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

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Hello!
Are Community Fixes/Features compatible with [upd. 12.07.2020]?

Fixes (rodril-fixes branch) are compatible.
Features (master branch) - not yet.

[Carmine]

Edit: Disregard, I am dumb and had patched the game prior to merge and completely forgot about it xD.

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Hello!
Are Community Fixes/Features compatible with [upd. 12.07.2020]?

Fixes (rodril-fixes branch) are compatible.
Features (master branch) - not yet.

Features (master branch) are compatible. Do not forget to remove DataFiles/Placemon.txt if present locally.

[fkirenicus]

Hello!
Features (master branch) are compatible. Do not forget to remove DataFiles/Placemon.txt if present locally.

Thanks for that tip, that error/warning message had me a little worried I had to re-download the entire new version. :-)

[qtish]

Hey its been a year since I last played the mod. Whats the keybinds for new quickspells?

[Eksekk]

Hey its been a year since I last played the mod. Whats the keybinds for new quickspells?

F5-F8 iirc (unless I am wrong and rebound them myself, if so, you'll find them in extra settings menu (inside logo on normal settings page)).

[LoFennick]

Hey there, still a bit new to the series, but I thought I'd try this mod out.

Everything seems to be working fine so far, but I'm curious if there's a way to adjust the graphic settings. More specifically, is there a way to turn off the texture filtering and get rid of the blur (I'm not sure if it'll help make the seams between textures less noticeable, but I prefer playing older games that way regardless)?

[Xfing]

I did some work today finally fixing the redundant item names/flavor texts that came with the merge due to stuff not being changed between MM6 and 7, or just general laziness. I'm running the file by Rodril at the moment, and if he likes it, it should be integrated into the base version soon.

I've also adjusted the prices and (where applicable) armor ratings of shields and apparel, though not body armors yet. So what remains to be done is the body armors (for when they hopefully get repainted), and adjusting the treasure levels (they're in a separate file) and ID/repair values for all the items, so that each next better item in a class comes with higher requirements for that. Adjusting the treasure values will also help further differentiate the items by where you can actually get them - part of that has already been handled by Rodril - Tier 6 items will only appear in Tier 6 hoards now, just like artifacts and relics, so you can't get them in shops etc, but much more nuance can be added as far as the lower-tier items go, to make them all different from each other. But that will have to wait until I get some info from Rodril on how exactly to do it

[Waffel]

Greetings!

Reporting some bugs:
1. Regarding monsters' melee hit chance, the turn-based mode in MM6 part seems to be somewhat broken. When you trigger a pack of monsters and enter the turn-based mode for the first time in a current fight, monsters fail to do any melee damage at all. Upon reentering the turn-based mode for the second time everything's fine - your characters get hit as normal. No issues with ranged attacks, whatsoever. In MM7 and MM8 monster melee attacks in the turn-based mode work fine. Pathfinding doesn't work in the turn-based mode as well. [When I started solo walkthrough in Enroth and got surrounded by a pack of goblins while wearing no armor at all, getting almost no hits in melee while in the turn-based mode was a surprise to me. Bolster modifier was set at 110%.]

2. There's a well in Kriegspire near the trainer that gives +30 to level temporary, shows "Watch Out!" message and is supposed to spawn some monsters, but no one appears. See the post by Kinox below this one.

3. The projectiles launched by player aim a bit to the left from the monster sprites. If in a narrow corridor or too close to the wall on the left side, the projectiles may hit the wall instead of a monster.

Also, an idea on how to fix the Hammerhands spell (making monks even more overpowered lol):

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-- Fix Hammerhands damage bonus
local HH = 0
function events.RegenTick(Player)
local Buff = Player.SpellBuffs[const.PlayerBuff.Hammerhands]
	if Buff.ExpireTime > Game.Time then
		-- HHS, HHM = SplitSkill(Buff.Skill) --Optional
		HH = 1
	else
		HH = 0
	end
end

function events.CalcStatBonusBySkills(t)
	if t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageBase
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMin
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMax then
		if t.Player.ItemMainHand == 0 then
			if HH == 1 then
				t.Result = math.max(t.Result*2)
				-- t.Result = math.max(t.Result*(1+HHM*0.5)) -- Optional
			end
		end
	end
end 

This code makes the Hammerhands buff to double the Unarmed skill damage bonus instead of making the initially intended addition of body magic damage bonus equal to melee damage of an unarmed attack. Thus, if a character has no Unarmed skill, the Hammerhands spell has no effect on him or her. Also, the buff starts to affect the damage bonus only five minutes of game time after the buff is applied to the character.

[Kinox]

2. There's a well in Kriegspire near the trainer that gives +30 to level temporary, shows "Watch Out!" message and is supposed to spawn some monsters, but no one appears.

Actually, this is a tricky, quite obscure monster spawn event from MM6 game —I've just learned quite recently.
As far as I know, it spawns, once per day and up to a total of 52 spawns (stacked or not, depending on your 'cleaning' strategy) per Region Map Reset, a group of Drakes' monster type far, far to the northwest area of the map (yes, in the snowy territory, beyond the mountain ridge north of Kriegspire town); ¡so the player doesn't see at all where the monsters are being spawned! But they do.
If you already know, then, yes, it must be bugged.

