Icewind Dale Beamdog's Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

[Sacred82]

If they fix anything, let it be the druid's summoning spells.

As it stands now, the best party in IWD+HoW is any party with 4 or less members including a single class druid, as the summoning spells can take care of anything, making it hard/ impossible to fail even an Ironman game. I haven't tested this in Heart of Fury mode though.

 

[Infinitron]

aVENGER I have one question.

War Chant of Sith. Nerf?

 

[aVENGER]

aVENGER I have one question.

War Chant of Sith. Nerf?

It's in and behaves the same way it did in the original game.

 

[Harold]

So...what is story mode for IWD exactly? You walk around beautiful 2d paintings with an aura of insta-kill on all your party, you get to talk to the various dungeon bosses, and see the in between chapters cinematics/narrator audio bits? Shit, I'm sure someone can fit all that in a < 1h youtube video. Bonus points if it has a separate commentary track by hamburger helper.

 

[Infinitron]

aVENGER I have one question.

War Chant of Sith. Nerf?

It's in and behaves the same way it did in the original game.

Haha, not sure that's a good thing but okay.

 

[Roguey]

Holy shit, you know what does need a fucking story mode? Planescape Torment, that really needs it.

All you need to do is cheat The Eviscerator into your inventory at the beginning.

 

[octavius]

aVENGER I have one question.

War Chant of Sith. Nerf?

It's in and behaves the same way it did in the original game.

Haha, not sure that's a good thing but okay.

Nerfing the War Chant is the first thing I would have done. After my first playthrough I never used a Bard again since the War Chant made things too easy.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Well... the only one thing I want from that one is possibility to make more mods (new areas and quests). IwD is good but lack of mods compared to BG is kinda pity.

And seriously - Wizard's Crown and Wizards&Warrior are better target for new edition. That latest could be funny - technical abomination that work randomly on various computer sets + bunch of incompetent people that broke technically solid (no crashing or similiar in '90 is miracle) games.

Story mode for P:T? Just change difficulty setting to lowest possible and you're done.

I wonder if Trent Oster and his team has access to the source code of IWD?

We have full access to the source code of the original game (IWD + HoW + TotLM).

Have you any plans to make Icewin Dale EE more moddable in that case?

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

It does beg the question however... how will they balance kits and spells from BG2 in the IWD environment?

They won't would be my guess, since that's how it was in BG EE from what I've seen. Which is a shame, since character kits would spice up the boring character building of IWD quite a bit if they were introduced with proper care.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Thanks guys for the advice. Given the generally positive response to BG EE as it is now, I might get it at some point.

 

[hoverdog]

Kill it with fire or any other magical element.

 

[Bubbles]

Kill it with fire or any other magical element.

Fire is not a magical element.

 

[aVENGER]

Have you any plans to make Icewin Dale EE more moddable in that case?

IWD:EE is much more moddable than the original Icewind Dale was.

We have unhardcoded a number of features that I think the modders will find very useful. In addition, we have introduced functionality that will allow people to create mods that were previously impossible to make (from a technical standpoint).

 

[gromit]

Planetscape Arena

Planescape: Tournament

 

[J_C]

Planetscape Arena

Planescape: Tournament

Planet escape: Tournament sounds even better.

 

[StaticSpine]

I was like OMG that's so cool, IWD gets a new edition, I'll probably replay it and by that come back to my childhood.

And after that I watched the trailer and remembered that rtwp fucking sucks balls

 

[Jezal_k23]

When you set the EEs to 60fps, do they go into super speed like the original games?

 

[Bubbles]

aVENGER I have one question.

War Chant of Sith. Nerf?

It's in and behaves the same way it did in the original game.

Haha, not sure that's a good thing but okay.

It gets better...

The unkitted bard gets all the songs from the original Icewind Dale.

The Blade kit only gets the first song. The other kits retain their own specific songs and don't get any of the IWD songs.

 

[Infinitron]

Doesn't seem like an unfair compromise.

 

[aVENGER]

aVENGER (last time I'll tag you, I promise), is there going to be more patches for BG2EE like you've done recently with BG1's 1.3? I see tons of people still bitching about the need for a patch to solve some pending problems

Yes, we have a patch for BGII:EE in the works right now.

 

[dukeofwhales]

I'm sure this will be fine, and, as with the BG EEs, the best way for a newb to get into Baldur's Gate without spending half a day researching and installing mods. I also like the instant quick save and zoom function from the BGEEs.

That said, and I guess this is a minor thing, but the wood interface of IWD felt perfect for the setting. The palette-swapped stone UI is just not the same.

 

[Abelian]

I'm sure this will be fine, and, as with the BG EEs, the best way for a newb to get into Baldur's Gate without spending half a day researching and installing mods. I also like the instant quick save and zoom function from the BGEEs.

The newb can play the vanilla games from GOG.com before tinkering with mods.

the wood interface of IWD felt perfect for the setting. The palette-swapped stone UI is just not the same.

 

[flabbyjack]

If a game doesn't have a solid wood or stone UI overlay I won't buy it.

 

[aVENGER]

If a game doesn't have a solid wood or stone UI overlay I won't buy it.

Something like this?

 

[roshan]

If a game doesn't have a solid wood or stone UI overlay I won't buy it.

Something like this?

That UI actually looks good, but there's a bit too much contrast between the dark wood and light stone. I think the stone should be a few shades darker.