So that I don't derail RBT again...

I don't really get why they'd be bothered either. Considering the reputation affects shop prices among other things it'd be in their best interests to have good PR despite being evil. Having to kill an occasional commoner just to keep an evil NPC around is really silly.

As an aside, reporting back to Dorn's Nashkel informant about her husband yields no XP reward either - she just leaves. I mean... wtf? Every insignificant little quest in BG1 awards you XP, but here, just nothing. Another Beamdog oversight. I also noticed that Baeloth's joining is bugged... I took him in to check his stats and he popped up his whiny "don't leave me here" dialogue despite having just joined. So you get the opportunity to tell him to go to the FAI again... while the party just picked him up in front of it.

Still seeing things like that after more than 2 years of Beamdog patching up the little new content that they added makes me wonder just what the heck they've been doing all this time. There is also a setting in Options missing text and I noticed one of Dorn's status icons that shows on his portrait also comes up missing the description on the character record screen, for example. As much as I'm enjoying this nostalgic romp through BG1 again, the sheer amount of sloppiness and remaining bugs/issues is detracting from my enjoyment considerably. The problem with battle sounds remains intermittent - I get full sound in about 1 encounter out of 4, with the rest it's either complete silence or just partial sound - only monster or only party sounds.

 

Gameplay/Feedback/Enable confirmation - missing the description what this does.

The status icon that showed on Dorn's portrait was unknown to me so I don't know where it came or what it was - obviously with the description missing I couldn't tell... There was just the icon and the hyphen after it on the Record page.

As for Baeloth, hmm, that might explain it... but I eventually did manage to get him to join, just had to repeat it a few times. But my rep would have been the same because the loss of rep when he joins is regained when he leaves - I actually wanted to lower my rep that way (by making him join and kicking him out), but it didn't work. So it still doesn't make much sense, not to mention that this should be handled with a proper reaction to the high rep.

Well, naturally... it's a big enough game that no two people will spot anywhere near the same problems unless they played identically with the same NPCs. And some problems are likely also system-related. But the majority of the problems that I mentioned will be there for everyone playing the same way that I am. I used the standalone installer to install the game.

Another oddity - when you return to Nashkel after rescuing Dynaheir sans Minsc, Edwin somehow sniffs Dynaheir on you (despite me not even taking her into my party - I just set her free) and attacks you for your "association with the witch". But when I went over to Minsc, there's no automatic recognition that I freed her - heck, there's not even any way to tell Minsc about it! Minsc still wants to join me to go rescue her - when she's already free.

I even tried taking him into my party to see if that would trigger recognition that she's free. It didn't. Eh...

 

Blades - I'll take a look.

Keneth - yea, I'll take a screenshot when I see it again. As for reporting all the bugs, there are way too many. For every one I spot there are probably an extra 5 that I don't. Maybe I'll just submit this whole thread after I'm done on the off chance that they'll bother to go through it and fix the bugs I mentioned. Though I googled a few of the issues I encountered and already found bug reports about them filed on the official forums, so I expect that a lot of them have already been reported, just not fixed.

Incidentally, the game really does seem a lot easier this time around but I'm not sure why exactly?

 

Yea, I was wondering if most of it was due to me just having played all the other IE games after it... plus, this time around I cleared all of the non-plot areas first so by the time I got to the plot locations they were easy compared to the areas with tougher enemies and monsters. Buffing spells seem to have drastically shortened lasting times than what I remember though... if I cast a few before the fighting starts they'll likely wear off before the end of a single longer battle.

Btw, here's the missing text I mentioned, but on Rasaad (not sure if it's the same):

 

That's... seriously odd.

 

So I've decided to continue where I left off 2 years ago (does time fly or what?). Been playing for a week or so and I'm about done with BG city (chapter 5). Luckily, the last patch seems to have fixed most of the issues that I've experienced in the past.

After Dorn walked out on me again I just console'd in the Helm of Opposite Alignment and stuck it on his stupid head. Problem solved. Should call it the Helm of Common Sense instead...

I've just cleared Durlag's above ground level and I'm now in the first underground level.

One thing that I'm missing is some kind of arrow/bolt quiver or bag of holding. Are any of these to be found in BG:EE? The gem & potion bags are indispensable, likewise the scroll case.

 

I've found the containers that I mentioned, but no arrow quiver or bag of holding yet...

 

The EE's use the same engine, right? So I assume the bag of holding can be console'd in too?