Unofficial Arcanum Patch: Bug Reporting

Just started playing again, with the latest patch, extra pack and 1024*768 mod. The following bugs persist:

- It's still possible to sleep two days after renting a room for one day (by clicking 'sleep until morning twice').

- Dialog with Mr. Plough in Tarant: after completing the objective (killing rats in his warehouse), the dialog is reset to the point it's possible to ask him for his name again, and accept the quest. The options saying the rats have already been slain appear correctly though. After accepting the quest for the second time, the dialog is ok. I'm not sure if this problem existed in the original game. I'm playing as an ugly character this time, so this may have something to do with it.

- perfume doesn't seem to work - it has the failed spell effect, but doesn't boost reaction modifiers/BE. Or was it intended to work that way ?

BTW, have the effects of charming people before talking to them for the first time been fixed ? I recall that often caused minor glitches, for example characters already knowing the player's name, before being introduced.

 

Wouldn't setting the alignment to 100 (on the spell or the object itself) solve the problem? At least for some cases ?

Another thing (BIG spoiler)

Spoiler

Reading the paper about Renford A. Terwilliger's death (found in a locked cabinet (named wood chest...) in the Hall of Records, (City Hall, Tarant) ) completes the quest to find out about him (duh. I mean before even getting it), also it initiates the quest to get the 'Horror Among the Dark Elves' book.

This should result in a different dialogue when getting the quest, or maybe a rumor entry at that point. Or simply have no effect.

Another thing I can think of is to remove the paper and spawn it upon getting the quest. Of course this might confuse a player who's already searched through the records and found nothing there.

 

How about moving perfume to the extra pack then, along with other things that require more fixing then others ? Maybe give it it an non-stackable +5 reaction effect whenever inside inventory ? Really, every little bit counts for the ugly characters.

An issue I've encountered while playing a beat with an ugly stick char is that I can raise others' reaction, then put on a smoking jacket and the jewel of hebe and suddenly everyone loves me.

The problem here is that it isn't necessarily an exploit, as often the reaction-raising dialogue options are the only ones availiable at the start of the conversation.

Also, I've found another half-broken quest - After killing the thieves in blackroot, and grabbing the loot, it suddenly becomes possible to tell the mayor you've his dagger (line number 4), and persuade him to join cumbria (lines 101, 111 I think) - without having ever spoken to him or king Preator before.

Again, in the long run this might spawn a rumor to look into the loot as it may be of value, but for now it should be limited to a dialog option when taking the quest (as in "I've already got your dagger") or simply have no effect until getting the quest.

In the same town, in the conversation with the throwing master, when asking for master training without the needed skill or even expert training, at some point one side says something about only being an expert, even though I was a throwing apprentice at the time. I'll post line numbers when I get around to bringing Arzam's Star there again (got into a bar brawl and slaughtered most of the town that time, heheh).

BTW, where can I buy a longbow ? Everywhere I look, there are normal bows/shortbows and various magickal ones. For a tech/neutral archer this is a serious pain in the ass, because the selection is quite slim otherwise.

Come to think of it, shouldn't there be a charged bow ? I realize it wasn't in the original game (no trace of it, right?), but simply following the pattern that's pretty much present for every other tech weapon, it might be worth considering for the future as a part of the extra pack.

 

There's still a problem with taking Thorvald off the isle of despair.

I picked him up on the first visit in the camp, walked around the island doing stuff, finally picked up Cynthia and got back to the ship. Upon arriving to Ashbury, before even reaching the city limit, he complained about my not taking him straight to his clan - and left.

I got no credit for saving him once I got to the Wheel Clan.

 

He did complain, but that didn't give me enough time to get him out of Ashbury. He also said he's happy to be off IoD when we arrived.

I recall visiting the maximilian's hut, the beach and the women's camp, so if the counter was ticking already on the IoD, he'd probably had complained by the time I went to pick up Cynthia. Checked by doing an extra round trip there, he acted the usual way, ie stayed cool until we got to Ashbury.

A thing I remembered, I had to make him wait (left him near the ship), so maybe this triggered something bad ?

Three minor things: that papa Schuyler guy can be dragged around. Like a corpse. He shouldn't, 'cause he's bolted to his favorite chair.

Also I'm quite certain I didn't see that elven trader in Ashbury have a long bow in stock. He's always got an "elven hunter's bow", that looks very similar.

Finally, it appears the tailor in Tarant stopped refreshing his inventory - after I robbed him a few times, he doesn't have any money in his chest anymore.

BTW, what's the deal with shopkeepers having money on them, all the time ? They used to put all of it back in their chests before going to sleep.