SpellForce Platinum Edition - Multiplayer, Widescreen and Windows Compatibility

[MegalomaniacNG]

Hello,

We have worked on a version that brings back multiplayer, adds NAT traversal support, widescreen resolution support and compatibility with current Windows version.

Update April 27:
This is now live.

Enjoy!

[Lord Dracon]

avant = WSG patch (1080P)
apres = last patch on steam (1080P)

for me "avant" is better

https://diff.pics/TnLiKBuDa9oh/1

Please optimise ratio aspect and debug the game and it will become a perfect game !

[2D_SVD]

Well, I've had that resolution thing which is quite easy to fix and the Shiel Problem as well Hopefully, devs will fix it someday soon.

One more glitch I ran into is a weird one, and I did not see anyone here mentioning it. I am not sure if I can make it happen again, but basically after completing all of the quests in Eloni, I tried to go back to Greyfell (I think for dentist quest or smth) via bindstones (the one near the portal to Leafshade -> city of Greyfell). But when the game loaded in Greyfell, it started to play opening cutscene (where Rohen summons the player) with following issues:
- Rohen was not in the cutscene, and all of his subtitles were marked as they were said by "Fallen Hero" (your NULL value?)
- My char was not in cutscene, but, I guess, it spawned at the bindstone I travelled to and tried to walk to the monument where cutscene takes place. The char was killed while it was walking past the village attacked by orcs, and respawned at the bindstone in Greyfell.
- Messenger was actually in the right place and acted as he is supposed to.
After the cutscene I've received the first quest of main line for the second time. All the buildings I've destroyed on this map, in Liannon and in Eloni respawned (spawners were inactive). All quest-important and some other enemies (bandit near the first monument and orcs in Greyfell, ghost from the mine, bandit leader and all the goblins in Liannon, all bosses, counter-attacking army, beastmen and some others in Eloni) have respawned. All chests on these maps were once again available for looting, but empty.
The Dark one in Greyfell respawned as well, when I tried to reach him - the game played the second cutscene (the treason one). The messenger was "waiting" for me at the monument in the begining, and when tried to run to kill me was killed himself by the guards at the bridge.
Shame I cannot make screenshots of the UI, but here are some shots of me walking around empty camps and two ghosts at the mine. Also, Adira wants to give me the quest way too early (I'm lvl 6 and just entering Leafshade here)

Empty goblins' camp
https://imgur.com/DUryvpx
Double ghosts
https://imgur.com/2xBpABf
Early quest
https://imgur.com/moIbdBG
Respawned Orc--boss
https://imgur.com/FWBS7Rk
Respawned counter-attack
https://imgur.com/YPdnnFR

One more thing I've accidentally noticed is not a huge deal, but I guess it is sort of a bug. It is possible to select some warriors AND a builder at the same time. Not really sure if that's intended, but be it as it may. The issue I'm talking about is wrong voice line played when worker is ordered to build something in such circumstances.

P.S. sorry if my english it too horrible, lul.

[Farlon]

Originally posted by 2D_SVD:

One more thing I've accidentally noticed is not a huge deal, but I guess it is sort of a bug. It is possible to select some warriors AND a builder at the same time. Not really sure if that's intended, but be it as it may. The issue I'm talking about is wrong voice line played when worker is ordered to build something in such circumstances.

Those are unused voice lines, for some reason the lines that were supposed to play when you ordered your units to attack play when you order your worker to build stuff with military units selected. As for the rest, it seems that all the 1.50 bugs came back with the update.

[2D_SVD]

Originally posted by Faflon:

As for the rest, it seems that all the 1.50 bugs came back with the update.

Yea, your post reminded me that I had a similar issue a long time ago. At least that time there was no Shiel bug and I could continue with the game :D

Speaking of old issues. I also remember having a critical bug in Greydusk Vale (is that the name of the map with the fortress, besieged by undead armies?) Anyway, there was a quest to find a traitor inside the fortress, and it was supposed to be done with the help of other side-quest (delivering a letter to Greyfell). If I recall correctly, I tried to complete the second quest before the first one (just to see what will happen), and when I came back to the Greydusk Vale - game crashed. I could not move any further, because the 'experiment' (lul) took place before I killed skeleton boss of that level. Not sure if the order of quests is the reason of the crash - I wanted to check it this playthrough, but Shiel....

