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I don't remember what I was preaching but save scumming is cheating. I save scum all the time. I usually add weight / inventory unlock mods after getting my fill of inventory-management suffering. Just done too much damn inventory management in my lifetime of gaming. Shit got old in Rogue

Breach and clear got me through BG in my solo playthrough. That and stealth->backstab->runaway at mach3. Standing two screens away and letting five different pulsing AE effects just easy-bake-oven everything while you send in random groups of summons was super strong. In my current playthrough...

I pretty much 100%'d Skyrim and FO4 at release. Even if they had bugs they weren't broken pieces of trash.

I really like Wild Mage. I might include it on my BG2 run, but I'd really have to delete My Gold! effect in Wild Surge. No matter how fun it is to be able to cast wild surges all over, having an effect that can takes away 80% of your gold at random is terrible...

You can ditch Dynaheir. Just go into a house, boot her from the party and leave the house before she talks to you. Talking to you triggers Minsc's script to leave. In my playthrough there's a house in Beregost with an angry Dynahier and a sign labeled "DONT OPEN ANGRY BITCH INSIDE"...

Khalid is cursed to be the first party member to get the boot by everybody. Betas finish last.

Just looking at the first three, if you get Luclin first doesn't that make the other two faceroll easy and mostly irrelevant (epics not withstanding)? I think I'd be more interested in grouping more expansions together.

Would be interesting to see the #s on $ spent per account on Vaniki. Big question is how to fleece EQ players by providing them an enjoyable EQ experience that is hard enough for them to want to dump a bunch of $$$ into. TLP EQ is so braindead easy that all the krono purchases are just to skip...

As the person who pulled that idea out of my ass and called it confirmed in An Experimental Year in TLPs | Page 3 | EverQuest Forums , I also support massive changes to class balance in a given TLP as long as the rules are announced ahead of time. If you roll wizard on a melee quest server you...

I never tried a dual-class because I felt like there is only a window where a dual-classed kensai/mage (or whatever) is optimal, but before and after that window other options are better. Plus I reroll at the start of BG2 (or whenever I feel like it).

An 50% incombat runspeed would be interesting. And make for a terrible DOA server.

Yeah, and I find that for the kind of autist gamers in this thread any stat-based RPG like Baldur's Gate is most difficulty early on before we have an opportunity to completionist / metagame it. So the "optimal build" in the early and mid-game might be more important than end-game anyway. The...

The only game I've ever murderhobo'd in is Ultima Underworld and more-so than any other game it feels like the best choice. The game is so constrained because it's just a dungeon with 8 levels with no respawning (I think?) and most NPCs aren't hostile, and many of the friendly NPCs have the best...

Ke Huy Quan winning best actor is an interesting bag of emotions. I know nothing of EEAO's casting or backstory but I'm guessing that conversation went like, "OK, we need to cast a man who represents a lifetime of regret. We'll spend a few hours deriding him as a fucking loser who held back the...

A few points: I don't know what the game is like with custom party, but Some classes start off trash and end up good. Examples are monks, multi-classed characters. A fighter/mage/thief multi-class is a classic powerhouse, but in BG1 you spend most of the time being worse than either a mage or...

I still use D_Simpson Baldur's Gate - Guide and Walkthrough - PC - By D_Simpson - GameFAQs as a guide. I just copy that into a text file and erase as I go through the content. All but guarantees you see all the content in BG1. You don't need to really read ahead or spoil everything, just review...

How am I able to smell this thing through twitter? It smells like a boxed fart.

There's a lot of ways to play Baldur's Gate, especially if the difficulty isn't cranked to the max. One run of BG1/2 I just solo'd the entire game with a fighter/mage/thief multiclass. It's easier than it sounds because you can do stealth hijinx and allllll the XP gets funneled to you, so you...

I'm curious, If DPG made another "hard-mode" TLP ruleset in a couple years, what would you recommend to increase popularity? I didn't play on Vaniki but the it seems like a -5 level cap instead of -10, some changes around resist/charm and a change in the level req/rec system wouldn't be a...

