Hello there. Are you still planing to release this mod? If so, when?

give him some time. he only recently announced (in Novemeber) his harddrive problems and has likely spent most of his free time since trying to recover as much of his info as possible. As has been said before, when he has something new to tell us, he'll post it in the update section. Let him know we're still eagerly looking forward to this mod, but let's not harp on the poor guy.

Just to update the falastra crash, so long as i don't ask the history of saltmarsh questions and for a room in the inn within the same dialogue, it seems fine. Only when i asked about saltmarsh then for her services did it crash.

A couple more mistmoor items, is Narcissa supposed to be joinable yet? She won't talk to me in the inn, so wasn't sure if she's meant to do anything yet or if she's placed but still in progress.

Should falastra still be willing to join me when mistmoor is completed? i thought she was being changed back to only bring joinable later on in MD? Was just curious about that.

As mentioned, Fala'stra dialog will be fixed in next version. She is joinable after the Mistmoor quest is done. You have to have a high Charisma for this dialog though.

Narcissa should talk to you anytime after you finish talking to Ril. He doesn't need to be in the party but so far I have only tested with him in it. I'll try the other way next.

i think it was perhaps only 1 specific ghast doing the "drinks a potion" error, because it didn't last through the whole crypt area, it stopped after an early battle. i'm not sure where now though. i'll try to find a save before i went down there and try it again, see if i can repeat the error and pick out if it is 1 particular ghast, when it ended.

i didn't have Ril in my group, and Narcissa had nothing to say to me on every visit to the inn, including just after Ril first drafted me to help him. i'm playing a Cavalier, and had a higher rep, not sure it's exact level, but no rep problem.

Just to update the falastra crash, so long as i don't ask the history of saltmarsh questions and for a room in the inn within the same dialogue, it seems fine. Only when i asked about saltmarsh then for her services did it crash.

A couple more mistmoor items, is Narcissa supposed to be joinable yet? She won't talk to me in the inn, so wasn't sure if she's meant to do anything yet or if she's placed but still in progress.

Should falastra still be willing to join me when mistmoor is completed? i thought she was being changed back to only bring joinable later on in MD? Was just curious about that.

A few more bugs, possibly spoiler-ish.

first 2 bugs i found in .50-

in the saltmarsh graveyard tombs I was getting the "ghast quaffs a potion" error.

And bigger to me, the game crashes in mistmoor when i ask falastra the normal "about mistmoor" questions, get all that info, and then ask to see her services. I'll try again today and test more, see if i can succeed so long as i do different options, like rest first or break the talk after getting info then come back to get a room.

A few more bugs. i'll put the spoiler over them because i'm not totally sure if anything here would be a spoiler or not, so just in case...
* i had to manually put in the spoiler tags, the forum was giving some kind of error, hope i did it correctly

Bergon's script has some invalid checks for Icar. Not sure if this would matter if Icar isn't in the party or not. However, I went ahead and fixed it. Also, Narcissa should talk to you after you finish with Rilithar. I have this now fixed as well. She also needed some dialog corrections. I didn't include those because you need to recompile and that requires reinstalling or using DLTCEP. But this should work for you.

Just place both in your override folder.

yes, Icar was in my group in piney bluff. i had PC, shadow, icar, rurik, dirbert, and terra for that game.

Do i need to start new games to take advantage of these updates, or is it good enough to use a save game from before entering piney bluff for bergon or mistmoor for narcissa? i'll load the files up and try from saves before i loaded those area maps i guess, and if that doesn't work i'll start a new game.

Thanks!

Agnar, it must be a bug. This happened before but I got it working. I guess the bug came back. This area is also having problems when returning from Myth Drannor, so the two may be related.

i have a save game if you feel it'd be helpful/needed, or if there's anything you'd like me to try differently from a save game before finishing the ghost tower. Anything that might help, let me know! For the moment i put my playing on hold. i do still need to return to my prior game where i got to westgate and test if i can get to, and inside, the old temple without crashes, so i'll do that and see if that was a 1 time issue or a constant thing.

