Author: K'aeloree
Mod Website: Spellhold Studios
Mod Forum: IEP Expanded Banters
📥 Download the mod at Spellhold Studios
This mod adds a series of dialogues to the lovely elven wild mage Neera, to help flesh her out and give the game a little more content for those who've played through it a half-million times. For the romantically inclined, it also adds several flirts that you can initiate if you force-talk her.
The first talk should begin an hour and a half after you recruit her, and from there on in, talks are spaced at 1.5 hours.
If you haven't talked in a while, try sleeping at an inn or outdoors.
The last talk has the words, "It's a little exciting, isn't it?" in the first line. Once you've seen that, you know you've seen all the PC dialogues this mod has to offer.
Flirts
Once you've had your first lovetalk with Neera, a flirt menu becomes available via force-talk. An additional number of flirts become available after you've completed the BG:EE portion of her romance as well.
This mod is designed to work on Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (BGEE) and Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET).
☛ This version contains content for BG only, so while Neera will be functional in a SoD game, she will not speak to you.
This is a WeiDU mod and therefore should be compatible with all WeiDU mods. If you encounter any bugs, please report them on the forum!
Here is the recommended installation order:
- Please install Neera Expansion after EET.
- Please install Neera Expansion before EET_End, and any final "biffing" routines.
If you've previously installed the mod, remove it before extracting the new version. To do this, run setup-neera.exe, un-install all previously installed main component and delete the 📁 neera folder.
When installing or uninstalling, do not close the DOS window by clicking on the X button! Instead, press the Enter key whenever instructed to do so.
Disable any antivirus or other memory-resident software before installing this or any other mod. Some (particularly Avast and Norton!) have a tendency to report false positives with mod activity, resulting in failed installs.
Good Old Games (GOG) and Steam both package the additional content for Siege of Dragonspear in a method that WeiDU, the tool used to install this mod, cannot access. You must run a program called DLC Merger on your SoD installation before you can install this or any other WeiDU-based mod.
The Enhanced Editions are actively supported games. Please note that every patch update will wipe your current mod setup! If in the middle of a modded game you might want to delay the patch update (if possible) as even after reinstalling the mods, you might not be able to continue with your old savegames. Alternatively, copy the whole game's folder into a new one that can be modded and will stay untouched by game patches. You must install the mod to the language version you are playing the game in. Otherwise, the dialogues of the mod will not show but give error messages.
Neera Expansion for Windows is distributed as an extractable compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod archive into the folder of the game you wish to modify (the folder which contains the "CHITIN.KEY" file), using 7zip, WinRAR, or another file compression utility that handles .zip files. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 neera folder and a setup-neera.exe file in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-neera.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-neera.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change the components settings.
Neera Expansion for macOS is distributed in the same compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
First, extract the files from the archive into your game directory. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 neera folder, setup-neera and setup-neera.command files in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-neera.command and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-neera.command in your game folder to reinstall, un-install or otherwise change the components settings.
Neera Expansion for Linux is distributed in the same compressed archive and does not include a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod to the folder of the game you wish to modify.
Download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from WeiDU.org and copy weidu and weinstall to /usr/bin. Following that, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory, run tolower and answer 'Y' to both queries. You can avoid running the second option (linux.ini) if you've already ran it once in the same directory. To save time, the archive is already tolowered, so there's no need to run the first option (lowercasing file names) either if you've extracted only this mod since the last time you lowercased file names. If you're unsure, running tolower and choosing both options is the safe bet.
To install, run weinstall setup-neera in your game folder. Then run wine Baldur.exe and start playing.
In addition to the methods above for removing individual components, you can completely un-install the mod using setup-neera --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts.
The installer includes the following components. All optional components require the main component to be installed.
[0] Neera Expansion (Main component)
➽ This is the main component.
[1-5] How much time would you like between talks (approximately)?
1. 15 minutes
2. 30 minutes
3. 1 hour
4. 1.5 hours (default)
5. 2 hours
➽ This component defines talks intervals frequency.
