I love this game

[K.I.L.E.R]

I have not even entered into it, however I have the first game, which I played for maybe 30 minutes, however the atmosphere and controls all fit perfectly, and so I bought Book II.

I bought Book II in the last hour, however there is one issue, I can not have WASAPI enabled while listening to Lady Gaga and was wondering if there will ever be a built in music playlist so we can hear the game and music?

Thanks.


Having an issue:
I can not break locked chests by firing spells at it. I spend 78 mana / 6pts and hit it for 9-11 pts of damage, but I can not break a simple lock. I had no issues doing this in Book I.

I am behind the church in the first town, and I have killed the insane prophet and I am trying to beat open his chest.

How do I remove worms?

How does my character look in terms of stats, pure mage?

What happens when someone "hears" me committing a crime?

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[Kreador Freeaxe]

I bought Book II in the last hour, however there is one issue, I can not have WASAPI enabled while listening to Lady Gaga and was wondering if there will ever be a built in music playlist so we can hear the game and music?

Thanks.

Some of the game music (that which BW has the rights to distribute any way he pleases) is available on the game DVD for people who opted to buy that format rather than a straight download. BW has said that if you really want it, he'll arrange an "upgrade" price for you and send you the DVD. Just e-mail info AT basiliskgames.com for more information.

Having an issue:
I can not break locked chests by firing spells at it. I spend 78 mana / 6pts and hit it for 9-11 pts of damage, but I can not break a simple lock. I had no issues doing this in Book I.

I am behind the church in the first town, and I have killed the insane prophet and I am trying to beat open his chest.

It may take a little time, but that chest will open to fire darts. If you weren't so weighted down, I'd say just go grab a powder keg and place it next to the chest. That will speed things up.

How do I remove worms?

Cure Disease. Either the spell, the potion (always available for 80 gold, from the first magic vendor), or pay the priest to help you (much more expensive). It only really affects you if you're using the food and water requirements, as Tape Worms make you need food sooner.

How does my character look in terms of stats, pure mage?

Those stats look fine. Personally, I might not have bothered with Meditation, as it doesn't help a whole lot.

What happens when someone "hears" me committing a crime?

Not much. It's only a problem if they SEE you commit the crime. Then they get mad.

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thank You.

I am wondering on my next play-through should I concentrate on divination and elemental? Distributing stats across wis., int., and perception may be a bit too much. Currently I am doing perception and int.

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Don't bother to raise your INT any more for now. Up your Perception and just keep raising it. You'll find equipment that can raise your Wis and Int more than enough. A little bit of Divination along with your Elemental can be a very good thing, especially casting both Cat's Eyes and Gravedigger's Flame together when you're in a dungeon (or wandering around at night).

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thank you very much.

One more question, identification of items. I know a skill exists however I can not get any shopkeeper to do it for me, should I invest into the skill?

Also, shops have limited items, however it takes a week to replenish inventory, so it is limited only per week, ergo items are unlimited over time?

Random loot, does it spawn every game load, does this apply to monsters too?

Can I power game, in the sense that I find overpowered spells first and then grind hard mobs?

Also is there a place I can store items over the long term? Item storage seems to be a must.

So many questions as a newbie.

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Shop keepers will identify unknown items for a fee of half (or less if you have Mercantile) of the value of the item. With your higher Intelligence, though, I wouldn't worry too much about that. You can find or buy a couple Elder rings, which are +2 Lore each, and find the book Elementary, which will give you the Lore skill. That should be plenty to identify most of the items you'll come across.

When you get to Port Kuudad, have the Magic trainer there teach you Divine Magic and pick up the Lore spell. Cast at Level 6, that will take care of any items you couldn't identify otherwise (the trainer will teach you up to level 8 for a total of 3600 gold, then read the Magica Divine book for two more levels to 10, then add one from leveling up to get 11 and be able to cast Lore and other Tier 1 Divination spells at maximum power).

Shops replenish every week, yes, and much of what you find in them is random, though limited by the "level" of the town. You can wander into almost any area you can survive in at any point, which gives you an opportunity to get some higher level stuff at lower level, but it is a big risk to go those places unprepared.

