Thank you for the answer, I already have BG EE e BG2 EE for Mac Intel, but I love so much these games (and i want to buy SOD too) that I want them for Apple Silicon too when change my 2011 IMac. No problem if I have to buy them again.
I have a question regarding future projects. I see that for the moment the games that you guys remaster are all mostly from D&D and variants (except for axis and allies). I was thinking about great titles of games that i played in my younger years that are really nice experience about storytelling and good action gameplay. I was thinking maybe you guys could buy the liscences to these series and remake, remaster them to a more current form.
The breath of fire serie from Capcom; Starting with breath of fire 1 and breath of fire 2 were the big titles and were really good for their time. A good remake/remaster of such great rpgs would be really nice.
Paladin quest; Another game that understood that great music score makes great games. With a good remaster and a orchestral soundtrack this would be quite epic. The gameplay and mechanics are quite up to par with how current games can be regarding thing like how your spells become stronger as you use them and the multi-character big rooster mercenary type that adds to the base characters.
These are gems that could be looked into.
Just putting this here, all 3 games have great stories, music and feel of epicness of great games while not being the most costly licences to put your hands on. Maybe starting a new rpg remake/remaster line could benefit Beamdog? There is so much potential and *so many* peoples that are ready to send you their money.
What is the resolution for consoles port of BG1/2 ?
1080p, or 4k? If the first one, does the Beamdog plan to publish the upgrade to 4k on at least PS5/Xbox Series ?
What is the resolution for consoles port of BG1/2 ?
1080p, or 4k? If the first one, does the Beamdog plan to publish the upgrade to 4k on at least PS5/Xbox Series ?
IIRC BG2 engine was designed for 800 x 600 resolution and playing in higher or even widescreen doesn't change much because the linge of sight and fog of war will tunnel your vision. You can zoom in but all maps are predendered 2D backgrounds so the more you zoom the worse quality of an image. It's not the game wher higher resolution make a difference. On PC game will use desktop resolution don't know about PS5/XSX but 4k is overkill.
The games use the original art assets, which were not built in HD/4K. However, all the games can be run on HD/4K (Xbox OneX and PS4 Pro are the only platforms that offer this).
About this release, a question/plea: seems that Windows version does no longer have a PDB file besides the game EXE, and that Linux binaries have function names stripped, when previous versions had them. Given that the game is DRM free, single player and fairly mature and established, I've always understood that Beamdog has no issue making those easily available. Quite the contrary, because can be helpful for users to report crashes to you (I'm a developer myself, and I've done so in many projects).
So, can we have them back? :-)
Those can be used to reverse engineer parts of the game, which sounds a bit dark and scary, but given what I stated (we are not gonna crack the game to prevent paying, cheating tournaments, exploit security holes in our own computers, etc.) it's just to provide much better mods to players who might want to go beyond the classical mods that change game assets. EEex is the obvious example of such a thing that has achieved incredible things thanks to @bubb and others, but I've been able to also achieve some small things myself that I wanted to share with the community, for the greater good.
This are things that in no way that I can imagine can harm Beamdog, and I surely don't want that to happen, quite the contrary. I understand that given the not too threatening presence of GemRB, an open source clone of the Infinity Engine, the value of this games leans towards the artwork and the game content than the game engine itself. Beamdog has been helpful by releasing bgfileformats or clarifying some IESDP unknowns. Releasing that debug information doesn't really disclose that much of the game engine anyway, but it surely helps us who just want to tweak things here or there.
Examples of small things that I've achieved thanks to those symbol names, and which are totally innocent:
* Prevent the game from turning the volume to 0 when the game has lost focus. This might seem stupid, but it was necessary when I started recording my game play, and wanted to use a second window.
* Redirect (most of) the combat log to a file to have a bigger window to read in a second monitor.
* Save to a file all the results of the random number generator, and who called it, optionally replacing it with a custom one with better fairness.
About this release, a question/plea: seems that Windows version does no longer have a PDB file besides the game EXE, and that Linux binaries have function names stripped, when previous versions had them. Given that the game is DRM free, single player and fairly mature and established, I've always understood that Beamdog has no issue making those easily available. Quite the contrary, because can be helpful for users to report crashes to you (I'm a developer myself, and I've done so in many projects).
Thanks for your request. We are looking into a way to share these debug files with the community in the near future.
About this release, a question/plea: seems that Windows version does no longer have a PDB file besides the game EXE, and that Linux binaries have function names stripped, when previous versions had them. Given that the game is DRM free, single player and fairly mature and established, I've always understood that Beamdog has no issue making those easily available. Quite the contrary, because can be helpful for users to report crashes to you (I'm a developer myself, and I've done so in many projects).
Thanks for your request. We are looking into a way to share these debug files with the community in the near future.
Also, as I undersrood this makes further development of EEex impossible, which would be a great blow to the modding community (there are already couple of great mods that rely on EEex features).
Thanks for your request. We are looking into a way to share these debug files with the community in the near future.
