BG:EE Positive Criticism Thread
AlexDeLarge
Member Posts: 273
Hey guys,
So like everyone else, i just started a new adventure in the greatest RPG of all time. And while i can barely contain my excitement for this wonderful treasure that was gifted to us, we must still remain objective and do our best to further improve it.
I only just started, but a couple of minor things i'd like to point out that seem to stick out, and not in a positive way:
The footsteps of your party are too loud! Like you can literally imagine a herd of horses trampling non-stop while you move around. I know i can turn down the sounds effects volume slider, but then i won't be able to hear the other sounds effects properly. I think they should be tuned down in the following patch.
The second one, maybe there is already an alternative for it, but i couldn't find it in options. Namely the double circles of individual colors that show up when u select certain characters. I much prefer the old/non-ostentatious style.
It also feels like sometimes your main character doesn't respond to initial command. Like i have to click several times to get him/her to engage in conversation or attack someone.
That's it for now, everyone else feel free to add more things that they feel could be improved upon. Let's have a great time and keep things positive guys!
So like everyone else, i just started a new adventure in the greatest RPG of all time. And while i can barely contain my excitement for this wonderful treasure that was gifted to us, we must still remain objective and do our best to further improve it.
I only just started, but a couple of minor things i'd like to point out that seem to stick out, and not in a positive way:
The footsteps of your party are too loud! Like you can literally imagine a herd of horses trampling non-stop while you move around. I know i can turn down the sounds effects volume slider, but then i won't be able to hear the other sounds effects properly. I think they should be tuned down in the following patch.
The second one, maybe there is already an alternative for it, but i couldn't find it in options. Namely the double circles of individual colors that show up when u select certain characters. I much prefer the old/non-ostentatious style.
It also feels like sometimes your main character doesn't respond to initial command. Like i have to click several times to get him/her to engage in conversation or attack someone.
That's it for now, everyone else feel free to add more things that they feel could be improved upon. Let's have a great time and keep things positive guys!
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2. New sound sets sound, well, different, as in different quality.
3. I'm too tired to play the game right now, this is a major issue.
Suggestions;
1) Walk speeds could really be upped a fair bit, they're reeeeally slow.
2) My scroll wheel doesn't work in the journal screen to scroll text and the slider to the right doesn't go too smoothly either.
Bonus note: The addition of a cleric at Candlekeep's door to cast Cure Light Wounds instead of Gorion is SUCH an improvement. I didn't even know it bothered me until I saw the guy and I was like OH RIGHT. Excellent.
You can edit the Frame Rate in the Baldur.ini file, which is in the windows documents file.... I recommend you use Wordpad (Formatting is a hell of a lot easier to read)..
Edit to include @bynary_fission
Another minor one: The help button on the bottom left of the screen, when u tab on it for description, it actually says Rest instead of Help. So there's 2 buttons that say Rest, next to each other.
Edit: Yeah, turns out my selection circles are completely gone. I restarted the game 3 times, started new games, loaded old ones. I got no character selection circles and no waypoint indicators anymore. Wtf?
, but here's what I've noticed:
1) I could hear the ocean from the opposite side of the Lions way map (where you meet Xzar and Montaron)
2) The addition of some more graphical settings would not go amiss.
That's it for now, lots of fun thus far. Well done guys
i'v never had to deal with problems like this on my computer.. this is just so amazingly bad.
sorry.. but i am tired and kinda mad right now, so excuse my mad typeing and bad english..i want to fing play this.
Observed: the game crashes when you try to steal Boo.
Expected: the game doesn't crash. Boo squeaks.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Start a game
2) Find and recruit Minsc
3) Open his inventory
4) Click on Boo
A proper bug report goes a long way towards getting it fixed.
I agree with the footsteps being too loud. I entered the friendly arm inn and with all the NPCs walking around at once in addition to my party it sounded like the village had assembled a mob, but it was just like 7 people.
I feel like the opening menus are a little too busy, but that could just be my aesthetic taste.
If it would be possible to click down the shop menus a little more rapidly that would be nice.
1. If you equip a shield you can't equip a two handed weapon in another slot
2. you can't configure the buttons e.g. using more of them (or less) for spells, items etc.
3. The difficulty setting still only changes the damage done, so if you get a lot of armour and avoid being hit this does not do anything
4. the black pits are separated from BG...
1. Uneven graphical quality - crisp in some places blurry in most
2. Unable to customize keyboard hotkeys (never mind, found it in the options screen)
3. Item icons gets smaller when picked up instead of larger
4. Alt+F4 doesn't exit game
Am I the only one experiencing this?
EDIT: What seems to happen is when you click on something everything crisps up, then it quickly starts to fade and blur. For example I look at the chat box. I click on the scrolling icon and all the text goes crisp, then over 5 seconds it starts to blur. If I click it again it crisps, and then starts to blur again.
Trying to read the text whilst it's blurred really strains your eyes
But the picture dimensions in the manual are wrong, and from browsing the forum supposedly the new dimensions are:
Large Portrait: 210x330
Medium: 169x266
Small: 54x84
Source: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/6819/manual-discrepancies/p1
If you aren't seeing the GP for items, are you using a Windows system locale set to English? Someone else reported this in the bug forum and I had it also. If you set to locale to English and restart that should clear up that problem.
'I've got the world's biggest ouchie!'
Best line I've heard in the game outside of anything Minsc says.
...oh, and another thing: CHARNAME's lines are subtitled just like everyone else's now if you have that option enabled. It used to be you got the text for everyone else in the world but not you. Glad to see that was made consistent
2. Having to left click to attack instead of right click.
3. The default for a new screen is zoomed out fully. No thanks.
4. Personal issue, but my custom sound set isn't working properly? He'll say one thing for when I click to move him, and doesn't respond to selection or anything else. The files are named properly and everything, they work with original BG. That's a strange bug.
Other than those miniscule things, it's awesome.
Along the same lines, when a NPC wants to talk to you in EE, they do it instantly and from afar, instead of the old way of walking next to you then starting to talk.
Aren't you supposed to be in bed? :P
Unfortunately, 2 hours is all i get to sleep, seeing as i have to give a law presentation..
ie: when selling something you cannot wheel through your inventory..its tedious to get it to scroll and often times I just sold a few things at a time to get my inventory to move down--yeah minor complaint but...