First impressions
srvk
Member Posts: 65
To begin with, the game has a lot of hardware issues. The baldur's gate saga froze twice in the first 10 minutes i played. Black pits has issues with the sound and graphic flickering (note that i played vanilla bg one week ago and had no issues)
In terms of gameplay, a lot of bugs introduced. Characters dying with no death sounds. Corpses remaining in the ground for 2 seconds and then magically disappearing (!). The automatic change of the level of zoom is irritating. Mouse wheel is used both for zoom in/out and for rolling the text in the dialog panel which is problematic. The graphics for some reason look slightly worse (may have to do with the resolution- why isn't there an option for selecting resolution?). I don't like new characters models for Candlekkep guards and other characters in the game. What's really bad is that npcs act as total retards now. Look at this picture
[img] http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2955/guardsx.png [/img]
so if you get caught in a fight the guards will not intervene. Ironically, my first post in these forums was about this issue http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/2095/neutral-characters-being-apathetic#latest. Looks like instead of fixing the problem, it got worse. Thank you Overhaul for taking the time to read my feedback
On a good note, enemy AI is smarter (i think only in the new areas). Brutes will attack your mages first and then the fighters. The new UI looks good and i don't understand why people complain about it
Waiting for patch which hopefully will adress the problems described above, especially the resolution thing
In terms of gameplay, a lot of bugs introduced. Characters dying with no death sounds. Corpses remaining in the ground for 2 seconds and then magically disappearing (!). The automatic change of the level of zoom is irritating. Mouse wheel is used both for zoom in/out and for rolling the text in the dialog panel which is problematic. The graphics for some reason look slightly worse (may have to do with the resolution- why isn't there an option for selecting resolution?). I don't like new characters models for Candlekkep guards and other characters in the game. What's really bad is that npcs act as total retards now. Look at this picture
[img] http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2955/guardsx.png [/img]
so if you get caught in a fight the guards will not intervene. Ironically, my first post in these forums was about this issue http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/2095/neutral-characters-being-apathetic#latest. Looks like instead of fixing the problem, it got worse. Thank you Overhaul for taking the time to read my feedback
On a good note, enemy AI is smarter (i think only in the new areas). Brutes will attack your mages first and then the fighters. The new UI looks good and i don't understand why people complain about it
Waiting for patch which hopefully will adress the problems described above, especially the resolution thing
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