If you did not select the "Fixed Random Seed" option at game start, then yes, every dropped item from monsters and many of the chests are full of random loot which scales according to the monster, the area, and to a lesser extent your level.

For storage, you have your house, and also any open barrels you find throughout the game. In addition, if you pick up the Foraging skill (very useful for making money and/or for gathering alchemical ingredients) you can make your own storage anywhere you can camp. When you finish camping, assuming you have been camped long enough for your Foraging level, a bag will appear outside your tent. You can use that to store stuff as long as you never let it be totally empty (at which point it would disappear).

Skim through the forums and you'll find lots of advice on how to level and so on. You'll even see how somebody managed to complete the game without ever leveling up.

[K.I.L.E.R]

This game is insane. I am really enjoying it. I have played a lot of RPGs but this is one of the few which I am really into. Out of all the RPGs I pick up and play, ranging from Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Avernum 6, etc... this one is the most fun. All the other games are good, but have a different style, the style of this game is of Ultima 8/Ultima Online.

I really hope Book III more than doubles in size too, the one thing I love about Spiderweb Software's games are that they are enormous. After finishing Book II I will go back to Book I, or just start a new game in Book II.

The Ultima style of this game sucks me in.

[CamRaiD]

This game is insane. I am really enjoying it. I have played a lot of RPGs but this is one of the few which I am really into. Out of all the RPGs I pick up and play, ranging from Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Avernum 6, etc... this one is the most fun. All the other games are good, but have a different style, the style of this game is of Ultima 8/Ultima Online.
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I totally agree. I have played all of those, and love mind blowing graphics (and stereo3d), and after all that, Eschalon is making me particularly excited. More so than the fore-mentioned games. I find it addictive to the point of ridiculous, and I find progress very satisfying. And I find the music soooo epic, I turn it right up.

Its almost as though this game is touching on fundamentals which have been ignored by modern rpgs.
I mean, imagine if basilisk had the budget of bethesda......

[Farwalker]

This game is insane. I am really enjoying it. I have played a lot of RPGs but this is one of the few which I am really into. Out of all the RPGs I pick up and play, ranging from Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Avernum 6, etc... this one is the most fun. All the other games are good, but have a different style, the style of this game is of Ultima 8/Ultima Online.
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I totally agree. I have played all of those, and love mind blowing graphics (and stereo3d), and after all that, Eschalon is making me particularly excited. More so than the fore-mentioned games. I find it addictive to the point of ridiculous, and I find progress very satisfying. And I find the music soooo epic, I turn it right up.

Its almost as though this game is touching on fundamentals which have been ignored by modern rpgs.
I mean, imagine if basilisk had the budget of bethesda......

Yes - my take on this: perfect the interface / engine a bit more, offer bigger randomized worlds to explore (big investment to pull that off well though), with much more interesting and varied random loot, and some forum to brag about your adventures and finds to your friends exploring their random worlds. With an option to start the random world from the same seed so you can team up to figure it out.

I think it would do very, very well.

[KillingMoon]

Yes - my take on this: perfect the interface / engine a bit more, offer bigger randomized worlds to explore (big investment to pull that off well though)...

What BasiliskWrangler once posted is that he'll look into the possibility of an editor for Book III, so that we can make our own adventures.
Especially that excites me. It needs a person to make a logically constructed adventure world with interesting quests and storyline.
It won't be easy to make a good editor, I'm sure, but if successful, the rewards will be... yummie. The Holy Scroll of Create Great Pie!

[IJBall]

What BasiliskWrangler once posted is that he'll look into the possibility of an editor for Book III, so that we can make our own adventures.
Especially that excites me.

This is the key element of the Eschalon series, and why I'm so excited by it.

And even if BW concludes he is too busy to do his own editor during/after Book III, he could/should contract it out to someone like xolotl to do it for him.

But the editor is the key part of this - just reading these boards, you know there are some people here that will be able to come up with some good scenarios on their own using this engine - I want to see what the people around here can do!