Bugs and fixes for unofficial patch

[yerkyerk]

Bugs and Fixes for an unofficial patch

version: 1.15RC
We plan to release the final version of the bugfix patch on the 13th of October.

Introduction
This is the Opening Post (OP) and it will be updated throughout the development of this project. Here you can find the progress on the 'unofficial patch for Titan Quest'-project. This patch is made because a lot of bugs were still present in the game and players wanted to get rid of these. With the demise of Iron Lore an official patch will probably never come, so we decided to make an unofficial patch. Currently patch v1.15RC has been released.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Patch (RC)
- Want to help?
- Bugs fixed in the latest patch
- Credits

Patch (Release Candidate)
The latest patch should be installed over a fresh TQ:IT install.
You can download the site from the official source here.
Or choose one of the mirrors.
Mirror #1
Mirror #2
Mirror #3
It's available in English French and German. It's still being tested, therefore please report any errors you find to us, so they can be processed.

WARNING, read before installing:
- If you use steam, it's probably best to start the game once after a fresh install before you apply the patch. This could prevent cd-key issues.
- It is advised to use the patches on a clean install of TQ:IT. Some people with previous adjustments installed have reported issues when applying this patch.
- Windows Vista x64 users have reported errors installing this patch, this is hopefully taken care of in the latest version. Please report any problems if you have this system. If you have this issue, we advice to set compatibility mode to windows '98
- You can only play online with other people who installed this patch. Eventually this patch will be officially released and (hopefully) widely spread, but for now, we advice against installing this patch if you value online play above a fixed game.
- If anything goes wrong with installing; there should be a backup folder in your IT directory. Restore the files to revert to your previous installation.

Want to help?
We are in need of help for this patch, if you think you can help us, look here.

Bugs fixed in beta patch v1.15
If new bugs and/or fixes are discovered, I'll edit this post to contain them.

Bugs fixed in beta patch v1.15
Monsters/Bosses/Devices
- Controllers Fixed for megalesios spirit
- Chest Traps Fixed (fire, frost, plaque, and poison)
- Dark Obelisk Soul Fixed
- Charon Minion Fixed
- Night Mistress Hero Fixed
- Many NPCs in Act 4 Fixed
- Mob pools through out all acts Fixed
- About 30 Mob Skills fixed

Effects
- Effects for Eruption, Wildfire, Arrows(default, marksmanship, and scatter shot), and Dart(default) Fixed

Items
- Many Chest loot tables Fixed
- Loot Table for Clam Shell Fixed
- Many Loot Tables for mobs Fixed

Shrines
- Few Shrines in Greece, Babylon, Egypt, and Orient fixed

Quests
- Quest Objects Mushroom Chest, Root Chest, and Urn of the Titans Fixed
- Total Damage Buff quest reward should be working NEEDS TESTING

Misc
- Few UI Improvments (roll over style on ground items, and main hud)
- Bug in Cliff Wall of Hades Cave Fixed

Bugs fixed in beta patch v1.14
Additional Features
- Added updated Templates.arc for modders
- New Randimization Patch added

Other bugs
- Misspellings in the EN version
- Talos, Hydra and Megalesios do not drop arm gear in Legendary. They drop 2x the amount of head gear instead.

Bugs fixed in beta patch v1.13 and before
Bugged skills
- Ravages of Time does not reduce damage.
- Nymph actually does less damage on level 19 and 20.
- The last 2 levels of Mortal Wound should be 410 and 445
- The minus physical damage from Fatigue is totally messed up
- Pets aren't able to use petskills above their max level (the max level of all petskills are increased to max level+4 and cannot be increased beyond that)
- Level 11 and 12 of Reflection yield no increase
- Ternion Attack,the skill of "Spirit Mastery" will not take advantage of the "projectile speed bouns" witch Arcane Lore offered.
- Triumph does not reduce damage

Bugged items
- Homados/Barbarian's Spiked greaves gives a wrong bonus
- Some damage bonuses don't work correctly. As can be seen in the editor, they should give two bonuses, but only one displays (and works). It concerns the following suffixes: "of Destruction, "of Carnage", "of Devastation" and "of Annihilation".
- Normal affixes on equipment in Epic/Legendary
- Epic Herakles relics give better bonuses than Legendary ones
- The +%Armor Protection completion bonus for Theban and Battlemage sets does work, but does not display correctly.
- Armour on Ismene's Bracers is not given
- The diseased plumage and venom sac charms sometimes don't yield a completion bonus.
- -%recharge and -%energy cost on Divine scroll of Archmages Fury doesn't work.
- -%recharge as an affix does not work at all - this was fixed by making -%recharge a granted skill. So items with a -%recharge affix will now have granted skill in their description.
- Schlilsh's Skinner (MI sword of the swamp Anourans); the bleeding damage it does is messed up across the difficulties
- Affixes that grant a -%recharge bonus don't work.
- Erebus Crystal completion bonus mixes up Legendary with normal bonus
- Overseer's Crest should give +2 to earth enchantment but doesn't.
- Golden Fleece doesn't give the right amount of -%energy cost cost.

