Bard's Tale IV

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How much of a hint do you want?
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1. I've tipped up to 1000 and it's mostly meh.

2. N5E27 Yes, it's a tavern. Order some wine. That's the first dungeon.

3. See #2.
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And that's the newbie dungeon?
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Yes sir
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Word.

Kind of a hard to.find newbie dungeon. What if I was role playing party of teetotalers?
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GORDON wrote: Word.

Kind of a hard to.find newbie dungeon. What if I was role playing party of teetotalers?
It's the only place that sells wine. I have some vague memory of something/someone mentioning to go to a wine cellar?
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TheCatt wrote: I have some vague memory of something/someone mentioning to go to a wine cellar?
Yep. Somewhere someone tells you where to go, but I have no idea who.
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Leisher wrote:
TheCatt wrote: I have some vague memory of something/someone mentioning to go to a wine cellar?
Yep. Somewhere someone tells you where to go, but I have no idea who.
I think it's written in one of the houses. One of those old-school RPG things. 1 plot hook or FU.
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Troy wrote: I think it's written in one of the houses. One of those old-school RPG things. 1 plot hook or FU.
Yeah. Btw, the secret to the next dungeon is hidden in the first dungeon, Gordon.
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Brian Fargo
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All album and collector boxes for Bard's Tale 4 are in transit and should be arriving to you all. I look forward to the photos!
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Got mine today.
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Did it come via mail or delivery service?
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Fired up Bard's Tale again for the first time in about a month. Needed a break from editing.

Apparently there was a patch. Combat goes really fast now, and you get little flags in your party list when one of them can level up, or get new spells. Those are the only changes I noticed, so far.
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If I'm playing through Steam, if I normally play on my PC, and then I launch it on the laptop, is my saved game available on the other system?

I probably could have installed and found out for myself in the time it took me to type all this out.
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GORDON wrote: If I'm playing through Steam, if I normally play on my PC, and then I launch it on the laptop, is my saved game available on the other system?

I probably could have installed and found out for myself in the time it took me to type all this out.
I thought Steam synch'd saves? But I only have Steam on 1 PC.
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I think I can "stream" from the PC. Haven't done it yet. Will try later.
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TheCatt wrote: I thought Steam synch'd saves?
They do for some games, but not others...?

Shit. Now I need to know. I could start doing the idle games I play at work at home.
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I attempted to.stream to the laptop, but then it said I had to install a driver on the PC, and I didn't feel like going back to the basement. Will later.
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Streaming is slightly flakey, but functional on a turn-based game like this. Things got out of sync once, and I was barely able to save it. SOmetmes graphics were a little choppy, like a bandwidth bottleneck. That sort of thing.
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