New expansion - Ice and Fire

[tmtapani]

I am liking this expansion as well. Very much so. I'm now only finishing the first island but so far the experience and flow of the game has been miles better than the normal campaign. Hell, they even fixed some typoes I normally would've ran into thus far. Always a plus in my book.

[Zhuangzi]

Originally Posted by tmtapani

I am liking this expansion as well. Very much so. I'm now only finishing the first island but so far the experience and flow of the game has been miles better than the normal campaign. Hell, they even fixed some typoes I normally would've ran into thus far. Always a plus in my book.

Bought on your recommendation

[Zhuangzi]

Played for 30 mins and I have a weird bug. I'm not getting any xp from fights so I am still stuck on level 1 after the training fights and one ordinary stack. Is this happening for anyone else? Obviously I can't play the game like this...

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Played for 30 mins and I have a weird bug. I'm not getting any xp from fights so I am still stuck on level 1 after the training fights and one ordinary stack. Is this happening for anyone else? Obviously I can't play the game like this...

Oh god I remember that...

I'm also postponing my decision to buy while waiting for others to provide more feedback, precisely because of sloppy development we witnessed in WotN.

[camelotcrusade]

Zhuangzi - are you playing an original savegame or ice and fire game? If it's an original campaign, don't forget to clean out your addons and mods folders. One of my spells was crashing the game until i remembered I had some mods in there. I fixed it by using steam's "verify local integrity cache" and removing files without a newly modified date.

If it's an ice and fire game my advice probably doesn't apply. The expansion has its own sessions folder, so mods to the original campaign probably won't affect it. Not sure though, haven't tested it.

Also yes, you have to play the WoTN campaign over again from the beginning. New stuff is mixed in, some of it right away.

[Zhuangzi]

Originally Posted by camelotcrusade

Zhuangzi - are you playing an original savegame or ice and fire game? If it's an original campaign, don't forget to clean out your addons and mods folders. One of my spells was crashing the game until i remembered I had some mods in there. I fixed it by using steam's "verify local integrity cache" and removing files without a newly modified date.

If it's an ice and fire game my advice probably doesn't apply. The expansion has its own sessions folder, so mods to the original campaign probably won't affect it. Not sure though, haven't tested it.

Also yes, you have to play the WoTN campaign over again from the beginning. New stuff is mixed in, some of it right away.

Well, I wanted the camera mod so I found the files in the WoTN folder and copied them into the new Ice and Fire folder. I'll delete them and see if that helps.

EDIT: Fixed! The problem wasn't the camera mod, but the interface mod which I copied across as well. I can't even remember what that interface mod does now, but it messes up Ice and Fire, so don't use it! Thanks for your help

[ckdamascus]

Did a verify file and checked to make sure no patches were on. So far the game is MUCH easier even on Impossible but I am not complaining!

I only played a little bit on the first island but so far I like it and no bugs yet (then again, the game was fairly stable until mid-way or broken quest bugs).

Very glad I bought it (so far)!

[Csimbi]

Originally Posted by camelotcrusade

The expansion has its own sessions folder, so mods to the original campaign probably won't affect it.

Wrong. Mods are loaded as well (as they should), but the mods should be updated (things will be broken as some files might be older).

[camelotcrusade]

Originally Posted by Csimbi

Wrong. Mods are loaded as well (as they should), but the mods should be updated (things will be broken as some files might be older).

Okay, thanks for clearing that up Csimbi. Should you put all mods in the original /sessions/mod folder then? Would mods put into the expansion folder only affect the expansion I'm not using any right now, I just want to know.

@CK I've found about 5 bugs so far (I can't help it ) and I sent them in a PM to sneaksie and asked him if there's preferred way to report them Nothing major so far, the most annoying one is that getting +1 runes from combat experience doesn't appear to work (your rank info screen still says 0 runes). I just reload when that happens and try for a different bonus.

Edit - one more kinda major bug, the skald isn't getting combat exp for using his songs. Likely a bug becuase everybody else gets exp for using abilities. It's kinda hard to level him that way.