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A new Modernistic for Jade Empire

This is a mod for the game Jade Empire that offers over 20 new styles to players, changes the rules to give the game more variety and adds numerous techniques, gems and other goodies.

The modern is available in an English language and a High german version. This site is English-only, though. (Tut mir leid!)

Intro

In vanilla Jade Empire you are rather limited in your gainsay options. Partly because you cannot acquire near of the game's combat styles and partly because you can only level a fraction of the styles you lot do acquire. There are a number of mods out there, that endeavour to change that by making more styles available. Unfortunately they are all incompatible. And and so "Jade Empire in Way" started out as my personal compilation of these other mods. While I made those other mods play nice with each other, I figured out a lot about the game myself and eventually this became a mod in its own right. Pretty much every style Jade Empire knows is available to the thespian now. Then some...

I can say without the slightest bit of exaggeration that this is the largest mod for Jade Empire. In fact, it's many times larger than all other mods combined. This modernistic has gone beyond a few minor changes here and there. Information technology has turned into a full overhaul.

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Let's start with the basic changes: You tin learn new styles from the enemies who use them. Simple as that. Well, almost as simple. Whether you do or practise non get the take chances to acquire a new manner, depends on how well you hold your ain. Or to be more specific: how much damage you lot permit those enemies to practice to you. If y'all emerge out of combat unscathed, your chances to learn from your opponent are 100%. If you simply get a few bruises your chances are still pretty loftier. But the more damage you take, the smaller they become...

Only what good are more styles, if yous cannot level more of them? So I as well added a new mechanism for upgrading styles. In vanilla Jade Empire you lot go the required way points for gratis. Not so in my mod. In my mod y'all have to fight not simply for new styles, simply likewise for the points to level them. The same principle as previously applies: How well you stand up your ground, decides how many points yous will get. If you offer yourself every bit a punching bag to your opponents, you won't go a lot more points than in vanilla Jade Empire. Only there's a substantial number of points to collect in my mod - if you play the game well...

Did I simply brand it sound similar this is some sort of hardcore mod? Information technology'due south not. Not actually. My aim was to add together more flavor, more colour and ultimately more replayability. That is all.

The basic ideas are layed out in more than detail - and illustrated with a number of video clips - on the Concepts page. If this intro has raised more questions than information technology answered, I suggest you showtime there. I've too created a folio for each and every of the new styles. Some of the quondam styles were heavily modified. Those are featured hither besides. Every mode is illustrated with a video. All in all there's over an hour of video scattered around this site. Oh, and there's lots of new stuff other than styles! There are new Gem Armors... There are Specializations... And so on...

Or simply continue on to the download... Either way: Enjoy!

Jade Empire

Download

This mod is yet quite young and a bit wet around the ears. There may still be bugs. In that location may still be typos. There may still be areas in need of polishing. And it isn't entirely finished. Certain features are still disabled, because they do not piece of work likewise as I would similar, all the same. And then expect to see one or two updates per month! Y'all tin bookmark this page and cheque back for new versions, if you like. But it's probably more convenient to subscribe to the update notifications.

You can download the latest version at the Mod DB.

Forums

Your ideas, suggestions, bug reports and whatever else y'all similar to discuss well-nigh this mod are very welcome. Please post them in the forum!

The old forum at social.bioware.com is now locked, I'm afraid. Your old posts are notwithstanding there, but yous won't exist able to add new ones. The old forum was seriously lacking in features and had a few rather abrasive bugs. And then I decided to move the forum to the Mod DB instead. Regardless of location: I will read everything you post!

Update Notifications

If you would like to be notified of new versions of my mod, you lot can subscribe to the update notifications. Y'all tin expect ane or two releases/mails per month. If y'all'd like to motility on to some other game, you tin, of form, unsubscribe at whatsoever time with the 2d of the two forms.

I will non utilise your e-mail address for anything other than update notifications. I volition not share it with anybody. And if y'all choose to unsubscribe, your address will be deleted permanently.

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History

08.08.2011: Version 0.3

The feature list of this release is rather small. I have more new stuff in the pipeline, just since I've gotten an amazing number of issues reports over the last release - some of them severe - I figured information technology'south better to postpone the new stuff, rather than the side by side release. So this is mainly a maintenance release.

The panel no longer requires that you lot equip the Hummingbird Jewel. Y'all tin talk to the animals at any time now.

