The Warlock is, given the way the game works, a nice addition, allowing for caster or gish playstyles.
However, I don't like the implementation of "trendy" warlocks and tieflings ahead of traditional races and classes. Where are the Barbarians, Druids, Bards, Gnomes and Half-Orcs?!
It suggests the SCL developers share the same disdain for DnD's heritage that the 4th edition writers did.
In the end an acquaintance of mine found the time to play with me. We had a lot of fun fighting in the dungeons and enjoyed a lot some hard battles If anyone wants to join, just post here or send me a PM.
Got a brand new computer and the game still runs like absolute trash, even on low settings. It is optimized so poorly it's really just pathetic.
Try disabling shadows, massive resource hog right there. You may also like to check out some other tips in my updated write-up, just recently posted.
My experience is that NWN2 runs flawlessly these days (60 FPS with all bells n whistles, including Shadows and tons of graphical mods). But it's important to remember that everyone's system is different (hardware and config-wise) and even ppl with high-end setups may have more problems than those with average or even non-gaming ones. There should be workarounds, though.
Yes, turning the shadows to the lowest settings possible pretty much did the trick, so I might actually give this a try someday (I never got past the outskirts of Luskan when it came out). But I stand by the stance that this game is horribly, horribly optimized, especially when compared with it's contemporaries Pillars of Eternity and Divinity: Original Sin.
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However, I don't like the implementation of "trendy" warlocks and tieflings ahead of traditional races and classes. Where are the Barbarians, Druids, Bards, Gnomes and Half-Orcs?!
It suggests the SCL developers share the same disdain for DnD's heritage that the 4th edition writers did.
It's what SCL tried to be but failed in my opinion.
NwN2 just has more more more of everything and I didn't take into account all the custom stuff people on Persistent Worlds implemented.
You can be a Lich, Vampire, Celestial, Pixie etc etc on Sigil, for example.
Various new classes on that server as well, such as Psions.
You just get the game dirt-cheap from GoG and play forever. It's pretty much maintained by the community.
Strange! I have a brand new desktop computer as well and it works fine with the highest settings.
Fair to say, NWN2 also had lousy performance on many machines when it was released.
What we really need is for someone to convert the SCL OC to the NWN2 engine.
If anyone wants to join, just post here or send me a PM.
My experience is that NWN2 runs flawlessly these days (60 FPS with all bells n whistles, including Shadows and tons of graphical mods). But it's important to remember that everyone's system is different (hardware and config-wise) and even ppl with high-end setups may have more problems than those with average or even non-gaming ones. There should be workarounds, though.
SCL has an "outside Luskan" zone near the beginning.