ogre mage summoned by genie in Irenicus' dungeon...

[Lemernis]

... doesn't cast any spells. He moved around a bit but seemed to have his thumb stuck up his ass, not putting up a fight in melee either.

[DavidW]

I'm a bit confused by that - I can't reproduce non-use-of-spells locally, though I can reproduce a problem with ogre mages getting into combat.

 

Can you (unzip and) drop the attached file into scsII\mage, reinstall (the Smarter Mages component, at any rate) and see what difference it makes?

mage.zip

[Lemernis]

I get an error when I try to reinstall the Smarter Mages component:

 

ERROR locating resource for 'COPY'

Resource [ogrmag1.cre] not found in KEY file:

[./chitin.key]

Stopping installation because of error.

Stopping installation because of error.

Stopping installation because of error.

 

ERROR Installing [Mages cast some short-duration spells instantly at start of co

mbat, to simulate pre-battle casting], rolling back to previous state

Will uninstall 618 files for [sCSII/SETUP-SCSII.TP2] component 320.

Uninstalled 618 files for [sCSII/SETUP-SCSII.TP2] component 320.

ERROR: Failure("resource [ogrmag1.cre] not found for 'COPY'")

PLEASE email the file SETUP-SCSII.DEBUG to xyz

Using Language [English]

[Lemernis]

Given the failed reinstall with the new file I have no idea how the smarter mage component should behave now. But I did just replay the encounter, and the ogre mage at least meleed. Perhaps he isn't scripted to cast spells? It is only the second fight in the game.

[DavidW]

F***. (as noted on the pinned thread). I wrote that fix in a hurry and misspelled the filename (I was on my way out, didn't have a chance to test it). I've put a fixed one on the pinned thread.

[DavidW]

Having looked further at this: you're right, the vanilla Ogre Mage isn't supposed to use magic, and SCS II didn't originally change this. It does now.

[Lemernis]

Sorry, but I'm still getting an error message when installing the Smarter Mages component after placing the newly ammended file "mage.tph" in C:\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA\scsII\mage:

 

ERROR locating resource for 'COPY'

Resource [ogrmag1.cre] not found in KEY file:

[./chitin.key]

Stopping installation because of error.

Stopping installation because of error.

Stopping installation because of error.

 

ERROR Installing [Mages cast some short-duration spells instantly at start of co

mbat, to simulate pre-battle casting], rolling back to previous state

Will uninstall 620 files for [sCSII/SETUP-SCSII.TP2] component 320.

Uninstalled 620 files for [sCSII/SETUP-SCSII.TP2] component 320.

ERROR: Failure("resource [ogrmag1.cre] not found for 'COPY'")

PLEASE email the file SETUP-SCSII.DEBUG to xyz

Using Language [English]

[DavidW]

Communications breakdown, sorry - the updated file is in the pinned "bugfixes" thread, not here. (But I'm now updating that file too, just to remove confusion.)

[Lemernis]

Okay, I replaced the SCS II folder with the bigfixed one in that thread, and reinstalled the Tactical and AI section. The Smarter Mages component intalled okay (as did everything else I reinstaled).