BGII:EE great..... but it would have been nice

canivalbella

First off: A revamp of BGII was much needed and EE for BG and BG2 has been very well done!

Its nice the encounters were left untouched --> especially so players are very aware of their power creep and high levels and abilities still have meaning unlike so many other rpgs

The new items are ok, but I always worry about arpg (diablo) -like stats creeping in to this classic crpg

This aside it would have been nice.....

- to have a load screen to choose which ee features you wanted to implement + launch mods from (i.e. toggles for each new npc, the old BG2 weapon specialization)

- a chance to add/remove/ change kits and weapon proficiency distribution with imported characters from BG:EE (ala old BG --> BG2). This might have made the game a little friendlier to new players, not quite happy with their original choices in BGEE who did not want to edit or roll a new character in BG2:EE. (This also would have preserved the old avenger bug which was pretty sweet!)

Anyone else have any "it would have nice(s)...."

Itstucktwice

While I certainly don't think it is a necessary feature, I agree that a screen that allows you do enable/disable certain options/aspects of the game would be a nice touch.

However when it comes to the alterations to your character on importing, I have to respectfully disagree. The option was there originally only because the customization level in BG2 didn't exist in BG1. In the EE versions, both games use the same class/proficiency system, and so the process isn't needed.

And now for mine: It would have been nice/it will be nice when we get a couple more new NPCs. I don't want the game flooded with new content, and I want them to take their time so that the NPCs are quality, but there is plenty of room for growth and expansion.

CrevsDaak

@canivalbella the weapon specialization (proficiencies) system is that same from BG2, so it isn't needed to select all your skills again, and adding a more specific options screen was one of the things that I asked thousand times, but only because I am lazy of editing the baldur.ini, because I know well how to do so and I would like for more battles/encounters/quests/things to do outside battle to ToB, that misses lots of that type of stuff (so hardly that I completed ToB in 5 days while SoA took me 3 months for the first time).
Maybe a setup.exe like the old BG2 has...

Mitchfork

canivalbella said:

- a chance to add/remove/ change kits and weapon proficiency distribution with imported characters from BG:EE (ala old BG --> BG2). This might have made the game a little friendlier to new players, not quite happy with their original choices in BGEE who did not want to edit or roll a new character in BG2:EE. (This also would have preserved the old avenger bug which was pretty sweet!)

This would have been nice for Rangers, since as it is you can't pick a BG2 racial enemy unless you start a new character in BG2.

element

I would agree about turning off the new content I know id have been happier if I could have just turned some of it off

it would have been nice if they let you decide whether to gain full hp on leveling/always learn spells separate to the difficulty slider

canivalbella

I agree that the .ini is pretty easy to adjust, but a great options screen with more toggles and mod support would have added so much polish to the revamped EE

taot

Mitchfork said:

This would have been nice for Rangers, since as it is you can't pick a BG2 racial enemy unless you start a new character in BG2.

You pick your racial enemy again when you import a ranger to BG2EE.

Mitchfork

taot said:

Mitchfork said:

This would have been nice for Rangers, since as it is you can't pick a BG2 racial enemy unless you start a new character in BG2.

You pick your racial enemy again when you import a ranger to BG2EE.

I imported character files to multiplayer and never got this option. It might only be set up for singleplayer imports, or savegame imports. Good that it wasn't totally ignored, though.

mylegbig

An option to toggle mods on and off would've been fantastic. Right now, you're in danger of breaking your game every time you install/uninstall a mod, and everything must be done in a specific order (and even then, things may get messy). Probably would've been a huge hassle to implement though.