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NWN Forum Update

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Apr 30, 2002.

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    Trent Oster, Producer

    What's the best resolution to play NWN in? 1920 x 1440.
    I played the game at that resolution at E3. I couldn't read the text anymore, but the game looked sweet. I tried 2048 x 1600 and the monitor couldn't handle it.
    The default resolution is 800x600. It is possible to play at 640x480 but the Gui gets messed up.
    Most people in the office play 800x600 or 1024x768.

    How open-ended is NWN? The game is turning out to play longer than we initially expected. I've cooked about 19 hours into Chapter 2 and I think I'm almost 1/2 way through. Greg (co-CEO) just made it through chapter 1 in 27 hours. There are a large number of varying side quests in each chapter and you can play as many as you wish. In chapter 2 I have yet to do any non-critical plot related quests.

    Does Gamespy work well with NWN? Gamespy is integrated into NWN. We have a custom in-game Gui for matching to games and there will be no ads. When you wish to play NWN online you never have to leave the game, that was a dictate from the start.

    David Chan, Sound Engineer

    Will you be able to attatch sounds to objects and areas? I am not sure about custom sounds being "attached" to objects. You'd have to ask a designer if that could be scripted. However, custom sounds in areas is no problem and can be linked to scripted events as well.

    Bob Mcabe, Designer

    Can familiars travel through portals into other servers with you? Animal companions and familiars are all based upon your PCs level. When you gain levels, you go to an animal companion/familiar GUI where you can pick a new one, re-name it, or keep things as it is.

    David Gaider, Designer

    Will there be a Pixie familiar? Yes. The problem with most of the familiars in the PHB, by the way, is their size... there are no animals in the game smaller than a dog (the pixie being the one exception, probably). No small cats (got big ones, though), no weasels, no toads, no rats, etc. (the pixie actually fits because it floats at chest height and combat with it looks fine... the problem is that there are no combat animations for fighting small animals on the ground, it would look really strange).

    Will you be able to generate your own items for enemies to drop using script? No. But, the bright side is that you'll find the majority of magic items in the DMG (the ones that can be made with relative ease, anyway) already existing in NWN and being part of the generic resources available in every module.
     
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