Now almost everything is tracked and updated during the gameplay.

Again, repo of this project is on Github.

Currently in Tarant, lvl 8 full mage build with Virgil in party. Kinda just wondering what I should be doing. Are there early game staffs i ought to get? Or should i just keep questing?

Im also looking for good money making that isnt Rizguys key exploit lol.

Race: Dwarf

Background: Run away with the Circus (recommended by community member)

Starting points: 2 point DEX , 2 point Melee , 1 Point Herbology ( crash site offers a lot of plants)

Shop: Fine steel dagger ( with this high STR this is very potent starting weapon)

Alignment: Lawful Good ( no evil quests , no killing NPCs for profit or quest items)

Rules: no exploits , no stealing , no picklocks (profit only ny selling loot or crafting) , no INT potions abuse

Idea and Strategy behind the run: We go on journey to save our brothers from Black Mountain clan being party of dwarfs . Me and Magnus we start wee crafting business at Tarant crafting Flow Specktrometers and sell it for 200 gold profits (mats required around 70 ) , it's not much but it's honest work. I level Magnus manually so he is the Blacksmith in our party , when me I personally go for Therapeutics (again suggestion by community member). Such a tech party involves serious leveling so I do every good quest and every exra area like Tarant closed sewers and Ashbury haunted castle , so far I spend most of the time crafting and look for bargain but to be fair is so fun when I actually play the game instead of rushing it.

I’ve played both fallout 1 and 2 and without a doubt my favorite build was jinxed unarmed for the cheer hilarity of it all. What’s a good build for this game that’s fun but also usable, not looking for meta and don’t want to struggle, just a good fun build with maybe a bit of humor (I’ve heard something about grenadier being fun). I’m ok with some weird strats.

I'm just after Dark Elves village and Virgil left. I look around the Internet a little so I found him in thieves guild's basement in Caladon. But I wonder, what is a genuine way to find him? Like, will a subject of him come up during the main quest at some point, or...

EDIT I know he's gone to Caladon, I think he himself mentions it (or is it my Mandela effect). I mean, how to 'discover' that Theives Guild is the right place to look.

EDIT2 Ok, I know. Caladon crime ring and the Onion are mentioned in the newspaper about the murder of Virgil's brother.

I remembered this game existed and got in the mood to try some old school crpg gaming. Bought the game, played for a little bit but felt like my character was rather weak.

So, I want to try and ask for non-spoilery gameplay advice. I wanted to try something like a black necromancer with either good charisma and persuasion or good thieving, preferably both but with the starting skill points I got I imagine it’s best to stick to one. Thought leaning into a black knight or antipaladin route in the future, but wanted to get y’all’s opinion.

Is there any way to better manage fatigue? What spells are useful enough that I should grab them even if they aren’t total fits? Basically, how do I not suck in fights?

I'm usually suspicious of re-specing but I really don't like how my backstabbing build is turning out (it's my third playthrough).

I know it should be a murder machine by mid-late game but the issue is that, deep down, it's just esentially another oonga boonga Melee build with some assassin flavor to it. Also, it's a bit annoying that Prowling is governed by PE, because it means having to spread points between Melee + Backstabbing + Prowling + DX + PE for the build to become online

Normally I would just start a new playtrough but the trash mobs in Arcanum can get exhausting extremely quick and we all know it... So I'd much rather re-spec mid game just one time

Beast approach for solving it is probabl y level 4 whine necromancy. Anyway... the school beeing useless, and it being called meta, could it be, that the uselessness is supposed to lie outside the game, in some way? That's the idea I was going to share.

I am aware that it qualifies as "schizo" but rest assured, I am not trying to entertain you.

I haven’t posted much lately because I wanted to get this far enough that I could show something real and playable.

I’ve been expanding Arcanum Community Edition, or Arcanum CE, into a project called Arcanum CE Restored. Over the past few months I’ve added major new CE systems, and recently I built a completely different multiplayer system from the one found in the original game.

Stock Arcanum multiplayer was limited to separate, short multiplayer modules. You created a new character, couldn’t play through the real Arcanum campaign, couldn’t use normal campaign saves, and had no persistent co-op experience across the full game.

In CE Restored, a friend joins the host’s actual single-player campaign as a persistent second character. That character can level up, keep their equipment and progression, and potentially be used with different friends or public servers in the future.

The client keeps their own level, stats, health, fatigue, inventory, equipment, map, journal and character progression. They can fight alongside the host using real animated combat, trade with merchants, loot containers, use the world map, enter interiors and smaller maps, travel through normal Arcanum locations, and follow the host into custom Module Expansion content.

I also created a spectator mode that lets someone watch a friend or host play.

*I died during my travel after killing Virgil and loaded a different save if you are wondering why he appears in the video later.

