skellytz,

while checking on the text, I happened to take a look at SW1H03 (the bastard sword Kondar) and I was wondering about two things:

1) It is described as a +1 weapon that is +3 against shapeshifters but when I look at the file's properties I see two .eff (DOPPHIT and LYCANHIT) that add a +2 bonus to THAC0 against 106 and 122. Shouldn't it also add 2 points of damage? In my BG1 installation I see in fact two additional eff. (DOPPDAM and LYCANDAM) that do exactly that.

2) The weapon does not seem to improve THAC0 or inflict any extra damage to every other creatures. Aren't a generic +1 THACO bonus and a generic +1 damage bonus missing here?

Thanks! 

My bad.

I missed the fact that two EFF references have been moved.

Sorry about the false alarm.

A very minor suggestion for an entry in BGT's journal.tra:

skellytz,

does BGT by any chance override the game text description of the Detect Evil spell?

Thanks. Much appreciated.

One question: does Vampiric Touch really work the way it is described? I mean, the hit points loss from the target is actually transferred to the caster?

If I am not mistaken, the EE engine has introduced flags that would make spells like this and other similar ones (ex. Larloch's Minor Drain) really work as intended. I guess this is not the case for us? 

Hi Insomniator!

Only recently I learned that the classic BG draining spells do not really work at all the way they are supposed to be. EE uses a series of flags for damage opcode 12 to make spells like Larloch's Minor Drain and Vampiric Touch work properly.

I was wondering if ToBEx AfterLife could add those flags too? I realize that probably I am asking for too much here but I thought it wouldn't hurt.

Thanks!

Hello, Insomniator!

From what I understand, you are telling me that we would need to remove the Maximum HP Bonus effect from spells if we use the new flags? And that this would only be possible for the original spells and not the one added by mods? 

And there are other compatibility problems as well regarding the offset for the flags?

Well, I wish I could give you good answers and help but I would have no idea about what to do, really.

Sorry for wasting your time and thanks for your investigation. 

I understand why what I asked present too many difficulties, but I want to thank you for considering it.

Hi skellytz!

Good with giving the glorious BGT Tweaks a pinned topic! Disable hostile reaction after charm  is a must-have component in my opinion. I used to always install Altered Spawn's third option but now this component is superseded by your own BGT Spawn Tweak, which would make sense to have here perhaps rather than being a stand-alone. I would also update Salk's Pen-and-Paper ruleset corrections because I think it's been missing most entries for a long time now. Please see here.

Hello, weigo!

Thanks for your effort to make this work for both EET and BGT. I am only interested in the latter and of course I will want to help. Unfortunately, when it comes to time available, this is not a very good period for me though. I expect to have much more free time in around 7-8 weeks' time. I know it's a lot but unfortunately my plate is full in the short period (mostly real life engagements but also some modding stuff).

Anyway TotoR above said that the current BGGOEET together with his minimaps fix provided a working solution.

weigo,

I asked before but you never said anything about it so I try again: TotoR said that the last BGGOEET already works fine on BGT if you apply the fixes he produced. I never got the chance to verify this but it would be smart to check it out before you work on your own version,

And BGGOEET has had its own github page for quite some time, maintained by ALIEN and the latest version there includes TotoR's fix.

Since I have to rework the night maps for the EET version anyway, I have now reworked the EET and BGT version together and both now use the same wed file of the EE version and we are rid of the graphics errors.

Keep us updated with your progress and thanks a lot for fixing the BGT version!

Hello, Insomniator!

I was doing some basic BGT testing this mornning with little more than ToBEx, ToBEx AfterLife and the BG2 Fixpack installed when I noticed something strange that I don't think happened before.

The message window reports the damage dealt or received twice. I have attached a screenshot showing this. Could it be that the latest version of ToBEx AfterLife has something to do with it?

I don't remember noticing that when I was testing 3 or 4 months ago and at the time the version of ToBEx AfterLife was 29.11, I think.

Thanks!

Interesting, thanks TotoR.

But in the testing session above I had not installed the BG2 Improved GUI yet... I am trying to understand how a game text update modification could cause this issue. Let's see what Insomniator says about it. 

Hello, Insomniator!

Yes, in my BG2 Game Text Update @3805 is different (probably it's the same string used in BG2 EE):

@3805   = ~Takes <AMOUNT> <TYPE> damage from <DAMAGER>~

Maybe the <TYPE> token does not exist in classic Baldur's Gate 2?

Hello!

Thanks. I had already corrected those strings too.

Sergio,

check the pinned What is it? topic.

skellytz,

sometimes I encounter a few strings with odd symbols I am not sure how they are interpreted/parsed by the game. A series of such strings are #16215-16229. They begin with "%nl%_%nl" in the original BG text. From what I can see, the EE team changed it to "_%nl" for BG1, while the BGT BG1 text has removed those altogether. In my BG2 GTU, I have "%nl%_%nl" again, which is weird, since I got those lines from the EE game text, meaning that the EE team chose differently for BG1 and BG2. 

Any advice about this?

Also, something else to report. The strings #16235-16260 have text and character sounds both in the BG1 game text and the BG2 game text but both text and sound differ. Interestingly enough, the BG1 sounds exist and match while the BG2 sounds exist but do not work. I checked BG2 EE and those .wav files exist and play in German (if I understand correctly).

Do you know anything about it?

Thanks for the update, weigo!

Could you tell us, out of curiosity, what makes some areas more annoying/difficult to patch than others?

Cheers!

Congratulations on releasing version 1.23(.1), skellytz!

Great to be back here at SHS.

I'm the author of Virtue v20 Alpha and if you happen to give it a try, I would be glad to have some feedback, khelban12.