The BEAMDOG Thread

Post by **The_Mask** » February 24th, 2026, 21:19

Because, I guess, we have to talk about these idiots once in a while... *sigh*

We’re announcing the new Infinity Engine 2.7 beta! Yes, you heard that right, nearly 15 years after the Enhanced Editions—and over 25 years since the originals—we’re still dedicated to supporting these legendary RPGs.

A fresh beta patch for BG:EE, SoD, BGII:EE, and IWD:EE is now live on Steam (PC), with mobile updates to follow. This update focuses on long‑term stability, modern platform support, and a few quality‑of‑life improvements.

Dynamic language support for easier future localization updates

New community translations: (BG2) Brazilian Portuguese Czech Ukrainian (IWD) Hungarian Japanese

Steam Cloud improvements with full control via the Steam client

Native Apple Silicon support for faster performance and better battery life

Full notes & instructions for beta testers

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/9 ... a-release/

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 24th, 2026, 21:24

I thought beamdog got shut down after they made a game and 4 people played it

Bhaalspawn Jr · Post by **Bhaalspawn Jr** » February 24th, 2026, 21:26

Can someone fill me in? Not familiar with Beamdog.

Post by **Tangerine** » February 24th, 2026, 21:27

Bhaalspawn Jr wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 21:26
Can someone fill me in? Not familiar with Beamdog.

They made a ****** expandalone for BG1 and added ******** to it.

Bhaalspawn Jr · Post by **Bhaalspawn Jr** » February 24th, 2026, 21:30

Tangerine wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 21:27

Bhaalspawn Jr wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 21:26
Can someone fill me in? Not familiar with Beamdog.
They made a ****** expandalone for BG1 and added ******** to it.

Oh that Siege of Dragonspear? Heard it was bad and that I should skip it if I play through those games.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 24th, 2026, 21:32

If you want to play the IE games, I can recommend GemRB
https://gemrb.org/Features.html

Post by **The_Mask** » February 24th, 2026, 21:37

Bhaalspawn Jr wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 21:26
Can someone fill me in? Not familiar with Beamdog.

The people that are trying very hard to **** on my childhood.

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » February 24th, 2026, 22:01

Be sure to keep an offline version, especially if you have mods, before this moves out of beta. (Ha, the community manager made this their official stance - basically mod users should stay on 2.6.)

Interestingly, though, Bubb tested EEex on the beta and it seems to work (he was very surprised at that).

I saw that CamDawg is pretty frustrated, and he noted that this is signaling strongly from Beamdog that all future patches are mobile oriented.

Post by **Rand** » February 25th, 2026, 03:38

Acrux wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 22:01
Be sure to keep an offline version, especially if you have mods, before this moves out of beta. (Ha, the community manager made this their official stance - basically mod users should stay on 2.6.)

Interestingly, though, Bubb tested EEex on the beta and it seems to work (he was very surprised at that).

I saw that CamDawg is pretty frustrated, and he noted that this is signaling strongly from Beamdog that all future patches are mobile oriented.

I'm completely unfamiliar with all of this.
If you ever wanted to fully explain all this, including the people involved and what the issues are, I would be interested and I'm sure others would be as well.

Bhaalspawn Jr · Post by **Bhaalspawn Jr** » February 25th, 2026, 04:08

So Beamdog remasters old IE games and makes them gay. Got it.

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » February 25th, 2026, 05:53

Rand wrote: ↑ February 25th, 2026, 03:38

Acrux wrote: ↑ February 24th, 2026, 22:01
Be sure to keep an offline version, especially if you have mods, before this moves out of beta. (Ha, the community manager made this their official stance - basically mod users should stay on 2.6.)

Interestingly, though, Bubb tested EEex on the beta and it seems to work (he was very surprised at that).
Update: Today Bubb says the EEex is no longer working. So, it's dead unless Beamdog provides the new symbols for 2.7.

I saw that CamDawg is pretty frustrated, and he noted that this is signaling strongly from Beamdog that all future patches are mobile oriented.
I'm completely unfamiliar with all of this.
If you ever wanted to fully explain all this, including the people involved and what the issues are, I would be interested and I'm sure others would be as well.

Well, I don't have any special insights.

CamDawg has been a modder from the early days of WeiDU modding, which became the most common way to mod Infinity Engine games. He's the de facto leader of Gibberling 3, which is a really big modding site for IE games that's still active. He created a fixpack mod that Beamdog incorporated into their versions, and he was actually hired by them to help with the Icewind Dale EE. He's said before that they usually keep in touch if there's going to be an update so he can make fixpack changes but they didn't contact him about this.

Bubb is another modder who has some popular mods for the EE games. He's also supported the GemRB work, especially for getting IWD2 to work. (He's also one of the modders who created the IWD2 EE mod.) One of his mods is an executable extender that let's modders do more in the engine than they can with just the standard game dlls. He tested it out on this new patch and found that it worked - which it isn't supposed to...

From the sounds of it, Brazilians and Chinese are the most excited about this update because it's supposed to make modding languages easier and apparently there are large modding communities there that are cut off from the English speaking world for now. (I've heard all this second-hand.)