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Wizard Styles posted:Haha, there's another thing I forgot about, and it's how great the katana descriptions are. Katanas are not one-handed swords!   Milky Moor posted:"So I kicked him in the head 'till he was dead, ha ha ha ha!" ME WILL CRUSH YOU! CRUSH YOU INTO GOO! The Flaming Fist redneck guys were definitely the worst though. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Apr 8, 2016 06:14
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The hobgoblins' voiceovers always reminded me of Lemmy, and that one knightly BG2 player voice reminds me of Eric Adams. ...A BG2 player voice acted by Eric Adams or David DeFeis would kick rear end.
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Goddamnit just with the combat barks I started hearing some of the combat themes inside my head.
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Apr 8, 2016 06:17
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The combat themes that never end even when combat is long over. Was mostly fixed in EE but still happens sometimes.
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Apr 8, 2016 06:19
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Woolie Wool posted:Katanas are not one-handed swords!
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Apr 8, 2016 06:25
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Speaking of themes, I always liked this one.
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Apr 8, 2016 06:35
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Wizard Styles posted:You know what, gently caress it. If someone wants to write Mizhena as a companion, I'll do the coding. You know what? You got yourself a writer. Do I assume correctly that the basic design goals for this proposed mod would be: a. Mizhena has a companion for the duration of the Dragonspear expansion, and b. feature interjections, banter with other NPCs, and a companion quest Because depending on what you're envisioning, it could either be a lighter, more BG1-esque mod (join/kick-out dialogues with interjections only for the most plot-critical moments) or a more robust BG2-esque mod, as above. The latter would take longer, obviously, but wouldn't be a problem. I mod a lot of games as a hobby, but BG/IE modding isn't exactly my strong suit. Still, I have basic familiarity with WeiDU and I've updated older mods to work with the EEs in the past.
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Except for the opening theme, I never really liked most of the Baldur's Gate music. On the other hand, I could listen to the Planescape soundtrack on repeat for the rest of time.
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Cirosan posted:You know what? You got yourself a writer. Do I assume correctly that the basic design goals for this proposed mod would be: If you link to your progress, Ill be happy to toss ideas  I have written a fair bit, although not for mods.
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Kavak posted:Except for the opening theme, I never really liked most of the Baldur's Gate music. On the other hand, I could listen to the Planescape soundtrack on repeat for the rest of time. Mark Morgan did a hell of a job there. Also, there was a loop used in... Curst I want to think? That was also used in the movie 8mm. It was quite jarring hearing something that I associated with Torment in a movie that had nothing to do with it.
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Haven't played in ages - can you turn off that outline poo poo and everything else the new patch "improved"?
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evilmiera posted:Wouldn't an enhanced edition just break all the mods/scenarios/gameworlds people have made for that game, invalidating it entirely? I mean it isn't like most people want to go relive the campaigns for that game and the expansions that badly. He said he wanted to trash the campaign and do something else for a campaign while retaining the DM and toolset functionalities. As for breaking mods, it wouldn't necessarily have to if it used the same ID numbers for the tilesets? I mean, I wouldn't mind if the game still used really simple 3D technology with some modern tricks to make it a bit more visually appealing, none of which would break existing content. Heck, doing it that way you could even have people with original NWN play with people with enhanced, though I am not sure what Trents plans really are. It's certainly not going to be going the NWN2 route from what I understood of it. Rookersh posted:Um how? Care to post an exact computer setup? Drivers up to date? Any wrapper based programs lying around that might be getting used by NWN1 mysteriously? Next for the FPS problem;  Try switching between one of these, it helped me. No, I don't know why. Smol posted:Haven't played in ages - can you turn off that outline poo poo and everything else the new patch "improved"? H13 posted:
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cheesetriangles posted:Wow the green dragon in SoD is a baby huh. A baby to beat or literally a baby? Because I'm starting to feel I wasted all my top-tier strength potions.
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Milky Moor posted:Am I the only one who likes the black outlines? I like it as well. The only thing I currently dislike is the fact that shadows are also outlined when you hover over an NPC.
