Poll: 1st problems.....

Ok when you first played this game, and I mean for the first time not knowing anything about it, what was the first major problem you came accross.

Mine was finding the leaver for the crypt, I must have spent like 5 W&W days trying to find out what to do cause there was no way into the crypt. I imagine this would be a pretty common problem.

What would you say is your first major headache..???

P.S. this was before I found this forum, and I only found the leaver once I found the Ironworks site. Which in turn lead to this forum......what a turn of luck that was.

My first problem I would say would be after Ishad N'ha, at skull Island. I got stuck, and thought I could go on without it, at least at the moment. After help from the board here, I realized I had to finish skull island before I got on with the game. I had actually done most of what I needed, just one little branch of the stream under the castle. I probably spent 2 wizardry days, and more than that of my time feeling rather useless.

Amazonian Mantraps. Ughh.... That was actually the first time I had to reload from a 'far' previous position. I was so gung ho to get to a new city and new territory... No "Call from Home" there...

Shurugeon Castle- Up at the tower- I did not see the lever on the wall after you go up the stairs from Lysandra. I had to go back long afterwards, and felt silly when I saw it staring at me... It was actually shouting "Here I am!!! come touch me!!! Over Here!!!! Touch me you bad boy!!!!! Over Here!!!",
you get the Idea.
Other than that- With good friends like y'all (New Orleans slang showing up there...)
A most excellent game, and looking forward to more times with new, and old games with my friends here.
Tarl.

My first major problem was finding some rat to give the guy in the crypt. I missed
talking to his brother outside and so had no rat pie. DOn't know how long I wandered
around trying to kill rats (harder then you think), and even when doing so they just
melted away! Finally I gave up and took the elevator up, but he never gave me the clues
about jumping on top to get to the secret room, so I was stuck there too, never thinking
of it by myself (help from this board appreciated!). Later, still in the crypt, I had
problems with the fire traps too - there was just no logic to it. In the end I had to
use a crate to jam the gate open.

[carg]

Well, ran into the same starting problems as anyone else in the crypt, but with the supplied walkthrough it was no problem.
The first thing that really took me a while was how to get off a raft!

[Davros]

Getting through the fire traps on the wizard path, then getting totally lost and confused in the Assylum looking for Scabban, then friend blocking toad (without vanish spell that time), then monkey idols (of which I had three). The only other times were getting stuck in D'Soto's tower by a lift jam (and jumping out, thus locking me out of Shurugeon) and making Talrik accept a longtooth hide when his inventory was full of hooks.

[Sazerac]

Maxpower: for me it was the same thing, the lever in the Crypt. I got so frustrated that I destroyed my first party, started over from scratch, and happened to include a Whiskah in the new party that was able to see the lever. IMO, that was terrible design for newbie players; the lever should have been in direct lighting.

After that, everything was pretty well academic, although the firepits puzzles again were way too complex for someone just starting out and learning the interface; plus, having no intuitive method for being able to figure them out. If it hadn't been for the online guide, I imagine a lot of us would have given up on an otherwise wonderful game early on. I still don't understand the logic behind including a puzzle that difficult so early in the game. Alzagor, do you have any insights as to why those were included there? I know you said there was originally planned a third path for the Rogue class as well.

-Sazerac

my 1st major problem was the money (I didn't know about the cheats)
the 2nd problem was the Crypt stairs (I didn't know any better)

Well, let me see now!

First their was the money, Not enough.
Second Getting into the Crypt, I kept getting my butt kicked by the dead lord outside the Crypt. Then trying to move the statue.
I had no problem with the switches.
My big problems were trying to get back up the broken stairs, and reaching that darn key and Gem stone behind the gate.
Oh ya lets not forget those Mantraps ( score still to be settled with them. )

But without these problems I would never have found all you great people here, and that would of been a shame.


AND A BIG THANKS TO THE GREAT MYSTIC WYVERN.

Rob

Hi,

I have never done anything like this before - it'll be on-line gaming next! Anyway, I am a great fan of role playing games like Wizards & Warriors and the Ultima games.

My worst problem so far is, having completed the Crypts (without help) and the Stout Mines (with help), I am back at Ishad N'ah with Amazoni Maneater plants x 2 right outside the gates! Seemingly I can't get my magic spells going until out of the town and while I try to arrange my fighting (in turn based mode), they seem to have loads of turns all at once and my level 9/10 players are blown away pretty quick!!

This is the best web site I've ever seen. Out of curiosity, are many countries represented? I am from England.

MI, USA