Amusing bugs, quirks

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When most of us thing of bugs or glitches we think of obnoxious or possibly game crashing problems. However, in my experience with TOB and all the various mods, I've come across a few, shall we say, more benign bugs.

There are a few commoners in the Bridge District, I believe one is named Ander, that comment on the murders that have been taking place. Apparently these villagers have decided to follow me throughout the realms. I've spotted them in the Underdark, Docks District, Umar Hills and Spellhold. When I initiate dialogue they give the same "Oh this is so horrible" spiel.

Also, the genie Malaaq, encountered in Chateau Irenicus, has taken up residence in front of the Shadow Thieves headquarters. He brought along a few twins and every time I pass there's one more, all asking for their freedom.

I was wondering what oddities you might have run into during your bg2 experience... These aren't bugs that stop you from playing, just amusing quirks.

 

I've never seen that genie there ... what mods you have running that have borked your game hehe.

 

I've encountered the "Multiple Brus" bug a couple times. As we all know, upon accumulating 15,000 gp Brus, Gaelan Bayle's errand boy, appears and goes on about meeting Gaelan right away. But on two occasions that I can recall (including once a few days ago, when I started a new game) not just one Brus appeared, but six or seven simultaneously! It looked like Irenicus went a bit overboard with his cloning project.

Of note is that this has only happened when I broke the 15k gp barrier while in the Shadow Thieves hideout, and Brus (x6) meets me right when I exit the building. All the Bruses have the same dialogue, and all leave at the same time.

 

I've had the multiple Brus bug before. It happened in the Slums and they didn't stop. I ran from them (it was genuine fright of the veritable army) and more kept appearing from the fog of war in all directions. Eventually I was cornereed and the little curs beat a response out of me. In the end, I saw fifty or more on one screen. Quite frightening.

 

The Malaaq bug happened in an unmodded game. The Ander troupe didn't start following me until after UB, Ashes of Embers, Solaufein, Kelsey, Keto and probably some others.

 

Drizzt was slaughtered by Imp.Bodhi and vampiric Sola, so I looted him.

Then Marcholl Harpell came and he came hostile and we fought, he was a tough mage, but died in one good backstab once we stripped his protections.

Then as I slaughtered some orcs in a wilderness encounter, HE came again, then again then again, the place was giving birth to hostile Marcholl Harpells fast, and they each triggered their CContingencies, releasing so many protection spells and ABDHWs, which killed Immy. I turned my entire party invisible, but they kept spawning. I CTRL+Yed them but they keep coming, I could count more than ten MHarpells.

I yelled:'Fine, take your stupid things!', and put Drizzt's loot down on to the ground. Then collected Immy's inventory and left the screen. Upon reaching a city we immediately awakened dear Immy and MH never disturbed us again. (thanks goodness!)

 

Some of mod characters talk using phrases or desriptions of items, for eg. name Breudael was changes to something like "ok, let's go". It's nice to have such desription in "most powerful vanquished" .

After taking Sola with me, underdark flag didn't trigger. I know it's hard to believe that I've been there with 2 Drows in my party...

One mod ring causes fear in 90% percent when wielder is hit. I threw it away when Firkraag started to run...

 

^Hey I know that ring, it is from Exnem 'Horribly unabalanced items&spells' mod eh?

Do you use ring of something which gives +10 AC, THAC0 and saving throw bonus?



Some items/priest spells in the mod are nice enough I guess.

 

Lol,I even have a screenshot of this holy crap.

Most of such items simply lay in Bag of Holding and wait forever, or for Irenius / Eclipse battle } . But i don't think they make any sense.

The nice thing of mod are: Smart Fireball, Putrid Leech, potions improving stats and some resonable artifacts, such as Club of Bashing or anti-undead Mace +5.

 

I use smart fireball from scrolls only, (I have lots) and I like the way priests get new spells via ritual candles. Some priest spells are spiffy too.

I like Ifrit Mail, one platemail which protects from Negative Energy, and Ring of Narya (I doN'T use its spell abilities though), the helmet of Merlin, and a few others as well.

