Laurentiu on 2/7/2000 at 18:06

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Courtesy of PCGamer now I am playing this classic game. I have some questions however that are not answered in the enclosed walkthrough and there is no manual in any form on the PCGamer CD. So here are my questions, and maybe in time I'll add others:

1) An NPC told me that I can use a shrine to pray and improve my skills. I found a shrine on level 2, how do I pray at it?

2) I've seen that sleeping restores hit points, is there any other result of sleeping?

3) I can eat things and sometime they restore my health. When do I actually need to eat and what food restores health?

4) One thing that I don't like is that I don't have easy access to my stats. I learn from time to time that my experience has increased but how can I check my current status?

5) How do I increase my mana?

6) I have a list of spells in the walkthrough. Was this included in the original manual or was I supposed to learn about them in the game?

7) How do I use the Silver Sapling, I tried throwing it on the ground on several places but it didn't grow. Is it supposed to actually grow?

I'll probably come up with more as I advance through the game. I'm currently on level 2, I just found the blueprints that some nut lost. One thing I really like in this game and would like to see in others is the ability of combining items into more complex things. I've made a fishing pole and 2 torches so far.

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Laurentiu

"The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow
fond or spiteful, is to lose one's balance, after which no action can be trusted. Our burden is not for the dependent of spirit."

--- Mayar, Third Keeper

Brad Schoonmaker on 2/7/2000 at 18:56

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-more-

(2)Sleeping will also put you in touch with Garamon's ghost, sometimes. He will tell you things, albeit a little "cryptic". Be careful where you choose to sleep because the gameworld doesn't stop for you. Also, if you're poisoned, sleeping may cure you.

(3) Just for fun, eating mushrooms and drinking liquor may put you in a weird condition. Some items in System Shock 1 had similar side effects.

(7) The Silver Sapling is "planted" by using or left-clicking on it.

General help:
1. Use the map for taking notes. There are a seemingly infinite number of pages, but start after 'level 8' to make sure they last till the end.
2. When using the shrines, save the game prior and experiment with different 'mantras'. Unlike in UW2, there is no clear way of knowing in advance how many times you can advance at the shrine at any given time.
3. Invest in 'lore' skill. There are many specialty items in the game that appear as common until they are put into inventory. If your 'lore' is high enough, you'll see what is so special about them.

That's all I can come up with without spoilers.

Brad S.

Fafhrd on 2/7/2000 at 22:33

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I also got UW1 from the PC Gamer, but I'm having trouble running it, I've finally got it to detect sound when I run it under Windows 98, but when I double click on UW it freezes. so I'm left with the options of running it without sound, or not running it at all. I've also tried running it in MS-DOS mode, but then I get a message saying that there isn't enough low-memory to run it. Can anyone help me?

Laurentiu on 2/7/2000 at 23:01

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Thanks for all the answers.

To Fafhrd:

I play from a boot disk to get sound to work. The following is my autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
C:
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM
SET SNDSCAPE=C:\WINDOWS
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2
C:\SBPCI64\APINIT.COM

and this is the content of my config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE ON
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICEHIGH=C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS

Of course it is specific to my hardware. I have a SoundBlaster PCI64. Replace the last 3 lines of autoexec.bat with what you need to load your sound drivers.

Hope this helps.

Laurentiu on 2/7/2000 at 23:04

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BTW Fafhrd, if you can run the game without sound you don't loose that much. I've heard the music and speech from the intro but in the game there doesn't seem to be sounds or music at all.