Baldur's Gate : du nouveau

[pcaboche]

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(Note : j'ai du mal à traduire le terme "a fabric map").

Fabric = textile.

Une carte en tissus, ce serait vraiment collector !

[Hizin]

Merci

À priori, ça à l'air de partir dans ce sens pour l'édition boîte.

[Hizin]

Quelques news du fil Tweeter de Trent Oster :

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We really want to bring the magic of the Infinity engine style of RPG back into gaming. Less Hollywood, more game. #bgee

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System requirements are higher, but not crazy. We're leaning a bit on OpenGL hardware, so any graphics card with decent support will work

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The game will run fine on iPad 1 level hardware. Any decent video card since 2004 will probably work fine. Open GL drivers are what matter

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BG1 was software render. BG2 added Open GL support, but used it in a limited capacity. We've rebuilt the engine to better use hardware

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Existing saves will likely not be compatible at ship. We're changing a few things here and there.

Ils ne vont pas non plus à l'E3, donc pas de news particulières à cause de cet événement

[Hizin]

Et me revoilà encore, les news intéressantes se faisant mince, peu de message.

Donc, comme truc intéressant :

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Don't worry. We're not going to require the Beamdog client for #bgee

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Our post-release support plan is to keep working on the code for quite a while, making the game better.

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We are still pushing pixels on the new interface, so it will be a while before we have any screens available.

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The UI work is going slower than I had hoped. We really had to trash everything and restart on the UI code.

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Our approval process is through Atari and Wizards of the Coast. They need to approve most materials

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We're currently waiting on approvals for our forums to open. When they say OK, we'll open them up

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The game should be able to run t 2880x1800, but the source art will be scaled, so it will not be perfect.

[Benoit_Durand]

Imagine les graphismes de BG1 800x600 étirés en 2880x1800

[Aniki]

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Imagine les graphismes de BG1 800x600 étirés en 2880x1800

Ca va piquer les yeux...

J'aime bien le leger euphémise:

The game should be able to run t 2880x1800, but the source art will be scaled, so it will not be perfect.

Mais je ne leur en veux absolument pas pour ça.
De toute façon, j'imagine qu'il y aura peu de gens qui joueront en 2880x1800.

[Hizin]

J'espère ... ou au moins que ces personnes ne se plaindront pas que les textures ont quelques soucis ...

[Hizin]

Allez, quelques news du fil tweeter :

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Mapping out the opportunity space is an over complicated way of saying we're looking at our options. IWD:EE PST:EE, BG3, Kickstart new IP

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We're still sorting through DRM options, but we're trying for a lightweight system which meets the requirement and doesn't hassle the user.

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Part of our agreement is to use our DRM solution on the title. We're trying to dial it back to be painless.

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Personally, I think DRM doesn't work. Either you spend forever developing an ironclad, bad-user experience DRM or you go halfway.

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I agree 100% that DRM is never a solution. DRM is a part of the games industry and most business deals have some mention of it in the terms

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We'll stick with the Mac and iOS stock implementation. Our goal is to code games and not DRM solutions.

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Just as a point of curiosity, we twiddled some code and wound up cutting the round length to 1/5 normal. Missile weapons FTW!

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In my opinion, Diablo 3 is more DRM than game. I hate the lag when playing single player.

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We're projecting around 1.2G for iPad. Just to be sure, try and save 1.5G, you know how projections can go.

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We're shrinking the install size of the game through compression. Codecs have come a long way in the last 12 years.

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The performance on iPad1 is possible because of the radical rework of the rendering system. ‪#bgee‬ uses the hardware way more than old BG

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We still want to do Icewind Dale:Enhanced Edition and Torment if we can make the terms work. We're just mapping out the opportunity space.

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One of the major drivers for the UI rewrite to a data driven system was to ease the creation of potential future games, like IWD:EE.

[Hizin]

Et me revoila encore.
Toujours pas news sur le site officiel, uniquement du fil tweeter :

Quelques news sur des DLC et la version boîte, un renseignement sur la sortie, un camouflet envers Diablo 3, ainsi qu'une offre d'emploi de graphiste 3D.
Quelques news, rien de bien transcendantal.

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DLC=Downloadable Content, not furry earrings +3. The big guys have overcooked the term with badness. New BG storylines, New characters.

