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Posted August 14, 2018
Encore, encore!

The Bard's Tale Trilogy remastered is now DRM-free on GOG.com.
Fine-tune your lutes, adventurers! 'Tis time to sing again the tales of Skara Brae. The place where evil took hold, nearly extinguishing all life, all hope. That very same place where the legend of the six heroes began, only this time with high-res graphics that maintain the originals' tone, audio for spells and attacks, plus certain quality of life improvements like an automap and tooltip popups, among others.
Posted August 15, 2018
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Posted August 15, 2018
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Tarhiel: Also glad I got this key as a backer, this game I might actually try in contrast with Wasteland Classic.

And, of course, curious about Bard´s Tale IV, though I am little worried about lack of news so far.
That´s never a good sign., as if developers themselves wouldn´t believe in it (their posts used to be more frequent).
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SpiralJacobs: There has been quite a bit of news of late. It's launching next month. Gameplay videos and hands on look fantastic.
I am glad to hear that :)
Posted August 15, 2018
Aaand...backer-codes redeemed. Awesome.
Posted August 15, 2018
Mac user here. Has anyone been able to get this working on wine?
Posted August 15, 2018
OK, now here's the next issue.

This comes with zero manuals, hintbooks, etc.... and those were kind of critical to the experience.

You think GOG would let us send scans of some of these in?
Posted August 15, 2018
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yogsloth: OK, now here's the next issue.

This comes with zero manuals, hintbooks, etc.... and those were kind of critical to the experience.

You think GOG would let us send scans of some of these in?
Here is a link for the manual of the first Bard's Tale:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sfd2wvi4efebfe/The%20Bard%27s%20Tale%20-%20Manual.pdf
Post edited August 15, 2018 by Grargar
Posted August 15, 2018
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yogsloth: OK, now here's the next issue.

This comes with zero manuals, hintbooks, etc.... and those were kind of critical to the experience.

You think GOG would let us send scans of some of these in?
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Grargar: Here is a link for the manual of the first Bard's Tale:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sfd2wvi4efebfe/The%20Bard%27s%20Tale%20-%20Manual.pdf
Send it to GOG! Share with all your fellows!

Now I need to find my BT2 hint book with it's page-after-page of notes scrawled onto it by an 8th-grade yogsloth...


And I know I have all three manuals at home, but they'd make a pretty ugly scan.
Post edited August 15, 2018 by yogsloth
Posted August 15, 2018
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yogsloth: Send it to GOG! Share with all your fellows!
GOG already has it...

... included in Bard's Tale 2004 (3 of the 4 manuals are for the original trilogy, as their emulated versions are included there)
https://www.gog.com/game/the_bards_tale

All GOG needs to do is make those manuals available for owners of the Remastered Trilogy.
Post edited August 15, 2018 by Grargar
Posted August 15, 2018
About the system requirements of The Bard's Tale Trilogy:

I checked it online and the i5-760 is slower then the Core-i5-2500K

link:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-760-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2500K/m717vs619

i made screenshot of the testpage and pasted the image of the game to show its about the req. for the game
unless the userbenchmark made a mistake which is possible i guess, the 2500K should be mentioned in the rec. settings and not in the minimum ...

check attachment corei5760_vs_int.jpg

if it checks out could you please change that and put the 2500k in the recommended requirements

i know it reads:

Intel Core i5-2500K or higher if using integrated Intel GPU

i assume it means you need a intel Core i5-2500K or higher if using integrated Intel GPU, nontheless the 2500 is faster and should be in the recommended.

I know it cause i have an old 750 and it is aging rapidly :D , both are old and had there moment of glory and its time to retire them but since pc and hardware are quite expensive i had to put it in a 'wheelchair' so to say , cause it needs to last for a while until it 'retires' :D

i5-760
4 Cores, 4 Threads @2.8 GHz, Lynnfield.
Release date ≤ Q4 2013.
VS

MY CPU:

i5-750
€149

4 Cores, 4 Threads @2.66GHz, Nehalem.
Release date: Q3 2009.
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Post edited August 15, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted August 15, 2018
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htown1980: Mac user here. Has anyone been able to get this working on wine?
You'd need Vulkan enabled Wine build, MoltenVK and dxvk which in theory should work. I managed to run in on Linux using dxvk. See this thread.
Post edited August 15, 2018 by shmerl
Posted August 15, 2018
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yogsloth: Send it to GOG! Share with all your fellows!
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Grargar: GOG already has it...

... included in Bard's Tale 2004 (3 of the 4 manuals are for the original trilogy, as their emulated versions are included there)
https://www.gog.com/game/the_bards_tale

All GOG needs to do is make those manuals available for owners of the Remastered Trilogy.
That's hilarious, there they are... I'm assuming the cluebooks are for the originals as well...

[EDIT] - the cluebooks are only for 1 and 3. 2 is missing.

HEY BLUES

GET ON IT
Post edited August 15, 2018 by yogsloth
Posted August 15, 2018
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shmerl: Anyone waiting for their keys, here is a hint how to speed things up:

1. Go to the Crowdox survey: https://app.crowdox.com/retrieve/inxile/the-bards-tale-iv
2. Enter your e-mail you used for Kickstarter and click "Resend Email".
3. You'll get an e-mail with the link to your survey. Open it and find "Do you need to make changes or want to add an extra item?".
4. Click "Open Your Survey" there.
5. Then (important and easy to miss!) click "Reward" tab on top left.
6. Find The Bard's Tale I-III Classic Trilogy and select "GOG key".
7. Complete the survey until all is confirmed (several steps there).
8. After around 10+ minutes you'll get your GOG key in e-mail :)
neat thank you for this! w/o it I'd never have found out how to get to my keys (who'd have thunk to click on do you need to make changes and then go back to the reward tab. it's incredibly well hidden.
Thanks again!
Posted August 15, 2018
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mchack: ...
The email they send does detail the needed actions but still just adds to my dislike of CrowdOx, there is pretty much nothing I like about it.
Posted August 16, 2018
I have a copy of the Bard's Tale 2 Hint books (and 1 and 3). They've even got the annotations of a junior-high school version of me, trying to figure out where the best XP/Gold could be found. Would anyone at GoG be interested in the Hint Book for #2?
Posted August 16, 2018
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sambrookjm: I have a copy of the Bard's Tale 2 Hint books (and 1 and 3). They've even got the annotations of a junior-high school version of me, trying to figure out where the best XP/Gold could be found. Would anyone at GoG be interested in the Hint Book for #2?
Hopefully Blues will respond, that sounds interesting :)
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