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Suspicious posted:Always put 18 into wisdom at character creation when playing Planescape: Torment no matter what class you want to play as. Trust me on this. For Torment, you're justified in just cheating your stats up to all 18s. A lot of the more interesting story content is gated on having 18 Wis/Int/Cha, and the combat just isn't very good. All 18s means you can experience as much of the  as you want and get a leg up in the pretty bad combat.
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Speaking of which, are there any of the "traditional" BG1 mods (e.g. BG1UB, fixpacks, etc.) that aren't included in EE? Trying to figure out how much extra stuff I need to install to get EE up to the same level as a normal modded BGT install.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Speaking of which, are there any of the "traditional" BG1 mods (e.g. BG1UB, fixpacks, etc.) that aren't included in EE? Trying to figure out how much extra stuff I need to install to get EE up to the same level as a normal modded BGT install. Requoting myself since it went unnoticed: should I install UB, the fixpack, etc. on top of EE?
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Nov 21, 2013 18:06
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Does anyone know off the top of their head which of the BG2 fixpack fixes causes items to have the wrong description text in BG1EE? Before I go uninstalling them one by one to figure it out.
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Nov 22, 2013 01:32
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Antignition posted:You shouldn't be using any fixpacks with BG1EE. Yeah, I meant to type tweak pack, not fixpack. I want my casting/thieving in heavy armour and my item stacks, drat it. The only component I installed that actually messes with item description text is the rebalanced proficiencies, but that doesn't seem to be the culprit. I guess I'll have to uninstall the whole thing and verify each component individually.
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Insurrectionist posted:Even though I liked their implementation in IWD2, and generally prefer it to the BG/IWD1 system, I could never make myself install those mods since these game really aren't balanced for it. Do enemy thieves/spellcasters ever even take advantage of these if you mod it in? They don't really make the game easier than it already is - the heavy armour casting penalties are steep so it's never advisable to cast in heavy armour. I'm pretty sure no new enemies will take advantage of it because all arcane casters wear robes. I mostly do it for convenience - it means being able to pick locks etc. without taking the armour off at high levels of thief skills, not that it's going to be particularly useful in BG1. I found out what was breaking item descriptions - the "improved MP kick-out dialogue" component didn't install properly. Removing it fixed it, but sadly I'm still getting an "internal label [1] not found in processed DLG [MULTIG]" when I try to reinstall it so it looks like it's a problem with EE's MP scripts. Weird that the tweakpack doesn't pick up on that, since it's EE-aware. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Nov 22, 2013 10:30
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And no alignment or race restrictions, if for any reason that factors in.
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Nov 27, 2013 11:47
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Does Shadowkeeper still screw up ThAC0 and such when changing a character's class? I tweaked Khalid to F/M for some dumb reason, and uninstalling that component doesn't revert him back even if I load a save before meeting him.
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Nov 27, 2013 12:16
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Rascyc posted:Afaik, yes. Thanks for the answer - I'll restart my game now that the component is uninstalled, and see about fixing it if it doesn't work for some reason.
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Nov 27, 2013 16:58
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You can faceroll pretty much everything in BG1... if you actually know what you're doing, and are willing to go out of your way to play in a way that makes the game easier. Always equip everyone with ranged weapons that they can actually use, learn to scout (if you see an enemy, use the auto-pause to stop everyone and pull them back, then bait them one-by-one) and contact with your best-armoured dude and then kite enemies, find those hidden items, provoke the Flaming Fist patrol north of Nashkel and steal their three sets of plate armour and abuse Sleep/Web on your arcane casters. The first third of the game (where you're most vulnerable) becomes a game of walking around in tight formation and just unleashing a barrage of arrows and sling bullets on anything that shows up. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 14:13
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Accretionist posted:Rolled a 94 on my BGI Cavalier! Let's see how long I can Ironman a PC which permits no ranged weapons. Should be fairly easy if you get the ankheg plate and Ring of Princes +1 as early as possible (and aren't soloing, obviously).
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Iggles posted:My Jester moved Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Montaron and Xvar north to get the Ankheg treasure. In spite of trying to avoid all combat everyone dies except my Jester. I pick up the loot, get Ajantis and run south. While travelling in the area south of the Friendly Arm Inn Ajantis is killed by a Gibberling that does 12 damage on a single hit and my Jester runs away straight into a group of kobolds. RIP. baldursgate.txt right here.
