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[Notso]

I see. I think.

 

 

Also... Not sure if this is the right place for this, but the first unscripted enemy encounter I had in the game presented me with 10 kobolds, 3 hobgoblin archers, and 2 hobgoblin swordy people, one of which poisoned me. How on earth was I supposed to beat that, and do you know which mod was responsible? I know I took the "tactic" version, but seriously...

[dabus]

Might be bgspawn. This mod will replace the simple random encounters in BG1 with a ingenious system. Instead of always the same spawned creatures as in the past there are now different creatures, depending of the area in that you travel and whether it is day-time or night-time. The difficulty of the encounters is depending of the experience of your party.
That one and something from scs like Increase difficulty of level-dependent monster groupings or Improved Random Encounters.
By the way: That's one of the reasons I wouldn't play a "plain" BWP install. I guess that it would modify too much for my taste even in the recommended state.

[Notso]

Yeah, I will reinstall, see if I can replicate the SCSII thing, and take off some of the extra mods... C:

[The Imp]

Also... Not sure if this is the right place for this, but the first unscripted enemy encounter I had in the game presented me with 10 kobolds, 3 hobgoblin archers, and 2 hobgoblin swordy people, one of which poisoned me. How on earth was I supposed to beat that, and do you know which mod was responsible? I know I took the "tactic" version, but seriously...

 Were you on BG1 or BG2 area ?

 

If you were on BG1 area, save a lot less... yep, in case you didn't know, everytime you save, the game resets the spawn with another bunch of creatures.

If in BG2 area, you should be able to handle those with a choke point and Imoens fireball or similar tactics.

[Notso]

Also... Not sure if this is the right place for this, but the first unscripted enemy encounter I had in the game presented me with 10 kobolds, 3 hobgoblin archers, and 2 hobgoblin swordy people, one of which poisoned me. How on earth was I supposed to beat that, and do you know which mod was responsible? I know I took the "tactic" version, but seriously...

 Were you on BG1 or BG2 area ?

 

If you were on BG1 area, save a lot less... yep, in case you didn't know, every time you save, the game resets the spawn with another bunch of creatures.

If in BG2 area, you should be able to handle those with a choke point and Imoens fireball or similar tactics.

 

The problem is it was literally the first enemy group I encountered [waiving the assassinations and the rats in Candlekeep]. They instagibbed my Wolf, so I was left with a very under-equipped party to fight mobs which were using poisoned weapons which I would have struggled with even an hour into a normal game of BG1. There had been no opportunity to buy an antidote... I've played this game a lot before, I know how to handle myself with tactics like chokepoints, etc. I even restarted from a save, and tried luring them one-by-one. Didn't help. Trust me when I say there was no way I could have won this fight without cheating.

 

However, I didn't come here to complain about that specifically, I was just trying to find out which mod was responsible so I could remove it - I never had this problem on previous installs of BWS.

 

Anyway, I'm reinstalling, using the Standard version, and I haven't encountered the missing SCII dependency warnings yet, so I'm a happy bunny. Hopefully, that OP group of hobgoblins has gone now too.

[Notso]

@WhoeverDecidesTheseThings

 

You might want to remove the mod "Askaria" from the versions of BWS below "Tactic" - not only does it assume you want to roleplay your character as an asshole by completely limiting your dialogue options, more importantly it creates a very hard, unavoidable fight right outside the Jovial Juggler in Beregost [high level bandits with frost arrows that can 2-hit level 1 NPCS, which is the level you'll be at when you get to Beregost], essentially forcing you do Nashkel first.

 

... I had a party of 6, with 2 clerics fully loaded with healing spells, and gear too good for my level [due to the "Dragon Slayer" Paladin kit's ability to just sell all the Arrows of Dragon Slaying he creates], and I only managed to kill 2 of the 7 bandits before I got party wiped.

[Tzarnal]

I mostly play Tactic and I don't even want it in there.

[dabus]

@Notso:
I usually use the same settings as the BWP, which also just installs it if it's available.

@GuerillaJones:
Depends on your setup. Could either be a permission problem, your firewall, proxy, window 8 is bitchy and seems to wants you to run the script as an admin, maybe you got an old package with old/bad links. Perhaps looking at the BiG World Setup\Logs\BiG World Download Debug.txt would help.

[dabus]

Hmm. Looks odd.

If you still want to use the BWS, you could download the files from the http://kerzenburg.ba....eu/bwpmods.php into the download-folder of the BWS, skip the checking and select the No download - only report missing mods option later.

You might want to check for the response of the wget-tool that is used to download if you want to check a bit deeper.
Open a cmd prompt, navigate to the BiG World Setup-directory and execute wget.

BiG World Setup\Tools\wget.exe --no-check-certificate --server-response --no-passive-ftp --connect-timeout=20 --tries=1 --spider "http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?app=downloads&module=display&section=download&do=confirm_download&id=778"

It should return a longer piece of text. There are a few lines that would be important:
 

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://downloads.spellholdstudios.net/Celestiales_v1.2.7z
Content-Length: 4713046
Length: 4713046 (4,5M) [application/x-7z-compressed]
Remote file exists.

If you don't got those lines, it's quite possible that wget has some problem here and thus the BWS does not fetch the files.

Edited by dabus, 07 April 2013 - 12:58 PM.

[dabus]

Eh? You typed all that from above including the url for Celestiales and the program still tells you that it didn't get an URL?

Or did you just type in wget? If it's the later, you have to type in the complete line from above. Otherwise I'd guess that the CMD-implementation seems to be mushy.

Edited by dabus, 07 April 2013 - 04:28 PM.

[dabus]

Try the same with the parameters from above... copy --no-check-certificate and the rest of the other parameters.

[dabus]

Hmm. Did you miss the quotes? If not, cmd seems a bit messed up in your case, which would translate to wget not working for the BWS as well.

[Vax]

Hey guys i tried to use BWS for the firsft time using the standard setup with no changes to the suggested mods.

 

i have a few issues.

 

1) Every few minutes i get a notification for each character saying that they can't cast multiple instances of the same spell on themselves.

 

2) For each container i equip (gem, potion, spell case or box or bag of holding), the game begins to start acting weirder. The characters' movement stalls every second or two and the audio gets all wonky. The effect is cumulative i.e. one or two bags is a little annoying, but with 4, the effect is drastic. there's as much studdering as actual movement.

 

What's the deal?

 

I included the Setup-BWS_Final.Debug file

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[Vax]

Oh yeah an addendum to above:

 

When i drop the containers the jittering stops. It does not matter which chracter holds them. and i am playing multiplayer with all of my own characters.

[Vax]

Another note on the jittering. It has been happening since the beginning of the game. Also, i think the container items i have found are third party add-in items. So, i tried dropping them and CLUA'd in regular "bag0x" items. These had the same cumulative jitter/pausy thing, and it affects all movement including the cursor movement and moving around the area map. It's like the whole program is freezing and unfreezing over and over. Which would explain the wonky audio as well. It's frustrating but i am not far in. So, i will keep this game in play if anyone is interested in more specifics. I appreciate all the work that goes into this. Please let me know if any further info is needed. Thanks!