Lighting strikes a lot. I've been doing a lot of no reload games and it happens a lot (I've been fortunate for charname not to be the target). I actually took off all of the metal gear that Khalid and Jaheira were wearing while traveling a couple times out of the chance that metal equipment causes it (I really don't know one way or the other). It definitely adds flavor to the game, but it scares the shit out of me.
Add. Speaking of lighting strikes. I charmed a bear with Kivan, and after he tanked some orgrillons for me, he was struck by lightening! He was near death, so I kindly put him out of his misery (I have no cleric in my party). That is a first for me.
Okay, the lightning strikes are getting ridiculous. My character (Necromancer) was fighting a skeleton, which got hit twice, and then she was struck three times in a row (the third one charred her to a crisp). She was even wearing Boots of Grounding (Talos' Gift). Lay off it, Talos!
I actually got saved by lightning once; this assassin introduced by a mod got hit instead, I was a deader for sure. Unless it was a bug.
That's awesome.
I want to make a killing blow with a sword on a humanoid opponent one day, trigger a chunking death animation, get enough experience points to level up, and then get hit by lightning.
Don't think that the frequency or behaviour of natural lightning was changed with EE, but I could be wrong.
Just got Shar-Teel hit almost killing her while attacking two guardians of the iron throne. Then both of them also where struck, and died. That was really impressive and I'll never forget that .
Nice little fight with 5-6 Dogs. One Dog was killed from lightning, a second lightning hit ?nothing? and the fight was over -> want to save "not able" and a 3 lightning killed the hurt Rasaad.
Lol, thought my game was turning against me. First one of my party gets dire charmed out of nowhere. I'd just cleared the lighthouse map, not a damn mob on the map (I rechecked the whole map after putting my charmed party member asleep till the spell wore off, thought I'd missed a siren but didn't find anything left alive on the map). So still no idea why that happened. Then while I was rechecking the map I just got nailed by lightning. Thought my game was glitching out with random spells hitting my party lol, had me all paranoid. Got my party backed up to the entrance of the pirate cave, surrounded by traps and active aoe spells waiting for what I thought might be some glitched out siren hell-bent on ignoring her programming to avenge her fallen sisters lol
I am sorry but I didn’t read all the thread. Nevertheless, instead of creating a new topic I wanted to ask, I know I can turn off weather conditions but is it possible to keep the weather conditions but change the chance of being struck by the lightening? It’s incredibly annoying that I’m getting struck basically on every storm especially that I like to take my time to explore different locations. In my opinion how the EE behaves in that regard is very unrealistic and not pleasant in any way. I know that in original BG1 it was possible to be struck by lightning and yet it didn’t happen to me more then maybe once or twice in few playthroughs.
I am sorry but I didn’t read all the thread. Nevertheless, instead of creating a new topic I wanted to ask, I know I can turn off weather conditions but is it possible to keep the weather conditions but change the chance of being struck by the lightening? It’s incredibly annoying that I’m getting struck basically on every storm especially that I like to take my time to explore different locations. In my opinion how the EE behaves in that regard is very unrealistic and not pleasant in any way. I know that in original BG1 it was possible to be struck by lightning and yet it didn’t happen to me more then maybe once or twice in few playthroughs.
BACKUP "no_lightning/backup" AUTHOR CrevsDaak VERSION v1.0
BEGIN "Remove random lightning strikes" COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP "^.*\.are$" override WRITE_SHORT 0x50 0 BUT_ONLY
That is a bugger sometimes. My favorite of the this was while fighting greater basiliks on top of Durlag's Tower during a storm with a priest of Talos and a lighting strike came down form the heavens killing it deader than a doornail. Talk about favor of the gods.
The party of my character, a halfling priest of Lathander called Myrtle Leafshadow, was wandering in the area of the Sword Coast (after Nashkel mines and before the bandits camp). The party was composed of Myrtle, Imoen, Minsc, Rasaad, Neera and Xan. A couple of days ago, they helped a young priest of Umberlee who was being persecuted by followers of Talos. Even if Myrtle was not very keen on Umberlee, the situation was so outrageous that she decided to side with her. One of Talos followers told her that the God would not forget her... and he was right.
Suddenly, when they approached the coast, they were attacked by two carrion crawlers. And then a storm erupted, a lighting fell and killed one of the beast. A couple of minutes later, two lightning strikes killed instantly poor Rasaad. They buried his - fried- remains under a pine tree. Myrtle was convinced that this was the vengeance of Talos...
The party of my character, a halfling priest of Lathander called Myrtle Leafshadow, was wandering in the area of the Sword Coast (after Nashkel mines and before the bandits camp). The party was composed of Myrtle, Imoen, Minsc, Rasaad, Neera and Xan. A couple of days ago, they helped a young priest of Umberlee who was being persecuted by followers of Talos. Even if Myrtle was not very keen on Umberlee, the situation was so outrageous that she decided to side with her. One of Talos followers told her that the God would not forget her... and he was right.
