Neverwinter Nights Forum News

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(Originally posted by Veldrin)

Here are today's Neverwinter Nights forum highlights. 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.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

Tilesets: No, none of the new tilesets are reskins and they all have a very unique theme and atmosphere.

Quote: Just a quick wish list regarding control of a henchman:

1. Give him the ability to use potions when I want him to. All that's necessary for this is to allow me to right click on potions in his inventory and then have the radial menu show an option to "Use."

2. By adding two entries to the henchman's dialog menu, give my main character the ability to disable, or enable, his henchman's spellcasting.

1. Since you can drag potions on him and he will use them immediately (and you can pause the game while doing this), I do not actually see the a reason for that

2. Yes

David Gaider, Designer

Beholders: Relax, please. The models are all still being tweaked. Indeed, just this morning the artist working on the beholder added a row of 5 smaller eyestalks behind the larger, animated ones, just to test out how it looked. I thought it looked pretty good, so it might stay that way, but the point is none of the models are final. The artists are just trying to make them look their best while still working well inside the game.

Quote: Does this solidify the theory that the only thing worth the zots is what is included in the Official Campaign and not what is requested from world builders?

Not quite. It goes both ways, a bit. The OC we do has to incorporate a lot of the elements that are being requested by the community first and foremost... we are demo'ing the features of the expansion, to a degree. That doesn't mean we can get every request in, naturally... we have to pick and choose what we can. After that, more specific features that are needed by the OC take priority (such as if we discover we need a drow temple tile for the tileset... even here we'll still try to do stuff that the community can use). Stuff that isn't needed by the OC at all does take a lower priority, but that doesn't mean it won't get in, either. I can think of several decent features in HotU that aren't going to come up in the OC at all.

Al Schilling, Product Manager

Mac Updater: And, if you haven't found it yet-a new updater is available. Sorry for the problems with the first.

NWN Mac: Don't do it just to put a thorn in our side. We really WANT you to enjoy NWN Mac. If picking up the PC version of SoU makes your NWN experience better-we're happy. We can't offer you tech support for it but we're not opposed to it. For those of you who think that we at MacSoft are in this just for the money-you are very wrong. I've had some tech-support staff on vacation this week and had to fill in for them. Had a blast. There's nothing better than ending a call with a happy customer. Sure, we want to make a living but, like most of the people I've met in these forums, we really want to provide folks with some fun and enjoyment. As long as you're not stealing games, we've got no problem. If you want to spend $30 bucks on the PC expansion-go for it. The guys who really made this game happen (BioWare) will still get their cut. (Keep in mind that they won't be able to offer you Mac tech support either.)

Tom Ohle, Communications Associate

HotU CD-Key: The red paper thing wasn't planned for SoU... we'll do our best to ensure the CD Key isn't printed on one this time around.