LoneWolf pointed out some of Froa‘s follower lines were silent. In fact, somehow I seemed to have neglected to include about 137 lines for Froa in version 3.05. I suppose most players simply assumed she had nothing to say post-quest, when she actually had 137 things to say, although some of them are marriage related. Here’s a hotfix to make her say them. This is her complete audio, just drop in your data folder and overwrite as there may be some re-takes in here also.
I went in game to apologize to poor Froa and Jessica for making her a post-quest mute, and whatever possible harm this did to her potential marriage prospects. Unfortunately she didn’t take the news particularly well.
That horrible crunching noise is my skull being turned into putty.
Just want to check in and let everyone know I’m making good progress on a new quest that will involve a small group of older NPCs as well as a brand new location, built by nonoodles. Having someone else do the world building is a huge time saver. It makes me want to press the PLAY button on this file forever.
I’m also slowly putting together a slightly larger project related to the underground city of Mzinchaleft, but that one’s going to require some time to fill in the clutter.
The New Music Player
One of the things you may have noticed is the new music player slotted on the right hand column. It came as a surprise to me too. I didn’t know how it got there or what its demands were, it just moved in in the middle of the night and started sleeping on the couch.
When I first saw the player, with all the crazy doo-hickeys, mismatched names and bizarre headers, my first instinct was to take a deep breath and remind myself not to panic.
Yup, cool as a cucumber. Eventually, I managed to figure out this is all WordPress’ doing, and while the curmudgeon in me fears change, ultimately I’m pleased with the new interface. My only criticism is that the bar to forward the track is too narrow, but if you didn’t want to listen to a song, there was never any reason to click on it in the first place.
The changes also forced me to upload some of the newer tracks, such as Blood of Kings by Sebastian Schneider and Ronja Monto‘s Seven Septims for Sigurd. And best of all, the new format displays metadata in a way that I can list both the singer and the composer, which is huuuuuuuuuuuge.
While they would never complain, I’m sure the composers might have felt a tad under-appreciated because their names weren’t credited beside each song. So while the alterations themselves left me in a cold sweat, in the end whatever programming wizardry WordPress forced upon me was a net positive. Score another point for science.
As for an actual, full length soundtrack, that will come when all the orchestral songs, variants, and miscellaneous shit is finished. Which should be any daymonthyear century now. I typically don’t like releasing soundtracks that are incomplete, I hate it when I buy a soundtrack only to find it doesn’t have all the songs. Of course, it’s different when it’s free, so maybe I’m just lazy and making excuses. The world will never know.
UPDATE: On second thought, might toss one up now that I’ve gotten the rest of the audio. So the bottom paragraph no longer applies. Berg very pleased.
Just wanted to mention there won’t be an update tomorrow, for a couple of reasons. First, there’s really no major fixes required save for the Fenced Inquest, which can be easily bypassed via the console. More importantly, a couple NPCs are sort of half-finished, including the re-working of one character in preparation for a quest. Given the involvement of this NPC in other thingamajigs, I want to wait until all the old stuff is voiced and functional first. Double voices make Berg sad.
An e-mailer asked if I would create another elongated questline similar to Blood of Kings. I don’t know if I’ll do anything to that extent, but there are some quests in the future that will string together multiple NPCs. Which is always a good thing, because then I have an excuse to add party banter, which everyone loves. Who hates party banter? Wallflowers, maybe.
One of the mod users, Cato, mentioned we should have a page for user screenshots somewhere on the blog, similar to Nexus. I think the best place for that would probably be on the wiki pages for the characters. It would be awesome if there were a way to click on the default image and pop up either a slideshow or something similar to Nexus where all the images are on one page. I suppose the first thing we’d need is a way for users to submit pictures other than sending me them manually. So get on that shit, WordPress.
Lastly, a final reminder for all those who were unaware, but the Bioware Dragon Age voice actor contest will be closing in…oh well, fuck. In two hours. So by the time you’re reading this, it’ll probably be over, but I bet those grapes were fucking sour tasting anyway. Good luck to all those who entered.
