Eye of the Beholder

This is the best "Saturday night LAN party" module ever.  It's flawless for multiplayer and everything looks great and works great.  Highly recommended!

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Played from old vault

I'm curious about this module and its sequel, Eye of the Beholder 2. Is EOB 2 a direct continuation from part 1? Or is it merely a related story? Basically, what I'm asking is if the story from EOB 2 assumes that you have played and completed EOB 1. Thanks!

Heard about this legendary module for years before I played it.  Glad I did because it's pretty good, and, most importantly, very bug free (except for one of the Ruby Golems, which doesn't have an animation while moving until it attacks you...it just slides across the floor).  Excellent mix of puzzles and combat.  Any failings the module has lies at the hands of the original Westwood developers, mainly that the dungeons are too many and too massive, resulting in some tedious areas.  New creatures were professionally done.  I have to admit that I fell through a few pits and didn't go back to these missed levels so probably missed tons of content, surprises and special items.  Looking forward to the sequel. 9/10.

Well, my patience ran out after i discovered that the 'potion of recall' lead you to a useless room, so after have found billions of magic items you can't even go to sell them to someone, since if you're stuck in the sewers. And i had to fix the camera height, thing that, i don't really understand why someone should change that value. Oh, and zombies that pop out from barrels. I hope that's a joke?

hi!!!

Where the EotB HAK v5.0  is available???

when i press on the link does not download it

I played this mod a year ago, with a halfing bard, and I couldn't get pass the undead floor. So I gave it another two weeks ago, with a monk and finished yesterday. I think that this is as good as it gets, from the cutscenes that don't extend beyond what is needed, to the companions, the decoration and layout, the secret walls, the loot, the enemies, boss encounters, puzzles, the secret quests. Although I haven't played the original this was a blast from begining to end, I didn't encounter a single bug on the playthrough.

The EoB Team did a great job and I'd give it a 10 if not for two things that I felt were a bit lackluster or perhaps were affected because of my override files. I dont think that anyone from the team will read this but, whatever.

-During the final battle, there was no music.

-I wish the team had put music on the dwarven halls, which felt like a safe haven, and he tileset looked great so maybe this track would be fitting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCanWiFp_Y

Once again thanks for the all the hard work you put into this, I wish there were more comments on the module because is one of the greatest on the vault.

Music was on, Im 100% sure, maybe it was due to a couple of override files I had( during the playthrough I used the "Override Compilation of Ages", which made Xanathar invincible, I had to delete a file so that the ray's saving throws would succeed with numbers below 50).

Its nice to know that the team still cares about the module.

This brought back memories of Dragon mag. arriving, reading the review then getting it and playing

real old school feel, well done

still a favorite!  had 4 hours New Year's Eve.  We grabbed a save from an old session and jumped right in.  4 hours passed in what felt like 5 minutes

Hi, darks! I hope you still check on this project page from time to time, so you may tell me what resource or option you use to make the camera lower down the way it does throughout the module. While I believe I've seen this in one or two other modules throughout the decade, I can only accurately point at EOB. Is it something within the hack? The game runs nice with a higher view of the character and such, but I find the camera you implemented in this module is more to my liking.

I can't seem to find the "2 new files for the armor" (asc_cc301b.hak and asc_301a) haks. Also, the link downloads the version 5 main hak, but the game log says it wants eobpack.hak. 

Thanks,

JFK

@JFK did you miss the Required Projects link? 

That appears to include all three haks you're missing (assuming you mean asc_cc301a.hak, not asc_301a.hak).

Are there any vendors after entering the sewers?

nvm, found them

Finally beat it, really great module.  End fight was tough, had to reload it 4 times.  Only gripe I have was the final cutscene where I'm teleported out once in the forest it crashed saying something was in the wrong format.  So it felt a bit anticlimactic but that's the only thing I have to complain about.  The Dwarves probably hate me though.  Never did get around to getting that potion back for the king...   Lot of play time here, took me 50+ hours to thuroughly explore it all.  

Thanks for the donation to the community.  Gonna go grab 2 now.

I just  got around to finishing the mod, here are a few notes:

1) The area design looked great.   It is a long well made hack-n-slash dungeon crawl.  Gives players a chance to try out various tactics and builds.

2) the second alcove was inaccessible to my gnome - I could not open its container.

3) on level 12 some of the ruby golem animations  did not play when the golems moved - they just slid across the floor and stood near me when attacking.

4) some of the rust monsters and some of the gargoyles did not become corpses when they died  - they just stayed there standing.

5) in the final battle I tried to use some Greater Sanctuary and Black Blade of Disaster  spells, and resurrected Dorhum.  Sometimes Dorhum and sometimes the BBoD would not attack the boss.  Might have had something to  do with the Greater Sanctuary - maybe if I resurrect Dorhum or cast BBoD when in sanctuary the "attack nearest" command is somehow blocked but even so I would expect them to attack on their own.

6) also in the final battle the boss stops attacking after awhile (maybe after exhausting spell-like abilities?) and lets his opponents hammer away to the end. 

7) also in the final battle, when approached the golem attacks but the boss does not until either attacked or spoken to - allowing the pc to pick off the golem first.

8) at the very end I also got that bad format error on the final movie.

9) early on the lack of access to merchants was a pain so I added an item to give me access to the modules first merchant whenever I wanted.  Later I also made another item to quickly loot gold from the massive amount of bodybags - I wish had done that earlier as it saves some time.

10) if I play again I'll try it with the above mentioned items but without henchmen as I become too dependent on them (the dog and Dorhum).

11) Advice for new players - prepare early to deal with poison and disease.

Awesome!Including an aventurer's worst nightmare, a level filled with rust monsters :D

Henchman were pretty cool, they defeated the final boss as i lay petrified.I'll check the sequel now.

Playing with a friend and currently we're at the 11th floor. Pretty fun so far. 

We often crash though caused by me switching my armor or my shield with another one; any guess what might be causing this?