Hard-Arcanum problems

I have a rather odd problem with the Hard-Arcanum mod. When I get into Bessie's Mine in Shrouded Hills, something crazy happens whenever I kill a magic-immune lesser spider. As soon as I kill one (anywhere in the mines), the game thinks I just beat the Whytcheck murderer quest that takes place in Caladon (sorry, I know I butchered those names :razz: ). Basically, as soon as I kill any magic-immune spider in Bessie's Mine, I get a huge amount of XP, and the quest tab of the logbook states that I successfully solved the Whycheck murders. Also, the Blessings/Curses tab states that the citizens of Caladon love me now. This is probably one of the wackiest bugs I've ever seen in any mod.

If you need more info, then I'll provide it.

 

bug

sounds like you had a good deal out of that bug. At least now you don't have to do that quest later. it also means that when you need anything from the people in caldoon then they will be more likely to give it to ryou because you have that blessing.

Has anyone else encountered this bug? If they have they should post here and we can see if it is a bug in all copies of the game or just a random bug that turned up in zoidberg's copy.

 

I don't know about a good deal; having the quest be won for me based on a totally random action is rather cheapening. Also, it's possible that this sort of thing could happen again.

Well, we'll see if other people have this bug.

 

the bug

i can see how you might feel slightly cheated by this as it takes some of the work out of the game. i think that the quests are one of the better parts in the game and to have them taken away is not very nice.

Does this happen every time that you do what you did? or did it work just the one time that you did it?

 

I will look at it now and see what happens.

 

http://www.terra-arcanum.com/~chris/Spidererror.htm


I had this ready in an hour but terra-arcanum was down for me.

It is a patch ( 10 K) with instructions .

This error must affect 50 % of all people i believe.

 

Thanks for the update! :thumbup:

 

patch

From what i have seen of this patch i think that it looks really good. i definatly intend to download it and have a go. Does the title hard-arcanum indicate that it is in hard mode or just a random title?

you should keep up the good work. i am working on a module at the moment, would you like to be one of the testers when i have finished creating it? Post here or email me, you can find my address on my profile.
if anyone else wants to be a tester, just post here and i will post when it is finished

 

Unfortunately, it seems the spider update doesn't work. I had saved my game just before killing any spiders, so I applied the patch and fired up that game. When I kill one spider, the quest completion doesn't trigger, so that's good (but I still get the "Caladon loves you" message under the blessings tab). But when I kill ANOTHER spider, then I get credit for solving the Whytechurch murders all over again. :-(

So it seems the patch doesn't solve the problem, but rather it delays it by one spider.

I did try starting up a new game with the patch applied, but the murderer quest completion is triggered whenever I kill the first spider, so it's like the patch did nothing.

I'm sure I installed the patch correctly as well, including deleting the proto directory. Maybe I had to delete other directories too?

 

patch

is it possible that you could install the patch multiple times? perhaps that would help?

 

Maybe. I haven't had the chance to really try to get this to work, but I'll give it a go soon. I'm sure the patch itself is fine, and the problem is just something in my setup.

 

a) You also need to rename or delete your proto folder for this to work . Did you do that ?

 

Yep, I deleted the proto folder. Maybe I have to delete other directories as well?