Will we see magical items from the main game return (other than already equipped starting gear) or will the campaign be composed of original items? And I think this has been asked but will starting gear be possible to import or also dependant on starting class for a fresh game or will we somehow have our items removed and have to start fresh?
It would make sense for them to all import from BG1 since presumably Charname doesnt get kidnapped until the end of Adventure Y. But who knows, there may be a good reason for things to go away at the beginning.
A bit random/vague, any speculation how soloing will end up, both in Y and BG2? It'll give even more XP before entering SoA, but I expect it'll be a fairly challenging solo (Underdark stuff is often pretty scary!), but SoA may be substantially easier. An XP reducer might be in order for soloing BG1+Y.
Actually, might have missed anything relevant, but will Y have some kind of tags that will trigger an increase in difficulty?
A bit random/vague, any speculation how soloing will end up, both in Y and BG2? It'll give even more XP before entering SoA, but I expect it'll be a fairly challenging solo (Underdark stuff is often pretty scary!), but SoA may be substantially easier. An XP reducer might be in order for soloing BG1+Y.
Actually, might have missed anything relevant, but will Y have some kind of tags that will trigger an increase in difficulty?
i think they will make it so you get less quest experience in chapter 2 soa if you import from Y. that's the best solution anyway imho, but i don't know if it's possible
A bit random/vague, any speculation how soloing will end up, both in Y and BG2? It'll give even more XP before entering SoA, but I expect it'll be a fairly challenging solo (Underdark stuff is often pretty scary!), but SoA may be substantially easier. An XP reducer might be in order for soloing BG1+Y.
Actually, might have missed anything relevant, but will Y have some kind of tags that will trigger an increase in difficulty?
i think they will make it so you get less quest experience in chapter 2 soa if you import from Y. that's the best solution anyway imho, but i don't know if it's possible
Do you mean the xp you get after getting out of chateaux irenicus?
yes that especially. that's a 34k *per character* reward that isn't really warranted. it can be reduced to something like 20k party xp (not per character)
gaelan bale cash fetch completion nets 45k per character (can be substantially reduced; it's not really warranted anyway - you just gave a bunch of money to someone you can't trust woohoo) same for siding with bodhi
the circus tent has some unreasonable rewards - 19,500 at the entrance (if you answer a single lame question correctly...) - 18,500 for giving the ogre's sword to aerie (completely unwarranted, pure xp bloat) - 27,000 for killing kalah and solving the quest (it's a stupidly easy quest that a low level party could complete so it's too much)
chapter one has bloated rewards too, namely the ~25,000 in total you get for doing the dryads-djinn fetch quests
edit: another way to reduce across-the-board xp bloat is to reduce thievery and scribing rewards to bg1 levels or something in between
It wouldn't be that surprising if you permanently lost a bunch of experience as a result of Irenicus's torture. It makes some sense that amnesia could be accompanied by a loss of recently obtained skills.
i don't think they'll do that. subtracting a fixed amount would be fine with me, but a per cent cent decrease that would produce diminishing returns for prior quest solving would cause some feelings of frustration
Will we see magical items from the main game return (other than already equipped starting gear) or will the campaign be composed of original items? And I think this has been asked but will starting gear be possible to import or also dependant on starting class for a fresh game or will we somehow have our items removed and have to start fresh?
Well 'Adventure Y' should at least have these Items be importable from The Original Baldur's Gate for they can be Imported from the Original Baldur's Gate and into Baldur's Gate II:
Protector of the Second: Leather Armour +2 Studded Leather Armour +2, Missile Attraction (Cursed) Mail of the Dead: Chain Mail Armour +2 Chain Mail Armour +3 Fallorain's Plate: Plate Mail Armour +1 Helm of Balduran Claw of Kazgaroth Ring of the Princes: Koveras' Ring of Protection +1
So, I'd have a simple question to any one of the devs: Where will the news first be? Beamblog? Announcement on the news part of the forums? A newsletter function I forgot to subscribe to? Or maybe even THIS thread? (if it gets leaked) I think we ought to know which curtains to look at while we wait for the show to start. Just tell us where. EDIT: never mind, the official site of BG tells us to keep an eye on beamblog, so that would be the answer, i guess. Whoops...
Also, could anyone kindly point me to the conspiracy thread? I know there is one and it sounds like fun. (could not find it before)
will there be open explorable and continuous areas like in bg1 or will they be more of an *impenetrable forest - follow the road - oh there's a small clearing/campfire/hut/cave entrance/wizard tower* type as seen to some extent in some new EE areas?
Yes and no. We won't have a large grid of linked areas like Baldur's Gate did, but there is a lot of free-form optional exploration throughout the game. You can miss a lot if you focus purely on the critical path.
Ahh, the mystical land of naked nymphs will finally be explored.
I'm afraid not, because my colleagues give me weird looks and say funny things each time I bring up the subject of removing the wizard robe from Neera's starting equipment.
Ahh, the mystical land of naked nymphs will finally be explored.
I'm afraid not, because my colleagues give me weird looks and say funny things each time I bring up the subject of removing the wizard robe from Neera's starting equipment.
We do have several pixies on the team though.
:O! Can we have pictures of the pixies? I bet they're super ultra adorable! n_n
Ahh, the mystical land of naked nymphs will finally be explored.
I'm afraid not, because my colleagues give me weird looks and say funny things each time I bring up the subject of removing the wizard robe from Neera's starting equipment.
We do have several pixies on the team though.
:O! Can we have pictures of the pixies? I bet they're super ultra adorable! n_n
I bet they'd be too *pixellated* to make anything out
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Will we see magical items from the main game return (other than already equipped starting gear) or will the campaign be composed of original items? And I think this has been asked but will starting gear be possible to import or also dependant on starting class for a fresh game or will we somehow have our items removed and have to start fresh?
Actually, might have missed anything relevant, but will Y have some kind of tags that will trigger an increase in difficulty?
gaelan bale cash fetch completion nets 45k per character (can be substantially reduced; it's not really warranted anyway - you just gave a bunch of money to someone you can't trust woohoo)
same for siding with bodhi
the circus tent has some unreasonable rewards
- 19,500 at the entrance (if you answer a single lame question correctly...)
- 18,500 for giving the ogre's sword to aerie (completely unwarranted, pure xp bloat)
- 27,000 for killing kalah and solving the quest (it's a stupidly easy quest that a low level party could complete so it's too much)
chapter one has bloated rewards too, namely the ~25,000 in total you get for doing the dryads-djinn fetch quests
edit: another way to reduce across-the-board xp bloat is to reduce thievery and scribing rewards to bg1 levels or something in between
I wonder who particularly.
Also...
So, not only "soon", but "soon enough"
Also, could anyone kindly point me to the conspiracy thread? I know there is one and it sounds like fun. (could not find it before)
We do have several pixies on the team though.