That would be awesome. I think that we surely can agree on some terms if you need to add some conditions. Let me know if I can do something to clarify the interest on having the debug data. I've seen Bubb do very cool stuff with them. Besides extending the engine the way that we all know via EEex, just helping out people online, figuring out the reason of a crash by understanding the backtrace was quite helpful, IMHO. I'll make public my small scripts very soon, I hope you'll like them as well.
Thanks for your request. We are looking into a way to share these debug files with the community in the near future.
That would be awesome. I think that we surely can agree on some terms if you need to add some conditions. Let me know if I can do something to clarify the interest on having the debug data. I've seen Bubb do very cool stuff with them. Besides extending the engine the way that we all know via EEex, just helping out people online, figuring out the reason of a crash by understanding the backtrace was quite helpful, IMHO. I'll make public my small scripts very soon, I hope you'll like them as well.
Gra pozostawia wiele do życzenia.
1.Dlaczego szaman czasem nie przyzywa duchów i pokazuje się wciąż że zaczęto szamański taniec? Przyczyną tego powinna być opisana w opisie podklasy do tej zdolności.
2. Dlaczego po ostatniej aktualizacji w kwietniu tego roku doszły nowe głosy po angielsku? Głupio tak jak nie ma po polsku tylko tych kilku głosów.
3. Warto by dodać coś do grania po przejściu singla. Bo tylko można grać jeszcze raz w fabułę. COKOLWIEK! Bo polepszyliście w zasadzie tylko ten single i nic od siebie. W sensie dodajcie jakieś wyzwania albo grę przeciwko inyum graczom online. To by było super!
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Jeden z największych ekspertów icewind dale
Gra pozostawia wiele do życzenia.
1.Dlaczego szaman czasem nie przyzywa duchów i pokazuje się wciąż że zaczęto szamański taniec? Przyczyną tego powinna być opisana w opisie podklasy do tej zdolności.
2. Dlaczego po ostatniej aktualizacji w kwietniu tego roku doszły nowe głosy po angielsku? Głupio tak jak nie ma po polsku tylko tych kilku głosów.
3. Warto by dodać coś do grania po przejściu singla. Bo tylko można grać jeszcze raz w fabułę. COKOLWIEK! Bo polepszyliście w zasadzie tylko ten single i nic od siebie. W sensie dodajcie jakieś wyzwania albo grę przeciwko inyum graczom online. To by było super!
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Jeden z największych ekspertów icewind dale
Hi @Darnok you would get better chance for getting an answer here, if you wrote in English. Even if I'm no developer, I'll try to answer the best I can.
1. Are you able to write step by step what are you trying to do with your shaman and which result you are expecting? It's possible that you are experiencing intended behavior, but we need to understand it better in case if there is a bug to be reproduced. The way shamanic dance works is tha each round there is a chance of summonig a spirit, it doesn't summon them automatically. The chance of summoning a spirit increase with your level in Shaman class (up to 75% on level 20). So it's perfectly normal that your shaman can spend couple of round until he will be able to summon a spirit.
2. The latest patch introduced a new voicesets recorded by Beamdog developers. Unfortunately Polish translation is text-only and we have no means to record any of new voiceovers added in EEs.
3. As for experiencing the game after finishing it once, you have couple of options. First is to organize a group of friends and try a multiplayer game, you could find it fun and engaging to play with others. Second option is to install one (or more) of countless fantastic mods that community shared during the last 20 years. Most of the mods are compatible with EEs, so there is a plethora of options for you to choose from.
@JuliusBorisov Wasn't sure where to ask the question, hopefully, this thread will do
Do you have any news regarding the "beta" state of the french translation for BG2EE?
Is there some sort of contractual obligation regarding "quality" with the translation company and they are going to redo some of their stuff? Or is it now purely in the end of the community and volunteers?
More broadly, is it being worked on at all?
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Juicy bit of information there
There may still be hope for the Catmull-Rom filter to make comeback after all.
The breath of fire serie from Capcom; Starting with breath of fire 1 and breath of fire 2 were the big titles and were really good for their time. A good remake/remaster of such great rpgs would be really nice.
Paladin quest; Another game that understood that great music score makes great games. With a good remaster and a orchestral soundtrack this would be quite epic. The gameplay and mechanics are quite up to par with how current games can be regarding thing like how your spells become stronger as you use them and the multi-character big rooster mercenary type that adds to the base characters.
These are gems that could be looked into.
Just putting this here, all 3 games have great stories, music and feel of epicness of great games while not being the most costly licences to put your hands on. Maybe starting a new rpg remake/remaster line could benefit Beamdog? There is so much potential and *so many* peoples that are ready to send you their money.
1080p, or 4k? If the first one, does the Beamdog plan to publish the upgrade to 4k on at least PS5/Xbox Series ?
