Workaround for centurion dialogue freeze

[GunnyErmy]

So I'm not a modder or anything but I was playing with the conversation.txt file and found the section concerning the nihilistic-type centurions, whose dialogue freezes after the second screen.  I made a backup of the file to desktop then simply tried deleting portions of that section, and after a few attempts seem to have stumbled on a fix.  Open converstion.txt in the Sword of Damocles folder and scroll down to the section of conversation that looks like this:

Spoiler

dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_1:cpdla_nihilistic_2 4095 76  0 I'm..._bleeding..._is_this_finally..._the_end..._?  229  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_2:cpdla_nihilistic_3 69631 229  0 Yes._I_believe_it_is._Your_wound_is_deep,_and_you_lost_much_blood.  230  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_3:cpdla_nihilistic_4 4095 230  1 1 2 936748722493063605 144115188075855887 At_last,_I'll_see_the_other_side_of_existence...  231  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_4:close_window 69631 231  1 1 2 936748722493063334 -5

The portion I deleted is in red.  I then added two spaces and a 0 after the 230 in the same line, so that it looked more like the ones above it.  Then I moved the line below up a space so that it now looked like this:

dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_1:cpdla_nihilistic_2 4095 76  0 I'm..._bleeding..._is_this_finally..._the_end..._?  229  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_2:cpdla_nihilistic_3 69631 229  0 Yes._I_believe_it_is._Your_wound_is_deep,_and_you_lost_much_blood.  230  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_3:cpdla_nihilistic_4 4095 230  0 At_last,_I'll_see_the_other_side_of_existence...  231  0
dlga_cpdla_nihilistic_4:close_window 69631 231  1 1 2 936748722493063334 -5

The 0 I added and the portion that moved up a line is in green.  I turned on my cheats and ported around until I found a centurion of the correct personality type (Centurion Cnaeus in this case), battled, won, and was able to finish the dialogue.  Be warned I have no idea what I deleted, but it seems to have worked.  Still I'm saving my copy on desktop for a while in case I run into any snags.

 

[Computica]

I'm sorry for not taking things into hand with SOD for M&B. When I get closer to Warlords 4.0 release, I will start to fix the issues in SOD Gold that have been crashing the game.

I'm actually feeling sort of bad as I have the power to fix it.

 

[GunnyErmy]

No worries.  I've read all the forum info on modding b/c it interests me quite a bit but never jumped into it yet, so I have a small understanding of how busy you must be with warlords.  And sorry for messin with your mod at all, but this is one of like 3 or 4 mods I've really enjoyed, and your centurion dialogue is great so I really wanted to finish it

 

[saiyanwarrior]

while your at it could please bloody fix the recruiting lords bug as the game keeps crashing every time I try to recruit new lords a damnn trying to manage 30+ fiefs is hard work, just gotta hope some rhodok lords come to join me

 

[kaze-yaida]

Bump

 

[the kilr asasyn]

wow thanks this is great! i've been looking all over the forums for this! 

 

[aodhanofgael]

can this be stickied?
and is there any work around for the duel?

 

[kaze-yaida]

Oh yah, I forgot about the events where you can duel a noble(why is it a swbian knight again?) and continue dosnt work.

But yes, sticky till it's fixed please

 

[ashevil2]

COMPUTICA!!!!!!!!!        people on the Moddb page for SOD are complaining  a lot about stuff I can't fix or don't know how too.      SOD needs to be returned too, fixed completely (even if slowly and in small patches), and re-released as SOD: RELOADED. Then work on warlords

 

[DaTurtle]

Bump

 

[Lilly112]

It seems SOD has been abandonded, and we are forced to slug though bugs, or go join the Warlords bandwagon. I don't like Warlords because it brings the Imperial Legion it at the start, and so you don't get that sense of impending doom, like you did in the first one.

 

[manekemaan]

its not being worked on atm true, but its more than playable.