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Kavak posted:A baby to beat or literally a baby? Because I'm starting to feel I wasted all my top-tier strength potions. A little of both. It didn't cast any spells like the BG2 dragons do. Didn't dispel me and just tried to melee and only used it breath weapon once. Playing on core rules so it should be using full tactics. I don't think it's fully grown like the BG2 / TOB dragons. It had some wyvern's come and help but it was just about dead by the time that happened.
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Kavak posted:A baby to beat or literally a baby? Because I'm starting to feel I wasted all my top-tier strength potions. Cirosan posted:You know what? You got yourself a writer. Do I assume correctly that the basic design goals for this proposed mod would be: I think what definitely needs to be covered are her various quest involvements. The one where she blesses parts of a destroyed shrine could easily become something like a small personal quest for her, actually. Beyond that, I don't know. You decide how much you want to write, obviously. I think one banter with each companion and maybe two or three with Charname would already be a lot, considering SoD isn't that long. Also, great that you have some experience with WeiDU, because I haven't published anything I've done so far. Btw, do you want to use Git for this or do you have any other preferences? Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Wizard Styles posted:There are two green dragon dragon encounters in the game. One of them is a baby. One of them is an adult, possibly with baby backup. Is the one in the cave the adult? If so that thing is not fully grown or is just the stupidest dragon ever.
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cheesetriangles posted:Is the one in the cave the adult? Actual baby dragon is a random encounter, I triggered it after Boareskyr I think.
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Wouldn't a full-grown dragon shred a ~8 level party?
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Well, I don't know much about dragon life cycles, but I still found that fight pretty challenging with Insane difficulty AI and adds. It was the only one I just gave up on (after two pretty crushing defeats). The breath weapon in a small-ish cave was too much, so I ended up going back to camp and stocking up on Protection from Poison scrolls, then coming back a level later.
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Technically any dragon can destroy a party of any level if you encounter it and the DM plays it like it ought to behave, but video games don't do that 
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Kavak posted:Wouldn't a full-grown dragon shred a ~8 level party? Yeah BG2 dragons would shred the party in SoD unless it was a very skilled player that knew all the tricks. You don't have the levels or the items you do in BG2.
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Speaking of other enhanced and patched D&D oldies, why did I only now find out about Gold Box Companion? Auto-mapping, convenience options and hacks for all Gold Box games? Yes, please! http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jhirvonen/gbc/ It also allows for sprite editing for some of the EGA games, which caused me to spend the better part of an afternoon doodling party members for Champions of Krynn. 
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Wait, Dorn's in the game in the BRIDGE camp?!? drat it. I'm at the entrance to the temple in the bugbear caves, can I go back and grab him?
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CobiWann posted:Wait, Dorn's in the game in the BRIDGE camp?!? Yeah. Though I would finish the Temple first. Because then you can win over the captured Crusaders so they will let you into the camp.
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In case anyone is on the fence or curious how much game this expansion adds, I'm at 27 hours now and still going. I've missed/skipped some things to. They didn't exaggerate about playtime!
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cheesetriangles posted:Is the one in the cave the adult? Dragons always get stronger and larger the older they get. Like Firkraag would probably be classified as Old or Very Old (400-800 Years Old) while the nameless Green would be classified as Juvenille to Young Adult (25-100 years old).
