To Lands Unknown 3.9

[Konrad2]

The new version is also avaible on 1.13.12.

[inferno8]

Thank you all for the feedback!

The first is that as of the latest version, the banisher can use banish on non-magical creatures to generate a Dimensional Gate II.

This bug was fixed in EoMa 3.1. Are you sure you have the latest version?

It seems that if you don't get any bonus gold in "Fire Canyon," in the next scenario ("Dome of Elements"), you can't summon anything and can't proceed any further?

Indeed the starting gold is 0. Of course this needs to be fixed. Thanks for reporting

[Konrad2]

3rd intro text: There is a dot missing at the very end of it.

[Robertdebrus]

Yes, I am using EoMa 3.1.0 and TLU 3.0.0 beta.
It also seems to only work on some creatures, as in the next scenario, banishing a Tharis did not produce a gate. I am going to test and see when exactly it happens.
EDIT:
It seems that I cannot reproduce this other than loading the save posted, even restarting that scenario causes it to work as intended. It appears to have resolved itself...

[Konrad2]

7th intro text: '...To make the constriction easier , we ment as far as...'

EDIT: 'Highest Tiers'
Why do I have to pay the upkeep for the guards?

EDIT 2: Do you mind making Aerius say something in 'Highest Tiers', if I manage to attack him?

EDIT 3: 'Central Palace'
The image of a Carpet Master moves into the room, at the beginning of the scenario. But the unit doesn't appear.
And did you mean '..He didn't have a carpet, yet his feet never touched the ground...'?

EDIT 4: Wesnoth 1.13.14 did shut down when the cutszene after 'Central Palace' plays.
(That means I can't progress without using debug to get to the next scenario.)
(Disabling 'animate map' works as well.)

EDIT 5: 'Near the Jungle'
2nd text: '..as he known them quite well...' (knew)

EDIT 6:
Is there some level cap on the units I can carry over from 'Highest Tiers'? My lvl 2 unit is gone.

EDIT 7: 'Southern Nations'
3rd text (2nd text by Mehir): 'Either they don't to mess with...'

Spoiler:

The note 'Do not capture Jaffar's villages while he is awake' is somewhat of a spoiler. ._. Maybe erase the last four words and when he falls asleep change the note to 'You can capture Jaffar's villages now''?

[inferno8]

It seems that I cannot reproduce this other than loading the save posted, even restarting that scenario causes it to work as intended. It appears to have resolved itself

The reason the gate appeared is that in your savegame there was a variable ("dg") which should be automatically cleared, but somehow it was still there. It would be good if someone else could confirm the similar behavior in his/her playthrough.

@Konrad2: thank you for these notes!

Why do I have to pay the upkeep for the guards?

The upkeep has been present in that scenario for as long as I remember. I'll discuss this with ForestDragon. He was the last person trying to balance the campaign. Maybe that upkeep is not necessary.

Do you mind making Aerius say something in 'Highest Tiers', if I manage to attack him?

It would be quite interesting to make him say something in such a situation. I'll think about it.

The image of a Carpet Master moves into the room, at the beginning of the scenario. But the unit doesn't appear.

Was he killed in the previous scenario?

Wesnoth 1.13.14 did shut down when the cutszene after 'Central Palace' plays.
(That means I can't progress without using debug to get to the next scenario.)

This is worrying. The game crashed because it had to play an animation with more than 700+ frames. This problem occurred mostly on 1.12, I never encountered it on the dev build. Could you tell me which operating system are you using? And I would like to know how much RAM does your machine have.

Is there some level cap on the units I can carry over from 'Highest Tiers'? My lvl 2 unit is gone

There is no level cap on the units from that scenario. Could you send me your Central Palace savegame?

Spoiler

Good idea

[Konrad2]

Was he killed in the previous scenario?

Nope.

TLU-Highest Tiers Turn 17.gz

Carpet Master is alive.

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This is worrying. The game crashed because it had to play an animation with more than 700+ frames. This problem occurred mostly on 1.12, I never encountered it on the dev build. Could you tell me which operating system are you using? And I would like to know how much RAM does your machine have.

Windows 10, 8GB (7,44 GB usable)

There is no level cap on the units from that scenario. Could you send me your Central Palace savegame?

There you go.

TLU-Central Palace.gz

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EDIT:

Spoiler:

TLU-Southern Nations-Auto-Save7.gz

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This note is a spoiler as well. You don't have the gold yet. (I mean sure, the impact isn't great, but still...)

EDIT 2:
Any idea as to why the barbarians speak the same language as the summoners?
...okay, scratch that. xD

EDIT 3:
Succesfully banishing an magical entinity results into a Dimensional Gate with negative XP. (0-lvl of banishing unit)

EDIT 4: 'Ka-gatta'

Spoiler:

Why are the spiders allied with the elementals until the bats appear?

EDIT 5:
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding 'meditation' or if it just doesn't work always. ._.

EDIT 6:
Golden Carpet does not advance the equipped unit.

