Version 20 of Sword Coast Stratagems released

[DavidW]

Version 20 is out. No significant content fixes, but quite a few bugfixes, and an update to ToBEx that should make it much more stable.

 

Changelog:

 

Minor tweaks, optimisations, and additions

• Ease of Use AI no longer autocasts Minute Meteors for fighter-mages, bards, and fighter-mage-thieves.
  
• Ease of Use AI no longer breaks Sanctuary to attack.
  
• Love, Pride etc are now fearless.
  
• Mages who wander off screen make more effort to relocate the party.
  
• Slight change in behaviour for the random assassins: they will spawn in city streets, but they won't spawn if the protagonist is invisible.
  
• Monsters can't flee between levels of Ramazith's tower (preventing comical but implausible scenarios).
  
• Archers no longer retreat when they're out of ammo. (Thanks to Polytope for pointing out a nice way to implement this; I've wanted to do it for ages.)
  
• Updated to ToBEx v21. This should fix the problem with magic damage resistance, and should generally increase stability.
  
• Updated to WEIDU v231.
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed a variety of crashes and glitches by updating ToBEx
  
• Fixed problem where the code in some places (notably, Smarter General AI) wasn't correctly identifying some creatures as party-joinable (those with DVs longer than 8 characters were being skipped.)
  
• The "skipping this component as the equivalent ToBEx component" string was missing; it's been added.
  
• The "give fighters better proficiency choices" component no longer confuses NPCs.
  
• "More realistic wolves" no longer runs the risk of breaking Melicamp's quest.
  
• Fixed a glitch in random assassins' scripting that protected them from Charm.
  
• Davaeorn now correctly uses BG1 or BG2 spells, and buffing or no buffing, according to player's choice when installing "smarter mages".
  
• Cythandria's golems are now correctly vulnerable to magic weapons.
  
• Kelddath Ormyr and his Sirines now help each other.
  
• Andris's "monhp1" ring is now a "minhp1" ring, which should reduce the likelihood that he gets confused (and added a Kill-Andris option at the console, just in case he does anyway).
  

Compatibility fixes

• We now detect Spell Revisions modifications to the game engine and try to avoid breaking those fixes via ToBEx.
  
• We work around Spell Revisions' replacement of a core-game Stoneskin scroll with Dimension Door.
  
• We give Prat's air elementals immunity to non-magical weapons directly rather than via an item (this guards against the possibility that some other mod changes the protection item).
  

[Jarin]

Minor question: I currently have SCS V19 installed, and have a game running. How do I update this?

[DavidW]

You should be able to just install v20 over the top of v19, and then select [R]einstall for all the components. (However, it's fair to give warning that this kind of thing sometimes can cause problems on complicated installs.)

[Jarin]

Hmm. It would be nice if you'd be able to include a "What do you want to do with the options that are not yet installed?" option, like those found in BG1UB.

 

EDIT: Just to be on the safe side (and because removing a tutufix component at the start of the installation was causing warnings with the other mods for some reason, probalby because of all the un- and re-installing, and because I was at the start of the game anyway) I have re-installed BGTutu)

[DavidW]

Hmm. It would be nice if you'd be able to include a "What do you want to do with the options that are not yet installed?" option, like those found in BG1UB.

 

That's a limitation of WEIDU. You can either offer the choice to look at components in groups, or the choice to do a bulk install of everything, but not both.