Finally beat BG saga
histamiini
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Finally beat Baldur's Gate saga, took about 200 hours according to Steam. Toughest enemies vary based on your skill or abilities at the time of course, but I had most difficult beating dragon Firkaag and djinni Vidyadhar which probably took more than few hours collectively. Demogorgon was also tough and that battle before it was the only one I had to cheese out, where I planted about 30 Skull Traps before the battle and sacrificed a companion temporarily.
Oh my god what a series, easily one of the best continuous game series ever, even today. Very strategic rpg, which I liked.
Would you recommend EET for the second play through? It seems so natural to use.
Oh my god what a series, easily one of the best continuous game series ever, even today. Very strategic rpg, which I liked.
Would you recommend EET for the second play through? It seems so natural to use.
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1. BG2 SOA
2. BG1 Dragonspear
3. BG2 TB
4. BG1 TOTSC
5. BG1
If you're playing EET, you can bring some BG1 and SoD items into BG2 by simply storing them in a safe container before you finish BG1 and SoD. Combining the Martyr's Morningstar with Critical Strike is very fun.
And you're already talking about modding?
(I think we have a live one here, 200 hours pah, they'll be spending that much time on this forum alone talking about no reload runs within a month)
Afterwards, the tool just runs its job. Depending on your internet connection, your choice of mods and your computer hardware, the download of mods and their unpacking/patching and actual installation may take time (up to 20 hours for an extra large EET install). Fact is that you need not sit there to watch it. Other fact is that you can achieve the same in about six hours manual work, but only if you are expert at what you are doing - and that is just cumbersome labour the tool can do for you.
You can do a very basic EET install in far less time (about 3-4 hours depending on your hardware). The most time consuming events are EET-core, EET_end and SCS (if you use it, which I highly recommend). But these tasks just run on their own once you started them, so you can do other things in the meantime.
The main issue - and the reason the BWS was created in the first place - is the large number of mods for BG. In an EET you can have several hundred components. Not all of them are independent. The more mods you select, the more dependencies, possible conflicts and install order requirements you will have. BWS is there to manage those. On top of that it searches the latest mod versions and downloads them for you, It does the job of unzipping them and putting every file in its place, applying last minute patches etc and then installing all components in the correct order.
About BWS, good to know that it's just matter of chosing and understanding the mods, I've modern hardware so that shouldn't be a problem.
The first playthrough was just about learning the game mechanics thoroughly, and I think I can concentrate the story and other stuff more the second time.
Currently the Spellhold and G3 forums are down (should be a matter of some days to restore them). Many mods are hosted on those sites, i.e. BWS will fail to find and download a large number of mods. Unless you have local copies somehow, it may be a good idea to wait with a large EET install until those sources are back up.
(Also, support for EET and BWS is mostly provided on these forums. The beamdog forum for the most part just has other players who can help you with their experience but very little expertise when problems go deeper.)