Since vanilla Jade Empire does not feature a unmarried animal anymore in one case you've left chapter three behind, I also added a bunch of new beasts to pretty much all of the after levels.

The only other new feature are improvements to the Middle of Darkness gem armor. Until now all enemies who hit you with either a martial or a weapon style lost a small amount of their Chi and Focus to you. This version of my mod too adds the contact attacks of support styles to that list. In addition it modifies the amount of Chi and Focus this armor leeches. Previously it was a fixed amount, now the amount depends on your level and your alignment. The more Airtight Fist y'all are, the more than this armor volition reward yous.

Bugfixes:

• The player was able to choice upwards wine for the Drunken Master manner while playing every bit Black Cyclone
• The tutorial events were intercepted besides early and prevented the tutorial fight from ending. [Thanks kentek!]
• The Ironclad Mind technique was awarded after completing each and every bookset. [Thanks 7ty7!]
• The fight against Aishi the Mournful Bract would not end, if you fought her in the Black Leopard School [Thanks 7ty7!]
• Should yous decide to toxicant the h2o dragon, yous would have to fight your one-time companions. That fight would not terminate. [Thanks noimageavailable!]
• The fight every bit Sun Kin confronting Decease's Hand would not end [Thanks Amberon!]
• The panel store would collide with the inventories of other merchants [Thanks 7ty7!]
• A "copy" of the Black Cyclone would stand with Spear-catches-leaf, while you were fighting him.
• The fight against Lucky Cho would not end, because the combatend animation collided with the dialog scene. [Cheers 7ty7!]
• If you chose the appearance of another player character after your demise, your appearance would be set to the "living" and not the "dead" appearance.
• If y'all did not requite the right potion to Kia Min, y'all had to fight the pirates, she would otherwise impale, and the fight would not terminate [Thanks Rewels!].
• If you went to the clearing correct in front of the entrance to the inn in the smashing forrest a few times too often, you found yourself in a random fight, that would non end. [Thanks Rewels!]
• The fight in the dream version of the schoolhouse before you leave for the palace ane last time would not stop [Thank you Grundir!]
• The canons at the beach would burn down at y'all during the combatend animations, when y'all were unable to contrivance them.

17.07.2011: Version 0.2

The biggest add-on of this version is the new cheat console. I'm not going to list all of its functions here, since it has its own page. Hopefully information technology volition make the use of the savegame editor and other adulterous tools unnecessary. Those tools practice not set sure variables on which my mod relies and equally a consequence may crusade the game to behave quirky or even crash.

Other Changes:

• Flame Armors, Tempest Armors and Stone Armors:
  • These gems at present requite a impairment bonus and a Chi-toll reduction to their respective magic styles.
  • The stat bonuses these gems previously granted were removed once again.
  • The gems take been completely redistributed to make them easier to learn. Consult the spoiler sections, if you desire to know their locations...
• There's a new technique, that reduces the Focus cost of all your weapon styles.
• I wrote a brand new system for weapon upgrades, swapped pretty much all the weapon models and changed their advancements...
• Staff:
  • The animations and stats were contradistinct in order to turn the Staff from a defensive style into an offensive fashion. Information technology'southward also quite skillful at crowd command now...
  • A third upgrade for the Staff was added: Tien's Justice.
• Spear:
  • The animations and stats were altered significantly. The Spear has become, what the Staff used to be: the perfect defensive mode.
  • A new upgrade for the spear was added: the Halberd.
• A new weapon style - the Morning Stars - was added. This one has some very unique properties...
• Cobra Venom is now an upgrade instead of a technique.
• To make Death'south Razor a footling less cheesy, I added focus costs to the strong attack and the area assault.
• The description of the Precious stone of the True Initiate at present shows the current specialization
• Vino and Reprieve are now available from a multitude of merchants and they all comport an space supply.
• Two new healing items were added: Cure and Heal. Cure is more potent than Reprieve. Heal is more potent than Cure.
• The minigame weapons no longer require push button-mashing. Just hold downwardly the mouse push button and they'll burn as fast as they tin can.
• There is no longer a cutscene if the role player declines to buy a new style. There are no animations or special effects either. It all ends quick and unceremoniously equally it should.
• The regular combat end animations looked a little dull and out-of-identify in the Imperial Arena. A victory in forepart of a huge crowd requires a scrap of showing off, wouldn't you say? Then I changed the animations...