[Heldensátko]

i was happy, when i was my fv game was updated, but now im crying, because all my 26 characters are unplayable. My cd key is lost due this update so i cant play them.... rip

[Darth Raven]

I kind of don't understand the way of thinking here. is it so hard for them to admit they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and revert it back to how the game was before? I don't see that they are actually admiistering the bugs in any way. To hell with resolutions if you can't play the game at all.

[RunForRest]

Originally posted by art.wlodarczyk:

...To hell with resolutions if you can't play the game at all.

I dont have installed the patch, but im using a widescreen hack without any problems

[Mythii]

Originally posted by RunForRest:

I dont have installed the patch, but im using a widescreen hack without any problems

Thank you for this comment! I looked up widescreen for SpellForce and came across this guide - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=267375941

Works super well and now I can finally play again. (If anyone is planning to follow the guide, I recommend patching back first so there aren't any bugs e.g. The Shiel)

[Darth Raven]

Originally posted by Sebubble:

Originally posted by RunForRest:

I dont have installed the patch, but im using a widescreen hack without any problems

Thank you for this comment! I looked up widescreen for SpellForce and came across this guide - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=267375941

Works super well and now I can finally play again. (If anyone is planning to follow the guide, I recommend patching back first so there aren't any bugs e.g. The Shiel)

hell's bells, it worked!:) nice to know that modders are competent:)

[Albanidas]

The console on the newest patch doesn´t exist anymore. Please fix this!
When I was tryin to rollback to an older patch the game asked me for the cd- key but steam removed the cd keys for spellforce plat.

[kadashsouba]

Originally posted by _ProAlba_:

The console on the newest patch doesn´t exist anymore. Please fix this!
When I was tryin to rollback to an older patch the game asked me for the cd- key but steam removed the cd keys for spellforce plat.

Totally agree, please give back console or let us rever patch to previous version.

[MegalomaniacNG]

Hello everybody,

I am sorry that the update caused some problems. Unfortunately we didnt get a clean drop of the latest source code so its a bit of puzzling around.
Unfortunately we had a lot of time pressure as the keys were running out and if that happens the game will be removed from Steam.

We will working on fixing the issues.

About Shiel - Does anybody have a save game before that mission so we can quickly reproduce it.

Also can you let us know about a list of 1.50 bugs that are in there?

Thanks!

[iGheko]

Originally posted by MegalomaniacNG:

Hello everybody,

I am sorry that the update caused some problems. Unfortunately we didnt get a clean drop of the latest source code so its a bit of puzzling around.
Unfortunately we had a lot of time pressure as the keys were running out and if that happens the game will be removed from Steam.

We will working on fixing the issues.

About Shiel - Does anybody have a save game before that mission so we can quickly reproduce it.

Also can you let us know about a list of 1.50 bugs that are in there?

Thanks!

Hey man, good to hear your voice :)

I've got a save that's got to be, like, the level before The Shiel but I'm not sure as I've never played through the game fully before.

No idea hoiw to send you the save file though ^.^ How do I do that?

[Ailon]

Good to see you again.
Bugs:
1. Multiplayer Issues

Originally posted by Archival:

Guys both me and my friend can't launch our previous characters from free-play game.
1. It shows only the 1st letter of the character
2. It implicates we have level 1 even though we had 32
3. It doesn't launch. After setting everything down during the loading screen it says "Player data is invalid". HELP! We spent more than 100 hours building those characters.

2. Bad graphic scaling

Originally posted by TheDarkRuler:

Extremely ugly stretches in the avatar window.Black bars, model seems wrongly stretched and the text isn't fitting the center correctly.See my screenshots here...

#1 : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371814500
#2 : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371814542
#3 : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371814582
#4 : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371814635
Oh and did you deactivate the cheat console?
I tried to unveil the map to see how far i could look and could not do it with CTRL and + anymore.

