Wizards’ Islands - Scourge of the Frost Bringer

Presented By Wizards’ Alliance

Download Location of the Torrent File :

http://www.wizards-islands.com/wizards_islands.exe.torrent


Table of contents
1.Features
2.Release and Installation Information
3.System Requirements
4.Known Gameplay Issues
5.Specific Performance Issues
6.Unique Gameplay Features
7.Team and Credits
__________________________________________________

1. Features
Intense and Epic Multiple-Paths Storyline between 20 and 30 hours.
Over 400 "Cell" Areas.
Over 3 Hours of music.
Tons of characters.
New creatures, items, spells (only for a boss creature atm.) weapons & armors.
And... more cool stuff.
__________________________________________________

2. Release and Installation Information For Version 1.0
Wizards’ Alliance is proud to release Wizards’ Islands, Scourge of the Frost Bringer. Almost 3 years of effort was necessary to achieve our plans, and it turned out very much as we had expected. While all quests are completed and fully implemented, we did leave some room for Wizards’ Islands Official and other non-official Add-ons.
This is the first version released, so even if we did extensive testing, it is highly probable that users will find bugs in a few areas. If this is the case, you should report them on our forum at :
http://www.morrowindcorner.com/phpbb2/
Our Website is located at :
http://www.wizards-islands.com

For Installation, simply browse to your main morrowind folder. After the installation, a program (Bsareg.exe) will ask you to register the Wizards_Islands archive inside the morrowind Ini. It is essential that you click on "Update" and then "OK" after the ini has been updated. Also, make sure you select the Wizards Island - Scourge of the Frost Bringer.ESM. You can do this by starting Morrowind Launcher and selecting Data files.
If an errors occurs and the program does not work on your windows version, you can also update the Morrowind.ini file located in the main morrowind folder by adding this line under [Archives] :
Archive 1=Wizards_Islands.bsa ; (Number must be changed according to the number of registered archives.)
This is an example of how it should look if you installed Morrowind and Tribunal without any mods :
[Archives]
Archive 0=Tribunal.bsa
Archive 1=Wizards_Islands.bsa
__________________________________________________

3. System Requirements
Software : W.I. Requires both Morrowind & Tribunal expansion pack, not Bloodmoon.
Recommended Hardware & Setup :
Pentium 3, 1.6 ghz or better
Video card with at least 64 megs of ram
784 megs of ram (with 512 megs or less, transitions are slow between outdoor and indoor)

For a better image quality we recommend setting anisotropic filtering and Antialiasing.
You can expect a framerate about half the one your system can give in Morrowind in most areas. This is due to our high-resolution textures, almost always 512x512 and above.
__________________________________________________

4.Known Gameplay Issues

Using the console will screw up the game, journals might not get activated and cheating will diminish fun factor.
The mod replaces the traditional Morrowind title theme in the special folder. While i feel the new one we did is much better (it is simply a remix of the original theme), back up your old one to keep it around if you want to change it.

For best experience, it is recommended you avoid the use of a lot of other mods in addition to WI. WI is very intensive, and even the most high-end computers can struggle at times.

For best experience, use only the WI music in addition to traditional MW themes. Meaning we don’t suggest the use of other music mods with WI. We have constructed many hours of additional music, in both explore and scripting instances. They are designed to fit with the winter feel of the mod, and using some lord of the rings soundtrack may not be the best thing suited. Removing any of these music tracks will cause scripting errors in your game potentially crashing it.

The mod upgrades textures in traditional MW world in some areas. However it is stored in the BSA archive not overwriting traditional textures.

You cannot leave WI once you arrive. Leaving will screw up the mod a good deal. We have multiple scripts using simply day/night and whether you are outdoors or not as conditions. Being in MW region will not be differentiated. Without cheating, there is no way to leave the island. Once you complete the main quest you will be able to return to MW and back to WI at your own will.
After a certain point in the main quest you cannot complete most of the sidequests available. However upon full completion of main quest you will have option of restoring the mod.

If you are experiencing crashes or any severe bugs, it is because of mod compatibility issues. The mod has been extensively tested on multiple computers with MW and it's two expansion packs. We do not guarantee WI to work with any 3rd party mod. It has been in development for most of MW's life cycle, and so it would be impossible to constantly change and test things in comparison to the tons of other mods released. But we do guarantee that it does work correctly with the appropriate computer requirements with MW and it's expansions.

The snow can sometimes get in the way of activating items. Wait and move around slightly to find an open spot between the snow mesh. This also affects combat a good deal. In blizzards it is much harder to hit an enemy and is probably best to avoid them at times.

Having a high bounty can cause npcs not to speak with you. Try and get it resolved before attempting quests. We did not design the mod in terms of this aspect.

