How to Prevent Item Loss on Entering New Difficulty

[Munderbunny]

A problem with all custom games is that when you go to a new difficulty level for the first time, the game loads its core resources and causes the character to lose all custom items, skills, quest rewards, etc..

There are 2 basic methods to prevent this from happening to your character, depending on your character's progress.

1.) If you have a brand new character, or are going to make a brand new character, use the Triple-Load Trick.

2.) If you have a character that has progressed through the game, and accumulated custom items/rewards, then use the player.chr method.

Regardless of where your character is, you should employ one of these methods immediately. Do not wait to take care of this.

Triple-Load Trick

Triple-Load trick: If you have a brand new character, the easiest way is to simply load the character into normal, epic, and legendary before playing normal. Really, it's just that simple. Make your new character, and load the game on normal. Once the game has loaded and you see your character standing in the village, exit the game, and start a new game on epic difficulty. Then again on legendary. Once you've loaded the village on all 3 difficulties, you may return to normal to begin your adventure.


Player.chr Method

This method comes courtesy of Abysmal, who says to make a backup of your player.chr file (found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Munderbunny\My Documents\My Games\Titan Quest - Immortal Throne\SaveData\User\_MunderLilithCharacter\player .chr). Then, load that character into epic and legendary. Then, restore the player.chr file, and you should be able to play the game normally without any problem.

However, I have not tested and confirmed this method, so I can't vouch for it. Make a backup of the savedata folder before trying this method.

If the method doesn't work, then you can use the map.dat method, but be aware that if you use this method, your character will respawn in epic and legendary at the last health fountain you touched in normal. This is only a problem for characters that have made it to the final dungeon, as there are no other health fountains in the game.

last-resort Map.dat Method (all credit goes to grndr for figuring it out)

If you already started a Lilith campaign, but did not first visit epic and legendary before playing normal, just go to your custom Lilith character's savedata folder and copy the map.dat from the normal folder into an epic and legendary one Your character can now enter epic and legendary without losing anything, and you won't have to replay quests and all that. Here's an explicit step-by-step:

The file we want to copy is called "map.dat". For my lilith character named "LTEST" on my Windows XP machine, this file is located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Munderbunny\My Documents\My Games\Titan Quest - Immortal Throne\SaveData\User\_LTEST\Maps_jalavia.map\Norma l\map.dat"

1.) Start in your character's maps_jalavia.map folder where you will see a folder named "Normal". If you have already entered the game on Epic, you will also see a folder named "Epic".

2.) Create a new folder for each missing difficulty (so, create one named "Epic" if it doesn't exist and create one named "Legendary" if it doesn't exist.)

3.) Copy the map.dat file from the "Normal" folder into the "Epic" and "Legendary" folders.

4.) Pwn.

With the map.dat already in an existing epic and legendary folder, the game will not supercede the custom resources to create those folders and files, and thus will not cause custom items to be deleted.

[makemesoup]

Thanks Munder.

You rock.

[Roland]

This indeed will be very helpful TY