Junior Adventurer's Guild - September: Icewind Dale

[swbgtoc]

Beat the bad guy. Once again the boss was disappointing compared to his minions, lol

[Acrux]

Any of you managed to save Malavon's slaves? I tried power word silence, spiritual lock, teleportation field, but they keep casting Cloudkill and instant kill all slaves

Malavon in my game just about killed himself with his own spells and majority of the slaves were still alive but they did not have any new dialogue and remained there. Same with the rest of Dorn's Deep, the one you can give food to and another in the forge have dialogue (plus the gem cutter in his home) but they all remain in their place and don't return to their camp. I was also trying to find the son of the father who was building the statue, but to no avail and he remained there.

Uh, his son should be standing right next to him. There's no quest or anything about them, except for kiling all the myconids around them.

[DagothGeas5]

Any of you managed to save Malavon's slaves? I tried power word silence, spiritual lock, teleportation field, but they keep casting Cloudkill and instant kill all slaves

Malavon in my game just about killed himself with his own spells and majority of the slaves were still alive but they did not have any new dialogue and remained there. Same with the rest of Dorn's Deep, the one you can give food to and another in the forge have dialogue (plus the gem cutter in his home) but they all remain in their place and don't return to their camp. I was also trying to find the son of the father who was building the statue, but to no avail and he remained there.

Uh, his son should be standing right next to him. There's no quest or anything about them, except for kiling all the myconids around them.

Mystery solved on who that other Svirfneblin was, thank you yet once again Acrux!

[Tweed]

My dual fighters are so close to suddenly remembering how to swing swords it's killing me, almost literally. At least I got improved haste, that's gone a long way towards letting the C/R cut into the damned drowned deads, spongy bastards. The real problem with these guys is that unlike most other enemies in IWD they love to switch targets, especially to party members and no matter how much AC you pile on they land blows and cleric boy doesn't have iron skins yet so he always takes a few on the chin. Forgot how irritating those wailing ******* are too, but the other improved haste goes to the archer and she can shut them down very fast.

[SpellSword]

We made it to the Tiers of the Dead and are about to start hunting the lich.


I'm hoping the necromancer puts up as good a fight as the drow ambush battle at the bridge just before this. That was a pretty fun encounter. Wasn't expecting the magic immunity on the drow that rushed across the bridge and the sudden flanking of the party by spiders.

[DagothGeas5]

I have not checked for Icewind Dale's main campaign, but for the DLC if you go to your character's information and check the biography it is not whatever was written but the default biography from the first Baldur's Gate (the story for Gorion's Ward etc). Is it a thing that EE introduced?

[Finarfin]

I have not checked for Icewind Dale's main campaign, but for the DLC if you go to your character's information and check the biography it is not whatever was written but the default biography from the first Baldur's Gate (the story for Gorion's Ward etc). Is it a thing that EE introduced?

Probably. Beamdog is ******* incompetent.

[DagothGeas5]

I have not checked for Icewind Dale's main campaign, but for the DLC if you go to your character's information and check the biography it is not whatever was written but the default biography from the first Baldur's Gate (the story for Gorion's Ward etc). Is it a thing that EE introduced?

Probably. Beamdog is ******* incompetent.

I will always love Baeloth as a character, but the more I learn of Beamdog, the more ridiculous it becomes. To **** up a game such as this feels incredibly disrespectful.

Edit:
By the way, I found a fix, sort of. The biography, once bugged, makes you lose the one, if any, you wrote, so it cannot to my knowledge be restored unfortunatly, but it can be re-wrote by going onto the character screen once in-game and then selecting "Customize" on the right. It will take you to a list of things where the biography is one of the possible options. Just remember to click on Done before exiting because it will not save the changes otherwise. And also, yes, from my research while looking for a fix it was Enhanced Edition (Beamdog) that made this bug appear, and there seems to be no fix.

[Finarfin]

I mean I started Hearts of Winter via the Main Menu and imported my party only to notice that my Paladin (after he died and I resurrected him) is now a Fighter / Mage / Cleric which now has made him unable to use his 2-handed sword since that is not useable by CLERICS AND MAGES AND ESPECIALLY THE 3 CLASS COMBINATION THIS GAY EE GAVE ME.

