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Posted April 01, 2016
The lost chapter in the Bhaalspawn saga

<span class="bold">Siege of Dragonspear</span>, the brand new expansion that bridges the gap between Baldur's Gate I and II, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com.

What happened to our heroes after they defeated Sarevok and before they ended up captives inside Jon Irenicus' prison lab? Did they stick together? Did they drift apart? Did Boo get to bite any more delicious eyeballs? The brand new 25-hour expansion Siege of Dragonspear promises to answer these pressing questions, which have been lingering for 18 whole years, while also delivering an adventure worth of Baldur's Gate's glorious legacy.

A powerful army led by a charismatic warrior only known as the Shining Lady has been pillaging the Sword Coast, forcibly enlisting locals and causing general unrest. Even more disturbing are the rumors of her also being the child of a god. A showdown is inevitable.
Siege of Dragonspear brings your party to entirely new areas of the Sword Coast, facing new monsters, finding new loot, and tackling new quests. All your companions from Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition return and are joined here by Captain Schael Corwin, a deadshot archer, Voghiln the Vast, a mighty northerner warrior, M’Khiin Grubdoubler, a goblin shaman (new class), and Glint Gardnersonson, the kind gnome cleric. Your RPG experience gets even more enhanced thanks to the improved UI and Infinity Engine features, which will feel both familiar and welcome to new and seasoned players alike.

If you want to get the OST from the original Baldur's Gate, plus the extra tracks composed for the Enhanced Edition and Siege of Dragonspear, you can also grab <span class="bold">Siege of Dragonspear - Digital Deluxe Edition</span>.
Note that GOG Galaxy support for achievements in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, and Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition - Siege of Dragonspear is going to be implemented in the near future.

Continue the saga of the Bhaalspawn and deal with a rising power in <span class="bold">Siege of Dragonspear</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com.

Siege of Dragonspear requires <span class="bold">Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition</span> on GOG.com. You can pick up Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition at 75% off, or 85% off if you own the original saga

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will be 75% off until April 4 11:59 PM PDT / April 5 2:59 AM EDT/ 7:59 BST and 60% off until April 29 10:59 AM PDT / 1:59 PM EDT / 18:59 BST. The 85% discount for owners of the original saga will last until April 29 10:59 AM PDT / 1:59 PM EDT / 18:59 BST.
Post edited April 02, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted April 02, 2016
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xernos: Personally I think is overpriced that DCL, so I will wait when you could buy this for 9$. For near the same price I bought Pillars of Eternity: Champion Edition, for less buck I bought two expansion for it. Also for slightly higher price I bought Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition...

kind regards
Adam
That's a point of view, and it's fine, it's just your way to look at it. In fact many players use a same point of view.

But the reality is different, it's not production cost versus game price, it's production cost and how much players it targets versus game price.

You can't expect a niche game sell for a same price than a game targeting the mainstream. Or just wait sales.
Posted April 02, 2016
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Stryder2931: This does look interesting, and I would be willing to purchase it, to at least hopefully see a BG3 someday. But, looking at the requirements, they seem a bit low. Are the graphics pixelated? Or not up to today's standards? Before spending the money for the game, I am wondering about the graphics.
BG:EE should be at a very low price, it's the occasion to get it now. Or on gog currently you could get BG2:EE almost as cheap.

I don't think the play window itself is pixelated because it adapts to the resolution used, that is it shows more instead of scaling and generating pixels/blur.

But the GUI could be scaled to adapt to the resolution you choose, I think the GUI has few versions for various resolutions and then default is use scaling if needed.

There was an option to disable this GUI scaling to avoid any blur but you can imagine the result could be weird with a rather high resolution. Myself I never tried it.

Another point to quote is the texts could scale fine and the EE version have good setup for having clean/bigger texts.
Posted April 02, 2016
Wishlisted for now, after previous Beamdog experience I think I'm gonna wait for a less bugged version, also the price is bit steep for an xpac, although it's supposed to be quite large, but still.
Posted April 02, 2016
I sent a ticket about that but writing on here too . In installation directory of BGEE , there is a folder called manuals . It seems those pdf files are outdated . New versions are on here . https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/49871/get-your-siege-of-dragonspear-manuals-here . Please fix them .
Posted April 02, 2016
So...how many music tracks are the soundtracks comprised of? Just asking, before I decide to buy.
Posted April 02, 2016
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Nergal01: So...how many music tracks are the soundtracks comprised of? Just asking, before I decide to buy.
If its exactly the same as the originals....

84mb 32 tracks @128bit
122mb 33 tracks @ 320bit
197mb (no idea - not handy to check)
Post edited April 02, 2016 by Niggles
Posted April 02, 2016
Glad to see the deal was made at the final moment before release and it was only a one-way wait after the global release of Siege of Dragonspear on Beamdog for it to be released on GOG.

Congratulations Beamdog!