3. Resolution problems when starting the game

Originally posted by Kenjihu:

Game keeps on crashing on startup after the update, after having opened the options menu in-game... Now I keep getting an error message when trying to start the game: "UTL_QuickIntergrator::CreateDisplay() desired resolution not found: please install latest drivers!". Also when I was able to start the game, the resolution was terrible, and I wasn't able to open the console... I don't understand why these changes were necessary, the game worked perfectly before the update!

4. Shiel army spawning bug (occurs also on other maps)

Originally posted by Dervantar:

Please fix the Shiel monster bug. Stuck in this map forever. No way to win over the 2000 barbarians and now that you disabled the console even cheatcodes won't help. This sucks.

5. Scripts issues.

Originally posted by 2D_SVD:

One more glitch I ran into is a weird one, and I did not see anyone here mentioning it. I am not sure if I can make it happen again, but basically after completing all of the quests in Eloni, I tried to go back to Greyfell (I think for dentist quest or smth) via bindstones (the one near the portal to Leafshade -> city of Greyfell). But when the game loaded in Greyfell, it started to play opening cutscene (where Rohen summons the player) with following issues:
- Rohen was not in the cutscene, and all of his subtitles were marked as they were said by "Fallen Hero" (your NULL value?)
- My char was not in cutscene, but, I guess, it spawned at the bindstone I travelled to and tried to walk to the monument where cutscene takes place. The char was killed while it was walking past the village attacked by orcs, and respawned at the bindstone in Greyfell.
- Messenger was actually in the right place and acted as he is supposed to.
After the cutscene I've received the first quest of main line for the second time. All the buildings I've destroyed on this map, in Liannon and in Eloni respawned (spawners were inactive). All quest-important and some other enemies (bandit near the first monument and orcs in Greyfell, ghost from the mine, bandit leader and all the goblins in Liannon, all bosses, counter-attacking army, beastmen and some others in Eloni) have respawned. All chests on these maps were once again available for looting, but empty.
The Dark one in Greyfell respawned as well, when I tried to reach him - the game played the second cutscene (the treason one). The messenger was "waiting" for me at the monument in the begining, and when tried to run to kill me was killed himself by the guards at the bridge.
Shame I cannot make screenshots of the UI, but here are some shots of me walking around empty camps and two ghosts at the mine. Also, Adira wants to give me the quest way too early (I'm lvl 6 and just entering Leafshade here)

Empty goblins' camp
https://imgur.com/DUryvpx
Double ghosts
https://imgur.com/2xBpABf
Early quest
https://imgur.com/moIbdBG
Respawned Orc--boss
https://imgur.com/FWBS7Rk
Respawned counter-attack
https://imgur.com/YPdnnFR

One more thing I've accidentally noticed is not a huge deal, but I guess it is sort of a bug. It is possible to select some warriors AND a builder at the same time. Not really sure if that's intended, but be it as it may. The issue I'm talking about is wrong voice line played when worker is ordered to build something in such circumstances.

P.S. sorry if my english it too horrible, lul.

6. Disabled console

Originally posted by Silent0123:

I cannot access the console. Ctrl ] does not work.

[Farlon]

Originally posted by iGheko:

Originally posted by MegalomaniacNG:

Hello everybody,

I am sorry that the update caused some problems. Unfortunately we didnt get a clean drop of the latest source code so its a bit of puzzling around.
Unfortunately we had a lot of time pressure as the keys were running out and if that happens the game will be removed from Steam.

We will working on fixing the issues.

About Shiel - Does anybody have a save game before that mission so we can quickly reproduce it.

Also can you let us know about a list of 1.50 bugs that are in there?

Thanks!

Hey man, good to hear your voice :)

I've got a save that's got to be, like, the level before The Shiel but I'm not sure as I've never played through the game fully before.

No idea hoiw to send you the save file though ^.^ How do I do that?

if the map is leafshade then that's the one before shiel. And to send it just upload somewhere like google drive or join the spellforce discord and send it through PM to the devs.