Please Help Me With My Stupid Forge Problem

[Legacy_SredniV]

               So, I signed up for a bioware account to ask this:

How can I put components into the Chapter 3 forge? Where is it? How can I get it to "register"?


I have like ten or twelve magic bags full of adamantium, fairy dust, and ironwood (also tongues and eyeballs). Seriously, 90 pounds of my weight allowance is that forging crap, which I drop next to the portal in the temple of Tyr everytime I go to a new chapter.

Anyway, I thought I was finally going to get to use some of it when I got to Barun Silverblade's forge in the camp next to whats-her-name's well. Belladonna? Beatrix? Someone's Well.

Silverblade tells me to put the components in the forge and he'll make me something (the Feyduster), which I would do if the forge could be opened. When I press tab I can see that the anvil and brazier are named objects that can be examined (but not opened), but the thing that looks like a forge between them can't even be selected.

I tried 'opening' the anvil, but it does nothing. I 'bashed' it and the brazier, went through all the dialogue options with Silverblade and the merchant, walked around the outside of the building in case it was out there. I saved and reloaded, then went back to a previous save game and checked again. I used the forge in chapter 1 to make the Neversleep Rapier, so I know how it SHOULD work.

Am I missing something? Do I have to fulfill some quest? Is this a bug? I got NWN at Half-Price Books this year, so did I get a bad version or something? Please help; I don't want to go any further until I figure this out.

---------------------This rest of this post is editorial in nature and not related to the actual question-------------



Here's the worst part: Some other guy already asked this question on this same forum and when I searched on google I found the question and the first sentence of the answer. When I tried to follow the link, though, it went to Bioware's fancy new front page and I can't find any way to get at those old posts. I'm sure people who've spent more time on this forum than I have are more upset by this than me, but it seems kind of like a metaphor for Bioware's recent history. By trying to make something flashy, appealing, and modern they inadvertantly insulted and offended people who've been fans for years.



I only signed up for an account because of this forge thing; I'm not the kind of person who would ever normally complain about game developers online. That said, I can tell Bioware that in my life I've spent way more money on their games than have whatever jerk kids they're trying to impress with the fancy splash graphics and hard to navigate menus ("legacy" games indeed!). Call me old fashioned, but I don't need my forum to be a social networking site; I just need a forum.


Even after Dragon Age II* I'll probably keep buying every Bioware game that comes out, but there are some people who are never going to want to play thoughtful, complicated RPGs and it is folly to keep attracting them by making things flashier, simpler, and more action packed. I don't think any long-term fans will object if Bioware makes a bunch of crappy, unimaginative hack n' slash dungeon crawlers as long as they also keep making the kind of good games we've come to expect. To return to the earlier metaphor, people wouldn't be so hostile towards a new web design if you didn't delete their old forums.



*The apparent logic of Dragon Age II being that if one can't make the game experience on a console as good as that on a PC then one should make the PC experience worse in future iterations.  Seriously, it wasn't a bad game. Just bad for a Bioware game, and cringe-inducingly dumb compared to the original. 
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               It's not the forge that is used to craft.  It's the anvil.  The forge is a static object in Ch 3.

If the anvil does not offer an inventory screen, there is a gliche in your game.  Re-install.
(BTW, what version are you running?)

Speak with Barun first.  Then drop the items on the anvil, Then pay for the forging.  At least that's the way I remember it working.

Keep us posted.  We will get this working for you, I assure you.  The Bioware legacy forum is not available at the moment due to a security problem. They had to remove the server access so any google of bioware.com will get a boilerplate screen of no value.  Use the General forum for venting.  The campaign-specific ones will get you no response, if that is the intent of the rant.  All of us here have run into problems, so we work as a team to resolve issues like this.  Be patient.  Life demands it, unfortunately.

edit: Also, have you used the console at all?  (That may cause errant problems if you play while in Debug mode).

Another thing you may try is to open up Chapter3.nwn in the toolset to see if the anvil has been set to plot, usable and has inventory.  If so, the only thing needed is the action in Barun's convo that runs the forge script on the anvil (ref tag: sM3Q1MyForge).
               
               

               

                     Modifié par HipMaestro, 29 juin 2011 - 04:20 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_SredniV]

               Thanks! I did the re-install (of just the OC) from the original CDs and the anvil opened up like a charm.   I had fooled around with the console on a different character, so maybe that was the problem.  I'm going to wait to install the expansions, though, just in case.

And I apologize for the rant, which is a lot longer than I remember. I was just frustrated to see the solution so tantalizingly close, and I feel bad for assuming it was a deliberate decision. Bioware treats its fan community better than other game companies and I don't want to turn into the kind of person who criticizes the sistine chapel for having flaking paint.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MrZork]

               Glad you got the issue sorted. It may be useful in the future to know that most of the Google search results that point to the legacy forum are still in Google's cache. So, even though the server is down, you can get to the result Google found by clicking on "Cached" link on the Google results page page.