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[Kulyok]

Tortured Souls? Fun and well-written and bug-free? Um. My experiences and my impressions aside... well. From what I recall, Vlad claimed even the Banter Packs(the simplest mod ever) didn't work with his mods, so you've been warned.

But as for the regular, TS-free playthrough:

Sword Coast Stratagems for tactics(I've only tried the Tutu part, though);
Dungeon Crawl, Assassinations, Tower of Deception for quest mods;
Banter Packs, Flirt Packs, Romantic Encounters and IEP Banters for enhancing the overall experience;
Nalia de'Arnise romance or Fade romance for the male PC;
Angelo, Kivan, Keto or Xan as mod companions.

Check IE Modding news at Gibberlings3: there've been plenty of releases, from the new Luxley Family and Six's Kitpack to beautiful One Pixels Productions graphics.

[SirLancelot]

Even if you are not going to install BP, TS last BP-compatible version (6.10, if i recall correctly) should be the most solid plattaform to begin with.

Edited by SirLancelot, 14 March 2008 - 10:09 AM.

[Chevalier]

No.

BG2 Fixpack (instead of baldurdash)
SoA FixPack v3.61 and ToB FixPack v1.12 (is this Baldurdash,,will it be compatible or conflict with BG2 Fixpack)

Use only the G3 fixpack

BG2 Fixpack (instead of baldurdash)
Tortured Souls v7.01 (new vlad release)

Vlad's version needs his baldurdash, use Tortured Souls (BP compatible version), v6.10 found here at ShS.

Improved Anvil

Will not work with

Item Upgrade
Weimer's item upgrade

Are thes 2 the same mod??

Ease of use

Use G3 Tweakpack instead.

Good Luck!

[Kulyok]

Worry not, your game will have enough bugs and crashes even without it.

[Hoppy]

You can install baldurdash 1.6 something
TS 7.01
NeJ2 691 with patch 693
Improved Anvil (before TS and NeJ2) can't remember why but more info in the NeJ forums at BWL. Vlad recommended that for me.
Tower of Deception is supposed to be pretty compatible with Vlad's mods.

I am not sure about compatibility issues with IA and some things like UB as well as NeJ2 and the Boo kidnapped quest of UB. Maybe just that component could be left out.

From Sikret's read me of version 5

List of mods which should NOT be installed with Improved Anvil:
==============================================================

Improved Anvil is compatible with the majority of other mods, however, there are a few mods (or
mod-components) which should not be installed with Improved Anvil if you want to have a bugfree
game (some of them are technically incompatible with Improved Anvil, some others are conceptually
problematic and some others are bugged regardless of their compatibility with Improved Anvil).
Also, for any given mod, if more than 50% of the mod's content is known to be incompatible with
Improved Anvil (while the other 50% is untested or dubious), the entire mod is listed as
incompatible for more safety).

This is the list of the known mods and/or mod-components which should not be installed if you
intend to install and play Imporved Anvil:

1- Item Upgrade
2- Spell50
3- Ascension
4- Tactics (and any other mod which adds tactical challenges to the game)
5- Improved Battles
6- Big picture
7- SCS II
8- Any other mod which has or uses detectable stats (tactical mods generally, but some other mods
may also have it. So, before installing any mod, read its readme file very carefully and if
you see any reference to detectable stats or spells, don't install it.)
9- Amber NPC
10- Kelsey NPC
11- Divine Remix
12- Oversight (and any other mod which tampers with creatures' alignments)
13- G3's BG2 Fixpack
14- G3's BG2 Tweakpack
15- D0-Tweakpack
16- Unfinished Business
17- Quest Pack
18- Ashes of Ember
19- PS-tele and/or any other mod which adds teleportation ability to the party
20- Ruad (and any other itempack with powerful items)
21- Refinements (and any other mod which adds new HLAs or adds resistance to physical damage to
armors)
22- Any mod which adds new bardsongs or new types of traps (or modifies the existent ones)
23- Any spellpack which modifies the game's existent spells or adds new spells to the game (if
those new spells are available to players) .
24- Auramaster Druid Kit (Improved Anvil includes the kit, you should not install it separately)
25- Riskbreaker Kit (Improved Anvil includes the kit, you should not install it separately)
26- The following components of Ease-Of-Use:
- Multi-Player Kick Out Patch
- Rest Anywhere
27- The following components of "Rogue Rebalancing":
- Bard kit revisions
- Bard High Level Ability revisions
- Thief kit revisions

Note(1): It's also recommended not to install "Saerileth NPC", "Valen NPC", "Solaufein NPC" and
"Planar Sphere mod" with Improved Anvil.
Note(2): Dungeon-be-gone is compatible with Improved Anvil; however, Improved Anvil's "Item
Randomizer" program initiates in that area at the beginning of the game and it takes a
few seconds before it can fully initiate. On slower computers it may take about 40
seconds (after the initial auto-save), on faster computers, it can be done faster. The
point is that you should not rush to talk to that fellow and leave the area too quickly.
You don't need to do anything special, just stay in the area long enough to see the
message "Item Randomizer successfully initiated" and then you can leave the dungeon
without any problem.
Note(3): "The Four" version 3 is compatible with Improved Anvil and is the *only* mod which can
be installed *after* Improved Anvil. Older versions of "The Four" are incompatible.

