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[Illasera The Quick]

A new damage-type "sonic" could be interesting for new spells, according effects like "sonic resistance" would be necessary too

I'm fully for adding such but I think it would require dozens of appropriate spells, items etc. Too much work on the maps and items themselves. I'd like to force some kind of another issue. There aren't any Monk, Barbarian nor Sorcerer's kits I think it's determining factor of not using these classes at all by an average player and avoiding them by 95% of modders. It's a pity. Of course fact that monks suck is essential too (on of Bigg's commponents fixes it though), but with some proper items from mods Barbarian can grow really strong so as Sorcerer would if we gave him a chance to get kits, provide items for bonus spells remembering? But I think the possibility of adding kits is fairly enough decent job for one person also very exclusive would it make ur mod in my opinion.

[prune1]

First of all I want to offer belated congratulations on this amazing thing you've got here. Adds some great features, and I hope you do keep working on it.

Secondly, would it be possible to have the game display the following in the combat log:

CreatureName - Save vs death (item/spell/effect in relation to): Failed
CreatureName - Save vs death (item/spell/effect in relation to): Successful

as opposed to, i think, just

CreatureName - Save vs death

By which it means the save was successful, and simply does not display anything on a failed save I believe?
Also, i'm pretty sure the game, as it stands, does not tell you what the save was for exactly?

I want to just say, this is something I seem to remember from some time ago and, not having the game installed to check extensively, it may be outrightly false and perhaps the combat log does do this already?

Going on the premise it does not; I realise you can figure out someone failing a save quite easily, but this just makes it easier to track.
The main thing would be if the messages could be modified to display what the save was for, as this is the sort of thing you can quickly lose track of in a large battle over a long period.

Hope i've not said anything too silly there; my coding knowledge is near to non-existant so I don't know if this is possible, nor the ramifications of such a change.
I haven't picked the game up in some time as well, so anyone feel free to let me know if i'm talking crazy.
Oh, and, have NOT read all 15 pages or so, and if this has been mentioned, sorry and just ignore!

[phordicus]

a new effect that adjusts an item's weight by % up or down. WhileEquipped would be enough though other timings would make it more versatile.

[JustMe]

This may be "pie in the sky", but would it be possible to make starting BG2 automatically skip the three animated logos (Black Isle, Bioware, and TSR) and load the most recently saved game? So double-clicking the BG2 icon would take you straight into the action.

[smeagolheart]

Is it possible for a tweak that allows a thief to remain hidden if he switches weapons? Current behaviour is quite annoying really!

can do that already with invisibility not sneaking

[pacek]

Is it possible for a tweak that allows a thief to remain hidden if he switches weapons? Current behaviour is quite annoying really!

can do that already with invisibility not sneaking

I know, that's why it'd be nice if Hide in Shadows worked similar to invisibility in this regard.

Edited by pacek, 14 April 2011 - 04:02 PM.

[sotona]

Is it possible for a tweak that allows a thief to remain hidden if he switches weapons? Current behaviour is quite annoying really!

can do that already with invisibility not sneaking

I know, that's why it'd be nice if Hide in Shadows worked similar to invisibility in this regard.

+1
I also want to remain hidden in shadows while entering areas (like entering some building) and performing simple actions (like opening the door). The current game behavior is vastly annoying.

[Miloch]

This may be "pie in the sky", but would it be possible to make starting BG2 automatically skip the three animated logos (Black Isle, Bioware, and TSR) and load the most recently saved game? So double-clicking the BG2 icon would take you straight into the action.

Ascension64 is (historically) opposed to this, but there is an existing tweak in Mix-Mod that does the movie-skipping (or a revised version here). I'm not sure loading the most recent save is a good idea, as you may want to load an alternate save or start a new game, etc.

[JohnMoonlord]

Is it possible for a tweak that allows a thief to remain hidden if he switches weapons? Current behaviour is quite annoying really!

can do that already with invisibility not sneaking

I know, that's why it'd be nice if Hide in Shadows worked similar to invisibility in this regard.

