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Topic: Horror to easy patch doesnt work


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Author: NOVA (KINGKOTA666 [at] HOTMAIL [dot] COM)
Date: 22-Oct-17, 07:52:19
In answer to +5 magic items appearing for sale in shops, this WAS normal for the game right when it was first released to the public but prior to it being "patched" way back in 1999 to allow for online play. Once the game was patched in that way, the store legal max was reduced to +3 and the concept of "quest" reward gear that could exceed that legal max was also introduced. These "quest" items have an assigned value of 2 gp (so they all sell in stores for exactly 1 gp).

So I would guess one of two things if you are seeing +5 items in stores using your GOG version game:

1) that the GOG version was produced starting from the original and un-patched game release

< OR >

2) That the GOG version has even more than just the online play custom patches applied by persons who thought returning to the +5 legal store max was better.

Since I've never seen the GOG version, it would probably be foolish for me to even hazard a guess which of those two alternatives is most likely. But if the GOG folks had any affiliation with the Allods.eu folks, it would most likely be option #2. Those folks at Allods.eu did some amazing modifications to the game code and added some pretty impressive features to their custom game files.

Having said all that, there are ways to make your own customizations to your own game-play simply by modifying the game's data files (i.e. the .res files). The world.res file though it is extremely small contains much of the game-play information used to determine a great many things. As with all the .res files, it is compressed and is thus tricky to decipher let alone modify without corrupting it. But it can be done. Somewhere I have an excel file where I extracted the contents of the online play patched world.res file and formatted that information for easier human viewing/comprehension. The contents of that file give a lot of insight into what's going on under the hood of the game and in particular how the value and power of magic items is both determined and limited. It defines what spells do, what scrolls do, and what potions do in the game too. All of the NPCs are fully defined inside that file such as how much health they have and how much damage they do when they attack you. In short, it's a tremendously powerful file despite its very small size.

Later,
NOVA
 
Author: Piratelli (ju [dot] piratelli [at] hotmail [dot] com)
Date: 27-Sep-17, 16:23:10
Hey guys, im new here! Im having some troubles with the horror to easy patch, I use the gog version and nothing else works on my pc, the patch for example: I extract into the folder then patch it and it says it was successful but when I open the game I still cannot travel to easier maps. I have 100 in all skills. IM considering to die several times so I can travel back again to hard maps. Anyway anyone know how to solve this problem?

Out of topic: Im talking to defiant and he is being really helpfull to me, very nice guy. In our talks I mentioned that im being able to find +5 body in all gears at the shop and he found out that weird and oriented me to aks NOVA if this was normal.
 
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