Arena Forever is a mod pack consisting entirely of mods by AVGVSTA, made for the 30th anniversary of the game.
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I'd been meaning to put this together for a while. Arena Forever represents the culmination of all my modding efforts. Every mod has been made mutually compatible. Additionally, I've made the game more accessible than ever.
This mod pack is my personal vision, in the vein of a game master's house rules. And so I've not provided the means to turn individual mods on or off.
Use with a fresh install only, and only with the CD version of the game. If you have questions about a specific mod, refer to the individual mod page for details.
INCLUDES
All New Classes - 18 new classes (replaces Arena's original classes)
A Fighting Chance - monster HP & damage reduced by 20%
WARNING Please do not message me. I'm a Telvanni shut-in who does not like being disturbed. And don't even dare levitate into my study.
THANKS Much appreciation as usual for my apprentice and bug-tester, QSHV. Thanks also to paladin J for putting up with me. Lastly, my prayers to the Night Mistress, to whom I owe my knowledge of dark secrets.
Night! Night! Eternal Night, whose black vapors have filled all the sluiceways of Time--Night! age- less and void, seamless and bald: Night upgurgling from chaos, upswirl of the noumenal seas, drape me and veil me from the illusory lights of this world!
NOTES Imperials Click on Elsweyr to create an Imperial character. Shrouded Past Replaces the starting dungeon. Use NOCT.BAT to adjust the difficulty. The Master difficulty uses a retooled dungeon from Arena's demo. Stonekeep Restored Reintroduces an unused floor of the Stonekeep dungeon. Because people have expressed confusion: 1. you will not be able to leave the way you came in, and 2. you're looking for a slave in manacles, not the parchment originally referenced. TES Rampage The optional final dungeon can be accessed via a portal in the Imperial City Mages Guild. DO NOT enter unless you possess all 8 pieces of the Staff of Chaos, or you will get stuck. If you're bad at listening and you do get stuck, try this.
&c QSHV is working on the first ever fully custom map for Arena, which we'll soon include as a Legendary difficulty starting dungeon. While putting this mod pack together, we've identified and fixed a few bugs. These fixes have been applied to the standalone mods.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS Controlling the game You may want to install ArtInPinkerton's mapper for WASD controls. Audio The original SFX had some nasty pops, fixed by Corsafire1. Speech mods will cause issues. For better music I recommend VirtualMIDISynth and a good soundfont, like FluidR3_GM or OPL-3_FM.
PERFORMANCE Game speed On a typical install cycles should be at 40k+. Edit the CONF file and change 'cycles' to 'cycles=fixed 40000'. Or whatever you prefer. Otherwise you'll find Beryl's tweaks useful, though simply running LH helps. View distance (called detail in-game) Increased view distance will slow the game down, particularly outdoors. It can be adjusted at any time, however you won't be able to exceed the maximum again without a save file hack, partially explained here. Attempt at your own risk, as I won't answer any questions relating to this.
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