Grimrock

Ah, went back to try "open behind" again, now I see the path Of course, I felt it was worth it to get those potions at the ends, and the first time I reached one of the ends I had just quick-saved and now was committed, so I got all prepped up to fight the tough ghosts which I had been putting off, worked out fun.

I didn't actually console search the chitin boots, just was missing them for a full set Maybe you could add them (move them I guess) somewhere, replace some reward/treasure

I don't know what that missing treasure stat might have been. I did have the extra treasure relic item.

I guess I didn't really get all the secrets on my own, as I needed strong hints for about 3 of them.

PS - I realize sometimes in my notes of grammar corrections I added a ... in my quotes so I could type just a part of a sentence, but then later actual quoted "..." became an issue, and sometimes I didn't include false ... quotes and sometimes did - I hope this inconsistency on my part doesn't cause too much confusion!

Day 3, 17th hour...

We were so tired...we're just looking for a place to rest, we're looking for shelter. We found a good place to rest, but it's useless...that damn song keeps echoing in our ears..."never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down..." I guess we're getting crazy after all.

But...it's ok. We´ve been rick-rolled, and that's what matter!

Two more things I thought of:

- my framerate/performance was pretty poor for most of this mod. It got especially bad on the last levels, but I also noticed it in early levels, where, for instance, I would often fail to attack with my usual quick right-clicks on weapons, and would have to click again, or make slower longer clicks to be sure my attacks would happen, which was often frustrating and but a damper on my fast fighting style. Not sure what can be done, but perhaps things under the hood could be streamlined, maybe short circuit anything that is on a different level, etc.

- I really wanted more containers, especially sacks. I think adding one or two more would be nice. I ended up dropping tons of stuff near runes, not because my champions couldn't carry the weight, but because they didn't have room in their inventory!

Re: containers - sure!

Re: performance.. I've spent literally weeks (well, some of the evenings of those weeks, let's say all the free time available in those weeks ) trying to optimize performance of the mod.. and actually it improved a lot (believe me). I honestly finished ideas and energies on that topic, at least without any tool to measure what's wrong. I tried disabling hooks(*), disabling timers(**), disabling ui(***).. and I saw no real big impact, at least on my machine. But if you can try them and tell me if you see any difference, it's welcome!

(*) Where <hookname> is party_onMove, party_onTurn, party_onDamage, party_onRest, party_onWakeUp, party_onLevelUp, party_onPickUpItem, party_onReceiveCondition, party_onCastSpell, door_shelter_onOpen, door_shelter_onClose, item_onArmorChanged.

(**) This removes all timers, cannot be recovered

(***)

Hey dude

Hi Xanathar,

Just finished the mod. Great work.

I enjoyed the storytelling and the level design very much. This mod is in my top 3 with the 'Mines of Malan Vael' and maybe 'The Chaos Key' (dont remember well).
I didnt notice any low framrate or bugs (i also dont use notes on the map very much).

I might return to complete one or two section of the maps in the last levels. I still dont know what for is the Ornate key we find in the frost plane, and i didnt check the 2 secrets you hinted me (in level 4 and 5, because i didnt discover how to solve them for myself ).

If i could change something it will be :
-The difficulty of the fights : way too easy i think, Eugene and Jill are too strong. I can kill any monster in 3 or 4 shots (full builded maces and axes). With more challenging monsters this mod could be my favorite .
-In level 3, i discovered the section of the crypt lately. I still dont understand how a player can guess...
And btw: i took me 10 hours to finish.

Thx again, keep up the good work.

leewroy... are you using console cheats of any kind and/or watching the sources ?

Because you're mentioning all areas which should be not reachable from standard play..


Just to know because if you reached the rickrolling or green teleporters in standard play.. we've a trouble!

Hey Xanathar!

Yeah, I´m using them

The thing is: your module is REALLY awesome, if not the best so far.