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Kudos for SCS (spoilers)

I just wanted to give well-deserved praise to DavidW for SCS -> Awesome!

I've been playing BG since BG1 came out originally but never went for any modding. But boy did I miss something, it's a completely new experience and I love it.

Of course he's an evil b****rd for placing beholds in the good old sewers that cought me with my pants down when I just wanted to quickly kill the sea troll and locking the door at the Crooked Crane lich when my thief wanted to quickly pop in and grab Daystar for the first trip to the graveyard. ;)

I've never sweated as much with the druid grove like this time with the spectral trolls (and I didn't even enter their lair...) and been postponing D'Arnise keep after this experience. Didn't even try to take out the shadow dragon yet at level 11. Now I scout everything before walking blindly into the ambushes and fall back on tried and tested stacks of webs plus AoE and Cloud goodness because I need every lever I can get my hands on.

The most transformative thing for me is that breach gets blocked by the spell defences now and I finally need to face the mage antispell battles and that made me rethink my complete party composition. Probably for the first time ever I'll have 3 arcane casters when Imoen rejoins.

If you've never tried it -> do so, it's worth the installation effort (even on a mac where it took me about an hour to get it to install properly...)

Comments

  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    edited January 2014
    I have it installed on vanilla, with Ascension, the final ToB battle was so painful that it took me 6 hours to accomplish.
    HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOD (unless you are a new comer to the game or your want it to be easier).
  • SkaffenSkaffen Member Posts: 709
    edited January 2014
    Just killed planar prison warden. Took me more than an hour plus >30 charges of my monster summoning and cloudkill wands. It was a continuous fighting withdrawel battle with every cannon fodder I could summon to make his spells run out since I had no way to take down his defenses with his spell immunity abjuration.

    I couldn't believe my eyes when I suddenly saw that my ogre berserkers were finally actually damaging the fellow. Haven't had such fun since (insert favourite Jan quote) :)
  • RedWizardRedWizard Member Posts: 242
    Find solace in the fact the Warden does not come prebuffed with Spell Trap, unlike Lavok and Tolgerias.
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