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Suspicious posted:It's the annoyance of the 3 BG1 NPC mages. Dynaheir can't cast sleep and Xan can't cast magic missile, web or fireball (though he can cast skull trap). While Edwin can do both, he can't cast identify for all the magic loot you'll collect. Kind of makes me want to pull out my hair when I'm playing through as a non-wizard and trying to decide which one I want in the party. I ended up using EEKeeper to change Dynaheir to a normal Mage, because man, what kind of idiot specialises their Mage, that's suboptimal as all hell when you're the only MU in the party. For anyone who wants to know how to do this (this is based on Rascyc's info post from a few pages back, but I found there was some more stuff that needed to be done): Set the NPC's level to 0, and their max/current HP to 0 (this should automatically be converted to 1HP ignoring Con bonuses once you load your save). Set their attacks to 1, their ThAC0 to 20 and their AC to 10. You shouldn't need to touch proficiencies, but that's easy to fix if they accidentally end up with one more than they should. Use this page to figure out what their level 1 saves should be, and set their saves to those (only really applicable if the NPC is above level 3, but whatever). Save the changes, then load your game and level that character up. They'll end up with the right HP/AC/ThAC0/spell progression/etc. for their level. e; vv eh, it takes me approximately 30 seconds to do and works without fail for everyone including the PC. Swings and roundabouts. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Nov 29, 2013 10:49
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Cythereal posted:or moving the games into 3.5E rules. Why would anyone involved even want to do this? Putting aside the fact that 3.5 is terrible, it was outdated years before Beamdog even existed. Who knows, maybe we'll get a spiritual sequel that uses Next (which is poo poo, but at least less poo poo than 3.5) or even better, 13th Age.
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e; Deep Purple Ioun Stone, which gives 60' infravision. Apparently this is just something I installed without paying attention as part of the tweakpack. 
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Dec 1, 2013 20:12
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Factor_VIII posted:I went and had a look and it wasn't for sale there. Googling for Deep Purple Ioun Stone reveals that it's an item added by the Exotic Items Pack. Huh, fair enough - sorry, then! I hadn't realised I'd actually installed that.
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Captain Oblivious posted:I will never understand all thw Jaheira hate. I loved the snark. I kind od thought it was nice to have a party member that isn't in awe of you because it wasn't all that long ago you were a dumbass kid on the run. I like her because she's the only one who seems genuinely affected by having been kidnapped and her husband being brutally murdered by a madman while she was powerless to stop him. Minsc is all "Dynaheir is dead! I need to avenge her by being exactly the same character I was in the previous game," and Imoen has three token emo lines and then disappears.
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maev posted:Imoen was much more preferable as her happy go lucky self in BG1 You wouldn't be saying that if you'd had to suffer through her VA in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cLuxizt_Es
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Wingless posted:So it turns out back-engineering the PC into a different class and alignment is remarkably easy once you get ShadowKeeper working with Enhanced Edition. Use EEKeeper, the interface is much better. You might want to double-check that you did everything I mention here, just to make sure you don't accidentally end up with the wrong saves or whatever: Lemon Curdistan posted:Set the NPC's level to 0, and their max/current HP to 0 (this should automatically be converted to 1HP ignoring Con bonuses once you load your save). Set their attacks to 1, their ThAC0 to 20 and their AC to 10. You shouldn't need to touch proficiencies, but that's easy to fix if they accidentally end up with one more than they should. Use this page to figure out what their level 1 saves should be, and set their saves to those (only really applicable if the NPC is above level 3, but whatever). But yes, it's pretty drat easy.
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I'm sure this was mentioned a while ago but I can't find it any more - I'm going to loop BG1EE while waiting for BG2EE to be stable enough to play, so I'm planning on dual-classing my Fighter PC. What level should I do it at (I've removed the XP cap, so 13 is a viable answer if that's the best choice)?
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Piell posted:7 gets you an extra half attack, 9 you stop gaining so much HP, 13 you gain the last extra half attack - pick one of those. Thanks; I may as well get to 13, then.
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Is it me, or are pathfinding and AI scripts even more hosed in BGEE than they were in BG1? Characters frequently take the long way around or just get stuck trying to walk into a wall instead of going around to the stairs/ramp, or else just stop walking for no reason. Characters also sometimes auto-attack with AI off, and Jaheira's been casting spells despite being set to cleric passive (wasting Summon Insects on a loving wolf, or casting Bless multiple times in a row). 
