The Not-so-noob is back! and wanting advice. (spoilers)

Berethor · Post by **Berethor** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:33 am

Yeah, you should do both.

The Beholder Area is pretty easy if you have the Cloak of Mirroring, doubly so if you have the Shield of Balduran. I cleared it out with one character with little trouble. Get the Eye and the Hilt of the Equalizer off the beholder in the first room.

The Mind Flayer area is pretty dangerous. A good plan of attack is to summon as many Skeleton Warriors as you can(Spell:Animate Dead) and send them in to fight the Mind Flayers and Ulitharids. They have high magic resistance and they don't really have brains, so the Flayers have to resort to pure damage to kill them. It's a good strategy. Get the blade of the equalizer off of the table as soon as you kill the Ogre.

The Kuoa-toa area is pretty simple. Just a bunch of weak mobs to kill. Make sure you get some of the diseased tadpoles and throw them in with the healthy ones. Watch out for the prince, as he can be fairly difficult. Also, at the shrine to Demogorgon, summon a bear or something, move it onto the altar, and get ready for a fight. Demon Knights spawn, and these guys are pretty tough; they level drain, too. Succeed and you get the belt needed to make the Crom Faeyr.

I did all 3 of these before I even entered Ust' Natha.

On a side note, just to make myself proud, I believe I just finished a near-perfect campaign. I finished Shadows of Amn at level 24 with my Swashbuckler, easily 5 levels higher than my Assassin was the first time I beat it.

Seriously, Swashbucklers are EZmode gaming. Minsc is usually my most powerful fighter, but I was smoking him in kills for the longest time. Of course, once I set him up with Crom Faeyr and another weapon, he started beating me, but still. Great thief skills, and great combat skills. You miss out on backstab, but the good thing is that you don't NEED backstab when you do as much damage as this guy does.

<3 Swashbucklers. [/rant]

Wyl · Post by **Wyl** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:53 am

*sighs*
In my hurry to finish SoA, I forgot the Elder-brain and the Elder Orbs, The city after the Asylum and numerous encounters (small teeth pass, north forest) and in the final battle with Jon, forgot to collect Jan's equipment (Robe of Venca, Staff of the Magi, goggles, crossbow, staff of fire and other things)

One large BUGGER!

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:11 am

@ Wyl

You can got back to SoA areas by using the console, just don't do it from the pocket plane. In fact don't use SK whilst in the Pocket plane either, doing that has screwed me more than once before I realised what was causing the problems.

I've just done the Windspear Hiill quests which I hadn't touched before finishing SoA. Having decided to summon Keldorn it didn't make much sense not having Carsomyr.

Why they don't allow you to continue quests after you start ToB is a mystery, just make sure you have a backup before trying it. I did it from Saradush (AR5000), but anywhere but the Pocket plane MAY work, always play safe and have a separate save just in case.

The area codes can be found either in a sticky on this forum, or here.

Wyl · Post by **Wyl** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:15 am

@Galraen,

I would by my CULA console seems not to like me...
Example: Whenever I try to create an item/monster/gold it doesn't work... I know all the Control+Number or letter, because there the only things that work.
I don't know if this is related to my CULA, but multiple times in ToB (just started it) After an encounter it says something that ends in 'check for correct brackets at the end of line #'
(not exact quote, but you get the meaning)
Help?

Lopov · Post by **Lopov** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:43 am

It's CLUA, not CULA.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:44 am

Try copying (highlight the text then press ctrl+c) from the sticky, and pasting (ctrl+v to paste) into the console, that works for me.

Be aware that the program is orientated round a US keyboard, so they don't match up with others. Mine's a UK keyboard, and to get quotes (") in the console I have to press shift+# (key to the left of the back-space key), normally that's a tilde ~, but in the console it results in ". It may be necessary to experiment to find the correct key (or key combinations).

The brackets work fine on a UK keyboard (shift and 9for ( or shift + 0for )) though.

Berethor · Post by **Berethor** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:48 pm

Some of the codes are pretty strict on what symbols and letters you use. For example:

CLUAConsole:AddGold(100000) will NOT work.
CLUAConsole:AddGold("AddGold") WILL work.

Sometimes those little quotation marks make the difference. I've personally never done the 'move to area' one, but I'm sure there's a little trick with that one too.

Some more:

This works for any romance, just swap out the name for your partner.
CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("AnomenRomance","GLOBAL",1)

You need the item code to create items with this, not the name. Here is the code to make Boots of Speed, for example(more codes in the Gamebanshee walkthrough page).
CLUAConsole:CreateItem("boot01")

You can spawn different creatures with this, but it may cause the game to glitch.
CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("Bodhi")

Good luck, and tell me if you get your CLUA to work.