Third Act Beta! - SOTW 0.8.38

[jack1974]

Thanks, fixed it. I won't upload a new build just for that bug since is only a cheat mode will wait for more stuff to show up.

[Franka]

Where did Althea/Shea learn to swim anyway? (Nutty quest) Do they have deep hot springs in the Evercold?

[Taleweaver]

Actually, the answer is "almost yes".

You don't see it in the game, but the Ninim elves have a tradition of enjoying saunas - and after that, a round of ice swimming. They believe the contrast between steaming hot and icy cold makes a person more balanced.

[Troyen]

Well for sure I want to encourage replayability, so not all achievements should be "achievable" (lol) in a single playthrough.

Sure, but I'm not sure that's a good idea for the "all quests" achievement. Someone playing this would be working on that all the way throughout the game and only find out near the end, after romancing a character, that they can't get the last quest. You already have achievements for all the other romances and V/R quests and even the alone ending to encourage replayability, so I think the quest limit should be set at 11 and the extra quest is just a bonus (compensation) for living alone and secluded.

Otherwise, you're incentivizing people to not pick a romance because of the significant exp bonus heading into act 4.

[jack1974]

Wait, what you say is what I actually want to do: I don't want the quest bonus be obtainable only if you do a specific quest. I already removed the Chalassa's quest from the count (so even if you do it, won't count towards the total quest solved). But I thought that fabula said the total number of quests is still 12 ? or am I wrong?

Let's count, there should be:
1 Merrow's men (initial quest)
+1 Jariel's quest = 2
then +9 quests, 3 locations (tavern, forge, merrow) x 3 tiers = 11

Ah wait, there's also the vaelis/rowinda personal quest: so in theory would be 13, but you can do only one of the two, so fabula was correct, the max amount of quests you can do is 12. In this case / season you can't solve all possible quests for plot reasons, but the amount of 12 is still a goal you can obtain playing with any character/romance

[fabulaparva]

Oh dem quest counts....
One of the quests in my logbook isn't counted (I don't mean the Chalassa quest)
When I fiddled around with Act 3 the first time, my counter stopped at 11/12. The quest that I hadn't done then was Rowinda's (and that Chalassa's extra, that doesn't count anymore, anyway).
Quest log from that experiment lists:

Spoiler:

1)Merrow's Men (MErrow 1)
2)A trip in the forest (Jariel)
3)Lost Brother (Aenais 1)
4)Empire's Plans (MErrow 2)
5)Pride of Lukoss (Tavern 1)
6)Lost Parents (Aenais 2)
7)Consequences (Vaelis')
Nutty Nutt's Treasure (Tavern 2)
9)Thank You (Aenais 3)
10)War Or Peace (MErrow 3)
11)Sunken Ship (Tavern 3)
12)Bad Reputation (MErrow 4)

Not 100% sure of some of the start up locations (in parentheses=.
So that's twelve done, (13 possible, if I had done Rowinda's quest) but the counter said 11. So one of those listed in the spoiler isn't counted. (I'm suspecting it's the 5XP "Thank You")
I'll be sure to catch which one eventually, but it might be a while so if anyone else knows it already now....

[jack1974]

Yes you're right, is the Thank You quest, since is not a real quest I didn't count it but I'll probably add it, since somehow I like more the sound of 12 quests than 11

[iWeasle]

if someone else has spotted this or if I'm actually just an idiot who couldn't find a quest or something my apologies, but on the Third act beta during act 2 when

Spoiler:

the master of the pits sends you out to buy equipment after hearing Chalassa's story, I did everything there was to do and came back to the Arena, but every time I tried to click "Yes" to return to the Arena, Shea would ask if we could explore more, even though there was nothing to do. I found a workaround by loading the save on an old act 2 build and moving past that point but that probably isn't going to be a feature in the final game

[Franka]

I got past that with no problems, but that was 2 versions ago or something.

[jack1974]

Send me the "bugged save", I think you forgot to do something but I can be more accurate