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[bulian]

Bulian's 6.4 branch update:

New items and NPC modernization - complete

• Cromwell/Cespenar dialogues,
• 9 new items, including ones for Sarevok, Minsc, Dorn, and Aerie
• Seven additional randomized items
• Sarevok is now viable as a joinable party member in TOB
• Aerie has more reasonable IA stats

Updated encounters

• Limak
• Spellhold Book
• The Four (with more relevant IA rewards, removal of unbalanced items)
• Supreme Golem in Watcher's Keep (party can now fight it and green wyrm),
• Dracolich is accessible n Ch 6/7 with significantly reduced rewards,
• Demon fight in Underdark (new Chapter 5 encounter)

Quality of life

• Early containers in Irenicus dungeon (bag of holding, ammo belt, etc.)
• Store depreciation removal - sell items for same cost regardless if the merchant has them in stock
• Stronghold quests continue in Chapter 7

All protagonists can access almost everything in the mod (less balanced)

• Remove class restrictions on forging items
• Enable Memory of the Apprenti robe to be forged 100% for all protagonists
• Enable early Ranger and Mage stronghold quests for all PCs
• Ancient Secret of Sulda will remain Vagrant only
• The Old Ones/Time Machine will remain Necromancer only
• Enable Justice Day quest for all PCs

This post has been edited by bulian: May 16 2020, 01:18 PM

[bulian]

Azoth,

Good catch on the vampires - when I wrote that code I didn't check the details of each individual encounters, and there are a number of different vampires in that lot that are just listed as vampire. There are probably a couple of other cases like that - I think the planar prison is not maximized either with the present patch, for example. The trolls are not super difficult either as someone pointed out.

Regarding the berserker blade, apparently that effect is bugged from the beamdog end, as it was an existing resource in the game's code that I added. The original vision for Minsc's upgraded sword had that effect and then permanent enrage. Both of those were technically challenging, which is why it landed where is now. So for now you'll just have to live with it, particularly with 2.6 somewhere on the horizon.

So please keep reporting your findings.