Game News Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Released

[Dwarvophile]

So, this forum is not civilized at all? I'm quite new here but aren't here some cultural rules applied, moderators?

That's actually what I like around here this forum is garanteed hypocrisy-proof. There are some morons but they walk unmasked, nobody hides his personal little fascism behind poltical correctness. THat's how I see it anyway. I'm tired of all this infantilisation, condescending stances on the net, you've got to assume that most individuals are just like you are and won't transform into horrible homophobic nazis at the minute they are unleashed.

And actually, the more I learn to know them the more I rtealise that PC bigots are so bad at assuming what's inside the mind of all those people they want to protect because they've barely met any of them on a personal level. They just live by proxy, it's pretty obvious. Start to free yourself from prejudice mr SJW, stop borrowing other people's fights.

 

[ArchAngel]

aVENGER
I noticed two bugs/irritations in the game.
1. Shamanic dance while active and a few seconds after you deactivate it disables cast, quickslot and other buttons on the UI for that characters so you cannot interrupt the dance to cast spells or use a potion in the emergency. I don't know if that is a bug or badly implemented feature but it should work like other channeling abilities (Bard Song, Turn Undead, Detect Traps) have been working since 1998. Furthermore if you have advanced AI on and you deactivate shaman dance to wait those few seconds, AI will just turn it on... super irritating. My Shaman basically just use Shamanic Dance in every battle and heals after it because it is super irritating to micromanage shamans during battle (shamans make it play more like PoE and not a IE game with constant need to pause and micromanage shamans)

2. Often it happens that my stealth character goes into stealth state on its own but without the button Stealth being ON. I use Advanced AI for my Stalker to use Hide when idle. When I want to heal it or buff it, I turn off AI for whole party and manually disable stealth. I wait for few seconds until character exits stealth and then starts casting spells on it from my different casters. Very often after first spell is cast on it he goes back into that stealth state and other casters all cancel their spells and report the cannot cast on invisible targets. After than my character again exits stealth a few seconds later and that does not happen until next time I do it like I described. It is pretty irritating. Combine that with what is happening with the shaman dance, atm I feel like I am fighting the UI more than playing the game. Gives me terrible PoE vs UI vibes back...

 

[Mustawd]

colored people

Racist, you libruls aren't allowed to call them that anymore. It's POC now.

I was just trying to paint the real picture of people here that do call them names.

You've been hanging out at rpgwatch too much dude.

 

[Mustawd]

I meant over the net of course

I'm ok with saying what you want as long as you don't involve their personal lives/ I draw the line at messaging their social media friends, employer, or posting personal info like addresses and phone numbers online. And people tend to do that a lot when things get out of hand. Especially when the target is doing their best to keep silent.

 

[ArchAngel]

colored people

Racist, you libruls aren't allowed to call them that anymore. It's POC now.

I was just trying to paint the real picture of people here that do call them names.

You've been hanging out at rpgwatch too much dude.

And you have not been in Politics subforum enough I guess if you think my words are not true.

 

[Mustawd]

And you have not been in Politics subforum enough

That wasteland? Why would I spend my time in there?

 

[sstacks]

I disagree with many opinions on the Codex, but the unvarnished truth and non-PCness of it all is a major breath of fresh air.

 

[Shadenuat]

Well this happened: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/51161/beamdog-statement-on-siege-of-dragonspear/

I hope they realise that tranny is not the only and not even the biggest problem of SoD's writing.

The quality of writing all aboard, for all characters especially new ones, suffered compared to their evolution in BG1EE, BG2 & ToB.

In BG1 EE, their new characters like Neera Dorn & Rasaad were on the level that homognome, archerlady, boring goblin and just bugged skald are now. In BG2 ND&R improved, maybe not in their concepts, but they were at least dragged to the level of bioware companions - barely. They got their own quests and locations which, maybe didn't make them conceptually more interesting, but gave them new motivations and decisions to make.

In ToB EE, not only they were on the decent (for Bioware) level, but their quests and locations and encounters, with the exception of afrovampire, got very good, really a lot of fun to actually finish.
Their romances somehow were still worse by a lot compared to original BG2 (Neera at least still couldn't get out of random one kissu waifu, while Aerie&Vi&Jaheira had very complicated and prolongued relationships). Dorn (what I've seen, since I broke his line quickly anyway) was just icky.

