PLEASE HELP!

Level 7 (Drow Level) I am stuck in a room with a pressure plate that closes a hole in the floor but stepping on it again will not re-open it. There are 2 doors at the end of the corridor with no button or keyhole I can't force open and there is a secret
wall that leads to a room with a door that has a button but goes nowhere!
I really don't wanna start from scratch if I can help it. I have searched every wall for a button or another false wall and nothing!

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On Mon, 21 May 2018 10:27:33 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] wrote:

PLEASE HELP!

Level 7 (Drow Level) I am stuck in a room with a pressure plate
that closes a hole in the floor but stepping on it again will not
re-open it. There are 2 doors at the end of the corridor with no
button or keyhole I can't force open and there is a secret wall
that leads to a room with a door that has a button but goes
nowhere!
I really don't wanna start from scratch if I can help it. I have
searched every wall for a button or another false wall and
nothing!

Okay, that's vague, especially when asking about a 27 year old game.

Have you tried falling down into the pit? If I recall, some pits led
down to the next level.

If you gave some more information - were there any monsters? scrawled
messages on the wall? how long is this corridor, what direction does
it go and what is its approximate shape? - I might be able to find
where you are in the cluebook and offer more concrete advice. After
twenty years, I certainly don't remember all the specifics of all the
EOB maps and I doubt anyone else does either. "A corridor with doors,
buttons and secret walls" pretty much describes 90% of the maps in
that game ;-)



Honestly, I was never a huge fan of the EOB series. The Goldbox games
- released in 1988 - showed how much deeper CRPGs could get, and the
genre had only improved in the three years. Even in 1991, EOB felt
old, a throw-back to an era when the primitive computers couldn't do
more than mazes and endless combat. I mean, I loved Bards Tale but it
was unbelievably shallow. EOB had some stellar graphics and updated
the interface but had the same hoary gameplay. It was one of those
games I struggled to play to the end, not because it was difficult
(although I did find it challenging) but because it was doing a very
poor job of keeping me entertained. Of course, then there is that
ending...

Eye of the Beholder II was a (very) slight improvement, but I remember
it most for its intro, which I watched and rewatched endlessly. The
water dripping into the puddle and Blackstaff's glistening eyes seemed
the epitomy of high-end graphics; surely no computer game would ever
boast more realistic graphics, I thought.

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On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 1:27:34 PM UTC-4, Jake Crash wrote:

PLEASE HELP!

Level 7 (Drow Level) I am stuck in a room with a pressure plate that closes a hole in the floor but stepping on it again will not re-open it. There are 2 doors at the end of the corridor with no button or keyhole I can't force open and there is a

secret wall that leads to a room with a door that has a button but goes nowhere!

I really don't wanna start from scratch if I can help it. I have searched every wall for a button or another false wall and nothing!

If there was a way to post photos on here I have screen shots. The pressure plate closed the hole in the floor but unlike 90% of the pressure plates it does not toggle it back open. There's also holes in the ceiling there weren't any monsters but there
was a cleric scroll of protect evil 10'. The two doors at the other end of the corridor from the pressure plate have to open from the other side as there is no button or keyhole and we can't force either one. As I said I found a secret wall that leads to
a room with a door that does have a button but only opens to a brick wall with no buttons you can only move the party into the doorway there's not even enough space to turn around inside the alcove. I know there is a trick but I'll be damned if I can
figure it out. Thanks for your reply. Sorry so vague

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[email protected] looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
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PLEASE HELP!

Level 7 (Drow Level) I am stuck in a room with a pressure plate that closes a hole in the floor but stepping on it again will not re-open it. There are 2 doors at the end of the corridor with no button or keyhole I can't force open and there is a secret

wall that leads to a room with a door that has a button but goes nowhere!

I really don't wanna start from scratch if I can help it. I have searched every wall for a button or another false wall and nothing!

You might check https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564791-eye-of-the-beholder/faqs/38541

It's an ancient game, of course there's walkthroughs for it.
Hell these days there's probably walkthroughs on youtube for it.

Xocyll
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Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
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On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 1:48:57 PM UTC-4, Xocyll wrote:

[email protected] looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

PLEASE HELP!

Level 7 (Drow Level) I am stuck in a room with a pressure plate that closes a hole in the floor but stepping on it again will not re-open it. There are 2 doors at the end of the corridor with no button or keyhole I can't force open and there is a

secret wall that leads to a room with a door that has a button but goes nowhere!

I really don't wanna start from scratch if I can help it. I have searched every wall for a button or another false wall and nothing!

You might check https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564791-eye-of-the-beholder/faqs/38541

It's an ancient game, of course there's walkthroughs for it.
Hell these days there's probably walkthroughs on youtube for it.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

THANKS EVERYONE! FOUND A PROGRAM CALLED ALL SEEING EYE THAT LETS ME TELEPORT :-D

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On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:43:19 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

Eye of the Beholder II was a (very) slight improvement, but I remember
it most for its intro, which I watched and rewatched endlessly. The
water dripping into the puddle and Blackstaff's glistening eyes seemed
the epitomy of high-end graphics; surely no computer game would ever
boast more realistic graphics, I thought.

Yep, I remember the EOB II intro as well. I loved the last musical
note that played as he teleported you away. That whole intro was epic.
I watched it over and over back in the day. Very well done.

Unlike you though, I liked EOB almost as much as the gold box games.
As a kid, I never saw EOB as dumbed down, or a throwback to anything.
It was just different to the gold box games and I was fine with that.

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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

Eye of the Beholder II was a (very) slight improvement, but I remember
it most for its intro, which I watched and rewatched endlessly. The
water dripping into the puddle and Blackstaff's glistening eyes seemed
the epitomy of high-end graphics; surely no computer game would ever
boast more realistic graphics, I thought.

Mike S. <[email protected]> wrote:

Yep, I remember the EOB II intro as well. I loved the last musical
note that played as he teleported you away. That whole intro was epic.
I watched it over and over back in the day. Very well done.

I have to say I don't really remember Eye of the Beholder II opening,
so I don't think I was all that impressed by it. I vaguely recall the
original game's opening though. Watching EOB2 opening again the only
part I remember is Blackstaff's fireplace, which I remember back then
thinking it sort of looking like a beholder.

Unlike you though, I liked EOB almost as much as the gold box games.
As a kid, I never saw EOB as dumbed down, or a throwback to anything.
It was just different to the gold box games and I was fine with that.

Yah, I saw EOB more as a better (and more forgiving) Dungeon Master,
rather than a competitor to the Gold Box games. It's not like there
weren't plenty of Gold Box games to play either.
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 01:39:40 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

Yah, I saw EOB more as a better (and more forgiving) Dungeon Master,
rather than a competitor to the Gold Box games. It's not like there
weren't plenty of Gold Box games to play either.

Yeah this is a good point. There were NINE of the freaking things.
ELEVEN if you include the two Buck Rogers games. EOB only had three in
total and the last one was not even that great. Fans of the Gold Box
games really have nothing to complain about.

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On Fri, 25 May 2018 01:39:40 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

Yah, I saw EOB more as a better (and more forgiving) Dungeon Master,
rather than a competitor to the Gold Box games. It's not like there >>weren't plenty of Gold Box games to play either.

Yeah this is a good point. There were NINE of the freaking things.
ELEVEN if you include the two Buck Rogers games. EOB only had three in
total and the last one was not even that great.

Mostly because the third one was not done by Westwood and the change in developers _really_ showed.

Not unlike, later on, when the Tomb Raider franchise changed developers
and turned to hammered shit.

Some IPs just cannot change hands intact.

Xocyll
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a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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