Empyrean Campaign Underworld Catacombs and Mines

[RPGplaya]

For the love of RPG's can someone give me a hint how to complete the Underworld Mines dungeon. I got all the way through the Underworld Mines. There are 3 deadends and I can't figure out how to get through. 2 are Blue gates/doors in the South Center as well as North West sides of the map. The Third is on lower east side after you walk through the dark hallway that does not show on map. There is a dead end there but on other side of wall is a goblin riding a mining cart around and around a mining track. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Really enjoying the game so far but just cant figure how to advance past here. Thank you in advance.

[dorkster]

Note: our game uses the following compass for directions. So refer to it to avoid confusion.

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The exit to the east is the way forward for the main story. The exit to the to the south-west leads to a side-map with a small quest. And the goblin in the minecart is just an easter egg :)

[RPGplaya]

Thank you @dorkster. Ahhhh man oh man, I spent so much time on the goblin easter egg...lol...you guys got me! Regarding the east and south west exits, i see the blue exits but can not go through. Not sure if they are locked, if there is a hidden lever, or if I need to do something or be a certain level or have a certain something in my possession to go through, or if it is a bug? I am playing on my android mobile device.

[dorkster]

You should be able to just walk into the blue markers to go to the next map. Do you get an "Unknown destination" message when you walk into them?

[RPGplaya]

No, I get no Unknown Destination message. I can walk up to the blue markers but not through them. Like walking into a wall.

[dorkster]

Are you using version 1.07 of the engine, fantasycore, and empyrean_campaign?

[RPGplaya]

I'm not sure. Where would I see that? The version? I appreciate your help! I have screenshots of what I am seeing but don't see where to upload screenshots here. I don't know what fantasycore is. I am playing Empyrean Campaign. I am level 16 Brute.

[dorkster]

From the main menu, go to Configuration -> Mods. Then tap on the "fantasycore" and "empyrean_campaign" mods. They should show a tooltip that has their version number.

[dorkster]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the engine version should be on the top right of the title screen.

[dorkster]

One more note: if you got Flare on the Play Store, that is not by us. This has been brought up before by another confused player. The game content they're providing is out of date compared to our releases, so that would explain why you can't go further in the Underworld area.

If you want to use the official copy, you can get the APK on this page, along with instructions for installing the latest game data.

[RPGplaya]

Hello @dorkster. Thank you for this info. Ughhh! Yes I downloaded your game from the Google Play Store here: Check out "Flare : Bring diablo II back"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skyisland.game.flare

I'm confused, are you saying that's not your game? I thought if I was downloading from the play store it must be legit and real. Ughhh. Is my game data considered lost now and I have to start all over using your release 1.07? Is there a way to import my saved game into your release? I'm so bummed. I've been playing for like two weeks and was excited to get to the end.

[RPGplaya]

I clicked on the .apk link to download 1.07 and it says, "Software downloads aren't possible on this device." I am on a Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

[dorkster]

Note: I have a Samsung Galaxy J3, so the methods and paths mentioned here might differ a little.

Assuming that /sdcard/ is your internal storage path, your save games should be at /sdcard/Android/data/org.flare.app/files/userdata/saves/empyrean/ if you have not installed the unofficial app. If you had already uninstalled the app, your saves are unfortunately lost. Anyway, you'll want to move the contents there to /sdcard/Flare/saves/empyrean/. Storing saves there allows them to persist, even if you uninstall the app.

For installing the APK, you'll have to enable installing apps from non-Play Store sources:

1. Open Settings
2. Go to Lock Screen and Security
3. Enable "Unknown Sources"

[McSinyx]

I thought if I was downloading from the play store it must be legit and real.

I've reported it once for violating GPL copyleft but received no response from Google or anything. Guess other users have done similarly too. First I wanted to work with the uploader about pushing his Vietnamese translation upstream but since I see he distributing modification of GPL licensed software w/o the source, I just don't wanna do anything further.