[inferno8]

Good news: I managed to fix most of the reported bugs. I asked devs for help with the major cutscene/video sequence bug in scenario 02. It looks like it is related to the memory limitations of the Windows build. This should not occur on Linux machines. Nevertheless I decided to use an old "memory-safe" technique to play the cutscene. It should no longer crash the game but at the cost of reduced playback speed. I hope one day the game will have a full support for videos. Modern games need animated cutscenes in my opinion.

EDIT 4: 'Ka-gatta'

Spoiler:

To prevent a warzone from happening too early.

Thanks for the feedback @Konrad2 and @Robertdebrus. Both of you will be mentioned in the credits

If there is something else, you've noticed, feel free to report it so I can fix it on time.

[Konrad2]

'Chaos'

Spoiler:

Why are (only) enemy dwellers of the red abyss not being sucked into it?

EDIT:

Spoiler:

Btw I can totally fly into the portal and nothing happens.

EDIT 2: 'Message'
You need to be very lucky to survive the first few turns.

Spoiler:

Why does Rashti need upkeep?
And this is the 'normal' outcome for this scenario. How do I win this without lots of luck? (Okay, it depends on wheter the 'great witch' is quick or not. If she is, then you are very unlikely to win.)

TLU-Message-Auto-Save2.gz

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I'd also advise you to add an event that checks if any unit except mine is in the teleport circle when I'm using it.

EDIT 3: There is something I'd reeeeeeally like to have fixed in Sc10. (Follow up from 'Message')
The second leader has no keep. She has lots of castle hexes, but there is. No. Keep.

Spoiler:

TLU-Siege of Mag-Magar-Auto-Save3.gz

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EDIT 4: Update for EDIT 3.
2nd leader has a 'keep', but it disappears when the first unit is killed. I could work around that a bit by not killing a unit in my turn, let her recruit and then the first units die. And she can never again recruit. Better than nothing, but not enough. Save is in the spoiler.

Spoiler:

TLU-Siege of Mag-Magar-Auto-Save1.gz

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EDIT 5: I'm pretty sure that's the responsible code. Any idea what you were trying to do there? (I do not dare to delete it, because I have no idea why it's there and if you were trying to do something important there.)

Spoiler:

[event]
name=die
[filter]
side=2,3,4
[/filter]
[terrain]
x,y=47,14
terrain=Rp
[/terrain]
[if]
[have_unit]
side=2,3,4
[/have_unit]
[else]
[endlevel]
result=victory
[/endlevel]
[/else]
[/if]
[/event]

EDIT 6:
Allied units should NOT be able to step on the stationiary

Spoiler:

living gate

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EDIT 7: still same scenario
Side 5 does not do anything after Malib changes sides.

[inferno8]

Thanks for reporting. Based on these findings I prepared a new beta version. It is available on the 1.14 add-ons server.

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TLU 3.0 beta 2 changelog:
- s01 Highiest Tiers: removed upkeep for units during the scenario
- s02 Central Palace: fixed missing Carpet Master unit bug; added TC for units entering the palace; replaced animhack video with fake_scenery to avoid crashes
- s03 Near the Jungle: fixed missing lvl2 unit bug
- s04 Southern Nations: removed spoilers from notes; fixed typos
- s06 Dome of Elements: fixed missing starting gold
- s09 Chaos: units entering the portal suffer consequences
- s10 Message: a different number of killed Elders results in defeat depending on the campaign difficulty (3 for Easy, 2 for Normal, 1 for Hard); Ho'rhamis follow Mehir through the portal to aid him in the next scenario
- s11 Mag-Magar: fixed missing keep for leader 2 bug, increased enemy gold; allied units avoid the gate; enemies have a fancy recruit animation.
- s13 Tar-Tabar: fixed missing starting gold
- s15 Siege of Saffaros: removed the note about hydras
- s23 Epilogue: improved dialogs
-fixed typos in storytxt.cfg

[Konrad2]

Uhm. I'm like totally confused. My banisher missed his banish on a Fire Elemental. And then he turned into a Dimensional Gate II... (More like he was replaced by one, but still!)

[inferno8]

Uhm. I'm like totally confused. My banisher missed his banish on a Fire Elemental. And then he turned into a Dimensional Gate II... (More like he was replaced by one, but still!)

It is related to the bug encountered by Robertdebrus. Something in the banish weapon special code is not working properly sometimes. The "dg" variable is not cleared. I'll have to take a closer look at that.

[Konrad2]

Bad things for Mag-Magar:

Spoiler:

Allied, non-flying units can still walk on the stationary Living Gate without falling down. (I just stepped on it. You can't code my behavior to avoid that! )
The Living Gate and it's Dimensional Gates don't care about the battle at all.

[inferno8]

Bad things for Mag-Magar

Spoiler:

That allied stepping on the Living Gate will probably require an additional event for player's units.
But the gates not caring about the battle is very unusual. I haven't got that behavior. Everything works smoothly on my side Could you provide a savegame so I can see this?

[vultraz]

I hope one day the game will have a full support for videos. Modern games need animated cutscenes in my opinion.

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.