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A few observations (POTENTIAL SPOILERS)

shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
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Okay. So I did a bit of data-mining to satisfy my curiosity about a few things, and since I'm holding off on a playthrough at the moment, I figure credit should still be given where it's due. So:

1. @AndrewFoley: Assuming you were the one who wrote Dorn's romance storyline, there are literally no hats big enough for me to tip at you. Mind: blown at how much it's exactly what I was hoping for.

2. The Truth About Hexxat: well-played, Beamdog. Well-played indeed.

3. The new portraits are... interesting .A marked shift from Manley's style, but there's a lot more variety: I love the female monk.

4. And now for something specific:

Saemon and the Scroll. That's going to be one for the ages!
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  • SamuelVargSamuelVarg Member Posts: 598
    edited November 2013
    The Hexxat plot was a surprise eh?

    You can imagine how hard it was for us beta-testers to keep our mouths shut about this! ^^
  • CoM_SolaufeinCoM_Solaufein Member Posts: 2,606
    Yes it was.
  • ZordrathZordrath Member Posts: 19
    Could you tell me which program you used to read those? I'd like to have a look myself :)
  • ManchildKartManchildKart Member Posts: 208
    The Hexxat twist was great!
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    @Zordath: I used a TLK editor to convert DIALOG.TLK to a text file; then I just searched for the bits I specifically wanted to know.

    As for Hexxat, I'm actually trying to avoid the majority of her storyline - as these things go, I accidentally spoiled the main twist while checking to see if Rasaad had an evil epilogue. Still, what I did find out looks damn good. :)
  • LiamEslerLiamEsler Member Posts: 1,859
    @ManchildKart Watching your reaction to that made a few of our days ;)
  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Helmino said:

    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her

    Several good-aligned characters do not get along with her, and you'll eventually have to choose between them.

  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her

    Several good-aligned characters do not get along with her, and you'll eventually have to choose between them.

    Hehehe thanks...some spicy to the group lol :)
  • BaldursCatBaldursCat Member Posts: 432
    Okay, so my game is downloading, I might actually be a bit excited about playing this now.... (Bugger, still got an old BGII game running).
  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her

    Several good-aligned characters do not get along with her, and you'll eventually have to choose between them.

    Can she be treathed like Viconia? Some good influence? :P
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    edited November 2013
    Helmino said:

    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her

    Several good-aligned characters do not get along with her, and you'll eventually have to choose between them.

    Can she be treathed like Viconia? Some good influence? :P
    I don't want to reveal that right now, but since you mentioned a romance, be aware she does have a restriction:
    Your character must be female.
  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    edited November 2013
    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Don't want to spoiler myself, but may i ask if heexxat can be put on a good party without incident? I'm probably going chaotic good and try to romance her

    Several good-aligned characters do not get along with her, and you'll eventually have to choose between them.

    Can she be treathed like Viconia? Some good influence? :P
    I don't want to reveal that right now, but since you mentioned a romance, be aware she does have a restriction:
    Your character must be female.
    Basically if you romance her male you keep her bad right?


  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    Personally, I love the fact that the writers didn't chicken out on Dorn.
    He feels genuinely evil throughout, and his quests totally fix all reputation based issues for evil parties.
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Helmino said:

    Basically if you romance her male you keep her bad right?
    I mean her romance is only open to women.
  • VarwulfVarwulf Member Posts: 564
    edited November 2013
    Some of my observations after only an hour or two of play before having to get to bed :(

    Journals seem to be bugged in a manner similar to BG1EE before the recent patch. I've been stuck scrolling down to places I can't get out of, and the +/- (to open/collapse journal entries) doesn't seem to work, at least in the Done Quests section.

    Kudos for finally fixing the composite longbow wielding goblins in the beginning levels, that annoyed me for years and surprised me even after countless mods I never stumbled on anyone who thought it was wrong enough to fix!

    I was disappointed at the lack of voice sets this time around, I seriously was expecting at least the new ones from BG1EE :( My imported characters started out voiceless which meant I couldn't hear their cries of agony when
    Irencius tortured the living daylights out of them!


    I also was disappointed that the DLC portraits from BG1EE weren't available (even as DLC) in BG2EE.

