Baldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate II Mod Thread

[Daidre]

It doesn't really make much difference and that goes double if you didn't reach the XP cap in BG1, which most people don't.

Weeeeell, I usually hit 161 000k around 1/3 into BG 1, usually after mass genocide of Sword Coast's basilisks solo and cleaning "tower" part of Durlag's Tower.

It could be true for erm... normal people, but I could bet that general level of autism among Codexers is high enough for most people here to have similar experience.

 

[Reinhardt]

And you dare to call

mass genocide of Sword Coast's basilisks solo

autism

Nigga, you what? Decent people camp in ankheg hole with full party for dem sweet lvl ups.

 

[Daidre]

Nigga, you what? Decent people camp in ankheg hole with full party for dem sweet lvl ups.

Rest spam for xp is really meh. Never do it. Bad sport.

 

[Grunker]

It doesn't really make much difference and that goes double if you didn't reach the XP cap in BG1, which most people don't.

Weeeeell, I usually hit 161 000k around 1/3 into BG 1, usually after mass genocide of Sword Coast's basilisks solo and cleaning "tower" part of Durlag's Tower.

It could be true for erm... normal people, but I could bet that general level of autism among Codexers is high enough for most people here to have similar experience.

I always reach the cap but that's because I have RPG autism. I bet most people will at the max reach 90-100k

 

[Reinhardt]

Nigga, you what? Decent people camp in ankheg hole with full party for dem sweet lvl ups.

Rest spam for xp is really meh. Never do it. Bad sport.

Grinding exp for one character in party game - that's bad sport. Like basilisk hunt or scroll scribing in bg2.

 

[Daidre]

Grinding exp for one character in party game

Grinding means abuse of respawn mechanics. When you deal with something that is supposed to be difficult for party solo it is not grinding. And SCS's basilisks are smart enough not to spam immune target with 0-damage hits.
Same with scroll scribing - it as ok for me as long as you do not use Remove Spell button in spellbook.

 

[Grunker]

Grinding exp for one character in party game

supposed to be difficult

Basilisks have, for obvious reasons, the best XP-to-easymode ratio in the game

 

[rusty_shackleford]

And you dare to call

mass genocide of Sword Coast's basilisks solo

autism

Nigga, you what? Decent people camp in ankheg hole with full party for dem sweet lvl ups.

Sirines are better

 

[Reinhardt]

And you dare to call

mass genocide of Sword Coast's basilisks solo

autism

Nigga, you what? Decent people camp in ankheg hole with full party for dem sweet lvl ups.

Sirines are better

More exp, but they do bad stuff to your people. Ankhegs are just spitting.

 

[smaug]

I remember Ankhegs always hitting 30+ hitpoints on my fighters so I couldn’t farm them at level 2.

 

[Grunker]

What I don't get is why people who abuse obviously unintended mechanics to farm XP don't just cheat instead. It's functionally the same it just saves a bunch of time

 

[Reinhardt]

What I don't get is why people who abuse obviously unintended mechanics to farm XP don't just cheat instead. It's functionally the same it just saves a bunch of time

They ambush me? Ambush. I kill them fair and square? Yes. Exp is mine.

 

[octavius]

Grinding in Baldur's Gate and virtually any other CRPG is like masturbating in a brothel.

 

[Reinhardt]

and virtually any other CRPG

Some rpgs actually have good combat.

 

[Daidre]

I can understanding grinding in blobbers, especially Japanese, for example - it is all they are about. And many JRPG in general are built around same formula: main story + optional hard content that requires a ton of grind.

I rarely grind xp in IE games now, but I remember some some long serious camping sessions in Dragon's Eye caves in IWD and even Planescape's Undersigil.

 

[Reinhardt]

Go to Saradush walls with bow and unlimited arrows. Go to sleep.

 

[Grunker]

btw Lyric Suite the EET compatability list states that classic movies is compatible, you just have to install it before EET.

 

[hell bovine]

I remember Ankhegs always hitting 30+ hitpoints on my fighters so I couldn’t farm them at level 2.

You can farm them at level 1 with sleep & command, they have weak saves vs. spells.

 

[Strantar]

Like Jason says, though, you can have Big Picture manage your install for you if it's updated.

This has now replaced BWS https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/ - BWP doesn't work anymore, for the non-EE games you need to do it yourself.

 

[Grunker]

Like Jason says, though, you can have Big Picture manage your install for you if it's updated.

This has now replaced BWS https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/ - BWP doesn't work anymore, for the non-EE games you need to do it yourself.

someone already pointed this out, though I didn’t get around to checking BEW yet myself. Is it good?

 

[Parabalus]

Like Jason says, though, you can have Big Picture manage your install for you if it's updated.

This has now replaced BWS https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/ - BWP doesn't work anymore, for the non-EE games you need to do it yourself.

someone already pointed this out, though I didn’t get around to checking BEW yet myself. Is it good?

It works well, maybe even better than BWS. No real reason to not to use it.

 

[Lone Wolf]

It's very similar to BWS.

I've used it for an installation that seems pretty solid.

 

[Grunker]

Like Jason says, though, you can have Big Picture manage your install for you if it's updated.

This has now replaced BWS https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/ - BWP doesn't work anymore, for the non-EE games you need to do it yourself.

someone already pointed this out, though I didn’t get around to checking BEW yet myself. Is it good?

It works well, maybe even better than BWS. No real reason to not to use it.

Nice. Does it always do modmerge tool for you or do you still need to sort out that?

 

[Parabalus]

Like Jason says, though, you can have Big Picture manage your install for you if it's updated.

This has now replaced BWS https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/ - BWP doesn't work anymore, for the non-EE games you need to do it yourself.

someone already pointed this out, though I didn’t get around to checking BEW yet myself. Is it good?

It works well, maybe even better than BWS. No real reason to not to use it.

Nice. Does it always do modmerge tool for you or do you still need to sort out that?

Does it on its own, dunno what even modmerge is apart from being another Beamdog special.

 

[Grunker]

Should have been "does it automatically". I suppose you still have to use modmerge then

EDIT: nah a few sources online say you don't if you use the install tool