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Friends Beyond trilogy

Friends Beyond 3: Legend of Tenjin

December 22nd 2012, 10:42 AM
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shevek
Ghost They/Them
 
I just finished playing the Friends Beyond trilogy. That was awesome! I am totally amazed that it is never mentioned with the other great DMods.

I mean, CC1 is nice, CC2 is great, but CC3 is not available. Stone of Balance is very good, Pilgrim's Quest is even better, but Necromancer is not available. And here we have a completed trilogy, where part 1 is nice, part 2 is great and part 3 is even greater, and it never gets mentioned...

I felt I had to post this message, to fix that.
December 22nd 2012, 11:16 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I love how out of the unfinished trilogies CC and SOB are always mentioned but Dinky Dimensions is just forgotten to the background. Poor Dan.
December 22nd 2012, 02:13 PM
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shevek
Ghost They/Them
 
Dinky Dimensions is just forgotten to the background.

Hehe, yes sorry. After posting, I thought I should have mentioned it. Although it is really weird as well: Fiat is part one of a trilogy, but End of Time is obviously the end. So it's a trilogy in two parts.

It seems that only trilogies where a third part is promised but never made make it to be remembered.
December 22nd 2012, 05:53 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Thing is, FB3 is a series of empty map squares :/ No bigger immersion breaker than that imo. I liked the story and that there was much to do though. Wouldn't call the whole series "great" by any means though. Well, at least not placing it next to the d-mods you mentioned yourself
December 22nd 2012, 05:58 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
FB3 is one of my favourite D-Mods. Yes, the map is bad, but it has lots of other stuff going for it.
December 24th 2012, 11:49 AM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
I never got through the FB series games, I would either get bored of trying to figure out what I was supposed to do or get stopped by a bug.
December 24th 2012, 11:59 AM
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duckhater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
I'm playing this then, lol.
December 24th 2012, 05:51 PM
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shevek
Ghost They/Them
 
I would either get bored of trying to figure out what I was supposed to do

I suppose I have a lot of patience. It was pretty clear to me what I had to do, though. Only in FB2 are there so many paths, and taking one closes another, that it's hard to find out which one will take you to the real ending.

or get stopped by a bug.

Yes, that is a bit annoying indeed. In FB2 I hit an incredibly weird bug, where the ice sword would automatically vanish from my inventory. I traced it back to Freedink being unable to show the image. Its response was to discard the item, which is annoying. I'd like to know if anyone can reproduce this bug in regular Dink, by the way. If you want to go there, save the guy with the sword, then solve the faces puzzle.

In FB3 there are some bugs regarding the reopening of quests: it's for several quests possible to trigger their start again after finishing them. I suppose it takes patience when you encounter one of those as well.

To me, the nonlinear storyline makes it really interesting. The light (and at some moments heavy) moral undertone pleases me as well; it makes it feel like a hollywood movie. Those things more than make up for the bugs to me. But I can understand if you think they don't.
May 21st 2018, 07:17 AM
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Raphael
Ghost They/Them
 
Hey! I need some help!! What to do after getting back my mother ?? How to get the piece of the crystal?? PLS HELP!!
March 26th 2020, 11:22 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
Hi, FB got me again, i have a runesword already, i talk twice to the same guy in the celaar and then the avatar says "we help you with a sword" and then they SHOULD give 1800 ? but my 5002 becoame 2500 HE, that routne is a THIEF, in the middle of the game!
so, the routine should have known the situation and IF it was COMPLETE in stead of STORYTELLING, then it would have worked fine i gues.
i think to understand that the RE-programmer is very eager and becouse of that there are MANY OPEN ROUTINES that dont measure a TOTAL OF VARIABLE INFORMATION
oeps, shouting it out.
well if DINK ALREADY has s word THEN CHECK THAT which means the story line has to be completed.
" IF sword=rune THEN say("WEl done, wel,, eh, we do have a little fund but since you already have a sword of big value, will we split"
and then the avatar goes for the 'bargain'
wel
OK
the story if fun, there are many plusses and minuses. Now i FIRST go spent that 2500 in apples
OH, btw
after playing A LONG LONG time, there are No golden apples in my pouch. just organges and BOUGHT apples...
but hunderds of big harts!!
March 27th 2020, 12:22 AM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
i re did the sword part and it defenitly REDUCES the money instead of adding.
but worse over worst
in the shop where they BUY stuff i HANGS
the only ket WORKING is ALT+ENTER
so the game KILLED IT SELF after choose the first 'sallable' sword for 400
and then the remark
" Oh But did you DOnt HAve A Small Sword"
after that the avatar moved AT ONE SPOT only and whith out ANY other key then .....

well
please FINISH MAKING your games since RUNNING OF WITH THAT SJAALTJE HAS NO USE TO A complete PROGRAMME
this is no fun at al, luckely you DONT programe a nuclear instalation, and even luckely neither do i.

