Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition Raises Level Cap, Improves Mod Support

President of Beamdog Trent Oster has been divulging tidbits of information on the upcoming Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition via Twitter, with recent tweets revealing that BGE will raise the original game‘s level cap and improve upon its mod support.

Here’s a record of some of his most important tweets with regards to BGE:

Our plan is to raise the level cap a bit in #bgee to allow for the new content.

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 16, 2012

@Asky25 Mod support will be improved.A few mods have pointed some directions for us, such as the widescreen mod.

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 12, 2012

I still have my original Baldur’s Gate box set, complete with cloth map. There’s a precedent among old-school RPG gamers for physical, tangible products, and Oster offered us some hope:

The plan was for #baldursgate Enhanced Edition to be a pure digital distribution title.From fan interest we are looking into a box version

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 16, 2012

BG’s six character limit will remain for purposes of game balance, and AI will also remain largely unchanged:

We won’t be changing the gameto more than 6 characters, the entire game would have to be re-balanced.BG’s fun is partly the compromises

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 16, 2012

We’ve looked at the enemy AI in #bgee.We won’t mess too much with the default difficulty settings.For our new content they are nasty

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 13, 2012

Oster is no fan of silent protagonists and is looking to add great voice talent to the new content — don’t worry, Minsc fans, he’s got you covered.

Good voice talent adds an amazing dimension to characters.Our plan is to do high quality on every facet of new content #bgee

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 14, 2012

@davidscotton If the scope of our work includes new VO for Minsc, Jim Cummings would be getting the call. #bgee

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 14, 2012

Some bad news for fans hoping to see a Wii U or Xbox version of BGE:

@Glenn_Swift I can’t ever see us doing an Xbox version.The controller isn’t a good fit.Have to change too much. #bgee #justsayin

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 15, 2012

@Starscream8 We don’t do Nintendo development.Our previous experience with Nintendo was enough to ensure there will not be another.

— Trent Oster (@TrentOster) April 15, 2012