To Lands Unknown 3.9

[Konrad2]

'Defense of Saffaros'
6th intro text:
'..., Rashti's perpetual nagging and hiss own worry...

Spoiler:

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[inferno8]

We'll try to get this in for 1.16, even if you're the only one using it. Your addon is such a unique and well-done work that it sucks you need to use these workaround I can't promise it will make it in, but we'll try.

If I was a programmer I'd implement the video playback feature myself, but I am more of an artist than a coder, nonetheless thanks for the support I am pretty sure the animated cutscenes would greatly enhance the core game (imagine The Rise of Wesnoth campaign or any other filled with these - it would be mind-blowing ). As I said, there are workarounds and I am perfectly fine with them for now.

Back to the Konrad2's playthrough:

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For me the Living Gate moves and attacks quite well. Ho'rhamis are a bit lazy though. This looks suspiciously similar to the issue I encountered in the Ruins scenario, where allied units refused to aid me no matter what. I'll try to add simple_attack [micro_ai] to see if it helps. Nevertheless please keep playing. You've done a great job so far!

[Konrad2]

Metamorph allows me to use less xp for leveling up an elemental. It's by no means something grand, I just wanted to mention it. (Different elements need different amounts of xp.)

EDIT:
Look at me, I have a Dimensional Gate with a hitchance of 0%.

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EDIT 2:
'Siege of Kharos'
I know I'm being a bit smallminded there, but I'd like to point out, that when Anthi says to send out half of their soldiers, they actually only send out 40%. Maybe a conspiracy against her? xD

[inferno8]

Metamorph allows me to use less xp for leveling up an elemental. It's by no means something grand, I just wanted to mention it. (Different elements need different amounts of xp.)

Thanks for pointing this out. I should make this value equal for different kinds.

Look at me, I have a Dimensional Gate with a hitchance of 0%

So I am not the only one with this I decided to improve the banish weapon special code and fix these issues. I have attached the new file to this post. It would be cool if someone tested it. The file should be placed in Era_of_Magic/utils. I tried it and there have been no errors so far.

'Siege of Kharos'
I know I'm being a bit smallminded there, but I'd like to point out, that when Anthi says to send out half of their soldiers, they actually only send out 40%. Maybe a conspiracy against her? xD

Oh come on, I though noone would notice It looks like there are some players who pay attention to such incredible details like this

[Konrad2]

Banish is still broken. When I (try to) banish a Tharis, I create a Dimensional Gate II. Sometimes I revert a magical entinity back into such a gate.
I'm not sure if it's now broken less or worse or just different. That's why I'll continue the campaign with the 'old' banish.

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EDIT:

Spoiler:

At the end of 'Abyssal Rebellion' there is a unit created that tells you the results of the search of Reciculs camps. You get to keep that unit. Why?

EDIT 2:
Why does 37,25 belong to side 4?

EDIT 3:

Spoiler:

When True Rashti loses her balance again (by being 'killed'), my objectives don't update that I have to help her.
...well. Why do I even have to help her? It's not like it matters which half kills which.

EDIT 4:
Wesnoth shut down while displaying 'Transition'. Disabling 'animate map' prevents it (again).

[inferno8]

Banish is still broken.

It works for me I'd like to to see a replay.

Abyssal Rebellion:

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A unit searching the camp will become just an extra unit on your on your recall list. I don't think it is a big deal.

Why does 37,25 belong to side 4?

Who stands on 37,25 and which scenario?

Wesnoth shut down while displaying 'Transition'. Disabling 'animate map' prevents it (again).

I'll have to replace the animhack with a fake scenery trick there too. Thanks for reporting.

[Konrad2]

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There you go.

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As I found out with this replay...the teleportation circle seems to be useable after being destroyed.
Which made me notice something else. I was using the circle to recall and recruit my troops, right? So I can't reach them, after the circle is destroyed. So I shouldn't be able to recall or recruit for the rest of the scenario after the circle got destroyed. I'm able to do so though.

37,25 is a village in 'Siege of Kharos'

[inferno8]

I've just seen the replay and not found anything suspicious. The banish weapon special does not transform Tharis units into dimensional gates.Could you tell me exactly when this happens (the exact turn number) and which units are involved? The banish code takes only magical units into account. The filters are untouched from the previous versions.