March 27th 2020, 03:21 PM
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toof
Peasant He/Him
I disagree. 
please FINISH MAKING your games

I sell refurbished dmods for a minimal fee, if you like...
April 4th 2020, 08:51 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
Well, you could start with your moneyback guarantee activation, then i might have some credits to refurbish.
it always winds down to 2500 and then i still have to buy the bloody rune sword again.
April 6th 2020, 08:32 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
Like i said before 'its not finished'
I found a very fine example for this.
btw, i hardly programed any C nor C++ etc

if you are in the weapom store where the 'blue guy' has nothing to sell and the 'greybrwon' guy want to BUY your stuff.
So if
srune == 1
means if the amont of rune sword equal 1 then
add some money AND DO NOT reduce the AMOUNT OFF RUNE SWORDS...
tatda! i sold my sword 50 times !! i have my 'stolen' money BACK ...arf.

sell.c contains serevall bugs by MISSING codeing:

;----------------------
if (&srune == 1)
{
&gold += 900;
kill_this_item("item-rsw");
}

;----------------------
the item is removed from the BACKPACK but the counter is stil ONE, if i add srune = 0
it should work, aint it ??:
;----------------------
if (&srune == 1)
{
&gold += 900;
kill_this_item("item-rsw");
&srune = 0 ;
}
;----------------------

and if the counter DOES have 0, then there is 'loop'
which means WALK in dutch.
DINK AINT WALKING anymore after trying to sell a 0 count sword.
then its moved to 'loop'
should that be a RETURN ??? or a jump to UNFREEZE ??

i should point to the repository by just a copy/paste of the file is easier
;---------------------------------------------------------------
void main( void )
{
int &sshort = count_item("item-ssw");
int &slong = count_item("item-lsw");
int &srune = count_item("item-rsw");
}

void talk( void )
{
freeze(1);
freeze(&current_sprite);
if (&z5-ax == 3)
{
say_stop("Do you have some pliers that I could have.", 1);
wait(250);
say_stop("`3Yeah, I have more pliers than I know what to do with.", &current_sprite);
wait(250);
say_stop("`3Here you go. Since you saved my life, you can have 'em for free.", &current_sprite);
wait(250);
say_stop("Thanks a lot.", 1);
&z5-ax = 5;
}

say_stop("`3Would you like to sell some weapons?", &current_sprite);
wait(250);
choice_start();
set_y 120;
title_start();
What do you want to sell?
title_end();
"Short Sword - 175"
"Long Sword - 800"
"Rune Sword - 900"
"Nothing"
choice_end();

if (&result == 1)
{
if (&sshort == 1)
{
&gold += 175;
kill_this_item("item-ssw");
}

if (&sshort == 0)
{
say_stop("`3Ok, hey wait, you don't have a short sword.", &current_sprite);
goto loop;
}
}

if (&result == 2)
{
if (&slong == 0)
{
say_stop("`3I can give you 800 gold for that.", &current_sprite);
wait(250);
say_stop("`3What's that, you don't have a long sword? Well then I will give you 0 gold.", &current_sprite);
goto loop;
}
if (&slong == 1)
{
&gold += 800;
kill_this_item("item-lsw");
}
}

if (&result == 3)
{
if (&srune == 0)
{
say_stop("`3I'm gonna have to see the sword before I give you the money.", &current_sprite);
wait(250);
say_stop("Can't you just give me the money and I will bring the sword in later.", 1);
wait(250);
say_stop("`3I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer.", &current_sprite);
goto loop;
}
if (&srune == 1)
{
&gold += 900;
kill_this_item("item-rsw");
}
}

if (&result == 4)
{
say_stop("`3Have a nice day.", &current_sprite);
}

unfreeze(&current_sprite);
unfreeze(1);
}

April 6th 2020, 08:43 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
Well, Dinks out of Hell

IT WORKS
i can prooo graaam

well, i REMOVED the triple 'goto loop' line
and ADDED
&ssword = 0
&lsword = 0
&rsword = 0
AFTER the 'remove' line
and with just a simple save and not even a compile DINKS FREE AGAIN..

were is that extra gold coin

April 6th 2020, 11:44 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
vars must be:

sshort = 0 ;
slong = 0 ;
srune = 0 ;
April 7th 2020, 03:16 AM
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Erm... Why are you so bothered by the game giving you an infinite gold exploit?

I agree that's some shoddy coding, though. I remember Friends Beyond 3 fondly, but it's probably way buggier and more awkwardly written now than it felt like back then.
April 7th 2020, 09:52 PM
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CrisiusXIII
Ghost They/Them
 
Well
it frezes when i offer a sword i dont have, but i should try it anyway shouldn't i.
maybe this game is not about finishing the game but about finishing the game, it puzzled me for a while yet
now i think i realy did earn that gold coin, right? if i have two i make them in earrings.