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1. Tab All of these also have small buttons at the bottom of the screen The character screen shows the basic stats of your character Place the mouse cursor over anything that you want more information about The skill screen shows all of the skills available for your character class A gold border around the skill icon means that you have that skill Notice that there are multiple tabs Each class has 3 tabs for class specific skills 1 tab for bonus skills that are available to any class and tab to show what basic skills the class starts with The skills are not arranged in a skill tree All of the skills are available at the very beginning but they each have a different point cost In general the lower the skill is on the screen the more points they cost For each skill level the point cost increases by one compared to the last skill level Buying a skill also costs some amount of money based on the point cost There are two types of skills passive and active Passive skills are skills that automatically work with no input needed from the player assuming you have the skill of course Active skills only work when the player uses them in the appropriate way The easiest way to use a skill is add it to your hotkey bar and press the associated hotkey Town NPCs There are three main vendors in town a small items vendor an armorsmith and a weapon smith They each carry different items but you can sell any item to any of the vendors for2. healing skills you might have Death is inevitable in Depths of Peril When you die you can always resurrect using the power of your covenant s lifestone This will use up some of your lifestone s health until it is very low If killed by monsters you will also incur a small XP debt penalty This means you get less experience until you work off the XP debt If you go and retrieve your soulstone that dropped when you died the XP debt will be decreased Other Useful Info Each time you increase in level you get more attribute and skill points to distribute however you want To use your attribute points open up your character page defaults to the C key and press the button next to the attribute you want to increase You get 5 attribute points each level To use your skills points open your skill page defaults to the S key and press the button next to the skill you want to increase The higher your character s level the more skill points you get per level Also note that skills cost more and more with each skill level and that they also cost a certain amount of money to increase Item find magic find critical hit crushing blow and deep wounds bonuses are slightly misleading They represent the bonus compared to normal For example a 100 bonus to critical hits means a 100 better chance than normal not a 100 chance So if your normal critical hit chance is 5 and you have a 100 bonus the final value will be 10 Distracting a
3. the same price To buy an item just move the item from the vendor s inventory to your own or right click on the item To sell an item just move the item from your inventory to the vendor s or hit the sell hotkey defaults to space You can also identify all of your unidentified items here all at once for a price The gambler allows you to gamble on items To gamble just buy the item like normal and if you are lucky it will be a magical item worth more than what you paid for The beastmaster sells magically enchanted guards All guards cost a certain amount of crystals covenant version of money and most cost an upkeep amount crystals per tax period There is a small chance that a monster might break its enchantment There are three main quest givers in town the warmaster the steward and the apothecary They each carry different types of quests Sometimes other NPCs will show up in town that will offer personal quests Items Money Items come in many different rarities or types normal common rare set unique and artifacts Normal items are just that normal Common and rare magic items have some random magical enhancements with rare items usually having more Set items belong to a group of items If you can find and equip all of the items from a set you will get some bonus enhancements Many sets also have a partial bonus if you can equip part of the set Unique items are items that are named have enchantments that are always the sam
4. Depths of Peril User Manual http www soldak com Copyright c Soldak Entertainment Inc 2007 2008 Overview Thank you for purchasing Depths of Peril Depths of Peril is a single player action role playing game RPG with strong strategy elements You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city Jorvik by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests At the same time you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death As a faction leader you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy trade and in time war Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions you build the most powerful faction possible to withstand your enemies Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world slaying dangerous monsters solving quests for the city avoiding deadly traps and plundering loot to share within your faction But in this world actions actually have consequences so take care Annoying the powerful and aggressive Legion of Fear faction will cause them to declare war and destroy you Ignored orc uprisings in the Black Forest will cause even more trouble Protect ally covenants that are being raided because friends are hard to come by System Requirements Windows Minimum specs Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Vista 1 2 GHz Pentium 4 or other equivalent 128MB RAM GeForce 2 or other equivalent 150MB of hard drive spa
