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[The Cow King]

As for the TobEx tweaks you have installed, you can change them at any time from TobEx_ini/TobExCore & TobExTweak without reinstalling TobEx.

TobEx adds everything at run-time instead of install.

[goblinsly]

Strange things are happening. Crashed 2 times soo far ( once using portal in irenicus dungeon and second time when i was exiting the dungeon ). Now im casting spells in slums ( outside ). And it took the enforcer ( 1 enforcer ) quite some time before he came to warn me. I tried to bring him back but he just wont come. I hope my install isnt broken. :/

[The Cow King]

I've had dozens of crashes with BG2 on win7 install, with nothing but Fixpack, Tweak Pack & Widescreen. It wouldn't be surprising if a super heavy mod like SCSII increases the likelyhood of the game crashing. I hope you didn't install the game on your C:\\Program Files.

I don't know if you installed the "cowled wizards detect indoor spellcasting" component of SCSII, or if it affects the CW spawns. Just rest/switch area. CWs didn't have a habit of respawning on my previous save unless I rested or moved between areas.

If you want to test whether it's broken or not, just save. Rest. Go to docks. Rest. Go outside and cast a few spells. They should spawn. Then reload.

Modifié par The Cow King, 19 novembre 2011 - 08:43 .

[goblinsly]

Its funny. I cast like all the spells i got, nothing. Then i cast blur, 1 came. Cast stoneskin, 1 + loads of them came ( pwned me quite well btw, in a few seconds ). It seems they can only detect certain spells. Bugged it seems. I wont abuse it though, wont cast spells outside. Until i get a licence that is.
ps: me and some other guys seem to be quite unsure of our sex. First im a lady, next im a lord. From the same guy.
ps2: btw, anyone else experiencing "flickering" when scrolling ? Its not that annoying in dark areas but for instance in promenade during the day, its quite annoying.

Modifié par goblinsly, 20 novembre 2011 - 11:48 .

[goblinsly]

I havent been able to play much but still here is some of my experiences soo far. I am very happy with the mod soo far. It is much fun soo far and challenging aswell. Now i dont know how it differs from Tactics mod, because when i played tactics i had awesome gear ( gold making trick ) and more exp ( from learning and unlearning spells ). But right away i went to solve the circus thingy. Not very hard, though werewolves hit hard. The next thing was slavery. Now the copper coronet thingy was easy, but the "ship like building"....i spend tons of time there. For the first time i didnt approach from outside of slums but went from underground passage. And i can tell you it was hard. My berserer just became level 1 mage....aerie had no good mage spells, i just had druid/priest spells. The game is not super hard but its asking me to at least think...and its awesome that soo far this fights have been a challenge even though character health and abilites havent been raised much ( fight when going from government to temple and a group atacked me - 1 mage, 1 priest, 1 or 2 rangers and 1 theif....there were like super smart but super weak, mage had like 20 hp lolz... ).
btw, when saving Viconia, arent there supposed to be more enemies ? I just had 2 fighter types with bow and 1 priest ? Not that it was easy though, until i got my licence to cast spells i got super owned lolz.

[morbidest2]

3 enemies in the Viconia rescue is the usual number

[goblinsly]

Oh, then the tactics one had tons of them.
Btw i was wondering, the stutter and general slowdown of the infinity engine game due to directdraw enabled is known for many many years. Meaning, if i have directdraw acceleration enabled in dxdiag, my game loads a lot longer and game is lagging. Best example of this is to pause, cast spells with all your chars, unpause and then move your cursor around. When they are casting spells your mouse cursor will be lagging. Without directdraw those problems will be gone. But i was wondering, if there any other way to fix this ? I am quite amazed that this is still a problem considering how many ppl play bg2 nowadays...and it simply cant be just me and a few others having this problem...i had same problem on all operating systems soo far ( win 98, 2000, xp ), different gpus ( from nvidia mx200, 4200ti, 7600gs, 7950gt and same on ati 4870 now... ), different cpus ( from AMD 1300, AMD 64 to dualcore E6400 ), modded game, non modded games, simply all possible settings.....

Modifié par goblinsly, 23 novembre 2011 - 05:01 .

