Concealed Painting at Mae Var's Guildhall Level 3

Keldorn's Justice · Post by **Keldorn's Justice** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:07 am

When I try to pick the lock at the door it says that the door is actually a clever bit of painting g molding on the wall. How can I go inside?
X = 666
Y = 138

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:46 pm

Keldorn's Justice wrote:When I try to pick the lock at the door it says that the door is actually a clever bit of painting g molding on the wall. How can I go inside?
X = 666
Y = 138

You can't. It is exacly what it says it is.

Last time I checked, you couldn't "go inside" paintings...

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:58 am

Hm. It's been ages since I played BG, but does the rogue stone work on it?

QuenGalad · Post by **QuenGalad** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:52 am

Rogue Stone is for the door in the Bridge District, Tricky. This thing here is one of the many "nothing to see here, move along" points that are found in ridiculous places, such as "unfinished stairs" in a beholder lair or the friggin' Tree of Life, or a magically fastened door 'leading to an empty storage room' in the Planar Sphere - I always wondered how can we tell it's just an empty storage, is there a visor in the door? To check up on crates?

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:07 am

I guess there is little left to be discovered in this game.

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:41 am

QuenGalad wrote:Rogue Stone is for the door in the Bridge District, Tricky. This thing here is one of the many "nothing to see here, move along" points that are found in ridiculous places, such as "unfinished stairs" in a beholder lair or the friggin' Tree of Life, or a magically fastened door 'leading to an empty storage room' in the Planar Sphere - I always wondered how can we tell it's just an empty storage, is there a visor in the door? To check up on crates?

An educated guess on my part is that when the developers created their cities and areas they used the same models for several places in order to save time. As such, for many of those houses etc there really was no intention of adding anything extra, and a room that's been created just for the sake of creating a room isn't really all that funny to explore, 'twould, again, also take up precious development time.

As for the Tree of Life etc, I really don't know, but I'm guessing they either had no time or they had problems with some aspects of the infinity engine (but you'd really have to ask a modder or game developer about that, I can't say!). We already know that many things in the final game were cut due to development deadline - 'Tis definately not an easy job to make a good game, and since BG2 is as old as it is that could've also meant that they were using less optimal solutions than we see today.

Tricky wrote:I guess there is little left to be discovered in this game.

Hehe, aye, true dat!

Keldorn's Justice · Post by **Keldorn's Justice** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:01 am

Thanks everyone