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Wait, Kalfear is Canadian?

Hahaha that Oates commercial is one of the lamest things I have seen.

Thanks. That makes sense. It'd be absurd if it was any other way.

Heh, more exploitative than munchkinish. There was one that harmed the undead that came in really handy at various points in the game (and worked on KoS too IIRC).

This is the exact problem that I have. After patch 1.03, I am now running with 6x AA (Or at least suppose that I am, it doesnt actually look much better) turned on, with the exact same frame rate as with it turned off. And whether pre or post patch, absolutely NOTHING in the settings menu has any effect on my framerate at all, with the exception of a very minor performance increase from turning down resolution. I have a hyperthreaded PC, and I noticed yesterday that when NWN2 was minimized, it was only using about 500 mb of memory(I have 1 GB of RAM) and about 45% of the CPU. However that is most likely just because I minimized the game. Ive been meaning to experiment and see what happens while I am actually playing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was talking about the original Neverwinter Nights, not Neverwinter Nights 2.

I know Garius asks, but will Ammon Jerro actually accept? I have no problem with Garius asking. IIRC, Jerro shuts him down. I don't even recall if there was an [influence: Success] latched on to his dialogue. And I would still never buy that 180. His entire purpose has been to kill the KoS. Sure, he could do other evil stuff to do so (he's a fanatic), but to suddenly ALLY with his nemesis? Ah, so that Killian ending wasn't the actual ending. I couldn't see MacGuyver doing that though!

What if the person with the rod was KO'd? But yeah, you could make the ritual required at the beginning. Heck, they could even do it in a cutscene.

That's a crux of pretty much every RPG though. Faulting NWN2 for that is to fault the entire genre. Even Baldur's Gate had the NPCs starting with differing experience levels based on when you first met them. Hence why I said that they should have made it mandatory for him to use his ritual skill. But then like you said, if they did that, if he (or you) gets KO'd during the last fight, there's no point in even going on (if you're out of resurrections). Some of us may all clamour for a less forgiving, and more difficult game, but imagine how much it would suck for you to get to the final stage of the fight and realize you were screwed because Jerro was KO'd and you couldn't revive him. The impression I got though, was that his mere presence was required, so as far as I was concerned, I still did really need him. As for Ammon Jerro defecting, does he? I never gained any influence with him in my game, and he didn't defect. However, if he can defect, then I think that THAT is stupid. Here's a guy who's entire life purpose was to destroy the King of Shadows, and when he finally gets to it, he defects? THAT is stupid. Fortunately that never happened to me in my first playthrough, or it would have really soured the ending. I don't remember Killian's ending being the "bad" ending. I wasn't so much referring to Ammon Jerro when I wrote this, but rather the idea that it should be possible to do have any outcome you desire. I was referring to the idea that it's not possible for anyone to read the scrolls. Unless I'm versed in its dialect and language (which it seems Ammon Jerro and Zjhaeve are), I think it's silly that me and my Watchman background could just pick up a scroll with a foreign language on it and recite it with success.

The arm strength on isn't actually all that impressive, given that you aren't really supposed to use your lower hand to shoot the puck. Lemieux gets a nice one during the game in this video It's still not the best one hander I've seen him do. I saw him get tied up just to the side of the net, and watched him put his stick with one hand between his legs, and flick it top shelf on the goalie while fighting off a defender with his other arm. I can't seem to find it unfortunately, but it is easily one of the most jaw droppingly impressive goals I have ever seen.

I don't mind the decision that only Ammon Jerro and Zjhaeve could read the scrolls. Sometimes I think it's silly when everyone can do anything, including pronounce "awo3i45u23opnjwc" correctly I didn't mind Jerro's entrance into the party either, but I believe that that was because I interpreted the significance of him doing the last ritual differently. I guess if they just made it mandatory that at some point against the KoS you had to use his ritual, it'd be okay. But they didn't. To be honest, I like it when some things are out of the player's control. I was happy that there was no way to save Shandra. Making all the events of the game completely deterministic by player actions is actually a negative for me. What I really love is when there's a choice, where if you make the choice to do one thing, the other option results in something bad happening. An example I remember is in the questions that Batlin raises to you in Ultima VII. He describes a situation where you, your mother, and your betrothed are all lost at sea, and you have the choice to either save your mother, or save your betrothed. Whatever choice you make, results in the death of the other. There's no way to save them both. I like stuff like that. I find it makes the game more emotional for me.

Hey, Newfoundland just found huge oil reserves, so I wouldn't call them Canada's shame anymore.

Hopefully we don't get too carried away and do something stupid though.

Well, then you won't be paying for it months on end.

The Assassin can Hide in Plain Sight though! One thing I noticed about the Neverwinter Nine PrC is that I'm not going to be able to get it until long after I have passed level 15. I'm already able to reach level 16, but I'm still in Act 2!

Vhailor would seem to validate that point of view, at least in CRPGs. He was absolutely gung-ho about justice, and he was Lawful Neutral. He was so in for justice that he didn't care about the ramifications of good nor evil. Hence, he slaughters Trias the Betrayer after he repents for his actions and plans on trying to make things right (which was one of the coolest parts in recent video gaming memory).

Ah interesting, that's definitely a consideration that I didn't think of. My module is for single player purposes as well.

