

I bought this on Steam (would have waited to buy it on GOG but I was too excited) as soon as it came out and have been playing through it both multiplayer and solo. The solo experience had some bugs, but nothing that seemed game breaking. However it was either due to the newest "enhancements" that the game got bad, or it was some disconnect between single player and multi. AC was all messed up and we couldn't tell what affected it at all as we could remove armors, add them back and it would change what seemed to be randomly. Illithids now can 1 shot kill everyone in your party, (rather than draining your intelligence and killing you off) which made making it through those dungeons incredibly frustrating. These were the worst bugs, game crashing/dropping someone from multiplayer I can deal with, but there are a lot more. As for the good though, the new character classes were fun to experiment with (again, if you can figure out how the buggy system levels them up in any way that makes sense with their description) there are some new weapons to pick up along the way and some old with new abilities, I don't remember any bows having unlimited ammo from the vanilla version. New NPCs add a little, with side quests. Also rolling for characters is much easier to look at if you really like to power game and max stats at character generation. So buy it and hope that Beamdog keeps supporting it and putting out new upgrades that fix it rather than break it, or play the original.