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Rushputin posted:Speaking of other enhanced and patched D&D oldies, why did I only now find out about Gold Box Companion? Auto-mapping, convenience options and hacks for all Gold Box games? Yes, please! Goldbox  Somewhere I found a site that had like ~40 modules, starting with Pool of Radiance. Illl see if I can find it. aha, here it is : http://www.therealm.flopsyville.com/Menu.htm Loel fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Where am I supposed to poison the Crusader supplies in SoD? The general guy gave me the poison but where in the underground area is it
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Haha those katana descriptions. I love them, they are so white midwestern anime fan. The phrase "near perfect fighting sword" is still a big injoke among my friends who play these games. Also I found my new favorite way to kill Drizzt. As a lot of ppl know you can like, trap him using party members who arent in the party. He wont attack them when he aggros because their neutral. The typical way of exploiting this is to hit him with range weapons, which can take a gently caress ton of ammo at level 1. However, I realized this morning that 2 handers have like range on them. So Step 1:  Have your party members hug him, a tight smothering hug that doesn't allow him to move. Step 2: Inform your party members that they should leave the party while they continue to lock our favorite purple eyed special snowflake drow in a tight, loving embrace. Step 3:  While Drizzt is being hugged by our former party members, proceed to poke him, repeatedly, with the very tip of a two handed sword. A halberd would also work. I like to imagine Drizzt flailing wildly trying to reach Dorn, his shoulder locked under Xzar's armpit, while Dorn stands maybe 4-5 inches past the tip of drizzt's enchanted scimitars. Step 4:   I used to think the name of that scimitar was retarded but imagine stabbing someone in the face and then saying "I see that twinkle in your eye." insanityv2 fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Did the EE fix the thing where enemies wouldn't attack summoned creatures if they didn't attack them? That was the old trick for killing Drizz't or the BG2 dragons, just surrounding them with summoned creatures so they couldn't move and repeatedly mashing the "cancel order" button so the summons wouldn't attack.
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Woolie Wool posted:The Flaming Fist redneck guys were definitely the worst though. AH SURV DA FLAMIN FIST!!!  So general consensus (and controversy) is really getting me in the mood to jump back into infinity games. Any word on how good Icewind Dale: EE is? If at all? NT Plus fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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AH AM THE LAWLemon-Lime posted:Did the EE fix the thing where enemies wouldn't attack summoned creatures if they didn't attack them? That was the old trick for killing Drizz't or the BG2 dragons, just surrounding them with summoned creatures so they couldn't move and repeatedly mashing the "cancel order" button so the summons wouldn't attack. Yes, that was fixed. Also in EE there's like a one summon per source limit. So you can't empty out a single wand of summoning anymore, you'd need to like use a wand, cast a spell, etc.
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NT Plus posted:Any word on how good Icewind Dale: EE is? If at all? How much do you like being brutally killed?
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chaosapiant posted:In case anyone is on the fence or curious how much game this expansion adds, I'm at 27 hours now and still going. I've missed/skipped some things to. They didn't exaggerate about playtime! frajaq posted:Where am I supposed to poison the Crusader supplies in SoD? The general guy gave me the poison but where in the underground area is it insanityv2 posted:I like to imagine Drizzt flailing wildly trying to reach Dorn, his shoulder locked under Xzar's armpit, while Dorn stands maybe 4-5 inches past the tip of drizzt's enchanted scimitars.  NT Plus posted:Any word on how good Icewind Dale: EE is? If at all? They added some cut content back in, some of which is nice, some of which honestly could have stayed cut. Playing with kits and BG2 rules in general can be overpowered (Archers), but you can also try out some fun kits you normally wouldn't. I'm currently playing with a Dragon Disciple and a Dark Moon Monk, and I'm liking both of these but probably wouldn't ever use them for my BG character. Also, having Sorcerers in IWD is a quality of life feature in itself, given how sparse spell scroll drops are in this. About the only thing I really dislike is that the rules port also means IWD:EE uses the narrow proficiency system of BG2, and more than half of the loot is random, so you kind of have to know what the safe proficiencies are before you start. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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LowellDND posted:Goldbox That site hurts my eyes and is really hard to navigate. Probably appropriate to the old goldbox stuff though!
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Keiya posted:That site hurts my eyes and is really hard to navigate. Probably appropriate to the old goldbox stuff though! Yeah, looks like a hassle to set up Heres what Ive found so farhttps://www.gog.com/forum/forgotten...ial_links/page1 how to download http://frua.rosedragon.org/modulelist/file.php list of downloads http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/modules/pc_modules.zip the download link Loel fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Wizard Styles posted:Cool, let's do this, then. Very good. To avoid cluttering up the thread, I'd recommend corresponding either over PMs or using Steam (my username is the same there). Give me some time to power through the expansion and I can have a first pass within about two weeks. In the meantime, I'd recommend looking at the Branwen NPC mod found on this page - it's a heavily commented tutorial mod that walks you through the process of making a custom companion. This page also outlines the key differences of modding the Enhanced Editions versus the originals (in short, there are some extra steps that need to be taken for certain things and fewer steps that need to be taken for others).
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