Re: [Exult-general] Finished SI

[Jeff F. <js...@cy...>]

On Monday 29 October 2001 09:28 am, Jeff Freedman wrote:
> After MANY hours of play over the weekend, I finished SI last night.  

Two other fixes:

6.  Vasculio's now a lot easier to beat if you have the Magebane sword.

7.  Teleporters in the Sleeping Bull 'wardrobe room' weren't working.

I have noticed a few bugs reported on the Forum:

1.  Complaints about guards, theft, etc.:  Other than cases where you get 
accused for theft incorrectly (which I think has been fixed), I don't want to 
fiddle with this.

2.  Reports about spots in dungeons with incorrect rendering:  I saw this 
once or twice in SI, but it generally isn't a problem.  It would be worth 
fixing, but only if someone turns in a savegame illustrating it.

3.  Guardian animations in the intro:  Who cares?:-)  I'm pretty sure it 
wasn't synchronized when I played the original BG.
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So, my feeling is that we're about ready for Beta.  Playing SI was a lot more 
work than I've done on development; I'd forgotten what it means for a game to 
be called Ultima (100+ hours of gameplay?).  I'd like to let the code settle 
down for a week or two, and avoid changes to the engine other than for really 
serious bugs.  The only things I'd like to do, after taking a few days rest, 
are:

1.  Add a 'frame-rate' option to the Gameplay menu.

2.  Make sure that the 'fadeout' bug, when starting a new game, is still 
fixed.

As for improvements to theft, combat, guards, formation-walking:  Those can 
go into 1.01.  But my personal goal is to work on ExultStudio mostly.