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Neeshka rocks, so far. The druid seems cool but she didnt like it when I decided that I wanted to butcher the wolves in the forest. :D One complaint I have about this game is that you cant decide who you want to attack. That just sucks. I dont like it when decisions are taken away from the player and when the player is assumed to be an idiot.

I agree. The first game has a very dark, satanic feel to it. The dungeons were actually creepy. Diablo 2 was a joke with its neon coloured cats. I think that the monster avatars were actually much worse in the sequel.

I just started using power attack and I have the same problem.... I think its switches off whenever you click on a non hostile character. So far Ive gotten used to a lot of stuff I complained about earlier, the exception to this is the really fast combat(almost as bad as Lionheart) and also having to type the name again everytime I save. I wonder how this brilliant idea of making characters run at light speed during combat came about! Another suggestion: There is a menu showing all the different screens that can be toggled by clicking on the icon at the bottom left of the screen. It would be very convenient for players if there was a way to toggle this menu so that it shows all the time. Of course the text would take up too much of the screen, so only the icons should show. Also as far as I can tell right clicking on a companions portrait does nothing. It would be nice to have a menu pop up that would enable us to choose to open up the characters spellbook, inventory and character screen after right clicking on their portraits.

Good, good.... Im going to go for a falchion though. Im thinking about massive amounts of strength, plus power attack, plus frenzied berserker, plus a falchion wielded two handed. With 24 STR(base), I will have a strength bonus of 10, plus 2 damage from weapon specialization(or 4 depending on how I balance my levels), 20 or 24 damage from improved power attack plus the base damage of the weapon. And then there will be the STR bonus from frenzy or any items. Thats why I need to know if ability scores are capped or not. So this is the hardcoded limit or the maximum available in the game? If so then is it possible to reach it? As far as I know keen doesnt stack with improved critical, neither does anything else, so the best possible threat range is 15-20.

In NWN2, do ability scores have a cap? Also, does improved critical double a weapons threat range or just increase it?

If it was easy then why would you need tactics?

BTW, I think that the fast running during combat should be disabled. Just leave running at the normal speed. Right now it feels too frantic and reminds me of Lionheart. Its also too easy, not difficult or tactical enough. Compared to what I have experienced so far, Diablo 2 features tactical combat.

1) Yes, if you mean the greater chance of a crit attack. 2) Yes, you can take the Eldritch Knight prestige class and gain a fighters attack with a spellcasters spellcasting levels added. 3) Dunno, haven't done this yet. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. No, not that. I mean like in TOEE where you have a circle around your character, the size of which depends on your weapon, and you get attacks of opportunity against anyone moving in and out of your circle.

Hey guys, a few questions if you dont mind answering. 1. Has NWN2 implemented weapon threat ranges? If so, then which weapon has the highest threat range in the game? 2. Are there actually any viable warrior/mage builds in third edition? 3. When you bash a chest, you find a broken item. What items can be broken? I dont want to lose out on magic loot by bashing chests.

LOL!

Try holding down "Z" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks, will do.

A few more things: 1. NWN2 is incompatible with mouse pointer trails(at least on my system). When I had pointer trails enabled, the cursor would not show up in the game, only the trails! 2. When you save a game over the same slot, you need to type the name in again. This is quite inconvenient as players may just want to save with the old name or might be too lazy to type the name again. The old name of the save file should appear automatically in the box for saving games. 3. NWN2 needs a button for highlighting all the interactive objects on the map. I was pressing alt and tab and was honestly surprised when neither of them highlighted the chests and other objects. I think that this is pretty much a standard feature in all "A" games that have isometric perspectives. (please correct me if this feature is already in and I just dont know what button to press)

I agree, I have been having this problem as well. When the camera is behind a house or an object it suddenly zooms in. I think there should be an option to disable this "feature". I would rather have the houses and trees block my view and adjust the camera myself so that I can adjust it to a position that I want to view the game from. Hopefully this isnt due to technical limitations and Obsidian can solve this problem. Actually this auto moving thing and the inability to map camera movement to WSAD are the only problems I have with the camera. I dont really have a problem with the camera controls, the camera is fine as long as it is locked on the character. But I tried the free roaming camera and it was a mess. Im going to check out the other camera modes later to see what they are like. This would be great. Its probably too big a change to implement though. I assume that I will also get used to dragging in the inventory eventually. But I dont think that we should have to, interfaces should be designed to be convenient for players. Clicking to pick up and then clicking again to drop requires much less energy from the players than holding the mouse button down, which will eventually stress and tire the finger. And I think that this shouldnt be too difficult to implement.