5. ap use the scrollbars or hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to move the map around Note if you start a new game world only the gates in the zones that are straight north of town will carry over Influence Crystals Influence is a measure of how much influence you have within the barbarian city and it directly impacts how much taxes you collect You gain influence for killing monsters solving quests and destroying covenants You can also trade influence give away or get Crystals is the form of money that a covenant uses Each covenant collects crystals from taxes from the city and spends them on things like guards starting rumors and trade with other covenants The higher your influence with the town the more crystals you will get from taxes However most guards cost some taxes each tax period You can see how many crystals you have on the house layout when trading with the beastmaster and when trading with another covenant You can see how many crystals you collect per tax period on the house layout when trading with the beastmaster and on the relations screen Diplomacy Going to war with all of the other covenants at the same time is basically suicide so you need to keep them peaceful until you are ready to crush them You can do this by using diplomacy primarily through trade You can trade many things with the other covenants including items money influence crystals covenant version of money treaties non a
6. ce Windows Recommended specs 2 0 GHz Pentium 4 or other equivalent 256MB RAM GeForce 3 or better or other equivalent Mac Minimum specs OS X 10 4 or 10 5 1 5 GHz processor PowerPC or Intel 128MB RAM GeForce 2 or other equivalent 150MB of hard drive space Mac Recommended specs 2 0 GHz processor PowerPC or Intel 256MB RAM GeForce 3 or better or other equivalent Getting Started To start a new character choose Play Game and then choose New Character Choose the class you want this character to be You can choose to be a warrior male a rogue female a priest female or a mage male The description for each class is below I am a warrior With legendary strength I heft the heaviest of armor and massive weapons Using brute force I overrun small armies and push back the monstrous hordes as long as my pack carries plenty of healing potions Magic That s for wimps Ever notice mages tend to be lushes Man up Pick me I am a rogue stealthy and sleek My skill in a variety of short blades complements my ability to hide in the shadows I am a dark huntress looking for a fresh pulse to claim Take me After all muscles aren t everything I am a priest wielding the power of the gods The symmetry between my deadly art and healing capabilities make me an exotic champion Maintaining this combination requires a steadfast faith renewed through prayer Choose me I walk in the light I am a mage the greates
7. dify Also if you post questions on our forums about modding the game we will in general help out if we can More legal stuff Depths of Peril and Soldak Entertainment are trademarks of Soldak Entertainment Inc Copyright c Soldak Entertainment Inc 2007 2008 All rights reserved
8. e and usually are very powerful Artifact items are very similar to unique items but usually have at least one extra enhancement so they are even more powerful Money in the world of Aleria comes in the form of copper pieces CP silver pieces SP and gold pieces GP 100 Copper Pieces 1 Silver Piece 100 Silver Pieces 1 Gold Piece Staying Alive Death There are many ways to regain health when your health gets too low Typically the easiest way is to eat some food Eating food will slowly regenerate your health and food is relatively cheap The fastest way to regain health is to drink a health potion Health potions instantly give you health but are relatively expensive The cheapest way to regain your health is to use your lifestone Using your lifestone regenerates your health fairly quickly and is free but you have to be in your house of course And last but not least if you are a priest you can eventually get some spells that can heal wounds There are also many ways to help one of your party members to regain health when their health gets too low You can feed them food by dropping food on their character or hitting the correct hotkey F1 for first party member F2 for second You can give them a health potion in the same way except the hotkeys start at F6 You can also head back to your house where your recruit will automatically heal at your lifestone And finally if you are a priest you can heal your party members with any
9. er covenants To destroy a covenant you must raid their house and destroy their lifestone The second way is by using diplomacy and war to eliminate all enemies and make the remaining covenants allies If you are the most powerful covenant and all of the remaining covenants are your allies then you will get a normal win If all of the remaining covenants are your allies but you are not the most powerful then you will have to make a choice You must either take a reduced Allied Win less rewards or fight it out When you have won the game you can finish up whatever you need to and can then start anew game Make sure you open your reward chest in the center of town and next to any covenants you have recently destroyed Once you are done you can start a new game by clicking on the blinking won game icon Don t worry your characters items and recruits all carry over into the new game More Class Info A warrior s power is called rage and starts at zero Warriors get rage each time they hit an enemy an enemy hits them or they successfully block or parry a blow Rage will slowly drain away if not used quickly A mage s power is called mana and starts full Each spell uses up some amount of mana and when too low spells can no longer be cast There are many ways to replenish mana it will slowly regenerate during combat it will regenerate faster out of combat drinking drinks will replenish it fairly quickly and finally you can drink a mana potio