As for the circle being usable this is probably caused by the fact not all hexes are marked as unwalkable. I'll fix it soon. Thanks for reporting.

[Konrad2]

Ah. I was misunderstood. Marib has 3 Dimensional Gates II at the start of the scenario. One of them advances and whenever I used Banish (on a Tharis or a Hydra), that advanced Dimensional Gate II is transformed back into a Dimensional Gate II.

EDIT: Mehirs Summons Master AMLAs do not add to his needed xp.

EDIT 2:

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I really like the way the Sky Kingdoms portals work now. Even though it's certainly troublesome. xD

EDIT 3:

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Mehir's last words 'Who's going to rule Tar-Tabar now?' don't seem appropriate, when Tar-Tabar is in the Abyss and he is not. (Sky Kingdom)

EDIT 4: Still same scenario.
Why does the one way teleportation circle only work for units lvl 2 and above?

EDIT 5: Skydock is not winable if you don't have money...and I finished the last scenario with -1460 gold.

EDIT 6:

Spoiler:

The game lags a loooot when I recruit or recall units with my ultimate circle.

EDIT 7:

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Food for thought: Maybe remove any living units from the recruit list after Siege of Kharos or after Abyssal Rebellion. I'm alone with my personal troops. Where do I get those new recruits from? Unlike the abyssal beings they are not being summoned.

[inferno8]

Ah. I was misunderstood. Marib has 3 Dimensional Gates II at the start of the scenario. One of them advances and whenever I used Banish (on a Tharis or a Hydra), that advanced Dimensional Gate II is transformed back into a Dimensional Gate II.

Now I see that Ok, I'll take a look at the code again.

Sky Kingdom:

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Mehir's last breath message is correct in my opinion. He is still the ruler of the city, just being away on a ...prolonged trip.

Why does the one way teleportation circle only work for units lvl 2 and above?

Togheter with ForestDragon we decided it would be better to recall only veterans. The automatic recall list is sorted so the best troops come first. You can recall lvl1s and other small fish by capturing a castle.

Skydock is not winable if you don't have money...and I finished the last scenario with -1460 gold.

Thanks for reporting. I'll fix it soon.
The ultimate circle recruitment animation lags a lot for me too, probably due to a heavy impact on the game's render engine (the entire ultimate circle animation is quite complex - this is probably the most sophisticated unit animation ever created ).

Spoiler:

Removing living units may be a risky idea. There is an assumption that Mehir's army visiting Kharos is far bigger that one would imagine. Mehir could probably take about 100 men with him to aid Kharos. I would leave it the way it is.

[Konrad2]

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Regarding his last breath message, I'd say that something like 'I couldn't hold my promise to my men..' would be far more appropriate, as this is kinda his motivation now, right?

[inferno8]

Spoiler:

Good idea with this new last breath message

Indeed your army is quite powerful - poor magi, they won't stand a chance And the best thing is I increased the difficulty of that scenario but it looks like it didn't stop a player like you Beware, the last enemy in the campaign may be a formidable foe, though.

[Konrad2]

Ums don't freeze, do they?

[inferno8]

Ums don't freeze, do they?

Only summoners suffer from low temperatures. Ums should not be affected by this.

[vanillared]

Hello and thank you for creating this great add-on. I am playing on my iPad Pro through the Wesnoth app and I am getting the following error when I load one of the scenarios. I ran into a similar problem before, and reloading the add-on helped but this time I am getting a complete error message. What it looks like on screen is the level loads, but there are no units anywhere on screen.

The scenario is fire canyon.

The following add-on had errors and could not be loaded:
/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/B977DA46-F03D-4665-A568-D2500000EA3D/Library/Application Support/wesnoth.org/iWesnoth/.wesnoth1.13/data/add-ons/To_Lands_Unknown/_main.cfg

Please report this to the author or maintainer of this add-on.

Details:

Macro/file 'PROB' is missing
at languages/da_DK.cfg:2242
included from languages/da_DK.cfg:14
included from <unknown>:18
included from ~add-ons/To_Lands_Unknown/macros/terrain_base.cfg:103
included from ~add-ons/To_Lands_Unknown/_main.cfg:75