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We are still trying to get a contract together around a boxed collectors edition. Things are moving very slow. Might take a long while

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We are still planning on shipping the title this summer (before the end of September). These is still a fair bit of work outstanding.

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#Diablo3 you and I are over. I think you need to think long and hard about why this didn't work. #itsnotmeitsyou

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All will be clear in the near future. We're just trying to finish up a good summary of our plans. Then we need to get it approved. Sigh.

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A fan asked about a BG movie. Mention was made of Uwe Boll. If Uwe Boll comes near BG or Neverwinter I will punch him in half! Twice!

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The #bgee team is looking for some area art help: http://www.overhaulgames.com/jobs.html Join our merry band of developers to make the awesome that is #bgee

[Aniki]

Une sortie avant septembre ?
Quoique il y a tellement de jeux à jouer qu'il va encore falloir faire des sacrifices.
Moi qui pensais jouer à Torchlight2 et Tribes...
Du coup ce sera surement beaucoup de BGEE et un peu de Tribes.

Et cette fois je finirai BG !!
(oui, honte à moi, je ne l'ai pas fini)

[Hizin]

Ils ont annoncé la sortie "en été 2012", et vu que l'été se termine en septembre ...
Par contre, cette annonce me laisse l'impression qu'ils ne sont pas sûr de tenir ce planning, vu que ça doit être la troisième fois qu'ils disent "dans l'été, avant septembre".
Boarf, ça fait déjà tellement longtemps qu'il est sorti que l'on est pas à ça prêt

[Aniki]

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Ils ont annoncé la sortie "en été 2012", et vu que l'été se termine en septembre ...
Par contre, cette annonce me laisse l'impression qu'ils ne sont pas sûr de tenir ce planning, vu que ça doit être la troisième fois qu'ils disent "dans l'été, avant septembre".
Boarf, ça fait déjà tellement longtemps qu'il est sorti que l'on est pas à ça prêt

Effectivement, c'était prévu dès le départ pour l'été 2012.
J'avais pas percuté à l'époque. De toute façon je suis patient donc s'ils ont du retard, ça ne me dérange pas. Du moment qu'ils le sortent fini.

Et puis comme dis plus haut, il va y avoir d'autre jeux dans la même période.

[Hizin]

Et allez hop, les news, les news :

Où l'on apprends que BG2:EE est prévu et sortira en 2013 selon la première estimation, que le piratage, c'est pas drôle et à prendre en compte, et que la version boîte semble mal partie.
Aussi, que la OUYA fonctionne très fort.

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#bgee‬ will be available from the Beamdog site, the Mac App store and iTunes/App store for iPad

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#bgee‬ will launch on Beamdog and the App stores. It will not launch on steam or gog.

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Boxed copy is currently in business deal limbo. Last time in limbo it took 14 months to do a deal.

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We have a plan for no client, just a ‪#bgee‬ launcher to check for updates which we hope to be frequent.

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Netbook-wise it should work quite well. We don't have any net books, so I can't be 100% on that.

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Plan is for same day release on all platforms. Worst case, we'll keep it within a few weeks. ‪#mightgetcrazy

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#bg2ee‬ is in the pipe after ‪#bgee

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We have a deal in place for ‪#bg2ee‬. We do not have a deal in place for PS:T. We're interested, but we've yet to do a deal

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We've been hassled a lot around an Android version. We're still concerned about piracy

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#bg2ee‬ will be in 2013. We have no plans to put the game on gog. The Jellybean encryption sounds interesting, but we are hard up for time

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The Beamdog version will be available with or without our client. We've heard all the "I love Steam more than kitties" so no client.

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Seeing threats of Pirating ‪#bgee‬ because it isn't on Steam or GoG really kills my enthusiasm.

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Save game sync is in our plans. Might slip out post-ship, but still in our plans.

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Over the years the art source was stored on a separate drive, which for some reason did not get backed up regularly. The tapes were lost

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We're hoping to pick up the news frequency soon.

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Congratulations to the ‪#OUYA‬ Kickstarter. Great to see the rise of an independent console. What's up with the name though?

[Hizin]

J'ai dû louper un épisode moi ...
Le forum de BG:EE est ouvert, mais depuis quand ...

