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Icewind Dale II Forum Update

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Sep 8, 2002.

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    (Originally posted by Veldrin)

    Chad Nicholas, Scripter

    Call Lightning and Static Charge: Call Lightning and Static Charge go off once per turn (10 rounds or 70 seconds).

    Upping Performance: Try turning off the option for transparent spell effects (transparent sprites? sorry, I'm at home at the moment) in the config program. The way the IE does transparency is... how do I say this nicely... poopy-in-the-pants.

    Does anyone have a non MX nVidia card and have very choppy framerate with spell effects? My guess is that the MX version skimped on memory bandwidth and that's contributing to the framerate loss with spells.

    J.E. Sawyer, Lead Designer

    Weak Armor: Strangely enough, I thought that the idea wasn't to make characters invulnerable to all attacks, but to allow their armor to scale at a roughly similar rate to the attack bonuses of the enemies.

    Let's assume that by the end of Chapter 6, you can have ACs of 25-30 for your front-line fighters (it's really not that hard to do). A creature with a total attack bonus of +15 or +20 would have a 50% chance to hit you. Considering that all of your warrior PCs almost assuredly have more than +15/+20 total attack bonus and most of the enemies have much worse armor than you, I don't think this is unreasonable at all. If your characters never get hit, hit points really don't have any value.

    Dialogue Skills: I requested that the player be shown which dialogue options are the result of bluff/diplomacy/intimidate/etc., but we didn't have time to implement it. Characters definitely do get new options based on those skills.

    Doug Avery, Associate Producer

    CE Soundtrack on Winamp: You can try using the Windows default CDplayer.exe or get Windows Media Player from the Microsoft site. Sorry, but I don't use Winamp so I can't give you specifics with it.
     
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