SpellPack Beta V3 is out! Options

[Galactygon]

2 days late, SpellBack beta version 3 is up on the web at

http://dragonshoard.blackwyrmlair.net/down...SpellPackB3.zip (39.9 MB) Now 19.9 MB

There are some significant changes I have made since the last version. Since I forgot to upload the readme seperately, and I have limited access to the FTP Program these days, I will summarize the changes I have made from B2 to B3 (from my memory; there might be more):

Changes/Bugfixes
-Prayer now affects the caster
-Prayer is not cumulative with itself anymore
New Features
-Ranged Spiritual Hammer (as in IWD1/2)
-BG1 Fireball animation
-Everything I wanted to include in the LC Pre-Release planned last year (partially revamping the spell graphics)
-Some new Wizard spells! Modified PnP versions of Power Word Kill and Death Spell.
-Some new Priest spells! I forgot which, but I remember including recitation, and some fixed TDD spells (if you don't have TDD installed, it introduces new spells).

You can safely install beta version 3 on top of any previous versions. I might reccomend reinstalling Cleric Remix and Refinements after you installed beta version 3, or simply install beta v3 before either of those mods.

You can still see the features of beta version 2 in a previous post of mine, but you cannot download any of the previous versions.

You can still read the fully updated readme when you download the mod.

-Galactygon

This post has been edited by Galactygon: Jul 23 2005, 03:22 PM

[Falkentyne]

Though resisting prayer seemed a little weird at first; I thought Prayer was a blessing/curse from the patron diety, and resisting those would take a very powerful being.

Then would every single priest spell bypass magic resistance? Even the lowliest command spell?

About ToB...

(From what I have read...so many spoilers@_@), every monster has magic resistance there.

That mistake will be taken care of.

I believe the chant effect affects saving throws. If not, I'll take care of that.

-Galactygon

Yeah, Chant wasn't giving any saving throw bonuses (or penalities to enemies).

The save effect seems to be missing from the pre-built chant effect, as it didnt do it in BG2 stock or BG1, either.

It _DOES_ do it (save bonus) in Icewind Dale, though, but I have no way of checking if monsters are affected. BI must have done some tweaking of the more buggy BG2 spells.

Black Isle programmers (in IWD) also had a similar side-effect on the priest for chant, (the extended effect is even written the spiralbound manual), though they did allow the priest to attack. But sticking the Icewind Dale Chant spell into Baldur's Gate 2 (sppl203.spl) causes a nice wonderful crash as soon as the wizard and priest spells become disabled.