Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread

[Jasede]

I used a console command to clear the fog back in the day (on less thorough replays.)

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

ugh I hate how much empty space there is in BG1, I already know where the quest and NPC’s are but my autism prevents me from leaving a wilderness area until all the fog is gone.

fuuuck this game

Yeah, I know what you mean, it's just not possible for me to leave an area without getting all the fog away. And I get almost crazy in those few maps where you can't clean it completely... But I have to disagree about the "empty spaces". There has been taken so much care in every region of this world with all it's natural details and ambient sounds I still enjoy taking a walk in the green. And I also enjoy not being constantly annoyed by NPCs who want my attention and quests in every last corner. But I guess I'm in a minority here.

 

[smaug]

meh some content is good some is boring. The atmosphere is very good but still too much walking, a blobber I think could do this much better in some ways but eh

 

[smaug]

I’m trying to kind of hurry and get to BG2 because I never played past chapter 2 in it. but I can’t start from there because I want to import a custom party first.

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

I know exactly what you mean, I could never play BG2 with a new character. It's just a must to get him through all the hardships of BG1 & LotSC first for the proper "epic" feeling. And I just have to murder Drizzt to enjoy his butthurt reactions about it in BG2. :D But you know you can't import your whole party into BG2, just your main guy, right? You can import your party into Dragonspear but not into BG2.

 

[smaug]

I know exactly what you mean, I could never play BG2 with a new character. It's just a must to get him through all the hardships of BG1 & LotSC first for the proper "epic" feeling. But you know you can't import your whole party into BG2, just your main guy, right? You can import your party into Dragonspear but not into BG2.

what? I thought you could make a multiplayer game and import all of your companions? Wtf am I reading can you not do that?

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

I never played the game in multiplayer so I don't really know. But I don't think it would make sense as your party is shattered at the beginning of BG2.

 

[smaug]

Just checked, you can.

Ludwig von Eisenthal

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

Interesting, so you are able to create a complete party at the beginning of BG1 and take it with you to the bitter end? Like in Icewind Dale? I have to try that.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

You can do it in EE singleplayer too, I think.

edit: you need to import a savegame and not just export a character.

 

[Jarpie]

I’m trying to kind of hurry and get to BG2 because I never played past chapter 2 in it. but I can’t start from there because I want to import a custom party first.

If you plan to play Siege of Derpspear, it raises the exp cap to 500k, so when you start BG2 with SoD character, edit the save to 161k, and lower the level. EEKeeper and the game will change the hp, thac0 etc to the level you set as long as you press the recalculate stats button. In the SoD topic, I wrote a short review but the ending is so fucking dumb, that you might want to experience it for yourself...plus the combat is still pretty fun, and it's low-mid D&D.

 

[smaug]

I’m trying to kind of hurry and get to BG2 because I never played past chapter 2 in it. but I can’t start from there because I want to import a custom party first.

If you plan to play Siege of Derpspear, it raises the exp cap to 500k, so when you start BG2 with SoD character, edit the save to 161k, and lower the level. EEKeeper and the game will change the hp, thac0 etc to the level you set as long as you press the recalculate stats button. In the SoD topic, I wrote a short review but the ending is so fucking dumb, that you might want to experience it for yourself...plus the combat is still pretty fun, and it's low-mid D&D.

I’m playing the normal games(non-EE) and I never bought SoD.

 

[Jarpie]

I’m trying to kind of hurry and get to BG2 because I never played past chapter 2 in it. but I can’t start from there because I want to import a custom party first.

If you plan to play Siege of Derpspear, it raises the exp cap to 500k, so when you start BG2 with SoD character, edit the save to 161k, and lower the level. EEKeeper and the game will change the hp, thac0 etc to the level you set as long as you press the recalculate stats button. In the SoD topic, I wrote a short review but the ending is so fucking dumb, that you might want to experience it for yourself...plus the combat is still pretty fun, and it's low-mid D&D.

I’m playing the normal games(non-EE) and I never bought SoD.

Dang...I wanted to spread misery joy around!
My short write-up is in here:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...e-of-dragonspear.107891/page-178#post-6583940

I think the ending was almost worth drudging through it, it's so fucking, amazingly, retarded.

I'm just playing through BG2EE, and they haven't replaced the original videos/graphics between chapters in it, maybe due the immense dislike fans seemed to have for BG1 videos.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I had to get SoD in order to get the EE trilogy mod working a while back.

The storyline is basically mod-level quality.

Have you ever wanted Irenicus to pop in randomly in a robe and taunt you before you ever meet him? Did you ever want a certain character from BG1 to die in forced cutscene? Then this is the mod...er expansion pack for you!