Yet, in SoD, here we are again - new companions confessing love to you in first 1-2 banters, serving as nothing but cheap pandering. Don't listen to MCA's speeches about in social media sources, if he tried to actually play the thing he'd be horrified at the lows companions came to in SoD, as well as actual ending aka ie fanservice drugtrip.

What's up with the one step forward and two backwards?

If Beamdog would create new game with strong encounters and at least entertaining (on the level of d&d pulp fiction which BG always was) stories, like they did for BG2 ee and ToB ee then by all means let them continue, but if companions in their games would again become just fanfiction level one-night sex toys then let them burn in all hells for all I care.


And by the way,

aVENGER are there any plans on implementing Insane/Legacy of Bhaal AI improvements in BG1&2 EEs after you did SoD? It feels very strange to play encounters with new AI in BG2/ToB then walk to other location and see wizards forget precast stoneskin on themselves again. Adding "stratagems" level difficulty into the package would be *actual* improvement for many players.

So, this forum is not civilized at all? I'm quite new here but aren't here some cultural rules applied, moderators?

Well if you post completely and utterly retarded things, you get unique colorful tags like nobody else has. That's one of the worst of punishments I know at least

 

[SwiftCrack]

Imagine having to release a statement about your own fucking game in a post-ME3-ending-statement world.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

So, this forum is not civilized at all? I'm quite new here but aren't here some cultural rules applied, moderators?

If by civilization you mean dick in your ass by wannabe trans women in crpg game forced by some LGBT deviants that are not treated by specialists at all, then You are fucking right.
I was tolerant for lgbt freaks in cprgs long enough , ME3, Dragon Age: I , from game to game , that fuckin agenda grows stronger and stronger.

I can understand some mentally ill NPCs in crpg games, even sexual deviants , but hell no for inserting that propaganda to ANY story WITHOUT any reasonable need.
Im against promoting sick sexual behaviours as normal thing, especially in games that can be played by kids. Period.

" It's a right of every man to defend his asshole " - Wulfric Pinewood

 

[Kev Inkline]

This game has 500k words or so, right?

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

- Proverbs 10:19

 

[Ninjerk]

Are you sure the lips are there yet?

 

[Gylfi.Fenriz.Conquests]

So, this forum is not civilized at all? I'm quite new here but aren't here some cultural rules applied, moderators?

If by civilization you mean dick in your ass by wannabe trans women in crpg game forced by some LGBT deviants that are not treated by specialists at all, then You are fucking right.
I was tolerant for lgbt freaks in cprgs long enough , ME3, Dragon Age: I , from game to game , that fuckin agenda grows stronger and stronger.

I can understand some mentally ill NPCs in crpg games, even sexual deviants , but hell no for inserting that propaganda to ANY story WITHOUT any reasonable need.
Im against promoting sick sexual behaviours as normal thing, especially in games that can be played by kids. Period.

" It's a right of every man to defend his asshole " - Wulfric Pinewood

oh my god! What makes you think you can judge what is normal and what is deviant? The only problem is forgetting feelings and behaving as animals (as that objectively negates being humans), and for that every "gender" is guilty, not just transexuals. don't worry about the kids, also, let educators do that and they'll know how to react and discern reality

I thought the codex was the realm of reason and beyond-the-appearance thinking, not nazist hymns.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Are you sure the lips are there yet?

"His lips."

His.

 

[Excidium II]

So, this forum is not civilized at all? I'm quite new here but aren't here some cultural rules applied, moderators?

If by civilization you mean dick in your ass by wannabe trans women in crpg game forced by some LGBT deviants that are not treated by specialists at all, then You are fucking right.
I was tolerant for lgbt freaks in cprgs long enough , ME3, Dragon Age: I , from game to game , that fuckin agenda grows stronger and stronger.

I can understand some mentally ill NPCs in crpg games, even sexual deviants , but hell no for inserting that propaganda to ANY story WITHOUT any reasonable need.
Im against promoting sick sexual behaviours as normal thing, especially in games that can be played by kids. Period.