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TjyvTompa posted:I've also noticed that they sometimes auto-attack even though the AI script is disabled, especially when their previous target just died. Yeah, it's the sometimes that gets me. If they consistently switched targets when you give them an attack order and the original target dies, that would be perfectly fine. If they didn't, it would also be perfectly fine. It's the fact that it's a crapshoot as to which they'll do that's a pain. e; vv someone do an ironman Wild Mage playthrough where the only spells you're allowed are Nahal's Reckless Dweomer and Chaos Shield. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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verybad posted:specialist wizards are pretty much strictly better than standard mages. No, not the ones in BG1, because they specialise in schools that make them unable to cast a bunch of useful spells. You can always just pick a character you like and EEKeeper them to a non-specialist mage, though. Nuclear War posted:I've run into a new bug that's gamebreaking. My CHARNAME paladin walks really jerky, stopping and seeming to go in and out of combat mode every five seconds, the same thing happens in combat where he spends most of his time changing stance instead of capping fools with Carsomyr. Has anyone run into this and knw how to solve it? Do you have AI turned on? Turn it off.
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oswald ownenstein posted:Lower AC is better, as is THAC0. And THAC0 itself is a little confusing at first. If only someone could convert BG1/2/IWD1/PS:T to Darkest Dungeon, so we could have ascending AC and to-hits.
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Exotic Item Pack is probably the culprit.
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You can still sell them for 250gp a piece to the merchant in Feldepost's Inn.
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bathroom sounds posted:I don't see how it could be. I think the only rep lowering things I've done is accepting Viconia into my party and then two slayer transformations. You can check on your character record/sheet. If it's not low, it's probably a bug.
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Hammer Floyd posted:So what do we think is the "canon" character class for the Bhaalspawn? I was thinking Sorcerer as the dude is meant to be inherently powerful... Wild Mage. It's always Wild Mage.
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a medical mystery posted:drat, BG is broken as hell. That they didn't port the CHA scaling from 3E is boggling. There was no Cha-based Sorcerer casting from 3.0 to port over. 3.0 came out out in August/September 2000; BG2 came out in September 2000.
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GreatGreen posted:Does this mean you can take a character that's about to beat the game, export it to a file, and then import that character just as it is when you start a new game? Yes. If you're in BG2, you'll lose all your equipment as part of the opening ingame cutscene (I don't know if they patched the exploit that lets you pause the game on the black screen just before Irenicus speaks to you to dump it all to the ground, though).
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In other news, apparently we're getting a Minsc and Boo comic book series.
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I somehow managed to read the opposite of what was posted, so go me.
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GuyDudeBroMan posted:I think he means why is it NON-viable later in the game. Yeah, I somehow read it as viable in late-game BG1. Sorry, not enough caffeine I guess. But yeah, on top of all of that, BG2/ToB also have really powerful melee weapons and armours that grant you a lot of resistance to nasty stuff while dealing incredible amounts of damage, so it makes bows worth it even less.
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Gobblecoque posted:"I spend most of my life studying books and scrolls, but I'm actually retarded as gently caress." You don't need long-term memory or quick-thinking to memorise your lecture notes an hour before the exam!
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Arivia posted:I'll stick to the original Forgotten Realms narrator thanks. Please give Elminster his full title: "Ed Greenwood's self-insert godly-powerful Wizard who spends his time having sex with beautiful women (when he's not turning himself into one for fun times) and has a door in his tower that leads to Ed Greenwood's closet so they can share beer."
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Mzbundifund posted:That's right, and that's the same map as the belt ogre. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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inscrutable horse posted:Nope, he's in the Elminster map. You get the quest to get the belts from the ogre in the FAI. The buggers behind the inn itself are the hobgoblins, one of which carries Joya's flamedance ring. Perhaps you're mixing the two? You're right, I am. I could've sworn the ogre was on the same map as the flamedance ring hobgoblins, but I just checked and he's on a different map.
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Sleep of Bronze posted:You know how Kevin Michael Richardson - the narrator and Sarevok - told you that you had to gather your party before venturing forth? And one of the first mods was to remove it because people got fed up? There's a load of other voiced error messages which would probably have frustrated gamers enough to get the poor bugger lynched. Every time you can't rest for whatever reason, you can't equip a weapon or unequip it, your spell gets disrupted and on and on. Please make a mod to add those in, tia.
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Rookersh posted:If I can't give them armor in IWD, doesn't that just make them a lovely mage/lovely cleric? Druids have a different spell list.
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