Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

[Dux]

Put Korgan Bloodaxe and the Beamdog NPCs alone in a room and everything will turn out great - for everyone. Ahh... Korgan.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Korgan quotes about killing silencing Mazzy Aerie probably did not fare well with the SJW crowd (they probably only use good party members anyway).

 

[Xeon]

I kinda like the HLA choosing interface, I might be wrong about it but now you can have the ones who join you at high level to level and get any HLA quantity they want or if you level 2 classes at the same time, you can pick 2 GWA for example I think. IIRC in the original BG2 you can only pick an ability once when leveling up even if you have more points.

SCS seems a little buggy, I didn't install it directly, I used BWS to install it along with Ascension. Not sure if either of them are compatible with 2.2 yet but so far its kinda good but a little buggy.

 

[Malpercio]

Korgan quotes about killing silencing Mazzy Aerie probably did not fare well with the SJW crowd (they probably only use good party members anyway).

Pretty sure Korgan wants to bang Mazzy.

 

[Melcar]

Korgan quotes about killing silencing Mazzy Aerie probably did not fare well with the SJW crowd (they probably only use good party members anyway).

Pretty sure Korgan wants to bang Mazzy.

Yeah, Korgan has the hots for her and some of his banter is rather lewd.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Yeah I know, that's why I struck it out, I had originally posted Mazzy instead of Aerie before editing.

 

[Dreaad]

Also, favorite quotes from evil playthrough:

Edwin: "Could my opinion of this group sink any lower? Evidently so."

Korgan: "Shoddily made and shoddily maintained... but good killing ground nonetheless"

Edwin: "I'm busy, okay? I'm busy."

Korgan: "Bloody tree huggers and daisy eaters....burn em all."

Edwin: "I do not understand this 'mouse magic' that makes me do your bidding."

Korgan: "I've killed for less."

All-time favorite: "You must gather your party before venturing forth."

No way man. Best banter goes to Korgan in general but this one specifically:

Korgan: Hmph! Imoen, ye're an o'erlame excuse fer a member o' this party, and I be tired of exertin' meself to protect ye! Next time, I let ye perish, screamin' like a ninny as ye does!

Imoen: The last time I saw you exert yourself over anything, was the last slab of pork at an inn. If you could keep up with me with that beer gut of yours. I'd be amazed.

Korgan: Beer gut?! Why, ye stinkin' wench, how dare ye! Keep up with my keen axe as it flies towards yer head, more like! Though it'd be like splittin' a hair, skinny as ye are!

Imoen: I'd be startled if a drunk dwarven oaf like yourself could hit the broadside of a barn with your axe. And while we're talking about stench. Let's talk about the last time you passed out in your own vomit.

Korgan: An outrage! Ye're a canker on me backside, and the world would be best rid of ye! Loathsome mongrel she-dog!

Imoen: Brutish pig! You're nothing but a boil needing lancing!

Korgan: I've seen harlots wi' less open sores that ye, ye pimple-faced, whining guttersnipe!

Imoen: Why you cantankerous, foul mouthed excuse of a gully dwarf!

Korgan: Gully dwarf?! HAR HAR! Ye knows how to hit low, ye does! HAR HAR! Ye're a fine, fine lass, ye are, Imoen. That Gorion of yers would be proud!

Imoen: Aww, gee. Thanks Korgan!

So much character in such a tiny little conversation. Really makes you feel like you're adventuring with a bunch of lunatics. Just like PnP.

 

[Lilura]

Oghren > Khelgar > Korgan > Kagain

 

[SwiftCrack]

lol

 

[ArchAngel]

So much character in such a tiny little conversation. Really makes you feel like you're adventuring with a bunch of lunatics. Just like PnP.

Lol. Good one.

 

[Malpercio]

It sounds like Keldron gets off to NTR porn here. Last time I re-played BG2 was before the great cuck meme explosion, I though of you guys when I finished the quest.


Anyway, Neera's questline. I'll be honest, I actually liked it, or rather the structure of it: It's rather simple, there is the small "base" area, the quests you do there affect questline ultimate outcome (cosmetic, as far I know) and the enemy camp infiltration actually has two ways, with the sneaky way rewarding you with an easier final fight.

I like that there are 10 NPCs and not even that explains you what the fuck a Wild Mage is.

