It's only taken 12 odd years ...
But I've finally finished BG1. I played it first on a holiday and got up to BG somewhere but the holiday ended. Some time later I finished BGII extensively and then played NWN 1 and 2 extensively but never finished BG1. Until today.
Bit of an anticlimax without cutscenes on the ipad but I you tubed the final vid which was a decent alternative. Perhaps add built in YouTube streaming of cutscenes at appropriate times or even just the link?
Fair to say that I rofflestomped the boss; I didn't even notice him going down but apparently my charname took care of him in just a few rounds while the others were mostly taking care of the others.
Did I power game? Hell yes, 95 point berserker (6)/Druid (10) with something like -15 AC vs slashing and grandmastery in scimitars. Probably one of the most powerful builds in BG1 IMO (though 8/9 might have been better in retrospect but I wanted the extra level 5 slot and didnt want to wait so long for fighter abilities even though I didn't use spells that much in the end though I'm not sure if that split would be able to get GM).
(Total xp, % kills, xp value, number of kills. Last chapter then overall, time with party)
Charname: 57%, 45%, 41610, 25. 60%, 59%, 524693, 810. 137 days, 8 hours
Coran: 15%, 21%, 10945, 12. 14%, 12%, 126620, 170. 71 days, 21 hours
Dorn: 16%, 16%, 11735, 9. 14%, 14%, 128158, 196. 97 days, 12 hours
Viconia: 11%, 5%, 8035, 3. 4%, 4%, 37358, 62. 99 days, 22 hours (with 19 strength belt and stupifier)
Neera: 0%, 7%, 455, 4. 4%, 8%, 39665, 117. 101 days, 19 hours
Edwin: 0%, 3%, 70, 2. 1%, 1%, 15875, 15. 38 days, 20 hours
Coran did well to catch up and I definitely support the idea of him being the best NPC in the game. Results are skewed due to soloing high XP stuff at the start (I was 6/6 when I got Neera iirc). In dungeons I often took charname solo just to avoid reloads from traps killing off squishies who had bad HP from picking up everyone at level 6. Boots of speed also helped charname get to fights faster.
I do think maybe I didn't utilise my wizards enough but its harder to target AoEs safely on the ipad (or I'm must older and stupider) and it seemed slower to pause and target rather than just letting the tanks clean up with an occasional fireball thrown on top if not risky.
I'm planning on a "good" insane difficulty run through now. After that ill try a no reload hardcore evil run.
Bit of an anticlimax without cutscenes on the ipad but I you tubed the final vid which was a decent alternative. Perhaps add built in YouTube streaming of cutscenes at appropriate times or even just the link?
Fair to say that I rofflestomped the boss; I didn't even notice him going down but apparently my charname took care of him in just a few rounds while the others were mostly taking care of the others.
Did I power game? Hell yes, 95 point berserker (6)/Druid (10) with something like -15 AC vs slashing and grandmastery in scimitars. Probably one of the most powerful builds in BG1 IMO (though 8/9 might have been better in retrospect but I wanted the extra level 5 slot and didnt want to wait so long for fighter abilities even though I didn't use spells that much in the end though I'm not sure if that split would be able to get GM).
(Total xp, % kills, xp value, number of kills. Last chapter then overall, time with party)
Charname: 57%, 45%, 41610, 25. 60%, 59%, 524693, 810. 137 days, 8 hours
Coran: 15%, 21%, 10945, 12. 14%, 12%, 126620, 170. 71 days, 21 hours
Dorn: 16%, 16%, 11735, 9. 14%, 14%, 128158, 196. 97 days, 12 hours
Viconia: 11%, 5%, 8035, 3. 4%, 4%, 37358, 62. 99 days, 22 hours (with 19 strength belt and stupifier)
Neera: 0%, 7%, 455, 4. 4%, 8%, 39665, 117. 101 days, 19 hours
Edwin: 0%, 3%, 70, 2. 1%, 1%, 15875, 15. 38 days, 20 hours
Coran did well to catch up and I definitely support the idea of him being the best NPC in the game. Results are skewed due to soloing high XP stuff at the start (I was 6/6 when I got Neera iirc). In dungeons I often took charname solo just to avoid reloads from traps killing off squishies who had bad HP from picking up everyone at level 6. Boots of speed also helped charname get to fights faster.
I do think maybe I didn't utilise my wizards enough but its harder to target AoEs safely on the ipad (or I'm must older and stupider) and it seemed slower to pause and target rather than just letting the tanks clean up with an occasional fireball thrown on top if not risky.
I'm planning on a "good" insane difficulty run through now. After that ill try a no reload hardcore evil run.
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Thanks to this new edition, I've almost completed Chapter 5 and am on course to complete the game. If not for my slight vacation to take on the Tales of the Sword Coast content, I'd probably be in or through the trip back to Candlekeep.
After making some progress Khalid took a few hits from a dread wolf and lost morale. We killed the dread wolf but Khalid turned around a killed charname with his bow. I'm thinking those two can go jump in a lake.
I'm using him in a current playthrough, and even with my 8 cha CHARNAME I have yet to see him flee in terror. He is a beast with a bastard sword, his great dex/con and Gauntlets of Ogre Power. Quite possibly my new favorite BG1 NPC.
Edited because I'm an asshat.
You need to lighten up bud. It was meant as a joke. I'm aware of how illogical my post was; that was part of the joke.
I'll admit though, I don't understand your fix.
My original "First" run through, I had Xzar and Montaron with me. So that kind of handicapped me for the final battle and really left me in dire straits so I just stopped.
Next few times, i learned my lesson. But at some point after BG2 came out, I stopped "Finishing" the game once Charname reached the XP Cap and merely switched over. So this time, I am really looking forward to finishing proper again.
Anyway, on topic. I had the opposite experience. I finished BG1 years ago, but could never finish BG2. On my last attempt, I got the furthest I ever had, then BG:EE released and I'm playing that now. I'll probably finally finish BG2 when the Enhanced Edition releases. Though for me, I have a harder time getting into and advancing the plot than in BG1. In the first game it was so personal to CHARNAME, all these assassins, people out to get me, it spurred me on. In BG2 I'm like lost.. ok so you took Imoen, now I'm supposed to go all crazy trying to get her back? Umm ... sure.. ok.. hey look at all these side quests, guess I'll go do that for a while until I stumble upon a way to get her or come up with 10k gold that I don't spend on new goodies on my party.
Yeah that was an over reaction, sorry about that.
Just a suggestion.
In BG1, I'm told by my foster father that we need to leave in a hurry and I don't know why, then we are ambushed and I watch as he is murdered, then at every turn I am hunted by assassins... yeah CHARNAME is pissed and this is personal... iron crisis or not, I'm hunting this guy down! I will definitely play through BG2 once I finish a character in BG:EE that I want to carry through, I may not even wait for BG2:EE to play through.
Neera chunked herself with a wild surge and after Jaheira died for the second time I left her at the bottom of Nashkel mines and picked up Xan instead.
Nimbul managed to take down 3 toons when he caught me unawares on my way back for some recuperation in the tavern.
For raising i really wish there was some combination of:
- higher GP cost
- -1 con penalty
- xp penalty
- special component required
- body to recover and carry
- time limit before decomposition
Currently running with:
Charname Blade
Imoen
Khalid
Kivan
Branwen
Xan