Eye of the Beholder 3 - Character not gaining levels

[Locojob]

Played EoB 1 & 2 through with the same party, got my whole team to max level before finishing Darkmoon, unfortunately, I'm now finding that my Cleric isn't levelling up. He now has 1,829,922 Exp and is only registering at level 13 though he should be level 16 by now.

I really don't want to have to go back and redo the first 2 games again to try and get around this, please help!!

[Pixel Peeper]

That's definitely odd. I don't know of any race that has a level limit of 13 for Cleric.

Maybe the character had "too much" EXP, passed a level milestone and now the game is still waiting for that milestone to be reached? Or some idiotic programming mistake to that effect.

I guess you could always backup the saves and hex edit the character to fix his level.

[atmasabr]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

That's definitely odd. I don't know of any race that has a level limit of 13 for Cleric.

Maybe the character had "too much" EXP, passed a level milestone and now the game is still waiting for that milestone to be reached? Or some idiotic programming mistake to that effect.

I guess you could always backup the saves and hex edit the character to fix his level.

Dwarves.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by atmasabr:

Dwarves.

In 2nd Edition, Dwarves can only reach level 10 in Cleric.

[Locojob]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

Originally posted by atmasabr:

Dwarves.

In 2nd Edition, Dwarves can only reach level 10 in Cleric.

Dang it, i completely missed this mechanic and that's exactly what's happened...my dang cleric is a dwarf and has plateaued..

[Locojob]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

That's definitely odd. I don't know of any race that has a level limit of 13 for Cleric.

Maybe the character had "too much" EXP, passed a level milestone and now the game is still waiting for that milestone to be reached? Or some idiotic programming mistake to that effect.

I guess you could always backup the saves and hex edit the character to fix his level.

I've looked into this as well, and couldn't find anything explaining how to hexedit save games files for Eye of the Beholder 3

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Locojob:

Dang it, i completely missed this mechanic and that's exactly what's happened...my dang cleric is a dwarf and has plateaued..

Yes, older games didn't usually point out everything and came with manuals that you had to read before playing.

It's conceivable that the racial level limits weren't properly in place in EotBII, but were put into place in EotBIII (which was made by a different developer). So you managed to get past 10 in EotBII, transferred an "illegal" level 13 Dwarf Cleric into EotBIII, and then couldn't progress anymore.

Originally posted by Locojob:

I've looked into this as well, and couldn't find anything explaining how to hexedit save games files for Eye of the Beholder 3

That also probably works differently in III than in II. If no one did the work of figuring out what's what, it would require a whole lot of testing to figure it all out on your own.

I guess you'll have to make it work with the levels you already have.

[Locojob]

In the end, I had to hex edit my final Darmoon save to change his race and restart EoB3. Finding hexedit info for EoB3 was far and few between, but this made it work

[atmasabr]

Ah well, good. Yeah, I made a mistake in the Goldbox Forgotten Realms series and failed to give my dual Fighter>Cleric enough Wisdom to cast Level 7 spells. Didn't notice this until way late. By then it's like, ehhhh, he's absurdly strong but he's missing a really big "Shut Up!" button. I decided to suffer through it.