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As dumb as the Irenicus cameos etc. get, one nod to BG2 that I liked is that you can actually visit the temple of Bhaal Gorion saved you from. It makes sense that Sarevok would have located it, and it makes sense that Charname would follow up on the lead, too. The fights are a lot of fun as well. On another note, I really wish I could break up Minsc and Dynaheir. As it stands I've got Invoker Charname, Glint, Corwin, Jaheira and those two, so if I want to add Neera (whenever she shows up) I'll end up with 3 Mages, and I'll have to kick out
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I like when you go to recruit Garrick your character writes in their journal "unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately Garrick is too busy to come with us."
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I've had a lot of fun with the first SoD area at least. The dungeon at the dwarven dig-site was fun! I've got a quest question though, now that I've finished everything else I've found here. The halfling at the inn wants you to find three heirlooms of his - where's the shield at? The other two were real easy to find and I haven't had any trouble with the riddles and puzzles so far, but I cannot find this shield. Now granted, since I'm running Edwin as my only Mage I want that mirror for my own so I might not complete the quest anyway, but my mind can't leave any items undiscovered dammit.
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Wizard Styles posted:As dumb as the Irenicus cameos etc. get, one nod to BG2 that I liked is that you can actually visit the temple of Bhaal Gorion saved you from. It makes sense that Sarevok would have located it, and it makes sense that Charname would follow up on the lead, too. The fights are a lot of fun as well. There's several mods for that. Or you could just send her on a lonesome journey into a pack of wolves. In my BG1 playthrough I just gutted her right in front of Minsc and he didn't even notice that the witch he was sworn to protect had been murdered by a "friendly". 8 INT indeed. Meanwhile I'm still cheesing my way through Icewind Dale, resting after nearly every fight, throwing my whole spellbook at lizardman shamans, and reloading when I get a rest ambush. The lizard king fight was very fun. I think I should have brought more meat to my party, my tanks end up tanking a bit more than they would like. Party composition: Human cavalier, dwarf fighter, human archer, half-elf swashbuckler (he's still a thief, thieves still suck), human cleric/mage, elf necromancer. The cavalier and the fighter have to work overtime tanking for four squishies. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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Woolie Wool posted:There's several mods for that. Or you could just send her on a lonesome journey into a pack of wolves. Yeah, Dragon's Eye doesn't gently caress around. Or it didn't in the original game anyway, I haven't had the chance to try the EE version.
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Insurrectionist posted:I've got a quest question though, now that I've finished everything else I've found here. The halfling at the inn wants you to find three heirlooms of his - where's the shield at? The other two were real easy to find and I haven't had any trouble with the riddles and puzzles so far, but I cannot find this shield. Now granted, since I'm running Edwin as my only Mage I want that mirror for my own so I might not complete the quest anyway, but my mind can't leave any items undiscovered dammit. Woolie Wool posted:There's several mods for that. Or you could just send her on a lonesome journey into a pack of wolves. Feeding Dynaheir to the wolves...might happen.
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Wizard Styles posted:Feeding Dynaheir to the wolves...might happen. Do it. You know you want to. 
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Wizard Styles posted:There's another map to the west you probably haven't found, took me ages as well. You can go west!? 
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Woolie Wool posted:Do it. You know you want to. Insurrectionist posted:You can go west!? (I didn't realize this either at first and spent probably half an hour scouring the area for some terrain feature to interact with that doesn't light up when you press Tab. All that was achieved was turning a bear hostile.)
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Wizard Styles posted:e2: Also I can't believe they redid the UI, wrote Glint into the game and the Thieving button is still under Special Abilities for Cleric/Thieves urghhh  Woolie Wool posted:This is not the mod's fault. 2.0 will adjust difficulty down if you reload a save you've loaded a couple of times before because it's stupid, thinks you're frustrated, and wants to "help" you. If you were playing on Easy, this means Story Mode. Turn it off, be prepared to do so again (and again, and again). This is the worst thing they did for 2.0 and I hope they get rid of it. That is one of the most stupid things I have ever heard.
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I am bad at video games so I end up turning story mode off a lot. Observation: Pillars of Eternity combat is closer to Icewind Dale than Baldur's Gate in bow enemies are used and how combat plays out. It's more about prioritization and decision-making and battles last a lot longer than in BG.