You use ability increasing potions? They are SOO easy to come by, I have more than 12 for each score. NEVER used them.

Though the rare potion which gives +2 HP, each in my party gulped one, (maybe two... ) and even rarer potion which restores ALL HP, I stocked 3-4 for safety and used twice in my games.

 

^I've found:
2 Potions of Strenght
1 Potion of Dexterity
8-10 potions of constitution - Haer'Dalis is weak no more :], Kachiko remains the toughtes member, althought she's Kensai 7/ Mage 18.
15 potions of intelligence - I don't have to reload on lerning spells, I also get 1/3 of experience from scrolls dound everywhere
15 of Wisdom - Viconia has extra 7th level spell }:], Arie not yet.
1 potion of Charisma
20+ potions of vitality - It's good way to make some charcter tought, right now Arie has more hp than Sola.

 

^Ah I was exactly reffering to that. If you are having fun with these, that is great for you I guess.

Personally, I don'T want to loot a potion of strenght/dex/con whatever from every pathetic orc I kill, still...

I really would want the mod could ask for components to install, I would gladly refuse potions of ability scores, or some way too powerful mage spells. (Poltergeist? A level 3 summoning spell? It summons a what? DEMI-LICH? )

 

^Medusa Stare is much worse. Petrification of every enemy in the area, unless save with -23 penalty. Ignores MR...

It's nice to talk longer off-topic than reffering to it :].

 

^Yes but it is not party friendly, I ended up petrifying all of my party as I was doing little funny experiments.

Hey this is not off-topic at all, these strange items/spells can be considered as 'amusing' bugs too IMHO! I really can'T believe the mod-makers intended to create such ridiculou..err powerful things for real playing!

 

One time, I had the priest of Helm that gives you the Unseeing Eye Quest chase me all the way to Nalia's Keep. I thought he had spoken to me in the Temple District when he says "This must not come to pass. The ever seeing eye of Helm must be made aware of they intend." But, sure enough, I was on the second floor of Nalia's Keep and there's a guy standing in the hallway and I'm thinking "He's not supposed to be here. Who is that?" He comes up and says his piece "This must not come to pass..." and then just walks into the fog of war and disappears.

I've also seen the Brus bug. The more you walk away from him and he can't catch up and speak, it seems the more spawn to chase you down.

 

^Ah, Unseeing Eye... I found the whole area sealed and cannot get there, althought I've talked to priest and haven't finished this quest yet.

While we're already talking about bugs, how to set underdark flag on?

 

Another (very minor) bug I've encountered in my last two games occurs upon "invading" Mae'Var's guild to assassinate him. All the shadow thieves in the guild become hostile, including Anishai (sp?), the female monk. Despite her red (hostile) status she doesn't attack me; rather, she just follows me around on the 2nd floor of the guild as though she can't bring herself to actually strike me. (BTW, Anishai would make a great NPC to have join your party.)

 

I was accosted by yet another Malaaq today in the Temple District. Also, upon the recruitment of Jaheira and Viconia I get the banter/lovetalk about telling Phaere to keep my hands off me when she tries to seduce you.

 

^Sorry DMC, forgive us, you know how it is, we just overtalked a little. W

One bug or glitch I encountered was strange, I was fighting the Shade Lich for the very first time in my first run. I didn'T have ANY mods. (yes I finished pure SoA without mods once or twice.) Ofcourse the Lich lay waste to my party, I loaded a couple of times, heck I didn'T even understand what he was doing, he just used to cast tons of spells instantly and then goes invisible, leaving a Mislead, and then a Time Stop (I was SO suprised when I saw a TS for the first time, used by the Lich.) then usual killing stuff.

Then the lich casted a Symbol:Stun. It stunned all my characters near the lich. I thought we were done for. But then I realised hat Lich was stunned too! For some reason?

So all of us just stood there, stunned, and we waited till its duration ran out. It was interesting, though now I know that enemy mages use special symbols which only affect enemies..so I do not know how thw lich's own symbol affected himself too? I only had SoA at this time.