Story of the Wose for Wesnoth 1.18

[James_The_Invisible]

Hello. Some of you may know an ancient campaign called Story of the Wose which was available only to Wesnoth 1.10 and earlier. Well, until now. I have picked it up a few months ago and updated it for Wesnoth 1.12/1.13. You can download it from 1.12, 1.14, 1.16 and 1.18 add-ons servers. Enjoy. If you discover any issue, report it here or on GitHub (see Links).

Links:
Old thread
GitHub repository

[hephoto]

Hello,

Great, thanks for the info.

[James_The_Invisible]

This campaign is now available for Wesnoth 1.14.

[James_The_Invisible]

Version 0.8.1 is available for Wesnoth 1.12 and 1.14. It delivers a couple of bug fixes and correction of typos.

[sergey]

Hello, James_The_Invisible. Just finished "Story of the Wose" and enjoyed it a lot. Thank you.

I think I observed a bug (or even several bugs). My Wesnoth version is 1.14

Spoiler:

First of all, in "The Catacombs" I noticed that after map has changed, some hexes are wrong, maybe map size became wrong. E.g. images of stones, which were initially covering the villages, now are slightly moved. I killed both orc and lich leaders and the scenario finished right after that. The next scenario was "Arena". I had a ruby in that scenario, though I didn't pick it before. At some point an error was shown "<Invalid WML found> [unstore_unit]: variable 'oracle_punt' doesn't exist".

"The Catacombs" and "Arena" replays are attached.

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SotW-Arena replay.gz

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[James_The_Invisible]

Hi, sergey. It is good to know that someone still plays this campaign.

First of all, in "The Catacombs" I noticed that after map has changed, some hexes are wrong, maybe map size became wrong. E.g. images of stones, which were initially covering the villages, now are slightly moved.

Noted, I will probably look into it deeply.

The next scenario was "Arena". I had a ruby in that scenario, though I didn't pick it before.

It is given to you at the start of scenario Arena, the main character said a line about it. But the thing is that the object does not have any description so Wesnoth applies it silently (this is new in 1.14). Maybe I will write something up.

At some point an error was shown "<Invalid WML found> [unstore_unit]: variable 'oracle_punt' doesn't exist".

I examined this carefully and I think that no storing/unstoring is necessary here. I will remove it.

[sergey]

I investigated the issues and have some proposals.

1. Regarding incorrect map in the catacombs. It also leads to one more undesired situation. Map is shifted and the keep near the lich is moved outside of the map, so lich can't recruit (he was supposed to do that as I understand). Actually, that was the reason I could easily kill him.
In order to fix that I propose to not use terrain_mask command and instead use

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[terrain]
    x=5,6,7,8,9,17,18,19,20,21
    y=17,16,16,16,17,17,16,16,16,17
    terrain=Wo
[/terrain]

I tested that. Additionally, units on those locations may be killed (they drown in the water). But that is not necessary, since only one line of water is added. So they won't be blocked and can move to the ground.

2. If lich in catacombs is killed then player goes to the arena scenario. I think additional condition must be added to lich death event - he must be killed by the player's side. After that, I think it would be better if unit that killed him says something about the ruby. To describe why player is moved to the arena, I propose to place image of a portal to the hex where the lich died, e.g. this or this image may be used. And unit which killed lich says something like "there is one more portal, let's check where it goes".

3. Regarding the 'oracle_punt' variable in the arena. I think the idea is to store unit on the location where oracle (necromancer) occurrs, then create oracle and unstore the unit on a vacant hex. It would be better to not remove that logic, but change it to occur only if there is a unit on the oracle's starting hex.

The first proposal is really essential. Other things are not so important, since if lich in the catacombs can recruit it would be hard to kill him.

[James_The_Invisible]

1. Thanks, it will appear in next version.
2. The condition seems reasonable but as the comment left by original says, Lenvan's death significantly changes Wesnoth's history. Anyway, I will think about it.
3. If the location is already occupied, the new unit will be spawned at nearest empty hex by default (even without that additional code). Also, in this case it is the starting (and possibly) current location of the killed unit.

[sergey]

The condition seems reasonable but as the comment left by original says, Lenvan's death significantly changes Wesnoth's history.

If Londerleona's group kills Lenvan that may cause them to teleport to the arena instead of him. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense from my point of view. If an orc killed Lenvan, why Londerleona is teleported to the arena and why she says that she got ruby from Lenvan?

[Konrad2]

Scenario 2 is missing a 'Turns run out' Defeat/Victory condition. (I don't know for sure which one would be right.)

EDIT:
(And my save file is 7 months old, so it might not be true anymore.)

[James_The_Invisible]

Ah, yes and it is not the only scenario missing it. Fix on GitHub.
To your edit: well, last version came out 8 months ago (May 2018).

[Konrad2]

It's still using a very old 'Wose Shaman' sprite, instead of the newer one.

EDIT:
Surprisingly nothing happens if I defeat all enemy leaders in Sc3.

EDIT 2:
Please take a look at this replay. It seems that quite some things went wrong.

EDIT 3:
The next one too. And welp, this was a confusing story. xD

[James_The_Invisible]

It's still using a very old 'Wose Shaman' sprite, instead of the newer one.

I will do that soon.

Surprisingly nothing happens if I defeat all enemy leaders in Sc3.

That is deliberate. The scenario has victory_when_enemies_defeated=no and even the objectives say that you are supposed to do something else.

Spoiler:

After turn 15 you have to move your leader to a specified location. Before that they tell you to try to survive. Do you see anything else? Or did you not read them?

Please take a look at this replay. It seems that quite some things went wrong. The next one too. And welp, this was a confusing story. xD

Hmm, I see. Something strange happens when you are supposed to win. I will see what can I do.
And what exactly do you find confusing about the story?

Something about 'variable f doesn't exist'

Ah, yes. The original author has chosen weird ways to do certain things. I will look into this.

[Konrad2]

That is deliberate. The scenario has victory_when_enemies_defeated=no and even the objectives say that you are supposed to do something else.

Spoiler:

After turn 15 you have to move your leader to a specified location. Before that they tell you to try to survive. Do you see anything else? Or did you not read them?

I'm just used to scenarios of this kind ending if you've removed all enemy leaders, because who would stop you now from fullfilling your objective?
But that's not important. ^^

And what exactly do you find confusing about the story?

I wrote that after playing 'Arena', which is well...let's say it's not canon. It seems to be more of an easteregg.
I had to read the old feedback thread to figure out that there is way to finish this campaign that makes more sense.

Btw, the 'Ruby of Fire' attack is missing it's icon.

[James_The_Invisible]

I wrote that after playing 'Arena', which is well...let's ay it's not canon. It seems to be more of an easteregg.
I had to read the old feedback thread to figure out that there is way to finish this campaign that makes more sense.

Yes, the path you took is not the intended one. The objectives did not say anything about killing ANY enemy leader.

Btw, the 'Ruby of Fire' attack is missing it's icon.

Fixed on GitHub. I also made some other improvement to Ruby of Fire: https://github.com/konecnyjakub/Story_o ... 1eda0a09a8.