Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

[SwiftCrack]

Presuming they've put it on Steam to get more sales, why would they sneak it on to Steam without any press coverage or anything?

It's almost like they're embarrassed to admit they had to bring it to Steam.

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[Infinitron]

baldursgate.com forum thread: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/14626/bgee-was-just-realeased-on-steam

 

[fizzelopeguss]

So, were the engine enhancements any good? Zoom sounds pretty useful.

 

[Infinitron]

TrentOster Posts: 183
8:44PM
This is through Atari, and I'm saddened to say we have not been able to reach an agreement around Steam keys yet. We're trying. Royalty-wise, Steam is making way more than we are per copy, so it is a bit bittersweet.

-Trent

 

[Metro]

That's what happens when you don't own the rights to your IP~ Also not sure why people expect Steam keys when they bought a AAA (albeit old) game that has a major publisher from a third party retailer.

 

[SwiftCrack]

That's what happens when you don't own the rights to your IP~ Also not sure why people expect Steam keys when they bought a AAA (albeit old) game that has a major publisher from a third party retailer.

Because I am one fucking entitled Codexian .

 

[Kosmonaut]

That's what happens when you don't own the rights to your IP~ Also not sure why people expect Steam keys when they bought a AAA (albeit old) game that has a major publisher from a third party retailer.

Because I am one fucking entitled Codexian .

No, you are just fucking entitled.

 

[Infinitron]

That's what happens when you don't own the rights to your IP~ Also not sure why people expect Steam keys when they bought a AAA (albeit old) game that has a major publisher from a third party retailer.

I'm not sure they're entirely aware of the ramifications of the publisher situation. They're thinking of BGEE as a kind of indie game. They bought it on the Internet for cheap, so that's how it feels.

 

[SwiftCrack]

That's what happens when you don't own the rights to your IP~ Also not sure why people expect Steam keys when they bought a AAA (albeit old) game that has a major publisher from a third party retailer.

Because I am one fucking entitled Codexian .

No, you are just fucking entitled.

Calm down trent.

Anyway, they've released patch 6 and it includes a good list of fixes and some actual useful features (black lily acting as a real fence for instance)

Spoiler

Crash Fixes

• Improved multiplayer stability
• Fixed Black Pits sword crash
• Fixed crash when manipulating portrait files

Features

• Damage notifications change colour depending on type of damage done
• Option to turn off coloured player circles (enables original green circles)
• Added roll total to ability screen when creating a new character
• Elven Chain Mail now obtainable
• Yeslick may rejoin the party in Jopalin's Tavern
• Black Lily purchases stolen goods
• UI improvements