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Dillbag posted:Didn't the author say that he hated writing adaptations and that he wrote most of the novel on the toilet? Yes. But he wrote most of it in the ad breaks while watching TV - it explains a lot. Give us more details, bongwizzard!
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Pwnstar posted:I like when you go to recruit Garrick your character writes in their journal "unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately Garrick is too busy to come with us." Also how the hell did I not know this thread existed until today? I've wasted so much time over the last month on Baldur's Gate 
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K, so I'm introducing my roommates to BG - I have EasyTutu set up, Tweak/Fix Pack, Banter/Romance, Quest Pack and Unfinished Business all in the queue. I have BGEE and BG2EE on steam, but never played them. Is the new expansion worth getting? What changes are already included in BGEE? What mods are compatible? edit: Also, are the console commands still the same? Does Shadowkeeper work? Can I bring my save games from Tutu to BGEE? Loel fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Random encounters are really cool in Siege of Dragonspear, they're basically mini-adventures. I saved a baby dragon and it gave me its baby hoard as thanks.  LowellDND posted:What changes are already included in BGEE? What mods are compatible? I think almost all mods are compatible by now, but it's still a case by case thing. Commands are the same but it's C: instead of CLUAConsole: now. There's a new Shadowkeeper version called EEKeeper.
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Woolie Wool posted:Party composition: I usually go for: Dwarf Barbarian Two weapon fighting bastard sword Human Paladin Undead Hunter Long sword and shield Half-elf Fighter/Druid Spears Half-elf Ranger/Cleric Two weapon fighting warhammer flail/morning star Human Bard Longbow Two handed sword Elf Mage/Thief Long Sword Shortbow For my party composition. The Paladin and Barbarian become pretty great tanks and the druid/fighter and cleric/ranger can take a punch too and provide any healing needed. The bard and Mage/thief provide all the arcane magic I could ever need while also adding ranged attacks to my party and bard song is pretty great in IWD.
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Wizard Styles posted:Tweak/Fix Pack and 1 Pixel Productions are the main mods already included afaik, and you won't need Tutu. No quest, banter, item etc. stuff. Splendid. Anyone know if I can bring Tutu saves over?
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LowellDND posted:K, so I'm introducing my roommates to BG - I have EasyTutu set up, Tweak/Fix Pack, Banter/Romance, Quest Pack and Unfinished Business all in the queue. The patch that came out yesterday may have broken any and all mods. It defiantly broke the banter, romance, quest and I think Unfinished Business mods for me. YMMV of course, but I couldn't install more than 1 mod before the game would stop loading, and any mod that requires text comes up has the text come up as "Invalid". Some of the tweek changes still work, but not all of them I think, so ah...good luck. Comstar fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Milky Moor posted:Yes. But he wrote most of it in the ad breaks while watching TV - it explains a lot. I will when I finish it. Beyond the general bad writing, the characters make no sense at all. Like, it seems like the author was just given a one sentence description of each character and that was it. It would have been so loving simple to just take the cannon party, run them through the high points of the quest, and turn in your 250 pages. It really does seem like the author was actively malicious towards the game.
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bongwizzard posted:I will when I finish it. Beyond the general bad writing, the characters make no sense at all. Like, it seems like the author was just given a one sentence description of each character and that was it. I've heard that Jaheira is a classic damsel in distress (who rips her shirt off when a spider falls into it) and Khalid is a lecherous womaniser. But yeah, the novel is kind of amazing because making an average novel of BG1 would have been so simple - and then this guy comes in and mangles the plot, characters... really, every part of it. Sarevok doesn't even kill Gorion! I've always wanted to read it to get the full picture, and yet paying money for it seems incredibly poor form.
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The Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, along with Icewind Dale EE are on sale over at GOG. I'm thinking about buying Icewind Dale EE. I probably shouldn't, since I've already got the original version of Icewind Dale, and I still haven't made it out of Chapter 2 in BG2, but the new kit additions and quality-of-life changes make it real tempting.  Milky Moor posted:But yeah, the novel is kind of amazing because making an average novel of BG1 would have been so simple - and then this guy comes in and mangles the plot, characters... really, every part of it. Are you going to read the BG2 and Throne of Bhaal novels, too?
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If you're reading tie ins, don't forget Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II.