10. er they are to go to war and raid other covenants and the less effect diplomacy has This initially defaults to easy but will save the last setting you used Select the world difficulty This is the difficulty of the world itself The higher difficulty levels are only unlocked when your character reaches the appropriate levels Choose the number of enemy covenants you want to face in the game This can be anywhere from 3 to 6 enemy covenants You can also choose Random if you want the game to choose When you are done selecting these options click Create New World to start the game Basics Most of the tips in this manual also show up in the game in the form of help topics To read a help topic click on the blinking question mark icons You can also start the help topics again by Reseting the Help Topics in the Game Options Please also take some time to play through the tutorial in the game and read the tool tips Both of these make learning the game a lot easier Left clicking with the mouse is context sensitive and does the most common action move attack pick up etc whereas right click does the more rare actions like selecting a monster or using an item Hold the ALT key down to see all of the items on the ground at once Objective The objective of each game or new world is to become the leader of Jorvik and thus unifying the barbarian city There are two ways to accomplish this The first way is by destroying all of the oth
11. ggression mutual protection alliance declare war on someone and trade routes 5 different sizes In general the more you trade with a covenant the more they will like you Be careful when your relations gets too low with the other covenants The lower your relations get with a covenant the more likely they are to declare war and or raid your house The easiest ways to improve your relations are to trade with the other covenant or even give them gifts They also appreciate when you kill recruits from enemy covenants and any monsters that are attacking their house War Raids To destroy an enemy covenant you need to raid their house and destroy their lifestone To start a raid go to the relation screen left click on the covenant you wish to raid and then pick the raid option During a raid you can take as many of your recruits as you wish Also expect to die many times in a raid this is normal Luckily there is no xp debt penalty when dying in raids However each time you or one of your recruits dies your lifestone takes some damage until its health is very low This is true of your enemy s lifestone also A lifestone s last bit of life can only be damaged by direct attack by melee or magic attacks Main UI Screens Here is a quick list of the main UI screens with their default hotkeys Character C Quests Q Skills S Inventory I Covenant Relations R House Layout L Map M Journal J Main menu Esc Minimap
12. lassic http www future classics org North Texas Speculative Fiction Writers http www ntsfw com index html All websites that have given us press coverage Many forum posters who have already contributed input from the demo Troubleshooting First make sure you have the latest video and sound drivers installed for your system If your graphics are flickering especially if your mouse cursor is having issues try turning off the hardware cursor in the graphics options menu If you are having any strange sound issues try setting the Sound Device to DirectSound or MMSYSTEM in the sound options menu You will have to completely get out of the game and restart the executable for this change to take effect though If you are running Vista and the first time your run the game it doesn t even get to asking about your name and security key you might be having a dep issue Follow these instructions to turn DEP off for Depths of Peril 1 Go to Control Panel gt System and Maintenance gt System 2 Select Advanced system settings 3 On the Advanced tab under Performance Click Settings 4 Then select the Data Execution Prevention tab 5 Add Depths of Peril to the list of apllications to not use DEP with 6 Click Apply and OK s as needed 7 Restart Vista AC 97 sound cards with old drivers have had problems with Depths of Peril If you have one of these sounds cards please make sure you have the latest drivers for AC97 no
13. monster is very useful to the player but mostly to a rogue since she can take advantage of their distraction Many skills can distract a monster to varying degrees minor decent and major and some skills need a monster to be distracted to some degree Be warned that any attack that uses the monsters distraction will remove the distraction effect Some skills require you or your enemy to be in a certain state or situation before that skill can be used Usually a skill is usable if any of the listed states or situations occur You can cast spells directly on party members without selecting them by placing the mouse cursor over their health power bar UI and casting the spell with a hotkey If you have a hard time clicking on your lifestone you can alternatively click on the lifestone covenant health bar on the right side of the screen Credits Designer amp Programmer Steven Peeler Story amp Writing Delilah Rehm Lead artist Vasili Gaidukevic Sound Effects Josh Martel Michael Huang Zak Belica Music Zak Belica Artists Alex McCusker Andy Arrondo Brian Jones Bobo Eric Young Ethan McCaughey Greg Tchjen Joe Eisma Joseph Mirabello Mark Morgan Patrick Boisvert Rebecca Smith Rich Fleider Stephen A Hornback Special Thanks To Eric Fowler Sandra Spears Scotty Mitchell Kris Mitchell Stephen Hornback Kassi Kolassa Nathan Peugh Roland Smith Clare Bernier Ross Patton Asher Dial and other testers Future C
14. n which will instantly give back some mana based on the quality of the potion A rogue s power is called momentum and starts at zero A few skills build momentum up but most of the skills use up momentum however all of the skills halt the momentum drain when used A rogue also gains momentum from each critical hit she performs and for each enemy she kills After a while if the momentum is not halted or raised it will slowly drain away A priest s power is called faith and starts full Each spell uses up some amount of faith and when too low spells can not be used Faith will slowly regenerate and there are no drinks or potions available but a priest can pray at any time to regenerate their faith fairly quickly Recruits You can recruit NPCs to your covenant in two ways The easiest but rare way is to find recruits out in the world These npcs will always join your covenant if you ask The other way is by competition Every once in a while an unaffiliated barbarian will announce that he or she is available to be recruited but he or she wants to go to the best covenant possible In order to prove your worth you must solve the given quest before all of the other covenants can These potential recruits will show up in the center of town Recruits greatly add to the power of your covenant and make it much easier to destroy the other covenants You can only adventure around with one recruit at a time but you can have up to five recruits in your c
