Icewind Dale II Forum Update
Posted Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 21:00 CET by Veldrin

Scott Everts, Technical Designer

CE Music: I should point out that the soundtrack that comes with the Collector's Edition also includes all the music from the "Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter" expansion. I just realized it when I listened to the CD recently! I didn't realize our audio department added those tracks and its not mentioned on the track list.

Tracks 26-40 are from Heart of Winter.

With this CD & the soundtrack we released for IWD1 awhile ago, all the music is now available.

Chad Nicholas, Scripter

Turn Times: 1 round = 7 seconds
1 turn = 70 seconds (10 rounds)

In PnP, it is indeed 6 seconds for a round and 60 seconds for a turn. For some reason, the IE isn't wired that way.

J.E. Sawyer, Lead Designer

Missing Armor: Here is the likely scenario: when people were assigned item placement for the uniques in IWD2, the items at the bottom of an Excel spreadsheet did not get included in that list. Alternately, those items were not in the list when the placement assignments were handed out.

We occasionally did see these items on testers' characters -- but they were hacked in for people running through on the critical path. I didn't see these suits of armor in the game, but since I only had one heavily armored character, I didn't think anything of it. I don't remember seeing any bugs written up for the lack of heavy armor -- ergo, voila.

Needless to say, this is a big bug, and I am fixing it for the upcoming patch. I just wanted to make absolutely certain that these items weren't placed in the game already.

Guys, as someone else said, the armor as in the release build isn't any better, AC-wise, than what your characters can get right now through legitmate means. I am both improving some of these suits of armor and placing them in stores from the *spoiler* on.

Thus, not only will you have legitimate access to these armors, but they will also have better AC bonuses or general bonuses, in many cases.

Items above +5: The only time you should ever encounter a weapon that appears to be over +5 value in terms of total enchantment + cool effects should be in Heart of Fury mode. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. One in 20ish high-level random drops will be bumped up to the equivalent of a +6 item.