Titan Quest Chest

This program is my attempt at an easy to use muling application for the
Titan Quest game.


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Installation and IMPORTANT information

1. Backup:
Remember that this software is in no way affiliated with Iron Lore, and there
is no guarantee that the program handles the saved games correctly. So you
should back up your saved games frequently.

2. Installation:
Unzip the content into a new folder somewhere on your computer. Be sure to
keep the original folder structure intact.

Patch Titan Quest using TQ Defiler's "Patch Titan Quest" feature by SoulSeekkor
- do this while Titan Quest is NOT running.
This is very important for the saved characters to work with Titan Quest.

3. Operation:
Run TQChest.exe to start.

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Story so far:


This program started as a mule for an entirely (well not so much entirely)
different game, Diablo II. I got it to work pretty nicely, but could never
quite finish it so it was never released. I also kinda lost interrest
because by that time, the game was a little out of date (fall 2003).

Now Titan Quest comes along, my favorite game since Diablo II, and it's
like I now have a new chance to finish something I have wanted to do a
long time ago

The program is written in Delphi 7. I've been working on it since soon after
TQ was released and will be for as long as I'm happy doing it and people keep
playing the game!

Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I would like, sometimes only few
hours in a week, but if there is popular demand for certain fixes/requests
then I will definately try give this more time!

Also, I will release the source code when it's out of beta.

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Things to do

There are tons of things I'd like to add, and I will if given time, please
be patient.

Most notably are listings of item's magical properties and some character
details.

There is so much that can be added or refined, I will write up and maintain
this list after I get a little more work done.

If there are things that you consider "a must have" then write me a line.
Even if it's really obvious, I would like to know what features are most
needed as I need to prioritise these requests.

Of course if you are having difficulties getting things working, then fixing
that will be my top priority!

Things to come:
- Finish magical properties.
- More language support.
- Check for and warn if TQ is allready running.
- Settings window:
- Open last character/chest on startup.
- Warn if TQ is running.
- Fancy icon for TQChest (help appreciated *wink wink*)
- Shortcut keys.

Things to hope for:
- Figure out correct values of magical props.
- Character properties with added bonuses.

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Changes:
Version 0.2.3 - 18-MAR-2007
- Added the TQ progress bar for loading chests and
characters.
- Added calculations for requirements for blue and
purple items.
- Added more magical properties.
- Fixed display of set items.
- Added synergy properties of set items

Version 0.2.2
- Added a status column to "Open character" dialog
- Shows character's gold
- Fixed a bug when parsing database.arz
- Fixed a memory leak (forgot to free item set data)

Version 0.2.1 - 18-OCT-2006
- Fixed Character screen to not halt on bad saves.
- Shows a proper bitmap for completed charms/relics
- Shows level requirements for charms/relics
- Shows proper colors for set items and partial sets
- Corrected text colors to that TQ uses
- Lowered transparency of description window to make
text easier to read.
- Fixed a bug with text resources where some text was missing
- Shows character's base stats.


Version 0.2.0 - 12-OCT-2006
- Rewrote archive extraction code (should fix for Windows 2000)
- Loads TEX files directly instead of calling TextureViewer.exe.
- Added an "Options" menu
- Show item level
- Show magical properties
- Added an About box.
- Fixed all missing captions.
- Added style to captions (linen, padded, banded ect.)
- Added more sounds.
- Shows correct item count for charm and relic stacks
- Fixed to show correct character requirements
- Shows shield blocking
- Shows proper captions for items embedded with charms/relics
- Shows base elemental damage (for staffs ect.)
- Started work on magical properties (not 100% accurate)
See issues below.

Version 0.1.3 - 27.SEP.2006
- Works with Russian version of TQ
- Fixed to work with TQ version 1.2
- Removed TQLauncher, use SoulSeekkor's TQ Defiler
instead, all bow to SoulSeekkor!

Version 0.1.1 - 21.SEP.2006
- Works with unlimited potion stacking mod, Thanks FiRiN!
- Fixed column sizes in character window
- Shows item level (can be turned off in a later release)

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Known issues/problems:

== Magical Properties ==
I have started on listing magical properties of items. I've only scratched
the surface of the properties available in TQ but I tried to include the
ones that are most common.
Another thing is that the properties are not 100% accurate. They are listed
directly from the files that the actual items are generated from and I have
not yet figured out how to include the "jitter" variance that appears when
items are generated.
To explain this better:
When TQ generates an item, it uses a "recipie" for that item taken from
various files (base, prefix, suffix files). But to make items of same type
different from each other, all the properties are randomized by a certain
"jitter" factor using a magical "seed" as a starting point. I have tried
for some time but still don't know how this works exactly, and sadly, there
are almost endless possibilities as to how this could work.

So an item could show up in TQChest as "+10 Strength" even though it should
be "+12 Strength".
The difference is usually not that great so this helps in identifying what
items you are carrying.
The only "serious" flaw I noticed was an item with "+2.0 Health Regeneration
per second" that showed up as "+1.0 Health..." so keep this in mind.

== Blue/Purple item reqs ==
Requirements for blue and purple items is not always correct. This is because
some requirements are calculated with "number of magical attributes" as a
factor. This factor is not fully counted for because not all magical
attributes are detected/supported yet. This will correct it self when I finish
the work on magical properties

== Weapon switcharoo ==
If you save your game in Titan Quest while weilding your alternate weapons
and then modify the character using TQChest then the items in alternate
slots will switch with the primary weapons.
Thanks dacarse.

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Thanks and greetings to:


Alex Denissov for the Graphics32 package, made the graphics so much easier
to do!
Link


AidAim Software for CalcExpress, used for parsing cost and requirements
equations


spx for the original Character Recovery Patch which is the basis of the
TQLauncher
Link


bman654, creator of TQVault for figuring out patch bytes for versions
1.15 and 1.2
Link

SoulSeekkor for all his help, and for permanently patching TQ.

titanquestvault.ign.com and it's formum members, especially:
FiRiN, You have been most active with finding things to fix/add.
Thank's for all the help!

dacarse, thanks for your all your help!

And of course, Iron Lore for creating Titan Quest.


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Contact information:

Email me at:
[email protected]

Send me bug reports, feature requests, greetings, flames or whatever

And if you can get me proper icons for TQChest, I'll put
you on the top of my "thanks to" list


Download the latest version at
Link


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Copyright © 2006 Pall H. Bjarnason
All rights reserved
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