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[Spike]

A little question to Captain Haegan.

Cernd used the physical mirror spell and Haegan attacked him with the right group management.
The throwing axes weren't reflected immediately, but after a short time Haegan received the cumulative damage
for several axes and died instantly. I like it, but is it the intended behavior of the spell?

By the way, i cant beat TorGal. Damn. I never get him below badly injured. It takes too long and my buffs fade away. Then the usually stuff happens.
Storm of Vengeance, Hold Spell, Greater Commands and Strength Drain. Hmm, I need different tactics.

This post has been edited by Spike: Dec 5 2007, 08:27 AM

[Sikret]

What's the fun of playing with cheese even if it's sometimes possible? Every enemy in IA has precautionary anti-cheese blocks in his scripts, but if a player is a dedicated fan of playing cheesily, he may sometimes find a workaround against the less improved types of foes.

Once someone in SP forums asked me why I bother to block cheesy methods and exploits in IA. He believed that a player who looks for the ultimate challenge in BG2 and thus installs IA, won't naturally even think of playing cheesily. I replied that blocking the exploits are actually part of the mod's fixpack, not part of its tactical portion (Baldurdash fixpack also have some anti-exploit features thouhg in a much smaller scale compared to IA's fixpack).

See below for the spoilerish part:

SPOILER!

Yuan-Tis are slightly improved by IA; yet, they have anti-cheese scripts against clouds and fogs and won't stand inside the cloud if you cast it from distance . As you mentioned, after casting cloud kill the Yuan-Tis didn't just stand there and tried to engage you; but since you also had your invisible protagonist *inside the cloud* they tried to fight with him. This kind of cheesy methods will not work against more seriously improved enemies of course.

As for planar prison, how did you defeat the warden? I don't think that he will fall to similar cheesy tricks. If you managed to defeat the warden with no cheese, why didn't you use the same excellent skills you have to defeat the Elite Bounty Huntress (who is much weaker than warden) as well? When you can play without cheese why you even consider or think of cheesy solutions?

[Romulas]

What's the fun of playing with cheese even if it's sometimes possible? Every enemy in IA has precautionary anti-cheese blocks in his scripts, but if a player is a dedicated fan of playing cheesily, he may sometimes find a workaround against the less improved types of foes.

Greetings, took some time out but have been playing version 5 for a couple of weeks.

The answer to your question is simple Sikret, some people just want to play the game and are not as gifted as you and the other "super" BG2 players. I simply just want to play the game and play the story line. Its more important to me to experience the story line and all the creativity that went into it.

These are my personal opinions and I in no way disrespect your work, it is awesome what you have done but unfortuneately this mod is geared (and you have stated it in the readme I admit) for the super players. I personally try the battles on core a couple of times then "come up" with other ways of getting through the part that I am stuck on.

I hope that you can understand some of the different points of view that are out there.

Romulas