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Re: Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition iOS Patch 2.4 is LIVE

iOS 11 is here and BG:EE is currently in review with Apple. We hope to have the new patch with 64-bit support available soon!

JuliusBorisov

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Re: SoD Mod Wish List (Major Spoilers Throughout)

In the middle of a military camp, someone sees his General (CHARNAME is still in command) on the ground near the body of a soldier. Covered in blood. No weapon to be found. What would be the very first reaction from anyone - with or without brain? "Are you alright, Commander?! Who attacked you and that soldier? Are we under attack again?!" How on Earth would anyone IN THIS SITUATION get the idea at all that it's not an enemy attack but a murder and Commander is a murderer?!

I second this. I was so baffled to see the reaction of everyone. *Everyone* judged the situation from the assumption that the PC is a murderer suspect. *None* actually raised the question how she could be, when she is laying unconscious beside the victim without a weapon. And that is the great design flaw and why the term sopa opera is fitting imho. Well, alright, first time the design got me because I *did* hit the slayerchanged Skie so my paladin HC was eating herself up thinking that she might have killed her, albeit having many doubts when the murder weapon was mentioned in the trial. But for anyone not hitting Skie, trying Detect Alignment, trying to Dispell Magic, turning themselves invisible (and still get caught by the guards coming in), this design breaks the 4th wall because it cries "developpers' choice" all over. It's not how people would react in a real situation, even if there are people who suspect the PC has an evil, murderous soul - because it is never *all* people thinking it. *Everyone* suddenly believing the PC turned from celebrated hero the evening before to a murderous villain is not a believable design. You can point out probabilities of this happening and being true in real life - of course, but I could say the same for a movie character first tripping over a banana peel, then falling down the stairs and *then* being hit by a meteor is 'possible'. I still would call a movie featuring this just to point out that this character has bad luck to exaggerate and be unrealistic.

jastey

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Re: Most disturbingly Evil thing your Chaotic Evil character does?

Charming the miners in Nashkel to fight the kobolds for you.

Charming the cook in Cloakwood mines to absorb the first barrage of arrows and lightning spell.

deltago

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Re: How do you most effectively build Jaheira?

Sorry guys, I meant in BG1, not 2.

Ah in that case...

Gauntlets Of Dex
Ankheg Plate Mail
Club (eventually Mighty Oak +2)
Sling +1
Large Shield +1 (Eventually Pellan's perhaps?)
Boots of avoidance
Elves Bane Girdle

Most of these you can get pretty early. There are other things you can acquire as you progress through game but this is the standard tank gettup.

Mush_Mush

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Re: Did you know?

Oooh, I'll have to read through that run. I assume that it predates BGEE?
There is a level 1 Wild mage from the ee era who soloed bg 1. Its on youtube.

[video removed - no need to post it again here ]

A cool way to kill Sarevok I dare say... at least when youre level 1

Incidentally, luring Sarevok outside and killing him there allows you to backtrack to the city and finish off any jobs, travel to Durlag's Tower or Balduran's Isle, and whatnot. You don't win the game, and it doesn't end, before you enter the Bhaal temple again.

Montresor_SP

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Re: "Maybe this time" [NO-RELOAD THREAD]: "stage left pursued by... Tarnesh: Brel'Dana's excellent day"

I've had quite a bit less chunkings in the last couple of years, mostly I think because now anytime I face a mage, I put protection from fire on my low HP characters (such as Aerie). After I had started doing this, Aerie finally survived to ToB and were able to make our baby. Before I was doing this, she pretty much never survived to ToB.

Corey_Russell

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Re: "Maybe this time" [NO-RELOAD THREAD]: "stage left pursued by... Tarnesh: Brel'Dana's excellent day"

Commiserations, @Wise_Grimwald and @Grond0 - may Tymora smile on your next runs.

Corey_Russell

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Re: Chronic Restarting Detox Camp

I found the cure... but it came with a terribly high price.

I'm only 23 and played Baldur's Gate since it came out, I didn't even understand the rules back then as my game was in English and I'm French. I learned them by trial and error, creating dozens of characters with the exact same stats with only a single difference to try and guess the meaning of the words.

This game grew on me, it really did. I played a LOT of video games and still do, but no game ever came close to Baldur's Gate. When the EE came out, I still never finished the game, even the first one. Restartitis was too strong.

Finally I managed to kill Sarevok in 2013 (IIRC), probably because I played BG1 so much, I wanted to advance the story. Then I faced BG2:EE. I never played the second game before back then even though I knew so much about it from reading the internet.

I played through the main questline with the same solo FMT I finished BG1 with, I was a bit in a rush and got through the end quite fast. Then it happened again at the start of ToB, restartitis stroked back. For quite some time I played the game, again and again, creating dozen of characters, half of them didn't reach Nashkel and the other half disappeared before the end of BG1.

Then I discovered the No-Reload way. It was my vaccine. As soon as I started a character, I couldn't stop playing it until it died (with only one exception, but it was a non modded game and honestly if felt really strange playing without mods anymore). It felt great and fulfilling, until I actually finished the whole saga on No-Reload SCS with Anselm, my Blackguard (December 2015, January 2016 IIRC).

From this moment, Baldur's Gate vanished from my thoughts... I was so serious about this game, spending literally hours everyday theorycrafting my team composition and my strategies... I loved this game so much!

The following months I tried to play the game again, but it wasn't the same. I would launch the game and quit it before even finishing character creation. I even tried to start a No-Reload No Pause challenge and stopped very early after Candlekeep even though it was very exciting.

The game just isn't the same for me anymore, and I suspect that Restartitis is, in fact, a way for your brain to protect you from completing this beautiful game and to be done with it, I'm quite serious about this theory. I even bought Siege of Dragonspear as it came out and never played it.

It's been a year now and I miss this game, it's still installed on my computer and I have some time to play but I can't bring myself to play it anymore. Something died within me forever when I completed the whole saga.

So... be careful what you wish for.

I wish everyone all the best!

I don't visit these forums as often as I did in the past but I still lurk from time to time.

Gotural

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Re: "Maybe this time" [NO-RELOAD THREAD]: "stage left pursued by... Tarnesh: Brel'Dana's excellent day"

@semiticgod So far, I've always considered chunking to be an essential part of Baldur's Gate gameplay, but this run is making me question the wisdom of that decision (I've had lots of chunkings in runs before, but for LoB, an optimized party seems important). I didn't actually know that disabling gore would stop chunkings, I thought that it was purely a visual thing.

As I don't like changing the game settings in the middle of a run, I won't turn off gore now, but I'm considering doing so for future runs.

Enuhal

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Re: Are traps too OP?

Traps are super powerful, yes.
OP? Nah..

As a new player, traps have limited value because you do not necessarily know when/where to place one.

Using metagaming knowledge to exploit a game mechanic does not mean the tools themselves are OP.. just that the player using them has outwitted a 18 year old game.

And traps are highly situational.. and does not under any circumstance make a thief or even f/t, even half as powerful and versatile as mage and cleric multiclass.. they just have a more specific and immediate devastating effect.

Ps: I am not saying thieves and f/t's aren't powerful, because they truly are.. just not a match for most caster-combos, due to the way the game handles magic/physic damage

Khyron

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