ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Hello.
I play with this character Yeek corruptor, Ebola (Enola) Gay. I was in orc lands and then managed to return. The quest requires me to go to the kingdom of Reknor again, to find another athame and diamond for another portal.

The moment I go there from the map, the game saves as usual, the loading bar shows, but it animates very fast, without the computer actually loading anything. The game gets stuck.

I must shut it down and try to load it again, at which point the screen is dark. Music plays and the messages from other players show up. I can turn on the inventory, but the item descriptions don't show. If I type > (for entering the location of Reknor), there is this error dialogue for reporting bugs. Now, I discovered that all my save backups have this error and I can't continue playing. DarkGod, would you please consider fixing it for me? I already reported the bug internally and through the contact form on the website.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37423101/Ebola_Gay.zip

Bumpity bump bump

Is there any way to fix this? Substituting the Reknor.teaz file from another save won't help.
Is there any guarantee this won't happen with another character?
Darkgod, are you there?

Bump.

I have the same problem with the entrance of Lake Nur.

This has corrupted a really great run, so please, DG, find a way to fix this.

I cant seem to load yoru save Fohat. ALso when is the bug triggering ? when you enter reknor *after* having been to the east ? always ?

darkgod wrote:I cant seem to load yoru save Fohat. ALso when is the bug triggering ? when you enter reknor *after* having been to the east ? always ?

In my case, I wasn't east. I have been able to reproduce the bug when falling back to a save on Old Forest Lv1, though. Just in case it helps.

I've got a save coming up for you, give it a moment...

EDIT: Save up at weirdrogue, both in 7z and tarball. Cheers.

darkgod wrote:I cant seem to load yoru save Fohat. ALso when is the bug triggering ? when you enter reknor *after* having been to the east ? always ?

Yeah, I can't load my save too, that's the problem
I had been in the east. I went to Reknor for a second time to find tools to build a permanent portal, after the guy in a new tower in Last Hope sent me there.

OK,here is the original save. It's just after returning from the east orc lands, I'm at Last Hope, before even reporting to the mayor and searching for a way to rebuild the portal. Unfortunately, it is without that awesome staff that boosts spellpower +21x3 that I hoped that maybe around the game end I could beat Athamaton with. That was a rare hit and I wish you could copy it somehow from that save to the new one

So just try to go to Reknor, or rather get the quest in Last Hope first and go there. That should reproduce the bug nicely. However, the error message only shows up after you end the game (it gets stuck) load again and then try to press some keys.

Anyway, in this very save I tried to not go to Reknor for now and go grinding through SherTul farportal on the ship. In a third generated scenario or so, the same bug happened, the next map never loaded after the save and the save got corrupted too. I don't mind that the game gets stuck on my Windows 7 64 bit and I have to restart almost every hour or so, but this is much more serious.

bump.

Any news on this? I fear it might happen again, can't really play without worrying about it now.

XLambda wrote:bump.

Any news on this? I fear it might happen again, can't really play without worrying about it now.

Nothing yet, I'll send Darkgod another message, just a reminder.
I know how we can be busy in our lives, procrastinate, or get carried away into the whirl of real life. I also know that Darkgod is busy and posted some very nice new spell effects for TOME. I know that is a fun job to do, the creative and fancy stuff, that's the cream of game development, a reward for the loads of menial coding that never shows making a difference in the game.
So I can imagine that fixing one guy's save (and a potentially a deeply hidden nasty error) might slip between his fingers. It certainly helped me to be more helpful around the house when I can't play TOME
(I tried a mindslayer character though, but he kind of sucks...)

But still, I'd love to win the game for the first time ever and I hoped this yeek corruptor character and his new spellpower-boosting staff would do the trick. Never really got to the end. A Mageblade of mine turned out to be useless against orc prides. (weak mobility and helpess when buffs run out very soon) And an pyromancer archmage of mine was good, but turns out the damage wasn't spectacular in real tough fights. I got stuck at a near-endgame fight with two bosses, managed to kill one, but the other and all the demons teleporting in, they just tax all my resources so much that they always fall short. I came close to killing him once, but never again after many other tries.

Maybe this game is about finding a winning item or strategy or skill tree and sticking to it, not spreading skills thin Just saying, the game is NOT easy or overpowered, despite of folks posting their winner characters, so DG please don't nerf or debuff it down just yet because someone's bragging

So I got again to the same point with my halfling Anorithil mage. The bug is NOT there this time. But still, I made sure to back up my saves properly.
My corruptor probably won't be fixed anymore, too bad for him. She was the best character I had so far. It's like playing a sniper, a long-range projectile-flinging mage. Compared to a painfully short-range Anorithil with half the damage at most, quantity of rays over their quality. We'll see, if how far I can get this time.