The mod has many statics and meshes not used in game, probably for reasons involving either time or we just had no use for them, but had use for items out of the set they were included in. So by all means use those meshes for your own mods and think of it as a modder’s resource.

An unknown error relating to the bloodmoon and tribunal file versions 1.2 and 1.3 causes our music scripts to not properly reset upon entrance to a cell. The bug seems to be somewhat random, but for the most parrt if you dont have Bloodmoon installed and patched and you arent using the WI file version 1.3 you will encounter this bug.

The game will crash if you get arrested in the Draken City and choose to go in prison. There is nothing we can do about it at the moment. The prison marker do work in Wintervale.

Sometimes there can be problems with scripts using timers, keeping autosave enabled is strongly recommended.
__________________________________________________

5.Specific Performance Issues

One of the features which will drain the most of your system’s CPU is our snow and snowstorm effect. You can disable for a few game hours the thoses effect by typing the following commands in the console :
stopscript snow_generator_script
stopscript snow_storm_generator_script
The effects will start again a few hours later, triggered by the weather control script.

In towns and forest areas you might have to lower the view distance.

Sometimes changing to a lower screen resolution and then returning to the previous resolution gives a performance boost. This is probably the cause of a video card memory-swapping issue.

Using software audio mode may solve any issues you may experience with sound distortion.

Also, Morrowind FPS optimiser is extremely recommended, you can get it at :
http://www.morrowind.nm.ru/
__________________________________________________

6.Unique Gameplay Features

You must be prepared to suffer weather damage in Wizards' Islands.

Nights are so cold that it is impossible to sleep outside, and you must seek shelter to sleep.

The island is cursed by a powerful wizard, and it is impossible to fly in exterior areas.

The rest is up to you to find out...
__________________________________________________

7. Credits

Xill, alias Pionata – pionata@hotmail.com
Mod Main Designer, Team Leader
Main Quest
Landscape
Towns, structures, flora and decorations placement
Texturing
Splash Screen Art
Landscape, Wintervale houses, trees, Wintervale interior tileset (tavern) and misc.
Npcs
Main Overall Story for Winter Island
Wintervale Interiors
Dungeons Cells
Music :
Exteriors: WindPrayer
Interiors: Tavern, Cathedral1, Cathedral2, CastleHarpsichord
Dungeons: Doubledungeon - Vertige, WIdoubledungeon - Stress, Underwater Ruin, Fear
Battle: Mages Battle
Arrangments: Morrowind Title
--------------------------------------------
Matrix, a_minder@hotmail.com
Designer
Main and only Tester, Bug Fixer
Main Quest
Guilds
Subquests
Npcs
Scripting
--------------------------------------------
Moonkic – moonkic@hotmail.com
Main Quests
Subquests
Draken Town Interiors
Dungeons Interiors
Npcs
--------------------------------------------
Gimli – joynerbenjamin@hotmail.com
Wintervale Interiors
Dungeons Interiors
Landscape Cells
Landscape for Chapter II
--------------------------------------------
Big Chief - morrowindbigchief@hotmail.com
Main Quests
Main Quests Scripting
Scripting
Npcs
--------------------------------------------
intelligentsia – intelligenceandsacrifice@hotmail.com
Marksman Mod Integration
Main Texturer
Npcs, creatures, weapons, Naz armors and misc
Casting Techniques
Creature Behaviour Scripts and SoundFX
General Weapons/Armors editing, design and scripting
Winter Island History and Draken lore/design
Splash Screen Art
Web Site Design
Music :
Miscellanea: Winter Isle Themes I, II, III
Interior: Bowyer I + II, Draken Hall of Mirrors , Draken House, Idyllic Interior, Inner Castle – Dungeon, Inner Castle Nocturne, Spooky Interior, Wintervale Armorer, Wintervale Cellar, Wintervale Houses, Wintervale Market, Wintervale Town Hall
Dungeons: Daedra, Ice Caverns I and II, Shadowfrost Miner's Town, Shadowfrost Caverns, Shadowfrost Cult, Shadowfrost Mystery, Shadowfrost Inferno
Exterior: Castle Nocturne, Castle Day, Exposed, Heroic Theme I and II, Heroic Incidental, Icefields I and II, Lonely, Macabre, Winding Road
Towns: Draken Day, Nocturne, Wintervale Dawn, Dawn, Dusk, Nocturne
Battle: Banshee Battle, Battle Chorale, Dance of the Dead, Dragon Battle, Epic Battle, Ice Cavern Battle, Shadowfrost Battle
Incidental: Weapon of Evil, Weapon of Holiness Incidental, Success Incidental, Morbid Incidental, Tension Incidental, Pre Battle Incidental, Ged Incidental, Sauriel Incidental
Arrangements: Morrowind Triumph, Daggerfall Snow, Daggerfall Swimming, Daggerfall Mysterious, Daggerfall Dramatic
--------------------------------------------
FlyTsi - kfuchs@fidnet.com
Designer
Modeler, Architerctures, Draken Town, Cathedral
Webmaster
Installshield Wizard
--------------------------------------------
Zyndaar - Zyndaar@hotmail.com
Designer
Models
Goblins’ Tileset, Ice Caves Tileset, Mage Tower, Weapons
Texturing
Caves for Ice Tileset, Trees
Dungeons Cells
--------------------------------------------
Captain Zaltan - ghonnorea @hotmail.com
Designer
Models
Creatures Models and Creatures Animations
--------------------------------------------
Vincent - Vincent_dragon@hotmail.com
Designer
Armors Texturing
Team Relationist
--------------------------------------------
Jesus Freak - Jesusfreak11884@hotmail.com
Voice Acting
Scripting
--------------------------------------------
Myk - Myk6071@hotmail.com
Creatures Models
Armors Models, Weapon Model
--------------------------------------------
Drin
Dungeon
--------------------------------------------
Wave Existence
Architecture Models
--------------------------------------------
Auz Erekose
Concept Art
--------------------------------------------
And other important team members :
Pyroid
Mlad
Dooby
Drendal
Fidel
Gigalas
Kahenraz
Zoid
JB
Phaet
Emberwolf
Faarp
Icepick
Killwill
Neo-Teck
Niero
JDGBolt
ItBurn
Echeverian
Maniac
Awb
Lady Eternity
Proudfoot
Khalazza productions
Rhedd
Silvia
And everyone else in the morrowind community who helped us in our creation.
--------------------------------------------