If you can upload your saved game that would be great. Thank you so much! BTW did you recruit any of the new NPC7s like Bergon or Narissa?

i've started/played 2 different games so far in .50, in the first i went via the lizardmen/mistmoor route, didn't have rilithar in the group and Narcissa had nothing to say to me. This first game i got all the way to westgate before getting crashes when i tried to move onto the temple, so i put that game on hold.

The 2nd game i went to piney bluff, but never got any hint of a bergon joining me option, but i had wanted to try out both new npc's. So not sure what happened there. The 2nd game i played to the end of the ghost tower then got stuck on the selgaunt bridge with no options off.

i'll try to zip and attach both games. Hope they'll be helpful and that i did it correctly for what you guys need, just zipped up the whole save directory.

i installed no mods, only the the game and the patch, then CA .50

Terra has no druid shape change abilities. Under her special abilities thing it's totally empty.

priestess joy/benthic quest is still broken. joy still jumps right from not done to already totally resolved, once i talk to benthic, without my ever getting to tell her what happened or give her the gold.

What causes Bergon to be joinable? certain rep level? Bergon seems to think i didn't finish the gauntlet quest, but he gave me the reward for it.

In the ghost tower outside area - ogre mage quaffs a potion error.

A sword spider outside can cast web spell on invisible characters, and cast them all the way across the screen.

skeleton warriors inside the tower are casting spells on invisible characters.

in ghost tower, could only get 2 of 3 gems on first level. lesser air elemental didn't drop a gem and level was totally cleared.

After I cheated in 3rd portal stone to go to 2nd level. some of the mephits on 2nd level don't go hostile, they stay neutral until force attacked.

Terra/Dirbert frolicking in the wilderness dialogue happens at least twice.

i believe i was chaotic neutral that game, so not evil, just not overly attached to any particular way of doing things. i donated at the temple of umberlee, so not exactly lathandarites there... And even evil i want my rep at least average because the game is tilted, by engine, toward things like high prices and guards harrassing you if your rep is too low. When i donated, i had already lost the 5 points (or whatever that encounter costs) so i was sitting at 6 or below, don't recall exactly where.

Had you actually donated money to Cath at the beginning(in the Palace of the Silver Princess) and not fight against him, you would have gotten a guest to destroy the Temple of Umberlee... Lathanderite!

i'd never played with cath in my party before so i didn't know what other encounters might be coming. i didn't want to suddenly find myself with a rep of 2 or something, so i donated enough to get from a 6 or so up to a 10 or 12.

So that's a 400(6->7)+200(7->+300(8->9)+400(9->10)=minimum of 1300 gold pieces=1300/22GP per chain mail top sell price=59.1 chain mailed guardians. That's a lot of metal. And far worse is if you go to 12 cause the it's costs you extra of 1200 gold pieces more, so there. The costs are taken from my the reputati.2da...

yes, i know i can get that quest from cath, i just went a new way this time. But despite cath's wanting to destroy the temple, the umberlee followers aren't exactly nice folks. They're just a bit less nasty than banite or shar or bhaal followers, at least in BG-world.

As to the cost, i probably didn't go above 11, i wasn't trying to get a great rep, just good enough to shield against any possible future FF merc-type encounters that would cause an auotmatic rep drop. And if i'm just selling chainmail, yeah, that'd be alot of chainmail. Of course, i sold a bunch more than that and i think i was down at 4 or 5. i think i did the haunted house before, so selling the gold stuff and the silver princess artifacts to the book merchant brought in plenty to do the donations.

The Mistmoor rewards has been a constant battle for me. It doesn't help any that we keep adding and removing NPCs from the game (a poke at Leahnkain here).

In the new version 0.49a, I have run through several teams and am getting positive results. However, I did forget to include Terra. Hmmm, she doesn't summon into MD either. Interesting. BTW, she has a soundset now. Yea!

