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Doing the gods work! Thanks so much for your efforts!

Yeah! And I mean, if you wanted to do like #3 did, there are plenty of named NPC's or special ones that could work as Master's to the party. The leader of the rangers guild, the head mage at the magic school Nina was in. Heck the HR director in the callosum even. He could be like the games Fahl that you unlocked after the whole poison dart debacle was over.

I love the new look and I'm super excited to give this version a whirl when you complete it. Also, this is a bit late to throw out there as an idea, but is a master system possible like Bof 3 had? That'd be pretty neat to see.

I finally got around to trying 4.1

It would appear the stealth skill is busted and makes it so that if you get in a fight with the Ace gang members in the hideout you basically have to close the game since the fights are non-escapable. They never do anything but keep reapplying stealth forever with no way to remove it or target them.

I was happy to do it, I recently finished a playthrough actually. 

I was thrilled to have that dating mechanic as Katt/Lin was one of my first furry crushes long before I even knew what 'furry' even was.  Also the ability to just beat the stuffing out of Tiga's sorry tail for getting fresh with her was absolutely satisfying, to hell with that guy.

I will say the game does feel rather rushed to the end as you go along. Like the first mountain dungeon and the Joker hideout are reasonably paced, but after that, the dungeons were just kind of slapped together in a few screens. That being said... thank the Dragon God you pruned Sima Fort's storyline, that thing was the stuff of nightmares.

I enjoyed some of the creative liberties you took with the story as well,  though I would like to see Guntz returned to the world map eventually, even if the flying city isn't needed in the current iteration.  

I'm a tramp for romance so I'd enjoy seeing some more dating scenes with Lin and Nina too. I'm a romance writer in my spare time so if you needed some help with that sort of thing let me know, it'd be fun to try to write, kinda like fanfiction but for a fan game!

Mechanically, I won't mention obvious stuff like Nixie not having any skills, but I do think having two characters that can steal was redundant with Sten and Yua both able to do it and Pilfer really didn't do anything other than collect your drops early, maybe have the stolen items be a separate pool?

Suggestion: Crazy idea but I wouldn't mind seeing a way to save Ray and get him as a party member. Maybe if you're on the light dragon path you can reject his power, not get the transformation and save him.

The hunting/fishing games should tell you what you're obtaining, also there should be an easier way to see your ingredients and possibly cook at camp.

Please make a way to clear all customized options off a piece instead of one by one, and auto-strip them off when you sell them.

Maybe have some kind of end game location where you can grind skill points, maybe the big shrine offers to sell skill points for the favor or whatever that currency is you spend there?

I think the level scaling is a bit aggressive. I know at one point I'd over-leveled and couldn't seem to advance the story, that was the file i had to start over with Rand blocking the exit. Lin just destroyed me, so I left to go train up, then Sten would just obliterate me in like two turns if I tried to recruit him. I eventually got fed up, cheated my status up back at Heavenshire, only to come back to the arena and see I was blocked. I didn't grind any my next attempt and was able to take Lin down and advance the story just fine since I didn't grind any.

Sorry for the book.

Not had a chance to play much since my last update but here is another bug I found. If you go light dragon tree and get the party-wide XP booster skills, they seem to reset once you get new party members, or at least they did when I got Jean & Nixie.

Another hard lock, when going to the cathedral and checking the first houses, if you go in the far right house then exit, it warps you to the first one where Lin's Lynx weapon is, however, you can't walk away from the door once you try to exit, you're just stuck. Once again autosave kicked in and I lost like 2 hours of progress. I really think the autosave feature you just flat out be disabled IMHO, it's caused me nothing but grief if I'm being frank. Even if you try to turn it off in the options if you're playing save anywhere, it keeps activating, it's really cumbersome having to make like 3 to 4 saves just in case it traps you.

A few bugs I want to report. I've now lost my file two times over some things.

First off while in the well after fighting Tarripin the save apparently failed and I hadn't made a backup save only been using auto. So I had to start over.  Maybe set autosave as its own thing and let "file 1" be a hard save as I was thinking it was originally.

Second time it happened. I was in the arena and gave Rand money for the antidote, but left the room to go get supplies, do some level grinding, etc... Came back and he's blocking the entrance chanting his mantra with no way to get past him, so I can't advance the area scenario and have to restart again.

Also not game-breaking, but the cockatrice or whatever those birds are in Bunyan's woods can also soft-lock you, making you reset. If your armor is too high, pecking order just locks you into a loop where it petrifies you and they endlessly try to hit you but can't.

Heyyyy that did it! The drivers were all up to date, apparently I just needed to install DX9 despite having a newer version.

I've not tried play testing it, but it gets past the engine screen and onto the title screen. You really went above and beyond with your help, I want to tell you I'm very thankful!

Okay, well I tried disabling my anti-virus and that didn't work. I also checked my DirectX which is currently 12, so I assume that isn't it. My laptop doesn't have a GEForce 940MX, I looked it up with dxdiag and it says I have Intel HD  Graphics 620.

No such luck. I tried running as admin and still encountered it. I also tried moving the files as suggested and still get it when I try to run maelstrom.exe directly from the folder instead of the shortcut.

It's a Win 10 OS. It's just my low end laptop I mostly use for writing and surfing, but I was able to get SD: to each his own, to run on it, so I figured this would work as well since it's based on COAS.

Thank you as always for responding.  I tried upadting my c++ with the latest vc_redist.x64 as suggested, still getting it.

My current path is C:\Maelstrom

I've got ERAS2 in it's own folder under games. C:\Maelstrom\Games\ERAS

So my shortcut currently looks like this.

I apologize for blowing these forums up with so many questions, I've a new dilemma.

I wanted to install the game on my laptop as well for when I travel. I have it running fine on my home PC, but when I try to install it on my laptop the engine pops up and I get some messages in the dialog. I took a screen shot to show what's going on.

I've tried reinstalling the engine multiple times, even tried re-downloading it from the source thinking I had a bad download. I've made sure my Direct X is upadted, also tried the 32 and 64 shortcuts as well as the DX8 ones.

Oh gosh, I can't believe I forgot to mention the game, or... well I guess I SHOULD have posted this in that games forum instead of here. Sorry about that.

It's the ERAS2 mod, latest version.

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but seeing as most ships default to their starting weight of cannons when captured, I thought I'd point it out.

The Dutch 1st Rate ship does 42lb/92 guns but the one I captured, came equipped with 92 guns that were only 4 lb.

No problem! Thanks for helping me with making the config shortcut. :3

Oh yeah! You should also know that all of the street vendors were not offering any merchandise but bullets, gunpowder, and healing items. I dunno if that's on purpose or not, where as ERA's they offer all kinds of things.

Ah I suppose I should have mentioned that initially. I'm playing GOF 2.5.

I installed the ERA II mod to test it and after setting up the config/exe files, it seems to be fine for the English, so I think it's a GOF 2.5 issue.

Thank you, I got it to work but uh... the only language option is Russian, which is perplexing because I'm 99% sure I downloaded the English one?

I managed to get things set up and can run it, but I wanted to change the config. I tried using the same method I did to make the shortcut, but it tells me this when I try to open the shortcut.

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Error
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Could not find start.ini, language.ini and/or options file in game directory: C:\Maelstrom\DirectX9_64bit\
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OK   
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Also when I talk to regular people in the bar, (gamblers and drunks) I get a message saying "I can't open the dialog file Habitue_dialog.c for this character"