Become a Vampire?

[GrandMajora]

So I just watched a video of somebody doing Hexxat's final quest chain and there are at least 2 times in the dialogue where you can mention wanting to become a vampire. However, the stupid player didn't click on either one of them, so I don't know how Hexxat responds to them.

Can your character actually become a vampire, or is this just a tease of some kind? I've never done Hexxat's chain all the way through, because I don't find her entertaining at all. She's my least favorite companion in the game. But if I have the opportunity to become a vampire, along with all the power it entails, I would be willing to reconsider it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBAXZRx2ZcE

[DumMar]

Why it's lorewise ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/any_mods_avaiable_that_lets_you_become_a_vampire_in_bg2
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/3083/becoming-undead-maybe-an-eccentric-request
If you would become a vampire, simply sun would kill you, and if not then getting out of the graveyard is very risky because undead hunters and other stuff like that.
Also calling someone "stupid" because he didn't click what you would want him to click (instead of just trying it out youtself as you are so interested in it) is... childish.

EDIT: edited formatting to not look so crappy

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Dark Dewil:

Why it's lorewise ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/any_mods_avaiable_that_lets_you_become_a_vampire_in_bg2
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/3083/becoming-undead-maybe-an-eccentric-request
If you would become a vampire, simply sun would kill you, and if not then getting out of the graveyard is very risky because undead hunters and other stuff like that.
Also calling someone "stupid" because he didn't click what you would want him to click (instead of just trying it out youtself as you are so interested in it) is... childish.

EDIT: edited formatting to not look so crappy

So it's just a tease then? Right, guess I won't ever be playing Hexxat's quest chain, then.

[RomanRingOnIt]

It can be done http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/278471138310219783/8F38F44BC11BC701640728048B6DA5515FCACBFD/
My Vampiric Druid (* with wild Magic, a side effect of Vampiric corruption on Druidic power *), has daywalker ability similar to what the Cloak gives Hexxat...

[Lyrin]

Well, if you interact with Hexxat practically at all you learn pretty quickly that she's not exactly happy about her vampiric condition. She also makes it pretty clear from other dialogues with Dorn that she'd never willingly embrace (turn) another person.

Like, go ahead and ask but you're barking up the wrong tree.

[RomanRingOnIt]

Meh so shes a weak minded softling... regardless, It can be done to become a vampire so long as the person whos modded the char for you has balanced it right so it works ingame/multiplayer.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Klotho:

Meh so shes a weak minded softling... regardless, It can be done to become a vampire so long as the person whos modded the char for you has balanced it right so it works ingame/multiplayer.

I do not want a MOD to become a vampire, I want it to be a standard possibility. Heck, they already let you play a Werewolf (even though they're supposed to be Chaotic Evil).

The DLC description for Hexxat mentions something about a 'great reward' at the end, but I don't see it. If I'm going to slog through two games with this passive agressive ♥♥♥♥♥, then I deserve the powers of the nightwalker that she's so desperate to be rid of!

And to anybody who claims I would need to have the cloak to survive the sunlight... what makes you think I would keep Hexxat around after I made her turn me?

[Lyrin]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

And to anybody who claims I would need to have the cloak to survive the sunlight... what makes you think I would keep Hexxat around after I made her turn me?

Well, there's the issue of vampires generally having power over those that they turn, to some degree or another. I'd have to brush up on AD&D but at least in later editions vampires generally have absolute power over anyone they turn until they are killed or decide to turn the vampire spawn into a fully fledged independent vampire.

So yeah, fictionally it'd be a hard sell, even if she did offer it to you.

[RomanRingOnIt]

Its not a "Mod" for the game its a modified CHAR file that can be imported, the same as was do-able with the original BG and BG2 way back in 1999.... It works perfect on Vanilla games nor "Modifies" any ingame content.

[Lyrin]

So for gits and shiggles I opened up EEKeeper (the EE version of ShadowKeeper) and you can set your Race to [Vampire] (this is what Hexxat's race is). Make sure you use this version and not [Vampyre] as this is probably the monster/NPC "race" that vampire enemies throughout the game use.

I'll probably test it later, but if you're willing to cheat yourself an extra Cloak of Dragomir you could pretty much play the same sort of character race as Hexxat, I bet. Not sure how many of her immunities to things you would expect a Vampire to be immune to come from her amulet though. Again, I'll check that out maybe later today and update or add another post.

EDIT: Okay so you would have to do some more extensive editing if you wanted to just do so in EEKeeper. Probably copying of various Local Variables you can find under Hexxat's character tab and such and I don't have the patience to go through the trial-and-error required to figure out which ones would be necessary and which, if any might be related to her NPC stuff (quest, dialogues, etc.).