[Exult-general] State of Exult - Part 2

[Dominik R. <dom...@gm...>]

Hi all,

very recently I finished playing through SI with Exult and found it quite enjoyable and without any game breaking bugs. Marzo’s fixes in June made all the then remaining big issues vanish.

There was one problem introduced by the desk schedule (Zulith’s body was overburdened by the desk items so his paperdoll had no room for the usecode generated scroll right before usecode kills him) but Jeff fixed that the other day.

An odd bug is that Dupre will kind of return close to the finish but will disappear when you save and reload https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/1892/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/1892/>

Another cosmetic bug is that we do not have subtitles in the SI endgame. Apparently no one ever found time to implement them, even though the general events of the endgame have been timed (see /gamemgr/sigame.cc <http://sigame.cc/>:979). I’ve done the groundwork of adding the full subtitle text to /data/exultmsg.txt with rev 7490 but I have no idea on how to proceed. If anyone is able to begin some work on it, I’ll happily try to finish it.

The only puzzling major bug is https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/1883/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/1883/> which seems to be some caching issue that kind of breaks the beginning of the test of courage in BG FoV. If you get too near the beginning and then somehow get away from it the mage, the golems, headless etc. may be cached out or something like that and never get back. This could happen if you fly over the area with the magic carpet.
The upside is that you can continue by searching the bodies around the east red moongate in that room and find the same key the mage would have on him. So you can continue on past this bug.

And the anti-magic rain is still an issue that might need some hackish fix to be dependent on time and/or closeness to the weather egg.

Now if we can fix up these bugs we are good to release and I’d manage a release as soon as possible before any other major bugs appear :)

(we do have all sorts of minor and cosmetic bugs, though, if anyone wants to take on smaller things).

I’d really appreciate it if one of the team could start the SI endgame subtitle bug fix. Once I see how it is done I should be able to finish it.

Thanks and take care

Dominik