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Post by Dave on Feb 3, 2012 19:14:04 GMT
I should check back here more often... Now unfortunately I don't have the save file, but I did export the log for the book. I put it in my previous entry, and bolded the (IMO) relevant parts. Oh, and I think the psychic fight at the pool was somewhat bugged, but I'll need to try again, and I'll post in the bug-thread if it still acts weird. hemulen, Thanks for the updated list. That helped immensely... I'll give you basic rundown of how the award works: There are 7 distinctly "Bad" sections specified by kamikaze in the book. LW has to hit at least 5 out of these 7 in order to gain the award. You have only hit 4 of them. If you'd like, I can tell you via PM which 4 counted; just let me know .
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Post by uziel on Feb 5, 2012 2:23:52 GMT
Thanks so much for the tips, Honza. Clearly I wasn't as thorough going through book 11 as I thought! I swear I thought I'd tried to stand before Zhengya before and got toasted... but didn't remember other options. Got the award on the second try after following your tips. Whoot, that was the last Fresh Start award for me in the 12 books. Now onto the few remaining ones.
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Post by Dave on Feb 7, 2012 5:09:52 GMT
hemulen, Thanks for the updated list. That helped immensely... Doh! Thanks for the PM... you opened my eyes to a long-standing bug on which section was checked for (156 vs 159). A big apology to all who have tried this award and been thwarted... hemulon, if you are still playing on that particular game where you went through book 8 (so, it's in your history/journal), it'll automatically award you the medal once I update the game (and you finish the next book). If you have cleared that one out/started over, you can send me your profiles.dat file, and I can manually add the award in if you'd like. Or, you can just go through and take the same path you outlined in your post, and you'll be able to earn it again in game (once I post the latest update, that is.) Sorry about that! And thanks for pointing out this bug! It looks like I *will* be releasing another bug fix before GM series after all... Still, I'll let this release percolate a bit longer to round up any more bugs first.
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Post by hemulen on Feb 8, 2012 8:14:29 GMT
No problem. I'll wait for the update, or take one of the alternative paths, that goes though different sections. And I still have other awards to earn.
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Post by executioneer on Feb 29, 2012 0:24:56 GMT
I just realized the most epic possible failure short of being killed by Halvorc- in book 1, section 308. You beat arguably the toughest enemy in the book (the Gourgaz), then 8-9 sections later you (just barely) beat a fairly dangerous Vordak, dropping you down to 1 ENDURANCE. Then, you manage to just barely survive the marsh at 21- getting two failure rolls and then rolling exactly a 9- only to be killed by getting knocked over by a blasted horse. Putting a badge in for something that spectacularly unlikely would probably be cruel to the completionists, though.
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Post by Snowshadow on Feb 29, 2012 10:21:39 GMT
I just realized the most epic possible failure short of being killed by Halvorc- in book 1, section 308. You beat arguably the toughest enemy in the book (the Gourgaz), then 8-9 sections later you (just barely) beat a fairly dangerous Vordak, dropping you down to 1 ENDURANCE. Then, you manage to just barely survive the marsh at 21- getting two failure rolls and then rolling exactly a 9- only to be killed by getting knocked over by a blasted horse. Putting a badge in for something that spectacularly unlikely would probably be cruel to the completionists, though. You could get a trophy for finding the elusive Potion of Strength (Alether) in book 1.
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Post by uziel on May 22, 2012 8:24:32 GMT
Gah, stuck once more. The last award I need on Book 9 (Tempt Fate one). 1. Got the Senate's approval, and then fell into the water (dropped my backpack to survive) 2. Rode through the village and was attacked by a Doomwolf 3. Rode in the captain's wagon and jumped out just prior to becoming "catapult fodder". 4. Escaped prison, but got arrested in the street (after trying to bribe mercs).
The only part I couldn't work out was the bonus part. I'm assuming as it's a bonus point, it's not needed. Speaking one's mind would assume that you use Divination, but as for the darkness part (there's only the bit where the Crocadyx are, the alleyway, and the bit where the Cave Leekhon is). If you do the CL section, then you miss the ambush (so that's not it), and there's no Divination check for the alleyway. At the Crocadyx part, there is a Divination or Pathmanship check, but neither allows you to telepathically communicate (which is stated in the hints). So.. help?
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Post by carrot on Jun 7, 2012 23:01:09 GMT
A suggestion - I am sorry if it has already been mentioned, but I do not have time to read all 9 pages.
Illustrations - is there a way that the illustrations could appear in the left hand pain automatically, kind of like how the "focus on Action Chart changes" option works.
Also it would be nice if the action chart (or at least the basic part of it) could fit on screen without needing to scroll. I have used window and full screen modes at max, and still have to scroll the pane.
