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[Ascension64]

1.  Drizzt doesn't seem to have the Scimitar +5, Defender anymore, I was only able to pick pocket the Scimitar +3 before it said "Target has no items."

Well that's because he wields them in his Gloves! Well, he does have them, but maybe the gloves are inaccessible. Just for your information, his +3 is apparently wielded by his amulet!!! Also, I don't believe that he should be able to be pickpocketed anyway...comments on this?

2.  Bassilus:  As soon as he turned red, all his skeletons and zombies died.  I'm asumming they were supposed to attack me, because he died in two hits and didn't even remotely stand a chance on his own.

They all die if Bassilus says "No! They lived, all of them! I saved them and they live! I...I ran. Dead...all dead. It isn't true! It cannot be...You lie! You will die for slighting my memory!"
It's in the game and is supposed to happen. Good work for choosing the right dialogue choices

3.  I don't know why, but a couple of no name buildings in BG one map east of the house with the stone-beast (I'm too tired to try to spell it) and the iron throne causes my game to crash for no apparant reason.

Can you give ARxxxx refs and maybe x,y coords? You need Debug Mode=1 in baldur.ini to enable cheats, then hover mouse cursor to about where you are pointing. Press x and information should appear in the status box. Cheers.

4.  In the building the basilisk is in (aka the stone-beast, no idea if I spelt that right), the guards appear when you start looting the place.  I'm pretty sure this is a bug as it's abandoned, no one can see you, and common you killed a basilisk, whoever owns the stuff can go turn to stone.

Awww...you never know. 'Hide in Shadows' is pretty sneaky. I believe this is also in BG1, so I'll tag it and leave it to the fixpack guys to do.

5.  Along the same lines as number 4, running out of the building seemed to fix the guards, as they did not follow me outwards (was hasted though so they never caught up to chat).

The guards will never follow you out of the building, which is an annoying exploit, yes, but can't do much unless they already talked to you and gone hostile.

6.  My Archer (Ranger->Archer) killed the boss at the bottom of the Cloakwood mines in 3 hits, singlehandedly.  I don't know if this is a bug for him to be so weak or if I just like bragging about my awesome characters, but might be worth looking into, I always thought he put up a bit of a fight.

Are you playing straight BGT-WeiDU? Maybe your guys are just uber-1337-h8x0rz!!!!!11! Definitely not a bug.

7.  When returning to the ankheg region around like 5-7, it is CONSIDERABLY harder.  No more did I fight single ankhegs, instead I kept running into 2-4 at a time, usually 4.  I don't know if this is intentional to make things harder, but damn, you try to rest and you have to send in the fighter with -8 ar to slaughter them while everyone else cowers away with fatigue.

Now, how do you get AC -8? This is spawn system thing, that is kind of juiced. With your uber d00ds, it shouldn't be a problem anyway. Then I again, when I played through it, it was manageable, just use tactics.

Edited by Ascension64, 26 July 2005 - 05:29 AM.

[King Diamond]

They may be one of or the best weapons in BG1, but they should still be theftable.  In BG1 I always stole both of them.

Who told you that? Bioware technical support guy? I absolutely disagree...

Drizzt must be absolutely dumb and out of his drow mind not to notice that his belowed weapon disappeared suddenly right from his hand after you told him some useless text...


About anckheg shell. I think the mod version that Acsension64 is in private posession of solves that...

[King Diamond]

There, its all perfectly balanced!

LOL
Then use CLUA if you want something special. It's not an issue to fix for the mod....

[Ascension64]

There, its all perfectly balanced!

LOL
Then use CLUA if you want something special. It's not an issue to fix for the mod....

I agree. If you want to 'win', then prove you can KILL Drizzt for those items. No, not the Ctrl+Y way...

More on the other bugs later.

[Sir BillyBob]

You want uber cheese? Go install Exnem Items. Drizzt's swords aren't even close to that power.

[Ascension64]

My thief didn't train for years honing her pickpocketing skills only to be told that if she wants something, she has to become a murderer!!   Make it like BG1 again besides, how am I supposed to kill Drizzt without Ctrl+Y or waiting until my chars are lvl 10+? I wanna be uber now

Let me tell you this. If you want Scimitar +5, CLUAConsole it in, SW1H16. I am not going to ramble on about the fact that you hex-edited the DEX and items of your character/s as well, so don't ask me to go into it. Besides, think about the actual bugfix. If I was to fix DRIZZT.CRE, I would place the Scimitar +3 and Simitar +5 in his WEAPON SLOTS. That means you can't pickpocket him at all. No go. This is not a cheat forum, and this is not a bug, because original BG1 had the same bug (i.e. they should be in weapon slots), and I will state clearly now that I will not change this.

Finally, I believe this is starting to clutter up the topic a little, so I hereby ask that further comments about this be abstained from.

[Ascension64]

The guy that meet you after Nashkel mines and should try to kill ya just say his dialog but didnt attack. However i gotta mention that he talked not to protagonistm but to another teammate(another person actually, it was multiplayer) and prot was inside the shop nearby. SO after that he had his blind and was killed. The funny thing is that even when blinded he didnt turn hostile. Only after 1st sucessful hit.

Do you remember the name of this NPC?

PS  I've seen a lot of items being fixed on this thread.  Any idea when there will be a new build we can try out besides 0.99b3?

New build will take a while, no ETA for a while either. I'm a busy man.

Talking to Minsc with Imoen far away from the PC got him in the party without need for a CTRL+Q (same thing happens with PC and Imoen far away). However, his soundset is screwed up (anyway to fix this? I'm getting tired of the strange Quayle/other soundset he has... still a very minor point though) and he still stutters. Tried resting, that doesn't work. I'm guessing this has something to do with him being ported over from the BG1 portion (my party was the standard good PC, Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc, Dynaheir) rather than having an entirely new character created. I'll make a save and then go back and try out starting a new SoA game to see if I can get a non-stuttering Minsc.

Well, same problem with the "New BG2 Game" option. The only difference is Minsc has the right soundset. However, he still stutters (I noticed he and Jaheira get quest experience in this case... in my continuous game, they weren't getting that XP... probably meant to be this way, since the straight BG2 characters have less XP than the ones brought through the entirety of BG1). Jaheira's soundset is correct, which is weird because it wasn't in BG1. I'm assuming this has something to do with a new .CHA file because her romance can now begin?

Finally got to check this one out. Looks like you have a compatibility issue on your hands. NEW BG2 GAME and IMPORTATION are both fine for me.

Ascension, Longer Road, Item Upgrades, and Underrepresented Items.

Does anyone have an idea of what modifies Minsc out of these mods that primetime posted?

Edited by Ascension64, 27 July 2005 - 10:42 PM.

[Kalindor]

Do you remember the name of this NPC?

I believe he is talking about Nimbul (NIMBUL.CRE). You meet him in Nashkel after beating Mulahey.

[seanas]

Ascension, Longer Road, Item Upgrades, and Underrepresented Items.

Does anyone have an idea of what modifies Minsc out of these mods that primetime posted?

ascension does, longer road most likely does, the other two are only item mods