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Posted December 22, 2011
I will wait for a GOG release, except the Complete Pack will become dirty cheap on gamersgate. Btw, the complete pack including NWN1 complete and Mysteries of Westgate is with 10 GB much smaller than the platinum package with around 12GB. I asked GG about the drm and they answered me they don't know if there is some kind of drm inside, they added nothing.
Posted December 22, 2011
For some reason, every now and then, NWN2 downloads major "patches" of about 11G, which is pretty much the size of the whole game. There's nothing on the news saying there's a patch, so I'm pretty sure it's a bug. It's annoying, specially since it's automated and if you want to play the game at the time it starts downloading stuff, you'll have to wait and if you deselect the automatic downloads, you do it for all of your games, not just the one giving you trouble.
Posted December 22, 2011
I'm pretty sure its the cheapest yet on steam usually they discount it to $10. 2nd cheapest price was gamersgate for $5.99 + 5% refund + you can rate it for 5cents
Posted December 22, 2011
Does anyone know if the GG Mysteries of Westgate plays nice with the Steam NWN2?
Posted December 22, 2011
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Rodzaju: Does anyone know if the GG Mysteries of Westgate plays nice with the Steam NWN2?
I know for a fact that it does. I'm playing precisely that now.

Only problem is that MOW may not detect the expansions properly. Ossian has a fix for that.
http://ossianstudios.com/mow
Post edited December 22, 2011 by Taleroth
Posted December 22, 2011
Thank you.

I'm a bit OCD.
If I've got the game, I've got to get all the expansions....
Posted December 22, 2011
Oh man, i loved NWN1. Cant say much about the actual singleplayer stuff, because to be honest i found it boring as all hell. But multiplayer is where its at. Its where i spent every last second of the 3.5k+ hours ive logged playing. Of course not forgetting some of the great custom modules out there. NWN1 is one of the few games ive ever been like....addicted to.
Posted December 22, 2011
i caved into temptation and bought it. GOG forgive me
Posted December 22, 2011
nice price for a good game.
Posted December 22, 2011
I actually picked up a 2nd copy of NWN2 just because $5 is such a good deal, and it's easier to install that my shit-astic Atari Store downloaded copies of the expansions. I believe those had key activations, but I don't think that is the case with Steam.

The OC is okay, but MotB is worth the $5 alone. I haven't complete Storms of Zehir yet, so I'm not sure about that one.
Posted December 22, 2011
There's almost a few hours left on the sale but now Avadon: The Black Fortress is on sale. Might get that instead and hope NWN2 comes to GOG with them offering newish games in 2012.
Posted December 22, 2011
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Jarmo: NWN2 is optimized poorly.

When NWN2 came out, I ran it with single core AMD 64 + 6600GS and there were slowdowns and stutters. I recently went through OC + MotB again with my current Phenom II x4 @ 3Ghz + ATI 4870, and while the performance was marginally better, it wasn't such a big difference and the performance drops are still here and there. (well ok, the resolutions are now doubled)

The game is pretty much CPU bound and not very multithreaded at all.
Good thing is, nowadays almost anything is enough to get reasonable performance out of it.

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Edit. But hey, nothing plays NWN1 without hiccups either.
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DodoGeo: Sounds like one of the ATI driver issues. I've run this game on 5 machines without problems, all nVidia GPUs and the lowest clock multicore processor of 1.7Ghz.

Three of those were were laptops which are not known for great compatibility overall.
So calling it still unoptimized sounds a bit stretched depending on your view.
You could easily blame ATI for constantly making bad drivers through the years as blaming Obsidian on making unoptimized games.

Oh and please don't confuse this with a fan boy rant, I remember well the crap nVidia pulled with a GPU melting drivers and I acknowledge ATI's superior technology through the years, but from the first Radeon card they were always held back by their drivers.
I've run it on both types of cards over the years.....it really IS that unoptimized.
Posted December 23, 2011
I forgot I bought this a few months back in a sale on Steam and decided to replay it.

Short review of the first 10 hours:

- graphics still look pretty great
- much much better campaign than NWN1
- crafting! woo!
- I love the interface in the sense that you get a lot of freedom
- party Ai is atrocious - best to turn off everything except straight attacks
- none of the three view & moving modes feel right. You pretty much have to change all the settings to make it work like Baldur's Gate (Explore mode) or KOTOR (Character mode). But the fact that you can change these things is great!

The game still betrays its tile-based design but much less than NWN1 did and the main campaign feels like a proper game instead of a crappy showcase of what kind of things you can make with the editor.
Posted December 23, 2011
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Red_Avatar: I forgot I bought this a few months back in a sale on Steam and decided to replay it.

Short review of the first 10 hours:

- graphics still look pretty great
- much much better campaign than NWN1
- crafting! woo!
- I love the interface in the sense that you get a lot of freedom
- party Ai is atrocious - best to turn off everything except straight attacks
- none of the three view & moving modes feel right. You pretty much have to change all the settings to make it work like Baldur's Gate (Explore mode) or KOTOR (Character mode). But the fact that you can change these things is great!

The game still betrays its tile-based design but much less than NWN1 did and the main campaign feels like a proper game instead of a crappy showcase of what kind of things you can make with the editor.
There used to be a pretty amazing AI mod, but I don't really remember the name of it.
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