They did some semi impressive scripting for some of it though. So if I'm going to call it a mod, I'd say it's not a bad one.

But as an expansion pack that you have to pay for and that passes itself off as canon? It's trash.

 

[oldmanpaco]

I had to get SoD in order to get the EE trilogy mod working a while back.

The storyline is basically mod-level quality.

Have you ever wanted Irenicus to pop in randomly in a robe and taunt you before you ever meet him? Did you ever want a certain character from BG1 to die in forced cutscene? Then this is the mod...er expansion pack for you!

They did some semi impressive scripting for some of it though. So if I'm going to call it a mod, I'd say it's not a bad one.

But as an expansion pack that you have to pay for and that passes itself off as canon? It's trash.

But did you disable the trap?

 

[Mexi]

I had to get SoD in order to get the EE trilogy mod working a while back.

The storyline is basically mod-level quality.

Have you ever wanted Irenicus to pop in randomly in a robe and taunt you before you ever meet him? Did you ever want a certain character from BG1 to die in forced cutscene? Then this is the mod...er expansion pack for you!

They did some semi impressive scripting for some of it though. So if I'm going to call it a mod, I'd say it's not a bad one.

But as an expansion pack that you have to pay for and that passes itself off as canon? It's trash.

Who dies? Either I didn't have him or her in my party, or I wasn't paying attention. Beat SoD twice, and I can't for the life of me remember any of the companions dying.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I had to get SoD in order to get the EE trilogy mod working a while back.

The storyline is basically mod-level quality.

Have you ever wanted Irenicus to pop in randomly in a robe and taunt you before you ever meet him? Did you ever want a certain character from BG1 to die in forced cutscene? Then this is the mod...er expansion pack for you!

They did some semi impressive scripting for some of it though. So if I'm going to call it a mod, I'd say it's not a bad one.

But as an expansion pack that you have to pay for and that passes itself off as canon? It's trash.

Who dies? Either I didn't have him or her in my party, or I wasn't paying attention. Beat SoD twice, and I can't for the life of me remember any of the companions dying.

Spoiler

Skie.

 

[Mexi]

I had to get SoD in order to get the EE trilogy mod working a while back.

The storyline is basically mod-level quality.

Have you ever wanted Irenicus to pop in randomly in a robe and taunt you before you ever meet him? Did you ever want a certain character from BG1 to die in forced cutscene? Then this is the mod...er expansion pack for you!

They did some semi impressive scripting for some of it though. So if I'm going to call it a mod, I'd say it's not a bad one.

But as an expansion pack that you have to pay for and that passes itself off as canon? It's trash.

Who dies? Either I didn't have him or her in my party, or I wasn't paying attention. Beat SoD twice, and I can't for the life of me remember any of the companions dying.

Spoiler

Skie.

Fuck me, okay, I remember now. Yeah, I've not played since about 2016 or so. That one was obvious and it all came back to me now.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

But did you disable the trap?

All of the characters are pretty bland in SoD, so I didn’t really remember the tranny NPC, if that’s what you’re referring to.

The only character who I didn’t mind was the flaming fist officer. But as soon as I saw she had a kid, I was out of there.

 

[Background Character]

None that characters will lose any scroll cases, bags of holding and gem bags that they had

 

[Fenix]

Thankfully, there are mods that restore the original BG videos.

Yo dawg, we made a professional mod so you don't have to install mods and then we made it you need to install mods to play the game!

 

[smaug]

So, I’m using Gatekeeper to edit my paladin into a fighter (because vanilla paladins are Garbo.) and I’m not sure how to edit out my inate paladin abilities also now that I edited my class will my be progression be fixed the next time I level up? Thanks.

(Like not getting my bonus saving throws)?

 

[alighieri]

how the fuck do you play BGII on max difficulty? even on normal settings my party gets wiped pretty frequently. though I still don't know how to handle spell casters properly in this game. chaos / confusion / fear destroys me everytime

 

[Daidre]

how the fuck do you play BGII on max difficulty? even on normal settings my party gets wiped pretty frequently. though I still don't know how to handle spell casters properly in this game. chaos / confusion / fear destroys me everytime

Easiest early-BG 2 approach is to gas them with Cloudlkill (wizard lvl 5 spell). It hits mages through all defenses an prevents them from casting in like 95% of cases.
There is also Death Fog on level 6 that has Acid damage (almost never resisted) and even better for the same thing.

 

[Sodafish]

And if you find wands of cloudkill they can be sold to shops, then stolen back (swig some potions of master thievery first) and they will then have 99 charges. For when you really need to bust out the cheese.