Voici le lien : http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussions

Où est-ce que j'ai loupé cette news moi ...

[Hizin]

Enfin une nouvelle news sur le site officiel, un nouveau TIMER !

http://www.baldursgate.com/

Alors, que représente-t-il ? La sortie du jeu ? Non, . De nouvelles news ? Sans doute.
Dans 34 heures, le serveur de BG sera down

J'ai aussi l'impression que le fond a changé. Je ne me souviens absolument pas de certain des portraits

• celui représentant une femme avec un bâton (1ère ligne visible, troisième portrait en partant de la gauche).
• celui représentant un guerrier avec un visage défoncé (2ème ligne visible, 2-me personnage)
• l'orc avec une épée à deux mains derrière le crâne (2ème ligne visible, avant-dernier portait)

Ce que j'ai remarqué :
Les mods graphique de 1pp tentent d'être incorporés dans BG:EE. Pour ceux qui ne voient pas (comme moi, avant que je tombe sur cette news ^^' ), voici le sujet : http://forum.baldursgate.com/discuss...1pp-in-bgee/p1

Un screen des UI remaniées (sous GIMP) : https://twitter.com/TrentOster/statu.../photo/1/large . Je n'ai pas l'impression de voir beaucoup de différence ^^'

En Islande, Baldur's Gate est tellement célèbre qu'un village porte son nom :
https://p.twimg.com/AyQrTfXCIAA3_8D.jpg:large (mérite en revient à @Keith Mitchell d'avoir trouvé ça)
Je suis sûr que ça n'a rien à voir, mais c'est marrant

Ensuite, les news du tweet, où l'on apprends que Linux est oublié, mais pas trop, que BG:EE représente un "coup de poker", que Trent fera les voix féminines de CHARNAME (ou pas), que l'UI de BG:EE a été surnommé "Naine" :

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Our current deal for #bgee does not cover the Linux platform.

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@FilipJorbrand Our current agreement does not cover a Linux version. I'm the guy who pushed for Neverwinter on Linux, so I'd like to do it.

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All the biz talk for #bgee comes down to how successful it is. If it is big, future deals get very easy. Not so big, much harder.

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Very sad to be missing the #yegindy gt race this weekend. Best of luck to Conroy and Allen. I'll be casting female VO actors for #bgee

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We're revising it pretty hard. So far it is still in progress. Yesterday I described it "If the BG2 UI is elven, #bgee is dwarf"

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The "Dwarven" UI theme of #bgee can be summarized as more stone, more metal trim and simple shapes, less elaborate ornamentation.

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Erephine has agreed to include the 1PP work into #bgee We're just trying to make it play nice with our setup.

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The new actresses are just for new content. The old voice acting is too good to replace!

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I like the idea of Ubuntu and Win8 as gaming platforms. Win8-wise, I had lost faith in MS after Vista. Win 7 gave me new hope.

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Those aren't links silly rabbit. We're doing an experiment to see if we can kill our webservers again.

Ps : j'espère que chacun pourra voir les images (je pense notamment à Anikisan).

[Hizin]

Les précommandes sont ouvertes !

Lien : http://www.beamdog.com/products/bald...hanced-edition

Je ferai un tour des infos demain, ou dans le week-end, quand j'aurai dormi

[Hizin]

Donc, pour les news, elle représente 3 nouveaux personnages et une nouvelle aventure.

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New Adventure:
The Black Pits
"Rouse yourselves, you lice-laden layabouts. Stand and salute your new master, Baeloth the Entertainer!"

Across the realms, individuals of great power and prestige receive a scroll via magical means. Unfurling it, they discover that they have been selected as one of the very few to enjoy the finest forms of entertainment in all creation...

Come one, come all! Baeloth the Entertainer cordially invites you to the greatest spectacle the realms have to offer - mortal pitted against mortal in a desperate bid to survive! Thrilling combat, scintillating magic, and the grim spectre of death lurk above this, the greatest of all shows! All this and more can be enjoyed within... THE BLACK PITS!

Deep within the Underdark where few dare to tread, the mad drow Baeloth has used his extensive mastery of magic to force a duergar colony into creating an entertainment complex of his own design. He has invited guests from across the realms, from Maztica to Menzoberranzan, and they will readily attend - Baeloth is known to be an excellent showman.



