BG:EE

[Dragon Pine]

Do not buy this game.

The implementation. execution and release of EE has been terrible. I have had consistent CTD's, a new mouse scroll bug introduced from one of the patches and a game-breaking bug occur in the first 2 minutes of the game after the last patch. I put my gameplay on hold because they completely screwed up the spawn rate, which has supposedly been fixed, but the game should have NEVER been released with the spawn rate as it was. I've had consistent a.i. glitching problems and a.i. just not responding regardless of scripts being changed, the u.i. is incredibly ugly to me, zoom is blurry, mouse scroll and key scroll speeds are not in synch and seem wacked out, and dialogue voices are nauseatingly immature and obnoxious, there are not nearly enough changeable options such as resolution, brightness, and contrast. The new videos are crap and the option to turn on "to hit roll" numbers are only half implemented as no roll numbers come up when trying to unlock doors, set traps, or remove traps. At this point I would say its been a complete waste of my money and time waiting for patches and still not having a bug free experience.

Do yourself a favor, get the GOG version and play TUTU, it is a far better experience. Of course if you like Immoen saying to your FEMALE character every other minute "oh hay-ya you're sure a queer FELLOW" or listening to your player char say things like "sleepytime can't come soon enough" in a 5 yo childs voice or "I deserve to be leader", and better yet your pet familiar "offering you his tail and bum" then serve yourself up some Enhanced Bugfest Shitshow Edition $20 bendover Baldurs Gate.

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[Bluestorm]

I must say it cool to play it on the ipad...but talk about moving slow.I'm hoping they will be a way to speed it up

[Crenshinibon]

I just finished a run-through of BG:EE and I can safely say that I haven't really ran into any bugs. The most of it was the game crashed on me twice (though it could be that I had many things running at once) and I had one occurrence of no dialog triggering at the Ducal palace, which was easily fixed by a reload.

I feel like it's more stable than TuTu, but has all of the features of it. I only have a handful of complaints:

• Some new items have no description - they just give you the stats and who they are usable by.
• Some classes don't scale well into the game - for instance, I played a Barbarian who was way over the top - by the time I finished the game, my character had around 150 health and -6AC, which is decent even by SoA standards. I was able to fight (SPOILER) Drizzt, Sarevok and even Aec'Letec, head on, with no party, only using potions and no cheese. That, and the Barbarian's Rage ability gave me all of the immunities I could ever want.
• The end credits depict concept art and scenery from ToB - you see Solar, Saradush, etc. This seems out of place to me.
• I would have preferred the old cinematics to the new ones.

I did think the following were a nice touch:

• Updated paperdolls for Half-Orcs, for fighters, priests and thieves (male and female).
• Original BG paperdolls for elves and half-elves.
• Updated spell effects for some of the spells (some come from BG2, some come from IWD/IWDII and others I've never seen before.
• Better AI - I felt like the spellcasters were tougher, and used more crowd control spells.
• Improvements to certain classes - I.E. the Totemetic Druid no longer summons an animal at random, they are now given a menu and can choose what animal to summon.
• Lots of exploits fixed - no more item duplication, etc.

[Sator]

I only finished the Black Pits. Here are my impressions:

- BP is ridiculously easy and short. I finished it with a 6 man party (which is rather weak since you can mow them down with higher levels with a 4 man party) and I DID NOT PREBUFF MY GROUP. That's right, I only buffed once I stepped in the arena. It was on Normal, but still. With proper buffing and grinding for gold to get all items (i did it 1 fight per level) it will be a cakewalk at Insane for anyone who's played trough SoA+ToB

- You need several things installed on your PC so the game can run, it's hard to install it on a PC with no internet connection

- You can export your BP characters to the main game, which will seriously unbalance it. A level 9 Kensai running around with a +3 Katana can probably splatter Drizzt by himself.

[galraen]

The front page has a story about Atari withdrawing the game from Beamdog, I can't comment there as the front page is a dog's dinner, you even have to scroll to the bottom to find a link to the forum*.

I suspect the problem here is the bean counters, accountants decisions hardly ever make sense to normal human beings!

Atari's accountants are certainly shooting themselves in the foot, if not the head. You'd have to be certifiable to by EE now that there's no prospect of BG II.EE ever being released.

*The front page hiding the forum to try and force people to use Disqus is idiotic, no wonder activity on here has died. No way I'm using that nonsense, even when I try to log in with my Facebook account it still won't let me unless I give them access to my E-Mail account. What drugs are they on?

[GawainBS]

The front page has a story about Atari withdrawing the game from Beamdog, I can't comment there as the front page is a dog's dinner, you even have to scroll to the bottom to find a link to the forum*.

I suspect the problem here is the bean counters, accountants decisions hardly ever make sense to normal human beings!

Atari's accountants are certainly shooting themselves in the foot, if not the head. You'd have to be certifiable to by EE now that there's no prospect of BG II.EE ever being released.

*The front page hiding the forum to try and force people to use Disqus is idiotic, no wonder activity on here has died. No way I'm using that nonsense, even when I try to log in with my Facebook account it still won't let me unless I give them access to my E-Mail account. What drugs are they on?

It's nice to see I'm not the only one with this aversion to Disqus.