I'm feeling pretty happy with myself! Act one, and already have all the scalemail I could want, a +2 mace of disruption, and a tidy nestegg of 3000 gold - and I havn't even hit the big bad for the Act. So, I run down through the thieves guild, lalalala~ So easy.
Then I go down to the next floor of the thieves guild.
What's this? Fireballs being shot at me? Ok. I can live. Stands to reason that thieves' guilds have traps.
... So, I get to this... puzzle. You have a room:
code:-------u----------
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
-------u----------
Now, you enter and leave from the "u"s. Doens't it look simple?
Except... you jump on the first pedestal, and.. well.. they drop out from under you. In fact, randomly, four of the five surrounding pedestals also fall into the great abyss. This continues until you get to the other side.
It changes each time.
HELP ME.
I completely forget the solution.
For the first one like that you just jump strait across
[ 04-05-2003: Message edited by: Zaafiel ]
The second one you will need to time perfectly, when you jump to a block all the blocks around it EXCEPT one will fall. Quickly jump to that block (usualy it is the front left diagonal/ front right diagonal block, but can sometimes be the left or right one) follow the path to the other side and enjoy the fact that there will be no other puzzles like this ^_^
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
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.Wait until the platform drops JUST A LITTLE BIT, then jump to the one platform that didn't fall. Continue doing so until you're across. It's not needlessly complicated, but it does require quickness.
Just a warning. The big bad boss of the first act is a pain in the BUTT for a sorceress, just because you THINK you should be blasting from far away but that kills you .
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Gikkwiny had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
So, there I am playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.I'm feeling pretty happy with myself! Act one, and already have all the scalemail I could want, a +2 mace of disruption, and a tidy nestegg of 3000 gold - and I havn't even hit the big bad for the Act. So, I run down through the thieves guild, lalalala~ So easy.
Then I go down to the next floor of the thieves guild.
What's this? Fireballs being shot at me? Ok. I can live. Stands to reason that thieves' guilds have traps.
... So, I get to this... puzzle. You have a room:
code:-------u----------
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
|o o o o o o o o|
-------u----------Now, you enter and leave from the "u"s. Doens't it look simple?
Except... you jump on the first pedestal, and.. well.. they drop out from under you. In fact, randomly, four of the five surrounding pedestals also fall into the great abyss. This continues until you get to the other side.It changes each time.
HELP ME.
The others are right. Fast reflexs is the only think that can save you.
You think that's hard, try doing it with 2 players. Yep, me and my brother played together, and eventually made it through.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Fazum'Zen Fastfist stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Nothing about that game was hard for me. I just played and beat in like 3 hours or something
I know. I hit the final boss 3 times with my halberd, my bro shot her with his lightning sphere twice and she died. I was like WTF 
! That was far to easy, and short for a baldur's gate game.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
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vertue was naked while typing this:
You think that's hard, try doing it with 2 players. Yep, me and my brother played together, and eventually made it through.
I fireballed my sister to death every time I tried to make that jump puzzle.
It's not something people hear about.
I think the sequel's coming out this fall, or something
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
So I played the dorf instead, for the opposite effect 
.Eh... it was short, but there was some dastardly annoying bits (like on Burning Eye Summit with those stupid lightning ball thingies, or said instakill eye beams), but what got me was the ending. I mean... ARGH! I liked Sleyvas as a character, and glad he could be a little deeper with his treachery to the main character, but that ending SUCKED!!! God! Bad!
In extreme mode, Ciraxis was pain
The instant kill eyes were easy, wimps
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
A kicked butt.Maybe I'll play it again.
My sorceress is like.. tank.
She's wearing scale mail right now, with chainmail helm, boots, and gloves... and a +1 mace of disruption.
She's a badass. ^^
I've only used magic missle for crowd control and snowblind/burning hands for the same thing - that's it. ^^
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How.... Gikkwiny.... uughhhhhh:
It's funny.My sorceress is like.. tank.
