Let's Play: Betrayal at Krondor

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Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

PurpleXVI posted:

Turns out that despite playing through this game like three or four times, I never knew it was possible to push the crystals diagonally before

wait what

# ¿ Sep 24, 2021 16:09

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 13:37

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

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So, as you know by now, the Mind Melt spell is "impossible" to get in the patched version 1.02 of the game. This is the version GoG has, as well as the free abandonware version from before that. And (I think) the CD version - basically everything except the original floppy version.

This spell was ONLY available by completing a mini-quest in Dencamp on the Teeth. In one house, a "red haired" guy gives you a password to tell the guard house just north of him. It's the wrong password, though. Originally, you go back to him, intimidate him, and he gives you the correct password - "diamond". Unfortunately, for some reason, in version 1.02 - the only version you will ever play, most likely - he is no longer at the house, and you cannot get he correct password, thus you can never finish this quest or get the "Mind Melt" spell. EVER.

This is a great spell, so I messed around with the hex a little and figured out how to fix/advance the quest REALLY simply.

After you start the quest, and are told "golden treasure" is the wrong password, make a save. Then, open it with any simple hex editor. I used HxD. Go to line (or "offset") AC0 (listed as "00000AC0"). The 6th digit will be a "4" (so, like, xx xx x4 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx will be the full line). Just change the "4" to a "C". Save the file. Exit. That's all. Just load your game, and go talk to the guy now. He will give you the right password and allow you to finish the quest and get the spell.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2021 15:18

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Krondor.

This game is not called Betrayal at Eggley, after all.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 02:02

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

The best spell is Dragon Skin and it's not even close.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 15:10

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

There's also the item duping method that my kid self was very proud of independently discovering.

First, you need at least two stackable items and a place to store them (like, say, LaMut fountain). Then you fill up the stash with all the items that it can hold, then remove one of them. Put one charge/unit of the item you want to duplicate into the stash. Then put one more of that same item into the stash. The game will ask 'how many'. Select the highest amount and the game will spawn that many items out of thin air. Repeat until you are super rich.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2021 18:42

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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Both the chest and the shop that provide Skin of the Dragon are on the most direct route to Krondor in Chapter 1.

And as noted earlier, as long as you get a cast of SotD off, you win that combat.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2021 16:16

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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Flowers don't bloom well in the frozen north, so fresh corpses are used as a substitute.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 20:05

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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PurpleXVI posted:

Nighthawk treachery had silenced their cannons and too many men had fallen in four days of heavy fighting.

Does Northwarden actually have cannons at that point? I thought it was still ballista/trebuchet kind of era.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 18:03

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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I found those magicians to be the single hardest unavoidable encounter in the entire game.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2021 19:22

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 13:37

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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From what I recall, if you kill Makala and run away from Dreads, you can loot a third Staff of Macros from his body.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2021 19:53

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