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There's an issue with artifact transfer. Basically, in the first Necromancer Campaign mission, I bought the Cloak of Deadly Shadows in the Sorcerer's Castle's artifact shop (after building it). The artifact was transferred to the second and third missions. After the starting cutscene, another cutscene immediately started, about obtaining this very cloak. The quest was marked as completed, but the Castle wasn't captured to obtain the cloak. I think the point is clear. In the second mission, if you act quickly, you can have Godric or Markel (which is even worse) rush into the Mage's Castle, build an artifact shop, and buy more items from the Shadow set.

I'm thinking of adding all artifacts to the c3m1 map, except for the Shadow set, as they are all allowed there, and there isn't a list, but I want to add one without these artifacts. But in the second mission, we receive the Necromancer Amulet at the end through a script. If I do the same thing on this map as in c3m1, will the script give the artifact to Godric? I want to be sure so I don't have to redo it multiple times.

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I did as described above, and Godric received the Necromancer Amulet; everything is fine. In c3m3, I removed the Necromancer Amulet from the list, and in c3m5, I'll probably do it like in the first two, adding everything except the Shadow set, but that's not certain yet; I haven't gotten there and might come up with something else. All artifacts are allowed in the last one, through shops, and shops in Mage cities will be duplicated. I wouldn't want to get the Necromancer Amulet before the battle with Godric. And, I probably need to check all of this with Faidean so that he doesn't collect the Dwarven set for the Vampire Lord.

It seems the scripts don't allow the cloak to appear right at the beginning of the third mission; I think this would be the case even in the original game (if you were to give it to yourself using cheats). The Necromancer campaign is super easy even on Hero difficulty and without such exploits. Do you think it's worth fixing this in the mod?

Generally, yes, it probably should be.

It might be easy, but when quests don't work correctly and break the game, that's a problem. It wasn't even an exploit; I just wanted to see what it sells (now it also transfers artifacts), and I got a cloak on the first try.

I did everything as described above for the Necromancer campaign, and it worked perfectly. In the Elf campaign, everything is fine with the artifacts, but there are no Gnome artifacts until the Higher Vampire.

The question is: are cutscenes in game maps separate maps that are part of a larger map, or not? And if so, how do I open and edit them in the map editor?

And where do I remove them, in Map.xdb?

You can create a random map in the editor, click on map properties, select artifacts, select all, remove the unnecessary ones, and save the map. Change the map extension from h5m to zip, open it, open the map in a text editor, copy all the artifacts from artifactIDs, and place them in the desired map. In maps that already have a list of artifacts, simply remove the set shadow.

Probably not for the first four. I think we should stick as closely to the original as possible. But when it comes to artifacts, we need to take a look. If we have to add something to each map, then forget about it; I definitely won't be doing that.

I wanted to ask what the arena and changes in SmallSpecialArena_Grass_Custom are. The file is large, and comparing them is very tedious.

This is an arena for videos in the Agrael campaign against the elves.

It was almost empty. And because of this, the videos had bare fields and no textures; if you want to see how it looked in the old AllCampaigns, check out almost all the videos in mission 3 for Agrael, the first two videos of mission 4 for Agrael, and the first video of mission 1 for Railag. The textures are simply missing there. I drew it approximately as it was originally, as best as I could.

The map in ToE:
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The map in the original:
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My map (for some reason, the objects and lake didn't load, but they are present in the game – I checked)
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Okay, thanks.

By the way, I decided to fix one injustice, lol: When Markel kills Cyrus, he says: "Victory, your majesty! Cyrus didn't want to give up either the ring or his life, but I took both from him. Prepare the troops. We are going to the Hall of Heroes!". But we never get the ring, and it's not given to us in the final fifth mission; it only exists in words. I added the ring to Cyrus, and after the victory, the ring is transferred from Markel to the final mission. The final battle against Markel will be more difficult.

After defeating Cyrus, does the ring not drop into the inventory? Is it transferred with the mod? I just don't remember.

As I understand it, the next mission is the 5th one. Can you give me feedback on Godric's second army, how balanced it is (the army appears the same on all difficulty levels; I tried to make it more or less balanced).

P.S. Are you playing through the entire campaign or just testing? What difficulty level?

Yeah, and I also added creatures - alternate upgrade, where there's a list of 14 (regular and upgraded), in the fourth mission of Agrael, and, I don't remember, with Wolfstein or something.

That's a good fix, by the way. You could also add the red army fleeing from Isabel in C3M5.

I checked if all the Lords' artifacts appear in the original campaign, and yes, they all appear in the shops/buildings. It just seemed different before for some reason.

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Another thought: what about moving artifacts with red names? How bad of an idea is that?

Merging armies is possible. I don't think adding more art, besides the existing set list, is a good idea.

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By the way, I just took SmallSpecialArena_Grass_Custom from the original, updated the file date to replace the one from ToE, and it worked fine.

I tried to launch it in the editor, and it said that the archive was corrupted. Was this due to the file date? And how do I change it, and to what?