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Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition is almost here!

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  • TR4SPYTR4SPY Member Posts: 1
    I'd love to commit to the beta testing ! ;)
    https://github.com/TR4SPY
  • pinhead021pinhead021 Member Posts: 1
    I'd love to test the beta. Tnx
    https://github.com/p021nhead
  • OlvynChuruOlvynChuru Member Posts: 3,079
    AKABOS wrote: »
    Hey everyone!

    Does someone have some progress update? like at what stage project is rn?
    cheers =)

    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.
  • kimmuryielkimmuryiel Member Posts: 89
    edited October 2023
    OlvynChuru wrote: »

    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    I will send you my whole portrait folder (there might be one, two, maybe even three pictures that are photoshopped pictures of celebrities) for you to take whatever you want from if you want. Just say the word. I am unable to offer ways to credit the original artists though. Have had these pictures for YEARS, so I can't remember where I got them all.

    I'm sh*t at drawing, or I'd offer to draw them for you :-/
  • magiqomagiqo Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2023
    I'd love to commit to the beta testing ! )))
    https://github.com/Magq99
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  • RufertRufert Member Posts: 1
    Signed up to the board just for this.

    https://github.com/Rufert

    I don't know what the rules are for such, but I'm hoping to stream it if possible.
  • JM9090JM9090 Member Posts: 2
    Hi. Longtime fan of the game. Would love to try!

    https://github.com/jasonm010
  • splitterpsplitterp Member Posts: 1
    Hello! Any chance I could be added to the BETA too please? 🙏

    https://github.com/cubikdavid

    Thanks!
  • samantas5855samantas5855 Member Posts: 1
    Hello, I just finished Icewind Dale 1 Enhanced Edition and would really like to play 2 in the best way possible
    https://github.com/edisionnano
  • polopolo Member Posts: 1
    I monitoring this thread for three years and passionately waiting. Icewind Dale 2 is one of my favorite a play it about every 2 year past 20 years. Would by possible to join testing?

    https://github.com/Lathanderjk
  • NalierNalier Member Posts: 5
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.
    If you asked on r/baldursgate, I'm sure you'd find some people who could work on the portraits. Or you could use AI-generated art, at least as a placeholder to be updated in a future patch.
  • mikesimonellimikesimonelli Member Posts: 2
    Looking for a beta invite

    https://github.com/msimonelli1975
  • NicolBluetoothNicolBluetooth Member Posts: 48
    I already sent a beta test invitation request, and I eventually got a response to it, but by the time I found the response, the invite link and email either expired or never worked in the first place. I tried to reply back about it, but so far, I've received no response to it. What do I do?
  • AzureyeAzureye Member Posts: 3
    edited October 2023
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    AKABOS wrote: »
    Hey everyone!

    Does someone have some progress update? like at what stage project is rn?
    cheers =)

    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    AI-generated character portraits are easy to do. I've done a couple myself. With the right parameters you will get a portrait that is true to your vision of how your characters should look like. One easy way to try it out yourself, is to use the Image Creator inside the Edge web browser.

    Here's just a couple I made with different styles of "Elven Ranger". You can of course make them look more like IWD old style.
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  • DjihmDjihm Member Posts: 1
    Would love to help playtest! Anything to make this a reality
    https://github.com/Djihm
  • ZAKHADZAKHAD Member Posts: 1
    Was looking into playing modded iwd2 again and heard about this and I would like to signup to betatesting, if you're still accepting.

    Some of the old mods i used to play with somewhat familiar with modding iwd2 although it's been a hot minute ^^

    https://github.com/zakhad

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  • WrangarXXXXWrangarXXXX Member Posts: 1
    Hi, would love to participate in the closed beta as this is one of my favourite games of all time!

    GitHub: https://github.com/WrangarXXXX
  • paladin84paladin84 Member Posts: 65
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    Do you have the list of the NPCs, who need portraits (ideally with the short description). I can try to ask a friend of mine to generate them with Midjourney. He had good results with it in the past.
  • paladin84paladin84 Member Posts: 65
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    Do you have the list of the NPCs, who need portraits (ideally with the short description). I can try to ask a friend of mine to generate them with Midjourney. He had good results with it in the past.
  • paladin84paladin84 Member Posts: 65
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    Do you have the list of the NPCs, who need portraits (ideally with the short description)? I can try to ask a friend of mine to generate the portraits with Midjourney. He had good results with it in the past.
  • BeorhtnothBeorhtnoth Member Posts: 6
    The portraits are done, people in the Discord have already done what you all are suggesting. Yes, that means there might be news soon.
  • TSHawkTSHawk Member Posts: 67
    Has this been released to the public yet?
  • TSHawkTSHawk Member Posts: 67
    edited October 2023
    sorry for the duplicate post? And I see that it is still in the beta testing? Can I get in on the beta test?
  • Allanon81Allanon81 Member Posts: 342
    Can I get a link to beta test?
  • OlvynChuruOlvynChuru Member Posts: 3,079
    edited November 2023
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    Okay, so we solved the portrait issue.

    The planned release date for IWD2EE is November 4th.
  • kimmuryielkimmuryiel Member Posts: 89
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    OlvynChuru wrote: »
    The main thing holding back Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition from being released is that some of the NPCs that can join the party don't have portraits, and we currently don't have anyone who's working on portraits.

    Aside from that, IWD2EE is pretty much ready to be released. There will still be bugs here and there, but I can still fix bugs in later updates after IWD2EE is released. It's mainly just that the NPCs don't all have portraits. We really need help with that.

    Okay, so we solved the portrait issue.

    The planned release date for IWD2EE is November 4th.

    WOOO! :D
  • VoytazVoytaz Member Posts: 26
    Nice, I've been waiting since the announcement for this <3 Would the EE discord become public? With this much changes of the gameplay and other things, it would be very useful to have a way to chat with playtesters who know much about the game, or just talk on some kind of communicator that is not a forum :v
  • AzureyeAzureye Member Posts: 3
    This is awesome news! Thank you for your hard work 👏🏻😁
  • megrimlockmegrimlock Member Posts: 51
    Weekend plans sorted...
  • xgaribexxgaribex Member Posts: 1
    Hello! IWD was my first cRPG and early 00s were great to me because of these games! *Although I never knew how to properly play the game and never finished it until I decided to give it a go a couple years ago (much easier with all the walkthroughs lol). Looking forward to see this project come to life! I appreciate all that are working to bring this wonderful game back!
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