*This post may contain spoilers* (Not sure if this is even necessary with how old this game is)

I'm curious to know if anyone's ever been stuck with progressing in the game and where it happened? I've been playing Wizardry 8 off and on for the past 10 years and there was plenty of areas where this happened to me. I'll feel like listing off some parts where I was stuck. With this first one being the longest.

1. Rapax Rift; I didn't know you could make that little part in those two tunnels collapse by interacting with the wooden plank on the ceiling. I went through the entire game just trying to figure out where to go. I even started a new party! I finally found it on accident a few weeks later.

2. Marten's Bluff #1; I missed that little area where you get that totem that triggers the Crock quest/missing party member. It's pretty well hidden if you think about it. Anyway I had to go over every area over again until I stumbled upon it by accident.

3. Marten's Bluff #2; This one was just semi-retarded of me. I didn't know you could interact with the catapult. I wasn't stuck on this one for very long but it still took me an hour or two to figure it out.

4. Arnika; Another bad one. I couldn't find the Mook. Looking back on it, it's quite funny due to how simple it is. At the time I was stuck I always ran around the building they're in from the same direction and I just NEVER noticed that little entrance. I searched Arnika high and low


Anyway I think these are reasons why this game is so great. It doesn't hold your hand and point everything out for you. You have to actually explore and think. Games don't really provide that type of challenge anymore.

Share your stuck stories.

Funnily enough, I never had a problem with getting stuck back when I first played Wiz8 at release. It's only the more recent replays where I ran into #1 and #2 because I remembered that those areas existed and that there was some way to get into them but I couldn't quite remember how. I didn't have a problem with #3 though (nor is it the only way into the keep).

I got stuck in Rapax Clearing few months ago. Rapax Queen denied to leave the cave and I was stuck with unfinished quest. Sure, I could walk away and continue somewhere else, but these bugs always make me angry...

i think its impossible to get the journal entry for the rapax queen quest to solved.

It appears as if her NPC script has a flaw in block 124,
i.e. either FACT_QUEST_FREE_QUEEN(ID#688) has to be set to value 0,
which would change the related journal entry "free the rapax queen from her cage"
into "rapax queen is free and returning to her castle".
btw this would have created the complication for the coders to let her appear there ;)
perhaps they simply took it out because of the time pressure.

The other option would be to assign an appropriate journal entry for FACT_QUEEN_IS_FREE(ID#492)
which is also modified in block 124 and has no links to other NPC scripts.

TT
I got stuck for some minutes in Reforgrd v0.9, Arnika, new house, the lever :)

Stuck forever:
Arnika, jail, last cell: push the button from inside