Re: Let's Play Sierra Games - Quest for Glory III?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:47 am
Welp. So ...
Keeping Sierra On-Line Alive
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I remember reading about this bug years ago, but I don't think I ever experienced it myself. I always though the bug was a result of running the game on newer hardware and became moot with DOSBox, but I guess I was mistaken. I did find this, suggesting waiting a day. Maybe try going to Tarna and back to the village:Tawmis wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:05 pm Well, I took a break from the game and got back to it over the long weekend...
And...
Seem to hit a bug.
Dispeled the Leopard woman.
Did the contest.
Won the contest.
Talked to Uhura.
Got the items I need to pay for the bride.
And I can't seem to enter Laibon's hut anymore.
And found a few threads, like this, that seem to indicate the same...
https://www.gog.com/forum/quest_for_glo ... n_hut_woes
From what I've found - it's apparently a bug with how the events are done - and for fighters/paladins (I am playing a paladin) - it easily gets effed up between the horn given, the contest, then the price of the bride,... If you do even one thing odd, it breaks the chain of events.
SCI Companion.Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:24 pm From what I've found - it's apparently a bug with how the events are done - and for fighters/paladins (I am playing a paladin) - it easily gets effed up between the horn given, the contest, then the price of the bride,... If you do even one thing odd, it breaks the chain of events.
Yeah, I have SCI Companion. Now if I knew how to fix the code. But it makes no sense to me when I open Resource.Map for QFGIII. I see things I recognize, but can't understand what's what.Collector wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:37 pmSCI Companion.Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:24 pm From what I've found - it's apparently a bug with how the events are done - and for fighters/paladins (I am playing a paladin) - it easily gets effed up between the horn given, the contest, then the price of the bride,... If you do even one thing odd, it breaks the chain of events.
Seriously. There's some atrocious bugs in QFGIII.
My play through for this was as a Paladin.goatmeal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:57 am I never played QFG3 as a Fighter, but as for the other three classes (Paladin, Magic User, Thief), the only significant bug I could remember was as a Magic User during the big fight against the Lepoardman Shaman -- something was definitely broken there, but being ~29 years later, but I just can't remember what... seems like a spell I needed to use but couldn't?...
It was either that, or I couldn't use the required spell needed to defeat the Demon King at the game's end. Or maybe since I couldn't get the spell after defeating the Leopardman Shaman, I couldn't use it against the Demon King... Sadly, it's been far too long...
CyricZ's walkthrough for QFG3 might be helpful for the 'correct' order of things for the bride purchase.
As far as 'beefing' up your character for QFG4, just use one of those character modifiers for QFG games. There's at least 2 of them around, and both work fine in DOSBox.
Loved the setting of QFG3 (a nice change of pace from the commonplace 'Eurocentric' theme), as well as the inclusion of the two junkmen, An Forda and his son, 'Dummy.'
As for stats, I will just work it normal in QFGIV, with no need of edits or bugs to take advantage of. I don't mind building up stats, as long as there isn't a bug that's going to end up dead ending me. Which is what happened in QFGIII - I was literally just going out to the Savana constantly to fight to build up my Weapon Use, Strength, etc., and got most of them to 300 when I hit the bug.
Mother trucker. I bet it would have...notbobsmith wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:06 pm I wonder if some of the issues you've been having were addressed by NRS' patch:
http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/P ... dates.html
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