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[Hendar23]

Hi. My first post here so first I want to thank all you mod makers who have kept Baldurs Gate fresh after all these years. I can only imagine the hours you folks spend bring all this awesome to the world for free. I've used these forums as a reference for a while, but I never had a reason to post her before.

Short version: I want NEED to transfer all my items from BG1 to BG2.

Long version: Anyhoo, so I'm playing with the Baldurs Gate Trilogy mod, plus a bunch of other mods. I did the Big World installation and just went for all the recommended stuff. I had previously just finished a complete play-through of BG1, when I came across BGT mod. The main attraction was the smooth transition from BG1 to BG2. Yay! So I did another complete playthrough of BG1 with this mod in order to be properly ready for BG2. I never got into BG2 back when it was released and I've now played over 120 hours of BG1 in anticipation of sinking my teeth into the main course that is BG2. Now I totally enjoyed my time with BG1, but I was thinking the whole time about starting BG2. With a mountain of cash. And dozens of named items. Hundreds of meticulously collected potions, ammunition and a massive collection of jewels and precious stones.

So I just discovered that a smooth transition from BG1 to BG2 does not include keeping all your items. Wait, what??!? I know, it was my assumption. I'm sure it would totally break the balance of the game, but surely its an option? Surely? I just feel like all that effort of my latest playthrough has been a total and complete waste of time. I worked hard to get all that cool stuff, I'm not just giving it all up. Can anyone help me? I was in total denial at first. When Imoen said 'I'm sure they sold our best stuff' I was like 'lol yeah sure, the Flaming Fist let us keep all our stuff when we where arrested for murder.' I kept expecting to find my loot locked up in a chest somewhere in Icurnus's base.

Ive tried the pausing at the start of BG2 thing and that doesn't seem to work.

So can anyone help? I know a lot of you will say 'Whatever dude, you'll soon have a bunch more cool items. Don't worry about it.' or 'Dude, it will make the start of BG2 waaaay to easy' and I totally understand that, but it's not good enough for me because:
1. I don't care if it breaks the challenge. I enjoy a tough battle in BG, I'm a gamer who with any other game automatically selects the hardest difficulty setting without a thought, but I mainly play RPGs for the story and I don't have a problem leaning back in my seat with a beer watching the AI chew up the bad-guys on autopilot.
2. It kills the continuity for me. I just spent a few dozen hours meticulously collecting a hoard of wealth, and fully expected to continue that for the next couple of hundred hours.
3. I carefully collected and sold every single piece of loot that was dropped. Thats a lot of time spend picking up shortswords. There is no way in hell I did that for nothing.

I usually have no problem keeping a sense of perspective with games, but this time I literally feel like I've been punched in the stomach. When you spend over an hour of concentrated effort trying to win a round of Empires Mod and one noob on your team screws up and costs you the game, I can shrug my shoulders when others are raging. A complete playthrough of BG constitutes a lot more effort, and I'm really desperate for a solution to this. I've seen people rage-quit MMOs when they lost one days progress. This has taken me months!

Anyway, I know it's my fault I didn't check the details before I started, but if anyone here can help me tweak the game to my preference I'd really, really appreciate it.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Load the save game before the transfer, go to an are where there is a container that you can open and put all your items in and push the "x"-key, it will give you the area name... something to the effect of "arxxxx", next complete the transfer, see the sights and complete the Irenicus dungeons area with the equipment the game gives... then use the Console to transfer the selected party members to the old area with this:

CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("arxxxx")

And when you have taken what you want... use that again this time just using the other area code:

CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("ar0602")

[Hendar23]

Load the save game before the transfer, go to an are where there is a container that you can open and put all your items in and push the "x"-key, it will give you the area name... something to the effect of "arxxxx", next complete the transfer, see the sights and complete the Irenicus dungeons area with the equipment the game gives... then use the Console to transfer the selected party members to the old area with this:

CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("arxxxx")

And when you have taken what you want... use that again this time just using the other area code:

CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("ar0602")

You, Sir, rock.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou! I was getting ready to teach myself WeiDu and all sorts of shit. Come here so I can kiss you.

[10th]

If you've used the BWP:

Take a look at the mod components in your WeiDU.log.

If you happen to have this

~KONTWK/SETUP-KONTWK.TP2~ #0 #11 // Rod of Refuge

component installed, you don't have to resort to the console and can do it in game.

This component adds an area to which you can teleport in order to rest safely and store loot. The access item can be found in BG1 and BG2, enabling you to do the thing Jarno proposed to do via console. You dump your loot in this area before the transition and don't have access to it until you have defeated a certain creature in the graveyard of Athkatla.

10th

Edited by 10th, 30 December 2011 - 11:18 AM.

[Hendar23]

If you've used the BWP:

Take a look at the mod components in your WeiDU.log.

If you happen to have this

~KONTWK/SETUP-KONTWK.TP2~ #0 #11 // Rod of Refuge

component installed, you don't have to resort to the console and can do it in game.

This component adds an area to which you can teleport in order to rest safely and store loot. The access item can be found in BG1 and BG2, enabling you to do the thing Jarno proposed to do via console. You dump your loot in this area before the transition and don't have access to it until you have defeated a certain creature in the graveyard of Athkatla.

10th

Thanks but I don't have that installed. S'cool, the console thing worked a charm.

I'm relieved it was a lot easier than I thought...I'd done a lot of googling around and I couldn't find a proper solution. Thanks again for the help guys, I'm a happy gamer again