Wizards' Alliance Team.

All Wizards Islands Rights Are Reserved.
2005

This post has been edited by pionata: Today, 11:11 PM

O. My. God! THANK YOU WI TEAM!

Sweet! Second post!

Big round of appluase for the WI team!

You Rock!
I love you!

This post has been edited by Eric: Today, 11:09 PM

Arooooo!!!!!!!!!!! OH OH YEEEEEESSS!!!!! OH HELL YES!! MMMMMM!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!

YAY! Finally! great job guys! Can't wait to play it!



This post has been edited by ska8tdude: Today, 11:12 PM

Congrats on releasing on the most anticipated mod for Morrowind, ever.

You guys deserve a day off.

Can't wait to play it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg omg omg i can die a happy man now

*FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP*

/orgasm

outta my way, fellow leeches!!!

Now I must fix azeurus problems, I should upload at least twice faster.

for the love of god no errors or bugs. Its finally released.....please no bugs...

Woot! Release! Awesomeness, thank you very much

I have a question though- what is the reccomended starting level for WI? I assume its fairly high

12 hours to go!!

So this is just a torrent release?

YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAY

and thank you.

1 for me

THANK YOU for releasing this on a Friday! Means I won't have to call in sick to play it!

what!? that can't be...

5 hours for me, but I won't be able to finish it tonight, I'll resume it tomorrow most likely.

I'm getting 290kb/s

I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES.

But Alas, I am only a cow.

Excellent job, go take a vacation. I'm going to seizure from joy until the download is finished.

I'm only gettin 1

Haha, haven't had this much fun waiting for a huge DL since Underground

Perfect timing too...

9 hours to go, its 12:30 (EST) and I'm tired as hell

umm....why can't I get a download started?

ouch

speed is going to change for you guys, im uploading at 120 but the only one that has the file is uploading at around 30, oncei have the file it will go faster.


Also this isnt torrent only release, we are also uploading to morrowind summit tommorow and maybe others.

I'm gonna keep this on all night and seed it for you guys.

People can get incredibly high connection rates through torrents for two reasons. One if they are not behind a firewall: this allows people to access, and initiate downloads through their ports very easily. Or Two, they are not using a router.

I have a strong firewall, and a router, so my connections soley rely on if my ports are all forwarded, and so on.

I can't wait to play this! I am going to get as much as I can downloaded tonight, and then tomorrow I will be playing it right after my school is done!

Wow... this is a bit bummer.

Have fun with it guys.


I don't use torrents, or P2P's.

dont know think we lost pionata, hje signed off msn and im getting 0 download

I just went to 0 also crap.

what's a torrent, and what do I have to do to download one?

Yah I'm sitting comfortably at 50kbps. 2-3 hours from now I... well, I'll be in bed, but rest assured I will play it in the morning.

And people, do stay on and seed it when you are done, morrowind does require internet, it can run in the background.

AHH, 0kbps, another, less pleasent *seizure!!*

This post has been edited by Tartilus: Today, 11:22 PM

http://dessent.net/btfaq/

Me as well.

sooner or later everyones gonna grind to 0 if pionata doesnt get backj on

common pionata we need you!