One of the most-requested tweaks is to make Neera and Rasaad same-sex romanceable, so with Jalily's help I created two components to do so. Their dialogue will be appropriately altered to suit either gender, and the romance should begin as normal. There are two components:
Portraits for non-joinable NPCs
➽ This optional component installs custom portraits for various non-joinable NPCs added by this mod.
[6] Make Neera romanceable by women
[7] Make Rasaad romanceable by men
Author: K'aeloree
- Spellhold Studios team for hosting the mod (Forums).
- Austin: Russian translation and traification.
- K4thos for providing EET compatibility.
- Everyone else from the Spellhold Studios and BG:EE forums for testing and giving feedback!.
If you wish to translate the mod, have a suggestion, or should encounter any bugs, please report them to the maintainers at the mod forum.
- WeiDU, by Wes Weimer, the bigg and Wisp.
- Near Infinity, by Jon Olav Hauglid, FredSRichardson, and Argent77.
- Infinity Explorer, by Dmitry Jemerov / bigmoshi.
- IESDP, maintained by igi and lynx.
- Notepad++, by the Notepad++ team, Don Ho, and the spellcheck plug-in.
- WeiDU Notepad++ Highlighters, by Argent77.
- Infinity Auto Packager, by AL|EN.
The Neera Expansion is not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare™ or Interplay/BlackIsle, Overhaul, Beamdog or the Wizards of the Coast. It was developed by K'aeloree, based on material from the game Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal © TSR, Inc. The BioWare Infinity Engine is © BioWare Corp. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
This mod was created to be freely enjoyed by all Baldur's Gate II players, and its content is free of rights. However, it should not be sold, published, compiled or redistributed in any form without the consent of the author.
The modding community for the Infinity Engine has been going strong for more than 10 years now, and is the culmination of thousands of unpaid modding hours by fellow fans of the game. Modders produce their best work and players get the best, well-supported mods when we all work together.
There are two big ways to upset this harmony. One is to claim someone else's work as your own. The second is to host and redistribute a mod without permission from the author(s).
- Fix the Neera timer components
- Added Dynamic Install Syntax and global
LABELSto support AL|EN's "Project Infinity". - Added native EET compatibility (thanks K4thos).
- Reformatted readme file.
- Updated WeiDU installer to v247.
- Added neera.ini metadata file to support AL|EN's "Project Infinity".
- Replaced
AUTHORkeyword withSUPPORT. - Added missing
REQUIRE_PREDICATEconditions to avoid installing components in inaccurate games. - Added components
DESIGNATEDnumbers and "neera_expansion", "neera_expansion_talks_900", "neera_expansion_talks_1800", "neera_expansion_talks_3600", "neera_expansion_talks_5400", "neera_expansion_talks_7200", "neera_romanceable_by_women" and "rasaad_romanceable_by_men"LABELS. - Replaced old-school
DECOMPILE_DLG_TO_DplusCOMPILE_D_TO_DLGand destructiveREPLACE_SAYprocesses with more accurateDECOMPILE_AND_PATCHcommand and WeiDU homemade "gw_dlg_functions.tpa" library which dynamically modifies response transitions without overwriting dialog.tlk. Moreover, the two "Game romance tweaks" components work now in foreign languages! 😉 - Replaced old-school
DECOMPILE_BCS_TO_BAFplusCOMPILE_BAF_TO_BCSprocess with more accurateDECOMPILE_AND_PATCHcommand. - Added Russian translation (Thanks Austin).
- Traified mod.
- Fixed typos in English .tra files.
- Updated and renamed readme file to neera-expansion-readme-english.html, then moved it into new 📁 "readme" folder.
- Reorganized mod architecture tree: created or renamed folders to sort files according to their types.
- Included Linux and macOS versions in the same package (thanks AL|EN's Infinity Auto Packager tool!).
- Updated WeiDU installer to v246.
- Uploaded mod to official Spellhold Studios GitHub mirror account.
- Now with simpler, properly compatible installation!
- Initial release.