Urgoths Are Broken in the CE

[swcarter]

There is a part in the CE where urgoths can't fit through a trap door above a ladder. We get about a post a week from people discovering this bug, so hopefully this sticky thread will warn them in advance not to play the urgoth race.

If you do play an urgoth, there are some ways around the problem. Start with this thread, or do a search on "urgoth" and see what you find.

SWC

[joebob]

please don't let this discourage you from building an urgoth char!
they are one of the most fun. the post swcarter points to contains a perfect solution for this problem.

[morphaeus26]

i play a character that is urgoth and i encountered a bug, that makes imposibble for me to continue the game.I mention that I play the "collectors edition" and that it seems idiotically that the guard elf lets you in just if you got the approval of the elven council( which is in the exact place where the elf doesnt let you in-arindale)

So, after a short documentation on this site, I found out that I must find a tower with a celestial altar of peace, and there I must pray so that I should get the mark(that will allow me to enter the elven lands-arindale)>Here comes the bug-I found the tower, killed the shade and when I mounted the second ladder, to the top of the tower- my charcater cannot climb it-I mean it climbs to the top but there it cannot ascend to top's floor, it remains over the last steps of the ladder, climbing away not actually progressing!!!I tried different saves, i return to Fragrove so that I load a different screen , then come back there, all for nothing. It realyy pisses me off, it was a well build character

If u got any solutions do tell!!Is it only on the urgoth race, is it just a stupid bug, should take another race!!just give me anything!!

[Lemmus]

Morphaeus, read the post at the top, where it says says "Start with this thread". Follow the link to thread that talks about the exact same problem that you are having. Go to the second page. Read the post by embrezar which has a 10 point system for getting around the problem. Follow the steps. Play the game.

In future, always do a search in forums before posting for help, site moderators will ban users who choose to make multiple posts.

[file read error]

I think I found a better way than hex-editing to get rid of the bug where the Urgoth doesn't want to climb the ladder - I played around with the tower's GR2 file. Now there's no small hole on top of the tower but it's wide open so the Urgoth can fit through and get ordained favor. Am I allowed to upload my modded GR2 file somewhere and post a link to it, so players can finally play the Urgoth correctly without having to hex-edit every time they want to go up that tower?

edit: added a picture where my test urgoth has just gotten ordained favor. It's difficult to see because the shade was just casting a "stream of ruin" (I call it that because the Ring of Ruin casts the same spell), but in the top left corner you can clearly see the Urgoth icon.

edit again: Fix for the Urgoth Bug - replacing the Ruins_TowerA.GR2 in the grn_model folder with this one will make it possible to climb up even if the player is an Urgoth. It also works on existing characters, even if their savegame is at a point where they are just climbing up. However, it also makes it easier for the shade to get the character, and it makes it a LOT harder to get down again after activating the altar. If you use this file, it will give a whole new meaning to the term "ordained favor", that much I promise you!

[George_K]

This is kinda late, but I tried the fix... there's nothing but two ladders... as soon as I stepped away from the first ladder, fell to floor because no floor up there to stand on...

Besides maybe jumping to the next ladder, I guess it would be necessary to jump to the altar also. Lots of trouble, it's much simpler and easier to hex edit the save to get to the top of the regular tower...