Rurik's dialog now fixed. Rilithar...have to put on hold. The rep issue is a stinker. I guess as long as he follows the party, the bad rep won't hurt him. It does ruin the idea that a paladin would never hire a bunch of lowlifes but that also eliminates your chance of doing this quest and therefore can't do the Myth Drannor quest either. That would make your party much lower in XP than others and would make the slaver mods much harder. However, you can't claim it as my fault if the slaver mods are that much harder, it is your fault for the low rep. Consider it a consequence in life... We'll have to think about the best option for that one.

Well it would seem like one solution (for future releases of course) would be to have another quest/series of quests that are only available if you dont take the mistmoor path, like the prior choice between the gauntlet and lizardmen choice. i know any other quests, like the giants, are still awhile away probably, but you could always hold the reputation thing as a fix to be added once that other quest is available. So maybe you can get to mistmoor but if the rep is too low, rilithar decides not to ask for your help but the other quest becomes available. Falastra or someone else in the bar/inn might mention something more suited to someone of "your low reputation".

i figured the mistmoor quest rewards thing had been a headache, so many different party combos and each person getting thier own interaction, it's got to be easy to make some tiny error in all that code. Glad it seems to be working now, look forward to that!

Really seems odd i'm the only one to get to a 20 rep so far, i think i just donated my way from disliked back up to average or something, after losing 6 points in that cath encounter with the FF mercs. i think i was sitting around 10 or 12, lost 6, then donated it back to around 10 or 11. After that i was just playing through, and didn't notice my rep getting so high. Actually it's a bit amusing having guys leave because i'm too good then asking why i dumped them. hehe. i'll just need to keep a closer eye on my rep for now.

Solar's Harper had that earlier, and he too made too many donations... and from 10 to 12, you'll loose only 5 points, as I did too-oo-oo. Now why in the Unheaven would you wish to donate if you are evil?

i believe i was chaotic neutral that game, so not evil, just not overly attached to any particular way of doing things. i donated at the temple of umberlee, so not exactly lathandarites there... And even evil i want my rep at least average because the game is tilted, by engine, toward things like high prices and guards harrassing you if your rep is too low. When i donated, i had already lost the 5 points (or whatever that encounter costs) so i was sitting at 6 or below, don't recall exactly where.

i'd never played with cath in my party before so i didn't know what other encounters might be coming. i didn't want to suddenly find myself with a rep of 2 or something, so i donated enough to get from a 6 or so up to a 10 or 12. Not goody-two-shoes, but not going to draw the ire of the goody-goods either. i only did it the once in saltmarsh. And how i got from there to a 20 is beyond me.

But really, look at how Althon is in the game, the guy is definitely evil now. But he doesn't walk about slaughtering everything he sees, doesn't recommend us killing slaves we come across, evne if, in his heart he'd like to kill them. Being "evil" or just "not terribly nice" doesn't mean being a ravening lunatic killing all you see. An evil guy can do stuff that might seem good, like freeing a bunch of slaves. But his purpose might be not nice, like hoping the escaping slaves will keep the slaver guards busy and off his back while he does what he needs to do. But in the game you can get a rep point, no matter your true roleplaying motives. Really, what's 100, or 500 gold, when we're buying stuff costing thousands in the game, if it causes my enemy some headaches?

There are problems with reputation and reaction to it. My party reached a 20 rep with althon and cathmandrus in it. right away cath leaves the group, then initiates his "why'd you kick me out, should i rejoin" dialogue, and will keep leaving, rejoining, leaving unless your rep drops magically. Althon does the same if i distract cath long enough with casting a healing spell or something. The leaving at 20 rep is understandable, but i wasn't getting any outright complaints from them that i noticed as the rep neared that level. and they didnt say "i'm leaving because you're a bunch of heroic pantywaists" they just left, then asked me why *I* kicked them out. The only way i stopped it was to shadowkeeper my rep down to 13 or so and then they stayed in the party without issue. So the leaving dialogue for too high a rep seems broken.

It isn't broke. It doesn't exist.

I haven't gotten around to it yet. Interesting results though. Even playing a paladin I haven't gotten my rep up that high to trigger this. I guess your donations helped get you there faster than me.

Either the wand of the heavens or dirbert and paraway are screwed up i think. archers and rangers should be able to use wand of heavens but dirbert and paraway cannot.

