Where is the 'Modify Party' button?

dvdbangsrud

Where is the 'Modify Party' button?

AlexT

This is one feature from the original game that we could not port to the new engine, without risking serious code breakage.

As a workaround, if you need to modify your party, copy your savegame from "save" folder to the "mpsave" folder. Then, start a multiplayer game and load the relevant savegame. You will be presented with a character arbitration screen which will allow you to modify your party.

After you're done, save the game again, copy the savegame back to the "save" folder and load it as usual in single player.

dvdbangsrud

Thanks for the quick answer.

Ancalagon44

That's interesting. Why would it be so risky? Just curious.

Jairyanna

So... what happens if some of your companions get perma-death chunked and (since this is IWD, not BG) there are no NPCs to recruit to make up the party? You have to go through that rigmarole of creating new ones in MP? Or can you not get chunked in IWD?

madmaximus

You don't need new party members. Rule number 36, No excuses, Play like a champ!

Leematon

madmaximus said:

You don't need new party members. Rule number 36, No excuses, Play like a champ!

I'm new to the Icewind Dale games and I think this is a serious question that needs answering. Are there any recruitable npcs in this game as in BG or would any new companions need to be created as per the 'rigmerole' mentioned at the beginning of this thread.

Jalily

There are no recruitable NPCs in Icewind Dale; you make your entire party at the start. No workarounds are needed for this.

The method AlexT posted is only for when you want to change your party mid-game.

Klorox

One of the small powergamey ideas I've seen is to only create your dual/multiclass party members at first.

You then knock out a few very easy quests (like killing the bugs in the basement of the pub) on HoF mode for the XP boost.

Then you set the difficulty back to however you want to play, and create the single classed party members.

Cheesy, but it's a small boost in the beginning. I'm glad it's been eliminated.

Manveru123

Jalily said:

There are no recruitable NPCs in Icewind Dale; you make your entire party at the start. No workarounds are needed for this.

The method AlexT posted is only for when you want to change your party mid-game.

But doesn't that give you useless level 1 characters?

RAM021

Klorox said:

Cheesy, but it's a small boost in the beginning. I'm glad it's been eliminated.

Except as this thread proves it has not... and when you think about it, it is not all that uncommon for an adventuring party to come together over time rather than all at once.

dvdbangsrud

And I only wanted to know since since I'd accidentally maxed wisdom instead of intelligence of my soon to be fighter->mage.
Note to self: Never create a party after 11 PM.

Dee

dvdbangsrud said:

And I only wanted to know since since I'd accidentally maxed wisdom instead of intelligence of my soon to be fighter->mage.
Note to self: Never create a party after 11 PM.

I find that most of the time I don't start at 11 PM, I start a 7, and a few thousand rerolls later I look at the clock and it's 3 AM and my wife is wondering why I haven't gone to bed yet...

Crawley

AlexT said:

This is one feature from the original game that we could not port to the new engine, without risking serious code breakage.

Are there any plans to implement it in the future? Not that I much need it, but I think the game is missing some feel from the original without it.

Identity

Please be more precise about your instructions. Do you mean the "save" folder that is created in My documents? Because there is no "mpsave" folder next to it. Exact filepaths, please.

cmk24

Identity said:

Please be more precise about your instructions. Do you mean the "save" folder that is created in My documents? Because there is no "mpsave" folder next to it. Exact filepaths, please.

Unless you have any multiplayer saves the folder will not be there, but you can just make it yourself. Put it in the same directory as the "save" folder (My Documents/Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition/mpsave)

geodude001

Is there a work around similar to this for the iPad version?

Wowo

geodude001 said:

Is there a work around similar to this for the iPad version?

The save folders aren't protected so you can use file manipulation software like ifunbox to move the files

smeagolheart

Identity said:

Please be more precise about your instructions. Do you mean the "save" folder that is created in My documents? Because there is no "mpsave" folder next to it. Exact filepaths, please.

Start a new multiplayer game then save the game, that will create the folder. Then do the stuff that Alex T says..

ameliaboggins

Jairyanna said:

So... what happens if some of your companions get perma-death chunked and (since this is IWD, not BG) there are no NPCs to recruit to make up the party? You have to go through that rigmarole of creating new ones in MP? Or can you not get chunked in IWD?

if you feel you NEED 6 in the party then restore them with savegame editor. Or carry on with smaller party....

ameliaboggins

i guess a long winded way of creating potential party recruits, is to install this mod:

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/36873/iwd-npc-v5-for-iwd-ee-is-now-available#latest

you can create your party as normal at the relevant screen(6 chars), and the 5 npcs are standing about at the inn in easthaven. SO that gives you a choice as to who to keep in the party.

Minor problems of getting back to easthaven during game. tp there with cheat code i guess.

that70sgirl7887

I'm not gunna lie, I bought the Enhanced Edition with the idea that I would not resurect party members when they die, instead just create a new character, something I remember from the previous editions. And so I was pretty upset to find out that this ability is no longer there. Is there any possibility of this being added as a patch? This whole transfering to a multiplayer save file thing is really annoying and kind of makes me just not want to play the game, which really sucks as I love it.

JuliusBorisov

@that70sgirl7887 Well, as @Avenger_teambg said, an adding a new party member mid-game feature wasn't added to the EE-engine. http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/568821/#Comment_568821

I guess the chances of adding it to the engine in the future are 50/50. In the end, we didn't have a Quick Loot bar feature when BGEE was released. And the Devs are working on the UI while creating the Adventure Y. So, everything is possible.

elminster

Edit: Nevermind.

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Pumpernickel

Klorox said:

One of the small powergamey ideas I've seen is to only create your dual/multiclass party members at first.

You then knock out a few very easy quests (like killing the bugs in the basement of the pub) on HoF mode for the XP boost.

Then you set the difficulty back to however you want to play, and create the single classed party members.

Cheesy, but it's a small boost in the beginning. I'm glad it's been eliminated.

It seems to me it would be far more efficient and exacting to use the console for experience. :P

Dee said:

dvdbangsrud said:

... Note to self: Never create a party after 11 PM.

I find that most of the time I don't start at 11 PM, I start a 7, and a few thousand rerolls later I look at the clock and it's 3 AM and my wife is wondering why I haven't gone to bed yet...

Haha! : D Is it just me or does Icewind Dale seem to draw in those of us with a hair of OCD? Just kidding. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that has spent more hours than I care to admit rolling dice...