Bugged quests
- The Stygian Lurker gives the quest reward, but it disappears after exiting the game.
- The Quest for Hades Generals does partially work, but not completely.

Bugged drops
- The loot tables are messed up, some items do not drop correctly. A partial fix for this was made.
- Some bonuses that were obviously intended (+2 defensive skills on shields, +1/2 to certain class skills on staves and some more).
- The Hermes Sandal relic is present in the database, but doesn't drop
- The Hermes Sandal relic doesn't give bonuses on completing
- Drop rates for Ismene's Helm - enemies have 0% chance to wear this.
- Revenant Greaves are only available in Normal.
- Bloodborn Leggings; the correspondent table refers to helmets instead of leggings.
- Shaman Helms - gets -12% recharge at Normal, 0% at Epic and Legendary.
- Shaman Leggings - gets -12% recharge at Normal, 0% at Epic and Legendary.

Multiplayer bugs
- Phoenix (Legendary)The Heat Shield skill insta-kills allies.

Other bugs
- Some textures are not readable by textureviewer
- Numerous bad linkage errors in the database
- Blacksmith in Epic Knossos doesn't sell helmets.
- Merchants do not sell bows in Epic Act 2.
- +% damage bonuses on relics aren't working correctly in beta patch v1.09RC

Unofficial patch bugs
- Leonidas (NPC from Sparta/Athens) is frozen in patch 1.12RC
- hopefully fixed all the not moving npc/monsters, the animation files were removed from a lot of the dbr's in xxdxxd's collection of fixes that luedtke added to the patch
- Some mobs became rather powerful with patch 1.12RC, so some of their items were removed again

Performance bugs
- Tower of Judgement entrance is stuttering, which causes lagging.
- The Crystal room stuttering causes lagging.
- The game files were organized better to give a small perfomance increment

Minor bugs
- Completed Embodiment of Anubis relic displays wrong. (It's lifted).
- Brain Cleave (Epic) is missing a letter.
- Spearmen from athens have swords in their right hands.

Additional Features
- The skins of the Allskins Mod were included in the patch. This makes you able to see many skins on multiplayer and be able to trade the skin bottles from other players and apply them. To use these skins yourself you need to use the Allskins Mod though.
- The version number is now in the bottom right corner (where it's supposed to be).
- This installer is able to pack any other texures you want into the .arcs.
- IT Templates, provided by the IL team, should be added


Credits
A lot of people are involved with this unofficial patch. I've tried to give credit where credit was due, but I could mess up - please report if you are missing or incorrectly represented on the credit did and I will gladly rectify it. The names on the credits are given in alphabetical order

Coordinating:
luedtke6788, yerkyerk
Fixing:
Arminia, ctrl+alt+suppr, Elias (from TQHQ), Ganelon, grndr, GuardianWarrior, I_Raps, luedtke6788, Kalyan, KonataEx, nemhauser, Pyrite, ShadowLich, xxdxxd
Installer:
luedtke6788
Documentation:
Extrakun, yerkyerk
Testing, suggestions, feedback, ideas and stuff
Batman, Ganymed, Gene, Knivel, Kupferstecher, luedtke6788, lufe, McGyverForTehWin, pamplmoose, Pyrite, Soranor, yerkyerk and many others
Special thanks
The late IL development team for bringing us this great game with some spiffy tools.
Also to luedtke6788, for her large part in this project.
All testers that I forgot to mention

[Ganelon]

Bug:
Affixes that grant a -recharge bonus don't work
Fix: (it's not a batch-file yet)
http://www.titanquest.net/forums/mod...rge-items.html

Actually, it turns out that this fix didn't work. I "fixed" the affixes on relics, which worked already. It's the affixes on greens that are broken. The French patch contains a workaround for this, but it's pretty ugly.

The only way that a project like this will get done is if we just do it. Whenever I make or find a fix, I'll attach it to this post. I recommend that others do the same. If someone decides that they want to be the guy to collect all of the files into one unit, then they should just do it. Let's not waste time and energy trying to delegate roles to strangers over the internet.

