The Bard's Tale Trilogy - Bugs or Not Bugs?

[Gizmo]

Well the arm band would probably get the —banned— in Germany.

[Drool]

- An awful lot of "magic chains" (aka "stuck") and "smoke in your eyes" squares made it into different maps, such as Kinestia and Tarmitia, which I don't remember being there.

I believe they just copied the data over. Could be memory; we're all getting old.

- In Tenebrosia, the wall you're supposed to cast PHDO or WAWA on is not a real wall anymore, but an illusionary wall, so you don't need the spells to reach Sceadu.

Feh. That shouldn't be there. Believe I mentioned it before, and I think it was an issue of getting invisible walls to work right. Might have fallen through the cracks.

- The loot tables of Malefia are weird, I'm getting mostly low level drops such as regular chain mails, long swords, etc. (Thus, I gave up trying to get that coveted Staff of the Gods.)

Dude, Chain Mail is totes OP.

[Oldschool Roleplayer]

Shouldn't earth and stone creatures be immune to this class of attack? Just saying. Not sure how the originals did it

Fire creatures - immune from breath and burn attacks,
ice creatures etc. etc.

In BT3, some monsters were resistant (1/2 or 1/4 dmg) or weak (1.5--2X dmg) to certain attacks. I've noticed this hasn't been implemented in the Krome version.

[Belisarius]

Just registered to post here that my Bard's Tale 1 crashed for the first time last night in level 2 of the sewers after an hour of play! aargh. I had more than 20 hours of playing the game, so I found this first crash unusual. The screen froze but sound continued and so did the menus. I tried to feel my way into a save mode without success, and then the game stopped responding. It did not autosave and I lost an hour of game play.

Not sure if there is another way of reporting crashes.

[_noblesse_oblige_]

The devs check the Steam forum more than here, I think. People tend to be pretty active in reporting bugs over there. (Not saying it won't be seen here, but you have a higher probability that it will be seen in a timely manner on Steam.)

Also, my guess is that the devs are going to want to know the standard stuff like system specs and whether you have a save file that they can inspect.

[fewerlaws]

The Wizard in Bard's Tale I with Legacy Options enabled is not able to wear the following items that they could wear in the original game.

Buckler
Leather Armor
Leather Glvs
Mthr Gloves
Dmnd Dagger
Lorehelm
Spectre Mace
Death Dagger
Spectre Snare

This makes the Wizard class less powerful, and less worth the amount of experience it takes to level one up, especially at higher levels. Please fix this by making the items equipable just like they were in the original game: http://bardstale.poverellomedia.com/the ... items.html

Also, there is a performance issue with the game, where it becomes laggy depending on what Windows 10 Professional is doing. If you click on the "Notifications" button in the System Tray, and then click away, then suddenly the game becomes fast. Finally, is there a way to reduce the time it takes to load a saved game, or even load using a hotkey rather than mouse clicks? For people who like to maximize their rolls at the Review Board, having to do mouse clicks is tedious and carpel tunnel inducing. Thanks!

[jamespodesta]

F5 quick save
F6 quick load

tends to be the preferred method for save scumming at the review board.

[Gizmo]

Save-scumming at the review board could [should ] have caused a printed message:

"The girls are not impressed"

[Dareios_19]

4.28 introduces a lot of enhancements and new features but the non-steam version on GOG has an issue with 'forced' switch to localized version depending on the OS region, i.e
there's no option to change language back in the game. However , Many people started BT already in the 80s and seek to continue in EN.
Also , even high qualitity translations suffer from terminoly people are used to in EN (eg. "hmm, I don't recall is "XY" a conjurer or magician .)

This has also been reported in the GOG forums, people there start to patch ressource files .

We would need to have advice by the devs what can be done, eg. is there a commandline option ?
Please help - this is annoying

[phimseto]

It has to do with how GOG is set up that the build is that way. As you know, there's a current workaround there on GOG for those people who want to change the language to another: https://www.gog.com/forum/the_bards_tal ... e_settings

[Dareios_19]

It has to do with how GOG is set up that the build is that way. As you know, there's a current workaround there on GOG for those people who want to change the language to another: https://www.gog.com/forum/the_bards_tal ... e_settings

Thanks.Given the excellent support on this product I trust however that an official GOG build addressing this non-trivial issue is going to be released more sooner than later.
Buying a Steam version in addition as described in the above linked post is no option . There are still people who prefer indenpendent solutions like GOG
over overbearing Steam