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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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Odin Oct 13, 2018
I own the original Neverwinter Nights for linux but i will buy this one as well.
Nice to that this release on GOG has linux support since sometimes they can't get a hold on the one with the rights for the linux releases.
denyasis Oct 13, 2018
Quoting: DamonLinuxPLYup, still run fine - tested few weeks ago on OpenMandriva Lx 3.

Thanks. I don't have a DVD drive anymore to test it. Guess I'll have to buy one!
slaapliedje Oct 13, 2018
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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!"

Yeah, I sadly lost my save game that I had where I managed to solo with a wizard up to 14th or so level... So I'd have to start over, so I'm waiting for the fully enhanced edition before I start that up again. On the bright side, it's been so long since I played it, I only remember the beginning part and a few pieces here and there.
bolokanar Oct 14, 2018
What the actual fuck.
They had to remake it this close??? I was about to buy it, but 32bit is the barier I do not pass.

Anyway. Guess I will use the cash for a book instead (an actual book, as in paper).


Last edited by bolokanar on 14 October 2018 at 6:51 pm UTC
slaapliedje Oct 15, 2018
Quoting: sbolokanovAnyway. Guess I will use the cash for a book instead (an actual book, as in paper).
What's that?

Ha, all kidding aside, one thing that angers me is when I see a Kindle edition of a book cost more than getting a physical copy...
oldrocker99 Oct 27, 2018
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Quoting: denyasisDiamond Edition was my first Linux game! Does any one know if the original still runs on Linux?

I played NWN from its 2002 release on Windoze until I got smart and moved to Linux. Bioware put out a Linux client in 2003, and it still works.

I, of course, had no problem at all buying it again from my Beamdog buddies.

NO game has more hours of RPG Gaming Goodness (tm) than NWN, with 16 years of free mods on https://neverwintervault.org.

There is no game I can recommend more highly.

BUY IT!
slaapliedje Oct 28, 2018
What would have been nice is a multi-character mod of some sort. So you could play through the modules that require more than one character without actually needing more than one player. Yeah I know, anti-social, but still... :P
oldrocker99 Oct 28, 2018
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Quoting: slaapliedjeWhat would have been nice is a multi-character mod of some sort. So you could play through the modules that require more than one character without actually needing more than one player. Yeah I know, anti-social, but still... :P

Actually, the game has always had controllable companions; since Shadows of Undrentide. It certainly has in Hordes of the Underdark.
oldrocker99 Oct 28, 2018
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Quoting: denyasisDiamond Edition was my first Linux game! Does any one know if the original still runs on Linux?

The BioWare Linux client STILL works. My only gripe about the EE is the tiny movies, especially since there is a way to have full-screen videos in the Linux client. Still, I'm very happy with my third purchase of the game I know I have played more than any other, in the past 16 years.


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slaapliedje Oct 29, 2018
Quoting: oldrocker99
Quoting: slaapliedjeWhat would have been nice is a multi-character mod of some sort. So you could play through the modules that require more than one character without actually needing more than one player. Yeah I know, anti-social, but still... :P

Actually, the game has always had controllable companions; since Shadows of Undrentide. It certainly has in Hordes of the Underdark.

Ha, I totally forgot about that, they were added later than the original release. But I think you could only have one, right? When I was playing a Wizard, I just used my Pixie familiar to detect traps and pick locks. Very useful!
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