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Neverwinter Nights 2 Forum News (Jan. 20, 05)

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Jan 21, 2005.

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    Here are today's Neverwinter Nights 2 forum highlights, collected by NWVault from Obsidian Forums. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

    Darren Monahan, Producer

    Welcome!
    On behalf of everyone at Obsidian, BioWare and Atari, we'd like to welcome you to the new and shnazzy official Neverwinter Nights II forums! In the coming weeks we've got a lot in store for fans of Neverwinter Nights including interviews, first looks at the game, and a bunch of other details about what we're doing with the game and toolset. The new forums are broken out into five categories:

    General Discussion - For any discussion that doesn't fit better into one of the categories below.

    NWN2 Single Player Discussion - Interested in talking about the single player campaign? This is the spot for you. Talk about what you'd like to see in the story, your favorite characters, and anything else related to the single player experience.

    NWN2 Gameplay and Rules - NWN2 features the latest 3.5E D&D rules and a bunch of new gameplay features. This is the spot to talk about your favorite feats, skills, spells, and anything else rules or gameplay related.

    NWN2 Art and Graphics Engine - NWN2 uses a brand new graphics rendering engine and all new art. Talk about what you'd like to see artistically from NWN2 here.

    NWN2 Toolset and Custom Content - NWN2 is also featuring an all new toolset. Let us know what you'd like to see out of it here! Thanks everyone, and again welcome!

    Adam Brennecke, Programmer

    NWN 2 System requirements?
    That's on par with the systems that some of the developers are using. Right now I am using a Radeon 9800 Pro and it runs fine.

    Erik Novales, Programmer

    Windows Modeless
    You're welcome. There's lots of other cool stuff going on with the tools, too, but we just figured we'd whet your appetite.

    Toolset, Content, Scripts,... oh my!
    Well, one thing that we've mentioned previously is easier creation of cutscenes...which would seem to be directly relevant to you...

    Jason Keeney, Programmer

    Physics?
    There will be some cool physics-type stuff happening in the game... but, as has been suggested, it will most likely be of the eye-candy variety. Physics-based action just doesnt mesh very well with D&D rule based play... though my goal is to make it *look* like it does.

    NWN 2 System requirements?
    you know what? it's really cool that you guys want Mac and Linux versions of the game... I'd love to see it happen too. But do you think we could refrain from hijacking un-related threads for platform partisanship?

    Ferret Baudoin, Lead Designer

    Welcome!
    Nice to meet you folks and our friends in Canada. A side note to Chris - my mom always told me to never trust anybody that says "trust me". So I have my eye on you.

    Welcome!
    I am caught in a bit of a dilemma - for if I tell Chris he can trust me, then by my own admission he can't. But a blanket condemnation of all mustolid kind needs to be refuted. I suppose I will leave it at - nice to meet you Chris and James (and everyone else, of course:)).

    Frank Kowalkowski, Lead Programmer

    Tilesets
    If all we were doing was switching to 3.5 rules, you'd be playing NWN2 by now. The technology upgrade will be significant--there will be no original rendering or animation code in the game. What 'Tilesets' are used is still being discussed.

    Craft-a-Face
    We've looked into this technology and will continue to look into it, but there are some limitations to what it can provide us at this time. We've spoken with the middle-ware providers of the face-gen stuff and haven't gotten a solution to our problem worked out yet. We'll continue to explore this option, but as of right now, we have some other options available to us that will greatly increase character variety.

    Dirty Nasty Little Rumor
    I really hope this isn't true, or i've got a lot of missing tasks on the programming schedule (not to mention missing programmers). =) Chance of NWN2 going mmorpg is 0.0%. We have, in the past, discussed the fact that we gleaned a lot of neat interface ideas from mmorpgs. We may implement some of those ideas.
     
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