Neverwinter Nights Forum News

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

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.

Tom Ohle, Public Relations Specialist

CD wallet: Just wanted to let you all know that Hordes should be shipping with a CD wallet similar to the one found in the Neverwinter Nights Gold bundle. Below is a link to the image:

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Georg Zoeller, Designer

International releases package:

Quote: Do you know if this comes with all releases, or will it be left out of the international ones to save money?

I don't think we have any information on the international versions at this point, but judging from my previous experiences when buying games in Europe, I wouldn't bet on it.

Henchmen AI:

Quote: 1. Has the henchmen AI been improved with HotU?
2. Did you add a "don't cast any spells unless I tell you to" command?
3. Are the henchmen in HotU split class like SoU? Or are ingle class like the orginal NWN?
4. Will the improvments in Henchmen AI affect the SoU campign? Or just HoU?

1. There have been improvements to different areas of the Henchmen AI and the generic AI. (i.e. the AI now uses dispel magic against area of effect spells). Their spell selection also has been tweaked (no more ray of frost against dragons)

2. Yes, you can toggle spellcasting right from the radial menu. We also added a variety of options to tweak their behavior and cast certain spells and buffs through dialog.

3. Most of them are split class or have the option to split classes according to your directions

4. Most of the stuff is HotU only, through some generic AI improvements also should affect SoU.

Further on:
If you want to give an order only to one henchmen, you need to radial on him. If you radial off yourself or use the voice chat, all henchmen obey the given command (which is pretty useful when commanding your little army to stop or attack)

Defensive Stance:

Quote: Will the defensive stance in NWN be implimented so that the defender cannot move? It seems that I've heard it will only be very slow movement instead, but I can't find where I heard that.

No, defensive stance is a mode which renders you unable to move while activated.

Further on:
No you can't mix it with other modes, you need to concentrate on fighting in defensive stance, that doesn't mix with other styles. switching targets is no problem as long as they are within range.

David Gaider, Designer

HotU romance NPC:

Quote: Drow rogue/wizard/assassin? Being an assassin, she would have to be evil...

If she were a PC she would be.

Quote: I will be very disappointed if she is the romance option...I really hate drow.

She is the romance option. Sucks to be you.

Quote: Especially drow that aren't evil.

REALLY sucks to be you.

Quote: I have a feeling this character is going to be very cliche for several reasons...if she isn't evil and she has assassin levels, then at one point, she would have had to be evil...meaning she turned from that path which is one of the most cliche things you can possibly do. Can't Bioware be a bit more original? They are basically throwing Viconia(TOB, the neutral version...more or less) back at us with different classes. If she is the romance option for us guys...I'll have to put HotU in the back of the line for games I am going to purchase in the future.

So she's all cliche just because we had a drow in the BG series that you could redeem? Even though this drow is completely different... not that you're jumping to conclusions or anything, of course we just decided to retread old ground. I mean, the teeny bit of information you have is more than enough to judge that this henchman is Viconia reborn, right? Heck, we even re-used some of her old dialogue.