Oddness I've noticed and some workarounds. General observations
I just finished my first play through.
My old harddrive died so I had to reinstall most of the BG EE titles although my saves for Bg2EE were in the "documents folder" alas the ones for BG EE were not. I downloaded a fighter final "save game" and changed the portrait and voice after the import and so some of the oddness may be related to that original charname and any tweaks associated by the original player.
Install: Beamdog installer put everything in C drive. I wanted it in D...I chose D as the option.
Saves: for SoD my saves were not in the SoD folder. They went to general saves for BGEE so I would have to copy them and paste into SoD. This may be because I had downloaded SoD and then BGEE when I thought I needed it to play SoD. Hitting continue in SoD brought me to the "final save" of BGEE
Potions and wands.
The ones in inventory were inanely high like 99 charges. Perhaps a mod or inventory tweak?
Stats.
Without a specially equipped item many of the party NPCs had 25 STR highlighted in green. New NPC's would also show this from time to time.
Gameplay.
Kept defaulting to Story mode. Unsure why.
Overall impressions:
I enjoyed the game and continuing with old familiar characters. Was a bit liek a reunion of sorts. The game was a bit too short to transfer much between NPC's but I managed to work with many of the old companions. I liked that infravision was used, much better AI and pathfinding. UI was also quite good. The sound and visuals were fantastic.
I enjoyed the incident of Infravision yielding a response...almost missed it as it was text based.
A few continuity and story problems and some NPC's but minor and not game breaking by any stretch.
New Characters were fun and at times amusing I'll know in the next play through. I met the transgendered character and my impression was "meh...where is my old crew"? and left it at that. I tend to be left with the impression that it made an impression because it was rushed and in no way part of usual conversations between people. Similar but not quite as upfront as Dragon Age...next time I'll take Edwin...maybe he'll sympathize as he found himself in the very same predicament as Edwina in BG. Magical sex changes being a thing in the forgotten realms. Maybe questing for girdles of /masculinity/feminity were created for reasons?
The real fun is when a "helm of opposite alignment" is put on Paladins or Balckguards...oops Soooooooo sorry!
I ended up in a non traditional relationship and not by "choice" just by being too nice in dialogue options...hey that's just like real life! Oops and now you're dating... I will friend zone her much more assertively next time.
I am left wit wanting to continue the story!
My old harddrive died so I had to reinstall most of the BG EE titles although my saves for Bg2EE were in the "documents folder" alas the ones for BG EE were not. I downloaded a fighter final "save game" and changed the portrait and voice after the import and so some of the oddness may be related to that original charname and any tweaks associated by the original player.
Install: Beamdog installer put everything in C drive. I wanted it in D...I chose D as the option.
Saves: for SoD my saves were not in the SoD folder. They went to general saves for BGEE so I would have to copy them and paste into SoD. This may be because I had downloaded SoD and then BGEE when I thought I needed it to play SoD. Hitting continue in SoD brought me to the "final save" of BGEE
Potions and wands.
The ones in inventory were inanely high like 99 charges. Perhaps a mod or inventory tweak?
Stats.
Without a specially equipped item many of the party NPCs had 25 STR highlighted in green. New NPC's would also show this from time to time.
Gameplay.
Kept defaulting to Story mode. Unsure why.
Overall impressions:
I enjoyed the game and continuing with old familiar characters. Was a bit liek a reunion of sorts. The game was a bit too short to transfer much between NPC's but I managed to work with many of the old companions. I liked that infravision was used, much better AI and pathfinding. UI was also quite good. The sound and visuals were fantastic.
I enjoyed the incident of Infravision yielding a response...almost missed it as it was text based.
A few continuity and story problems and some NPC's but minor and not game breaking by any stretch.
New Characters were fun and at times amusing I'll know in the next play through. I met the transgendered character and my impression was "meh...where is my old crew"? and left it at that. I tend to be left with the impression that it made an impression because it was rushed and in no way part of usual conversations between people. Similar but not quite as upfront as Dragon Age...next time I'll take Edwin...maybe he'll sympathize as he found himself in the very same predicament as Edwina in BG. Magical sex changes being a thing in the forgotten realms. Maybe questing for girdles of /masculinity/feminity were created for reasons?
The real fun is when a "helm of opposite alignment" is put on Paladins or Balckguards...oops Soooooooo sorry!
I ended up in a non traditional relationship and not by "choice" just by being too nice in dialogue options...hey that's just like real life! Oops and now you're dating... I will friend zone her much more assertively next time.
I am left wit wanting to continue the story!
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