First of all I want to say that I've absolutely loved the new summoning mechanics and it has inspired me to make various summon-based characters for both Arcane and Divine spellcasters. This time I may have pushed the system a bit too far with my weird experimentations.
Essentially the bug is simple: if your character is a Thaumaturge and a Techsmith and you summon a cohort OR a Gondsman and right click on yourself (or any empty space that opens the same popup menu), the game will immediately crash to Windows. My theory is that it's because there's some sort of conflict with the excessive menus and/or the way how the popup menu features work with the custom summoning slots.
This is a catastrophic issue as this prevents you from accessing a multitude of vital features:
1) Opening your PC tools, including
1.1) Saving your character
1.2) Creating a campfire to burn junk
2) Accessing the 'Dismiss Spells' menu, including:
2.1) Removing any spells (meaning that you can't get rid of the cohort without resting)
2.2) If you crash while with a cohort, it will remain in game even after resting
3) Loss of buffs for the Gondsman and other non-permanent summons as they're unsummoned when you leave the game
4) Occasionally losing control of your summons (a side-bug related to crashing as the cohort doesn't seem to get added to the party list)
5) When you crash with these issues, you apparently create a persistent copy of your character in PC Scry
6) Making your game overall very unstable and annoying to play
it's gotten so bad that it's very difficult to play the game at all. You have to think ahead of time all the moves you make, if you crash you're screwed because you can't get rid of your cohort by resting and you might as well just log out because the game turns barely playable at that point. Just today my game crashed while I was carrying the corpse of a friend of mine, resulting to the loss of the corpse (meaning that he had to respawn with 1 900 exp hit) and persistance of this crash bug as the celestial was glitched to follow my character once again even after I had rested.
I truly hope that this issue is addressed soon if possible, as I don't see myself being able to play my character other than for RP with all the related chain-bugs and the general crash-likedness of this game.
Thaumaturge / Techsmith major summoning crash bug
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Thaumaturge / Techsmith major summoning crash bug
Player of: Gondael • Blaric Brimsbane • Teth Zorastryl • Kain • Z'eed Auzkovyn • Durin Khazrudh
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Re: Thaumaturge / Techsmith major summoning crash bug
Good news: I reinstalled the whole game with the GOG version and the crashes disappeared immediately. There must've been a corrupted file or somesuch that caused this issue to appear.
What I did notice however, was that if you have all of these classes (and a subrace with racial ability), the PC tools doesn't appear in the menu.
Would it be possible to add a link to PC tools at the top custom menu bar to always have access to it even when the character menu is blocked?
What I did notice however, was that if you have all of these classes (and a subrace with racial ability), the PC tools doesn't appear in the menu.
Would it be possible to add a link to PC tools at the top custom menu bar to always have access to it even when the character menu is blocked?
Player of: Gondael • Blaric Brimsbane • Teth Zorastryl • Kain • Z'eed Auzkovyn • Durin Khazrudh