Apostle Hands said:
That was the Tactics hell battle.
My guess it's more like a wild mage on an acid trip. What doesn't kill you turns you into a squirrel.
So I've just finished downloading and sorting all mods. Exactly 80 in total. Going cross-eyed. So 80 out of 290. I sorted them into 3 categories in order of priority, with 11 in the first - ones that I know will work, like SCS, Widescreen mod, etc.
I know modders put the time in, but their sites just take the piss. After 15 hours of geting it all in order, the last page setailed x3 mods that patch the mega-mod installation: Creature, area, and item patchers;- and I can't fucking find them.
I'm just remembering why I never bothered with all this in the past.
On a positive note, there are x2 mods that really caught my eye: BG1 casting sounds ('cause they were superior) and a mod that scripts a hot key in for quick weapon switching (2 hander bows/melee to TWF or single weapons) which is pretty much the only reason I spent money on the EE in the first place. That's really a big deal for me. Amazing that I had to find it myself and it was never mentioned anywhere, you know, prestigeous.
So I've just finished downloading and sorting all mods. Exactly 80 in total. Going cross-eyed. So 80 out of 290. I sorted them into 3 categories in order of priority, with 11 in the first - ones that I know will work, like SCS, Widescreen mod, etc.
I know modders put the time in, but their sites just take the piss. After 15 hours of geting it all in order, the last page setailed x3 mods that patch the mega-mod installation: Creature, area, and item patchers;- and I can't fucking find them.
I'm just remembering why I never bothered with all this in the past.
On a positive note, there are x2 mods that really caught my eye: BG1 casting sounds ('cause they were superior) and a mod that scripts a hot key in for quick weapon switching (2 hander bows/melee to TWF or single weapons) which is pretty much the only reason I spent money on the EE in the first place. That's really a big deal for me. Amazing that I had to find it myself and it was never mentioned anywhere, you know, prestigeous.
Are you installing on EE or original BG2?
Original, Big World Picture.
So...predictably I've just wasted about 30 hours of my life. I've got an issue with modders that I've had for over 20 years: either they don't provide instructions on the mods they've spent years working on, or the instructions are not consitant and/or relevant. BWP is a classic example; guy writes a huge readme file, early on it says "Default BG 2 install path is...As of BWPv10.1 you can install BG2 in any folder and rename the folder as desired" further down in the readme (after I've spent 3 hours installing the game) "Make absolutely sure that the folder to which you run the installation is name BGII - SoA .. as the entire installation will fail".
Take this:
"The BW Install pack is designed to install all the mods that are currently existing in your BGII - SoA folder..do not unhesitatingly throw all mods into the BG2 folder..."
So you assume that all mods go in the BG2 directory, but it contradicts his actual install instructions from earlier on:
"Download all mods that you are interested in into a seperate folder named BiG World Downloads. The BiG World Install.bat unpacks all mods out of this folder into your BGII - SoA folder.
Then just below:
"Copy all content into your BG2 - SoA folder".
What actually happens: You download the mods into a folder, name it BiG World Downloads (or the install doesn't work), it extracts all mods into the same folder - I run the game and nothing happens, I then try to interpret the above and copy all extracted files into BG2's install directory;- run the game ... and nothing happens.
All I wanted was to go on bro-friendly but faggy/badly written journey with Drizzt and later Artemis Entreri in BG2.
Original, Big World Picture.
So...predictably I've just wasted about 30 hours of my life. I've got an issue with modders that I've had for over 20 years: either they don't provide instructions on the mods they've spent years working on, or the instructions are not consitant and/or relevant. BWP is a classic example; guy writes a huge readme file, early on it says "Default BG 2 install path is...As of BWPv10.1 you can install BG2 in any folder and rename the folder as desired" further down in the readme (after I've spent 3 hours installing the game) "Make absolutely sure that the folder to which you run the installation is name BGII - SoA .. as the entire installation will fail".
Take this:
"The BW Install pack is designed to install all the mods that are currently existing in your BGII - SoA folder..do not unhesitatingly throw all mods into the BG2 folder..."
So you assume that all mods go in the BG2 directory, but it contradicts his actual install instructions from earlier on:
"Download all mods that you are interested in into a seperate folder named BiG World Downloads. The BiG World Install.bat unpacks all mods out of this folder into your BGII - SoA folder.
Then just below:
"Copy all content into your BG2 - SoA folder".
What actually happens: You download the mods into a folder, name it BiG World Downloads (or the install doesn't work), it extracts all mods into the same folder - I run the game and nothing happens, I then try to interpret the above and copy all extracted files into BG2's install directory;- run the game ... and nothing happens.
All I wanted was to go on bro-friendly but faggy/badly written journey with Drizzt and later Artemis Entreri in BG2.