The wand is screwed. According to the usability, Rangers can't use it. Clerics, Druid/Fighter combos, Druids, and Monks are allowed to use it.

The wands in-game description is wrong then, because it says it's not usable by fighters, mages, bards and thieves. i guess i never noticed the screw-up in the straight BG2 game. i just thought something might've gotten messed up in the cre files or kit descriptions in CA. Ah well, definitely seems like anyone who can cast priest spells ought to be able to use them.

Really seems odd i'm the only one to get to a 20 rep so far, i think i just donated my way from disliked back up to average or something, after losing 6 points in that cath encounter with the FF mercs. i think i was sitting around 10 or 12, lost 6, then donated it back to around 10 or 11. After that i was just playing through, and didn't notice my rep getting so high. Actually it's a bit amusing having guys leave because i'm too good then asking why i dumped them. hehe. i'll just need to keep a closer eye on my rep for now.

I eventually ctrl-y'ed him and then consoled in a constitution book to get back the point i lost because i didnt want to deal with the familiar running about on it's own when i was barely armed.

Next time, use the Lesser Restoration spell to remove the constitution penalty. Cheater.

hmm i didnt think restoration would cure that, i thought it was a permanent penalty unless cheated past. But i'd rather not need to do it period, i want my familiar to keep working right...

okay i finished my first .49 run and had a few more bugs/questions.

at the slaver fortress, in the duergar lair section, a couple of the duergar don't go hostile, don't talk, they just stand there. They're located around x=1540, y=447 in area tc1260. This is after i've killed all the other duergar so they likely ought to be pissed...

The +2 slings and the bone club from that area still vanished, but i cant recall if you changed the expiration thing before or after .49 so you might already know that one.

Markessa and Kessa both still seem a bit touchy in the joining/removing areas. i took the clone into my group then went to suderham. althon still proposed the reviving markessa thing, so i went to the docks and left the clone there, thinking i could send her off with the still waiting captain, but she wont talk and just stands there.

And when markessa is brought back to life, there's still only one dialogue path to get her to join successfully. the other 2 choices and she just stands there not talking.

In suderham, when the earthquake opens the cell door, for some reason dialogue by my pc pops up. i ran it a couple times, and each time my pc says "Sniff. Me in trouble big. Sniff." (Is that a line of meepo dialogue?)

i was playing a fighter-mage multi-class and after the capture on suderham, when i'm in the jail cell, my familiar is messed up. when i tried to put him in my pack for safety, he would suddenly pop back out, but i still had the item in my pack. no matter how many times i tried the little **** would pop back out next to me. i eventually ctrl-y'ed him and then consoled in a constitution book to get back the point i lost because i didnt want to deal with the familiar running about on it's own when i was barely armed.

right after i take the portal out of the suderham prison, rivian declares she has nothing to say to me right now, without me force talking her or anything.

the 6th party member still appears at around x=4149, y=2915 upon arriving in selgaunt after leaving suderham. And they're still trapped there on that dock.

How does Blush get into selgaunt? She's an elf and it's right after killing the slave lords. i realize this bit may be explained more in later versions, just thought i'd mention it.

Sorry if i'm a pain but has anyone else had an error extracting the .49 rar file after download? i have what looks like the whole file, 1.34GB i think, and i used a download manager to make sure it completed. But when i go to open it i get an error. i'm repairing it with winrar but during the repair it tells me the file ends unexpectedly or something like that.

i'll try the repaired file and see if it's still functional, but i wondered if it was just me or if the upload got cut short.

*edit: I repaired the file and as I'm extracting it I get the message that the file TC3300N.tiz is corrupt, but i also was asked if i wanted to overwrite some files (only.49 was in this directory) so i don't know if there were double copies of any files or if that happened during the repair.

You can always download it later. Nothing in this version requires you to go download it immediately.

There are many bug fixes I have included from what you all have posted here. There are still many to do and I am sure some new ones that I have created. The interiors are the main reason for a new upload. The mod is huge and took me several tries to get it uploaded. The next couple of updates will probably just be individual mods and bug fixes. Version .50 will be the next big one but I don't expect that one anytime soon.