And in that thread, it seems like a large chunk of the people state that despite the few flaws (such as Wail of the Banshee), on the whole, they prefer NWN2's spell animations over NWN1's. It wasn't really the best source you could find for how damning the spell animations were. As an aside, am I the only person that can look at the icons next to my portraits and tell what buffs and penalties I have on? I'm not really sure how this is much different than the huge row of markers that went across the top of the screen in NWN1, with the exception of the fact that it is now easy to see what buffs my NPCs also happen to have on. Maria: Thanks, that's what I thought. It's just I have done a lot of work with AI in the past, so when I think of pathfinding, I typically think of the algorithms that go into pathfinding, rather than the creation of the walkmesh that is utilized for the pathfinding

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NWN runs fine on my computer, but for some reason it has issues on one of the lab computers at school/work. THe game looks nice, but there's a stutter to the entire game. About ever second too. And it doesn't go away if you reduce the game to minimum details. I wonder if it might be a dual core processor issue (which I just thought of now). I don't know if his computer is a dual core Pentium or not, but it might be.

I'm not too familiar with the online persistent worlds, but what exactly are you guys talking about when you say "pathfinding?" EDIT: Also: Some people in that very same thread have stated that they feel that the spell effects are "FAR better" on the whole. Not exactly the best link. Yes there will be people disappointed about things, because that's the way people are. Be careful using internet message boards as a tool though. Not many people bother going to a game forum just to talk about how they don't have issues with a game. If you were to just use internet message boards as a source, it would seem that pretty much every game is rife with horrible design decisions, game breaking poor design, and for the most part just plain sucks. For a while that is. Then games eventually get elevated to immacculate when the new stuff starts coming out.

If someone really wanted elevation (and elevation that is infinitely more customizable than the 45 degree immersion killing ramps of NWN), then that's not an issue. Furthermore, if you were to make ALL of your cave maps in a similar style, you wouldn't even notice any sort of disjunction between cave maps. Couldn't you just paint the textures of the "exterior" map with those of the Cave and Cavern? To be honest, it looks like you're just trying to nitpick simply for the sake of nitpicking. Someone has presented a solution that could offer an even better improvement over the 45 degree mountains of NWN1, yet you still insist on bashing it. It'd allow for caves with uneven terrain (because lets face it, how many caves out there have perfectly flat terrain in them), walls with slopes, deep crevices and cliffs, rather than mere caves with right angle walls, flat ground, and 45 degree ramps in them. I don't know, but I'm skeptical that people would take a look at a "cave" that has the sloped hills, uneven ground, and just immediately discount it (despite having way more flavour than any strict tileset can have) simply because it doesn't look exactly the same as the Cave and Cavern Tilesets. In fact, I think the only people that would, would be the people looking to nitpick things about the game simply for the sake of nitpicking.

I'd personally prefer it if you didn't start tossing out racist accusations to people that disagree with you (including the ones that were actually part of that race) while you were on that high horse. Same goes with stereotyping people into "mobs" (again, your words) because they disagree with you. Enjoy your "high horse," as I wouldn't want anything to do with it. I prefer to associate myself with people that aren't gigantic hypocrites, and that also think they know better about a person than that person themselves. In case it isn't to painfully clear, I'm talking about you when I say this. This will undoubtedly be reported as a flame, and probably even be deleted. But if you think the right place to be is in a position where you feel so enlightened that you are more capable of making interpretations and decisions for an entire race of people that you don't belong to, then I pity you. When you then accuse other people of using similar arguments and getting all up in a huff about it, going on the defensive, then I just loathe you. Perhaps you could say that I am disgusted (to again use your words). It's a farce because Colrom, yet again, feels that someone else's opinion and interpretation of reality are wrong. These views do not coincide with his, and make an extrapolation that his (in)actions could be seen as support for something that is wrong (the supporting of insurgents that is). Since these views do not coincide with how he sees the world, this thread is naturally a farce. To save metadigital the link, you could probably make a stretch to this. Enjoy this post while you can

THen you make the cave link to a transition to an "exterior" area that looks like a cave. As an experienced modder, I'd think that this solution would have been obvious for you. Make the cave entrance just like you always would, but instead of having it link to an interior cave tileset, link it to the "exterior" cave map. What are the telltale earmark signs that you're in a cave or a cavern tileset? The sky can be completely blacked out, so you wouldn't see a sky. As for the lack of a roof, I can't imagine it being too hard to suspend disbelief in this one (unless you're nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking because you just want to bash a game), given that most people play the game from a more isometric viewpoint and rooftops don't actually exist.

I'm curious how much of a contention this really is. And I agree with Maria and Darque that if you can make something with the exterior terrain that looks and behaves and feels like an interior, continuing to gripe about the lack of ramps in the interior seems to more just be griping for the sake of griping. One could even argue that something is wrong if you absolutely need a mountain inside of a game to give you the feeling of an epic climb up to a boss. But if you can make a suitable looking dungeon map with the exterior terrain creator, the point becomes moot, because the exterior terrain design is infinitely better than anything NWN1 has, and better than what NWN2 interior has. Thanks for looking into that Maria, I'll make sure to take a look into further. I imagine for most scenes the standard interior will work fine for me (especially for buildings and whatnot), but it's nice to have that bit of flexibility. I think you can even set the area to "underground" (or whatever it's called) so that the racial feats that work in those areas still work and whatnot. Now if only I was less addicted to Madden 07 (I don't know why, but I find this game goofy fun, and I'm not even a huge sports gamer any more ) I could get more work done on my module

Are you referring to NWN1 or NWN2?