[goblinsly]

Btw cant help myself but to once again say how awesome SCS2 is. I still dont know how much my "fair" play affects the difficulty ( i would prolly be higher level now, considering like a zillion experience points i would get from learning and unlearning spells, also my items are kinda sucky ), but its awesome. For instance, the arab thingy surrounded with kobolts under temple district.....couldnt kill it, had to come back after level up. I still cant kill the merry band down there, they are amazing...soo im going to trademeet and will come back. Almoast every fight soo far forced me to reload at least once and THINK. Oh, im too lazy to protect aerie, i will just put her back here where she will be safe while i deal with enemies. WRONG. fire arrow send her way, aerie dead. Seriously, for me, this is the "meaning" of having fun while playing a game. Meaning, i come to an area, cant do it, go somewhere else, gain exp and items, come back, win and feel the satisfaction. That is 1 of the reasons i enjoied playing dragon age 2 on nightmare ( even though many ppl hate it - DA2 and nightmare difficulty ). Came to an area, got my ass kicked, went elsewhere, gained exp, came back, won.
Also, my berserker soo far is just a mage really....i dont think i used his berserk ability even once....and apart from berserk, hes basicly just like a plain fighter, right ? No interesting thigys to be gained at higher level ? Like with monk, where u cant wait to level up and go check on what of what awesome thingy i gained at this level up ( imunity to this, that, etc. ).

[The Cow King]

goblinsly wrote...
i dont think i used his berserk ability even once....

Well, it's mostly a thing used against annoying things, vampires, mind flayers, demons etc... and iirc, protection from magical energy protects against the after-damage.

goblinsly wrote...
hes basicly just like a plain
fighter, right ? No interesting thigys to be gained at higher level ?
Like with monk, where u cant wait to level up and go check on what of
what awesome thingy i gained at this level up ( imunity to this, that,
etc. ).

You won't receive any fighter HLAs, nope. Your interesting thingys are spells, eg. improved haste, black blade of disaster, time stop, and so on.

[goblinsly]

I have changed my mind about having the "right" to do all strongholds. It just doesnt seem right to me. Soo my question is, can i safely uninstall this option ? I started the druid grove quest and i have a save standing near Cernd outside the druid "castle", when i click on him we go inside and fight that bad woman. If i remove this, will it be OK ? I am satisfied with 2 strongholds i get as fighter/mage.
ps: i want to keep both dearnis keep and planar sphere though.....Stronghold thingy is part of scs2 which was installed last, well, exept for g3 tweak pack which really didnt include anything major....soo if i uninstall scs2 stronghold component, will i be allowed acces to 2 or only 1 stronghold ?

Modifié par goblinsly, 26 novembre 2011 - 05:43 .

[goblinsly]

Ok i reinstalled this stronghold thingy and set it to only allow me to have fighter and mage stronghold. The reason i didnt completely remove it is the fact that THE fact that in previous gameplays i was able to have 2 strongholds was apperently a bug. Soo this way i will make sure i get 2 strongholds with no fuss and it wont feel like cheating since i got 2 strongholds in my previous runs and also, basicly i am a fighter AND a mage ( there were some fighters that called me a sissy due to me being only level 9 berserker and lately reading too much books instead of going to gym, but i sure showed them who the real sissy is ! ). Anyway yep, thats it.Oh, and i lowered the bayle sum he wants...original is 20.000, i put it to 80.000, lowered it to 40.000. Since im playing fair and square i think thats enough. I had trouble getting 20.000 ( instead of 5.000 ) for spellcasting licence.

[Carinna]

Are you sure the "do all strongholds" is part of scs2? I've always gotten it through g3 tweaks.

I would suggest you don't uninstall anything - but just use self control to access the two strongholds you want and not the others. That way you can be sure you won't mess up anything. IMO uninstalling any part of a mod halfway through will mess it up (although I don't have any personal experience with this particular thing).

[Grond0]

The SCS2 version is actually more flexible as it allows you to decide individually whether to make each separate stronghold available.

I would agree that it's generally not a good idea to change installations during a run, but let's hope you get away with it.

[goblinsly]

Yep, i hope i will get away with it since i already uninstalled it. Still having fun with the game i have to say.
ps: no x-mass presents for Ihtafeer, Saadat and Jaalal. -.-

[goblinsly]

Those 3 annoying ones are dead. Kinda funny though, i killed the first one in few seconds while the other 2 took me like 10 minutes. Had to get them spend all their spells....and then melee them. It was amazing how hard it is to hit them. Minsc was my best char with 3 atacks, 3 thaco and fatigue. It took me AGES. And since my highest spell was level 6.....couldnt damage them with spells.
And yes, i do have that option for mages to precast spells. And right until now, i never atacked them until their protections hit in, but this time i waited for main rakhsasa to change apperance from woman to err rahsasa and hit him once ( for 20 or soo damage ) and then after oracle and breach, i killed him quickly.  Soo this was the first case of  cheating 20 damage. Cause like i said.....apart from this i never did atack until their protections hit....

edit: i decided that killing those 3 annoying thingys wasnt quite fair and square, since technicly i dont "deserve" to kill them yet if it takes me 3 minutes to hit them 3 times. Soo i will go do some other quests and come back later.

Modifié par goblinsly, 28 novembre 2011 - 06:39 .

