I am aware that other people have encountered this problem before, but I have not been able to find any positive way to solve it. In essence, my lovely heroine is now completely blind. That is, she cannot see ANY other NPC, be it friend or foe, cannot fight them and canot talk to them. The fog at the unexplored areas also would not clear away, even if she is running straight to the black areas. (Still, she keeps seeing objects on the ground).
After several experiments with the previously saved games, I have ascertained that loss of sight happens in the vicinity of the Cursed Abbey: equipped items all get an additional bonus of "Sight+1", but with every equipping / unequipping items the sight of the heroine is decreasing. Now she is only able to see with the help of her small bonus Elven Sight (from an equipped item), and this is absolutely fatal for an archer (which she is).
Unfortunately I noticed the loss of sight much later than it actually happened. (Currently I am wandering in the Dark Forest). Installation of the last patch (v. 1.32, English) HAS NOT HELPED. That is, even with the patch applied, the heroine remains blind, no matter what -- sleeping, reading the books, loading a new area, watching the cutscenes. I tried to return to previous saves, but again in the area of the Cursed Abbey I found that the equipped items were still gaining a bonus to sight, and my heroine was still losing sight.
This makes me wonder, where on earth I can look at the Sight and Hearing characteristics of my heroine? Having 4th level of Monster Identification, I can see these values for any low-level monster, but how can I check these values for myself? I suspect that now my Sight is much below zero.
The only way I see out of this situation is to edit the items (to remove all these extra "Sight +1" strings) and my personal data (restoring my sight to normal) in the latest saved game. As I am now rather far into the game, I would not like to lose my hard-earned results, and since applying patch *before* wandering around the Cursed Abbey does not help, I see no sense to return to old saves, too.
Please if anybody could point me in the direction of some good editor of saved games, this would be greatly appreciated. (If it's a HEX editor, please kindly provide me with information what strings I should look for, and where !! )
P.S. I should mention that I have read the threads from this forum which were dealing with the similar problem (especially
THIS thread and those mentioned within), but unfortunately they did not provide any clues except for an advice to apply the patch (has not helped). Also I tried to empty the Dynamic folder (this has not helped, either).