+1
I also want to remain hidden in shadows while entering areas (like entering some building) and performing simple actions (like opening the door). The current game behavior is vastly annoying.

Make that +2: that would be so sweet!

[JustMe]

Ascension64 is (historically) opposed to this, but there is an existing tweak in Mix-Mod that does the movie-skipping (or a revised version here).

Hey, thanks! That option does not show up in the BWS, so it's maybe not so discoverable. But I just appended it to my mega-install, and it works as advertised. Great! (I've added it to my own mega-install files, but I would seriously advise adding this as a MixMod option in BWS.)

I do think changing the EXE would be a superior alternative, since it wouldn't require deleting any files from the original install, but the MixMod component is certainly a viable alternative.

I'm not sure loading the most recent save is a good idea, as you may want to load an alternate save or start a new game, etc.

Yes, I did consider that before I posted. But if it auto-loaded a savegame on start, subsequently loading a different save, or even starting a new game, wouldn't take any more time than currently. And generally speaking, it would speed up getting into the game. It's only a wild idea, though.

[10th]

Would it be possible to change the way XP for traps and locks are arwarded? Under the existing system a level 13/13/16 Fighter/Mage/Thief gets trap/lock XP as if if he were a level 13 thief, instead of correctly gaining XP like a level 16 thief.

I guess that bgmain.exe simply takes the first level instead of checking for the thief level.

10th

Edited by 10th, 19 April 2011 - 01:16 PM.

[GeN1e]

I guess that bgmain.exe simply takes the first level instead of checking for the thief level.

It's the arithmetic mean of levels. I.e. Imoen, despite growing only in wizard class, still receives higher XP reward that a 7th thief should.

[10th]

@arithmetic meam
Thanks for the information

10th

Edited by 10th, 20 April 2011 - 08:12 AM.

[Kalindor]

I know that I've already requested a new opcode (increased % elemental damage dealt), but I would also like to suggest a true damage reduction effect. The effect would reduce all damage taken from a specified damage type by X. For example, damage reduction 5 against fire damage would reduce all fire damage directed at the target by 5. This would also make mods that rely on less AC but more resistances on heavy armor the opportunity to use damage reduction instead of a % resistance.
There is still the question on how this would interact with the damage resistance opcodes in terms of order of application.

[EarthquakeDamage]

I know that I've already requested a new opcode (increased % elemental damage dealt), but I would also like to suggest a true damage reduction effect. The effect would reduce all damage taken from a specified damage type by X. For example, damage reduction 5 against fire damage would reduce all fire damage directed at the target by 5. This would also make mods that rely on less AC but more resistances on heavy armor the opportunity to use damage reduction instead of a % resistance.
  There is still the question on how this would interact with the damage resistance opcodes in terms of order of application.

So, basically you want an opcode that works like IWD2 (i.e. 3rd ed) DR.  I suspect that'd be easier to do with GemRB than ToBEx.  Still, it could be a nice addition so long as modders make good use of it.

Also, suggestions:

• IIRC there are a few damage types available to the Damage opcode (#12) that can crash the game.  For example, I'm pretty sure killing something with the Soul Eater damage type causes a crash.  I'm guessing it's due to missing animations for that type.  I don't know how those odd damage types work (esp. regarding resistances), but if they have interesting/unusual behavior they might be worth fixing.
  
• Would it be possible to expand the damage types available to weapons?  A flametongue sword, for example, could deal Fire damage, complete with Melee + Strength bonuses.  As opposed to the current situation where those bonuses can only affect physical damage, since the elemental damage must be added with an on-hit Damage effect.

[sotona]

It'd be cool if whenever PC is shadowed (positioned under area region that 'casts shadow') he receives some bonus to Sneak skill. I actually thought that the game engine works that way already, but obviously it isn't true:)