[goblinsly]

How unfair. About 15 days after i install scs2 19, a new version comes out. I hope i wont be missing anything ground breakin ( CowKing is extremely welcome to give me any feedback as to which, if any parts of scs2 20 i should install ).
Also, does anyone know of any program that would log when i started an application, when i stoped it, how long it was opened ? For instance if i open bg2 at 13:00, play till 14:00, it would write that bg2.exe was opened for 1 hour, etc. ?

[Grond0]

The creator of SCS2 actually posted recently on these forums:
"I don't normally advertise my mods here, but since lots of people seem to be playing No-Reloads with SCSII (and demonstrating they're way better tactically than I am) and since the last version was a bit unstable, I thought I'd mention that a new version is now out. No real content changes, just bugfixes."
So I don't think you need to worry about updating until you're ready to do a new install for other reasons.

[goblinsly]

Ok, thats good. Finaly killed the 3 buggers fair and square ( well the last time was fair and square also, but i decided that it took me too long ). Now i can move forward, i did dearnise before, but was kinda stuck, the only things i could do was 3 buggers and planar prison where i got my ass pwned by annoying yuanti mages and thrall woman.

ps: been single for over a year now and if i keep playing this game i think i will prolong this at least for another year. Jaheira....will you just shut the HELL up ? I mean wtf. Not only is her chatter as annoying as a car horn, she starts talking to me in the middle of a fight. Talk about timing.....and they say this game isnt realistic...Dont want to offend anyone, but she pissed me off soo much....i mean, imagine...i am here, saving or will save the world....and she keeps talking to me about her daily mood ? sadly i need that exp to advance, otherwise i would ****** her off and go grab me a harlot in docks.

ps2: scs2 absolutely rocks. And i am glad i installed that option which prebuffs all mages and such. Without it it would be soo easy that it would not be worth the play...its only annoying because i have to wait a few seconds until those protections hit, without atacking an enemy, otherwise it would naturaly be cheating ( most of those mages are dead in like 3 hits without their protections ).

[The Potty 1]

OK I just did CowKing's install with SCS2 v20, and it's a doddle.

SCS2 now includes ToBEx v21, and he rather sweetly also fixes the Slayer change dialogue bug the Fixpack caused in Ascension.

So here goes:

Official patch
Ascension
Delete AR4500.bcs file from your Override directory.
BG2 Fixpack
Unfinished Business - Restored Bhaalspawn Powers
SCSII v20
BG2 Tweak Pack

And you're done. I also added Valen just before SCSII, then changed my mind and went for De'Arnise romance instead.

Finally, allow me to rave about SCSII's new preselect option, you can now configure quick-install.ini and do the entire install unattended. My only gripe is the tag early_watchers_keep was a bit ambiguous to me so I had to reinstall that component afterwards, but given it's all automatic I wasn't too worried.

[goblinsly]

Why is my mislead clone being able to atack and actualy deal damage ? It isnt supposed to so that ?

[Humanoid_Taifun]

Are you sure you are casting the level 6 spell Mislead and not the level 8 version Simulacrum?

[goblinsly]

I think im playing bg2 for like 20th time and i might be strange at times, but im pretty sure im sober for the last 2 months, meaning i seriously doubt i could "forget" about oh 4 levels ( first 6 level spell at 12th level, first 8 level spell at 16th level ) i gained over night hehehehehehhe.
But to be serious, im sure it was Mislead. He did some damage to some "jaheraeromancegroupguy" but first i thought maybe it just "says" he did damage to confuse my enemies ( im actualy worried about my well being since i "think" something is done to confuse a computer.... ), but then i tested it on aerie and soon minsc was on my ass crying about his witch.
This image only had weapon though, no spells or other abilities.
What i did right away was reload, since even though image only did 7 damage it would be serious cheating. This kind of sucks, cause i wanted to use Mislead but if its broken.....

[goblinsly]

Bump on:

a) mislead bug
proggy or .bat script to figure out how much time a day i waste on bg2 ( im hoping for bout 1, max 2 hours... )
c) SCS2 absolutely kicks ass. But if i played tactics like this, it would be a lot harder i think. To think....i basicly bought all spells and learned/unlearned them like crazy, i would prolly be level 15 by now....instead im like level 11-12.

Its funny though, i thought there will be a huge problem with money but there wont be. Im playing fair and square and i have like 110k already. I spent 20k on licence for spellcasting and i have to pay 30k to get to Aran. And i have yet to visit planar prison, both hills, unseeing eye, celestial fury ppl.....only then will i go to spellhold. Soo yup, having lots of fun and all my chars are more or less usefull. Still worried that i might be cheating though. Like, when i haste ppl wearing boots of speed, they move even faster. Isnt that cheating ? Or haerdalis, when hes hasted and i use offensive spin, he moves faster...
I dont use spells like cloud kill aswell, since i think they are kinda cheesy...for instance, get urself imunity to acid, and fight enemies on cloudkill...cheesy, isnt it ?