IA and Improved Ilyich, this is very painful Options

[Vardaman]

I did a quick search of the forums and didn't see a thread like this yet.

I thought I'd kill some time until 4.3 is ready and I'm having an awful time with this mod.

I've cleared out everything (including the 2nd map) except anything past the library. I wanted to turn my party invisible and go past them all to the Sword of Chaos room but the Glabrezu keeps following me. Then if I lead the glabrezu away and kill it, I save and then the next second Ilyich and Co. rush into the room and I get slaughtered. I might be able to take them all on individually but I'm having no luck separating them. The help in the readme basically consists of spamming traps and closing doors. You can't close the dungeon doors in IA.

Does anybody have any tips? Where's thetruth when you need him?

[Sikret]

See again the document attached to this post.

In the list of mods which should not be installed with IA, you see:

3- Tactics (and any other mod which adds tactical challenges to the game)

- IA and other tactical mods change the game's IDs files and specially the STATS.IDS in different ways. This will surely cause unexpected or unwanted consequences. So, when you play IA, it is quite necessary/mandatory that you do not install any other tactical mods (even if they modify sections of the game which are not directly touched by IA). Improved Anvil uses a combination of its polygonal scripting system and it's own detectable stats. If you install any other mod which uses detectable stats, you will practically ruin both mods' tactical features. Neither IA's battles nor the other mod's combats will go on as intended.

- The second reason is that most tactical mods add powerful items and treasures to the game which can easily break the ballance of the game while playing IA. (It's true that IA also contains powerful items, but IA's items are *supposed* to be there and are taken into consideration in IA's battles and enemies' scripts. Not to mention that each of IA's items are only available in its own due time and not easily so.)

This post has been edited by Sikret: Jun 12 2013, 12:37 PM