Suddenly, when they approached the coast, they were attacked by two carrion crawlers. And then a storm erupted, a lighting fell and killed one of the beast. A couple of minutes later, two lightning strikes killed instantly poor Rasaad. They buried his - fried- remains under a pine tree. Myrtle was convinced that this was the vengeance of Talos...
A nice feature would be if a Priest of Talos couldn't be struck by lightning. Better yet, an increased chance for enemies to be struck during a thunderstorm!
You might be onto something here! In some of my games the lightning strike seems to happen excessively frequently and in others, not. If I were to look back at the saves I might find that my luck had changed for the worse if I headed North of the Ankhegs early in the playthrough...
If this is something that was built into the EEs deliberately I'd give the developers a pat on the back! Time for some experiments I think.
The party of my character, a halfling priest of Lathander called Myrtle Leafshadow, was wandering in the area of the Sword Coast (after Nashkel mines and before the bandits camp). The party was composed of Myrtle, Imoen, Minsc, Rasaad, Neera and Xan. A couple of days ago, they helped a young priest of Umberlee who was being persecuted by followers of Talos. Even if Myrtle was not very keen on Umberlee, the situation was so outrageous that she decided to side with her. One of Talos followers told her that the God would not forget her... and he was right.
Suddenly, when they approached the coast, they were attacked by two carrion crawlers. And then a storm erupted, a lighting fell and killed one of the beast. A couple of minutes later, two lightning strikes killed instantly poor Rasaad. They buried his - fried- remains under a pine tree. Myrtle was convinced that this was the vengeance of Talos...
A nice feature would be if a Priest of Talos couldn't be struck by lightning. Better yet, an increased chance for enemies to be struck during a thunderstorm!
Latest attempt at a solo no reload run. Cavalier reached lvl 7, feeling good about my character, decided to make a run for the constitution tome, no problems with the first set of sirens, run up the beach, starts to rain, carrion crawler appears, zap, zap... fried carrion crawler, big sigh of relief it wasn't me... then zap, zap, zap..... a side of fried cavalier to go with the crawler. Never seen that much lightning in all my years of playing... hadn't even done the talos/priestess quest yet. One thing to be quaking in your boots about a stray hold person spell...but gods help me, I more afraid of rain now than Sarevok.
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My shadowdancer have been fought against few iron throne mercenaries in cloakwood area. Suddenly lightning bolt struck from afar and hit one of them. Okay, this was a minimal reload run, so i've decided it's worth to use one of my potions of absorbtion to ensure my character won't suffer from this mess. Could anything went wrong? SURE.
Third bolt hit right at my character and almost killed her. There was no way to heal all damage taken, so I've decided to run in order to reach Wyvern Lair and use it as a shelter. Fourth bolt fell on her head 20 second later, but somehow missed. Then, after another 15 seconds she was hit again, third time in a row and this time it was fatal. 100% electricity resistance didnt help at all.
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Add. Speaking of lighting strikes. I charmed a bear with Kivan, and after he tanked some orgrillons for me, he was struck by lightening! He was near death, so I kindly put him out of his misery (I have no cleric in my party). That is a first for me.
Btw I got 50+ damage on Insane...
I want to make a killing blow with a sword on a humanoid opponent one day, trigger a chunking death animation, get enough experience points to level up, and then get hit by lightning.
Just got Shar-Teel hit almost killing her while attacking two guardians of the iron throne. Then both of them also where struck, and died. That was really impressive and I'll never forget that
Clearly the problem is that you didn't stand still after the first time. Lightning can't strike the same place twice.
Thats only a saying.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071228114954AAPP7WZ
Didn't the prophecies go something like that? I could swear they did.
One Dog was killed from lightning, a second lightning hit ?nothing? and the fight was over -> want to save "not able" and a 3 lightning killed the hurt Rasaad.
:-(
Suddenly, when they approached the coast, they were attacked by two carrion crawlers. And then a storm erupted, a lighting fell and killed one of the beast. A couple of minutes later, two lightning strikes killed instantly poor Rasaad. They buried his - fried- remains under a pine tree. Myrtle was convinced that this was the vengeance of Talos...
A nice feature would be if a Priest of Talos couldn't be struck by lightning. Better yet, an increased chance for enemies to be struck during a thunderstorm!
If this is something that was built into the EEs deliberately I'd give the developers a pat on the back! Time for some experiments I think.
@Balrog99
DoF's (and PnP's) Priest of Talos are immune to lightning.
My shadowdancer have been fought against few iron throne mercenaries in cloakwood area. Suddenly lightning bolt struck from afar and hit one of them. Okay, this was a minimal reload run, so i've decided it's worth to use one of my potions of absorbtion to ensure my character won't suffer from this mess. Could anything went wrong? SURE.
Third bolt hit right at my character and almost killed her. There was no way to heal all damage taken, so I've decided to run in order to reach Wyvern Lair and use it as a shelter. Fourth bolt fell on her head 20 second later, but somehow missed. Then, after another 15 seconds she was hit again, third time in a row and this time it was fatal. 100% electricity resistance didnt help at all.