Temple of Elemental Evil discussion thread (merged)

[Hypersmurf]

Be warned - the Co8 have noted that they've added a couple of items. A couple of rods, some ioun stones, I think. If you have those in your inventory in a save game and uninstall the Co8 patch, those save games won't load.

I think.

-Hyp.

 

[diamud]

The game needs a pretty beefy machine to play on the average graphic settings. Right now, my machine is running at 2.0 Ghz, 512 Ram and a GeForce 4 MX (which sucks) and I am having to run the game just over 800 x 600 and without anti-aliasing. Maybe its just my machine.... Im not sure if this helps you or not, but my bet would be that it is going to run really slow on your comp. I definitely could be wrong though - someone with more computer expertise could probably better answer your question.

Cheers,

It's your graphics card that is holding you back. I've got a 1.2 ghz machine, 512 ram, Geforce4 Ti4200, running at 1024X768 with AA wonderfully (exception when there is a ton of enemies on screen at once, then there is some slowdown)

 

[Caliber]

As a side note, the MX line of geForce's are meant for Office use, NOT gaming use, so they have those gaming aplications turned down a bit. Just FYI.

 

[Olive]

So will my athlon 1gig, 256 meg of ram machine with a Geforce Mx2 run it?

 

[tburdett]

So will my athlon 1gig, 256 meg of ram machine with a Geforce Mx2 run it?

I have a fairly high-end system (2.8 Ghz Pentium 4, 1 Gigabyte DDR 400 RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro) and the game is still laggy at times.

For the past week I have been trying to keep the game from locking up in the Fire Node. I finally found out yesterday that deleting all of the files in the /maps directory might fix this problem. It worked for me.

 

[DM2]

For a great NPC to pick up ....

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Pick up Otis as soon as Nulb is available. My level 4 party went to Nulb. We had Elmo (the dork), and then Otis joins. Otis was freaking 10th level Needless to say, we dropped Elmo at that point.

Anyone else pick him up early like that?

DM2

 

[Olorin]

For a great NPC to pick up ....

Spoiler blacked out below...drag mouse over it to see:

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Pick up Otis as soon as Nulb is available. My level 4 party went to Nulb. We had Elmo (the dork), and then Otis joins. Otis was freaking 10th level Needless to say, we dropped Elmo at that point.

Anyone else pick him up early like that?

DM2

Spoiler below:

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Don't get too dependent on him though; as soon as you return to Nulb, he'll leave the party. Guess he just wanted a break from smithing

 

[Pielorinho]

Anyone check out www.pvponline.com today? Hee hee hee!

Daniel

 

[DM2]

Anyone check out www.pvponline.com today? Hee hee hee!

Daniel

Yep. Very funny.

On another note, I answered my own question on their druid wildshape implementation by hitting level 6 last night.

They've done some weird things in their implementation of it.

First, when you first get wildshape at lvl 5 you can only change into a wolf....I'm not sure why they didn't include other shapes like black bear, as the animals are certainly in the game...

Then at 6th you get brown bear (2 levels earlier than you get it in D&D). However, the brown bear doesn't appear to give you reach, and you definitely don't get the natural attack progression.

Well, with natural spell, brown bear is still a great form for my normall 9 STR gnome druid, and he spends most of his time summoning black bears, calling lightning bolts, and producing flame anyway, but it is a bit dissapointing nonetheless.

FYI,

DM2

 

[Dark Jezter]

Anyone check out www.pvponline.com today? Hee hee hee!

Daniel

LOL! Very funny.

I can't say that I've ever had a DM throw a fit at the table... although I did once witness a player throw a fit because his paladin got killed. It was actually pretty funny.