Bards Tale Remastered BETA available!!!

At last the beta is available:

https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=15568&p=171053#p171053

Currently it is only for BT1 and can be accessed via your rewards page on the backer forum. Looks pretty good from what I have played but it needs some more polish.

Thanks for the heads-up on this Bjon, I just had a quick look this evening. It's really nice to see the progress that has been made by Rebecca and her team so far.

It'd been so many years since I played, that'd I'd forgotten the correct keys for altering the speed of combat. On the C64 version it was cursor shift/arrow, but for the Apple II and PC versions, it is simply the arrow keys.

The auto-map is indeed a welcome addition though I can still remember my way reasonably well funnily enough, at least around Skara Brae. No doubt the dungeons will be different. I never beat the PC version, so I'm very tempted to make a brand new party and start all over again.

The only minor bug or oddity I found in my brief test was during character creation - it says "ESC to reroll" yet it didn't appear to be functioning. It'll be amazing once they're finished; hopefully player feedback is positive and assists in this goal.

Edit:
Another observation is that random encounters during the day in Skara Brae appear to have been toned down significantly. This is probably a good thing for newer players. Although, one of my earliest memories of playing on the C64 version was the fear of being caught by monsters weak and weary from a dungeon run, creeping all the way back to the Adventurer's Guild!

I can't wait for the official game to be released. I am very eager to play the 3 Bard's Tale games because I love dungeon-crawlers and they really seem to be right up my alley.

Thanks for pointing this out. Kickstarter-related stuff seems to get lost in the chaos in my emails.

Also, it reminded me to check my unclaimed rewards, where there was a free GOG copy of Wasteland 2 waiting for me. (I already have it on Steam, but wanted a GOG version)

If anyone's interested, here's a YouTube vid that compares the Apple II and DOS versions with the Remastered Beta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRD-8JH-Rc

Awesome, thanks for the heads-up. I haven't played this in decades and I never really got that far with it first time around. I'm hoping to get some long nights of gaming with this remaster.

Pessimeister said:

Another observation is that random encounters during the day in Skara Brae appear to have been toned down significantly. This is probably a good thing for newer players. Although, one of my earliest memories of playing on the C64 version was the fear of being caught by monsters weak and weary from a dungeon run, creeping all the way back to the Adventurer's Guild!

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Yeah, that's pretty much my sole recollection of it - getting consistently slaughtered in Skara Brae by random encounters! I'm hoping I've improved a bit as a gamer since then, but I'll probably find I haven't.

I'll be all over these when they are finished. Until then, I can wait.