Noober question here...If you play a character through the beta, can you use the character file in SoD or does it get erased to the abyss or something?
Yes, you can take your character with you to SoD, or to the live version of v2.0. Your character won't be erased unless you (or someone else) erases it.
Reads the promise that the 3rd survey won't be closed till the 2.0 release
Can't wait to see the 80 responses mark achieved for a Chris Avellone AMA
Sees the survey is closed at 79 responses
Checks the 2.0 patch is not released
Senses something evil here, possibly an evil spell by "Kris Avalon" the doppelganger
Scratched my head at this as well. But if it means 79 responses from this second survey, plus the... 62?... from the previous one, then that's more than 80 total. But if he meant the count is 79 for both total, then yeah, I can see how that'll annoy people.
@Dee can we see an official update on the map from first page. Just to be sure where are we now.
Also be nice for an update on whos entered to win the Over-Achievers Anonymous and if there is any news related to the broken achievements and how that effects the entry
Anyone who has ever worked in a company, that was about to meet a major deadline, can imagine how it looks in the Beamdog office now (I have ). I will be surprised, if they find the time to update the thread today. Maybe after hours, like 2am...
There have been three surveys. The first two combined were 62. The third survey alone was 79.
AHA! The spell went the wrong way!
"Kris Avalon" the doppelganger casts the spell that stops answers at 79
This doppelganger didn't notice there were 2 previous surveys with their own answers that count too
I see that Redmine already offers version 2.0.62.0 to choose if you want to report a new issue, which means that soon a new beta build will be realesed (the previous experience shows that when this happens, a new beta build releases in several hours). This will be that build Dee talked about, which will be released before the final 2.0 patch goes live.
Are you sure 2.0.62.0 ain't just the release build?
SoD is going to be released within 30 hours from now. It doesn't make a lot of sense to release another Beta update, and then the Retail update, all within this span of 30 hours.
30 hours are a plenty of time, and another beta wouldn't hurt anyone - I think it should give a chance to just test the patch before it goes out officially.
We'll be updating the beta builds today so you can get a preview of the update before its final release. Today I'll be working on finishing the release notes, so I won't be able to answer many questions today.
Today is the last day of the Road to v2.0; thank you to everyone who participated, and enjoy the final moments of this event! (I'll update the roadmap later today with the final totals and cleared milestones.)
@bengoshi: I beg to differ that 30 hours are plenty of time.
First, 30 hours itself is a very small amount of time to test the games for bugs, report said bugs, have the bugs forwarded to the devs, have the devs investigate and fix said bugs, and have these bugfixes implemented in the next build that is to be up and running within 30 hours.
Second, they most likely want to have the 2.0 patch released quite a bit before SoD, so that if there's anything going horribly wrong, like installer not working, or a wrong file being included, they have some time to fix it.
So no, I can't phantom how they could seriously release another beta version within that timeframe!
From what Dee seems to explain, we're basically going to get the release candidate released over the beta channel before getting it released over the release channel, which makes sense.
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Anyone who submits a Bug ticket through our Redmine site will get the coveted "Road-Tested" forum badge. (In order to qualify for the badge, you must submit a ticket that follows our requested format in the "How to Report Bugs" thread.)
I've reported a few bugs! Wasn't really able to do the rest, but I'm glad I could help with these.
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Penguins, Rectangles and Fruits
I really need some wallpaper..........
http://blog.beamdog.com/2015/05/baldurs-gate-wallpaper.html
http://www.baldursgateii.com/media.html
Can't wait to see the 80 responses mark achieved for a Chris Avellone AMA
Sees the survey is closed at 79 responses
Checks the 2.0 patch is not released
Senses something evil here, possibly an evil spell by "Kris Avalon" the doppelganger
I had screenshots of my heroes all ready then I saw they were now unneeded on this plane.
At least i can show my fruit instead!
Also be nice for an update on whos entered to win the Over-Achievers Anonymous and if there is any news related to the broken achievements and how that effects the entry
AHA! The spell went the wrong way!
"Kris Avalon" the doppelganger casts the spell that stops answers at 79
This doppelganger didn't notice there were 2 previous surveys with their own answers that count too
SoD is going to be released within 30 hours from now. It doesn't make a lot of sense to release another Beta update, and then the Retail update, all within this span of 30 hours.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/725857/#Comment_725857
30 hours are a plenty of time, and another beta wouldn't hurt anyone - I think it should give a chance to just test the patch before it goes out officially.
Today is the last day of the Road to v2.0; thank you to everyone who participated, and enjoy the final moments of this event! (I'll update the roadmap later today with the final totals and cleared milestones.)
First, 30 hours itself is a very small amount of time to test the games for bugs, report said bugs, have the bugs forwarded to the devs, have the devs investigate and fix said bugs, and have these bugfixes implemented in the next build that is to be up and running within 30 hours.
Second, they most likely want to have the 2.0 patch released quite a bit before SoD, so that if there's anything going horribly wrong, like installer not working, or a wrong file being included, they have some time to fix it.
So no, I can't phantom how they could seriously release another beta version within that timeframe!
From what Dee seems to explain, we're basically going to get the release candidate released over the beta channel before getting it released over the release channel, which makes sense.
Not many things could persuade me to post my face in a forum, but...
Don't know if it's too late, but I had to give it a shot, I've wanted to be baldurised since I was a kid! Apologies for the potato-quality photo dump.
I've reported a few bugs! Wasn't really able to do the rest, but I'm glad I could help with these.
There is still time!
Got the last one now. Grand-Master Seems to be fixed in new update.
Know Thy Selfie
Finally the "Grand Master"! Just in time before the release of Dragonspear!
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/728164/#Comment_728164