[Waffel]

2. There's a well in Kriegspire near the trainer that gives +30 to level temporary, shows "Watch Out!" message and is supposed to spawn some monsters, but no one appears.

Actually, this is a tricky, quite obscure monster spawn event from MM6 game —I've just learned quite recently.
As far as I know, it spawns, once per day and up to a total of 52 spawns (stacked or not, depending on your 'cleaning' strategy) per Region Map Reset, a group of Drakes' monster type far, far to the northwest area of the map (yes, in the snowy territory, beyond the mountain ridge north of Kriegspire town); ¡so the player doesn't see where the monsters are being spawned! But they do.
If you already know, then, yes, it must be bugged.

Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you, Kinox! This may not be an issue then.

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3. The projectiles launched by player aim a bit to the left from the monster sprites. If in a narrow corridor or too close to the wall on the left side, the projectiles may hit the wall instead of a monster.

I guess it's XYZ() [used in Global/ExtraArtifacts.lua] which looks to me like a [bottom left front?] corner of the monster/party.

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	if t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageBase
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMin
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMax then

I'm not sure you should use both Min/Max and Base at the same time. Could be accounted twice.

[Waffel]

3. The projectiles launched by player aim a bit to the left from the monster sprites. If in a narrow corridor or too close to the wall on the left side, the projectiles may hit the wall instead of a monster.

I guess it's XYZ() [used in Global/ExtraArtifacts.lua] which looks to me like a [bottom left front?] corner of the monster/party.

I'll look into it, thank you!

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	if t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageBase
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMin
	or t.Stat == const.Stats.MeleeDamageMax then

I'm not sure you should use both Min/Max and Base at the same time. Could be accounted twice.

It works fine but the amount of the actual damage dealt by a character is slightly higher than it is shown in character Stats menu. There it shows like if the Unarmed skill bonus is doubled only. Initial 41-43 damage turn into 71-73 with Unarmed Grand 15 damage bonus of 30 being doubled. But I've got 80-something points of damage on hit. So it's possible that the base value of damage with no Unarmed (11-13) is affected, too. (82-86)

[Daedros]

Any possibility for a "Quickload" key to be added, which loads the Quicksave?

[qtish]

Any possibility for a "Quickload" key to be added, which loads the Quicksave?

Wasnt it F5-F9? I guess with new added quickspells F5 got changed be default. But you can change it in settings.

Got an idea for a mod. A hardcore mod.
There is no safe, there is no autosave. Game only saves when you sleep in tavern. Game records, how many times you died, or save cannot be launched if party completely dies. Game only works with 100%+ bolster monster, and cannot be lowered once it started. If its 100%, then exp gain is +100%, gold gain +50%.

Also bolster monster needs some adjusting. At 30lvl rat is more dangerous than a power lich.

[Waffel]

Hi!

Here's the video (https://youtu.be/2o0khsgTlc4) to illustrate the issue with monster melee attacks in the turn-based mode. A character (or the whole party) is invulnerable to melee in the turn-based mode until he or she gets hurt in real-time at least once.

Got an idea for a mod. A hardcore mod.
There is no safe, there is no autosave. Game only saves when you sleep in tavern. Game records, how many times you died, or save cannot be launched if party completely dies. Game only works with 100%+ bolster monster, and cannot be lowered once it started. If its 100%, then exp gain is +100%, gold gain +50%.

Also bolster monster needs some adjusting. At 30lvl rat is more dangerous than a power lich.

Sounds like a cool difficulty preset option! More exp gain makes the game even more harder in a way. And no possibility for save-scumming.
As for a gap between average leveled party and higher level monsters, we need to think of a new formulae that would pre-bolster higher level monsters for a certain amount or to tweak the monster tables in respect of their level so they start to be bolstered earlier in the game.

Reporting a bug: Ghost Ring (item number 1347) gives +5 bonus to all four elemental magic skills. This is due to a typo in ExtraArtifacts.lua line 791 that refers to the properties of Faerie Ring (item number 1348).

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-- Faerie ring
GetBonusList(1347).Skills =	{	[const.Skills.Fire] = 5,
								[const.Skills.Air] = 5,
								[const.Skills.Water] = 5,
								[const.Skills.Earth] = 5}

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Any possibility for a "Quickload" key to be added, which loads the Quicksave?

mm8.ini, QuickLoadKey=123 for F12 (list of key codes can be found in Scripts/Core/ConstAndBits.lua).

[cthscr]

Reporting a bug: Ghost Ring (item number 1347) gives +5 bonus to all four elemental magic skills. This is due to a typo in ExtraArtifacts.lua line 791 that refers to the properties of Faerie Ring (item number 1348).

See also https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/issues/345

[Waffel]

Reporting a bug: Ghost Ring (item number 1347) gives +5 bonus to all four elemental magic skills. This is due to a typo in ExtraArtifacts.lua line 791 that refers to the properties of Faerie Ring (item number 1348).

See also https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/issues/345

Thank you, good sir! I should check MMMerge gitlab logs before reporting anything, hehe The turn-based mode issue should be reported there as well, I suppose.
Upd.: https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/issues/698

[Daedros]

Any possibility for a "Quickload" key to be added, which loads the Quicksave?

mm8.ini, QuickLoadKey=123 for F12 (list of key codes can be found in Scripts/Core/ConstAndBits.lua).

Thanks. Didn't know that was already added.