latexmonkeys said:Or has someone managed to fix that?
I really didn't want to get into any of the technical problems of NWN2 in this thread, but I decided I'll bite afterall.
Xor's right. I'd even go so far as to say that of all the problems I've had running this game, the camera is one of the least bothersome. racofer's trolling aside, seriously, I don't have any real trouble manipulating the camera in any situation to place it in a way that pleases me. Exploring, I tend to use Character Mode, zoomed to where it's just cutting off my controlled character's feet. I map mouselook to 'X' and swing it around often to simulate (well, facilitate) keeping an eye out for anything. Incidentally, I also disabled the "inspect" key so that I'm forced to pixel-hunt manually for any hidden objects. It's old school. Try this.
Once combat begins, I simply hit '*' on my keypad to switch to Strategy Mode and that, combined with allowing Object Fade, keeping the ceilings off and NOT rooting the camera to focus near the selected character (free roam), has never been a problem. Yes, there are occasional glitches but never ones that annoy me such as to question the whole setup.
What does bake my cookies though are some of the long-standing bugs that can very directly affect combat results, such as the red-hot rage-inducing issue where your character's currently equipped weapon switches places with the equipped weapon of the next character you select in combat or simply disappears. I think this may only be a graphical glitch, to where you're still effectively using the actual weapon, but it introduces enough doubt to where you're tempted to try to re-equip right in the middle of a melee, which can be deadly. The other bug along these lines is the super lag involved in the simple act of selecting or switching a weapon, which winds up sometimes simply not responding until maybe the 2nd or 3rd attempt. Very frustrating when you're in a fight with two tough Driders on Hardcore mode with 5 medium-levelled characters who are lucky to get off one fireball. You have to be *very* careful and micromanage even more because of little shit glitches like this.
Nevertheless I'm a complete sucker for D&D and FR, so I put up with it. And I'm surprised you've read this far. Walls-o'-text regarding NWN2 inconsistencies make not for interesting reading.