Interview NWN Premium Module: Pirates of the Sword Coast Interview

[Volourn]

Well.. we don't know how it works in this new mod. There might be somehting of a slowdown. That said, I won't find out personally. Heh.

 

[Ellester]

Im a sucker for games with underwater bits in it. Especially the bits in Wiz8 and W&W.

I seem to remember another NWN module with underwater stuff in it.
One of the Adam Miller ones perhaps?

I'm curious as to why something is on fire in the background?

 

[Fez]

You have people defying all physical and biological sense, and you are worried about a bit of fire? Just list it under "magic" with all the rest.

 

[Ellester]

You have people defying all physical and biological sense, and you are worried about a bit of fire? Just list it under "magic" with all the rest.

Hell at least in Wiz 8 you couldn't cast from the fire realm of magic while underwater. Oh well, different rules for Bio I guess...

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Hell at least in Wiz 8 you couldn't cast from the fire realm of magic while underwater.

Or use any fire-based Bard song or Gadgeteer contraption, or even general fire-related items such as explosives.

 

[Sarvis]

Hell at least in Wiz 8 you couldn't cast from the fire realm of magic while underwater.

Or use any fire-based Bard song or Gadgeteer contraption, or even general fire-related items such as explosives.

Because we all know nothing could explode or burn underwater, which is why torpedos, depth charges, under water welding and volcanos are all so very ineffective...

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Actually it's because we know using fire-based spells, summons or items against Water-based creatures would make the water segments of Wizardry 8 easier.

 

[Avin]

undewater module? bwahahahahaha it's all woe :p

 

[Ellester]

Hell at least in Wiz 8 you couldn't cast from the fire realm of magic while underwater.

Or use any fire-based Bard song or Gadgeteer contraption, or even general fire-related items such as explosives.

Because we all know nothing could explode or burn underwater, which is why torpedos, depth charges, under water welding and volcanos are all so very ineffective...

Well those are all pretty damn powerful examples. If you look closely it looks like it’s one of the ship masts that is burning, and it seems to be in full flame while underwater. A big difference and pretty impossible, unless the ship has been submerged for 1 second when they took the screen shot. But like Fez said, just say its magic, this is a fantasy world, why bother trying to find realism in the game.

 

[Volourn]

"Well those are all pretty damn powerful examples."

Well... magic is supposed to be powerful. That said, D&D rulez make it real ahrd to get fire spells to work underwater. Until the situation of the screenshot is learned; there's not much to comment about it. Not that any of us will find out first hand...

 

[Sarvis]

Hell at least in Wiz 8 you couldn't cast from the fire realm of magic while underwater.

Or use any fire-based Bard song or Gadgeteer contraption, or even general fire-related items such as explosives.

Because we all know nothing could explode or burn underwater, which is why torpedos, depth charges, under water welding and volcanos are all so very ineffective...

Well those are all pretty damn powerful examples. If you look closely it looks like it’s one of the ship masts that is burning, and it seems to be in full flame while underwater. A big difference and pretty impossible, unless the ship has been submerged for 1 second when they took the screen shot. But like Fez said, just say its magic, this is a fantasy world, why bother trying to find realism in the game.

I was responding specifically to not having any kind of general fire-related stuff work underwater in Wiz 8. He specifically stated explosives wouldn't work, so I put two explosives examples in that SHOULD work underwater... this has absolutely nothing to do with the NWN module.

<b>Volourn</b>

I will find out eventually, but right now I'm practically broke and hopelessly addicted to Guild Wars and the Battlefield 2 demo...

 

[Volourn]

BIowhore.

 

[Dgaider]

Just FYI:

- You are slowed down when you are underwater. It's not as much as when you were underwater in KotOR, but it's certainly not like running around in the open air.

- there is a visual effect for air bubbles.

- the light you see in the screenshot is not something on fire in the background. I believe something is happening in the background that the shot got taken in the middle of. Whether or not torches and fire spells are useable while underwater, though, I'm really not sure.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

^Cool. Good to know.

 

[Avin]

why kobold when you can kill a shark?

i'd rather play the witch's wake...

 

[AlanC9]

Well... sort of. Some of the people making these mods WERE the amateurs who made the free ones. Not Rob, obviously, but Stefan Gagne is working on a premium module and I think a couple others are. Some people even got hired by Bioware...

So essentially you've got the same people making them, but making money on it now.

Of course I'm fine with that, since Stefan's modules rocked hardcore and he deserves it.

As it happens, Stefan isn't doing a Premium mod anymore. WotC vetoed "the HeX coda" for being too divergent from the FR. Hard to believe, since none of the first three mods work in the FR either, but I think WotC didn't like the premise -- hackers fighting an all-powerful corporation in an attempt to bring Open Source Magic to the masses.

On the plus side, that means he gets to release it free. 1.0 just went up on the Vault. I played the beta and thought it was great. Haven't heard it with the custom music yet.

 

[Shagnak]

On the plus side, that means he gets to release it free. 1.0 just went up on the Vault. I played the beta and thought it was great. Haven't heard it with the custom music yet.

Thanks for this news.
About to dload it...

Link: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=mo ... il&id=4078

 

[Sarvis]

As it happens, Stefan isn't doing a Premium mod anymore. WotC vetoed "the HeX coda" for being too divergent from the FR.

I knew that, but I had heard he was going to do a _different_ module for Bioware since they declined that one. Pretty sure I saw that in his blog thingy somewhere anyway...

On the plus side, that means he gets to release it free. 1.0 just went up on the Vault. I played the beta and thought it was great. Haven't heard it with the custom music yet.

Interesting... dammit I hate when there's too many games out that I want to play at the same time! Gaming would be so muhc easier if I didn't have to freakin work 8 hours a day...

 

[Shagnak]

Just got an email in my span collector saying that this module is now available.
Who's gonna try it and give us the low-down? Huh? Huh??

Sarvis?

Edit:
someone tried it here:
http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7452

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

It was... amazing. I have never had so much orgasmic pleasure playing NWN. My life is complete.

 

[AlanC9]

I knew that, but I had heard he was going to do a _different_ module for Bioware since they declined that one. Pretty sure I saw that in his blog thingy somewhere anyway...

Yep, he's working on something else for Bio. Don't know how long that's going to take, or what that means for the rest of the heX trilogy.