Neverwinter Nights

[Jamski]

Uh-oh

Just a word of warning. Met someone last night who bought HotU on EBay, and was disappointed to find the whole game was in Thai. Not only that, but they had missing texture files, and some objects appeared as huge white blocks as a result.

You might be lucky though.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Fingus crossed (and George Best headed it in).

According to the listing, the box and manual are in Thai, but the ingame text is all in English.
But I won't be sure until it arrives.

[DrSpike]

Jamski can you elaborate on the cd protection you mentioned. With every other MP game I've got you only need the key. I know this for a fact because even when I buy games I usually play them without the cd, since it is much more pleasant.

Obviously there is no point in my borrowing Duke's codes if there is additional protection.

Also, I would say those Asian copies of stuff are a lottery. Sometimes you get really cheap high quality stuff with some Asian characters on the box, or maybe an Asian manual (you can download this anyway). Other times it is cheap copies, or an actual Asian language version. What was the guy's % of happy customers?

[duke o' york]

Well the seller's called Jamski-san (), and has 97% favourable or so. But a couple of negative ones recently.

[DrSpike]

Btw what were you basing needing all 3 games on Duke? I was trying to work out what I should buy last night, and thought that the first expansions content is in the second (with some more), so I don't see why SoU is necessary to play HotU. Do you have more info?

[duke o' york]

Nope, but knowing computer games then I reckon you'll need all three. You'll be able to play HotU without SoU more than likely, but you'll need to have all three installed to play online.

[DrSpike]

They are both separate expansions though, with as far as I can see HotU having all the content of SoU (without the SP campaign of course). Thus my prior would be that I only need NWN and HotU.

Jamski, you are font of NWN knowledge, so find out what it is please!

[Chaunk]

If that is the case, then expect to see me online soon £45 for a game I shy away from, especially one that I've not played before, but £30 seems reasonable (NWN and both expansions are £15 each from amazon.co.uk).

[duke o' york]

I suppose that we'll just have to wait until he gets back from his lunch/prolonged session of NWN.

[Jamski]

Heh... I was doing the dishes actually

Erm...sadly its not the case that HotU contains the SoU content too. You'll need both. Of course, its possible to play with only one of the two at home on your own, but since there's very little overlap of content between the two expansions you're going to need both to play online. Its stuff like creature models, character classes, textures, tilesets, placeable objects... If you don't have SoU and some builder put a table in using a model from SoU, you won't see it. If that table had a quest item in a draw... well, you're stuffed really. It probably will crash before you get to the "trying to use an invisible table" point anyway.

They COULD have put the SoU content into HotU as well, but that would have meant another 800megs and another CD, so they cut costs and didn't. There's probably another XP coming soonish too... even more monsters and objects and classes and skills and weapons

As for the cost... hell, I'm unemployed, and I'm going to get a complete new set of the UK version for ease of use next month when I'm in the UK. I figure it costs the same as going to see United play - and that might be a 0-0 yawner.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

IIRC Chaunk you can get gold for £20 and HotU for £15 from Amazon.

[DrSpike]

Thanks for clearing that up.

Also you need to clear up your cd protection comment!

[Jamski]

Oh... ...well you have to put in a CD key when you install, right? And then when you play online it checks that your CD key matches your CD. Its possible to get NWN running with a CD key got from a software-theft site, but that won't let you take it online. Don't ask me how it all works, but it seems to. *shrugs*

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Oh, so my code won't match his SoU then because he would have to tick the box marked "other" if asked about its origin.

[General Ludd]

You can play online with a no-cd crack, but you do need a legitimate CD-key. I haven't actually unpacked the CDs from my purchased expanion packs...


There is some method of determining wether a CD key is truelly legitmate or not by checking it with some sort of databse or something. It's not done for the single player game, but it is for multiplayer.



I think sharing a legit CD key with someone would work, but you probably couldn't log on at the same time, and trying to do so may cause them to flag it as being pirated.