15. ovenant Each recruit has a class and a level just like a normal character but they focus on 4 chosen skills So even recruits that are the same class usually are a little different You can see all of the recruit s information by left clicking on them and choosing the Display Info and Equipment option You can also give them better equipment in this way Also notice that when you highlight an item and it shows the item you already have equipped for comparison purposes you can hit the left amp right keys to cycle through your recruits items to compare Covenant House Your house layout is used to place your relics and guards Relics are magic items that effect everyone in your covenant at the same time so they can be very powerful You can have four relics displayed at once Guards are monsters that you can buy to protect your house from covenant raids and town attacks You can buy guards from the beastmaster using crystals covenant version of money You can only have four guards on guard duty at once Your lifestone is the health of your covenant Your character and all of your recruits are soul bound to the lifestone This is what allows you to resurrect when you die Until the lifestone health gets really low it uses some of its own health to resurrect you or your killed recruits The last small amount of health can only be drained by melee or magic attacks If your lifestone is destroyed then you and your recruits will die and you will lo
16. rmal http www realtek com tw downloads downloads View aspx 7Langid 1 amp PNid 23 amp PFid 23 amp Level 4 amp Conn 3 amp DownT ypeID 3 amp GetDown false AC for HD http www realtek com tw downloads downloads View aspx Langid 1 amp PNid 24 amp PFid 24 amp Level 4 amp Conn 3 amp DownT ypeID 3 amp GetDown false High 20Definition 20Au dio 20Codecs If you have a dual core AMD computer and everything runs too fast like it is being fast forwarded then you might have a timing issue If you are having this issue go to http www amd com us en Processors TechnicalResources 0 30_182_871_13118 00 html and then download and install the AMD Dual Core Optimizer utility If you are still having problems your best bet is to read the Depths of Peril forums at http www soldak com forums to see if anyone else is having this problem and if there is a known work around This is also the place to report any unsolved problems Forums http www soldak com forums Website http www soldak com Updates Patches Please go to http www soldak com to find out about the latest updates and patches for Depths of Peril We encourage people to modify the game if they want as long as they don t sell it in any way See the EULA for specifics The pack files for the game are just normal zip files most of the data is in there somewhere and it is usually in text file format So the game is pretty easy to mo
17. se this game Don t worry you can always start a new game where your character items and recruits will carry over There is only one way for a lifestone to regain health it has lost time All lifestones will regenerate health slowly if they are damaged Also using your lifestone will heal your character This does not harm your lifestone in any way Your bookshelf is there to hold your collection of tomes Each tome that you have on your bookshelf gives you a small attribute bonus so collect as many as you can However you can only have one of each tome on your bookshelf and each tome has a specific slot that it goes into If you drop a book anywhere on the bookshelf it will automatically go to the correct slot The stash is your extra inventory space where you can store whatever items you want Note only bags can go directly into the stash Any type of item can go into these bags though Your shared stash is shared by all of your players that you have created Note only bags can go directly into the stash Any type of item can go into these bags though Your covenant gate allows you to quickly teleport to places around the world where you have found gates To activate a gate in the world you simply use it by left clicking on it Once it is activated you can return to it from your covenant gate whenever you want You can also use your gate to teleport to the other covenants and a spot on the other side of town When looking at the world m
18. t wielder of magic there is My elemental magic is frightening to behold and I enjoy watching most of an attacking horde fall before they get too close My claim to magic prevents me from any but the simplest of armor but the magic is worth this meager price My ability to survive depends on concentration often promoted by the drinks I carry in my satchel The others can t hold a candle to my power Select me and have a drink Name your character whatever you like You can also use the random name generator to generate barbarian names or just to give you some ideas Name your covenant Each covenant is a group of barbarians vying for control of the city It consists of one hero the leader of the covenant and up to 5 recruits Each covenant lives together in their covenant house After naming your character naming your covenant and choosing a class click the Ok button to continue On this next screen you select some basic options on how difficult you want the game to be Select the enemy covenant power This is the starting level of the enemy covenants and is equivalent to your characters level This will default to a level near what your current character level is If you want a harder game choose a higher value than the default If you want an easier game choose a lower value Select the enemy covenants aggression You can choose easy normal or hard The higher their aggression the more the enemy covenants adventure the quick
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