Is there a road *back to 1.3.20xx*?
fkirenicus
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I have a prayer for you, Beamdog:
Please provide us the files for 1.3.20xx again. Most people - including myself - will upgrade and continue our support once v.2 is stable and the UI is finally landed. But for now it takes the fun out of the game for me - there are too many glitches, too many elements that seem totally out of place to me. Add the problems with save game incompatibility and there's a right old mess.
So, for old times sake... Please give us the option to uninstall the game version 2.0 and reinstall 1.3.20xx. At least for a few months more. Those that already like 2.0 should of course be able to just stay at 2.0. if they wish.
Pretty please?
Please provide us the files for 1.3.20xx again. Most people - including myself - will upgrade and continue our support once v.2 is stable and the UI is finally landed. But for now it takes the fun out of the game for me - there are too many glitches, too many elements that seem totally out of place to me. Add the problems with save game incompatibility and there's a right old mess.
So, for old times sake... Please give us the option to uninstall the game version 2.0 and reinstall 1.3.20xx. At least for a few months more. Those that already like 2.0 should of course be able to just stay at 2.0. if they wish.
Pretty please?
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Also the steam 1.3 downgrade is not working, its simply crashes the game, which has already been reported by lots of people. There is no way atm for people to go back to 1.3 except piracy.
As I've said in other posts, I never thought of 2.0 arriving so soon, I thought this was an update just to be able to play SoD.
So you might say I knew and knew not what I was doing.
You'd think Offline Mode would work... and it might, maybe work if you're offline at the time of the update being released but it does NOT work if the Steam Client has ever been made aware of the updates existence. If Steam is aware of an update for a game than entering Offline Mode won't help, Steam will tell you to go online to download the update and will refuse to let you play that game.
There are a very small number of games on Steam that lack the DRM that forces the game to be launched via the Steam program (Allowing you to launch them via their EXE file without Steam operating/being installed) but the vast majority of games on Steam include this DRM because presumably Valve gives the devs/publishers a discount to the publishing/hosting/distribution costs or take a smaller cut from each sale if they include the DRM.
There were news on the Steam page of Baldur's Gate saying that SoD would be released on the 31st and 2 minutes of research on the subject would have led you to the update.
If despite all this you got surprised by the update, don't take it on Beamdog or anyone else, just humbly ask for help on how to do it. I have these files backed up myself and I could get around uploading them if needed(not sure about the legal aspect though) but you could have seen this coming so take these advices for the next time.
Baldur's Gate has no DRM even on Steam, you absolutely don't need to start the game through the Steam page, just go to the folder and double clic on baldur.exe.
You need to understand that the game put some files on your computer to keep track of your settings etc and whenever an update comes out, the way these settings are stored changes. Most of the time, the update will include a way to get your old settings in the new format but the other way is not possible so if you install the bgee beta on Steam, you need to first delete the folder in your documents as to not have anything written in a new format that the old game would try to read.
Yes - I knew 2.0 was in the works. No - I hadn't any idea that it was just around the corner. I would have thought such an update was described in the patcher, but hey... that hasn't been saying anything remotely up to date since November 2014, has it - other than "the contents in your override folder will be deleted" or some such. I think 2.0 did quite a lot more than that! I patched because I thought it was necessary to play SoD, which I was eager to get... Not so much anymore.
In regards to the update the main complaint is mostly the changes to the UI and afaik nothing mentioned a public beta except maybe Beamblog and this forum. Iirc the Changelog wasn't available via the Beamdog client prior to committing to installing the update and it wasn't mentioned on the Steam discussions until the day after the patch was released (According to my timezone) so there wasn't really a good means of knowing how extensive the changes were without participating in the beta yourself.
It didn't help matters that the Inventory and Character Record screens were uh, well, the place holders they had weren't very good and they only managed to shoe horn a better place holder for BG1 and SoD right before release of the patch (BG2 still uses Beamdog's placeholder UI, the next patch should bring BG2's UI inline with BG and SoD)
Though it's interesting to see how many new accounts were made post SoD just to express their concerns.
I bought BG1 and BG2 cuz i want to play those games in original form on full screen 16:9 and i want to support You, cuz i want to see new things - like SoD or BG3. Why did you change the game that is perfect? Ok, you can do it, but give us a choice! Now I don't want to play BG anymore since version 2.0 came out. I lost my saves (cuz they didn't work when i load them on v1.3), time and money. Yesterday I installed Baldur's Gate from my old CDs.
"Thank you" Beamdog and goodbye.
(Sry for my english, its bad but i hope u unterstand what i want to say.)