[Finarfin]

Oh ffs. I just did the Luremaster **** trial and as I finished everything in the cave, getting the gems and ****, teleporting to the throne room and.... Nothing. Guys says some faggy heroes will aid him but nothing happens, and he just vanishes. I just loaded my first save and I will ignore this ******* ****** hobart.

[Tweed]

Remorhaz are cute and cuddly wuddly compared to the drowned dead and far easier to kill despite being able to kill party members in one or two hits if they use their fire attack. They're nothing against the almighty shambling mound though.

[SpellSword]

Victory!

► Final Fight Spoilers

► A Few Random Thoughts

VERY different when played multiplayer.

Who traps the final boss room?!

The Enchanter's sacrifice of Invocation and Evocation is a really high price.

Three bard's create a musical death squad.

Overall Game Rating For Icewind Dale:


I wish the plot was a bit stronger for this one but I still enjoyed it immensely.

[Tweed]

I WIN!

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► DA KREW

GIB BADGE!

I accidently'd to the other thread when all I could get was the menu from my last screencaps.

[loregamer]

I WIN!

GIB BADGE!

Done

[Oyster Sauce]

@Acrux did you ever post your character sheets?

[Acrux]

I don't think so. I'll post them later tonight.


@Oyster Sauce: Posted.

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[Tweed]

I don't think so. I'll post them later tonight.


@Oyster Sauce: Posted.

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Why did you name your F/D Yanny?

[Tangerine]

Completed. Badge me.

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Taking screenshots was acting up, so had to beat him twice. Did the HoW quest line before this, so had enough levels/equipment to trivialize this fight.

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The team:

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The story's not deep, but I really like the modular structure to the main quest since it made it easy to do chunks at a time. Not a whole lot of backtracking to previous areas because some quest you got ages ago finally progressed - there're a few like that, but nowhere to the same degree as BGII. Some of the earlier fights are pretty rough, like the one with Yxunomei.

The base campaign is much better than the HoW quests, which felt rushed and slapped together. The lure master questline, which is unrelated to anything else going on, was a case I had to load an earlier save; I started it the first time I visited the tavern and talked to the halfling, but it's intended to be done after you've completed the main HoW quests. The castle sentries in particular are tough and they swarm you in large numbers, so you need the extra levels.

[Tweed]

>He didn't play on HoF mode

Lol, lmao even.

[J1M]

I see why this game exists and has a following. If I had played Baldur's Gate contemporaneously and been really into it, I would have been excited to get Icewind Dale aka "we have Baldur's Gate at home".

Playing it now, I just find the controls annoying and my viewpoint that I'd always rather be playing a turn-based game or an RTS instead of RTwP continues to be justified. I also found it quite jarring that the dialog choices for the characters were written as if they were a part of the world, but the dialog choices for the player felt like the way a teenager in the real world would talk. Strange choice.

Complaints aside, the industry as a whole should really be funding more projects that just seek to give people more of what they already know they want. Whenever someone does in a way that is competent and isn't too greedy or cynical (Stardew Valley, Path of Exile) they do very well.



@Oyster Sauce badge please.

[maidenhaver]

My badge, please.

I beat it with a party of 4, as God intended. Fighter, cleric, rogue, mage.

@soyster nonce

[Acrux]

How could two different percentages of people complete the game and defeat Belhifet?

[maidenhaver]

I don't know. Maybe you can get it for beating Heart of Winter, too.

[maidenhaver]

How's my badge coming along, @**** Katchup?

[pol_345polex]

I actually beat it a second time this year with some weidu mods, but i forgot to use scs.

[maidenhaver]

RPGHQ is basically the Dragons Eye, but for boys age 14-24. Orinesque is yuxonomouei, rusty is the lizard wizard.

[rusty_shackleford]

rusty is the lizard wizard

Does he know?

[maidenhaver]

I'm still mad gaym devs didn't allow me to dimension door out of her room and lead her guard through my traps. That was the only time I set traps and planned ambushes, the rest of the game is a corridor shooter. Pretty good game, though.



No, I was able to dimension door and lead her guards through my traps. I remember what happened. The door scripted shut and we couldn't unlock it to kill her. The game let me do what I wanted to do, but the devs were gay and forced the game to fail me. I wasn't about to admit defeat, so I consoled into her room and killed her. I cheated the cheaters, and it felt so good.

0/10 gaym