Icewind Dale II - PC - Chapter 1, Part 1 - Shaengarne (Blind, Hard Difficulty)

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Published on January 25, 2019 1:42:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dauIFtMQ1w

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Icewind Dale II (2002)

Duration: 5:50:00

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The first half of chapter 1 played blind on hard difficulty with a custom party. In this part my adventurers journey through Shaengarne battling through it's woods, fords and passes until finally arriving at their destination the bridge.

This playthrough is a raw, warts n' all blind capture, with little editing for "entertainment" sake, so it includes all my inventory management, buying, selling, levelling, travelling to and fro etc. It's just meant to be a raw archive of my playthrough so it is what it is. I have spliced footage at save points if I had to reload, which I usually only do on a party wipe or if a crucial character died before I got the raise dead ability, obviously there will be splices between different gaming sessions too. Because I'm editing the footage losslessly to preserve quality I can only splice on keyframes, which in my editor equates to about every four seconds, so if you're wondering why the splicing is sometimes loose, that's why.

I had some technical problems with audio while capturing this, it would only record in Windows Game DVR and sometimes it would capture with distorted or "skipping" sound. Whenever this happens I've mixed in parts of the game soundtrack over the top as it makes the bad sound more tolerable. It doesn't happen often though and I didn't want to scrap this 100 hour playthrough because of it. In this part it mainly happens in the big bridge battle, so I used the music that plays by default in that sequence to mask the skipping. You can still hear the skipping after the battle but I left that in as it's not as annoying as it is during the battle sequence.

Note that the section between 1:01:20 and 01:17:34 is a replay I spliced in. The original footage was lost for that part so I just replayed it for continuity.

Timecodes:
00:00:00 - Riverbank rescue
01:08:55 - Logging village
02:30:33 - Troll cave
03:05:11 - The pass
03:44:40 - The dam
04:20:01 - The bridge
05:15:35 - Back to Targos

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