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Xinlum posted:They both bitch about not finding DIALOG.TLK. Google searching tells me to look for a folder in data, but I have no such folder. WTF am I doing wrong.
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So I decided gently caress it and downloaded BP Series Party AI, which says it definitely supports Enhanced Edition. It also crashes on installing but I'm 99.99% positive its because of my previous file fuckery. Gonna reinstall and try fresh, wish me luck! When I get back in-game I'm wondering...Is there anyway to respec my character? I have 14 charisma which I'm almost positive will be of no benefit to my fighter.
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May 22, 2014 20:34
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Xinlum posted:So I decided gently caress it and downloaded BP Series Party AI, which says it definitely supports Enhanced Edition. It also crashes on installing but I'm 99.99% positive its because of my previous file fuckery. Gonna reinstall and try fresh, wish me luck! Use EEKeeper. Charisma is useful so long as it's not too low.
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May 22, 2014 20:40
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One of these playthroughs I'll actually use Nalia as my thief, but drat, she's just so *dull*.
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May 22, 2014 20:44
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DeathChicken posted:One of these playthroughs I'll actually use Nalia as my thief, but drat, she's just so *dull*. I escort her to the Keep immediately, so she won't bother me every time I step into the Copper Coronet.
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May 22, 2014 21:03
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I'm wrecking shop in most encounters. Is this game supposed to be this easy? I'm playing with core rules, but I feel like the difficulty is a bit on the low side. This is BG2 by the way. Should I raise the difficulty? It just raises monster damage, which is probably not what I want.
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May 22, 2014 22:23
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The start is pretty easy if you pick your battles right, it gets harder when fighting more advanced enemies like Mind Flayer, Beholders, Dragons, Vampires, etc. Although every encounter can be crushed by preparing well, if you know what's coming of course.
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May 22, 2014 22:27
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It's a context thing, basically. What level are you and where are you?
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May 22, 2014 22:28
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Chapter two and level 10, I'm doing a bunch of sidequests first.
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May 22, 2014 22:30
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I just feel like the fact that you can rest after pretty much every encounter makes any spell management/health management kind of useless as one can simply heal up after every battle.
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May 22, 2014 22:34
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Well, in BG2, difficulty will do two major things: *Massively increase the damage enemies dish out *Turn on friendly-fire The higher the difficulty you play at, the more important it is for you to prevent ALL damage, by any means possible. That's because the fireball that will knock half your party's life off on regular will KILL half the party on impossible. Those higher difficulties pretty much require you to rest after each encounter, which can get hairy in areas where resting has a high chance of a random encounter, as anyone who's played a high-difficulty ironman game can attest. So feel free to turn the difficulty up, but be ready to use every dirty trick you can come up with. And just as an FYI, save-or-die spells (including things like confusion and sleep) are gods among spells.
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May 22, 2014 23:11
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Friendly fire is always on in all the IE games.
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May 22, 2014 23:35
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BG2 (largely due to the mage combat dominating) is like a big puzzle game. Even with difficulty mods once you work out what to do it's not hard.
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May 22, 2014 23:38
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Should I wait until getting the Mirrored Cloak before facing any Beholders or is there an easier way?
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May 22, 2014 23:54
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There's the brokenly powerful Shield of Baldarun
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May 22, 2014 23:59
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Should I wait until getting the Mirrored Cloak before facing any Beholders or is there an easier way? Buy Bauldran's shield from Deirdre in The Adventurer's Mart and solo the Beholder dungeon with anyone who can use a shield.
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May 23, 2014 00:00
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John McCain posted:Friendly fire is always on in all the IE games. *Doesn't apply to spells with FF turned off!
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May 23, 2014 00:16
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John McCain posted:Friendly fire is always on in all the IE games. Whoops, yeah, that was NWN.
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May 23, 2014 00:18
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Look what I got for $5! The best part (besides all of this for $5) is the snipped-out tips & tricks articles from pc gaming mags from 2000, tucked away in the manual. Now to actually finish BG1. :backlog:
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May 23, 2014 00:46
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CrusherEAGLE posted:Chapter two and level 10, I'm doing a bunch of sidequests first. Sounds like you've just started BG2 then. I'd just keep playing on core for now, there are definitely harder fights ahead.
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May 23, 2014 08:22
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's the brokenly powerful Shield of Baldarun It took me so long to find out how to kill beholders without that shield. Talk about one hell of a crutch.
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May 23, 2014 12:05
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spider wisdom posted:Look what I got for $5! I think it's massively unfair that us poor Euros had to settle for those cruddy, glued together manuals, and that the Americans got those awesome spiral-bound ones 
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May 23, 2014 12:52
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CrusherEAGLE posted:I just feel like the fact that you can rest after pretty much every encounter makes any spell management/health management kind of useless as one can simply heal up after every battle. Stopping that is a more rewarding difficulty boost than the slider can offer you. The game seems balanced around a minimum of resting while allowing it everywhere to not frustrate DnD novices.
