Temple of Elemental Evil discussion thread (merged)

[KarinsDad]

How do you do a 5 foot step in the game?

I tried to move my Barbarian just a hair to the right so that my bowman would be able to shoot without him being in the way.

The creature immediately got an AoO against the Barbarian.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

How do you do a 5 foot step in the game?

I tried to move my Barbarian just a hair to the right so that my bowman would be able to shoot without him being in the way.

The creature immediately got an AoO against the Barbarian.

use the radial wheel thing. Under movement there is the 5' step option. Lots of time though its impossible to do because of where people are standing.

 

[Pielorinho]

How do you do a 5 foot step in the game?

I tried to move my Barbarian just a hair to the right so that my bowman would be able to shoot without him being in the way.

The creature immediately got an AoO against the Barbarian.

You have to choose the "five-foot-step" option under 'Movement", which is I think about 9-o'clock on the radial menu. Simply moving 5' doesn't cut it, unfortunately.

Do you know how to do hotkeys? 5-foot-step is IMO one of the most important hotkeys (I have it on S). Hit Ctrl+S, then go through the radial menu until you find 5-foot-step and click on it. From now on you can FFS just by hitting S.

Daniel

 

[tburdett]

I spent about an hour last night trying to get the game to work. I finally figured out (with a little clue from the ToEE Support FAQ) that they (Troika) have hard coded an upper limit to the screen refresh rate. If you force your monitor (using a third party program like Reforce) to sync at a rate higher than 85Hz the game will not launch.

Is anyone else seeing SPELL_NONE for the spell prerequisite for some of the items that you create with Create Wondrous Item? IIRC the Cloak of Charisma is one such item.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Is anyone else seeing SPELL_NONE for the spell prerequisite for some of the items that you create with Create Wondrous Item? IIRC the Cloak of Charisma is one such item.

Apparently it's because the item requires the spell "Eagle's Splendor", but the spell is stored in the data file as "Eagles Splendor" (no apostrophe), so as far as the game's concerned, the spell the Cloak requires does not exist.

Apparently there is a fan-coded patch that fixes a lot of the overt bugs. Browse this forum for some more information...

There is news here that Troika is working on an official patch...

-Hyp.

 

[Thanee]

I will hopefully get the game soon (ordered the UK version, as I don't like translated versions and the stores here only have those ).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Pielorinho]

Finally finished it last night. What a great, flawed game! I look forward to playing through it again, once the official patch comes out, and I hope Troika switches to a better publishing house and makes other games using the engine.

Daniel

 

[Gregor]

Ok... I'm not sure if I'm being stupid or lazy but will my machine run with with game?

The only drawback I can see is my GForce2 MX... I need a 32 meg card right? Mine is, but dxdiag says it is 31.5 meg...

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,

 

[Welverin]

and I hope Troika switches to a better publishing house...

They can't, Atari (formerly Infogrammes) is the only company that has the right to publish games based on D&D. This goes back to the deal that Hasbro made, that gave the rights to all electronic game rights to Infogrammes.

 

[Pielorinho]

Damn them! Damn their eyes!

Do you know for how long Atari has the contract? It seems they're not handling it in a very popular manner; I'm wondering if WOTC might hand it off to a different company.

Daniel