NWN Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition spotted on SteamDB

[Poseidon00]

Will they remaster the graphics or leave it unchanged? The original had a bug with genasi skins not matching the head and body. They hotfixed it by blacking out any bare skin on the body models below the next. There’s also the merchant’s friend and blessed of waukeen feats released as pre-order bonuses. I’m curious how that will be handled.

I think that depends on the community's involvement. They did release one for NWN, two years after they published the EE on Steam. It's even hosted on Beamdog's website, which I guess means it's more official than not.

There are community assets that have been adopted in NWN EE (notably tilesets) and it's the Vault crew that's taken over general patching as of about a year or so, but the HD Art Pack was an internal Beamdog development. There's a community revision of it which fixes some issues, but the original was Beamdog's. I still prefer the old models, but your mileage may vary.

NWN2's graphics don't really need that much work, though, it's just the heads that would really demand an update, it's why I normally recommend Xaltar's replacements as a must-have mod. Beyond that and various minor fixes (like that skin bug), graphical assets should be fine, just work on the renderer.

NWN2 really needs to have armor sets or clothing style that at least show a little skin. Like, you don't even see anyone's hands or arms at almost any point. Everyone is walking around like they are in these iron-clad burkas. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

Considering that you could fully customize every piece of your armor set in NWN, this is unforgivable.

 

[The Nameless One]

Big if done correctly, something we're not really sure Beamdong is capable of, in the current year.

 

[GaelicVigil]

NW2 is hot garbage. I'd rather they go back and remaster the classics like Gold Box or Might & Magic, etc.

NW2's story managed to be even worse than the first game, and the Aurora engine was a total failure.

 

[Morgoth]

There absolutely needs to be a mute option just specifically for Neeshka. I'm normally not so sensitive but when I hear that bitch squawking I swear I'm getting micro fissures in my skull.

 

[Poseidon00]

I think both Casavir and Bishop were well done, I hear they have some romantic rivalry with a female MC but I never tested it. Still lifelike, and not one-note stereotypes like the rest. I don't hate the rest of the cast, but they feel too "standard DnD" to me.

Actually, now that I mention it, Ammon and Shandra Jerro were both good companions as well. So that's actually not bad, all things considered.

 

[rubinstein]