Interview NWN: Shadows of Undrentide Interview at CRPG.RU

[Sol Invictus]

Tags: Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide

Our Russian friends at CRPG.RU (privet!) have posted up an extensive interview with Darcy Pajak of Floodgate Entertainment and Tom Ohle of Bioware with questions pertaining to the NWN expansion pack. Here's a snippet:
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<blockquote>CRPG.RU: Are you making any improvements to AI? What about the new scripts being added to the game ? are they based on the players? input? Could you give an example of a script?
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Darcy: We?re always making improvements to the AI. For Shadows of Undrentide we plan to implement a few enhancements to the henchmen AI. We are putting in an auto-level-up feature so your henchman will always be the same level as the player. We?re also touching up the monster AI so they are a bit smarter in spell choice and weapon choices. We?ve also enabled some class-specific options so Druids and Rangers can now use their class abilities to gather information.</blockquote>
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Read the rest <a href="http://www.crpg.ru/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1652" target="blank">here</a>. Thanks for the heads up, Chikitos!

 

[Deathy]

Where's the funny?

 

[Sabotai]

"Darcy: We?re always making improvements to the AI. For Shadows of Undrentide we plan to implement a few enhancements to the henchmen AI."

Only a few?

(Just couldn't resist)

 

[Sol Invictus]

I should have made it more obvious:
The AI in NWN is so fucking craptacular that the engine needs a complete overhaul, and not a 'few little additions'.

 

[Psilon]

Given the number of hard-coded limitations, I'm surprised they're releasing two expansions without a complete engine overhaul.

Practically every "I can't do X" thread in those forums ends in a "Wait for next patch," "We're not doing it (code is hard)," or "Maybe expansion 2 will have it" response from the developers.