Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale Trilogy - remaster by Krome Studios

[Morkar Left]

Anyone has it already?

 

[Infinitron]

Does anybody remember how you get your digital fulfillments out of CrowdOx? I haven't gotten the email from inXile but it is possible the codes are up there already.

 

[Breshard]

Should be getting an email from crowdox about it if you've gone through and done their digital survey thing in past. Doesn't seem to be that everyone is getting at same time though for some reason.

 

[Gord]

Does anybody remember how you get your digital fulfillments out of CrowdOx? I haven't gotten the email from inXile but it is possible the codes are up there already.

I was actually curious about that, too. Checking my mails, I found one containing the codes for Wasteland 2 and a link for the emulated BT1-3.
But I seem to vaguely remember that one could actually log into some kind of backer portal...

You can have them resend you the survey-link, however and take it again. No idea if that allows you to access that stuff directly.

 

[Morkar Left]

I guess they have to ask you first if you want a steam or gog key?

 

[theSavant]

The only backer portal I remember, was that one created by InXile themselves, which they abandoned after Crowdox. I can't remember anything like that with Crowdox. It's like CrowdOx only works via emails they send you, but nothing where you can log in directly.

Edit: also checked my mail and found the one Crowdox Rewards Confirmation email. It contained a link which brought me to the website and showed me all rewards I receive. But no additional information whatsoever. Just a list of items.

 

[Breshard]

The only backer portal I remember, was that one created by InXile themselves, which they abandoned after Crowdox. I can't remember anything like that with Crowdox. It's like CrowdOx only works via emails they send you, but nothing where you can log in directly.

Edit: also checked my mail and found the one Crowdox Rewards Confirmation email. It contained a link which brought me to the website and showed me all rewards I receive. But no additional information whatsoever. Just a list of items.

If you haven't gone through that and clicked the buttons at the bottom of all the pages to complete the survey then you won't be in their system i think.

 

[Gord]

Well, they did say "starting tuesday". So I guess if Brian Fargo receives his email today and the rest of us in a few weeks that's still technically true...

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Who am I kidding

 

[ItsChon]

They fucking raped the graphics on this poor game. It looked so beautiful when it was pixelated, but now? It just looks like shitty cartoon art.

 

[theSavant]

From the Kickstarter page:

sorry for the delay. Once we made the determination to allow for a GOG version to go live, it necessitated an infrastructure overhaul that CrowdOx is sorting through. That's caused some delays in the keys going out as quickly as we want, but they're working the problem

Fucking fuck shit... wtf? Seriously? As if it's the first time CrowdOx is handing out keys for a GOG game. Come on... that's ridiculous. It's really hard to believe that such a problem appears out of a sudden, which should've never been a problem since Crowdox exists. I mean they're doing that for years, don't they? An infrastructure overhaul??? Hilarious!

 

[Gord]

Allegedly the issue has been resolved and sending of key-mails has recommenced.

 

[theSavant]

Hmmm... "fixed" since approximately 1 hour, but apparently only 1 backer in the comments has received an email. Maybe they didn't fix anything, but started manually sending emails out of embarrassment

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Hmmm... "fixed" since approximately 1 hour, but apparently only 1 backer in the comments has received an email. Maybe they didn't fix anything, but started manually sending emails out of embarrassment

Damn, if they're sorting this alphabetically, I'll get mine probably next tuesday...

 

[Gregz]

Is anyone playing this yet? Any glaring issues?

 

[calgary.alberta]

got my key downloading this bitch

 

[moraes]

Haven't received my key yet. Apparently you can go to your survey link and update it, specifying if you want a GOG or Steam key, without needing to wait for an email prompting you to change it. I just did that, but I don't know if that will expedite the process or not. So very confusing...

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Installed. Tried for a few minutes. Game is fully 3d now, with buildings fully rendered. You can even free-look in your tile position, just like in legend of grimrock. Controls with WASD, works with mouse to drag party members and change their position, select options. Auto-map records everything, like which houses you've entered and which you haven't, and if there's any info in any of them, like a message, you can read those on their respective square on the minimap. Game is very accessible now.

The graphics, well, people are complaining against the redone character portraits, it actually does not look that bad or noticeable while playing. What can drive purists nuts is the 3D enviroments, which make the game look much more modern.

There's alot of gameplay changes that make the game easier, but they can be deactivated when the legacy option becomes available, which will bring the game to its original state. Things like xp gain, only façade buildings, specifics related to each game in the trilogy, etc.

In any case, this new version probably will be the best way to play through the trilogy transfering parties along each installment with no hassle.

 

[newtmonkey]

I'll probably get this once it is complete (i.e. an actual trilogy, rather than just the first game). I'm not a fan of the upscaled art, but it's not horrible I guess. Once it's complete, this will likely be the best way to play the trilogy (assuming they don't just carry over all the bugs from the dos versions for some reason).

 

[Robespierre]

Didn't even know there were a survey, completely missed that shit. Oh well, I guess I will receive my gog key after the remaster-enhanced-fargo-red-boots.

 

[Gregz]

I'm really enjoying it.

Only minor gripe I have is WASD keys are hardmapped to movement (can't reconfigure them), otherwise all of the quality of life stuff is really great. It's also missing a quicksave which isn't a huge deal, but would be nice. The autosave is mostly useless because it activates after combat (after one or more of your guys have already died, why would I reload that?). That's pretty minor stuff tho, I'm enjoying this.

You can save anywhere now too, which is a big game changer.

Edit: btw for the purists (if there are any), you can play the game in 'classic' mode which has none of these conveniences if you wish.

 

[slymer]

Didn't even know there were a survey, completely missed that shit. Oh well, I guess I will receive my gog key after the remaster-enhanced-fargo-red-boots.

you can retake the survey select rewards at the top and then select GOG or Steam. Once I did that they got it to me in like 10 minutes.

 

[Robespierre]

As God once said : it just works.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Edit: btw for the purists (if there are any), you can play the game in 'classic' mode which has none of these conveniences if you wish.

It seems it's not yet implemented.

 

[Sinatar]

Edit: btw for the purists (if there are any), you can play the game in 'classic' mode which has none of these conveniences if you wish.

It seems it's not yet implemented.

Apparently that's not coming until after the 3rd game is done. Seems like a relatively simple thing to implement which makes it's long delay a little odd.

 

[bylam]

It's also missing a quicksave which isn't a huge deal, but would be nice.

F5 works for quicksave.

I am also enjoying it, just finished a playthrough of the originals on Amiga a few months back and enjoying the feel of the remake.