Oh No! Not another Baldur's Gate thread!

[Jamski]

Thanks Duckie

Where are you up to in BG1 anyway? Did you find the bandits yet.

If so...

LET THEM TALK!

Its possible to get a game-ending bug if you kill the talking bandits before they can say their lines. Don't use the "Silence 15" Radius" trick that worked so well on the assassin in Nashkell.

Otherwise you'll never get to the next chapter.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Thanks for that Jamski. I haven't gone north yet, and doubt that I'll be playing much this coming weekend as the in-laws descend upon the ducal manor. again.
In fact, my progress will be much slower than before because I have to revise for the June exams for my night classes (grr... another thing taking up valuable gaming time), but the broad expanses of time after the exams look to be full of excellent opportunities for a keen gamer. Except "school" starts again in September, the weather will be nicer and my girlfriend will want to go on more walks and there's a feast of football coming up!

[Dis]

don't you get to keep the Pantaloons?

[Drogue]

You know you do

[duke o' york]

Now why the hell would you want to keep a crummy pair of pantaloons?

If I export my PC to BGII, then will I ever need the BGI discs to play through BGII? I wouldn't have thought that they'd be necessary, once your PC has been transferred, but I was going to lend BGI to my friend and didn't want to keep having to go around and ask to have one of the disks while playing BGII.
(His PC is old, and should handle BGI, but I'm not sure about BGII, so he won't get that. Besides, he has a lot more gaming time than I do, and will have finished BGI a long time before I finish BGII. Still don't know if I'll finish before Euro 2004 though)

[Dry]

Originally posted by duke o' york
If I export my PC to BGII, then will I ever need the BGI discs to play through BGII?

No.
All you need are the character files (and/or the saved games ?).
IIRC, at the end of BG1, when the quest is over, the game will make an automatic save of all characters of the group.
Keep those automatic saved chars (and maybe make some copies of them).
If you want to export your character(s) to different games (BG2, IceWind Dale,...), those games will agree to import your character(s) from those files.
What I do not know is is what happen to those files once they have done this. Therefore the copies... in case of.

Oh, BTW, one more word about the XPs, in BG2, the minimum to start is 89,000. If your char has more, very good, if he has less, he will be boosted to 89,000.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Dry
Oh, BTW, one more word about the XPs, in BG2, the minimum to start is 89,000. If your char has more, very good, if he has less, he will be boosted to 89,000.

If he has more, you should cut him down to size! No sense meking the game too easy .

[Traianvs]

After finishing tosc, your char has 'bout 160000 XP. It doesn't matter though because the game will be slightly harder... Not that the first dungeon is 'tough' tho

[Dis]

It was tough the first time I did it.

That Otuygh (I know that is spelled wrong) kicked my ass the first time I took him on.

[Jamski]

I think you spelled it right

Well... try the Tactics Otyugh

Its a real 6-reloads-nightmare.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I had a quick half-hour shot last night, and just did the Firewire Bridge. It was a pain in the bum, because I arrived from the south and had to walk all the way around to reach the bridge itself. That ogre mage was also quite hard. He got some kind of giant spherical shield around him, and started firing Melf's Acid Arrow at me. That's a nice spell. I picked up some nice stuff from him though, and Minsc is now equipped with the gauntlets of low THACO or whatever they're called from the gobby bloke to the east. Having explored the Firewire Bridge then I may go to the USB Hub next.

[Jamski]

Oh god, geek humour

Did you cross the bridge and enter the Firewine Dungeon?

You really need to expericne the infinite agony of the place at least once...

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Yes, but I got bored of killing infinite identical kobolds and then just left without exploring too far in.
Besides, it seemed to be the same dungeon I'd already entered when I visited Gullykin, so I'm not too worried about going back. It's not as if the exp is worth the hassle.

I'm afraid that my geek knowledge consists of reading the science & technology supplement in the Grauniad each week and then using the rest of the week profitably to forget all I've learned.
I don't even know what a hub is.
It's all geek to me.

[Traianvs]

there's the quest with the ghosts in that dungeon.. and some traps

[Jamski]

Yes, but I got bored of killing infinite identical kobolds and then just left without exploring too far in.

I can never get bored of infinite Fire Arrows, and the "little something" in the middle of the Dungeon is worth having....

-Jam