Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 merge based on mm8 engine. [upd. 05.11.2023]

[Kiruha]

As for relics, they have very little effect in higher levels, plus there is little difference between a two handed axe of the gods and amuck (but huge price difference).

Relics and artifacts are cool for mages - they stack with each other. I have a cleric with 10 in body magic - she has + 20 bonus from items and a Lich with 20 dark magic - he has + 40 bonus from items. For fighters, I think the most usable is the swift ones, they help characters to get to 30 recovery cap - important for some slow classes like clerics to be fast enought. Also swift artifacts is usable for low level bow users, because they recovery time is not so good. The swift artifacts or the swiftness are unique, because you can't get regural items with this effect and they are powerful because of that

[Thonkerton]

Is there some setting or method to limiting CPU usage of the game? Seems that it just always maxes out 1 thread for no apparent reason. I can only assume that there's no vsync or frame cap of any kind causing this but I can't be sure as Nvidia control panel nor Rivatuner was able to do anything (or I was inept at using the softwares). It's not really a big issue but the game clearly doesn't need a single thread maxed out all the time from i7 4790K to run perfectly fine

[DaveHer]

Well, at least I don't use crowns on ones that can have all headgear on their head, since in my experiences of playing all games, both crowns and helms had the same enchantment pool. Only difference is that crowns have an artifact and a relic, in MM6 that is (since we have at least one artifact/relic helm in MM7 together with the relic crown + relic hat and in MM8, we have an artifact helm and crown all the same. Might be outdated knowledge here) ...

@all
Speaking of crowns and hats, I never used them because they did not provide any armor protection just random enhancements. Where as helmets provide armor protection and random enhancements. So why wear a hat. Just to look pretty. Not in a game. But I fix that by going into the ITEMS.txt file and then I scrolled down to crowns and hats. Then I went over to the right to the two columns Mod 1 and Mod 2. Then put a number on each and you have armor protection for hat and crowns as well as random enhancements (You do not have to put a number on both). The game will add the two numbers and that’s the amount of armor protection you get. I Did this to all my MM games. Now I wear hat and crowns and get amor protection and look pretty too. This is optional too.
David

Maybe instead of giving crowns and hats extra AC (anyway that hat could only provide protection from rain ) increase their enchantment pool. That could give players some kind of choice to wear helmet with AC and lesser enchantment or crown with better enchantment.

I am not planning on putting AC on crowns and hats. I made that post to show that if a player wants it, they can do it them self. Like I did.
David

[Rodril]

Patch link have been updated. Glitch with disappeared Roland have been fixed: https://mega.nz/#!GvIhXaQQ!eGRud8EceE6A ... un0dLd8uxE

If there's no way to change the chronicle, depending upon the start continent, maybe it make sense to completely rewrite it, drawing on the new questline?

History tab is fixed in next update (20.10.2019).

2- Bolstering is not really bolstering. Giving a lizardman 267 hit points (or making peasants tougher have not really any effect) and keeping Titan at 617 HP doesn't make a difference at all.
Is it possible to enable it for high level creatures too?

If even increaseing bolster amount to 200% does not make it hard, try to edit bolster formulas in "Data\Tables\Bolster - formulas.txt".

Is there some setting or method to limiting CPU usage of the game?

I don't know. Never paid attention to that.

Looks like Sharry is bugged and stuck in my hirelings - I can't get rid of her. Maybe somene has some ideas?

Send me your savegame, please.

[candida]

Just hopped from Antagarich to Jadame via "high magic presence" area with level 61 characters (before colony zod, max skill point 10, unused approximately 200 points per character).


1- I think it would be better to cancel Lloyd s beacon between continents (or simply remove that spell entirely and replace it by something else?)
It makes Verdants quests and tips useless. There is no motivation to search for magic areas or collect dimension door scripts and it enables unlimited hopping, making the game ridiculously easy, especially in high levels. It's better to limit it or can it be bound with adverse effects (like Verdant says: mostly safe, but not always)? Like 1 per month (2nd would be a spell fail or some bad effect) might be also a good idea...

3rd option is disabling llyodd beacon without affecting low level spells for GM level, is it possible?

Yes just go into the Class Skills.txt file in the tables folder. "E=expert M=master G=grandmaster" replace the G with M. You must use GrayFace Text Editor. This option will affect all water spells.
David

My question was to change it WITHOUT affecting low level water magic spells

[Rodril]

My question was to change it WITHOUT affecting low level water magic spells

I can not answer right now, need to recheck reference manual. Probably it is possible to split lloyd beacons between continents, just not sure if it is easy enough to complete till next update.

[DaveHer]

3rd option is disabling llyodd beacon without affecting low level spells for GM level, is it possible?

Yes just go into the Class Skills.txt file in the tables folder. "E=expert M=master G=grandmaster" replace the G with M. You must use GrayFace Text Editor. This option will affect all water spells.
David

My question was to change it WITHOUT affecting low level water magic spells

I do not think that's possible. All water spell are connected to E,M, and GM. But GrayFace Or Rodril can answer that.
David

[UnknownHuman]

Possible to get MM9 Characters please ?
Some Dragon Armor ?

