Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General Finally ... I want the old voice back *smile*

Three annoying things :

- I don't understand the teleporter riddle ... if that's a riddle at all !

- I've given the second summoning doll the skill "elemental missile". The doll doesn't use it. Why ? Not as secondary, not as primary skill.

- Third : I *saw* a teleporter pramid in the north ... as I approached, it disappeared !

Do you mean the 3 triangular teleporters in the north east of the fire forest? There is a corner of the teleporter that points in the direction it will teleport you...
Once you have the teleporter stones... <span class='standouttext'>Spoiler : </span><span class='spoiler'> teleport onto the east island using the teleporter pad, drop a teleporter stone, then take the triangular teleporter back. Use the teleporter stone to get onto the east island, then take the triangular teleporter to the western island.</span> (highlight the text to read)

Did you select the summoning doll, select that skill as either the primary or secondary skill, and click to attack? IIRC if you have an instant elemental attack as a primary skill and the character is set to aggressive, they will attack on their own. I think people mentioned that a different spell as a primary skill you would have to tell it to attack to start, but then it would continue on its own. With a spell selected as a secondary attack, there was no automatic casting even in aggressive mode. It is something like that anyway (I have not played a mage).

The teleporter stone you saw is actually the second of the pair. As you entered the little mushroom forest, there was a chest partially surrounded by rocks. Open the chest...

Strange ... the chest didn't contain a teleporter stone ... and the one I mentioned ... I could see it, but it disappeared as if it had been an illusion. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Is this a bug ?

Did you open the chest? It doesn't matter if the mouse-over description says it contains nothing, open the chest.

Hm, don't remember.

Well, now I understand why you've insisted on that ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Apart from that, it's kind of sad to see that the Ranaar have almost vanished ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Well, I've found a key, but what for ?

And where's the Alchemist ?

Do you mean the key on the western island with the triangular teleporter pad? That opens a chest in the spider forest, about half way along the western edge. For all the effort it took to get the key, there is not much of value in the chest, though.

The alchemist is in the fire forest east of the village, in a cave not too far from the entrance. Before getting the quest to find him from the chieftain's son, the cave will be empty.

Ah, I see.

Since I don't know what to do next, I'm currently in the Battlefields. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

I feel a bit as if I'm stuck; I've solved all of the quests (although I couldn't find the "exiled spider" anymore), and I'm kind of saddened that I see everywhere remains and artifacts of the Ranaar, but nothing living. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

There are a few live Raanaar in act 3.

1. Are the items in the BF quests visible via pressing ALT ?

2. How does the Rune Stone look like ?

I'm in a battlefield, in the last area, where there is supposed to be something , but I cannot find anything there, no item, no enemy. Everything is looking like the "underground maze" from Act I.

BF quest items should show up with the alt key, AFAIK, unless perhaps they are obscured behind a wall, or something. I have not been doing the BF dungeons, so never got a quest for a rune stone. My guess is that it would look like a stone. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

BF quest items and monsters are placed randomly on the third levels of the dungeons, so it is possible for any particular dungeon to have none, one or multiple items or boss monsters.

I see. Hm ...
I guess I must search further on ...

I think I've found quite a severe bug : If you meet enemies in the BF who are trapped in a "black area", you know, the area filled with black colour where normally no-one can go into , and you use the Shaman's Hammer, then you'll get an instant Black Screen !

Everything is black, except minimap, and user interface.

You'll get your view back via reloading, but using the hammer again, even in normal (non-black) areas, the same thing happens again !

I think this needs to be fixed !

I use 1.45, English version.

When the screen goes black, can you double click on a character's portrait or use the screen refocus hotkey to bring it back?

Well, since I've deleted that particular savegame, I must reconstruct things.

Getting the focus back - why, since I cannot see anything ?

Everything on the minimap is displayed totally normal - I can even see blue & red dots (party & enemies).

I could play on - using the minimap only. But that's nonsense, see ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

The bug happens seemingly in those very rare cases (I#ve seen them several times now), when you not only see the enemies in the "black area" as red dots on the minimap, but also when you can *reall* see them ! It's like looking through a crack in the wall or something. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Then the hammer gets its focus, I mean it "knows" where to land on (enemies, of course <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) , and then everything gets black - except UI and minimap, of course.

Saving and reloading brings the normal sight back, but anytime I use the hammer, even on normal enemies in sight-line (I've tried this), the game "crashes" again insofar that everything gets black - like I described.

[color:"orange"]Getting the focus back - why, since I cannot see anything ?[/color]

Because it may simply be a case of the screen focus jumping to a black area when you use the Hammer skill, rather than focus remaining on your characters and the screen turning black. If so, then re-centring the screen focus would be a much easier, though still annoying, workaround than saving and reloading.

Isee, but when I lose focus, this might be displayed in the minimap as well, no ?

I mean - while everything is black, I can still see the chars and their current location on the minimap - and normally both correspond (right spelled ?) with one another, or am I wrong ?

sorry alrik but i think you're wrong here... the characters are at the same location so there is no reason the minimap changes... as raze was pointing it out it is probably just the camera focus that changed...

Then I must find that area again where it happened, and try it out. Might take a while.

But still I don't understand : Where should the focus go to ?

IIRC, it happens only when you're exploring a zone and are near a black area or when you're on the borders of a BF dungeon... so the focus goes into that black area... it's a bug, but an easily fixed one... anyway if that was that! (there is always the possibility that it was something else... but from you describing it...)

As I've lived to see that, it happened only when I used the hammer.

I'm going to find an aqrea where I can test this - and probably send you a savegame. But it might well take a while.