It being on Unreal 5 is really interesting. Will probably be a huge boon while adding risk due to how new Unreal 5 is. Unreal 4 never really got a lot of traction as a game to build AAA MMOs on, but Unreal 5 has a ton of compelling advantages and the cost of building a "Black Desert Game Engine"...

Live EQ at release can be extremely lucrative. I can roll in and start farming anything anywhere, the collection items sell especially well. In the last expansion I earned an absolute massive amount of plat. Taking into account the time spent earning/selling it, I *might* have cracked minimum...

Yeah the two big features I'd care about are difficulty modes and scalability. I've played a lot of Sim City but got bored mid-tier in Skylines because it was kinda easy and just felt like a city "painter" instead of a city builder.

Pharmakos is 100% correct in everything he's said. His deep understanding of how hot water swirls around when it boils is fundamental to connecting the speed of light with the concept of terminal velocity. These revelations are how civilizations break through great filters.

It can't be cleared up because dog autists disagree with each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pit_Bull_Terrier fwiw I agree with your take. If it looks like a monster beast and has a lineage of bulldog/terrier, it's a pitbull.

Can't wait for the 10 Elden Ring episodes of this.

I know, right? I'll answer that when I get this radar mod to work and fight these mages and see what kind of bullshit they come up with.

Nice, my super-modded BG1 install from 2019 works. Looks like I stopped playing on the Tales of the Sword Coast Ice Island right before the three mage fight. I think this was the first fight of my playthrough against multiple mages and their absolute bullshit abilities made me realize how...

In all the games I've ever played BG is the only one I know about that even tries to create this kind of protection vs stripping system. It's not as noticeable in vanilla BG2 because spellcasters don't attempt to play optimally, but SCS brings it to the forefront by turning every mage into a...

Control-wise I think the only autism I got into with UI was creating AHK scripts that would cast spells from a single button. The default game has bindable keys but it's super limited. I wonder if there are mods for that these days...

another good post I have saved on this problem.

Do you play with Sword Coast Stratagems ( Sword Coast Stratagems ) and the Tactics mod ( The Tactics Mod ) both of these ramp up the difficulty considerably. My problem is that a mage will have so many layers of protection isn't not just a matter of casting a few strip spells and you're good to...

So, my last playthrough of Baldur's Gate in 2019 was terminated when I started running into ridiculous mages that were casting multiple layers of spell protections. I put off playing until I could view spell buffs so I could know what the hell was going on. Looks like that was made recently...

+1 point if the ambient sound of the zone immediately surfaces in your brain https://www.eq-guessr.com/new

Yeah, BG1 to start is recommended for CRPGs. BG1 follows 20 years of CRPG development ( History of Western role-playing video games - Wikipedia ) but is a good insertion point and is still used as a barometer to compare CRPGs against before or after it. The QOL improvements from the enhanced...

Any time-keeping system used in space will have to handle drift that exceeds the kind of time dilation we'd see in manned vessels in the Sol system. Just about everyone in the near future is probably going to use UTC and there's not much reason to change that...

If it all works cleanly, that's great. Personally I view the distinction between BG1, BG2 and ToB so significant that the first goal of uniting them seems counter to the game. Trying to make BG1 areas accessible from ToB seems like it'd risk breaking a game. But if it works, that's really cool...

Sure, but after going through BG1, BG2 and Throne of Bhaal I imagine just about anyone would want a breather and do some, I don't know, battle royale games before moving on to more isometric crpgs. That trilogy is like, 300 hours of game depending on the difficulty settings and how tryhard you...

I was dragged into seeing this without knowing a single thing about it, even who was in it.

Unlike the other Disney first-time live-action adaptations I feel like Peter Pan needs a bigger twist than racial diversity to have a reason to be made. Whatever.

What would the advantage of that over UTC be?