Bug Fixes

• Resolved random respawns occurring too often
• Stat modifications for unidentified items now appear
• Issue with Baeloth not returning solved (Black Pits)
• Bounty Hunter class gains proper skill points
• Eldoth and Skie removing and joining problem solved
• Fixed issue with certain spell portrait icons not being removed
• Officer Vai will only purchase bandit scalps
• Scroll case capacity increased
• Improved chatbar (Multiplayer)
• Issue with gender dialogue is now proper
• Nashkel movie will play instantly
• Fixed Yeslick infinite dialogue loop
• Selling infinite wolf pelt to Nashkel store glitch removed
• Lothander and Marek's antidote will never vanish
• Drizzt doesn't run away from gnoll battle
• Shapeshifted spider no longer held in webs
• Player will no longer have guards summoned when near previously opened containers
• Archers and Druids may now equip Ankheg Plate Mail
• Characters speak to the player more quickly in tutorial
• Characters respond appropriately during Obe's Combat tutorial
• Charmed NPCs will give the player their promised gifts
• Lightmap for Kagain's shop has been updated
• Cat familiar now has an attack
• Imp familiar polymorphing to orge and back works
• Wand of Polymorphing's range has been increased
• Improved Aldeth's Merchant League quest
• Simmeon now gives XP
• Some weapons not flagged as magical now are
• Casson's body quest has been touched up
• Resolved issue with Kivan leaving the party
• Characters with strength less than 5 are now able to complete the tutorial
• Monks now able to complete the tutorial
• Music restored to the Friendly Arm Inn
• Commoners in Beregost and Nashkel say proper lines after Chapter 2
• Spider body will not disappear (Landrin's quest)
• Missing Citizens quest has been polished
• Issues with Elkart's ransom money have been resolved
• Tersus will turn hostile if robbed
• Tiax now properly summons Ghasts
• Tiber will take his brother's body
• Quiver/Case of Plenty now give proper damage bonus
• History of the Nether Scrolls no longer sellable
• Issue with Ring of Free Action not properly effecting mobility
• Emerson no longer constantly updates player's journal
• Imoen responds correctly to changes in reputation
• Fixed sound sets of Tessilan, Faltis and Glayde
• Removed intelligence limit on certain miscellaneous items
• Sorcerous Sundries accessible without force selling of nymph hair
• Added an auto-save right before the opening cutscene (Black Pits)
• Correct rest movie is played in Adoy's Enclave
• Adoy's area is now correctly placed/coloured on map
• Ambient noises can now be heard in Adoy's Enclave
• Farmer Brun no longer takes more than one item
• Euric no longer takes more than one item
• Contagion spell now casts properly
• Fixed Branwen refusing to join party when declined at first
• Issue with drinkable quest items has been resolved
• Wizard Slayer and Beastmaster class have more weapon restrictions
• Amnish Soldiers guarding Nashkel Mine have been modified
• Gandolar voiced lines added/improved interaction
• Delsvirftanyon voiced lines added
• Interaction with Drunk has been improved
• Interaction with Bellamy has been improved
• Interaction with Kerrachus has been improved
• Interaction with Phandalyn has been improved
• Interaction with Zecke has been improved
• Interaction with Grael has been improved
• Interaction with Pang Wallen has been improved
• Interaction with Kirinhale has been improved
• Problem with Scar's character model dissapearing fixed
• Increased text size of weight allowed in inventory
• Dorn's starting XP and HP have been increased
• Fixed exploit allowing Dorn to receive THAC0 bonus
• Only Dorn may receive THAC0 bonus from Rancor +1
• Fixed exploit with Single-Weapon Style
• Looping dialogue with Neera after Meklin encounter fixed
• Spawning issue with Neera's initial encounter
• World's Edge now glows
• Characters in Obey's tutorial no longer have BG1 proficiency distributions
• Longbow +2 and Composite Longbow +2 now give proper damage
• All slings not usable by Kensai and Cavalier
• Balanced certain pre-generated character's proficiency distribution
• Fixed issue with some items not needing to be identified
• Monks and Kensai are no longer able to equip shields
• Prism and Greywolf's voiced lines added
• Chaos Shield now has description when cast
• Ring of Acuity/Captive Audience no longer equip-able by Monk
• Treacle's gender no longer in question (Black Pits)
• Travelling to other areas in Archaeological Site touched up
• Fixed Enchanted Weapon Enchantment/Charm
• Fixed issue with certain items playing the incorrect sound
• The Vampires Revenge now has the correct effects
• Tenya dialogue issues have been corrected
• Bassilus's voiced line now plays
• Issue with certain classes wearing armor (Tutorial)
• Various item descriptions/images have been fixed
• Various container and door highlights have been readjusted
• Quest/Journal log fixes

 

[Kirtai]

How many bugs did they add, that they need this many patches with this many bugfixes? Didn't they use the fixpacks? At least as a guide?

 

[SwiftCrack]

How many bugs did they add, that they need this many patches with this many bugfixes? Didn't they use the fixpacks? At least as a guide?

I really have no clue what they even attempted after seeing the patch 6 fixlist.

 

[Konjad]

http://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.ph...-massive-butthurt.45906/page-310#post-2453485

 

[gunman]

How many bugs did they add, that they need this many patches with this many bugfixes? Didn't they use the fixpacks? At least as a guide?