IIRC BG2 engine was designed for 800 x 600 resolution and playing in higher or even widescreen doesn't change much because the linge of sight and fog of war will tunnel your vision. You can zoom in but all maps are predendered 2D backgrounds so the more you zoom the worse quality of an image. It's not the game wher higher resolution make a difference. On PC game will use desktop resolution don't know about PS5/XSX but 4k is overkill.
Source.
About this release, a question/plea: seems that Windows version does no longer have a PDB file besides the game EXE, and that Linux binaries have function names stripped, when previous versions had them. Given that the game is DRM free, single player and fairly mature and established, I've always understood that Beamdog has no issue making those easily available. Quite the contrary, because can be helpful for users to report crashes to you (I'm a developer myself, and I've done so in many projects).
So, can we have them back? :-)
Those can be used to reverse engineer parts of the game, which sounds a bit dark and scary, but given what I stated (we are not gonna crack the game to prevent paying, cheating tournaments, exploit security holes in our own computers, etc.) it's just to provide much better mods to players who might want to go beyond the classical mods that change game assets. EEex is the obvious example of such a thing that has achieved incredible things thanks to @bubb and others, but I've been able to also achieve some small things myself that I wanted to share with the community, for the greater good.
This are things that in no way that I can imagine can harm Beamdog, and I surely don't want that to happen, quite the contrary. I understand that given the not too threatening presence of GemRB, an open source clone of the Infinity Engine, the value of this games leans towards the artwork and the game content than the game engine itself. Beamdog has been helpful by releasing bgfileformats or clarifying some IESDP unknowns. Releasing that debug information doesn't really disclose that much of the game engine anyway, but it surely helps us who just want to tweak things here or there.
Examples of small things that I've achieved thanks to those symbol names, and which are totally innocent:
* Prevent the game from turning the volume to 0 when the game has lost focus. This might seem stupid, but it was necessary when I started recording my game play, and wanted to use a second window.
* Redirect (most of) the combat log to a file to have a bigger window to read in a second monitor.
* Save to a file all the results of the random number generator, and who called it, optionally replacing it with a custom one with better fairness.
Thank you for your time.
If you mean like a toolset no clue. But the video tutorials I made at least make it way easier to approach it than it used to be.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/80595/my-mod-creation-videos-for-bgee/p1
Thanks for your request. We are looking into a way to share these debug files with the community in the near future.
Also, as I undersrood this makes further development of EEex impossible, which would be a great blow to the modding community (there are already couple of great mods that rely on EEex features).
That would be awesome.
For the next remaster, Eye of the Beholder EE?
Legend of Grimrock games were amazing but then the dungeon crawlers disappeared again. 5e should have one!
Actually, forget the EE and just make EotB 4.
I'd rather see EEs of other isometric RPGs instead.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/82203/win64-debug-files
Gra pozostawia wiele do życzenia.
1.Dlaczego szaman czasem nie przyzywa duchów i pokazuje się wciąż że zaczęto szamański taniec? Przyczyną tego powinna być opisana w opisie podklasy do tej zdolności.
2. Dlaczego po ostatniej aktualizacji w kwietniu tego roku doszły nowe głosy po angielsku? Głupio tak jak nie ma po polsku tylko tych kilku głosów.
3. Warto by dodać coś do grania po przejściu singla. Bo tylko można grać jeszcze raz w fabułę. COKOLWIEK! Bo polepszyliście w zasadzie tylko ten single i nic od siebie. W sensie dodajcie jakieś wyzwania albo grę przeciwko inyum graczom online. To by było super!
Pozdrawiam :
Jeden z największych ekspertów icewind dale
Hi @Darnok you would get better chance for getting an answer here, if you wrote in English. Even if I'm no developer, I'll try to answer the best I can.
1. Are you able to write step by step what are you trying to do with your shaman and which result you are expecting? It's possible that you are experiencing intended behavior, but we need to understand it better in case if there is a bug to be reproduced. The way shamanic dance works is tha each round there is a chance of summonig a spirit, it doesn't summon them automatically. The chance of summoning a spirit increase with your level in Shaman class (up to 75% on level 20). So it's perfectly normal that your shaman can spend couple of round until he will be able to summon a spirit.
2. The latest patch introduced a new voicesets recorded by Beamdog developers. Unfortunately Polish translation is text-only and we have no means to record any of new voiceovers added in EEs.
3. As for experiencing the game after finishing it once, you have couple of options. First is to organize a group of friends and try a multiplayer game, you could find it fun and engaging to play with others. Second option is to install one (or more) of countless fantastic mods that community shared during the last 20 years. Most of the mods are compatible with EEs, so there is a plethora of options for you to choose from.
Do you have any news regarding the "beta" state of the french translation for BG2EE?
Is there some sort of contractual obligation regarding "quality" with the translation company and they are going to redo some of their stuff? Or is it now purely in the end of the community and volunteers?
More broadly, is it being worked on at all?
Please send a message to contact our localization coordinator at localization@beamdog.com as explained here if you're willing to join them.
There will be an AMA with Axis and Allies 1942 Online developers soon. This will be a perfect time to ask questions about the game.
See more info here.