Hey folks. We know this isn't that helpful for our BG2 iOS customers, but if anyone wants to, you can opt in to BG2 iOS Open Testing and play the 2.7.3 version. It will be the same one as what goes Live, whenever Apple gets it together.
Just in case anyone here didn’t already know, Apple has released the latest BGII:EE patch for iOS/iPadOS about four hours ago as of this writing. The Infinity Engine set is once again complete and up to date. Thanks to Julius and everyone at Beamdog/Overhaul for continuing to make these great games playable.
Bug report:
In the desktop version of the games if you select a campaign and then press the ESC key twice you'll end up on a black screen with no interactive controls. The only way to proceed is by using the Alt-F4 shortcut to quit the game. It affects BGEE (without SoD), BG2EE, and IWDEE.
I am having so much trouble with transferring saves and portraits etc for BGEE back and forth from my Win 11 PC and my Galaxy S25Ultra Android 16. Ive tried adb and shinjuku, ive tried Phone Link, Ive tried multi-player LAN import exports........NOTHING is working and Im just spinning my wheels. Literally the only thing I want to do is edit one of my Android save files with eekeeper and use custom portraits. I have literally been playing this game since 1997, and things used to be a whole lot easier back then. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled and somehow the game still has save games, just none of my newer ones and I cant import them back into the game. Any help?
small graphical bug report for BGEE 2.7.3 on iPad, that was introduced with the newest patch.
This bug is not present on previous BGEE iOS patch 2.5.17. Bug is also not present on PC Steam version of BGEE 2.7.3.
2.7.3 on all iOS games seem to heavily update area .tis and .pvrz files compared to 2.5.
So far I have noticed one glitch due to these updates.
Cloakwood Mine Level 3, AR1802, water graphics on temple altar are glitched.
This is how the altar looks in current BGEE 2.7.3 on iPad
When I import all related AR1802.tis and A1802xx.pvrz -files from patch 2.5.17 game file into my 2.7.3 iPad override folder, the graphic looks correct, as it was in 2.5.17.
Seems something is broken in current .tis and .pvrz files for AR1802.
Hello Beamdog, First off, thank you so much for continuing to support these classic games. It’s awesome to see the 2.7 beta rolling out on PC and mobile platforms. Could you please let us know when we can expect this update to hit the Nintendo Switch? I’d love to see the stability improvements and cloud save fixes on my handheld. Any ETA or rough timeline would be greatly appreciated!
Unfortunately, we don’t have the resources to update the console versions of EEs: those would require extensive certification processes we can’t currently support.
I advanced to BG2EE, and noticed small, but rather annoying graphical bug, which was not present in iOS BG2EE 2.5.16.
This bug is also neither present in iOS BGEE and SOD 2.7.3, nor in PC Steam version of BG2EE 2.7.3.
in BG2EE text identifying character carry weight gets blurry/unreadable whenever character carry weight gets close to encumbered status (orange text) or carry weight exceeds encumbered level (red text). When carry weight is normal (yellow text) text is presented clearly.
This bug occurs on all screens where character carry weight is presented
inventory screen
container screen
buy/sell screen
Here is inventory screen in all of the three scenarios
I am not going to be bitter and say it only took ten years or so to ease up modding on ipad. no, sir.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
I now can have my bg2 on my ipad modded to the brim (25000 files in override) with such ease! and on the go play! yay!
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Any plans for planescape to get apple silicon support?
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That’s great news! Are there any plans to add Czech language support for Planescape: Torment as well?
In the desktop version of the games if you select a campaign and then press the ESC key twice you'll end up on a black screen with no interactive controls. The only way to proceed is by using the Alt-F4 shortcut to quit the game. It affects BGEE (without SoD), BG2EE, and IWDEE.
Thanks for the reply good to know!
One more thing these update works the same if i have the steam or the appstore mac version right?
small graphical bug report for BGEE 2.7.3 on iPad, that was introduced with the newest patch.
This bug is not present on previous BGEE iOS patch 2.5.17. Bug is also not present on PC Steam version of BGEE 2.7.3.
2.7.3 on all iOS games seem to heavily update area .tis and .pvrz files compared to 2.5.
So far I have noticed one glitch due to these updates.
Cloakwood Mine Level 3, AR1802, water graphics on temple altar are glitched.
This is how the altar looks in current BGEE 2.7.3 on iPad
When I import all related AR1802.tis and A1802xx.pvrz -files from patch 2.5.17 game file into my 2.7.3 iPad override folder, the graphic looks correct, as it was in 2.5.17.
Seems something is broken in current .tis and .pvrz files for AR1802.
platform iPad mini (A17 Pro).
I advanced to BG2EE, and noticed small, but rather annoying graphical bug, which was not present in iOS BG2EE 2.5.16.
This bug is also neither present in iOS BGEE and SOD 2.7.3, nor in PC Steam version of BG2EE 2.7.3.
in BG2EE text identifying character carry weight gets blurry/unreadable whenever character carry weight gets close to encumbered status (orange text) or carry weight exceeds encumbered level (red text). When carry weight is normal (yellow text) text is presented clearly.
This bug occurs on all screens where character carry weight is presented
inventory screen
container screen
buy/sell screen
Here is inventory screen in all of the three scenarios
Normal weight, text clean
Closing encumbered, blurry
Encumbered, blurry
Same happens in container screen
and in buy/sell screen
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
I now can have my bg2 on my ipad modded to the brim (25000 files in override) with such ease! and on the go play! yay!
With UI modding and cheat console, too! AMAZING.