Filesize permitting, we should try to post our fixes as raw dbrs (placed in the correct directory structure, of course). This will make combining things much easier than if everyone posts their work as packaged mods.

Discovered Fixes:
Fix for Stuttering in The Tower of Judgement http://www.titanquest.net/forums/tec...tuttering.html

Fix for Stuttering in Crystal Room
http://www.titanquest.net/forums/tec...tuttering.html

Attached files (will be updated as the situation warrants):
Triumph workaround: This is a borderline case. It is equal parts mod and fix. Personally, I think it should be included, but opinions may vary.

EDIT I removed the Triumph attachment, since much better versions now exist.

Smarter Nymph: Another borderline case. This causes the Nymph to stop saving up her energy for a rainy day and actually USE Nature's Wrath (she currently only uses it once every four shots, which makes it useless). The change easily doubles or even triples or damage output, and the Nymph is now an okay pet. She will bottom out her energy pretty fast, but I'd rather have a pet that always performs optimally but has to be recharged than a pet that has no energy issues but never does anything useful.

Smarter Nymph ONLY alters the Nymph's AI. It makes no changes to her stats or skills. It is a 100% "legit" mod.

EDIT I attached fixes for the Nymph's damage bug, the broken Hydra loot table, and the broken affixes on Diseased Plumage and Venom Sac charms. See this post:

http://www.titanquest.net/forums/mod...tml#post225991

Note that my fix for the charms is different from the French fix. The French simply deleted the reference to the broken affixes, which prevents the charms from spawning with a blank completion bonus. I decided to just fix the link instead of eliminating it. Both of these charms can now spawn with a +% poison effect, which appears to have been the original intent. Thanks goes to Arminia for locating the correct affix files.

[yerkyerk]

Well, we're already collecting bugs and fixes thereof, a good first step I edited the first post and deleted the fix for -recharge affixes, while adding the stuttering fixes and the nymph AI.

Nymph AI sounds perfectly legitimate to me, though I see that some might not agree. If there's a few people having problem with the new AI, I'll remove it.

I'm not sure on the stuttering fixes - don't they remove aesthetic game stuff in the region (shades)?

I can't seem to attach files when editing my post, not really a problem, I'll just link to the correct place.

[Extrakun]

Have the developers (sorry. I am too new here) tried to explain the rubber-banding? As far as my limited game development experience goes, it looks like some sort of resources thrashing and I don't think there's a way to solve it 'properly' until you go into the source code.

But removing large objects that straddles between 2 different areas may help. Just a newbie's hunch.

[Pyrite]

Regarding the French patch: AFAIK, it works in English versions, and it fixes:
Rewards for the Stygian Lurker quest
Bugged Homados/Barbarian's Spiked greaves
Armour on Ismene's Bracers
Drop rates for Ismene's Helm/Revenant Greaves/Bloodborn Leggings
Completion bonuses for Venom Sac/Diseased Plumage
Fix/workaround for -Recharge% affixes/Shaman's MI sets/Scroll of Archmage's Fury
Some minor graphics bugs

[Extrakun]

Regarding the French patch: AFAIK, it works in English versions, and it fixes:
Rewards for the Stygian Lurker quest
Bugged Homados/Barbarian's Spiked greaves
Armour on Ismene's Bracers
Drop rates for Ismene's Helm/Revenant Greaves/Bloodborn Leggings
Completion bonuses for Venom Sac/Diseased Plumage
Fix/workaround for -Recharge% affixes/Shaman's MI sets/Scroll of Archmage's Fury
Some minor graphics bugs

Great! How does one get it and apply it?

BTW, I was thinking, there are areas in IM that looks unfinished, like Cave of Apollo and Cave of Artemis (if you read the quest text, it mentions that the monsters are streaming from there), and that the Den of Tantarus (I'm sure I spell is wrong) is devoid of anything horrible (I was expecting something like the Manticore in the Windswept Cave).

Would more optional beasts of legends for IM be a valid 'addition' for a patch?

[Pyrite]

Great! How does one get it and apply it?

It used to be a full .arz replacement, but the 1.10D release has it in both .arz and a .bat file that allows you to patch your existing database. The download link is in this thread:

http://www.titanquest-fr.com/forum/topic5174.html

Extract the files to your IT database folder, then run the .bat file and apply option 1.

[Batman]

This now gets a STICKY. Thanks guys.

[yerkyerk]

Ok, I updated the OP with Pyrite's new info. Thanks Pyrite! I'm going to try the Frenchies patch myself I think.

[GuardianWarrior]

Here is another fix:
"RELIC - Golden Fleece" - BUGFIX
http://www.titanquest.net/forums/tec...ce-bugfix.html