Crash and burn

[ozwald]

Found a new bug in Wiz 8. Thought I'd let you know and see if anybody else has found this problem.

Later in the game, after gaining one or more of the items necessary to ascend, you will find a group of savant troopers in your travels. This group starts out yellow until you get into range, then say "Give us back the item" or some such and combat breaks out.

Nothing new here. You've probably all seen them before. Here's the tricky bit:

While walking around near ascension peak, I ran into such a group and combat broke out. I managed to wipe them all, except one savant trooper who was blinded by the Ebon staff and ran away.

"Stuffed if I'm gonna chase you!" says I and then save my game after he had retreated and combat finished.

Bad move.

Now the lone savant trooper has returned to yellow. When I approach him the game crashes. Completely. You can't even start it again - you will need to reboot.

This is because the game looks for the leader of the group to say "Give us back the item".... but he's already dead!!!

To make matters worse, I now need to go back to an old save game and continue - since the trooper decided to stop at the base of the path leading to ascension peak. Major bummer!

Anyhoo, the moral of the story is: If you encounter the "Give the item back" trooper group - ANNIHILATE THEM!!

[Twisted Brother]

I never liked blind- and afraid-effects of my party's weapon/spells: getting off blind or afraid NMEs always takes a lot of time... So I don't use such kinds of weapon in battles.
Speaking about those rusty bastards, I'm completely agree with you, Oz, - ONLY-TOTAL-ANNIHILATION.

[EEWorzelle]

oswald,

You certainly found a bug, but you do not need to start over (I think), just don't go into Ascension Peak via that route.

There is another.

[Paroxyzm]

I had a similar bug where i'd be playing and i'd come across svant henchmen on Arnika Road, and they say "give us the... (whatever)" and then battle commenced and then *GAME CRASH*

I got around that... but it sure was annoying.

HMM. Hear is the solution. The Wiz8 site issued this bug to the public, and has a patch for it. just go to the website and look at the patches section.

[ozwald]

Originally posted by SecretMaster: The Wiz8 site issued this bug to the public, and has a patch for it.

Thanks for the tip.

No patch, but a couple of workarounds:

1) Avoid the bugger
2) Leave the area then go back, the bugger's friends will respawn and everything is cool
3) Try to get close (without crashing!!) and take the bugger out with long distance spells.

Thanks again.