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?

Anyone else having trouble downloading the Hak 5.0 file?

I was unable to even see the page for this EOB Hak 5.0 with Chrome! Then I used good old(!) Internet Explorer and got it to download and I put it in the Haks folder. Hope it works!

This magnificent effort played without incident, I think, once I got the HakPak downloaded and installed! This was so huge an effort, with so many areas and hidden aspects, that it finally broke me. I have to leave this after doing many of the quests and such, but still not having all the keys to progress to the end. One of the biggest hindrances to enjoying this fully was the dependence on the Walk Through, something that I have a love-hate relationship with usually. I hate to have to refer to the document, much preferring to just play the mod and hope I am noticing all the hidden doors and switches and stuff. On the other hand, I love having a good Walk Through when it bails me out of an otherwise stuck situation!

In this module the Walk Through is a huge document with so many clues to hidden things that it was a bit overwhelming many times. Couple that with maps that were virtually impossible to rectify with the actual game maps, and it was tough thing to figure out usually. Spoiler:

I finished many quests including the King and Son, The Poison Remedy, the Spell book, the Spider Queen(s), the Evil Wizard, killed the Three Liches, drove off the Drow chick Shandia, and got many of the Stone keys, but not enough it appears. I got down to and around Level 11, but some areas were not accessible still. There were still some locked areas that I did not find the way through and of course buttons and pressure plates that I missed, which can really stop you cold unfortunately. In this module you actually have to fall through pits to get to certain places, which is a bit foreign to me typically. I really liked the imagination and effort that went into this thing, but as I said I just have to give up now. I spent probably 20+ hours exploring and fighting with myDwarven henchie, which is a very nice and full interface, but now I have to say goodbye. I left my dog Dof in good hands at the Dwarven Camp. Thanks to the team for this terrific effort, I just could not get it done!

I'm not sure about having to fall through the pits as the best way to get to a lower level.  That could lead you to missing on on some reasonably important parts.  I do beleive that you can always get back up to where you fell through.  There aren't any "one way" parts that I can remember.  From level 11 you should be able to get back to the Dwarven halls pretty easily.  I'd give it another shot if you've made it that far.  The last level is pretty spectacular.

A few people metiomed EoB2 above.  It's just my opinion but I think EoB2 is a much more difficult scenario than EoB 1.

I barely remember the old game on the Amiga 500 of a friend of mine, so I cannot make comparisons.

The module itself is well built, and, as is not focused on the atmosphere/roleplay but rather on the hack'n'slash type of adventure.
Personally I prefer a more subtle approach to situation and I always create a rogue chatacter to play and one drawback of this module is that it seems to favor the warrior-kind (and the wizard maybe?). There isn't much of a choice for a companion NPC at the very first levels and you have to make the best out of a rogue "colleague".
I would ask the author a way to make some other NPC available or the possibility to choose an additional class for the halfling rogue.

The module map is huge and sometimes is useful to keep the walkthrough handy.

Apart from these two "problems", I haven't seen bugs o strange things.

Thanks to the author fot his effort!

Hi Dark, 

I think the HAK download link died again... Someone said he managed to download it using Internet Explorer, but it didn't work for me...

Would be thankful if you could make the download possible again! Thanks man

Edit: I managed to download the file using my phone and then sent it to the pc...

Hi, hope anyone can help!

Not sure if I am stuck or if it is supposed to go this way.  I had assumed the Potions of Recall would bring me back to the Gnome Merchant from the very beginning of the module, but it just brought me to the beginning of the 1st level.  Is there no access to merchants here?