The video shows:

• Separate host and client game windows
• Merwin’s own character sheet, inventory, map, journal and equipment
• Real client-controlled combat
• Multiplayer chat
• Mutual MP Follow, allowing either player to automatically follow the other
• World-map travel and random encounters
• Travel through the actual Arcanum campaign
• Tarant ship travel into my Module Expansion content
• Both players entering the custom Private Quarters
• Storage and inventory interaction
• Both players returning together

I’ve successfully traveled with the client from Tarant to Shrouded Hills, then to Ashbury, and through every original Arcanum multiplayer module while fighting encounters along the way. Interior transitions such as mines, passages, sewers, buildings and temple areas are also working.

The host owns the campaign, quests, saves and major story decisions. The friend joins as a real player-controlled companion who can explore, fight, shop and manage their own character. They can disconnect whenever they need to—or be kicked or banned if necessary—and the host can continue the same single-player campaign normally. Module Expansion Mod allows you to travel to every module inside the Arcanum map, something that is not not allowed in stock Arcanum. You can use the Tarant ship captain to travel to every module and your new Private Bedroom/Quarters to sleep and store items in between quests.

Arcanum CE Restored is much larger than the multiplayer work. It currently includes:

• A built-in Mods menu
• Drop-in zip mod support
• Easy mod enable/disable
• Safe mod removal with backup
• Restart Game from inside the Mods menu
• Paged mod lists
• CE Settings
• Optional patches such as Followers on a Train, increased carry weight,buy equipped items and more
• Xbox controller support
• Character Expansion with slots 13–19
• Vollinger Voice Lines by Dar_Duck, featuring more than 130 new human-recorded lines
• Improved debugging and diagnostics
• UAP 2.0.2 integration work
• Native in-game high-resolution support

This is still a private Beta V1 development build, not a release announcement. Combat and campaign travel are working, but I still need to test more weapons, spells, maps and edge cases. I would say the first multiplayer beta is roughly 85% complete.

The first test version will be shared through the Arcanum Modding Discord.Discord# 395779353356664833

I appreciate the community support as always. Let me know what you think or what features you would like to see.

Race: Human - I think is a well round race for bow user

Background: Raised by orcs - Compound and Pyrotechnic bow requires 10 STR and Perception bonus is also good for early Prowling. Charisma penalty is fine because stealth runs are mostly solo runs I don't want to manually level Virgil or other followers to max Prowling

Starting points: 1 Dex , 2 Bow , 2 Prowling , good option is 1 point Herbology because you can start with a lot of healing salves in the starting zone or sell them for early profit

Shop: I just buy a Bow and as much Arrows as possible

Idea for this run is picking enemies 1 by 1 without alarm the rest enemies from the group. Bows are really unique playstyle due to to their Expert mastery which shoots 2 arrows at once for 1 arrow cost , they are silent , they have high range and you can't hurt yourself if critically fail (you just miss). Only downside is not much tech bows and part of the fun is to upgrade your weapon to better one , when here you technically start with bad bow , buy Compound bow in Tarant and craft Pyrotechnic bow after Black Mountain clan

A while ago, Jen The Town Witch created a set of high-quality maps of Arcanum locations and published them on Flickr, but the site no longer allows full-size downloads, so I uploaded them to Google Drive NexusMods: Full-Scale Location Maps by Jen The Town Witch.

If anyone knows of a place where we can publish images up to 200MB, please let me know.

In debug mode, I have the enemies' turn order displayed at the top of the screen. I'm wondering whether I should make this feature optional (off by default) and add it to the final version 🤔

Again, link to the project: https://github.com/Suvitruf/unity-arcanum.

First playthrough here, wanted to recruit Gar but he's missing? I've already killed Bates if that matters

Again, repo of this project is on Github.

Now I can level-up, spend points to attributes, learn spells and use them. Also it persist between runs (global save system). Basic sound-system was also implemented. Yeah, there some issues with UI art scaling and positioning, but not critical for now, I'm going to fix it later 😅

There are several subsystem remain to implement. After that I'll try to make playable demo.

Was anyone able to run this thing on Win11?

I really hate to start a new game...

Evil playthrough is quite short to be fair , after you join the Dark Elves not much to do , you have really unique encounter with Elder Joachim in Caladon and VIrgil has evil dialogue with him . I decide to join Kerghan but endgame cinematic was quite short (still worth to see it because is something somehow unique ). I would say evil playthrough is one time experience , I don't think if I ever do it again . Good , neutral or mixed alignment decisions runs are quite more enjoyable

It's my first time playing, and I think I messed up by going for a brute-force, low-intelligence character lol.

I heard Magnus is a good choice for this stage of the game since he's a dwarven blacksmith, so I tried to recruit him. I saw he didn't like me, so I drank an intelligence potion and dumped all my points into Beauty just to see if anything would change. He still won't talk to me, any suggestions?

As per title. The UAP 2.0.2 always gives me those strange pixelated glitches, and I always have to find an external fix.

And the next playtrough in the next year (this is my third one), for some reason I ALWAYS forget how to fix it. So, how do I fix it? LMAO