Love the Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog and want to make it look just that little bit more modern? Beamdog has your answer now.
After years of work, Beamdog has now released a free HD Models & Textures Pack for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition that gives a visual boost to player character models and their equipment (including armour, weapons and shields). The newer models now support "normal and spec information", plus they can be further modded by the community just the the base game.
Currently, it's only available as a direct external download from the Beamdog website. Hopefully at some point they will put it up on Steam as some sort of free DLC to make it easier for players. Or perhaps another more open modding platform like mod.io. At least this way as a plain download for now, buyers from all PC stores can access it easily.
Beamdog note that lower-end machines may struggle with this extra pack. Following up in a forum post a few pages in on Steam, they mentioned "It's not an optional DLC via Steam because this is still WIP, and using the updated models can lead to performance issues on those PCs that are low-end but can run basic NWN:EE just fine" so it's entirely possible they may eventually make it easier to add in.
Wonderful to see such long-term commitment to an RPG gem.
You can pick up Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from GOG and Steam.
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There is already a site for that.
Neverwintervault.org
Neverwintervault.org
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There is already a site for that.Which doesn't help with the issue of manual downloads that I mentioned. Steam Workshop does, mod.io does.
Neverwintervault.org
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There is already a site for that.Which doesn't help with the issue of manual downloads that I mentioned. Steam Workshop does, mod.io does.
Neverwintervault.org
True, but you can use a mod manager a la NexusMM to do that. I never saw Skyrim users rant about missing that their favourite mod is not on steam.
That said, in defense of Beamdog, they said that this is not a final version and that is the reason for only sharing the file this way.
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Arehandoro Nov 24, 2021
Gotta admit, Beamdog does share love throughout their catalogue.
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hardpenguin Nov 24, 2021
Oh wow they just keep raising the value of this Edition. I love that, definitely made me want to play it in HD!
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I scroll through all download page and looks like they are distributing 32bit version of NWN:EE for free? I don't really need 32bit version anymore, but still, free distribution is unexpected...
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I scroll through all download page and looks like they are distributing 32bit version of NWN:EE for free? I don't really need 32bit version anymore, but still, free distribution is unexpected...Yeah looks like it, as it's the last version supported on 32bit so it's a nice gesture as a backup for whoever still doesn't do 64bit.
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Boy did they release this right on time, I was planning to start my first ever playthrough this evening!
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slaapliedje Nov 24, 2021
Liam, always having our backs. Yeah there is a modmanager I found that supports Linux, but it's... not great. :PNexusMMWhich doesn't officially support Linux ;)
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slaapliedje Nov 24, 2021
Boy did they release this right on time, I was planning to start my first ever playthrough this evening!I had a wizard I played all the way from 1st to 14th.. Then got sort of stuck... and then of course lost my save game so I have to start over on the main campaign... At least now I think they have cloud saves!
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SirBubbles Nov 24, 2021
Boy did they release this right on time, I was planning to start my first ever playthrough this evening!I had a wizard I played all the way from 1st to 14th.. Then got sort of stuck... and then of course lost my save game so I have to start over on the main campaign... At least now I think they have cloud saves!
Based on my very old experience with what passes for NWN's single player, is it still even worth it? I thought everyone did NWN for the mods or expansion packs. Hordes of the Underdark was pretty decent, if I recall.
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slaapliedje Nov 24, 2021
I must be weird, I liked the original campaign qnd thought it was decent. Hordes of the Underdark I belive was the sequel to it, qnd you had to start at a higher level.Boy did they release this right on time, I was planning to start my first ever playthrough this evening!I had a wizard I played all the way from 1st to 14th.. Then got sort of stuck... and then of course lost my save game so I have to start over on the main campaign... At least now I think they have cloud saves!
Based on my very old experience with what passes for NWN's single player, is it still even worth it? I thought everyone did NWN for the mods or expansion packs. Hordes of the Underdark was pretty decent, if I recall.
What is a crying shame is that Legends of the Swordcoast (i think that was the name of that game) was so far from being a proper replacement for NWN.
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I had a wizard I played all the way from 1st to 14th.. Then got sort of stuck... and then of course lost my save game so I have to start over on the main campaign... At least now I think they have cloud saves!Oh dear. That's a whole bucket of bummerballs!
I decided to to go for a fighter and aim for weapons master later. It seems to be a safe beginners choice.
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Based on my very old experience with what passes for NWN's single player, is it still even worth it? I thought everyone did NWN for the mods or expansion packs. Hordes of the Underdark was pretty decent, if I recall.I do hope it stands the test of time. I've been waiting for quite a while to try it out.
Also, I need something to take my mind of disease, pandemics, quarantine and lockdowns. I'm sure this will be just the thing for that!
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slaapliedje Nov 25, 2021
So the secret was to have a Pixie familiar. She'd fly off to find / disarm traps, and for the first few levels was better at killing things than I was. It mostly consisted of me going into the ruins, killing a thing or dying, and then saving after a fight, then onto the next until I started gaining levels to live longer.I had a wizard I played all the way from 1st to 14th.. Then got sort of stuck... and then of course lost my save game so I have to start over on the main campaign... At least now I think they have cloud saves!Oh dear. That's a whole bucket of bummerballs!
I decided to to go for a fighter and aim for weapons master later. It seems to be a safe beginners choice.
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NexusMMWhich doesn't officially support Linux ;)
Jesus Christ Liam. As a Linux user, are you really that afraid of a zip file? Just extract it to the override directory and that's it :)
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What a dumb comment, no I am not. I simply mentioned in the article about perhaps making it easier for users. You then mentioned two ways that actually don't, so I replied to them.NexusMMWhich doesn't officially support Linux ;)
Jesus Christ Liam. As a Linux user, are you really that afraid of a zip file? Just extract it to the override directory and that's it :)
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slaapliedje Nov 25, 2021
The fun thing qbout cross platform games and mods is that there are some that actually need to be recompiled specifically for Linux. For example, the AnyPortal mod for Valheim needs a special version.What a dumb comment, no I am not. I simply mentioned in the article about perhaps making it easier for users. You then mentioned two ways that actually don't, so I replied to them.NexusMMWhich doesn't officially support Linux ;)
Jesus Christ Liam. As a Linux user, are you really that afraid of a zip file? Just extract it to the override directory and that's it :)
Mod support is definitely better if you can just click 'subscribe' in Steam Workshop.
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