This time they broke only the haste spell and APR of all ranged weapons (eg. bows are limited to 2 APR regardless of level and how many points are put into specialization)

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Kirtai]

It's like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

 

[gunman]

ALSO.... they have "enhanced" the GUI. Note the new fonts used for stack numbers:

 

[Kirtai]

I'm pretty sure I saw fonts like that on my ZX Spectrum.

Also, I never noticed this before but the font for other numbers is irregular height but isn't old style lowercase numbers. Couldn't they have enhanced fixed that?

 

[Angthoron]

How many bugs did they add, that they need this many patches with this many bugfixes? Didn't they use the fixpacks? At least as a guide?

This time they broke only the haste spell and APR of all ranged weapons (eg. bows are limited to 2 APR regardless of level and how many points are put into specialization)

What did they do to Haste?

 

[sea]

That patch list is promising, at least Overhaul are trying. The game is getting nearer to the point where I can say the Enhanced Edition is really worth buying. The game is no longer forced to scale to your resolution if you make an INI tweak, the mod scene is improving and many good mods are now compatible with the Enhanced Edition, you can get a much better GUI to replace the crappy one, most of the bugs have been fixed to the point where it's likely very close to the original game now, etc. The new content still isn't much good, and it's still $20 more expensive than the original, but...

... Okay, when I put it that way it still sounds like a poor deal, but at least now it's not laughably crash-prone and broken.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

http://www.gamespot.com/baldurs-gat...-gate-enhanced-edition-review-6401359/?page=2

Most of the new romance dialogue is horrific, although the worst lines--your responses, which include banter like "Give me some sugar, baby"--go thankfully unvoiced.

Incline of Gamespot

Neera is even worse than I thought. Surprisingly more BioWarean than BioWare could have made her.

how did that even make it into the game?

 

[gunman]

What did they do to Haste?

Haste no longer gives extra attacks pe round.

Not a big deal, to quote a guy on their forums:

bengoshi Posts: 169
January 16
Of course, you can't play without a haste spell, can you?) It's surely a game-breaking bug, isn't it?)

 

[Angthoron]

What did they do to Haste?

Haste no longer gives extra attacks pe round.

Not a big deal, to quote a guy on their forums:

bengoshi Posts: 169
January 16
Of course, you can't play without a haste spell, can you?) It's surely a game-breaking bug, isn't it?)

Of course it isn't, just keep spamming those animal summons.

*facepalm*

 

[Severian Silk]

You mean the most common monitor AR out there? Gosh, we're such heathens. 1024x576 is the best 16:9 resolution for these games. Required a registry edit to work on my AMD card, but hooray!

1366x768 is OK too since you can run games that are 1024x768 with only a bit of letterboxing.

 

[SwiftCrack]

ALSO.... they have "enhanced" the GUI. Note the new fonts used for stack numbers:

It's like they copied the font from a 'Tamagotchi'.

 

[Infinitron]

Which font are you guys referring to? The arrow stacks font? Isn't that the default font from the original game?

 

[SwiftCrack]

Which font are you guys referring to? The arrow stacks font? Isn't that the default font from the original game?

Maybe so, but they made it a lot larger and pixely compared to what it was:

 

[waywardOne]

That patch list is promising, at least Overhaul are trying. The game is getting nearer to the point where I can say the Enhanced Edition is really worth buying. The game is no longer forced to scale to your resolution if you make an INI tweak, the mod scene is improving and many good mods are now compatible with the Enhanced Edition, you can get a much better GUI to replace the crappy one, most of the bugs have been fixed to the point where it's likely very close to the original game now, etc. The new content still isn't much good, and it's still $20 more expensive than the original, but...

... Okay, when I put it that way it still sounds like a poor deal, but at least now it's not laughably crash-prone and broken.

Why do you want so badly to like BGEE?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Which font are you guys referring to? The arrow stacks font? Isn't that the default font from the original game?

yes, this is just dumbfuck newfags trying to be edgy.