IE Modding News

This mod offers an alternate path for parties with a reputation of 14 or higher to complete Dorn's SOA quest (Resurrection Gorge) without having him as a companion.

In fact, in this alternate version of events, Dorn himself becomes the villain of the story.

https://github.com/b...leases/tag/V1.0

V1.0 adds

• Altered requirements so any character can access the new quest - provided they meet the reputation requirements.
• Fixed the XP and gold rewards given by Bollard (thanks for the info Lava / Weasels).
• While I've opened up the quest to other alignments, I've only started doing dialogue adjustments for them, so if players find the roleplay options lacking - then PLEASE hit me up.  

Lunia's map is a refreshing contrast to the many hellish locales present in Baldur's Gate II. Unfortunately only parties who travel with Dorn - typically those of neutral or evil alignment - gain access to it.

This mod provides an alternate path to enter Lunia & assist Tyr's faithful in doling out his justice.

https://github.com/b...leases/tag/V1.9

V.19 Changelog

• Altered requirements so any non-evil character, with a reputation of 14 or higher, can start the quest (provided Dorn isn't in the party).
• Added a quick bounty quest you can pick up from Mercy Whitedove.
• V1.9 breaks existing translations (since I've added a few more tra lines), and Mercy's lines aren't traified yet. Those playing with those translations are better off installing V1.3.2 until the full V2.0 release.

ZSTweaks is a compilation of tweaks that I think personally improve things as they are in the vanilla game. The vast majority of the tweaks are designed to be simple improvements of underpowered items or abilities. Some of them overhaul the game a bit more extensively, though not radically.

Since version 1.6.6, the mod includes now many fixes, many description rewrites, a few minor improvements to previous components, and 3 more components. A full changelog and release is available. Links below:

• Download link and changelog
• Mod forum
• Component readme
• Links to all my mods here

The GemRB team announces the availability of GemRB 0.9.5!

GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.

It features significant changes in several areas. The audio subsystem received many improvements and input handling was upgraded especially for users of controllers. The pathfinding performance was dramatically increased, some tests quantifying that as 13-161 % for short paths, 48-196 % for medium paths, 68-146 % for long paths. EE-like zoom is now available in all games, just set "Zoom Lock" to 0 in the gem-*.ini file in your game folder.

On the game support side of things this release brings many improvements for IWD2, now considered as polished as the other games, several fixes for PST and more work on compatibility with the EEs. Support for BG2EE is still experimental, but the Shadows of Amn portion is known to be completable. Our demo received a much nicer avatar and new asset creation capabilities were added (like animations not limited to 15 FPS).

Due to user feedback the SDL1 backend has not been deprecated, but provisionally updated. There is a wish to move to C++17 in the next release cycle. If this would negatively impact your platform, do let us know.

More in the full release announcement: https://gemrb.org/20...5-released.html

Near Infinity v2.4-20260322

Near Infinity is a resource browser and editor for Infinity Engine games, such as Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale. It is written in Java and available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

This release introduces a Spell Abilities Generator, overhauled graphics conversion tools, and provides many more additions, improvements and fixes.

Near Infinity is available as a platform-independent Java JAR file, Windows installer and macOS PKG installer, as well as a Flatpak application from Flathub for Linux.

More information as well as a detailed Changelog can be found in the respective topics at Spellhold Studios, Beamdog Forums, and GitHub Discussions.

Download:

• GitHub (Java JAR file, Windows and macOS installers)
• Flathub (Linux Flatpak archive)