The only downer is the price of the deluxe edition: the soundtracks costs 20 euro's and apparently can't be bought separately so I have to shelf down 40 euro at once instead of buying just the expansion now and the soundtrack later - but I don't want to miss out the chance to play Siege now, nor do I want to miss out on listening to the soundtrack - just like the BG1 and BG2 soundtracks, I WILL listen to them often and religiously I suppose. But it's been an expensive month already for me, with a RAM upgrade for my desktop and a new secondhand Nexus 7 (2013). I'm launching a pre-emptive strike on my vacation money to come in May.
Posted April 02, 2016
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Stryder2931: This does look interesting, and I would be willing to purchase it, to at least hopefully see a BG3 someday. But, looking at the requirements, they seem a bit low. Are the graphics pixelated? Or not up to today's standards? Before spending the money for the game, I am wondering about the graphics.
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blotunga: I don't have the expansion yet, but the enhanced editions graphics are slightly higher resolution than the original. It's not 3d so that's a plus.
Anyway I didn't even had time to start playing the EE so wishlisted for now.
BG3? that will be a 3d version i assume, cause after a while the devs get 'bored' with that old stuff ( i like the old stuff cause you could see lots of time was invested in design of the background and characters) and that 3d stuff , its to shiny to blocky weird arm movements , i dont favor 3d, i prefer good old graphics, not some usage of a 3d engine.
Imho 3d and FPP is absolutely cool for COD, and more like these online shooters, for jagged alliance and baldurs and any other rpg i think the old 2d with some ismometric look , will fit best and look best.
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xernos: Personally I think is overpriced that DCL, so I will wait when you could buy this for 9$. For near the same price I bought Pillars of Eternity: Champion Edition, for less buck I bought two expansion for it. Also for slightly higher price I bought Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition...

kind regards
Adam
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Senestoj: That's a point of view, and it's fine, it's just your way to look at it. In fact many players use a same point of view.

But the reality is different, it's not production cost versus game price, it's production cost and how much players it targets versus game price.

You can't expect a niche game sell for a same price than a game targeting the mainstream. Or just wait sales.
So there 10 bucks of the B G2 EE? thats the same as selling the DLC (expansion as they call it nowdays) at 9.99 instead of 19.99 thats the same 10 bucks off the price, basically many users might have the game already (even i have it) thus having no profit at the release, they own the main game and pay 19.99 for the dlc.
I have to play the bg2 EE first to see if i am gonna spend 19.99 on its DLC.
Anyway, the thing is when you dont have the main game yet, and you see the dlc at 19.99 , people might wait a while, cause at 19.99 you could buy a full game which you can play right away.
Post edited April 02, 2016 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 02, 2016
The new GUI is both good and not-so-great. I miss the old character creation page (though it may actually look way easier for tablet, something I'll have to test when it comes out), but the EE games absolutely needed an update in that the main menus didn't even take up the whole screen.

I'm surprised BG2 didn't get the same update yet. Is IWD getting a similar update for the GUI's sake?
Post edited April 02, 2016 by Projectsonic
Posted April 02, 2016
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gamesfreak64: ...
So there 10 bucks of the B G2 EE? thats the same as selling the DLC (expansion as they call it nowdays) at 9.99 instead of 19.99 thats the same 10 bucks off the price, basically many users might have the game already (even i have it) thus having no profit at the release, they own the main game and pay 19.99 for the dlc.
I have to play the bg2 EE first to see if i am gonna spend 19.99 on its DLC.
Anyway, the thing is when you dont have the main game yet, and you see the dlc at 19.99 , people might wait a while, cause at 19.99 you could buy a full game which you can play right away.
BG1&2 EE was remakes, ok few stuff added but not much, the DLC is new stuff. That's a good reason for the prices.

The DLC isn't for players who didn't played BG1&2 EE or not, so yeah buy BG2 EE if you didn't played it, pretty obvious and it's not a matter of price.
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arxon: Wishlisted for now, after previous Beamdog experience I think I'm gonna wait for a less bugged version, also the price is bit steep for an xpac, although it's supposed to be quite large, but still.
There's already plenty reports at Steam about the game full of bugs, makes me wonder when it's been released on Steam, a week ago? :-)

But frankly I also delay in part because of this reason, this fame, that I didn't experimented myself. The main reason is also I'm playing another game and see no reason to rush this buy.
Post edited April 02, 2016 by Senestoj
Posted April 03, 2016
Since the Enhanced Edition + Classic games will be called Definitive Editions soon, then surely it means that this Expansion and the soundtracks too will be included in that. Otherwise you have to release a Baldur's Gate Definite Edition+ (we really mean it this time Edition).
Posted April 03, 2016
Is there a reason why it only works with the Enhanced Editions?
Posted April 03, 2016
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IronArcturus: Is there a reason why it only works with the Enhanced Editions?
EE uses a number of existing mods. Maybe the expansion was built with those already in mind (did Beamdog do extra progamming/alterations to the original code as well...?)
Posted April 03, 2016
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IronArcturus: Is there a reason why it only works with the Enhanced Editions?
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/715111/#Comment_715111
PhillipDaigle Posts: 612
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Amber_Scott said:

The pragmatic answer is that the contract we negotiated with WotC for SoD was for an expansion.

This is basically it. We had initially pushed for a stand-alone release but it didn't work out.
Posted April 03, 2016
So it's a DLC requiring BG:EE, but does it also require that you play BG:EE? I'm interested in new content, but not in replays, and I already had to replay parts of BG in order to be able to play Tales of the Sword Coast. I have no intention of replaying BG ever again, so I'd like to know if Siege of Dragonspear can be started right from the menu (allowing you to create a character of appropriate level, or offering pre-made ones), or whether the starting point is hidden somewhere in the main game and can't be accessed without replaying parts of BG:EE (like in Tales of the Sword Coast).
Post edited April 03, 2016 by Leroux
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