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cheesetriangles posted:If you play as someone else during that expansion fine but if it's supposed to be the bhaal spawn that is really dumb. It will be a few hours of content at most and they will charge 20 dollars because of course they will. There isn't a whole lot of story to tell in between those games or levels to do it with. I don't know, there's quite a bit of space. The BG2 intro states that it's been months between the end of BG1 and Irenicus attacking you and kidnapping your party, so there's plenty of space for them to add a new, fairly sizeable expansion that takes you adventuring elsewhere in the Sword Coast.
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anime tupac posted:I haven't left Candlekeep yet but I'm looking forward to the archetypal beginning-of-baldur's-gate experience, which is either getting killed by that loving wolf or this So sayeth the wise Alaundo.
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Kirk posted:2QK3K-67LIL-RCNQB Took this one. Holy poo poo, thanks dude!
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Actually, porting the BG2 combat mechanics to Planescape would be a great way to enhance it, but probably won't happen because it's a lot of work. The combat in Planescape is garbage and could definitely do with being fixed. Planescape is also the obvious candidate for a Story difficulty that sets all your stats to 18 or 25 to make the terrible combat more tolerable.
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BadAstronaut posted:Yep, this is how I'd love to do alternative runs through the game. Good idea. I can't imagine that Planescape wasn't the thing they had in mind when they added story mode to IWD, really. It's a ridiculously obvious change for a PS:T EE because everyone mentions how bad PS:T's combat is.
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Just use a save editor and set all your stats to 25 if you're going to min-max stats for dialogue purposes anyway. This will also make the combat way more tolerable.
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I'm 98% certain that's one of the tweakpack components.
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If you're playing Arcanum you're also going to want Otto's All-In-One to rebalance tech/magic, otherwise magic is brokenly powerful and tech is utter garbage late-game.
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If you're playing PS:T for the dialogue, just cheat yourself to all-18s or all-25s.
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You can always Shadowkeeper Dynaheir into a non-specialist Mage if you really want to have a wizard with Sleep.
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The "canon" party of Charname, Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc and Dynaheir is actually pretty good, and that's just picking up all the non-evil NPCs you can get with zero effort before Nashkel mines.
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Forever_Peace posted:Anything I need to know before starting a wild mage in bg2:ee? Yes. Never cast anything but Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, it's the only way to play a Wild Mage.
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JustJeff88 posted:Are you referring to Tides of Numenera? Beamdog is also not inXile. Washout posted:Wtf, bridging the gap between the two games? What gap was there between the two? The intro text in BG2 outright tells you there are a couple of months between the end of BG1 and when Irenicus kidnaps your party. The gap has always been there.
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Edwin should complain several times before he even thinks of leaving, and in theory none of the scripts should break if you're playing BG1EE, in theory. 
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Taliesyn posted:Also, the game designers expected you to explore literally everywhere. There are things hidden all over the place you wouldn't expect, like the ring of wizardry outside FAA and the ankheg plate buried on a farm. Another example would be the Tome of Leadership and Influence (gives a permanent +1 charisma) hidden on the gnoll stronghold map you JUST cleared. These are pretty different since the Ring of Wizardry and Ankheg plate are items you could get early on by pixel-hunting (BG1's engine didn't have tab to highlight), whereas the Tome is just in an easily-accessible cave.
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Arghy posted:Even when i know the exact coordinates it still takes me a few minutes to find the loving pixels haha. Hold the tab key.
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gender illusionist posted:I p sure I read that it's a new game set between BG and BG2. Yes. They've announced it already.
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Arghy posted:How the hell did anyone play BG without a loving wiki? By reading the user manual that came with the game (unless you already knew AD&D2) and then playing it without obsessively trying to 100% every single aspect of it. Arghy posted:What exactly does the sword of berserking do? like will it make dorn begin killing everyone in my party? i'm assuming berserkers and barbs don't attack their own party when they use this ability so i'm wondering! You're assuming wrong! Berserk will make you target the nearest valid target, friend or foe. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Entropy238 posted:Somebody should kickstart an Engine Remake that keeps all of the original assets and rules and just makes things high-res/polishes it up. Not really sure what you'd make high resolution - all of the Infinity Engine games have run at any resolution you want for practically a decade now. The sprite quality is decent (if anything, they're the weakest part of the games), the 3D effects for the spells haven't aged that badly, and the backgrounds are pretty good. Honestly, I'd rather they just ditch the Infinity Engine entirely and go to a more modern engine while retaining the existing assets. e; vv yep, exactly that. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Does the iPad version really have zero access to the dev console? That seems like a pretty stupid oversight considering how prone the BGs are to script breakage.
