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NWN is very much alive and kicking, amazingly. The Enhanced Edition was released in 2018, has a working in-game server browser (the original Gamespy service shut down in the late 2000s), and has some pretty excellent graphics/remaster patches and features (here's a gallery which shows off a bit of the graphics work we did for our server, if you're interested: https://www.alfanwn1.org/gallery/) Oh and not to mention, it's still actively getting feature patches lol. The latest is .35 which is in beta at the moment. The online community is thriving in a way it hasn't since about 2005; the big servers have 100-200 players on each night and many smaller servers have decent populations. It is quite crazy to see. Ashurbanipal posted:could anyone possible point me in the direction of a neverwinter nights thread? not the mmo, but the uhh "Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition." not sure if its just my own misunderstanding, but steam reviews talk about "servers" for what I thought was a single player game. would be cool to check it out with others if it is in fact multiplayer. thanks! In the mean-time, your question is answered pretty comprehensively in this New Player FAQ in the /r/nwn sub (start at answer #5, 'The campaign is super boring! What's all the fuss about this game for?' and read on from there): https://www.reddit.com/r/neverwinternights/comments/tmof98/neverwinter_nights_1_enhanced_edition_new_player/ Vermain posted:I can't speak to the modern landscape, and it's probably an increasingly small and insular band of people still playing it, but they're there if you want to take a gander. Most of them will require downloading additional content - there's several massive community-created additions that add in whole slews of new content, as well as server-specific stuff - but I think most of that is automated via the client these days. And the community is doing well right now. New PWs seem to be launched every couple of months. I think it's because there is still nothing else that allows players to do what NWN does. El Grillo fucked around with this message at 11:43 on May 10, 2023 |
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Nice. It blew my mind in 2020 during lockdown when I was super bored and idly decided to check out the old website... only to find there were live NWN1 servers again and a super active NWN community. Would never have predicted that when I was playing back in like 2005.
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Haha, I think that server's still around, in a resurrected form: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1638330903
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^^^that is classic NWN. Love it. Arelith has cool stuff and it's great to see the numbers of players they get. To me it felt a bit too much like an MMO but to be fair I've always played on smaller servers so probably just used to them. I like the individual DM attention you can get on smaller servers. christmas boots posted:Oh man I used to love NWN. Maybe I should pick up the EE and get back into it If you do though, and you care at all about visuals, then make sure you get the HD pack: https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwnee/hakpak/original-hakpak/beamdogs-hd-art-pack-community-fixes There are some other really nice graphics improvements listed here too: https://www.reddit.com/r/neverwinternights/comments/tmof98/neverwinter_nights_1_enhanced_edition_new_player/ ...and finally, if anyone feels like it and is into RP worlds with challenging static content.. come check out our world! https://www.alfanwn1.org/gallery/ 
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