Also might I suggest for anyone using Azureus set your max upload speed to 25kb/s you get faster download speed and the upload speed it sufficient, when your done turn the upload speed to max so you can seed it.

EDIT: ok im not at 0 no more.

This post has been edited by ska8tdude: Today, 11:25 PM

I am contributing to the seed, it's going quite quickly too.

*at a friend's abode with high speed and plenty of brew*

alright he back on and his speed improved

Yeehaw, 2.4%. I'm blazin'!

It seems to be okay for me... 10 Connected Peers and 15 Connecting. My download is varying around 20-40 KB/sec, So it will be done in the later morning.

Quick question as it DLs...how big is the finished file?

Aye, same for me. Hopefully we get some more people sharing and seeding so it can finish soon.

well it should say 611

I'm so friggin' happy that the first mod I ever wanted is finally out and I can't even get it 'cause this stupid bittorrent downloader thing won't even work..

Yup 611.7MB for me.

But I'm not at 50 either, I'm sitting around 7

PIONATA IS BACK!!!

I just restarted to get better speed, I didnt restarted my computer in months...

Well now ill get stable 80k upload.

I have to update webpage...

Nice leaching!

you will get it tommorow at least we are uploading to various sites. You can try turning off windows firewall, you typically have to make a change to allow connections through the bit torrent ports in the settings, but if you disable it might work.

Augh! My Azureus went kablooie.

No really, . You've made the day, week, month for loch.

He'll to open port 6881 if he wants respectable download speeds. Search around on google and you should be able to find out how to get it working. If you have a router, or are using a different firewall, then it's a whole 'nother story.

38 users on this topic: More than the mod forums themselves are often subject to! A testament to the mod, great job guys!

EDIT: 5% completed. 1/20 of the way there, WAAHOOOOOOooooooooooo.

This post has been edited by TheSock: Today, 11:34 PM

congrats to the WI team for finishing and releasing ch 1!

Torrent started, everything seems to work.
(55Kb's - 1 Seeder - 30 leachers)

I hope to have it complete in about 25 - 50 hours
(0.5MB's - soon to be 24Mb's)

And its really nice to see the mod finished.
(Will be even better when I start the game up using this mod :-)

EDIT:

Good thing I stocked up on RPG games to play while waiting...
(75 Hours heheh)

This post has been edited by LordJBeckman: Today, 11:33 PM

Same here

what the hell it says its gonna take 3 days wtf im usinf azur and wtf have high speed should take like 3 hours

Bah, my copy of Tribunal is at home. I won't be able to play until May. At least I'll download it tomorrow or something.
Anyway, along with everyone else, I congratulate all who worked hard on this. It took a long time, as do all good things, and I hope it works out for everyone; please take a well deserved break. Good luck with all that you will do in the future, modding or otherwise

The ETA on Azureus isn't very accurate I have to say.

Yup, if all goes well, I'll be sitting here at 6 am starting a game of WI (BitTorrent running in the background, of course).

very nice indeed!

DL@20k/sec

UL@15k/sec

hey, IT CAME OUT!!! SWEET!!which link do I click on!!

Congratulations on releasing this highly anticipated mod, I will also leave mine on once it's finished to seed

-Slayer

This post has been edited by Redguard_Slayer: Today, 11:38 PM

WHAT LINK DO I CLICK ON!!!!!HELP!!! I'M JUST GETTING ALOT OF ENCODINGS, SHOULD I CLICK ON IT WITH THE COMPUTER THAT HAS IT???

This post has been edited by MORROWIND_ROCKS: Today, 11:39 PM

there should be a link that says torrent location

Download BitTorrent, then click on the .torrent file in the first post. That should boot up BitTorrent, and it will start downloading from as many others as possible.

EDIT: 6.6%

This post has been edited by TheSock: Today, 11:40 PM

bittorrent, what the hell is that!!!

http://dessent.net/btfaq/ read that all of it.

A peer-to-peer downloader. It will leech from other people, increasing your download speeds (in theory).

EDIT: 7.1%

This post has been edited by TheSock: Today, 11:41 PM

ok I'm gonna get on my other comp hold on..

I shall keep a home here, I shall.

I've been looking at the screenshots since you started this mod and was a part of the early forum dwelllers when WI was started, early on you could see that it was beyond exceptional. You laid the hammer down, WI team, and it shows.

god i hope its good enough for you guys, we tried our best.

Dude you guys out did yourselves seriously, I don't think we could ask for more from you guys. You rock!

Wewt, 33kbps up and 45kbps down. Man I love cable.

How self centered am I? Thanks sooooooo much WI team.

This post has been edited by TwIsTeDbOi: Today, 11:48 PM

My first experience w/ bittorrent, & what a time to do it...

I'll leave it on tonight/tomorrow to seed. 'Night y'all!