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Craig · Post by **Craig** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 2:30 pm

Can anyone tell me the low down on mods and such like? I've been away for a while, and I want to know about new NPC's, weapons, BBEG's. I also want a foot rest.

Oh and as a side note, has anyone converted BGII into 3rd edition?

Skuld · Post by **Skuld** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 3:24 pm

To change BG2 from AD&D to 3E would be a huge undertaking, and I doubt it'll be done any time soon if at all. But the low down on mods. They're all HERE . If you've got any more questions, ask away. And in the Darkest Day they brought back Kivan, WOOHOO!!!

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:21 pm

sola and ascention for fun, challenges, craig, eclipse in sola beat bun bun!!!!!

kelcy and tashia for fun interactions....
nalia romance is kinda lame, but still playing thru, as i have ascention installed, and waiting for

chloe and rowan, and keto.... and immie relationship mod, and the added flirt packs and updated valen....

new stuff coming out, lots of really good stuff....heck, even not bothering with neverwinter, looking foward to knights of the old empire....

but for sheer richness and gaming goodness, sola is great, and i have heard many good things about kelcy...

tashia is by far the most interesting chick in bg2...

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 3:47 am

They got TDD TOB compatable?!YEAH!YAY

I know most of those things

Larger Modules
Shadows Over Soubar - Adventure Addin Game Mod [ToB required]?

Epic Endeavours - Tactical Adventure Game Conversion [SoA only]?

The Darkest Day - Adventure Addin Game Mod [SoA or ToB]!

Smaller Modules
Ascension (David Gaider's original version) - Addin Mini-Mod [ToB required]!
WeiDU Version (with some changes made by Weimer) - Addin Mini-Mod [ToB required]?

Nalia's Romance - Romance Addin Mini-Mod [ToB required]?!

Solaufein NPC - Romance Addin Mini-Mod [SoA or ToB]?!

Valen NPC - Romance Addin Mini-Mod [SoA or ToB]?

Kelsey NPC - Romance/Adventure Addin Mod [SoA or ToB]?

Tashia NPC - Romance Addin Mini-Mod [ToB Required]?

MunchMOD - Addin Game Mini-Mod [SoA or TDD]?

Freedom's Reign - Item/Spell Pack Expansion Mini-Mod [SoA or ToB or TDD]!!

Reign of Virtue - Adventure Addin Game Mini-Mod [ToB required]?

The Forgotten Children - Addin Game Mini-Mod [TDD required]?

Expanded Thief Stronghold - Stronghold Expansion Mini-Mod [ToB required]?

Exnem's Addon - Item/Spell Pack Expansion

?

?=Don't know !=Yeah!
?!=Tell me more! !!=Hooray!

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Thu Aug 08, 2002 12:46 pm

Please, any help?

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Thu Aug 08, 2002 2:50 pm

As User said, the Sola stuff is great, very challenging...I'd get all the WeiDu stuff. There's new mods from Wes too, improved Illyich and 'The Ritual' (still unfinished at the moment -- comes as playable beta -- but very challenging and nicely done)

Shadows over Soubar is really big (300 megs), I tried it briefly and it seems to offer new NPCS with interaction and a bunch of new quests... I think there are compatibility issues with WeiDu though...or there were anyway.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 3:59 am

I don't understand what sola is who wes is or any of that. Thats why I want it all explained.

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:24 am

Oh I see...

'wes' is Wes Weimar, creator of the Solaufein romance mod...Solaufein becomes a joinable NPC just after you've finished the drow city, assuming he didn't end up dead. He's got a ton of interactions with other npcs, a non gender specific romance, and several additional encounters. The mod also improves the AI of many of the tougher monsters (dragons, mindflayers, beholders -- many of these improvements were worked on by others, including Xyx) and important battles (improved Bodhi and improved Irenicus).

The beauty of Wes' mods is that they come in WeiDu format which makes installing them a breeze -- I'm a technical dead head and so this matters loads to me, I got in a terrible mess with the original Ascension

Here is where you can get the Sola mod and all the other stuff...there's loads I haven't even mentioned (Valen etc), plenty to keep BG2 feeling fresh.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:36 am

Can someone comfirm that Tob+TDD=ok? Does the weidu go ok with both? Thank yo KR!

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:51 am

WeiDu stuff works great with Tob AFAIK...infact I think its required. As for TDD, I don't know, I'd imagine there might be problems and it'd be a case of trying it (at your own risk natuarally

). Backing up the override and dlg.tlk files would probably be a good idea. I've heard that there's now a 'mod swapper' utility available to make that sort of thing less painful, but I don't know any details.

I tried another TeamBG mod, Shadows Over Soubar with Weidu stuff and that did cause problems at the time -- maybe its been fixed since then, I don't know.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:54 am

Is there one package I can download all the TOB and TDD compatable stuff?

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:58 am

Originally posted by kopywrite
WeiDu stuff works great with Tob AFAIK...infact I think its required. As for TDD, I don't know, I'd imagine there might be problems and it'd be a case of trying it (at your own risk natuarally ). Backing up the override and dlg.tlk files would probably be a good idea. I've heard that there's now a 'mod swapper' utility available to make that sort of thing less painful, but I don't know any details.

I tried another TeamBG mod, Shadows Over Soubar with Weidu stuff and that did cause problems at the time -- maybe its been fixed since then, I don't know.

But is says

The Darkest Day - Adventure Addin Game Mod [SoA or ToB] Ephasis added by me

Does this mean it can be added with Tob?

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:13 am

ToB version of TDD has just been released, so I'd imagine its ToB friendly otherwise they'd get in trouble with the Trade Descriptions people

But, like I said I've not personally tried it.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:52 am

THANK YOU!

So Where can I download that, and where can I download the whole of WeiDu?

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:00 am

Here for TDD. Check my third post from last in this thread for the link to Sola. etc.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:32 pm

Can't I download all of WeiDu together?

kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:43 am

No. they're broken down into Sola romance (including additional random encounters, improved dragons and various other monsters, improved guarded compound, improved twisted rune (very nasty

), improved kangaxx, improved irenicus (yowza!) and improved Bodhi (extra yowza!)), the Valen npc mod (including anti-paladin kit), ease of use mod (various 'cheats' and ways to bring BG2 back closer to PnP rules), 'The Ritual' (mini adventure, very hard with a time limit

)...I've probably forgotten some.

Each component of each mod can be installed seperately (eg improved dragons but not improved Irenicus) and they've all got a very nice self extracting thingy which helps considerably.

The whole lot is very quick to d/l as no files are really that big -- and everything is being updated all the time. The newest thing is an improved Sahaugin city mod to make getting the cloak of mirroring more of a challenge.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 4:49 pm

Thank you

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 11:40 pm

hardest of all is eclipse in sola...it beat bun bun!!!

wes had a counter for every one of my cheesy tricks, and that kiddies, is a lot of cheesy tricks...

might download later to try again, have some new improved ones...

Alson · Post by **Alson** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:19 am

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
might download later to try again, have some new improved ones...

User, you should really try the Improved Sahuagin City...
The use-to-be pathetic fishes are now killer sharks...

No doubt - Wes is a genius...