Bugfixes:

• Due to a missing file, it was impossible to level the Blizzard fashion.
• Under sure circumstances the player character would become invisible in the Pit of Pain.
• The animations for learning Tang's Revenge finally play as they do for any other fashion.
• Several bugs in the dialog with the water dragon right before the finale were fixed. They caused the dialog to stop prematurely and prevented the game from moving forward.
• The specialization animations collided with regular dialog under certain circumstances.
• 1 or 2 pirates in the fight against Gao's Lieutenant at the finish of chapter one would occasionally spawn after the combat circular.
• Non-mortiferous confrontations would occasionally end with your opponent "paralyzed".
• Players who had to retry the Majestic Date, because they lost the commencement time, experienced a premature finish, because of a faulty counter.
• In the Loonshit (and just at that place) the stylegain animations collided with the armor animations
• The ocean effects of the mind battle presently before the finale were broken.
• The Ogre Transformation's combat end animations collided with the gem armor end animations

06.05.2011: Version 0.1.21

There is a rather annoying bug - not just in the previous but all past versions of my mod and so far: A lot of the important files for the new Transformations were missing. I did get several bug reports concerning the Transformations, but I never could make heads or tails of them. Everything worked fine on my machine. The files were in that location. They have been all along. They just never made their style into the download. Crap.

• fixed: Added the missing files for the new Transformations. Meet above.
• modified: Stone Immortal'due south Expanse Attack is now uninterruptable
• fixed: Chandler Ling's inventory was supposed to be identical to Songtao'southward. It is at present.
• Elephant + Rhino Demon Transformations:
  • modified: The range was increased.
  • modified: The knockback of the area set on was increased.
  • modified: Harm was slightly decreased.
  • removed: The regeneration was removed
  • added: A partial resistance to Martial Arts was added.
  • added: A special weakness to weapons was added.
• Ogre Tranformation:
  • fixed: Transformation-effect at the finish triggered also early.
  • added: Ogres regenerate now. The regeneration charge per unit can be leveled.
  • removed: Switching styles while in Ogre course was disabled. It was impossible, anyway.
  • modified: Since Ogre-transformed players cannot transform dorsum, I removed the Chi-toll
• Blizzard:
  • fixed: Harmonic Combos did non produce "unblockable" power-ups. (A file was missing.)
  • modified: Unblockable power-ups have been fabricated more probable.
  • modified: Power-ups persist now for a while after the gainsay circular has ended.
• Drunken Master:
  • modified: Power-ups persist now for a while subsequently the gainsay round has concluded.
  • stock-still: The last advancement was never applied and the final effect never played.
• Resonating Crystal:
  • stock-still: The ability-up's floaty appeared twice.
  • stock-still: I use the game's ain shatter-effect now.
• stock-still: Precedence and sequence of power-ups and alternative rewards have been cleaned up.
• added: When using a weapon and running out of Focus, the player will now automatically switch to Tempest Dragon (if available).
• fixed: The Trick Demons in Heaven no longer block access to power-ups.
• fixed: "Expiry and Desperation" and "Tang's Revenge" shared the same description.

xiv.04.2011: Version 0.1.20

In that location'south an extremely stupid bug in the previous release. Specializations were not applied to styles yous learned, while yous were specialized. Not certain how I could have missed that, merely I did. Now, when the fourth dimension comes to disengage the specialization - when you lot unequip the gem or switch specializations - my routines will dutifully remove the bonusses and malusses that were never applied in the first place. Depending on which it was - bonus or malus - this would leave you with an either completely overpowered or a thoroughly crippled manner. If that happened to yous, I recommend to "reset" the way. The only way to reset a style, is to remove information technology entirely and add together information technology afresh. Unfortunately there's no manner to programmatically detect if a style was learned while you were specialized or not. That means this will require some doing on your part too. I volition upload a set of reset scripts this weekend. Instructions will be included. You might also be able to practice this with a SaveGame Editor, but I haven't tested that.

