Arcanum:WIP 6.0 now available

You know, that's not bad. That's not bad at all.
When I learn how to make new encounters work properly, I'm going to have to try this!

*prints post*

 

Glad to be of assistance my good sir!

One of these days I'm gona have to take the finger outta me bum and start learning how to make things for the game and lend a hand

 

Fresh breeding stock - perhaps for the creation of 1/4 ogre laborers?

Just a thought.

 

Fine, don't take my suggestion :cry:

 

with all the 1/2 Ogres around you would think with all the adventureing the player does he would come across more full Ogres.

maybe even some random encounter ones.

 

Sorry, I got side-tracked with the debug and random encounters.

I don't know how how to alter protos to do what you suggested so I'll have to pass. At least for a while.

Darkform: Now that you mention it.....

Edit: 5:00 PM PDT - The Well of Lost Souls has been remodeled, almost all the bugs I can fix have been (Leahbo needs a complete rework), and if nothing new is reported in the next 12 hours, I'll start packing Version 4.2.

 

so Garbonzo being the only full Ogre spawned all the half Ogres? not counting the ones from Half-Ogre Island? maybe Drogg also he is Ogre right? or just half Ogre?

should be a few caves with Full Ogres in them holding a few human females prisoner. (Ogres like them tight apparently by the story line.)

 

Drog Black Tooth, just outside of Stillwater, is a full ogre.

 

How can you tell if they're full or not? They look the same :/

 

It'll probably say it in the window when you hover your cursor over them. Half-Ogres and Ogres use the same sprites, the same way Halflings and Gnomes do!

 

Also - the crossed clubs racial icon for ogres was restored in the Arcanum patch.

A typo on my part kept it from appearing in the 4.0 release - sorry guys.
It'll be available in the 4.2.

 

Trying to diferentiate the ogres and half-ogres would be rather troublesome...especially with new sprites and such and in the end, the only real difference iwll probably end up being in terms of stats and maybe abilities...(if you follow the differentiation they use in D&D).

Now with Garbonzzo and Drogg you could have a lot of fun and tie in with the Half-Ogre mystery by having a diary in each of their locations making reference to having been "dimisssed from the the program" for being "flawed" (i.e. Drogg being retarded and Garbonzzo having a mangled hand or something).

It's trivial really, but could be interesting.

Obviously, a pack of fully trained and armed Ogres would be DA SHIZNIT, but would probably have to be well inserted into the storyline.

As far as the Half-Ogre females being kept in captivity...that definately gives you a storyline hook where spread throughout Arcanum, would be clues as to these secret locations. The biggest problems would be, of course, what kind of graphic to use for the females.

Quite frankly, apart from making the HO sprite pink...even adding titties to it would be tricky.

 

After reading through a few of the "New PC?" threads, I think it would be possible to make a genuine Dark Elf for player use.

This bit from "How about some new PCs?" suggests that much is possible.

I have no idea how it's done at this time, but I'm adding this to the bottom of the to-do list. This idea intrigues me.

 

It looks like Waromon's race actually counts as human when he's in the party, as well as with The Worthless Mutt. It'd be both as simple and complex as having a new race that looks like a lizard man and counts as a human, with special "racial" stats that are altered through the background. Though, I don't remember Waromon being hindered in any way as far as stats go, because I wanted to test whether his stats would reach 20 in the character editor and they do, to no ill effects in the game (i.e. they weren't automatically reduced when I started playing).

 

A:WIP 4.2 is now out!

See first post.

 

Why is 4.2 smaller that 4.0? My first download I got a failed patch1 file. Would not complete installation.

 

I thought about mentioning the Well of Lost Souls a few times with it's monsters so close and the layout making it very hard to leave combat without walking all the way back out. but it looks like someone else told you about that anyways.