07.10.08

Why Bioware Rocks

Posted in Game news, Games at 09:14 by Jonas

Yes, that is a rather fanboyish title, but Bioware Corp. have so verily deserved it. Six years after the release of Neverwinter Nights, they release the final patch 1.69. “Patch?” you ask, “it must really have been broken if they’re still patching it after 6 years.” Well, patch is probably not the right word for it. The last significant bug in NWN was fixed years ago. This is more of an update. Here are the “patch” notes. And a quick summary:

• 8 New Tilesets
• 15 New Music Tracks
• 14 New Ambient Sounds
• New Creatures (over 100 new appearances)
• Horses (63 Different variants, plus mounted Humans, Elves, Half-Elves, Halflings, Gnomes, Half-Orcs and Dwarves)
• New Placeables (nearly 350)
• New Doors ( 15 Generic Doors + 71 Tileset Specific Doors)
• New Visual Effects (over 100)
• New Armor Part Appearances (lots)
• New Weapon Part Appearances
• New Item: Portable Encampment
• Added new nwnplayer.ini file settings, so that red/green color blind users don’t get killed by traps unexpectedly
• Added new nwnplayer.ini file setting to not display the hit points rolled on the level up summary gui

And that’s just the new content, there are tons of minor adjustments and improvements in addition to that. A lot of it is community created content, of course, but to think they’d spend the time finding, testing, and implementing all that stuff six years after the game was released…? That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do PR.

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