DARKEST DAY IS GO!

Deano99 · Post by **Deano99** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 2:21 pm

Yes, you heard me correctly, the MOD you have all been waiting for has arrived at your doorsteps! Oh yes, the Darkest Day is here!!!

After months of long anxious waiting and coverage it is finally here. Weighing in at a massive 266mb of new quests, items, storyline, spells and kits, it is a variatable feast.

Here is a feature list if you haven't already read about them :

9 New and returning NPCs (from BG1)

180+ new items

170+ new spells

39+ new creatures

75 kits

40 Minor Quests, 5 Major and 1 MegaQuest.

Over 30 hours estimated MINIMUM of added gameplay.

So... "where do you get it exactly?" I hear you all cry. Well there are several places in the works, at the moment from :

[url="http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?section=736&file=80744"]Fileplanet[/url]

[url="http://www.3ddownloads.com/?file_id=152746"]3dDownloads[/url]

Well why the heck are you still reading this already? Get and download this wonderful piece of work. My thanks goes out to everyone who has contributed but especially to Minto, Potencius, Kuiriel and of course, Ken. Now get your Download Manager ready and download this masterpiece.

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 3:10 pm

Oh...My....God.

Zelgadis · Post by **Zelgadis** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 3:25 pm

kewl... should we uninstall tob before instaling darkest day?

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 3:27 pm

TDD's development started a long time before ToB was announced, so it's not compatible yet. AT least, that's what I gathered from the TeamBG message boards and the official TDD site.

TC, Geert

Musashi Miyamoto · Post by **Musashi Miyamoto** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 3:46 pm

Hey a quick question can you have two copy of baldurs gate, and how?? cause i would like to keep tob with me so i won't have to muck around with installing uninstalling and blah blah.

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 3:50 pm

The way I'd do it, is:

- make a backup of your saved games
- uninstall SoA/ToB
- install SoA
- copy all SoA files to a new directory
- install ToB and all applicable patches in the first SoA directory: this is where you continue your ToB game
- install all applicable SoA patches in the second SoA directory, the folow with TDD

This should give you a SoA/ToB and a SoA/TDD version of the game. Add appropriate links, and you're set to go.

TC, Geert

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 6:05 pm

Problem is hard drive space. BG2 recommended install is 1.2 gigs. I have only 1.5 gigs on my personal hard drive, so I can't download it (hopefully it will be made compatible).

CtrlAltDel · Post by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 9:58 pm

congrats on the release guys

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 10:52 pm

Nice going. I look forward to trying it very soon, right from the beginning (especially since you've got 75 kits).

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nael · Post by **nael** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 11:06 pm

is there a link to read more about the mod?

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 11:23 pm

[url="http://www.teambg.net/tdd/"]http://www.teambg.net/tdd/[/url]

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 11:24 pm

At the risk of seeming naive, wasn't this the major mod that was discussed about three months ago, on this board? Or am I thinking of another one?

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Deano99 · Post by **Deano99** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 3:38 am

hehe... well this *seems* to be that major MOD...

and looking good it is too! how many of you have downloaded it so far?

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 9:16 am

I spent 4 hours downloading it, then cancelled install when it said 'Uncompatible with Throne of Bhaal.' Although the expansion is considered by many to not be that great, my favorite character is higher level than the exp cap in SoA, so I can't import them into the expansion. Mutter.

Deano99 · Post by **Deano99** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 9:31 am

urrr... that was pretty silly.

the XP Cap of TDD has been raised to that of Lvl 50.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 12:35 pm

Originally posted by MegaToerist:
<STRONG>The way I'd do it, is:

- make a backup of your saved games
- uninstall SoA/ToB
- install SoA
- copy all SoA files to a new directory
- install ToB and all applicable patches in the first SoA directory: this is where you continue your ToB game
- install all applicable SoA patches in the second SoA directory, the folow with TDD

This should give you a SoA/ToB and a SoA/TDD version of the game. Add appropriate links, and you're set to go.
TC, Geert</STRONG>

Doesn't work. The registry has to be set up for a single copy of SoA or SoA/ToB. I've even tried it on two separate drives, and clicking on the non-ToB, TDD-version *still* brings up the ToB menus, and only the SoA/ToB starter kits.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 12:46 pm

Another point: the Baldurdash patches check your registry to see which version is installed. If you have both standard SoA/ToB and SoA/TDD installations, it will refuse to install the SoA bugfix patches on SoA/TDD, since it only sees the SoA/ToB installation.

This *isn't* meant as a slam against TDD, which I fully intend to play right now. It just means we're all going to have to set aside our current ToB games in order to try out TDD. Until somebody has another solution...?

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Musashi Miyamoto · Post by **Musashi Miyamoto** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 2:56 pm

now that'll be very very annonying, and oh just a question how soon can you get that tob patch out so i TDD works with tob cause i dislike intalling and uninstalling the game theyre FAT and slow to install, but for now i'll uninstall it and keep it off for now but

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 3:16 pm

Originally posted by Musashi Miyamoto:
<STRONG>now that'll be very very annonying, and oh just a question how soon can you get that tob patch out so i TDD works with tob cause i dislike intalling and uninstalling the game theyre FAT and slow to install, but for now i'll uninstall it and keep it off for now but</STRONG>

Hey, they just got the mod out. Let 'em have time to celebrate, and rest up. Besides, they deserve a round of applause.

@Musashi, weren't you working on your own mod, at one time?

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reedimus · Post by **reedimus** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 4:25 pm

been playing TDD for a couple days now...what a wonderful addition to SoA. I can't believe something as cool as TDD is free. I'd trade ToB for TDD any day, and I paid 30 bucks for ToB.