Hope that answers some of your questions. Good Luck!!

Edited by Hoppy, 15 March 2008 - 10:38 AM.

[Hoppy]

I think someone tested the new TS with SCS2 but I am not sure how that panned out.


edit: nope it was with tactics

Edited by Hoppy, 15 March 2008 - 10:57 AM.

[Chevalier]

As Kulyok says in her very Russian way you will get many bugs with that install. You should not install both BG2 Fixpack and Baldurdash, pick one. If you to pick Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 then install TS v7.01 or if you pick G3 BG2 Fixpack then install TS-BP v6.10.

If you install Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 I think you should not install any of these mods with TSv7.01

BG2 Tweak Pack
Quest Pack
Freedoms Reign/Reign of Virtue
Solaufein : v103
Weimer's item upgrade
Assension v 111/Redemption
Gibberlings Three Anniversary Mod
Planar Sphere Mod
Planar Sphere Return Mod
Tower of Deception
Unfinished Business
NPC Flirt Packs
Romantic Encounters


Hoppy is very correct about Improved Anvil, if you want to play it (I have not) just do it without any of those mods.

[Chevalier]

Your telling me to install a buggy game instead of a fixed newer version!

No not at all. Don't get too into the numbers here. Think of them as 2 versions of the same mod. Vlad's current version is customized Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 and King Diamond's version is more compatible with G3 FixPack and other mods (he has maintained the mod current with Vlads for content and bug fixes). King Diamond does not release buggy mods (I am not saying there no bugs, just few if any). Also if you install Vlad's version with non compatible mods you will have more bugs than you will find with TS-BP. Vlad is the current updater for Baldurdash-WeiDU.

[erebusant]

As Kulyok says in her very Russian way you will get many bugs with that install. You should not install both BG2 Fixpack and Baldurdash, pick one. If you to pick Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 then install TS v7.01 or if you pick G3 BG2 Fixpack then install TS-BP v6.10.

If you install Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 I think you should not install any of these mods with TSv7.01

BG2 Tweak Pack
Quest Pack
Freedoms Reign/Reign of Virtue
Solaufein : v103
Weimer's item upgrade
Assension v 111/Redemption
Gibberlings Three Anniversary Mod
Planar Sphere Mod
Planar Sphere Return Mod
Tower of Deception
Unfinished Business
NPC Flirt Packs
Romantic Encounters


Hoppy is very correct about Improved Anvil, if you want to play it (I have not) just do it without any of those mods.

I realize your only trying to help but what you say doesn't make any sence at all. Your telling me to install a buggy game instead of a fixed newer version!
Going through Vlad's site has proven your suggested install is pelted with bugs, so what makes you think it acceptible?
I have tried playing these mods for years, what is going on here?B

Perhaps you should consider just installing the game as per Vlad's site then?

[Kulyok]

Mods like Romantic Encounters and Tower of Deception are at home anywhere, so you can install them with any collectin of mods - provided, of course, that the mods you're installing them with do not overwrite core game files or anything of the sort(in which case you just install RE or ToD on top).

[Hoppy]

As Kulyok says in her very Russian way you will get many bugs with that install. You should not install both BG2 Fixpack and Baldurdash, pick one. If you to pick Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 then install TS v7.01 or if you pick G3 BG2 Fixpack then install TS-BP v6.10.

If you install Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.5 I think you should not install any of these mods with TSv7.01

BG2 Tweak Pack
Quest Pack
Freedoms Reign/Reign of Virtue
Solaufein : v103
Weimer's item upgrade
Assension v 111/Redemption
Gibberlings Three Anniversary Mod
Planar Sphere Mod
Planar Sphere Return Mod
Tower of Deception
Unfinished Business
NPC Flirt Packs
Romantic Encounters


Hoppy is very correct about Improved Anvil, if you want to play it (I have not) just do it without any of those mods.

I realize your only trying to help but what you say doesn't make any sence at all. Your telling me to install a buggy game instead of a fixed newer version!
Going through Vlad's site has proven your suggested install is pelted with bugs, so what makes you think it acceptible?
I have tried playing these mods for years, what is going on here?B

Perhaps you should consider just installing the game as per Vlad's site then?

Here is a link at BWL by a member named Trufa that has done a couple of tests with TS7.01. As far as I know, Kachiko doesn't have a custom voice as that will be changed.
Trufa's tests

Hope that helps.