? How will HD2 handle old character packs?

[Herolover]

I have purchased almost all the current character packs put out for HD and am wondering how things will work with HD2. Will there be changes needed? Updates to the character packs themselves? Anything?

[Simon]

They should all run fine.

To date, the only issues that I'm aware of with opening v1 characters or prefabs under v2 involve Enhanced Senses, Sense Modifiers, Sense Affecting Powers, and the Reputation Perk.

For Enhanced Senses, Sense Modifiers, and Sense Affecting Powers, I've got v2 set to load things in as intelligently as it can under the new system. So long as any "additional senses" or "additional sense groups" are labeled the way they should be (e.g. "Mental Group", "Sight Group", "Normal Sight", etc), then there should be no issues during the load. Particularly with character packs that were created with recent versions of HD v1, since there's additional information in the save file in those versions which allows me a far greater ability to match up v1 formats to v2.

The Reputation Perk should load in more or less ok....though there may be a little tweaking necessary to get the display to look "just right".

All in all, there shouldn't really be much of any problems.....

[Simon]

You can get a feel for how things will work by loading them into the test version.....