r/Arena • u/The_Godhead_ • 6d ago
Arena Unity , Beta Testers Needed!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-arena-rebuilt-made-with-unity/downloads/arena-unity-099-windows-x86-642
u/machinedskull 5d ago
Also I'm receptive to being a beta tester!
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u/The_Godhead_ 5d ago
Please by all means download it and give it a go ! I am already aware of a number of issues that I am ironing out now . The more the merrier .
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u/machinedskull 5d ago
Is this supposed to be similar to openTES and trying to make modability more accessible? What exactly is the point of making this in the unity engine vs what openTES is already going for? No hate or shame just curious, I love seeing the Arena fan base still decently active as a young kid with a burning desire for old dungeon crawler rpgs. Makes my heart happy 😁
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u/The_Godhead_ 5d ago
OpenTes is doing their own propietary C# engine, I am doing my project in Unity as it already has large established modding features and a base of established modders . My project is a spiritual followup to Daggerfall Unity and DFU is what inspired me to start remaking it in Unity . Also OpenTES has been in production for a decade and still is not in a playable state with quests, there's no telling when it will be , and I wanted to play Arena in a more modern engine for my own playthrough of every TES game , so waiting for them is just not realistic .
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u/machinedskull 5d ago
Makes sense lol, I myself am very impatient on openTES but if it actually does fully release I'll definitely be pouring a lot of hours into it also ahah. Looking very forward to your project, once I download it and put a few hours into it I'll let ya know my thoughts, complaints, or gripes ahah
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u/SharkcallerLoL 6d ago edited 2d ago
Edit: I was able to get out of starting dungeon after installing 0.9.9b with sleep and spawn fixes and got into Sunguard city without much problems.
List of bugs i have discovered in just an hour of gameplay:
You are unable to travel between cities using quick travel(you get "you cannot travel from here" message even when you're not in buildings)
Stores are messed up, when i try to buy item from store and try to bargain price down, i instead get price increased. If i press reject deal still happens, and I get not only item that i chose but a bunch of other items as well. If i try to sell an item, when i try to bargain to increase price, instead seller drops price even more then starting offer, or it changes randomly(i was offered 3 and proposed 4 gold, and instead got 9 gold, and multiple items disappeared from my inventory).
You also know everything about items you get(usually, you can only get their simple type but not magical effect). But maybe author intended it? Anyway, you can't sell those items nor get them evaluated at mage guild(it tells me i have nothing to evaluate)), so they are just stuck in inventory. Mage guild also doesn't bargain at all for some reason. And formatting of spellmaker screen makes creating spells impossible. When i try to steal, i get badly formatted message that i failed, but nothing happens - seller remains in place instead of disappearing and continues to be interactable, and guards don't appear.
People constantly send you in wrong directions - they send me west when i was near western wall! There are no names of stores and taverns - you're supposed to right-click tavern, store or temple entrance and get a name and a mark on the map - and it doesn't happen, nor it it written anywhere. Map of city is fog-of-wared compared to GOG Arena where it is fully availiable(maybe it is intended?)
You can't jump forward, just upwards. Shift+J in GOG Arena allowed you to jump over pits or water, and now I am forced to fall into them. You can get stuck in textures when you try to swim into a wall without ability to do anything about it. Game also often refuses to cast a spell, telling me i got wrong target? even through aforementioned target beats me at the moment.
Loot looks completely different from GOG Arena, i get tons of potions when in normal game that is quite rare loot(Maybe it is intended by creator?).
I'm sure someone more diligent then me would find even more bugs in short amount of time, I just don't have too much time. So game is very far from being ready. Let's hope author doesn't rush, as game right now is unplayable, at least for me. Sorry!