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Harry Potter 2 (PC) BUT all Items are RANDOMIZED! - NEW Archipelago Mod

Nixxo

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I am super extatic and proud to present another mindblowing and absolutely amazing mod for the now almost 24 year old Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the PC! Many classic childhood games already have this kind of concept but I would have honestly never really thought for it to be possible within the Harry Potter games as well due to technical limitation within Unreal Engine 1 and also the original code that KnowWonder made back in the days but here we are! A fully functional, working and even good looking Harry Potter 2 (PC) Randomizer mod has been created!

And the idea behind this is essentially that the usual collectables like Wizard Cards, Challenge Stars and even secrets inside the challenges all give you different, randomly chosen items. So a chest that usually has a Bronze Card in the base game can now have a Silver Card, just a Bean or something like the Skurge Spell! Because that is the main, core part of this mod, we have to gradually unlock not only all of the levels besides the HUB World but also most of the spells with the exception of a couple of the basic ones.

This kind of concept was just sooo much fun and it's honestly one of the best ways I have seen in recent days to replay and rediscover this amazing childhood game! Due to the nature of this mod no two playthroughs are the same and you never know what the mod throws at you next, which level you will find potentially important items in and where to go best next. And on top of that this has sooo many customizability options and different options and settings to mess around with that I don't think we will ever run out of ways to play this mod. Big shoutouts to Kryen for making this work so so well, he was really cooking with this mod and I know for a fact that this was just a ton of work to put together so he deserves some giant credits for it!

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-- Shoutouts to the creator of the Mod Kryen!
Youtube: @kryen112
Twitch: Twitch: Kryen112

-- Downloading the Mod: https://github.com/Kryen112/HP2PC_AP/...

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-- VOD: Harry Potter 2 (PC) NEW RANDOMIZER MOD fir...
-- Watch live at Twitch: nixxo

Thx to Blusagi for the Outro Art
Thx to Ignasci (https://www.fiverr.com/ignasci) for the outro music

#harrypotter #randomizer #mod

10 Comments

@leebydeeby 1 month ago (edited)

Hello from the archipelago community! I'm a huge fan of this mod and I'm glad you're enjoying it too
If you want to run this again with tweaked settings, here are some recommendations and tips:
-If you run tradersanity, you might want to set it to 'price_low'. This sets them to a flat 10 beans instead of their usual 100-200 prices, which makes them much more manageable. Technically they're all expected to be obtainable right away, which might not be feasible for some settings. (e.g. In a run I'm doing now, even with price_low, I had to wait to receive enough beans to afford Fred and George's separate 500 and 700 bean checks)
-In newer versions, you can access the bean bonus room by walking up to its door in the ceremony chamber. The beans in there won't respawn, but they'll give you plenty for tradersanity and sprinting
-If you start with zero spells, you can still get two non-trader checks via the freestanding card outside Hagrid's hut, and the open secret in front of the gold card entrance
-The tradersanity setting "hint_on_open" is incredibly useful if you can't afford their check right away, as it stores the check information in a text client to help you remember
-The randomizer "logic" (i.e. ensuring the game is beatable and not self-locked) will never expect advanced tricks like brightness boosting, mincast strats, etc. but there is a setting to include sprinting in logic, meaning you might be expected to do some sick tricks to unblock yourself. For example, it's possible to enter the lumos secret in the grounds with zero spells by going out of bounds and jumping across the quidditch gate
-Newer versions will display your unlocked spells and level keys right in the pause menu for your convenience :)
-Dialogue/sound/etc shuffle might be funny for a run or two, but please PLEEEASE set sound_randomizer to no_footsteps. Unless you want to hear e.g. Goyle yell for every step Harry takes on carpet

@KethlasOS 3 months ago

Archipelago Trifecta would be crazy fun. Play HP1 'till stuck behind Buckbeak from HP3, which is locked behind some random silver wizard card. I hope they're working on HP1 and 3 Archipelago.

@olar549 3 months ago

Oh, is it a fully functional randomizer now? Neat! I think I saw in the vod channel you playing the very first version of the mod, in which you had to manually check what things you opened off.

Randomizers are soooo much fun, you never know what you gonna get.

@danpmss 3 months ago

This is genuinely awesome!!
I love this sort of thing in so many other games, particularly Zelda-like ones like HP2 PC and PS2

@Rhiannon_7 3 months ago

an interesting concept)

@davidkapitancik1164 3 months ago

Randomizies! :widePeepoHappy:

@elephant35e 1 month ago (edited)

Hey could you help me?

I tried downloading this mod and learning Archipelago. I followed the instructions and downloaded the HP2 "Bingo" version and connected my Archipelago seed to where the Bingo install is. When the game loads, I simply start at the end of the game. I have all spells unlocked, there are no locked areas, etc.