• fixed: Specialization is at present applied to new styles equally well (see above.)
• fixed: The vampiric gem armor did non raise Spirit Thief and Storm Dragon as it was supposed to do. It does at present.
• fixed: The indicate requirements of leveling Storm Dragon's elapsing were wrong.
• fixed: Under certain circumstances the histrion would go stuck on a CF playthrough of the Black Leopard school in the Purple City.
• fixed: After acquiring Training or Healing in chapter 5, the role player's appearance would modify from his/her dead appearance to the living appearance.
• fixed: The "Three times no means no" tutorial screen would testify up, when it should not.
• stock-still: Removing the specialist gem from your amulet did not clear the percentages in the description.
• fixed: Under sure, very rare conditions the mail-combat clean-upward code wouldn't run and the player would start the next combat round with most gainsay buttons disabled.
• modified: Divine Void was underpowered. Damage and Speed were left mostly unchanged, but its radius was increased drastically and I enhanced all the knockback furnishings. Information technology'south a lot more dangerous now. And a lot flashier. :)
• modified: Monkey Paw was nevertheless overpowered. It has been re-balanced - if only a bit. The damage has been reduced, but the walk speed has been increased to recoup.
• modified: The effects of gems with negative stats accept been enhanced.
• modified: Later a lot of hesitation I decided to enable Gore in the German version. The English version is not affected by this.
• modified: While working on the web site, I realized that a number of descriptions of styles and items were also brusk or too bland. They should be more interesting now.
• modified: There are level caps for specialization now. The more your level progresses, the deeper your specialization is immune to become.
• modified: Specializations have been re-balanced. Since the base harm of magic is the everyman, the increase was made a little more drastic. The malusses were increased noticeably for all three specializations.
• modified: Zin Bu now sells the Drunken Master'due south wine in chapter v.
• new: The mod at present includes my pirate workshop hack. This is a fix for a bug in the original game, that seems to bear on some(!) Windows 7 users. The players study to go stuck in the pirate workshop, because 2 opponents do not enter gainsay and block a doorway. The hack that I previously wrote is incompatible with my modernistic. I combined the two now.
• new: Internal version management: You can now load a savegame from an before version of this modern and everything will be upgraded to the latest version. Currently that'south only relevant for specializations. The 0.1.nineteen specialization (if any) will exist removed and the 0.1.20 specialization will be applied instead.

26.03.2011: Version 0.i.19

• removed: my attempts to fix the bugs in the Transformation styles. See here for more.
• stock-still: Instead of the Dragon Fly icon the Viper icon would display over Kang's head
• new: 2 more than Autosaves were moved from before the cutscene to the moment between cutscene and combat get-go:
  • fight against the Watcher
  • fight confronting the pirates after the introduction of Sky
• new: The "Jewel of the Truthful Initiate" now provides feedback of your caste of specialization.
• stock-still: There were a few bugs in my make that immune debug-messages and unfinished code to skid into the terminal release. Fortunately goose egg game-breaking got through, though, so yous may non fifty-fifty accept noticed this bug :)
• fixed: 2 bugs in the finale:
  • The endgame movies would not play properly.
  • When you were defeated in the finale, you wouldn't exist presented with the OnDeath GUI, simply instead a Jademaster save would be made and the movies would play.
• fixed: Using Dire Flame no longer cancels the visual issue of the Flame Armor(due south)

Compatibility

Information technology probably goes without saying, just with all the changes this modernistic makes, it'due south very unlikely to work with whatever of your existing savegames. And so, please, start a new campaign! If you have a previous version of this mod installed, y'all will be able to use the old savegames later on the update. You might non be able to see all the changes, though. Certain changes to combat styles e.one thousand. will non exist visible, if your graphic symbol has already learned the mode. Changes to merchants' inventories will not evidence, if you employ a savegame that was fabricated in the aforementioned area or at whatsoever signal after that surface area was visited for the starting time time. Etc. None of these bug will prevent you from finishing the game, all the same.

Using a savegame editor seems to pause the modernistic on occasion and cause the game to crash or behave erratic. You're better off not using ane. If you absolutely must cheat, I suggest using the in-game cheat console.

At that place is no user-friendly way to make Jade Empire mods uniform with each other. That'southward especially true for this modern since it manipulates more than half of the 2DAs, a bunch of crucial DLGs and most of the SAVs. Information technology's highly unlikely to coexist peacefully with whatsoever other mod out there. That beingness said... Most other Jade Empire mods out there, do what this mod does: They make new styles available. In that sense it is fair to say that each and every one of them is included. In that location's no demand for you to install any one of them.

The Gay Kissing Mod and the Lesbian Threesome Modern are included equally well. I fifty-fifty fixed some of their bugs.

Mods that reskin characters should be compatible with this one. Mods that bandy PC models or political party member models confronting other ones are not. The next version of this mod volition feature convenient ways to reskin and bandy models, then in the close future those mods should not be needed anymore.