The Black Pits is one of the enhancements that make up Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition that allows you to create a full party and battle through fifteen hellish battles in a desperate bid to escape. Difficult challenges, unique battles, and a bizarre cast of characters await you within the Underdark!
• A stand-alone adventure set deep within the Underdark
• Fifteen levels of arena-style combat challenges
• Full control and customization of up to six party members
• Over 6 hours of additional gameplay

The Black Pits are your new home... enjoy your stay while you can!

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New Character:
Rasaad yn Bashir
"In the face of lies, we offer truth. In the face of hatred, we offer compassion."

For a young man, Rasaad yn Bashir radiates an uncommonly mature aura of calm and wisdom. After a disastrous mission to a monastery in Athkatla, he now wanders the Sword Coast in search of enlightenment.

Orphaned on the streets of Calimport, Rasaad and his brother, Gamaz, barely survived by begging and theft. Caught in the act by a monk of the Order of the Sun Soul, the boys received not punishment but their first instruction. Soon the brothers excelled in the physical, mental, and spiritual training of the monastery devoted to Selûne, goddess of the moon.

In the aftermath of his brother's death, Rasaad has left his order to seek his own solace. If he can also find opportunities to reflect his inner light on those in need, he is eager to do so.



Rasaad is a Calishite Monk demonstrating his monastic arts to the people of Nashkel. His quest ultimately leads into the highest reaches of the Cloud Peaks, where he must face an unexpected nemesis. Add him to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition experience to unleash the Monk's extraordinary power.

Rasaad adds the following Enhancements to Baldur's Gate:
• The Monk Rasaad yn Bashir, a new NPC to join your party
• A new playable adventure
• New area: the Cloud Peaks

Rasaad's adventure through the never seen before Cloud Peaks adds up to four hours of additional gameplay.

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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Features
Enhanced Interface

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition features an updated and improved interface that has native support for high resolution and widescreen displays. The iPad and Android Tablet versions both contain platform specific interface enhancements.
Improved Multiplayer

Online multiplayer has been upgraded to include matchmaking functionality, and games can be played across multiple platforms. Adventurers on iPad, Mac, PC and Android Tablets can all play Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition together.
Core Game Improvements

The Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate has been given an extensive overhaul. The original source code has been cleaned up and improved, sped up, and now has support for modern platforms. Over 400 issues from the original game have been found and fixed.

Baldur's Gate 2 Features

All of the additions and improvements from Baldur's Gate 2: The Shadows of Amn have been brought to Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. Now you can use class kits, new subraces and classes that were previously unavailable.
New Cinematics

All of the Baldur's Gate cinematics have been replaced with beautifully hand painted animated cinematics, directed by Nat Jones.
Ongoing Support

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will continue to receive improvements after release, along with continued support for the vibrant mod community that has helped it remain so popular for so long.

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New Character:
Neera the Wild Mage
"Casting wild magic is like playing a flute by ear. In magical terms, I can play a pretty mean tune, but when I miss a note the flute shoots fire at everyone."

After a disastrous wild surge maimed her fellow students, Neera fled her home to wander the High Forest. Even there, her capricious spells threatened the highly flammable woods, forcing the mighty treant Turlang to banish Neera from his domain. On the open road, Neera enjoyed only fleeting companionship before the Red Wizards caught up with her.

Neera's whimsical humor clashes with the guilt she still harbors over the harm she has inadvertently caused in past. She hopes to find a way to control her wild magic, even as she delights in the surprises that could come with every spell.

Fleeing the Red Wizards and seeking a better understanding of her own powers, Neera hopes for friends who can help her survive both her hunters and her own magic.



Neera is a half-elf wild mage slowly coming to terms with her enormous magical potential. Add her to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition experience and ignite your wild side.

Neera adds the following Enhancements to Baldur's Gate:
• The Wild Mage Neera, a new NPC to join your party
• An engaging romantic adventure
• Up to four hours of additional gameplay
• New area: a secluded hideaway northeast of Durlag's Tower

This half-elf wild mage finds both delight and terror in her capricious magic while fleeing both her past mistakes and the merciless Red Wizards of Thay.

