I always thought Shar Nadal's powers were due to some special favor of Lolth.
... ...
OK, actually I thought Nadal was so tough because the mod-creator used cheese tactics to beef him up.
Now that I can actually understand some of the coding in the BCS file, I think what makes Nadal so difficult is a scripting oversight. There was no condition at the end of the script to stop Nadal from casting two spells over and over and over and... So you had to be LUCKY in order to kill him before those spells were recast.
Yovanneth Scet made a modification to the script that corrected this problem. I had been using it in my MegaInstall, but I only recently learned (after Nadal kicked my ass several times) that the correction is for
BG1 version of
DSotSC.
I then compared the current
BGT version and Yovanneth's to see what could be changed.
I made a MegaInstall version which keeps the same logic as
both versions, yet has just two "corrections":
- In Yovanneth's version (and also possibly from the original), Nadal got something like 5 or 6 chance to cast a particular spell.
It does not look like this was an oversight. I reduced the casting chance to
one. (I can't remember but I think this spell was not in the
BGT version.)
- For the two spells at the end of the script, Nadal gets only
one chance to cast either. No more cheese, er, script oversight.
I tested it and it worked without problem.
open
DSSHAR.BCS in a game editor, replace ALL of its lines with the contents of the attached file...
(*or* BEFORE INSTALLING
DSotSC, put the attached file DSSHAR.BAF into \
DSotSC\BAF folder)
then go show Nadal not to mess with a Bhaalspawn!
{I had previously attached Yovanneth's version to my signature link. I have removed that and replaced it with the MegaInstall version. If you had used the older version, please replace it with this new version.}
Edited by Azazello, 18 October 2006 - 08:10 AM.
