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Swamps of Gorlab sleep is broken
I just went through the Swamps of Gorlab for the first time in my most recent playthrough and managed to get through it without the Avatar falling asleep and entering the Dream Realm. I noticed my companions are falling asleep, but then also waking up shortly afterwards. I tried again, this time dismissing everyone from the party before entering the swamp, and this time the Avatar did fall asleep as it should. I am guessing the issue is that when you have party members, the game is scripted to first put them all to sleep before sending the Avatar to dreamland. But as now the sleep effect on them is temporary, the game doesn't get into a situation where they are all asleep long enough to trigger the Avatar's sleep.
This is using the SI Fixes mod and Exult 1.9 snapshot from 2022-12-13. I have attached a save game just at the entrance to the swamp.
You are not the first to notice this https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/2057/ but again I cannot reproduce it. What are your video settings in Exult and maybe the fps plays a factor as well?
Video settings:
Full Screen: Disabled Window Size: 1280x960 HighDPI: Enabled Scaler: Point Scaling: x4 Game Area: Auto Fill Quality: Point Fill Mode: Centre AR Correction: Disabled Same settings for window as fullscreen: Yes
And FPS is set to 5.
I can reproduce it with these settings and making sure fps <6. I couldn't reproduce it with vanilla SilverSeed but the only difference I can make out is the extra egg that polymorphs the Avatar back into his body. https://github.com/exult/exult/blob/master/content/sifixes/src/misc/egg_gorlab_swamp_sleep.uc
I ran into this as well playing through on an Android tablet. I didn't dig into the code, but from the surface, it looked like it was an issue with the large party size. They would fall asleep one at a time, and by the time the last ones were falling asleep, the first ones were waking up again.
I worked around it by temporarily leaving some party members behind to reduce the party size.