With this patched that was released yesterday is the Helmets/Crowns from MM6 in now ?

Thanks.

[alekssandros]

Guys, I change PC and W7 to W10... Just finished to play perfectly and them I go in again and the Grafics changed I dont know why T_T

Before this was seen with the HD-UI


Now it sucks... HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!

link me to the solution please or tell me how is tagged

[DaveHer]

Possible to get MM9 Characters please ?
Some Dragon Armor ?

With this patched that was released yesterday is the Helmets/Crowns from MM6 in now ?

Thanks.

No you will have to active it. Find the file Character doll types.txt in the table folder. And place an "x" on number 2 (which is minotaurs) under helm to active it. All of the MM7 and MM8 hat, crowns, and helms for the minotaurs have not been done yet. For MM6, all hats and crowns have been made and the helms are almost finished. I do not think that they are in the patch.
David

[Thonkerton]

Guys, I change PC and W7 to W10... Just finished to play perfectly and them I go in again and the Grafics changed I dont know why T_T

Before this was seen with the HD-UI


Now it sucks... HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!

link me to the solution please or tell me how is tagged

You're running it with the software renderer instead of hardware rendering, you can change that by running mm8setup.exe
edit. Or the update to W10 messed up graphics drivers

[alekssandros]

Guys, I change PC and W7 to W10... Just finished to play perfectly and them I go in again and the Grafics changed I dont know why T_T

Before this was seen with the HD-UI


Now it sucks... HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!

link me to the solution please or tell me how is tagged

You're running it with the software renderer instead of hardware rendering, you can change that by running mm8setup.exe

When I change that the image just stretches but I cant get the UI looks like this again

[UnknownHuman]

Possible to get MM9 Characters please ?
Some Dragon Armor ?

With this patched that was released yesterday is the Helmets/Crowns from MM6 in now ?

Thanks.

No you will have to active it. Find the file Character doll types.txt in the table folder. And place an "x" on number 2 (which is minotaurs) under helm to active it. All of the MM7 and MM8 hat, crowns, and helms for the minotaurs have not been done yet. For MM6, all hats and crowns have been made and the helms are almost finished. I do not think that they are in the patch.
David

Ok thanks for the answer, will wait for everything to be done ...
Thanks for all work being done.

[Thonkerton]

Well this was unexpected. I don't know what exactly caused this, in the game I've finished 7 and 8 (just completed 7 and returning to train), few minutes ago I toggled on Bolster Monsters at 20% to add some challenge to 6 and try out the Bolster. Don't know what else might cause this behavior.

[Figo]

Guys, I change PC and W7 to W10... Just finished to play perfectly and them I go in again and the Grafics changed I dont know why T_T
Before this was seen with the HD-UI

Now it sucks... HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!
link me to the solution please or tell me how is tagged

You're running it with the software renderer instead of hardware rendering, you can change that by running mm8setup.exe

When I change that the image just stretches but I cant get the UI looks like this again

Which version of the GrayFace patch did You install? The newest one?
Also check the graphics options for Your new card (for new PC?) - something connected to stretching mode.

[Phobos]

Well this was unexpected. I don't know what exactly caused this, in the game I've finished 7 and 8 (just completed 7 and returning to train), few minutes ago I toggled on Bolster Monsters at 20% to add some challenge to 6 and try out the Bolster. Don't know what else might cause this behavior.

Was there a bounty hunt in Celeste for the Obsidian Gargoyle? Bounty hunts will cause the selected monster to spawn in the area for easier hunting.

[Thonkerton]

Well this was unexpected. I don't know what exactly caused this, in the game I've finished 7 and 8 (just completed 7 and returning to train), few minutes ago I toggled on Bolster Monsters at 20% to add some challenge to 6 and try out the Bolster. Don't know what else might cause this behavior.

Was there a bounty hunt in Celeste for the Obsidian Gargoyle? Bounty hunts will cause the selected monster to spawn in the area for easier hunting.

There is no town hall or place to do bounty hunting in Celeste at least that I'm aware of, and if there is, I never did it in Celeste. I did bounty hunting elsewhere much much earlier but I don't recall any Gargoyles.

[alekssandros]

You're running it with the software renderer instead of hardware rendering, you can change that by running mm8setup.exe

When I change that the image just stretches but I cant get the UI looks like this again

Which version of the GrayFace patch did You install? The newest one?
Also check the graphics options for Your new card (for new PC?) - something connected to stretching mode.

I upgrade all the files. Merge, mergepatch and GFpatch and still get this

[Anubis]

@Alekssandros

Change your MM8 program's compatibility mode to WinXP (Service Pack 3)

[Xfing]

When I change that the image just stretches but I cant get the UI looks like this again

Which version of the GrayFace patch did You install? The newest one?
Also check the graphics options for Your new card (for new PC?) - something connected to stretching mode.

I upgrade all the files. Merge, mergepatch and GFpatch and still get this

You need to run it as admin too.