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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition levels up and arrives on GOG

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Grab your sword, shield and helmet as Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition has arrived on GOG for DRM free gaming goodness.

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Some of the improved features you will find include:

  • Improved Display: Your portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements adjust in size based on your chosen resolution including 1080p and 4k.
  • Advanced Graphics Options: Pixel shaders and post-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as preferred.
  • Community Endorsed: Original developers have teamed with key members of the Neverwinter Nights community to curate important fan-requested improvements to support players, storytellers, and modders.
  • Backwards Compatibility: Works with save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights. A galaxy of community created content awaits.
  • Restored Multiplayer: A completely rebuilt multiplayer system makes it easy to find online persistent worlds and game with friends
  • More Modder Opportunities: Toolset quality-of-life improvements, shaders, filters, texture maps, and a new material systems allow creators to make amazing looking models and modules.

There's plenty more little tweaks everywhere, with it being supported well and updated regularly. It does also include all the content from the Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition too, so there's a lot on offer for RPG fans.

Really great to have Beamdog as a developer who supports Linux. Looks like they've supported it well for Linux gamers so far, with a few Linux improvements arriving with the latest patch

Check it out on GOG now.

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Tags: DRM-Free, GOG, RPG
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Lolo01 Oct 12, 2018
Bought yesterday.
Not sure I will play but thanks Beamdog.
Arehandoro Oct 12, 2018
I will buy it too although might not not play it in months/years to come xD
Mountain Man Oct 12, 2018
This would be a lot more tempting as a Linux purchase if the Aurora toolset wasn't Windows-only.
DamonLinuxPL Oct 12, 2018
Why so long? On Steam they release this game few months ago...
Anyway, game is now on small smale -25%, but for owners of classic Neverwinter Nights is for -50%.
denyasis Oct 12, 2018
Diamond Edition was my first Linux game! Does any one know if the original still runs on Linux?
Shmerl Oct 12, 2018
Is the game 64-bit?

UPDATE:

Oh, I see it's not:

QuoteRequires libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libjson-c2:i386 libopenal1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libexpat1:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixe


Last edited by Shmerl on 12 October 2018 at 4:52 pm UTC
DamonLinuxPL Oct 12, 2018
Quoting: denyasisDiamond Edition was my first Linux game! Does any one know if the original still runs on Linux?

Yup, still run fine - tested few weeks ago on OpenMandriva Lx 3.
TheRiddick Oct 12, 2018
character models need updating also, and increases to textures, I wish companies would go to that effort, would be awesome. Atm the enemies look a bit hilarious and hard to take serious :)
slaapliedje Oct 12, 2018
Quoting: TheRiddickcharacter models need updating also, and increases to textures, I wish companies would go to that effort, would be awesome. Atm the enemies look a bit hilarious and hard to take serious :)

From what I understood, they did some initial tweaks and were planning on enhancing all the things as they go along.
Feist Oct 13, 2018
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: TheRiddickcharacter models need updating also, and increases to textures, I wish companies would go to that effort, would be awesome. Atm the enemies look a bit hilarious and hard to take serious :)

From what I understood, they did some initial tweaks and were planning on enhancing all the things as they go along.

True, from what I understand it will be a gradual process over time until the whole game eventually looks reasonably "Up to Date".

That is part of what's been keeping me away from playing it on steam. It feels like a shame to play through it again now, only to have the entire campaign look 10X better in 6-12 months of time. Right now, I'm eager to see what comes from this quote:

"New character and weapon models for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition are getting closer! As soon as we’re ready, we’ll be sure to share a few amazing screenshots!"
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