She's wearing scale mail right now, with chainmail helm, boots, and gloves... and a +1 mace of disruption.
She's a badass. ^^
I've only used magic missle for crowd control and snowblind/burning hands for the same thing - that's it. ^^
The Sorceress can't even compare to the Dwarf tank-wise. I had full-plate armor, a Halberd that did 114-140 and maxed out both critical related skills. I was hiting for about 250 points damage against my enemies at least half the time.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
I'm not even to the first boss of act 2.
There IS no platemail,. right now
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We were all impressed when Gikkwiny wrote:
It's funny.My sorceress is like.. tank.
She's wearing scale mail right now, with chainmail helm, boots, and gloves... and a +1 mace of disruption.
She's a badass. ^^
I've only used magic missle for crowd control and snowblind/burning hands for the same thing - that's it. ^^
Wait until you get yourself Chain Lightning. Chain Lightning was my special little friend. We had many fun times together. Runrunrunrunrun, BLASTYBLASTYBLASTYBLASTYBLASTY, runrunrunrunrun. Very fun with a Mordenkainen's Sword in the mix. Meteor Storm is also good for "make a crowd die" fun.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Gikkwiny wrote:
.. dude...I'm not even to the first boss of act 2.
There IS no platemail,. right now
sorry. Act two, that would be the dwarven mines, right? You got the Elven scalemail?
I can't remember for sure, but I don't think that the Sorceress can even use the plate mail.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
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Nicole stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Way I see it, the dwarf is good for single, tough enemies like Sess'Sth or Xantum, especially while those enemies are melee, but for things at range he's not too good. The Sorceress is good for groups, like clouds of kobolds or the skeleton-raisyness of the Orb of the Undead, but things like Sess'Sth made my life hell as he ate a large portion of my HP with each swing. Haven't played the archer enough to really know what he excels at...
Archer was kind of like a mix of them both. Had the range, but less firepower than the sorceress, and the ability to handle larger weapons, but not as heavy armor as the dwarf.
Plus fire-arrows, ice-arrows, exploding arrows. Lots of fun.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
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Nicole wrote this stupid crap:
Way I see it, the dwarf is good for single, tough enemies like Sess'Sth or Xantum, especially while those enemies are melee, but for things at range he's not too good. The Sorceress is good for groups, like clouds of kobolds or the skeleton-raisyness of the Orb of the Undead, but things like Sess'Sth made my life hell as he ate a large portion of my HP with each swing. Haven't played the archer enough to really know what he excels at...
Well, my sorcress was pretty badass against xantam - then again, I usually buy about 30 heal potions every time I go to the shopkeeper.
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Nicole had this to say about dark elf butts:
And yes, the sorceress can use the plate mail, though I elected not to due to strength concerns.
I thought that the Sorceress couldn't. *shrugs*. Your right though, platemail is damn heavy. I had to go with just a breastplate, using half-plate on everything else. I was running around with +5 on all my armor at the end though.
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
. And the end boss on Extreme was rather irritating for a Sorceress, just for the reason that if you stepped close, you DIED, and she ate lightning and my favorite spell is still Chain Lightning. Still, Icy Sphere her into her gateway, Meteor Storm and avoid swordthrows and hope she dosen't run at you...
I had more trouble with Sess'Sth and Ciraxis, honestly. Sess'Sth because the room was small and there was no room to maneuver and he was CONSTANTLY following you around and hacking so you couldn't back up to blast, and Ciraxis because of his stupid breath with the stupid spheres that stupidly knocked you back and also by that point I was running out of rejuvenation potions .
*late night ranty post, then sleep*
Piss off. not everybody is a button mashing, twitch reflex gaming god like you. Just because YOU breezed through something does not mean everybody else on the damn planet is gonna blow right through it with no difficulty.
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Soldar had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Try playing the game through on Extreme. That's where the fun begins.
No, that's where the fun ends
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
