NWN - Hordes of the Underdark in Stores 224
morcego writes "BioWare has done it again. Another expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights has been released. This time, it's Hordes of the Underdark, in case you haven't been following. Reviews are already available, including it being rated 4.5/5 on GamesDomain.
Atari (the publisher) also have a press release about it."
Note to Linux users! (Score:5, Informative)
Mac? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mac? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:yes! (Score:5, Informative)
Nwvault camera hack page. [ign.com]
smeat!
Re:I know this is offtopic but, (Score:5, Informative)
The company, Bioware, was actually comprized of doctors in Canada who really enjoyed gaming. I know this because I used to be a regular poster to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg and when Bioware was in it's infancy Dr. Ray Mazurka (one of the founders) used to post all the time with updates to BG and whatnot. Fun guy
He doesn't post there much now, but Bioware has already established itself. BTW: I just started NWN a week ago and love the damn thing...
www.nordock.net (Score:5, Informative)
NWN by itself is an average game. What extends it as one of the most amazing games of all time is it's unprecedented "hackability". Nordock.net is an excellent example. It started as a small module written for the friends of the creater, Marc. It's since grown into a three server, persistant world with a user base of several thousand. There are typically 10-20 people in-game at any given time. This makes the game much more friendly, IMHO, than commerical MMORGs; there are much less powergamers and more role-playing. Plus they have about a dozen DMs, most of which are really cool and regulary run spontanious quests.
If you want to give it a shot, here are the server addresses:
nordock1.nordock.net:5121nordock1.nordock.net:5122
nordock1.nordock.net:5124
They all share the same character vault, so you can play on any of them.
Re:Does anyone else find these games a bit linear? (Score:5, Informative)
If you want an experience more like pen and paper D&D, play multiplayer with a Dungeon Master. The DM has a great deal of control over what happens in the game, and can directly control NPCs to help eliminate the bad Turing Test feel of some dialog scripts.
Re:yes! (Score:4, Informative)
Module creation (Score:5, Informative)
Also, I hear that the Hordes of the Underdark finally lets your characters advance to epic (over 20) levels. *That* is cool.
Re:Anyone disappointed at NWN (Score:2, Informative)
Then, two days later, we were both repeating:
"Never again."
"Never again."
It will be a cold day in hell before Bioware gets another hundred dollars out of us for a sequel to a product so inferior in every possible way.
I think the brightest memory I have of playing NWN was running around getting chased by my cohort, who had decided he wanted to kill me. "Run!" "Run, Bill, he's crazy!"
So I made a new character, this time the half-orc fighter, which in retrospect, was a bad mistake, since a couple hours later when this cohort decided to kill me as well, he did a lot more damage than the crappy thief.
And NWN had glowing reviews in the press, too. Underdark 4.5 stars my ass.
Never again. You hear me Bioware!
Camera can be unlocked already! (Score:4, Informative)
To unlock, go to console (tilde) and type "unlockcamera 1", or go to the talk bar and say "##unlockcamera 1".
To make it permanent, edit nwnplayer.ini - add "UnlockCamera=1" to [Control Options] section
Re:Note to Linux users! (Score:5, Informative)
I love the Bioware guys - they are one of the best developers we get to work with.
They have never evaluated Bink for Linux and we have never quoted them a price, so there hasn't been anything to disagree about, even if we wanted to.
And in any case, one Bink license fee (which is way less than six figures), is nothing compared to the amount of money Bioware spends to create the Linux version of their game in the first place (it's pretty cool that they spend all this time and money actually, since the Linux gamer user base is so tiny - even compared to Mac).
They just put this expansion pack together very very quickly (for all three platforms at once even!), so they didn't have time to integrate any major new stuff yet.
->Jeff
RAD Game Tools
Official Campaign not multiplayer (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No need to wait, here's the torrent (Score:3, Informative)
I'm all for file-sharing, but these guys deserve some support...
Linux registration (Score:3, Informative)