Anyway, despite the solid baseline structure, the quest has two glaring problems: 1) The Wild Area you have to traverse is simply atrocious. An area where any spell casted becomes wild magic sounds cool, but enemies are total pushovers there and the most danger comes from traps. So it's just an annoying area where you can't cast haste. 2) Some of the quests at the base camp are really bad. I think the cats quest is probably the single worst quest in all BG2. Fucking DA2 level stuff.

Neera is also "what if tumblr wrote Imoen", though I liked her in the end when she got a bit crazy and made the guard explode.

 

[Malpercio]

My team of intrepid heroes (plus Aerie) is ready to depart for spellhold.

I decided to get a bit crazey this time and... side with vampires. I never did it because it felt stupid siding with this Bhodi. The guilds war has always been one of my least favorite parts of the game, but I found the vampire part even worse somehow. Getting rid of the Shadows Thieves sounds fun in theory, but their stronghold is really, really easy and it doesn't compare to the vampires stronghold. Even the quests Bodhi offers you kinda suck. At least you get to wipe them both in the end.

I was surprised though that she reveals you that she's Irenicus' sister before departing for Spellhold, also it seems they weren't working together until she gets to Spellhold too? I always assumed they were in cohort from the very beginning (I mean they are, but Bodhi has no way to communicate with Irenicus during chapter 2?)

I always had a soft sport for Brynnlaw, I liked the setting (even with the blatant re-used assets in Galvana funhouse), it always felt incredibly adventurous, departing for this small, unknown island ruled by pirates and a change of pace compared to chapter 2. I really wished Bioware did more with this actually, there is not even an option to permanently help "fixing" the place, you gotta run from the Pirate King in the end which it's kinda bananas.

Also Yoshimo bugged out from the game (apparently it's a know bug if you side with Booty Bodhi, way to go Beamdog!) so I'm bringing Jan to spellhold and the underdark. I'm one of these poeple who felt bad to leave Imoen alone, but what you can do.

Eh.

 

[pippin]

Everything that character says is a PST reference iirc.

 

[Malpercio]

Meh

For some reason my tank kept getting jailed despite Haer'dalis casting magic resistance on himself so he gave me some problems, until I read remembered the Slayer is immune to it, so I just tanked it with him.

For some reason the blade of equalizer didn't drop when I cleared the Beholders dungeon, meaning I'm stuck with just the hilt and the gem. I didn't even plan to use it because Haer'dalis got HLA bard song (Plus it kinda sucks? Haer is rocking Celestial Fury + Short sword of Mask and Gesen Bow) and doesn't melee anymore, but it fucking pisses me off.


Anyway, my team of super-heroes is ready to kick Irenicus' butt. Dunno if I'll do Watcher Keep - not a fan of megadungeons- or the ToB - not a fan of ToB, it sucks!!!-

 

[PirateScum]

Even 'dexers playing with character outlines enabled, nowadays...
I'm an optimistic fellow, I really am, but this makes even me lose all faith in humanity.

 

[Melcar]

Even 'dexers playing with character outlines enabled, nowadays...
I'm an optimistic fellow, I really am, but this makes even me lose all faith in humanity.

I know. Next they will be saying Doom 4 is a good game.

 

[Malpercio]

Honestly, it's an ugly effect but it didn't bother me much, kinda didn't feel like messing with the options to find out what the fuck I was supposed to do to remove them.

As long it's not something really annoying like the health bars I usually roll with it.

 

[Epsilon]

Does anyone know if it's true that Beamdog broke mod support in the latest version on gog.com and steam?

 

[Xeon]

If you have SoD, you need a mod merge I think.

BG2 doesn't need anything but several mods are kinda bugging out. There are hot fixes for SCS tho.

 

[Epsilon]

If you have SoD, you need a mod merge I think.

BG2 doesn't need anything but several mods are kinda bugging out. There are hot fixes for SCS tho.

Thats what I was missing, cheers!

 

[Sykar]

What the hell did Beamdog do the character sprites? They look really weird.

 

[SwiftCrack]

they added a general licorice colored outline for diversity

 

[Makabb]

Which looks like shit, are they blind ?

 

[Xeon]

Can be turned off with the neighbor something graphic option to the vanilla pixelated version.

Looks pretty good zoomed out but blurry looks much better zoomed in.

 

[roshan]

Can be turned off with the neighbor something graphic option to the vanilla pixelated version.

Looks pretty good zoomed out but blurry looks much better zoomed in.

You have to disable sprite outlines then reload the game.