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BadAstronaut posted:My Christmas holiday game is going to be Pillars of Eternity. As a long time Infinity Engine fan, what are some tips you guys might have for the combat or exploration or general 'this is different from Baldur's Gate functionality' advice? There isn't much to say that's different for PoE, except pay close attention to the stats because they're totally different from D&D's in effect despite sharing the three physical/three mental thing (for example, Con is a bad stat for tanks in PoE). Every class is good, but you do get a Wizard, Fighter, Priest and Chanter NPC within the first three or four hours, so you may want to keep that in mind when making your char (there's no Rogue or Barbarian NPC in the main game, although there's one of each in the expansion which is meant to be played about half to two thirds of the way through the game), but you can get by just fine with multiples of the same class. I made a tank Fighter and just built the NPC Fighter as a dual-wielder, for example. Have fun, it's probably the best game of 2015.
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Most of the stats are useful to everyone, but some stats are still more useful than others to specific classes, and you still want to aim for 18 in your primary stat/16 in your secondary, after cultural bonuses.
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Woolie Wool posted:I decided to import my Baldur's Gate II character into BG1 so I wouldn't have to reroll everything, and apparently if I actually continue like this (I just fired up the tutorial) I will start the game at level 8. What were you expecting was going to happen when you imported a level 8 character into BG1?
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Woolie Wool posted:That the game would bust him down to level 1? It doesn't do that, same way it won't bust down your level 6 or whatever character you just finished BG1 with when you export/reimport him so you can replay the game and reach cap.
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Man, an "extreme allergic reaction" is literally death, notquote:swelling of the eyes, fits of sneezing, and dull headaches That spell should be "save or experience anaphylactic shock."
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ubachung posted:I feel I should remind everyone that Arivia led the charge to have the 'offensive' limerick removed from Pillars of Eternity. So not just an arsehole but also a hypocrite, demanding to be sheltered from offense while happily abusing others. I don't really see the link between being an rear end in a top hat about Forgotten Realms stuff and not wanting a lovely transphobic limerick in PoE. If you think that calling someone an idiot newbie who needs to learn how the game works on an internet forum is functionally equivalent to casual bigotry that parrots stuff that is often used as a justification in literally murdering people, you're dumb. e; vv 
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fong posted:What? David Warner has obviously aged but he still sounds awesome. He still has the best voice in all video games, even if he's now 75 instead of 60. The UI changes are still really ugly but drat, that opening narration and Warner's voice have made me at least a little excited for this.
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fong posted:Did David Warner do the narration too? I thought it was the same guy who did sarevok The narrator is not David Warner, no. David Warner is Irenicus' voice actor. The narrator is Sarevok's VA (Kevin Michael Richardson).
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Kontradaz posted:So there is a controversy about having a trans character in the game? Wut. Yes. A lot of the gaming community at large is very bigoted, in news that won't exactly shock anyone. That said, FactsAreUseless posted:There was a Gamergate joke in the expansion. e; vv cool. 
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Arivia posted:Ed Greenwood, the creator of the Forgotten Realms, has weighed in on the controversy. His response, summarized, is "it's absurd to think half-elves are acceptable and not trans people."  Ed Greenwood is pretty cool as a person, by and large.
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Iretep posted:if you want a 4th ed game just play wow or any of its clones. Ah, someone who's never played D&D or WoW.
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's extremely weird to me that there have been no D&D games that play like Shadowrun Returns. I don't think WotC have ever understood how video games work, really. It's the only reason I can think of.
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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:Why do spells cost money? The cost is for getting an NPC to cast the spell, so you're paying for spellcasting services. GP costs for material components are precious gems etc. that get used up as components in the spell.
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Did the SoD changes to BG1EE break EEKeper? I can't get it to see my saves, for some reason. All I want to do is Keeper Khalid to Archer. 
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Woolie Wool posted:SoD saves go in a different directory, so EEKeeper won't see them unless you point it at the /sodsave/ directory and check "Use Custom Save Location". I'm actually editing a BG1EE save, but checking the box and changing nothing else fixed it, so thanks!
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Uh what's ctrl j do? Lmao. Teleports selected characters to your cursor location, which is an amazing time-saver given the horrid default walk speed.
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Nycticeius posted:Also, imagining Minsc in PoE makes me wanna try a custom BG inspired party! That's actually a pretty cool idea, and would work fairly well. Free pick for the PC, then Rogue, Fighter, Druid, Barbarian and Wizard for Imoen/Khalid/Jaheira/Minsc/Dynaheir. MrL_JaKiri posted:Illithids!!! Illithid drain is 5 Intelligence per hit, so you'd want 11 or 16, not 15.
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Vikar Jerome posted:i'm getting really excited for this mod: That's nuts, in a good way, although I don't really see the point in jamming IWDEE in there as well since there's no continuity. I hope it doesn't fall apart.
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