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Baldur's Gate 2 - The Darkest Day - Nearing Release
For those of you who haven't been following the development of this epic-scale 3rd-party addon, it is now past its first beta testing stage and is to go through a second very shortly. Release date has been delayed slightly to an estimated Oct 8th-15th. IMO this is a good thing as the final version will be as bug-free as realistically possible.
Details here : http://www.teambg.net/tdd/
On the negative side the first version released will not be compatible with the official addon "Throne of Bhaal" or (I believe) with BG2 previously saved games, hence requiring a full reinstall before applying the mod. ToB compatible version to be released a "few weeks" thereafter.
On the positive side this is one of the biggest and most promising Modding projects ever (It received an honourable mention in a recent Computer Gaming Magazine - I forget which one). Many of the "new" graphics/effects come from other bioware titles - BG, PT, IWD etc.
The mod will be available via download (albeit in many small parts) or by cd-rom order (see site for details). Total size (I think) is about 200Mb.
Features - New items/spells - 150+ of each, New areas, 30-odd new monsters, New NPC's, 70+ new character kits, One very large Central quest and over 40 minor quests. Estimated gameplay over 30 hours (Same as ToB incidentally).
More info can be found on the site and in the forums (Just don't ask about release date or compatibility - these have already been addressed. Er, once or twice.
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Details here : http://www.teambg.net/tdd/
On the negative side the first version released will not be compatible with the official addon "Throne of Bhaal" or (I believe) with BG2 previously saved games, hence requiring a full reinstall before applying the mod. ToB compatible version to be released a "few weeks" thereafter.
On the positive side this is one of the biggest and most promising Modding projects ever (It received an honourable mention in a recent Computer Gaming Magazine - I forget which one). Many of the "new" graphics/effects come from other bioware titles - BG, PT, IWD etc.
The mod will be available via download (albeit in many small parts) or by cd-rom order (see site for details). Total size (I think) is about 200Mb.
Features - New items/spells - 150+ of each, New areas, 30-odd new monsters, New NPC's, 70+ new character kits, One very large Central quest and over 40 minor quests. Estimated gameplay over 30 hours (Same as ToB incidentally).
More info can be found on the site and in the forums (Just don't ask about release date or compatibility - these have already been addressed. Er, once or twice.
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