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Hi all,

I bought and played Arcanum from here a few years ago, and felt like playing it again the other day. This time however I decided to download the Arcanum Editor from fileplanet and max out my character's base stats to 20 at the start.

The game plays fine, but I've noticed a few characters that seem to have a negative reaction to the high Beauty Stat for their initial reaction. Someone who it says has a reaction modifier of +140 Love when I hover the cursor over them will switch to -60 Hate the instant I talk to them, causing them to attack me.

Most NPCs seem fine, so far only Herkemer Oggdoddler in Black Root, a few gnomes in Tarant, and anyone in Madam Li's have this reaction. Lowering the Beauty Stat still has this happen, but the value doesn't go into the negative as far - it's as if the Reaction Modifier hits a max value and then goes backwards. Loading my original un-modified character from a few years back still has the issue occur.

I've re-downloaded and re-installed the game with no affect.

Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so know of a fix? Or can anyone suggest some troubleshooting options?

Cheers
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If memory serves, the theory is that the game stores beauty as a signed integer which wraps around to become negative if you try to put loads of points into it.

http://www.gog.com/forum/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura/being_randomly_attacked_by_npcs/post7