Ive just started playing NWN2 and the interface is quite clunky and difficult to wield. I am starting this thread so that suggestions for improving the interface can be given to Obsidian. This thread is not for bitching and whining about the interface(unless accompanied by something constructive and useful) or for discussing anything else. The following are improvements that I suggest: 1. On a laptop, the game is completely unplayable in isometric perspective. I am talking about the locked on the character camera, not the free roaming one. This is because the WSAD keys are mapped to movement and the direction keys are mapped to the camera controls. For right handed people using laptops, it is impossible to use the arrow keys. Thus, the camera needs to be moved using the mouse. But it is impossible to move the camera with the mouse(which requires the cursor to be at the edge of the screen) and also click around to move your character. I havent been able to find any options for changing the keyboard commands in the game options menu. 2. Character movement uzing the mouse is quite unresponsive. There is a noticeable delay when I click on something and when the character actually starts moving. This is very annoying and is a real immersion killer. 3. In the inventory, clicking on an inventory item does absolutely nothing, which really makes no sense as it is not utilizing the capability of the mouse. In order to move items around, they must be dragged. This is really quite difficult and time consuming. Why cant we just click on the items and then click on where we want to move them like in Diablo 2 or the IE games? Clicking to move items has been a standard interface feature in all major titles for years now. How in the world did Obsidian suddenly decide that the items need to be dragged around when the other method has been tried, tested and approved by pretty much the entire planets PC RPG gaming population? 4. PLEASE design an option where players can disable zooming in during dialogues and can talk in whatever view they have chosen. This is natural in KOTOR because it is the default game view. However zooming in and then back out again is quite irritating in isometric perspective. Furthermore the faces of the characters are blank and emotionless and the animations are quite horrid so I really dont understand what the hell the idea behind forced zoomed in dialogue was.

Sound consolish.

I think the registry cleaner(TuneUp Utilities) has done its job.... My computer is in better shape than it has ever been. I was able to run KOTOR at maxed settings! But then again im not an FPS junkie. But I only had a minor lag in the highly populated areas. BTW how do I measure my FPS rating when running games? Is there some sort of tool that I need to download? And my KOTOR file is still fragmented into 1200 parts. I will try defragging again and see what happens.

Being loot heavy is good. I certainly hope it isnt terribly boring, lootwise, like Icewind Dale 2.

Discuss.

I have just defragmented my hard drive. However some files werent able to be defragmented. This includes my KOTOR models.bif file which is divided into 1,208 fragments. The texture pack for KOTOR only has 28 fragments.

How do I access the repair function? I used AIDA but it doesnt seem to detect any sensors, the window is black when I click on it. I turned off system restore long ago Are there any good free anti virus programs out there?

I tried KOTOR yesterday and at just a little bit above the lowest settings, I must have been getting at the most 3 or 4 frames per second. I will defrag later on and see what happens.

Im using Windows XP Home edition...

I dont think so. AB only adds some sort of generic fedex quest to Dorns Deep.

omegadrivers.net is your friend. They make it possible for laptop users to update to fairly recent ATI drivers. It's modded drivers, but I've never had any problems with them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was recommended this recently and I gave it a shot (about 2 weeks ago). I tried them but then I installed them Windows wouldnt run properly. For example, when I would right click on my desktop, it would take about 3 seconds for the menu to pop up.

Ive been using a laptop for about a year now and the specs are still quite good: Pentium 4 3.0ghz with hyperthreading, 256 mb ATI Mobility Radeon 9800, 1 ghz ram. However, recently, Ive been getting some pretty bad slowdowns with the laptop, even running older games like diablo 2. Ive disabled pretty much all the processes and applications on my laptop and Im quite sure that it hasnt got any spyware on it. What could be the cause of these slowdowns? I used to leave my laptop on for days at a time. Could it be that some part of the hardware has somehow been damaged due to this? What are the chances that reformatting and reinstalling windows will make a difference?