Quoting: Dolus/home/desum/Downloads/XLEngine/networking/NetworkMgr.cpp:7:10: fatal error: enet/enet.h: No such file or directory
#include <enet/enet.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Looks like your missing enet. On Debian and Ubuntu, the relevant package is libenet-dev. On Arch, it's enet. On Gentoo, it's net-libs/enet.

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Heh, seems like GitHub can't cope with old Mac line endings (\r, instead of \n on Unix or \r\n on Windows): https://github.com/NightDiveStudios/shockmac/blob/master/ShockMac/Mac%20Src/DialogHelpers.h [External Link]. Conventional wisdom does say that files should be checked into git with Unix line endings and converted on check-out, though.

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Oooh, I love the board game. Been a while since I played it with my irregular board game group, but it was always fun.

What's interesting, is that it has two sets of rules. A "Family" rule-set, where the options are reduced and you only play as a Firefighter and more difficult "Experienced" rule-set, where it introduces specialised character classes and much more

Same as the board game. And yes, it's quite a difficult game.

Can anybody here confirms how well this version compares to the board game?

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Still not available in Germany, tho

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Neat :)

Quoting: BrisseJust keep in mind that it's not about the ending, it's about the journey.

Sure. But I wish the endings weren't such a Bury-Your-Gays downer, tbh.

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Quoting: liamdaweAs for in-game music, this is actually the first time I think I've ever played NWN, so I have no idea where I should be listening for any music to confirm if it's broken for me or not.

Check with, for example, this playthrough: https://youtu.be/_CLZAy4oy6E?t=4m35s [External Link]

Basically, right from the start when entering the game proper, there should be background music. Every area in the game should have music. I.e. every "level", an area change shows a short loading screen, like when walking through the door in that area there to reach the area with the dwarf that teaches you how the inventory works.

Likewise (though that's not really that audible when the music is cranked up unless you know what you should listen for), every area has background ambient noise. Listen to data/amb/al_cv_caveamb*.wav for the ones that should play in the starting areas. It's basically some ambient noises of public halls with people in them, or something to that effect.

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Quoting: liamdawe

We now compile the Linux binaries with 64-bit-only filesystem API support (so that nwserver runs properly inside docker-on-mac/windows).

No, that just means that filesystem operations report 64-bit offsets, sizes and inodes, so that you can run the binaries on large partitions. You might have heard about the problem, that certain 32-bit games fail/crash on large (often XFS) partitions. That's what they fix with that.

From what they said, true 64-bit support is planned, but it'll take a while. The game depends on a lot of 32-bit pointers.

From my xoreos work, I can confirm that: their usual method of reading several files, like for example models, is to just read the whole file into a block of memory, and then operate on that memory as a C struct. The files on the hard disk even have reserved space in them, because after reading the block into memory, the game will put pointers to other structures there. Things like that. I can imagine it'll be very annoying to work around that without completely rewriting half of the plumbing.

Quoting: liamdaweThe only issue I have come across so far in the Linux client, is the cursor vanishing in the Video Options menu (which I've been told is already fixed in a newer build)

Huh. Can you confirm to me that you have area background music and sounds on Linux in NWN:EE? Because I don't. In fact I have several audio related issues:

https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/33701#note-3 [External Link]
https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/35851 [External Link]

Others reported those as well:
https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/34454 [External Link]
https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/35527 [External Link]
https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/34564 [External Link]

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This was the game that was heavily dependant on real money purchases, right? You need to plop down real actual money for a lot, for a house, and then regularily to keep that house, the items you put in, on and around your house, etc pp

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I've been looking forward to that one :)

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I don't like Nightdive Studios at all (for various reasons I won't get into here), but I do actually think this explanation of what happened and their plans to counteract what went wrong sounds reasonable.

They got carried away making the game, in their eyes, better, so much so that it started to become a different game altogether. That happens. It's not great, but not terribly uncommon either.

Stopping development for a while, rethinking their situation (and then hopefully getting back onto the original track) is exactly what they need to do now. That seems like the right move to me.

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