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Post by kamikaze1900666 on Jun 9, 2012 5:04:02 GMT
I just realized the most epic possible failure short of being killed by Halvorc- in book 1, section 308. You beat arguably the toughest enemy in the book (the Gourgaz), then 8-9 sections later you (just barely) beat a fairly dangerous Vordak, dropping you down to 1 ENDURANCE. Then, you manage to just barely survive the marsh at 21- getting two failure rolls and then rolling exactly a 9- only to be killed by getting knocked over by a blasted horse. Putting a badge in for something that spectacularly unlikely would probably be cruel to the completionists, though. I've created some brutal ones, but that's a bit more difficult than those. There's a battle in book one that's more difficult to lose than the one against Halvorc in my opinion, even with minimum stats and going in unarmed. At least before Halvorc you have a few chances to lose some EP first. You could get a trophy for finding the elusive Potion of Strength (Alether) in book 1. Although there's no specific award for that, finding the potion helps when shooting for another award ;-) Gah, stuck once more. The last award I need on Book 9 (Tempt Fate one). 1. Got the Senate's approval, and then fell into the water (dropped my backpack to survive) 2. Rode through the village and was attacked by a Doomwolf 3. Rode in the captain's wagon and jumped out just prior to becoming "catapult fodder" 4. Escaped prison, but got arrested in the street (after trying to bribe mercs). You're getting close- just got to push the limits a little more. Trying to escape capture in other places may help too.
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Post by zliplus on Jun 12, 2012 17:32:25 GMT
Hi all, I'm new to the forums, though I've been lurking around reading for a bit. Just had a couple possible award bugs to report:
I only got the Magnakai all-high combat award when I also completed the all-low combat award. Specifically, when I got the award with the redeemers' fish icon (which is a low, but I forget which exactly), I was also given both the all-low and all-high awards at the same time.
In book 12, I got the 500 kika award accidentally when starting with the 200 kika from book 10. The award hints seem to indicate you're supposed to start with no money at all.
On a separate topic, could I get a hint for the book 10 money award? It seems to want either a full purse, or some of all 3 currencies; however, I can't see any way to get crowns in the entire book.
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Post by zliplus on Jun 12, 2012 17:36:15 GMT
Gah, stuck once more. The last award I need on Book 9 (Tempt Fate one). 1. Got the Senate's approval, and then fell into the water (dropped my backpack to survive) 2. Rode through the village and was attacked by a Doomwolf 3. Rode in the captain's wagon and jumped out just prior to becoming "catapult fodder". 4. Escaped prison, but got arrested in the street (after trying to bribe mercs). The only part I couldn't work out was the bonus part. I'm assuming as it's a bonus point, it's not needed. Speaking one's mind would assume that you use Divination, but as for the darkness part (there's only the bit where the Crocadyx are, the alleyway, and the bit where the Cave Leekhon is). If you do the CL section, then you miss the ambush (so that's not it), and there's no Divination check for the alleyway. At the Crocadyx part, there is a Divination or Pathmanship check, but neither allows you to telepathically communicate (which is stated in the hints). So.. help? You can get closer to death by catapult than the captain's wagon without actually dying. For the bonus, I assume that it involves fighting the dragon? The telepathy section also requires some stealth ability, but not using it or any light prevents you from opening the lock.
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Post by uziel on Jun 14, 2012 4:39:13 GMT
On a separate topic, could I get a hint for the book 10 money award? It seems to want either a full purse, or some of all 3 currencies; however, I can't see any way to get crowns in the entire book. You're correct in that you can't get Crowns for book 10. Basically you need to fill your purse to the limit with currencies other than Crowns. Getting Lune is super-easy and you can get a stack of Kika from a certain Drakkar Assault-Captain not far from the end. And also thanks for the hint on book 9 too. Got the award, although funnily enough, didn't even do the catapult part in the end (accidentally missed it). I did fight the Zadragon this time around though and that was the missing piece of the puzzle for me. Maybe the system felt sorry for me and mysteriously awarded it to me out of pure sympathy.
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Post by Dave on Jun 14, 2012 18:33:00 GMT
Several awards of that nature are along the lines of "Complete at least 5 of these 7 really difficult things", so there is some variation in the exact path leading to how one can earn the award.
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Post by zliplus on Jun 17, 2012 5:43:44 GMT
Man, fighting the chaos-master on hardcore with the sommerswerd is *hard*...I was trying to do the 3/4 award, and I definitely did not have enough combats elsewhere to sacrifice books 10/11 (I was trying to do the no-healing at the same time). I got pretty close on a couple attempts though, so if i drop hunting to get the spirit +2 CS, I figure it'll be practically reasonable.
Kimah is still hopeless though, that -11 ratio with absolutely all bonuses isn't going to happen in reality, heh.
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Post by kamikaze1900666 on Oct 5, 2012 22:08:02 GMT
Kamikaze: Can we others help you with award items? and if "yes" which books would you get suggestions on? As of right now, my biggest pain with the GM series awards is the Mischievous branch, and the near total lack of opportunities to misbehave, or even take actions that could be mistook for less-than-honorable deeds. This is one area I think might benefit from some new eyes looking at it, since I'd like to have at least one award of each type per book. The central theme is that of extreme indifference, cowardice, harming the innocent, and/or theft from good/neutral NPCs- basically actions that are either intentional or could be perceived to bring a stain to the honor of Lone Wolf and the Kai. Just about anything goes against the baddies, so it's a bit more focused towards actions against the innocent and "almost-innocent". Anyone interested in volunteering to help with this, thoughts on a single instance in a single Grand Master book are more than welcome. Right now, from some of my notes, I've got one for Legacy of Vashna and I think the Curse of Naar (though I have to double check that one), so it's pretty much the rest of the GM series I'd like some help with. Thanks in advance for anyone who volunteers
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