Addition of "highlight button" seems pretty important.

Gridd

Hi guys,

I was reading a preview here:

http://pockettactics.com/2012/12/03/baldurs-gate-for-ipad-impressions/

and I noticed that because there is no mouse cursor it's difficult to know doors are there when they are located on the back of building or wall.

Back when I played BGII (never actually played the original BG so I can't wait for it) I remember pressing tab highlighted "usable" things like doors and chests in the environment.

Might it be an idea to include some kind of button to do this, it seems quite important and it would be really annoying to get stuck in the game because a door is difficult to see.


Thanks for reading, and can't wait for the game!


Gridd

Illydth

According to a recent tweet by Trent, the key is in the game. They call it the "hint" key and it should be on the screen of the main interface (I believe). Press/tap and it should do what the tab key does/did.

--Illydth

ST4TICStriker

Illydth said:

According to a recent tweet by Trent, the key is in the game. They call it the "hint" key and it should be on the screen of the main interface (I believe). Press/tap and it should do what the tab key does/did.

--Illydth

That's pretty cool, nice catch.

Thanks for the info.

Gridd

Well spotted Illydth!

I don't use twitter so wouldn't have seen that :P

Dee

There's also a note about it in the manual.

davemo

Manual? What is that?

MurrayConfederacy

@davemo i'm not sure anymore...

turbotoes

There is a highlight button in the main interface. It's the third button up on the right hand side.

Alarian

I'm pretty sure it doesn't highlight doors and stairs though unfortunitly. I spent a long time trying to find the door to the basement in the tutorial. None of the stairs going up highlighted either.

Evinfuilt

It's highlighting doors for me, but unfortunately it doesn't show where to click to enter/exit an area (such as doorways), which I think would be the same issue with stairs. Not sure how they would work around that.

mars0124

The lack of pointing out the stairs/doors with the hilight feature will become a big problem. Not only is ridiculously hard to enter a door, but if a door isn't KNOWN ( like with new players rmnew DLC locations) things will ge very frustrated with the game.

Oh, and don't forget BGII has a lot of items that need interaction with.

And on an unrelated note, Beamdog, please find a way to allow me to rotate my party. It's always been a crucial part of my strategies.

Rilbur

mars0124 said:

And on an unrelated note, Beamdog, please find a way to allow me to rotate my party. It's always been a crucial part of my strategies.

Select char 1, place him where you want him. Select char 2, place him where needed. Repeat down the line to 6.

namelessone

That button doesn't highlight zone transition areas. Like when there's an entrance on the "far" side of the building and there's no actual door. A good example of this is "hospital" in candlekeep area - the only way you'd know how to get in there is if you remember about it from PC version.

mars0124

I know I can manually place characters, but I'd just like to be able to do it 'properly' like I could previously. How do they do it in GemRB?

Still though, the focus stays on the ability to highlight. That's the one that I can see running the game for people that haven't memorized where everything is.