These mods are not included and incompatible:

• Piece of cake Minigame Mod
• Jade Empire Difficulty Tweak
• Iii Blood brother's Gems
• Smarter Allies
• any mods that alter the models of party members

If in that location's involvement to use any of them, let me know in the forum, please.

Known Bugs

• Later on contesting Sun Li the screen fades to white instead of playing the gainsay-end animation.
• The player receives 1 of the Viper scrolls after defeating Jia - even so that quest has been removed.
• If y'all load the Autosave that was fabricated before you fight every bit Sun Kin, you will encounter him standing already, when Sunday Li tells him to go back up.
• Some weapons are not unequipped during the combat-end animation or the beacon animation.
• The combat finish music is currently the same after every combat scene. There should be more variety.
• When fighting the novices in the Black Leopard Schoolhouse the final of them volition not autumn to the ground like the others and the other are affected by expanse attacks while unconscious.

Credits

The start building blocks of this mod where Sekan's Moonlight & Elephant Demon mod and Caramelboy'south Leopard Fist modern. I learned a lot from both. After I integrated the four new/reconstructed styles that Lothario created: Divine Void, Blackness Mantis, Seven Thunders and Willow. My mod too contains Radish's Gay Kissing mod and Tupac Amaru'south Lesbian Threesome modernistic. While information technology may seem, that these two are in no way related to my mod, they are on a technical level. They modified a number of the aforementioned files, that I modified also. Editing these two mods out, whould be too much of a hassle.

A very special thanks goes to the makers of the various tools without which this mod would not have been impossible. They all can be found in the modding thread at the Lucasforums.

My bread-and-butter tools were nwnnsscomp (the script compiler), JEFindRes (a search utility for almost all of the game'southward resources), K-GFF (an editor for creatures, areas, triggers and a number of other things), TalkEd (editor for the dialog.tlk) and of grade JE DLG Editor for editing dialogs (DLG files)

That same thread contains a whole agglomeration of very useful tips and hints by a number of contributors, that anybody who wants to modern this game, should take a look at!

And a big thanks to papagamer for providing all the 2das in human being-readable and -editable format. That was a big timesaver. An even bigger timesaver was Maian Leafblade's 2da enquiry. Unfortunately that link is currently expressionless. If or when Bioware's old site will be online again, is unknown. If zip changes I volition attempt to make his findings available hither...

The bulk of this mod is scripting, however. My scripting knowledge dates back to the Neverwinter Nights days. So it's rather quondam. If at that place's somebody I should thank for getting me started, I honestly can't remember. Sorry, almost that!

Since I released this mod, I've gotten quite a number of very helpful bug reports and useful suggestions how to ameliorate information technology. I tin can't mention all of you individually here, but let me peculiarly thank Matthew Suter who tested my mod quite relentlessly since its showtime release and helped me ferret out some of the nastier bugs. He also gave me some very practiced ideas. Thank you lot very much, Mat!

Links

I used to recommend Bioware's own Jade Empire web site as a general intro to the game. Unfortunately that site is currently offline. Information technology was the victim of a hacking attempt. Whether that site will ever come up back online is unknown at this point. I suspect that maintenance of the one-time site has stopped quite some fourth dimension ago and that the hack was the result of that. In other words: The site may be gone for good.

Instead I recommend Jade Empire'south wikipedia folio as a full general intro to the game. I too nerveless a agglomeration of nice clips in my YouTube channel. And concluding not least there'southward a very nice (if a bit lengthy) feature at Giant Bomb.

A very detailed walkthrough tin can be establish at gamebanshee.com.

The site you're reading features only what was added or modified. If you find yourself wondering nigh whatsoever of the other styles (or anything else Jade-Empire-related) you should take a look at the Jade Empire Wiki.

The official Jade Empire forums are a good place to start, if yous want to discuss the game with others. If you want to discuss this modern you should - I'm tempted to say "must" - employ the forum at the Modernistic DB instead.

As mentinoned in the Credits, at that place'south a thread at lucasforums.com that lists all the modding tools. There'south a whole lot of modding advice in the residue of that thread.

Falls Ihr Euch noch überlegt, ob Ihr das Spiel kaufen wollt, oder nicht, findet Ihr in der www.pcgamesdatabase.de Kritiken, Screenshots und allerhand andere handfeste Infos.

And make sure to also check out this modern's page at the Mod Db! Bated from the new forums, you'll find some boosted features, videos and screnshots at that place...
I volition also post all future news over at the Mod DB!

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