IA v6.2 discussion, random questions and thoughts Options

[critto]

So, the v6.1 is out. Most notable change is a step towards new platform, internal re-design and full (I hope) support for BG2EE. That means that IA should now install and play with any distribution of BG2:EE on any platform. I personally developed and tested it on Mac OS X, with the Beamdog's official distribution. Nicoper, whom I want to thank for helping me with testing and pushing this version out, did tests on Windows, although I have no idea which version exactly did he use.

Anyhow, with BG2:EE come two new good-aligned NPCs who are tweaked to be serious choices for a party member. To facilitate that we did a nice overhaul of the Monk class. It's kind of a beta so keep in mind that your experiences may vary. But should be fun nonetheless.

There is no new tactical content added to the BG2EE content, but the potential is there and, hopefully, we can explore it in the future builds.

There's also some miscellaneous stuff done here and there but the major things are listed above.

I took a liberty of assuming a different approach towards development, with shorter but faster releases. Hopefully, this will bring us towards IAv7 quicker. Afterwards, we'll see.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

EDIT: this was converted into primary discussion thread for 6.2

This post has been edited by critto: May 24 2016, 11:35 AM

[critto]

There wasn't done anything to those spells for a long time. I strongly suspect that this has been present for ages. Stuff like Melf's Arrow, etc. has a secondary type that seem to be blocked by ST. Breach and Lower Resistance, however, are not. So it appears that while you can Breach the Lizard, you would still need to use Secret Word to bring ST down if you want to use offensive magic on him.

In case of wizards with SI:Abj+GoI+ST combo, you can't Breach or do anything else until you get SI down, and you need three RRRoRs for that.

So, my conclusion so far is that this bug/feature is something that's been there for a long time. There's just not that many cases where you get a wizard who uses ST without SI:Abj or SI:Div+Invisibility combo.

But I'll think about possible solutions.