    I also noticed (am at work so can't take screen shots) several option screen bugs. Like, Characters 3, 4, 5 and Characters 3, 4, 5 (second one meant to be all characters, not a repeat of the last one), stuff like that. It was a little confusing for me to set my custom key configurations the way I wanted but I managed.

    In addition, I am either blind or have a short memory but I am sure when in BG1EE when I highlighted my whole party, their custom colors (underneath their avatars) did not change to all white but remained the same, IE, Imoen pink, etc. Now whenever I select all, they all turn white. Meh =/

    Despite these issues I've noticed so far though, I am a very happy person indeed. I can't wait to dive into more. Now if only you guys could come up with a patch that allowed me to clone myself so that chum could go to work and I could spend time playing your amazing product :)
  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Basically if you romance her male you keep her bad right?
    I mean her romance is only open to women.
    Thanks for your answers! and..noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! xD
  • VarwulfVarwulf Member Posts: 564
    edited November 2013
    Helmino said:

    Jalily said:

    Helmino said:

    Basically if you romance her male you keep her bad right?
    I mean her romance is only open to women.
    Thanks for your answers! and..noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! xD
    With that being said, does
    she
    go for shorties at all? I ask because I made a halfling character
    shadow dancer
    to see if I could generate some envious sexual tension between them :)
  • SouthpawSouthpaw Member Posts: 2,026
    SamuelVarg said:

    The Hexxat plot was a surprise eh?

    You can imagine how hard it was for us beta-testers to keep our mouths shut about this! ^^

    Daaamn...no...I have to find out myself. Looking forward to.
    Now where to find the time to play ...
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    @Varwulf:

    There don't seem to be any racial restrictions for Hexxat - go for it. :)
  • VarwulfVarwulf Member Posts: 564
    shawne said:

    @Varwulf:

    There don't seem to be any racial restrictions for Hexxat - go for it. :)
    You just made my day! Considering my character is also chaotic good, I wonder if I can generate some
    alignment issues
    between the two of them as well. Ohhhh, this is going to be an interesting potential romance :D
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    edited November 2013
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  • QueynosQueynos Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 127
    @shawne
    I loved him too but don't be fooled by his cuddly appearance, he chunked sarevok into tiny bits when I had them duel
  • SpungiSpungi Member Posts: 219
    edited November 2013
    5th NPC ? ... Aaaargh! .... Is it one you have to look for, or do you automaticly bump into him/her/it along the route?
    Reason I'm asking, is that I never met Baeloth in BG:EE ... And didn't know about him til I finished the game :( Would love to actually meet this person this time :D
    If you have to look, where do I have to look? :P Also... Is it far into the game? ... Ok, no more questions!
  • HelminoHelmino Member Posts: 106
    edited November 2013
    Spungi said:

    5th NPC ? ... Aaaargh! .... Is it one you have to look for, or do you automaticly bump into him/her/it along the route?
    Reason I'm asking, is that I never met Baeloth in BG:EE ... And didn't know about him til I finished the game :( Would love to actually meet this person this time :D
    If you have to look, where do I have to look? :P Also... Is it far into the game? ... Ok, no more questions!



    You know where all the adventure starts? you meet her soon ;) ps: i'm vague but if you want i can say the exact location

    (ps: i have onyl see/read this, i'm waiting for italian translation to play so i don't actually played the encounter :) )
  • mackosmackos Member Posts: 188
    spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler aaaaa I HATE YOU !! It's so hard to resist
  • SpungiSpungi Member Posts: 219
    [/ spoiler]
    Helmino said:

    [spoiler]

    Spungi said:

    5th NPC ? ... Aaaargh! .... Is it one you have to look for, or do you automaticly bump into him/her/it along the route?
    Reason I'm asking, is that I never met Baeloth in BG:EE ... And didn't know about him til I finished the game :( Would love to actually meet this person this time :D
    If you have to look, where do I have to look? :P Also... Is it far into the game? ... Ok, no more questions!



    You know where all the adventure starts? you meet her soon ;) ps: i'm vague but if you want i can say the exact location

    (ps: i have onyl see/read this, i'm waiting for italian translation to play so i don't actually played the encounter :) )
    Where the adventure starts? Damn myself for being so curious... Is it in ToB? That would make sense I guess... Gaaargh! I must know!

  • SpungiSpungi Member Posts: 219
    Wow, that quote came out all wrong .... I'm not used to using those things :P
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    edited November 2013
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    Post edited by shawne on
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