Thanks for the quick answer, and once more for all of the hard work. i was thinking of starting over, playing again, and since you did include a bunch of fixes too i probably will download this version before playing through a 4th time. Along with the pure fun, knowing changes were made at various spots i can try to be useful too and make note of any bugs new to me from previous runs.

A couple days ago i decided to try making an npc myself, for BG2, though since i don't know the code yet, obviously i'm just doing the writing part currently. i figure get that done then teach myself how to code it properly. But just the writing part, all the different options and responses, for just one npc... makes it all the more impressive to me what you folks have done here with CA.

Here are two little bugs that I have noticed while playing CA 0.49:

1) Armor Melt -spell is supposed to be a cleric spell but my mage could still try to learn it, the result was always a failure and the spell scroll was consumed in the process.

2) Random kobolds, orcs and sahuagins start consuming potions as soon as PC's party enters the area and they keep consuming those potions indefinitely until the monster is slain. This has happened to me in several areas, for example in Citadel, Palace of The Silver Princess and The Sahuagin Fortress.

the potion consuming thing is an odd, ongoing bug you'll see off and on throughout the game. it doesnt seem to do anything beyond making it hard to keep up with the feedback messages. And giving away some of the enemies you're likely to meet on that map.

Fala'stra is being overhauled and a lot of banters need added. I am surprised she can join right after Mistmoor.

oh, sorry about the spoiler. i wasn't thinking when i posted that. Thanks to whoever covered my ass there!

It happened pretty easily, so long as the other banters are completed before you tell her you're done and need to leave, so i just assumed it was meant to be an option.

There are problems with reputation and reaction to it. My party reached a 20 rep with althon and cathmandrus in it. right away cath leaves the group, then initiates his "why'd you kick me out, should i rejoin" dialogue, and will keep leaving, rejoining, leaving unless your rep drops magically. Althon does the same if i distract cath long enough with casting a healing spell or something. The leaving at 20 rep is understandable, but i wasn't getting any outright complaints from them that i noticed as the rep neared that level. and they didnt say "i'm leaving because you're a bunch of heroic pantywaists" they just left, then asked me why *I* kicked them out. The only way i stopped it was to shadowkeeper my rep down to 13 or so and then they stayed in the party without issue. So the leaving dialogue for too high a rep seems broken.

If your PC is good enough at heart to get a rep of 20, then why is he hanging around with evil bastards anyway?

The rep of 20 wasn't intentional, i didn't realize it was that high. After i had the cath specific encounter early on it dropped my rep way down so i did a few temple donations to get it where i wouldn't get rotten fruit thrown at me. After that i tried to pick stuff that allowed me to progress, get the goods without being too goody-goody about it. But early on it's kind of hard.

Like the lizardman/sauhagain thing. Sure, i could have picked a fight with the lizardmen but they would have murdered me quick. Those damned machine-gun throwing spears which they never actually are holding after death are impossible in great numbers so early on. i barely make it past the ones guarding the route in the swamp unless i just walk past invisible and ignore them. i don't know where the thorwing spear lizardmen came from but they're WAY tougher than the sauhagain's are. They should be able to take back their fortress on their own i think.

So i pick the "good" route because i'd rather be alive than dead. That gets a rep point. i dont know if there's an evil path at mistmoor laid out, but with cath there i didnt get the option, other than just saying no, which loses me too much xp and the chance to get rihn and myth drannor (more xp and too many good magical bits.).

So far, though i love CA, it seems like the good path is much more rewarding monetarily and magic item-wise. So unless i go around randomly killing peasants to force my rep lower, it goes up fairly fast. i think the only rep points i found that i could easily duck without any lose on my part of money or goods are the cash donations to the escaped slaves and the other donation when rescuing chaarna. Now granted, i could leave chaarna or treat her badly, but why? A bad guy would dig the new chaarna.

Hope none of the above is considered a spoiler.

