Siege of Dragonspear breaks modding

[Billy Yank]

Both Steam and Good Old Games deliver the DLC content in a zip file that contains all of the new content. This includes the new dialog.tlk file that contains all the text for both the game and the expansion. Weidu, the modding tool that all mods use to inject their content into the game, cannot access the files inside that .zip and the maintainers claim it's not practical to add that capability to the tool.

What this means, is that you will never be able to add a mod to BG1 once you've installed SOD. There is some talk about creating a mod that will move the SOD content from the zip file into the normal game files, but it isn't known how the Steam client will react to this. There's a chance that it will attempt to "repair" the modded game and add the zip file back, and it's unknown if Steam acheivements will still work.

The version that Beamdog sells on their website does work with mods because they don't use the zip file method.

You can find out more on the Beamdog forums and at the Spellhold Studios forums.

[Halfwise]

....Well, this is interesting to know. At first I bought it on Steam, then I was going to return it because it was cheaper on GoG and get the GoG version, but changed my mind, because I felt an expansion on such an old classic should be rewarded. Now mods may not work... so, now I may return it...again...and buy the one from Beamdog..... Fun Times..

My question is more along the lines of... if we can't convince maintainers to add the functionality to WeiDu, can we convince Valve to use the version without the zip?

Or! Can we just extract the contents of the zip, and then disable the DLC checkbox in the Library? (Or in the case of GoG, just extract the zip)

[Murderhobo]

Yep, happeed to me. I had RE, and a couple more things installed and it screwed up with the dialogues. So no more slutting around with my Red Dragon Disciple :'(