[RPGplaya]

Hello @dorkster. I downloaded the APK and manually extracted the mod files from the zip download and got your version of the game to launch. I copied my saved games to the new saved games directory as instructed, but it is not giving me the option to launch any saved games. It says New Game, Choose a Slot and Delete Save but the only button I can press is New Game. The other two are not lit up. What should the naming convention of the saved games be. In unofficial FlareX the saved games were called empyrean0 and empyrean1

[dorkster]

@RPGplaya An example save path is /sdcard/Flare/saves/empyrean/1/avatar.txt

[RPGplaya]

So should I rename the save file i put there to avatar.txt?

[dorkster]

@RPGplaya Yes.

[RPGplaya]

I was able to launch a saved game but it was level 1 not level 16 😢😢😢😢 I am so sad

[dorkster]

That's unfortunate. Weird that the saves would be incompatible (maybe the unofficial version changed the syntax). You can try editing avatar.txt. Find the line xp= (or add it if it's not there) and set it to xp=8388352 to get to level 16. If you have any other issuse with the save, you could post the contents of the avatar.txt file and I may be able to fix it.

[RPGplaya]

It says if the encoding is garbled to change the encoding and gives me a dropdown to select which encoding. This is what I see. All the blank spots look like squares in the encoding

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emp_arrival
emp_waypoint_0 emp_main_init
emp_waypoint_1 emp_journal_finish emp_krolan_finish
emp_waypoint_2 emp_stmaria1_init emp_stmaria1_key emp_stmaria1_door emp_stmaria2_init
emp_waypoint_3 emp_stmaria2_key emp_stmaria2_door emp_seagate_torches emp_main_gravebloom emp_seagate_respawn emp_main_reward1
emp_main_info1 emp_amir_statue_a emp_amir_statue_b emp_amir_finish
emp_waypoint_4
emp_waypoint_5 emp_perdition_trader1 emp_mez1_init
emp_mez1_key emp_mez1_door emp_mez2_init
emp_waypoint_6
emp_mez2_key emp_mez2_door
emp_main_quill emp_mez_respawn
emp_abasi_2 emp_main_reward2
emp_waypoint_7 emp_perdition_trader2
emp_main_info2 emp_stormrock_door emp_stormrock_finish emp_naziamines_finish emp_fig_2
emp_mog_init emp_mog_note2 emp_mog_note3 emp_mog_note4 emp_mog_note5 emp_mog_door1 emp_mog_door2
emp_waypoint_8 emp_blackoak_shortcut emp_wizard1_init emp_wizard1_key emp_wizard1_door emp_wizard2_init
emp_waypoint_9 emp_wizard2_key emp_wizard2_door
emp_main_knife emp_metzger_switch1 emp_metzger_switch2 emp_metzger_switch3 emp_metzger_switch4 emp_metzger_respawn emp_main_reward3 emp_perdition_trader3
emp_main_info3
emp_nasu_door1
emp_nasu_door2
emp_nasu_door3
emp_nasu_door4
emp_nasu_door5
emp_nasu_buchi emp_nasu_teleporter emp_nasu_finish emp_fig_3 emp_goblincamp_shortcut emp_ardwen_finish emp_seagate_defeated emp_seagate_chest1 emp_seagate_chest2
emp_ort_finish emp_fig_1 emp_amir_bookcase emp_main_bloodvial emp_main_bloodinkwell emp_main_underworld emp_wizard1_switch1b emp_wizard1_switch2b emp_metzger_defeated emp_metzger_chest1 emp_metzger_chest2 emp_mez_defeated
emp_mez_chest1
emp_mez_chest2 emp_naziamines_chest emp_catacomb_boulder_1 emp_catacomb_boulder_2 emp_waypoint_10

[dorkster]

Can you email me the original save file? My email address is on my Github profile page.

[RPGplaya]

Just emailed the original unrenamed save files from the unofficial FlareX.

[McSinyx]

Can you upload it somewhere, I'm curious too.

[dorkster]

@McSinyx Here you go. The files appear to be compressed, but I'm not sure how. I've tried gzip, bzip, and a few others. I unfortunately had no luck.

[McSinyx]

It's weird how first 2 bytes are null and third ones are not identical in the two saves 😕