Hello all,
First let me call attention to Syvishtar’s excellent let’s play of the BWP using 9.10 and a full tactics install. He has done an great job with both putting up with the errors & bugs that come with such an install and adding his own elements of storytelling. His let’s play can be found
Here: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/53006-syvishtars-journal/
and Here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3435303&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
That let’s play is the inspiration for my own which will be set up slightly differently.
My build *attempts* to maximize difficulty and minimize cheese, cheats, and imbalance. As well as remove a lot of unpleasant mods. It does this from a top-down approach rather than a bottom-up. That is to say rather than cherry picking the most well known good mods, I have started with a full tactics selection and pruned off mods I do not want.
Also the writing for the let’s play will focus more on the technical and less on the story. I hope this let’s play will be of practical use for people who are looking for a similar kind of experience and I look forward to any kind of feedback on the build and help identifying mods throughout the let’s play.
I will be using BWP 11.2.1 (the latest as of this writing) and the BWS import file can be found here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByC1etXSQvU3RGpBYjdZMkgwdG8
It’s best to view the file by importing it to BWS which can be found here:
http://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/downloads.php?id=2 (grab the latest one)
The major changes are that I have removed all the really big BG1 and BG2 mods:
DH, DSotSC, Drizzt, NTotSC, SoBH, CtB, NeJ, RoT, SoS, TDD, TS
And many NPCs, Kits, and Item mods. This build is by no means finished. I stopped looking through every mod because I was getting bored and wanted to actually wanted to start playing the game. I’ll update the build as I play (though I won't be re-installing).
Aside from that I will be doing this very similar to Syvishtar:
It will be semi-hardcore mode, whatever happens happens, I will only reload when I die or if I need to to get around a bug/glitch.
Party membership will be a democracy, periodically I will hold a vote for party members, party members who die will be rezed (if possible) but will sit out for a while to rotate in a new member.
Also I reserve the right to do some things my way, I need to have some fun with this.
I’m going to leave this build to install while I’m at work and give a few hours for people to comment or make suggestions. If there is no huge demand for me to install/remove mods I’ll start late tonight, otherwise I’ll re-install overnight and start tomorrow morning.
In the meantime any request for main character class? and alignment? Otherwise I’ll default to Paladin.
First let me call attention to Syvishtar’s excellent let’s play of the BWP using 9.10 and a full tactics install. He has done an great job with both putting up with the errors & bugs that come with such an install and adding his own elements of storytelling. His let’s play can be found
Here: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/53006-syvishtars-journal/
and Here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3435303&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
That let’s play is the inspiration for my own which will be set up slightly differently.
My build *attempts* to maximize difficulty and minimize cheese, cheats, and imbalance. As well as remove a lot of unpleasant mods. It does this from a top-down approach rather than a bottom-up. That is to say rather than cherry picking the most well known good mods, I have started with a full tactics selection and pruned off mods I do not want.
Also the writing for the let’s play will focus more on the technical and less on the story. I hope this let’s play will be of practical use for people who are looking for a similar kind of experience and I look forward to any kind of feedback on the build and help identifying mods throughout the let’s play.
I will be using BWP 11.2.1 (the latest as of this writing) and the BWS import file can be found here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByC1etXSQvU3RGpBYjdZMkgwdG8
It’s best to view the file by importing it to BWS which can be found here:
http://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/downloads.php?id=2 (grab the latest one)
The major changes are that I have removed all the really big BG1 and BG2 mods:
DH, DSotSC, Drizzt, NTotSC, SoBH, CtB, NeJ, RoT, SoS, TDD, TS
And many NPCs, Kits, and Item mods. This build is by no means finished. I stopped looking through every mod because I was getting bored and wanted to actually wanted to start playing the game. I’ll update the build as I play (though I won't be re-installing).
Aside from that I will be doing this very similar to Syvishtar:
It will be semi-hardcore mode, whatever happens happens, I will only reload when I die or if I need to to get around a bug/glitch.
Party membership will be a democracy, periodically I will hold a vote for party members, party members who die will be rezed (if possible) but will sit out for a while to rotate in a new member.
Also I reserve the right to do some things my way, I need to have some fun with this.
I’m going to leave this build to install while I’m at work and give a few hours for people to comment or make suggestions. If there is no huge demand for me to install/remove mods I’ll start late tonight, otherwise I’ll re-install overnight and start tomorrow morning.
In the meantime any request for main character class? and alignment? Otherwise I’ll default to Paladin.