Persistent bugs

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Squelch bugs persist in Oct 05 dev 574. Appears to squelch one quality level above what is indicated (e.g., setting squelch of Elven Cloaks to "Excellent, but not splendid" squelches "Non-artifact" instead). There seems to be some disconnectedness between squelching from the inventory/equipment menus and squelching from the options menu, they don't seem to match up. Digger squelching is limited. Unclear what the new category "Great Weapons" covers.

Another persistent bug is in targeting. When a monster is just around the corner and you can "see" it, you can target it. You can also target that location if a monster is not there. However, if a monster is on that location and you cannot "see" it, then targeting will not lock.

Finally, dropping items from inventory/equipment menus still has persistent, albeit intermittent, bugs. For example, you id an item and go to drop it, but the option isn't available. You have to leave the menus, select "d"rop and then drop the item. Still haven't figured out why this is intermittent. Possibly in connection with having inscriptions on the items, and/or items being ego or artifact items, and/or items in the quiver?

[molybdenum]

Originally Posted by Ingwe Ingweron

Finally, dropping items from inventory/equipment menus still has persistent, albeit intermittent, bugs. For example, you id an item and go to drop it, but the option isn't available. You have to leave the menus, select "d"rop and then drop the item. Still haven't figured out why this is intermittent. Possibly in connection with having inscriptions on the items, and/or items being ego or artifact items, and/or items in the quiver?

When this happened, do you remember if there was a "pick up" command available?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Originally Posted by molybdenum

When this happened, do you remember if there was a "pick up" command available?

The inability to drop or Drop all from the inventory menu is quite prevalent.

Here is a sequence that just occurred:

You see a Scythe (5d3)
@ picks it up using "g" command
You have the Scythe 'Avavir' (5d3) (special) (q)
@ identifies the Scythe using a rod of identify
In your pack: the Scythe 'Avavir' (5d3) (+18,+12) [+30] <+3, +1> (q)
@ opens the inventory menu using "i" command
@ chooses the item (in this case "q")
Detail on the weapon is given, but only the following choices:

I) Inspect
w) Equip
v) Throw
{) Inscribe
k) Ignore

No d) Drop is provided.

@ can either throw the weapon away using the "v" command, or <Esc> the detail, <Esc> the inventory menu, choose the "d" command once out of the inventory menu thereby redisplaying the inventory menu, and finally, choosing the item.

Even more of a pain if item is equipped to identify it. Then the "v" throw away option is not available, so must <Esc>, <Esc>, "d", choose item.

And even more of a pain with missiles, where @ looks at the equipment menu and Inspects the missiles in the quiver to determine based on damage comparison which to throw away, but has to leave the Inspection, leave the equipment menu, select drop, select the equipment menu "/", then, finally choose the item to drop and select "d" drop and list how many or choose "D" Drop all.

Sorry for the tediously long answer. Maybe all you needed was for me to say, "No. There was no "pick up" command available, it was already in the @ pack or on the @ body.

[molybdenum]

Originally Posted by Ingwe Ingweron

Sorry for the tediously long answer. Maybe all you needed was for me to say, "No. There was no "pick up" command available, it was already in the @ pack or on the @ body.

On the contrary, your "tediously long" answer is quite helpful. You also seem to be missing the activate command. I'm still not able to reproduce this. However, I made a bunch of changes to the object context menus. When they get merged in to the next new nightly, an update would be appreciated.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Originally Posted by molybdenum

On the contrary, your "tediously long" answer is quite helpful. You also seem to be missing the activate command. I'm still not able to reproduce this. However, I made a bunch of changes to the object context menus. When they get merged in to the next new nightly, an update would be appreciated.

Will do. Wish I knew how to code in order to help out, but alas, all I can do is play test. Note: Activation wouldn't have been a choice because the item was in the pack, not equipped. I can't explain it, but for some things, especially early in the game, drop is available, but then later becomes unavailable.

[MattB]

Originally Posted by Ingwe Ingweron

Squelch bugs persist in Oct 05 dev 574. Appears to squelch one quality level above what is indicated (e.g., setting squelch of Elven Cloaks to "Excellent, but not splendid" squelches "Non-artifact" instead). There seems to be some disconnectedness between squelching from the inventory/equipment menus and squelching from the options menu, they don't seem to match up. Digger squelching is limited. Unclear what the new category "Great Weapons" covers.

Actually, in my nightly at least, the squelch system works perfectly in-game (i.e. if you squelch an average launcher, all average launchers are squelched), but the 'quality squelch' submenu is broken. After the first two lines (pointy and blunt melee weapons) all entries refer to the category in the line below (due to the addition of the 'great weapons' category). So if you want to change the quality squelch level of a category, you have to enter that quality on the line above the one you want it to effect. Thus digger squelching only offers two options because it is actually referring to rings below, which only have two levels. I assume the bottom row actually applies to the 'great weapons' category many lines above. It IS irritating, it IS a bug but it IS playable once you work out the work around.

Hope this helps someone!

[molybdenum]

Originally Posted by MattB

Actually, in my nightly at least, the squelch system works perfectly in-game (i.e. if you squelch an average launcher, all average launchers are squelched), but the 'quality squelch' submenu is broken. After the first two lines (pointy and blunt melee weapons) all entries refer to the category in the line below (due to the addition of the 'great weapons' category). So if you want to change the quality squelch level of a category, you have to enter that quality on the line above the one you want it to effect. Thus digger squelching only offers two options because it is actually referring to rings below, which only have two levels. I assume the bottom row actually applies to the 'great weapons' category many lines above. It IS irritating, it IS a bug but it IS playable once you work out the work around.

Hope this helps someone!

Are you using the latest nightly?

[MattB]

Originally Posted by molybdenum

Are you using the latest nightly?

No, it's actually...

v3.5-dev-570-g6acf027

Apologies if it seems lazy not to have checked, but I had to scrap a dynasty I was having a lot of fun with (and a really cool randart set) by changing over nightlies because of compatibility issues, so I thought I'd wait until someone told me it had been fixed before upgrading!

Sorry if that has now been fixed, but that is how it is on my nightly.

Love the monster location thing, by the way.

[molybdenum]

Originally Posted by MattB

No, it's actually...

v3.5-dev-570-g6acf027

Apologies if it seems lazy not to have checked, but I had to scrap a dynasty I was having a lot of fun with (and a really cool randart set) by changing over nightlies because of compatibility issues, so I thought I'd wait until someone told me it had been fixed before upgrading!

Sorry if that has now been fixed, but that is how it is on my nightly.

Love the monster location thing, by the way.

Not a problem. It should be fixed in the latest whenever you want to move over.

[MattB]

Originally Posted by molybdenum

Not a problem. It should be fixed in the latest whenever you want to move over.

So I trust you, I deleted the whole folder (including saves), downloaded the new nightly and...

It works perfectly! Thanks so much for the help.

Back to Hairy Betty I, and off we go.