There are problems with reputation and reaction to it. My party reached a 20 rep with althon and cathmandrus in it. right away cath leaves the group, then initiates his "why'd you kick me out, should i rejoin" dialogue, and will keep leaving, rejoining, leaving unless your rep drops magically. Althon does the same if i distract cath long enough with casting a healing spell or something. The leaving at 20 rep is understandable, but i wasn't getting any outright complaints from them that i noticed as the rep neared that level. and they didnt say "i'm leaving because you're a bunch of heroic pantywaists" they just left, then asked me why *I* kicked them out. The only way i stopped it was to shadowkeeper my rep down to 13 or so and then they stayed in the party without issue. So the leaving dialogue for too high a rep seems broken.

Althon in group, go into barracks to face girana. althon says girana has his sword, girana confirms it, calls him a dog. after the fight, there's no sign of teargiver, althon's sword.

The sauhagain queen dialogue cuts out early, the button says continue but ends dialogue instead.

Either the wand of the heavens or dirbert and paraway are screwed up i think. archers and rangers should be able to use wand of heavens but dirbert and paraway cannot.

i did myth drannor with pc, althon, vild, rihn, shadow, rivian. After finishing and rihn being healed but still in vault of ages i removed althon, rihn and vild. After being sent back to the bridge i allowed dirbert, aesdale and paraway to rejoin me. As soon as the last of them rejoined the screen faded, the game autosaved, some new area tried to load (like for a cutscene) then back to the bridge without seeing any cutscene. It did that over and over in a loop, trying to load some cutscene but never succeeding. When i removed rihn and vild only in the vault, then go back to selgaunt bridge, it worked fine and allowed me to dump althon without problem. So it must have been trying to load some althon related cutscene, though it didn't do so the last time at all.

Another bug i forgot to mention, Paraway's wolf talisman, doesn't work as it says it should. It says 3x a day, and it has the 3 charges shown. But after using it once it's out of charges until the next day.

Cath's (not going to try spelling his name) banter story about Kira?sha loops at the second portion of the story, it never completes, so he just keeps asking if i want to hear the rest of the story, tells the second bit, then says we need to move on and he'll finish it later. i got it 3 or 4 times before i figured out what variable to move from 3 to 4. hoping that stops it for good, it's been awhile now since he triggered.

And i had no problem with falastra joining in MD, it ran fine for me.

Most likely my fault actually, I recall being asked to overhaul some of her dialog and I think that dialogue was among them. I think the reason was about the loose ends the original left behind, I'm not sure if anything else might've been altered in it however, t'was a fair while ago.

Couldn't say who added it but yeah, it's definitely there. looking at her .d file there's a stat check against Charisma if i read it right, and options for male and female PC's, and if the Charisma os over 14 her joining in mistmoor can happen currently. Understandable for such things to happen with so many things "in progress" and such a huge project.

It's not bad either way, though i would say, if her joining in mistmoor is kept as an option, a bit of tweaking for her dialogue there would be good, because she goes in the same sentence from saying she cant leave to saying i've convinced her. *grin* So one more line from the PC perhaps with a final convincing dialogue, or non-convincing dialogue, depending on the stat check. It's not bad now, but it does read a bit oddly now.

Maybe the pc can offer to donate a bit of cash to help her aunt hire some temporary help while falastra helps the pc look for her uncle and his own family and that can convince her.

Please post any bugs for Version 0.49 here.

Not a bug report yet, and if this is out of place here, i apologize. i just wanted to check on something, before i downloaded the .49 version. Are the only changes the selgaunt interiors, or where some bug fixes from previous versions done also? Since i only downloaded .47 and .48 a couple weeks ago, i'd feel bad sticking spellhold with another 1 GB+ download by me right away just so i can see the interiors. i'm sure they're worth the download, but i just wondered if there where changes that affect the storyline/playing experience also.

i hope no offense is taken from my asking. Now, if you have worries about bugs with the movement around selgaunt itself and i can be helpful exploring the empty city, going in all the buildings, then i'll be glad to grab it and run it through it's paces in the new areas.

i guess owning/running a few websites of my own has made me think more about other sites bandwidths and since you all do this stuff for free, i did want to ask before grabbing another 1GB+ download.