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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jan 23, 2009 11:43:09 GMT -5
Thanks! There are actually very few quests that I have tutorials for yet... mostly just the really big series ones. To be exact I think I have the Empty Office, Unique Mount and although I haven't finished putting it on the site The Undead Legion. So any tutorials for any quests you want to do would be great! You can easily tell what shots I would want by just looking at any of the above quest tutorials, but I'll give you a quick list: 1. Minimap and Map of the original quest giver as well as any other locations you are sent to. 2. Shots of all NPCs AND the Dialog with NPCs during the quest. 3. If there are special enemies you need to fight for the quest a shot of them and of their stats from the inventory's enemy last defeated section. 4. If there are any special items that need to be collected a shot of that in your inventory. 5. If you get a special reward that is the same every time you do the quest a shot of the item. 6. A shot of the FULL quest log after you complete the quest, even if it takes more than one shot to get it all. Pretty a shot of every aspect of the entire quest step by step. I like my tutorials to be as complete as possible Also from what I've seen so far from screenshot donations it seems that some side quests are only available to certain characters, certain deities or certain paths (light or dark) also some quest seem to change a little bit depending on what path you are playing. I want to be able to specify which quests are not available to any character regardless of deity choice or path and I want to show the differences between the quests that change depending on path. So any info on that would be great!
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Post by Cabranth on Jan 23, 2009 20:25:44 GMT -5
Hi 'Wolfe, Ummm, I wasn't really offering to do walkthroughs/tutorials per se, just offering the screenshots I'm making as I go through, and a full quest list applicable to the Dryad-Lumen-Light Campaign. If I'd already played this game through a couple-three (or 10) times, I would probably try to do what I could on the walkthroughs. Actually, I've never compiled a walkthrough for any game... ever. As far as the kinds of screenshots you were wanting, 1. Done 2. Done 3. Screenshots of Enemies I've mostly got, but the "last defeated" screenshots I didn't even think about. I probably should have from the Sacred walkthroughs I've read in the past. I'll try and remember to do that on the quests from this point forward. 4. I think I've made screenshots of almost all special items while on the ground with the pop-up label showing. If there has been any that actually showed up in inventory, I missed it. Sorry, I'll look for it from now on. 5. This is only the 2nd time through the 1st act for me with Dryad both times, and I haven't been recording any item rewards. The Runemaster Tutorial quest gave me 2 Dryad runes both times, the Blacksmith Tutorial Quest gave me a sword both times (thanks for nothing! ), and I'm pretty sure the Relic Tutorial quest gave me a relic both times, but I can't remember if it was the same kind of relic both times. I'll keep a notebook handy and try and remember to record any item rewards from here on out, and make screenshots also. 6. Done. Like I said, this is only the 2nd time through for me. I got as far as the very beginning of the Human lands last time before I wiped my previous install. All info is for a Dryad, Lumen diety, Light campaign. Unfortunately, I've already done the majority of the quests in the middle, West, and Northwest of the High Elf region, so the screenshots and info I missed on all those quests is going to be absent. I'll do my best to include the missing items in the future. My screenshots are all converted to jpeg, and labeled like so: "Main Title"- "Sub-title" (if applicable) and a sequential # indicating quest progression. Example: The final Quest Log screenshot for the Blacksmith Tutorial Quest would read: "Tutorial Blacksmith-Michael the Blacksmith's Apprentice11" Now, exactly how am I to share these, 'Wolfe? There are literally hundreds of them (far more than I had anticipated), and my first thought of putting them on my Photobucket is starting to look like a really hasty and ill-considered solution. Yeah... didn't really think that one through. The only way I've ever sent files to friends is via IM client (I use AIM). I don't know how to attach files to e-mail, or even how much can be sent at once that way. I also don't know how to use a compression utility like WinRAR to compress files, only how to un-RAR them, so to speak. As of right now, I've got 350-ish screenshots totalling 50-ish mb. Just let me know how you want me to make these available to you and I'll do my best. I plan on spending as much of this weekend as possible working on finishing the High Elf region, but Thylisium is a tangled mess of quests, and I may not make it beyond that point. I'll check in here whenever I come up for air (and when I'm not unconcious).
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Post by DaveO on Jan 24, 2009 11:26:38 GMT -5
If I had known that you had almost nothing after more time with the game than I have had, I would have taken the time to document things I've already done. You do realize by that request this means even more time away from multiplayer? I want to finish the Single Player campaign at least once with a character before trying out any online adventures.
EDIT - I took a quick look at the current pictures. I'm playing on the lowest graphic settings to have a playable game, so I'll have to disqualify myself from providing any shots or assistance. Maybe in 6-24 months when I can afford to upgrade and run Sacred 2 on a Cray crushing machine to get it to work on Medium settings...
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jan 27, 2009 16:44:58 GMT -5
@ Cabranth - Awesome news!!! The best way is to zip the files and email to me.... this is really easy trust me My email host allows files up to 20MB in size. If you tell me what email host you use I could find out how large a file you can send. But as far as zipping a file.... put the images into a folder, right click on the folder and click "Add to archive" then when winrar pops up click "OK". It is easy as that, you will now how a rar file next to the original folder. Now you might have to play around to figure out how many screenshots can be in a folder to create a 20MB rar file. Then go into your email and no matter what type of email host you have there will be a section when "composing" an email that says "attachments" click on "Browse" or whatever it says in that area and simple find the file on your computer in the box that comes up and click "OK" then when you send the email it will have that file attached. Easy as that Any other way would require you to individually upload every image and then for me to individually save them all... DaveO - Yeah my computer won't run Sacred 2 at all so I have very little. If you feel motivated though you could always help by comparing the quests lists on my site and just see if certain quests are not available to your character depending on class, path or deity and just let me know so I can put notes. Of course also let me know if I am missing any quests
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Post by blathzar on Jan 29, 2009 9:47:12 GMT -5
just a little hint here... the quests altogether... there's about 500 of them (main quests, side quests, character specific quests)
This is somthing huge to do... i will try to add my two cents with my shadow warrior of the dark path going on platinum diff...
Let me know wolfe about what you already have on the shadow warrior so far (dark path) so i can start getting screenshots and write text (for explanations) asap... and start plat diff as well hehe !
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Post by Cabranth on Jan 29, 2009 19:09:18 GMT -5
Ok 'Wolfe, I think I've got it figured out. 20m seems like it's the standard. I'm just about done with the High Elf region, so I think I'll start sending you batches this weekend. I'm assuming you want me to use the e-mail address you have listed for yourself here "wolfes.lair@gmail.com" ?
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jan 30, 2009 10:12:48 GMT -5
Yep that is the one So far I have almost nothing so anything would be adding to what I have....
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Post by Cabranth on Feb 3, 2009 21:50:27 GMT -5
Hi again, I've been digging around at the official site trying to nail down exactly why the "Back to the Front" quest in the High Elf region went and disappeared on me after applying the latest patches. Last night, after saving my v2.34 save-games, I re-installed S2 with only the 2.12 patch and it turns out one of those last two patches seems to have removed the quest. Right now I'm trying to find out over at the official S2 site whether this was an accident (Bug), or was intentional and wasn't mentioned in the patch details for either of the last two patches. Anyhoo, if they ever get around to fixing this quest in the future, I've got all the screenshots for it. I just didn't think there was any point in sending them until it's determined if the quest was scrapped or not.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Feb 4, 2009 4:41:28 GMT -5
Sounds good to me
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