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May 23, 2014 13:59
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zedprime posted:Stopping that is a more rewarding difficulty boost than the slider can offer you. The game seems balanced around a minimum of resting while allowing it everywhere to not frustrate DnD novices. Yeah, I usually try to minimize resting because I feel it makes the game more fun. I usually only rest when I really need it (out of healing and all guys at low health or I need to change my spell set for a tough fight).
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May 23, 2014 14:12
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You can beat the game without resting at all, so there you go
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May 23, 2014 17:48
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Resting doesn't really work out well in most locations, as there's like a 90% chance (or at least it seems that way) that you're going to be jumped by Barking Feral Wraith Wolves if you try it. I guess you could save scum around those, but then the lack of difficulty is your fault. 
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May 23, 2014 18:01
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The chance of getting attacked by something when resting is pretty small.
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May 23, 2014 18:07
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The chance of getting attacked by something when resting is pretty small. Depends on where you try to rest. There are areas where the chance of having your rest interrupted is very high.
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May 23, 2014 18:19
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My general rule of thumb now is to rest if any of my casters have burned off all their spells so that they can do more than just throw rocks badly for the rest of the dungeon. I think the feeling of urgency to rescue Imoen when first playing BG2 and the incongruity of taking a nap in the middle of a dungeon prevented a lot of people to rest all that often. But the game almost expects you to rest more than you normally would based on the amount of NPC quests that require long periods of in-game time to pass in order to fully complete. I remember spending days at an inn with nothing else to do while waiting for the next part of Jaheira's quest to trigger, for instance. Resting based on spellcasting needs has been a good compromise in combat utility, quest progression, and difficulty for me at least.
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May 23, 2014 21:18
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Dan Simpson's guide to everything BG2 says that Jaheira's quest progresses after long intervals of real time, and in the base game is bugged on top of that. I've never seen the whole thing.
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May 23, 2014 22:07
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Draile posted:Dan Simpson's guide to everything BG2 says that Jaheira's quest progresses after long intervals of real time, and in the base game is bugged on top of that. I've never seen the whole thing. This is what the AdvanceRealTime command is for, and most of the romance-related timers are based on real time rather than in-game time. In-game time usually only comes up when there's talk of needing to do something within a certain amount of time.
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May 23, 2014 22:12
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How important is Jaheira's sidequest in relation to the main storyline? I don't really like her but I'm a stickler for plot, don't know if I should stick with her or viconia.
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May 23, 2014 22:51
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Draile posted:Dan Simpson's guide to everything BG2 says that Jaheira's quest progresses after long intervals of real time, and in the base game is bugged on top of that. I've never seen the whole thing. I believe that the Enhanced Edition tidies that up. I played BG1EE, but I am waiting for them to finally release the patch that they've been promising for months before I play the sequel. My main is an elven Blade (yes I know that that is technically impossible) and I think that he would be eligible for that romance, so I intend to try it.
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May 23, 2014 23:58
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The BG2 fixpack has sped up Jaheira's romance for a long time and the EE includes the same fix. It's still real time so resting a lot won't help, though several of her events are triggered upon resting and one in particular requires sleeping under the stars and outside the city. Real time still elapses while the game is paused, so it's a good way to speed up the romance even more if you ever have to step away from the computer for a little while and leave the game running. Sidenote: DSimpson's FAQs are really, really outdated for the technical side of the games. The gameplay stuff is still mostly right, but ignore everything tech.
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May 24, 2014 00:08
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I romanced Jaheira on my EE playthrough of BG2, which was on the iPad so I did not have access to console commands. I got as far as her first encounter with Dermin. That's further than I made it in the original, but still not the whole thing. Is the romance even worth finishing? Is the harper pin any good?
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May 24, 2014 01:46
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It's very good. +5 bonus on saves vs. spells Non-Detection Immune to Magic Missile 100% Resistance to Electricity
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May 24, 2014 01:50
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CrusherEAGLE posted:How important is Jaheira's sidequest in relation to the main storyline? I don't really like her but I'm a stickler for plot, don't know if I should stick with her or viconia. Utterly unimportant, if you're asking whether it relates back to the main storyline. The reward you get for going a ways down her companion quest (which is in the post above me) owns hard, but IIRC that's not locked to her romance. I think you just get extra dialogue or something. Also Viconia's romance is the least lovely, if you really want to do a romance.
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May 24, 2014 02:26
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Yes, the whole Harper subplot will happen whether you're romancing Jaheira or not. The romance adds more dialogue but significantly slows it down. All romances suck. Viconia is a bitch. Aerie is a traumatized child. Jaheira is bossy and has serious issues re: her recently deceased husband. Anomen is straight out of a really bad romance novel.
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May 24, 2014 02:46
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Suspicious posted:It's very good. Weird thing about the harper pin is that it's one of the few items in the game that's stat bound. Meaning a thief with uai cannot use it without 16 wisdom.
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Fungah! posted:Utterly unimportant, if you're asking whether it relates back to the main storyline. The reward you get for going a ways down her companion quest (which is in the post above me) owns hard, but IIRC that's not locked to her romance. I think you just get extra dialogue or something.
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