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New Character:
Dorn Il-Khan
"Do not annoy me with such simplistic notions of morality."

Born in the Spine of the World, Dorn fled to Luskan with his human mother when a rival tribe annihilated his father's savage people. In that northern city, Dorn's ruthless strength soon won him a deadly reputation and the attentions of a band of mercenaries whose wickedness exceeded even Dorn's. Imprisoned for the crimes of the entire group, Dorn made a fiendish bargain granting him even greater power and the promise of revenge.

A Blackguard of few words, Dorn is only too happy to ally himself with Gorion's ward and cut a bloody swath across the Sword Coast with his black greatsword, as long as that path continues to lead him to the traitors he has sworn to destroy.



Dorn is a half-orc Blackguard whose otherworldly patron grants him terrible powers in the form of his black sword and unholy spells. Add him to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and inflict evil to the last corpse.

Dorn adds the following Enhancments to Baldur's Gate:
• The Blackguard Dorn II-Khan, a new NPC to join your party
• Up to four hours of additional gameplay
• The Blackguard kit to create your own champion of evil

Betrayed by his former companions, the half-orc Dorn Il-Khan lusts for revenge and glory in equal measure.

Ainsi que l'annonce d'une version Android, bien que la date ne soit pas communiquée. Au moins, l'idée n'est pas oubliée, et Android devrait recevoir sa version un jour, sans doute une fois que le pan "piratage" aura été observé de près, de même que la disparité des écrans.

[Hizin]

Et un p'tit truc que je viens de remarquer :

*Neera the Wild Mage and Dorn Il-Khan are available as in-app purchases on iPad and Android Tablet.

Écrit en marron sur fond noir, c'est pratique x)

Du in-app purchase pour les versions mobiles, qui sont moins cher que les versions fixes. Maintenant, reste a espérer que ça ne sera pas trop cher et que ça ne tombera pas dans le DLC débile ("payez 5 € pour avoir une arme en plus !", qui à dit Dragon Age ?).

[Hizin]

Date de sortie :

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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is coming on September 18th, 2012 - just in time to crush your grades!

Lien : http://www.beamdog.com/products/bald...hanced-edition

Et les nouvelles de tweeter :

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Plan is to have the new characters continue into BG2EE

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We don't have cross-platform saves working yet, but it is part of our longer term plan.

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Both Android devices in the office are running Android 4.0 It was working under 3.1, but we've updated the Xoom and the Tegra 3 unit to 4.0

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We are working hard (in some cases directly with the modders) to try and keep all the mods functional.

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All three characters are romanceable.

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Due to the Mac and iPad approval process, we can't really specify dates. We're trying for the same window though

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It will work if you save a game in a DLC area and load on a device that doesn't have DLC. We'd like to get paid, but, we don't break games

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#bgee should be as easy (if not easier) to mod than BG. We've integrated most of the bug fix stuff (with help from some of the mod creators)

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While Android is TBA, we are going to ship it pretty close to the PC version. Our supported devices list might be a little short to start.

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The announced DLC is free for PC / MAC, but Dorn and Neera are in-app purchases for the tablet versions. Dorn is $3, so is Neera

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We decided on Android, despite piracy warnings. I'd like to think the fans will support the platform. If it doesn't sell, lesson learned

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With the #bgee launcher, you can play offline and even put it on all the PC computers you own, just run the launcher and it will install it

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I gotta say, I don't understand the "I'll only buy from Steam, not directly from the developer". We dumped the client, what else can we do?

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#bg2ee comes later and is BG2+Throne of Bhall + our other new stuff

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#bgee will have co-op multiplayer and will work across platforms. iPad can play with Android, Mac and PC. On happy gaming family:-)

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@Adaram we're trying to keep save game formats, so a BG1 save could continue in #bgee but, we're changing quite a bit, so this may be dead

[Hizin]

Désolé pour ceux qui suivaient assidûment ce fil, plus vraiment le temps de m'en occuper.

Une nouvelle que je tiens à relayer quand même, une annonce vient d'être envoyée par BeamDog : BG:EE sera en retard !

Il ne sortira pas en été, initialement prévu fin septembre, mais il sortira le 30 novembre.
Le tweeter explique sans doute la raison, j'irai la creuser quand j'y penserai