrained Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

Sounds like a nasty break-up. Thanks for the response though. Does anyone have a copy they can e-mail me?

Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

How could I have not noticed this?

Anyway the file can be found here: http://www.bn13.com/bbs/job.php?action=download&pid=tpc&tid=54134&aid=20589

Problem is you have to register, and it's in Chinese (I believe), and Google won't translate the register page properly, so I can't seem to complete the register process.
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Muro · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject:

It's magic!

Nonetheless, of all the places in the world, the file couldn't have ended up in a better one.
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Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

Try going to the next step.
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Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

Anyway, sorry for double posting, what are you going to do about it? Huh?

I did however get through, and the file can now be found here:
http://nmb.no/FollowerEditor.zip
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reverendjerry · Untrained Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 4

Many thanks, all. And speedy too!

Muro · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

You're welcome, reverend.

@Muro: Apparently the username had to be in Chinese.
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Muro · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

I tried that (copied some random text from the page, so my username was most propably Comfirm password or something of that nature), but it didn't work, if I'm not mistaken. I though to myself "Hm, maybe the e-mail has to be in Chinese* as well?" which made me come to a conclusion that the fun is not worth the effort anymore.

* Had it though?
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Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

Mine wasn't.
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flyingmonkey · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 17

Just wondering if any of you guys have had a chance to try this out? For example I'm wondering how dynamic the follower's AI's are once you've messed around with their character point allocation. For instance, would Virgil break if I made him go tech instead of taking any spells? Would he use Quench Life or summon demons if I picked some different schools for him? Could I make Magnus go all out firearms instead of melee and have a good ranged guy in my party?

Obviously I don't expect specific answers to any of the above questions but I hope you see what I'm trying to get at.

--edited cause I can't spell

Gjerdev Ankarus · Master Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 116

@FlyingMonkey
Ah, feel free to correct me, but I'm rather certain that the AI is generated from a single engine based on stat/skill balance, as opposed to specific follower AI scripts, and a few more general NPC ones.

However, I am equally inclined to believe that there ARE a few unique AIs. Naturally, I think of Kerghan and other "bosses", as well as certain enemies in the game with lots of unusual non-PC spells and abilities.

rroyo · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:13 am Post subject:

oni5115 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 21

Can anyone post a new link to the file? The one from Aurdal is giving me a 404.

This would be the perfect way to save my game, as I decided to try and make my own auto leveling schemes and POOF, they all now have about 5 points to spend. I looked at it for the first time and was like... ahhh crap... now I gotta Arc Edit all of them, EVERY LEVEL... *shudder*

I have no idea why they aren't leveling up right, but this seems like a much better way to handle things anyways.

rroyo · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:24 pm Post subject:

Here ya go:

http://sharebee.com/df89005c

Hey Bob, would you please add this to the Arcanum Hacks so it doesn't get lost?
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oni5115 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 21

Much Appreciated!

moonlight · Expert Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 52 Location: in tulla

thanks rroyo.