Soooooo? Who's played NWN?!

[General Ludd]

Oh, and you've just got to hear the "high-strung evangelist" voice set.

I'll see if I can figure out a way to get a sample of it up here tommorow.

[Apocalypse]

What is bad about the sound with your card exactly?

[Tuberski]

Well, at least the hard drive is okay........

[Triped]

Hurry up and create a character already

I want to know how the system works..if it's pretty similar to 3rd ed D&D, etc.

[FrustratedPoet]

The character creation uses a 30 point buying system.

That means that all your stats (STR, DEX etc..) start out at 8 and you have to pay to raise them.

8-13 = one point per raise
14-15 = 2 points per raise
16-17 = 3 points per raise
18 = 4 points

[Lemmy]

screenshots??
of the char. creation screen

[Apocalypse]

You can lower them below 8 to get more points, can't you?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
What is bad about the sound with your card exactly?

My sound card isn't compatible with direct x 8.1, and it's given me problems in one way or another with every game that uses that, so I was expecting this.

I haven't actually tried playing the game yet, but the sound on the movies continuously cuts out - The same thing happened in morrowind, and also resulted in the game crashing after about 5 minutes of play.


I've got one more thing to try... and if it doesn't work I'll atleast get you some screen shots of the character generation.

(and if anyone knows how to extract a .bif file, I can get you some samples of the voice sets)

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
The character creation uses a 30 point buying system.

That means that all your stats (STR, DEX etc..) start out at 8 and you have to pay to raise them.

8-13 = one point per raise
14-15 = 2 points per raise
16-17 = 3 points per raise
18 = 4 points

I can't remember how it works in 3rd edition core rules, but taken from the NWN manual...

Ability score - Cost - Total Cost
      8          0          0
      9          1          1
      10         1          2
      11         1          3
      12         1          4
      13         1          5
      14         1          6
      15         2          8
      16         2          10
      17         3          13
      18         3          16

And anything below 8 costs 0 points, you can't go into negatives.

[FrustratedPoet]

Ahh .... thanks for that Osweld, obviously I was thinking of something else (prolly 3rd Edition rules) or I just completely made that up.

[General Ludd]

Well, I've figured out a way to watch the movies properly, and my soundcard doesn't seem to be causing any serious problems within the game.


I only played through the tutorial, so I can't say a whole lot about the game, yet. But my impressions so far...

• Graphics are good, even on the lowest settings. (I'm running a P3 500 with a Geforce2 MX and 128mb of ram - so far everything is running smoothly and with out problem... aside from my soundcard, ofcourse )
• The interface and design is very easy to use and "out of the way" but can also be a bit confusing, and lacking in some areas.
• Combat seems to be very straight forward and easy to control. (But I haven't really gotten a chance to get into any real fights yet - most of the enemies in the tutorial didn't last long enough for me to get much of an impression on the combat )

[Sarxis]

Hmm, so far sounds like every other RPG out there.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Anunikoba
Hmm, so far sounds like every other RPG out there.

As far as the single player campaign goes, it no doubt is.

Where NWN is supposed to excell is in multiplayer and module creation - that is what the game was designed for.

[Apocalypse]

Too bad I only have a 56k. That'll really hamper my mp experience.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hmmm,

I got a P2 350, 224 MB RAM, and a Voodoo3 with 16 MB VRam. I know my processor is slow, but you think it'll work? Or do I have to wait for my new laptop to play this as well?