Neverwinter Nights 2 Expansion Announced

dafloppyone · 12 Apr 2007 at 20:46

Atari sent out a press release announcing Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, an upcoming expansion pack to Neverwinter Nights 2. Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, which also handled development of the original game, the expansion pack will feature a new campaign, as well as new feats and spells, races, monsters, weapons, items and more. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer will be released this Fall.

In Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, players are transported back to the Forgotten Realms shortly after the events detailed in the original Neverwinter Nights 2. Following the climactic battle against the King of Shadows, the player awakens alone and stranded deep beneath the earth. Surrounded by a horde of evil spirits, the player embarks on an epic adventure that reveals his true destiny

Set in harsh, spirit-rich Rashemen, near the powerful nation of Thay, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer will present players with an exciting new campaign; epic levels; dozens of new feats and spells; new races, base classes and prestige classes; new companions; new weapons, armor and crafting options; hordes of new monsters; and enhanced modding tools.

Archibald0 · 12 Apr 2007 at 20:53

good stuff, i was looking for a reason to replay nwn2 on my shiny new 8800gtx

then il import my godlike character into the expansion

UnknownSoldier · 12 Apr 2007 at 22:59

Epic Levels will be fun

krooton · 13 Apr 2007 at 09:27

Surely they should iron out all the bugs on the first release before doing this?

Supercow · 13 Apr 2007 at 09:39

Loved the game, but hated my class, so didnt end up completing it... like most games I play

Really should start a new character

Bigpig · 13 Apr 2007 at 10:03

Great will be buying this for sure

bakes0310 · 13 Apr 2007 at 10:23

i got to act 3 and i had to fight this bloke in an arena. Unfortunatly i lost my save, how far was i from completing it.

barf0r · 13 Apr 2007 at 11:38

probably pick this up if the reviews are good

bloodline76 · 13 Apr 2007 at 12:56

What is NWN2 game like? I heard bad things about it, liked the first game though.

Vanishing Point · 13 Apr 2007 at 13:20

The game is excellent, though it does have a few bugs that need ironing out and it is very damanding in terms of hardware.

There is a lot of community stuff in the works and I think it will improve considerably as more and more stuff comes out.

Gackt · 13 Apr 2007 at 13:44

bloodline76 said:
What is NWN2 game like? I heard bad things about it, liked the first game though.

I think it's awful. Graphically it's poor. Shoddy interface. And shoddy camera angles. But that's just my opinion from playing games that give more or less a free, smooth camera control.

Played it for one day, uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled and gave it a little more time (thinking I may have misjudged it) and then uninstalled it. Wasn't worth my precious GBs.

mortals · 13 Apr 2007 at 13:47

I've not played NWN2 since I bought it

there were so many bugs.

Have they patched out all the bugs etc :confused:

wonder if it's worth installing it again.

Dolph · 13 Apr 2007 at 13:56

Excellent stuff

As for patches, the 1.05 beta patch is pretty good, irons out the vast majority of the issues most people were facing

Archery and stealth haven't quite been fixed yet though.

Still, I remember NWN when it was first released...

barf0r · 13 Apr 2007 at 14:07

the first NWN is generally reguarded as being crap. so if anyone liked that they will surely like NWN2 which is a vast improvement over it in every department.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 13 Apr 2007 at 14:27

Still waiting for the 1.05 patch to go live before I start a campaign and actually finish it.

I savaged NWN 2 (with good reason) when it was released, but it's slowly ironing itself out. But it just doesn't feel D&D though...

But what really interests me, and perhaps persuaded me to post, is the location of the sequel. If it is Rashemen, then isn't that where a certain Space Hamster and mentalist ranger returned to after Throne of Bhaal?

Please Obsidian, bring back Minsc and I might just call it evens!

Sleepery · 13 Apr 2007 at 15:33

bloodline76 said:
What is NWN2 game like? I heard bad things about it, liked the first game though.

I hated it too, but not for the crappy camera angles, framerate issues or bugs. The thing that got to me was that it was just so hugely cliched. It's like they went out of their way to include every tired fantasy cliche there is.

Orphaned hero with a mysterious past - check

Dwarf who loves to brawl - check

Edit - dwarf with a scottish accent who loves to brawl :rolleyes:

Annoying female thief - check

Arrogant spellcasters - check

And so on. I know you have to expect this kind of thing if you pick up a D&D product, but they might have made at least some kind of effort.

Planescape Torment it aint

Lunatic Dreyfus · 13 Apr 2007 at 17:27

Sleepery said:
I hated it too, but not for the crappy camera angles, framerate issues or bugs. The thing that got to me was that it was just so hugely cliched. It's like they went out of their way to include every tired fantasy cliche there is.

Orphaned hero with a mysterious past - check

Dwarf who loves to brawl - check

Edit - dwarf with a scottich accent who loves to brawl

Annoying female thief - check

Arrogant spellcasters - check

And so on. I know you have to expect this kind of thing if you pick up a D&D product, but they might have made at least some kind of effort.

Planescape Torment it aint

True enough, though I've never played Torment, so I can't completely agree.

Trouble is it's only Obsidian that make party based RPG's on PC now, and so we're stuck with 'em. They do like their cliches though as KOTOR 2 was just as bad (oh and unfinished

).

They've also just pulled the 1.5 patch (amusingly launched on Friday 13th

) as it apparently knackers up part of the game. Hooray for beta testers everywhere!

Serial45 · 13 Apr 2007 at 18:06

You know what being a huge fan of the baldurs gate series I couldn't believe how disappointed I was at NWN series, The engine is just plain poor imho compared to baldurs gate II! (man that game was epic) I think i'll force myself to finish NWN II and hopefully the expansion will offer bigger improvements!
Not even installed it on my 8800gtx yet.

Matmulder · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:00

I was just dissapointed that the Archer/Ranger class was so poor. I loved my Archer from BG2, they were awesome and with Arrows of Dispelling, any wizards were toast :cool:

But in NWN2 they're just awful, I really struggled to get through parts of the campaign. Arcane Archer prestige class made them slightly better, but still barely usable.

Dolph · 14 Apr 2007 at 07:56

Lunatic Dreyfus said:
They've also just pulled the 1.5 patch (amusingly launched on Friday 13th ) as it apparently knackers up part of the game. Hooray for beta testers everywhere!

It wasn't a problem with the patch per say, but a problem with the program used to pack it for delivery, it caused the toolset to fail, and the fix to get round it would have broken levels created with the botched toolset from working with corrected releases.

That's not something the beta testers would have picked up on. I've been playing with 1.05 Beta for a while now, and it's much improved (especially the AI)