" It's a right of every man to defend his asshole " - Wulfric Pinewood

oh my god! What makes you think you can judge what is normal and what is deviant? The only problem is forgetting feelings and behaving as animals, and for that every "gender" is guilty, not just transexuals.

I thought the codex was the realm of reason and beyond-the-appearance thinking, not nazist hymns.

Are you tranny? Are you hot?

 

[Gylfi.Fenriz.Conquests]

Ngh. heheh well i might be. I dress manly, though.

I like girls.

Just don't forget "love and do whatever you want"

-Saint Augustin

If you love i doubt you will harm those kids in anyway

 

[aVENGER]

aVENGER
I noticed two bugs/irritations in the game.

Thanks, our QA team will take a look.

BTW, if you notice any more bugs or oddities, feel free to report them on our Troubleshooting forum. People from our QA team are constantly scanning that for bug reports and they also have guidelines for entering the bugs directly into the Redmine database.

 

[aVENGER]

aVENGER are there any plans on implementing Insane/Legacy of Bhaal AI improvements in BG1&2 EEs after you did SoD? It feels very strange to play encounters with new AI in BG2/ToB then walk to other location and see wizards forget precast stoneskin on themselves again. Adding "stratagems" level difficulty into the package would be *actual* improvement for many players.

Potentially, if there is enough player interest.

It would require a significant amount of development time though.

 

[Dwarvophile]

" It's a right of every man to defend his asshole " - Wulfric Pinewood

Only way to be sure your asshole is safe is to stay seated. I sugest you buy a wheelchair and stay inside.

Who's riding this unicorn ?

 

[ArchAngel]

aVENGER
I noticed two bugs/irritations in the game.

Thanks, our QA team will take a look.

BTW, if you notice any more bugs or oddities, feel free to report them on our Troubleshooting forum. People from our QA team are constantly scanning that for bug reports and they also have guidelines for entering the bugs directly into the Redmine database.

Tnx for sticking around even with all these other members doing their best to put you guys down.
Except for these couple of issues I reported I am having lots of fun so far. The combat is pretty cool.

I just had a battle vs groups of Orcs and their Orc scout kept using invisibility potions or something and backstabbing my guys and their shaman kept removing effects of Horror from other orcs

 

[Mustawd]

I disagree with many opinions on the Codex, but the unvarnished truth and non-PCness of it all is a major breath of fresh air.

I guess. Then again the internet is full of that already, so I'm not quite sure how "refreshing" it really is when all you need to do is look at the comments section of any Yahoo article. Honestly, we should just rename Politics subforum to the Yahoo Clickbait Comments subforum or something.

 

[AwesomeButton]

oh my god! What makes you think you can judge what is normal and what is deviant?

Statistics and scientific consensus, when talking in general.

When talking about transsexuals, the International Classification of Diseases: http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en#/F66.0

Sexual maturation disorder
The patient suffers from uncertainty about his or her gender identity or sexual orientation, which causes anxiety or depression. Most commonly this occurs in adolescents who are not certain whether they are homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual in orientation, or in individuals who, after a period of apparently stable sexual orientation (often within a longstanding relationship), find that their sexual orientation is changing.

Egodystonic sexual orientation
The gender identity or sexual preference (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or prepubertal) is not in doubt, but the individual wishes it were different because of associated psychological and behavioural disorders, and may seek treatment in order to change it.

http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en#/F64

Gender Identity Disorders
Transsexualism
A desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one's anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one's body as congruent as possible with one's preferred sex.

Btw, I hope you were just trolling.

 

[Dwarvophile]

This review, on RPS, is interesting :

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/04/07/baldurs-gate-siege-of-dragonspear-review/

 

[veskoandroid]

Hi. I am looking for the thread where people talk about the game.

Lol, you poor misguided soul.

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[ZagorTeNej]

I guess. Then again the internet is full of that already, so I'm not quite sure how "refreshing" it really is when all you need to do is look at the comments section of any Yahoo article. Honestly, we should just rename Politics subforum to the Yahoo Clickbait Comments subforum or something.

Not so sure there are many gaming forums left that have Codex-style lax moderation, let alone the ones that appreciate old-school games on top of that.