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Does the new BG expansion add anything back into BG:EE if I was going to play through the main game first? The new class I assume, but anything else? (even if its just interface improvements and stuff)
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LibbyM posted:even if its just interface improvements and stuff  Interface retrogression if you use the default one
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LowellDND posted:Splendid. Anyone know if I can bring Tutu saves over? Yes and no. Your character will transfer over, the bio won't but stats and xp and class, kit will. Unless its a modded clsss. But all your items are hosed. Unlike bgt, tutu has a different naming scheme for it's items they all teplace the first letter with an underscore so bg1ee won't be able to tell they are default items. (Cept for the very few that transfer over to bg2, they kept the orignal filename names for that) Your party is a different matter, they will come over with class and stats intact but new bios will be gone and in some cases soundsets too so its not worth importing a save, when i did it with my bgt save everyone was just how i had left them cept khalid had broken strings, jaheria couldnt talk and no one had any bio info. You could import your character and while there is a bug with importing characters that removes all their equipment, your tutu save will have vanished everything anyways. You could get around it via console command and remembering what items you had but with tutu i wouldnt bother with it. I did spend a few hours last night however doing some crazy container importing by extracting the store files from my old bgt saves custom containers but i wouldnt recommend it unless you know what you are doing and are dumb like me.
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Max Wilco posted:The Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, along with Icewind Dale EE are on sale over at GOG. I don't have access to any of them, unfortunately, although I have read parts of the ToB novel - years ago, though. I remember the ToB adaptation being average as opposed to terrible but I also think it was written by one of the Bioware guys who went on to work on Mass Effect (Karpyshyn?) and not the original author.
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Pwnstar posted:
OMG that is amazing, I might have to get dragonspear just for that thing.
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Milky Moor posted:I've heard that Jaheira is a classic damsel in distress (who rips her shirt off when a spider falls into it) and Khalid is a lecherous womaniser. I'm going to give this thing away when I am done so you will have a chance. I have 10 pages left and there is no way this is going to be wrapped up reasonably. Max Wilco posted:Are you going to read the BG2 and Throne of Bhaal novels, too? Arivia posted:If you're reading tie ins, don't forget Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II. I feel like I should I guess.
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Max Wilco posted:The Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, along with Icewind Dale EE are on sale over at GOG. They are insanely cheap as well - $2.99 each. Steam has the original BG:EE for $5, but the other two are still at normal price. GOG also now has Dragonspear after they basically said that it wouldn't be available there on launch.
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I'm still too early into Dragonspear to form an opinion but i dig it so far. But I am really really loving the new interface! I really wish they'd finish enhancing the rest of the infinity engine games but I feel like they are not going to do Icewind Dale 2 and Planescape because of how different the underlying game systems are.
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chaosapiant posted:I'm still too early into Dragonspear to form an opinion but i dig it so far. But I am really really loving the new interface! I really wish they'd finish enhancing the rest of the infinity engine games but I feel like they are not going to do Icewind Dale 2 and Planescape because of how different the underlying game systems are. Correct. I hate how Haste fatigues your party when it wears off in IWD. They ruined my favorite spell.
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It does the same in BG. Fatigue is still better than aging 1 year, though.
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You can have David Warner as a PC voice in BG:EE now? When did this happen, that's amazing! 
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Haha drat Corwin is loving insane. Her THAC0 is 0 right now.
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bongwizzard posted:I feel like I should I guess. It's Ed Greenwood writing about Amn and tying in some stuff from BG2 into what's already there (including rectifying the oddity that Suldanesselar is as portrayed in the game.) Sweet sweet Realmslore from the master.
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Can't believe i spent most of the day modding the gently caress out of my party and inventory and messing with loving containers like a giant sperg to get back to that magic feeling i had playing through bg1 in bgt. Now i feel it. I feel that loving goatee on a half-orc Minsc. Now i can finally play this loving thing. (watch everything bug out by the time i get out of the tomb) Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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If you made Minsc a half-orc, he should have 19 STR.
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Arivia posted:It's Ed Greenwood writing about Amn and tying in some stuff from BG2 into what's already there (including rectifying the oddity that Suldanesselar is as portrayed in the game.) Sweet sweet Realmslore from the master. My memory of realms stuff is so faded at this point that I really only know the stuff touched on in the BG games and really only BG1 as my chronic restarting has meant that my bg1/bg2 time played ratio is like 80/20. If you had to pick the three or four best FR novels, what would they be? Edit: Strongly feel that Minsc should not have a goatee. I don't even like him much but come the gently caress on dude. bongwizzard fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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